The Catherine Wheel by Niya White is a compilation of three short stories. The first story is called, like the book, The Catherine Wheel. Mary Catherine Wheeler and her parents come to a small town with a strange ritual. Every November, they reenact the martyrdom...

Connecting Happiness and Success: A Guide to Creating Success Through Happiness by Ray White tells us not to wait until we reach success to become happier. Most of us are relatively happy people, but we are also well aware that we could be happier. There...

Five is Book One of the Maor Series, a young adult contemporary fantasy written by Caroline Greyling. Shaylee is your typical 16-year-old who has plenty of hopes and dreams. She’s into dancing, has written a story that’s been published in a magazine, and she loves...

Terrell Noalki grows up in an orphanage, but seems to know there is more to life than what is being presented to him. Dreams of Atlantis by Larry Krantz follows the life of Terrell, who seems to have some connection to the ruling class of...

The Bird Room is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories written by Chad Hofmann. The title story is a macabre piece in which a pet parrot carries, along with his ability to speak, an unearthly and evil manifestation of the past. Some...

Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four: Bringing Alaska's History Alive by Laurel Downing Bill brings us into Alaska from 1935 until 1960, covering an expanse of history in the great state's time of life. So many forget that in 1941 Pearl Harbor was not the only...

This is a review of the audio version of The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Dan must determine whether his mother has lost her mind or has stumbled onto a conspiracy to hide the murder of a young woman. When his mother shows up at...

Matt was a little boy who loved elephants. In fact, he was just plain out fascinated by them. Matt had a different feeling about elephants from anyone else around, because it always made him sad to see elephants performing when he went to a zoo...

Vanished From Dust by Shea Norwood is a paranormal adventure that follows the exploits of Eric and Kyle, two eighth-graders in the little town of Dust, Texas. Eric is an average boy, but has recently been bullied in school after a few episodes of strange...

Turtle needs a vacation. He has been holding the world’s clock so long on his back that it has stuck to his shell. But Professor Hare was concerned because he didn’t think anyone could hold the clock as well as Turtle, and Hare maintained the...

This is a review of the audio version of The Matchmaker written by Elin Hilderbrand and read by Erin Bennett. This is the story of Dabney Kimball Beech, matchmaker extraordinaire. She had 42 'something good' matches to her credit. While her husband Box and her...

Sunset Embrace by author Sandra Brown proves why her name is well known to fans of romance. This is one of her best tales. It is a historical romance. Lydia gives birth to her son alone in the woods; her only prayer is for their...

As I started The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, I didn’t have any idea of what it was really about. What I soon found out is that it is a celebration of the deep love between a man and a woman, beginning in their teens through...

If you’ve ever looked at a project you’ve completed and been unable to call it ‘amazing’ until someone else told you it was or you’ve never been able to give yourself a compliment until someone else does it first then you may need this book....

Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization by John Ratey M.D. and Richard Manning is a fascinating look at optimal health through going wild or returning to instinctual behavior. Think of living 1000 years ago with no grocery stores, cars,...

Authors James Patterson and David Ellis team up to offer readers a tale that will keep them listening to the very end. Invisible is a bit different from most of James Patterson and David Ellis’ books. In Invisible, we meet Emmy Dockery, an FBI Research...

A young mouse has an experience of a lifetime as he ventures out into the meadow he calls home to explore and learn. Come join the little mouse on his adventure and find out just what there is to see in the grass, on the...

Recognize THEM by Zane Safrit is a book of advice on how to get the most from your employees. The guidebook explains how its author came to the realisation that employees and their talents were directly related to success in business, and how Safrit was...

When The Black Lion begins we know that a man, who we later learn is called Sascha, is on the hunt. For sex or something else, we aren’t quite sure until he spots a beautiful woman from whom he can feed. But when he spots,...

Amy and the Little White Butterfly is a children’s picture book by Alysia Mercer. It tells the story of Amy, an independent little girl who initially has a very normal life. Tragedy strikes when Amy’s mother becomes sick, goes into hospital and then goes ‘to...