Like many male and female friendships in high school, Jill Hale found herself in love with her lifelong best friend Brian McConnell. As graduation rolls around, Jill finally gets up the nerve to tell Brian how she really feels. However, as these things tend to...

It’s a scary thing to think about: after all the months of preparation and planning for your newborn baby, to have everything go out the window when that baby says it’s coming fast and you end up delivering somewhere unexpected. En Route Baby is a...

Bringing back retro dance music from the 1930s was perhaps a greater challenge than Frank had intended to take on at first in Second Wind, by Ray Hobbs. TV and film composer Frank Morrison decides to bring a grey-haired set of master musicians back into...

The King of Casinos – Willie Martello and the El Rey Club is the story of how one small casino became the blueprint for thousands of others. Andy Martello came across one photograph that prompted him to look into the history of the El Rey...

Progressive Intimacy: Prophetic Preparations for Perilous Times by Caleb K. Coy is an uplifting book that will take readers on a journey of divine secrets and mysteries, uncovering more details on love, betrayal, heartbreak, brokenness and reconciliation. It motivates readers to appreciate every small thing...

An Act of Kindness is a historical novel written by Ray Hobbs. Sylvia is a young woman who's signed up as a Wren to do her part during WWII. David, her fiancé, was killed in action. Sylvia's not really thinking about getting involved with another...

The Exposition of the Tabernacle: The Culture Exchange by Javon Rahman Bertrand is a book that looks at the Tabernacle given to Moses in a very logical and rational way. The book looks at how the Tabernacle changes our lives and culture and also exposes...

I Have Two Daddies is the story told by a little girl about her two daddies, her earthly daddy and her heavenly daddy. As she talks about her earthly daddy, she talks about all of the things they do together. She describes the things her...

Enhancing the Journey: The Journey Journal by Yvette Wilson Bentley takes readers on a personal journey of trials and tribulations. The book helps readers reflect on their lives and helps bring a transformation into their lives. The power of God and to look for God...

Robbed of a Childhood, Raped by the System is the autobiography of Sunny Love, an adult survivor of child abuse. Sunny was six years old when her stepbrother raped her. For the next five years, her stepfather and stepbrothers continued their reign of sexual abuse....

Historical fiction. If done well, this genre is absolutely my favorite to read. If done poorly, it can be some of the worst drivel a reviewer has to slog through. Thankfully, I didn't have to slog through The Partisan's Wife, which is the third book...

The Leader’s Journey by Dr. Artika R. Tyner begins with an interesting quote: Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front. Introducing leadership as a journey often mistaken for a destination, the author presents the topic in three parts, answering the...

All Means All, If You Believe by Gwen Sutton is a story of faith, resilience and a mother's belief. BabyRuth was happy. She had a beautiful life, she had a son, Derek, who had a great promise of a better future, and a daughter who...

Wow. In a sad, touching and unfortunately appropriate story for the times, author Gwen Sutton has provided her readers with an absolutely wonderful piece of work in her new novel, Endurance. Follow the story of the beautiful Dereka Jones as her life changes from one...

Hundreds of years ago, magic was common in the land until a plague targeted the gifted ones. It caused them to fall into a deep sleep they never woke from. Then, as quickly as it arrived, the darkness lifted. Those that survived mourned the loss...

The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World is a self-help book written by Maria Hill. Hill discusses a subset of the population who she and others have defined as being highly sensitive people based on Dr. Elaine Aron's DOES model....

Someone in the movie industry should read Baby Love by Ronald Argo. This exciting, plot driven novel with all its twists and turns and colorful cast of characters would rivet thriller movie audiences. Yes, Baby Love is yet another of those books you can’t put...

Cooperative Wisdom: Bringing People Together When Things Fall Apart by Donald Scherer PhD. and Carolyn Jabs M.A. is an insightful book for readers who prefer to do the right thing for others instead of bad and harmful deeds. Human beings flourish in settings where cooperation...

A Day with Mommy and Baby Koala by J.M. West is an adorable storybook for children that will take them to the world of koala bears. Baby koalas wake up in the arms of their mothers and they are always kept warm and safe. Mother...

“As goes Anglophone culture, so goes the world,” is a saying that is powerfully justified in Agwu Ukiwe Okali’s Of Black Servitude without Slavery: The Unspoken Politics of the English Language (Africa Seminal Ideas Series), a work that brilliantly illustrates how language can become the...