In Corrective Measures by Nadine Dandorf, the reader is catapulted into a world of intrigue, money laundering, love, and deceit in a story that involves the CIA and the FBI. Former CIA Assistant Director of Operations, Charlie O’Donnell, has left a very dirty legacy upon...

One delight of most Buddhist teachings is the stories masters tell to instill a kind of continuous contemplation in their students' minds regarding the practical applications of their teachings. Unique to this most non-religious practice of transcendent spirituality, such stories embellish everyday life with higher...

Baby Boy, Little King, written for young children, is a delightful rendition of the Christmas story. Written by Jim Hargrove and illustrated by Jamie Cosley, Baby Boy, Little King details the first Christmas in an enchanting way. By the author using rhyming text, young children...

Ravyn’s Doll: How To Explain Fibromyalgia To Your Child by Melissa Swanson is an informative book that will educate young readers about fibromyalgia. It is Monday morning and it is a family share day for the children in Miss Mindy’s kindergarten class. Children find her...

Shrouded Truth: Biblical Revelations Through Past Life Journeys (Radiant Light Series) by Reena Kumarasingham is a book that took me by utter surprise, a journey into the memories of the past lives of eight ordinary people with links to Jesus. The author explains that the...

Lady Charlotte: Ladies of Disgrace is an historical romance written by Vicki Hopkins. Lady Charlotte was simply not interested in emulating the behavior expected of women of her class. She was not going to play the submissive, quiet and modest woman of good breeding. It...

Peyton was a true and devout Catholic. She loved God, and she loved her family. Therein was the problem. After a few miscarriages she was thrilled to discover her pregnancy, but then she heard the words that would forever change her life; the child had...

Toff Chav by Miles Hadley is a slightly farcical journey through the deep cultural and class divide that is modern day England and, in particular, London. Archie Hodgkin-Smith, with his double-barreled name, is your archetypal young toff, from a long and proud lineage of aristocracy...

I Saw a Starburst to Flames by J. R. Lamar comprises about a hundred poems formed as quatrains. This has the effect of giving them a rhythm that draws the reader inexorably onwards. Each is colorfully illustrated, very often with a wry sense of humour...

David Pierce's Living with Grief: 36 Lessons from Life is an anthology in which 36 authors share their personal experiences of the loss of a loved one, of grief, anguish and heartbreak, and of finding ways to live and love again. The anthology is...

Anna Reinhard’s world changed when she received a voicemail message from an attorney in Germany stating her grandmother had died a few hours earlier. The problem was Anna had been told an apparent lie about this grandmother when she and her family left their German...

Art in the late nineteenth century underwent many transitions as artists, most notably in France, strove to make their own mark on the world, to create a new style of expression that was completely their own. As the artistic geniuses of the time painted, argued...

In Ryan Masters’ Above an Abyss, ‘Trampoline Games’ tells of the inferno-summer of 1986 in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, where Jacob, the new 12-year-old in town, meets and befriends Finn Levy, a rebellious and eccentric red-haired kid who sports a...

In Corky Tails: Tales of a Tailless Dog Named Sagebrush by Joni Franks, the main character is Sagebrush, a Corgi dog. Sagebrush lives on a ranch. She stays in the house with her parents but the rest of the dogs are with the animals outside....

Magic in Mauve is a contemporary romance novel written by Nonna Gerikh. Monique wanted something special, a fabric that would make her senses reel and her artistic vision come to life. As she scoured the rows of fine fabrics at the warehouse she frequented, the...

Forty-eight-year-old Earl Hollo, a private investigator in Louisville, KY, had never recovered from a death that occurred five years earlier. The victim was his fiancée Maggie Middleton, and the death was determined to be an accidental shooting by a deer hunter. Earl’s mother, with whom...

My Plunder: Westerners and Warriors by Myles Culbertson is a collection of stories that captures the very heart and soul of a cowboy. Filled with a tapestry of wonderful settings, the stories take readers through interesting adventures, unveiling places like the Chaperito Land Grant. The...

Fourth of July is a short work by Robert E. Kearns which follows the story of an Irishman named Myles. Married and the father of an infant, he struggles to provide for his family during the Great Famine. Although he’s luckier than many and works...

Gary McDougall’s Don’t Tell Me There Ain’t No God reads in such a way that you are immediately invested in who this man is and what is transpiring on the page. One of the quotes that really painted a picture for me of what life...

A Life Redesigned by Gary Hawkins is the A to Z Travel Bible that travelers have been searching for perhaps all their lives. This in-depth book covers a range of topics from how to prepare your house when leaving for a length of time, to...