Marie has been long overdue for a visit with her friend Ana Alvarez. Being Big Rock, Colorado's, Chief Detective, a personal life, let alone a vacation has not been an option. Marie puts her detective life on hold to explore Ana Alvarez's artistic life in...

The Boy who Lit up the Sky (The Two Moons of Rehnor) by J. Naomi Ay is the story of Senya, a rather unusual hero. His life starts out in an orphanage in which only one person treats him well while all others abuse him...

The Jupiter Chronicles: The Secret of the Great Red Spot by Leonardo Ramirez is an adventure story revolving around Ian and Callie Castillo. Both of them have been brought up by a single parent since their father went missing five years ago. Ian's most precious...

The Legend of the Black Rose by D.C. Cowan is the story of a beautiful African princess who is kidnapped and brought to America and into a life of slavery and abuse. This proud woman will come back to life through her descendants as she...

The Way Out by Dick Elder is a story about the life of Rick Elkins. He is a former US Navy fighter pilot who is eighty-three and recounting his tale while battling with heart failure, and deciding if he wants to have surgery that may...

Walter Coffey has written a first class overview of the period following the Civil War (The War Between the States) and in so doing has provided a very good teaching tool. Other than serious students of the subject, most of us have, at best, a...

In The Return of the Mahdi, author Sharon Alice Geyer tells the exciting story of Ari, an Israeli Jew, who was chosen by the Muslims for an unusual purpose. The story begins with a dangerous adventure in which Ari leaves his family behind and steps...

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery is by Sam Kean. This book begins with the work of a doctor, Andreas Vesalius, who studied the anatomy of gladiators when they...

The Apron and Napoleon's Hat: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Side of Medicine by Dr H. Murray is a medical memoir written in a humorous vein. The book takes us on a journey of how the author became a doctor. The author speaks...

The Guardian and the War is the third and final book of The Chronicles of the Protector series. Author T.A. Richards has provided readers with many tense moments and some characters rich with reservations and courage. In this novel, many species of the kingdoms have...

The title of this little book - The Evolution of the Modern American Black - seems indicative of what it is about: the lost heritage of the modern American Black and their evolution to their present role in American society. The 94-page count of this...

Angela Castillo’s The Amazing Adventures of Toby the Trilby is a lovely tale for children about young Toby, part cat and part human boy, who has been created by his Grambles (guardians) because they wanted a grandchild. They all live in caverns below ground because...

Toby’s obsession with trying to see into the heavens leads him to his next adventure in The Further Adventures of Toby the Trilby by Angela Castillo. A bright flash falling into the forest catches Toby’s attention and the voice of Father God tells him to...

The Gifts and the Fruits (The Freedom Series) (Volume 2) by Paul F. Murray is the long awaited sequel to Freedom’s Long March. Onesimus has been enslaved by Philomen. He meets Catia, another slave, and they get together to try to get the letters of...

The Four Horsemen of the Investor’s Apocalypse by Robert J. Klosterman CFP is intended to provide one with the weapons to fight the four horsemen of the investor’s apocalypse. The four are: Inflation, Volatility, Group Think, and Global Displacements and Transformation, and by providing insight,...

A woman playing a big part in a pirate story! What a refreshing and delightful twist. In the position of leadership, Honorata, our heroine, survives to become a queen and then finds her lost love. The Queen of the Caribbean begins with The Black Corsair...

The Secret of the Sacred Scarab is Book One in The Chronicles of the Stone middle grade adventure series by Fiona Ingram. Adventure seeking Adam and his cousin, Justin, vacation in Egypt with their Aunt Isabel and grandmother. A peddler gives Adam a mysterious Egyptian...

The Foothills Mystery: The Investigation into the Death of the Solo Rock Climber is a police procedural murder mystery written by Stanley Yokell. While this is the fourth book in Yokell's Marie Quizno mystery series, the author gives enough background information to allow this book...

While the book is called The Evolution of the United States of America, its subtitle, The Rise and Fall of a Nation, more succinctly describes the bent behind author Richard Castagner’s literary offering. The book is divided up into various sections: the prehistory of the...

The Desk in the Sky is a book of anecdotes written by Johanna LaFiandra, Ed.D. Making learning fun for her students had always been one of Dr. LaFiandra’s chief priorities, as a child that enjoys being at school and enjoys learning is one who retains...