Selene Valenne has hidden her dark gift as a Marked One her whole life, working hard as a Rider in the small town of Maresbane to support her mother. Marked Ones are feared in the Realm of Evaria for their ability to change into a...

SR Karfelt’s Kahtar: Warrior of the Ages opens with a speeding ticket awarded by a part-time police chief to a woman on her way to a new life. Beth White has just left a highly successful, jet-setting career as an investor to buy an old...

Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement is a young adult, coming of age creative memoir written by Mary M. Barrow. The family's move from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Trenton, New Jersey, was made in two separate stages. The twins, Michael, Amelia's husband,...

Bernice: A Fiery Story of Love and Family: In Her Daughter's Pen by Bernice Haney and Janet C. Thomas begins with the birth of a girl child, the eleventh among twelve children of Smiths, who named her Bernice Elvira. Her folks being always on the...

What do you get when you mix a pot-smoking polygamist with a liberal dose of lesbians, homosexuals and rock star ass doctors rightfully named The Rectal Surgeons? Wonder no more. Gadzooks! A Comically Quirky Audio Book by Adele Park provides living proof that we can...

Mango! Mango! A Dog. Two Parrots. And Snowballs by Scott Ferrell is wonderfully charming and fun to read. First, I will compliment the author for taking care in the use of illustrations. They are properly placed so that they also "tell" the story. A strong...

Tricklock: Operation Powerful Vendetta by William F. Sine begins with air force para rescue man Jake Tricklock racing his truck to an awaiting helicopter, already manned and ready for a search and rescue mission. Highly successful in rescue missions as well as in neutralizing their...

I looked at My Husband Our Father: A Family’s Walk Through the Storm of Grief in Search of a Rainbow by author Michelle Caravelli several times before I actually picked it up to read. Sometimes, on the surface, a book seems like it will hold...

Sera and Angie were best friends in their teenage years. They connected on the hardships of coming from broken homes in Naples, Italy, and they shared a special bond that would prove unshakable in later years to come. When injustice lands Sera in prison, they...

Summer Spark by Ginnie Carmichael is the story of Elsie Anderson and Alex Becker. Elsie is a single mother who uprooted her life in Seattle to keep her young daughter Sophie out of trouble. It wasn’t the first time, but this time they ended up...

Professional Patient: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder by author Leesa Abbott, Psy.D, is an intriguing take on mental disorders from not only a professional psychologist, but also someone who has personally suffered numerous mental disorders. The book presents a candid, raw and motivational look at...

Mount Rainier had stood like a towering dormant sentinel, watching over the Puget Sound area for millennia. Then, on a clear September morning, something deep inside the heart of the sleeping volcano shifted. For the Brock family, and the millions of residents who lived in...

Bogeyman 101: A Guide to Bogeymen Around the World is a children's collection of fables written by Karen Hokanson Miller. The author is a former teacher who decided to write stories and her audience, comprised of kids, suggested monsters as the best thing to write...

In Contact Us: A Jake Corby sci-fi thriller by Al Macy, two alien craft approach Earth. One hovers ominously near the orbit of Jupiter while the other descends boldly into the atmosphere and commences to encircle the planet from pole to pole. Within days, seventy...

I thought Faraway by R.K. Kline and Daniel D. Maurer was a great story. Kline and Maurer offer a glimpse into the life of Kevin, a teenage male prostitute. The story takes place near St. Louis, Missouri, in the seventies and tells how Kevin got...

Elelenma and the Ant Queen: A West African Tale by Nneoma Ike-Njoku is the story of three friends - Elelenma, Olariche and Bokobo - who are so close that people always think they are sisters. The Prince is looking for a bride and these friends...

Export & Expand by Rupert Sutton is a book written with companies and individuals in mind who are looking to grow their businesses internationally, enter a new product category, or launch a new brand portfolio. He proposes a well illustrated eight-stage road map to make...

Trial By Twelve: A Murder in the Mountains Book 2 by Heather Day Gilbert takes readers back to Buckneck, WV, and this time it seems like there just might be a serial killer or killers on the loose! Taking a job at Crystal Mountain Spa...

Another Vanishing Act is a whimsical and creative jaunt into the surprisingly exciting lives of senior citizens. Pat Russo and Pete Conner write with mellowness and heart, but add enough laughs to keep the story cheery and brisk. Protagonist Dan, very human and relatable if...

On a drizzly, blustery day in January of 1942, four young Mello brothers, from Woburn, Massachusetts, hop aboard a Boston & Maine Budd Liner and head into Boston for one last fling before shipping off to fight in the Second World War. In a bar...