Storyteller, actor, and American Civil Celebrant Gerald Fierst has created a book about weddings, but it's not about how to buy gowns and flowers, arrange for the reception, and where to place the candles. The Heart of the Wedding puts the magic back in a...

Book One introduces the reader to some of the greatest Western epics, such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dante’s The Divine Comedy and many others. Each epic is summarized in a short synopsis, which is followed by the author’s commentary....

The Rise of the Einix is a story of fraternal twins, a young woman and a young man, who are very different from everyone else. Trixie Smith and her brother, Einar, are thirty years old and have been sheltered and practically imprisoned in their home...

What a joy it was to read Geoff Hobb's The Beauty and the Beasts: Living in Nairobi. Having spent some time in Kenya doing mission work with my church, I found it fun to compare notes of what I experienced to what the author...

The Gargoyle In The Seine; A Victorian Mystery is a thrilling mystery novel written by Dee Garretson. Clary Ashton is an art student studying in Paris, 1878. Her brother, Sam, tells her that there is a gargoyle lurking nearby the Seine River, whose job it...

A young American-born girl is taken to her mother's home country of India to "visit" for the summer. Sensing estrangement between her parents, she is skeptical that it is merely a trip to the homeland. What she finds over that summer launches her into a...

Since 9/11 the fears of Muslims attacking Americans provoked the creation of the PATRIOT ACT. The very name meant that to disagree with it made you un-American. This has morphed into the most egregious violations of our Constitutional rights since Joseph McCarthy’s efforts to destroy...

"The Adventures of Caterwault the Cat: Feline Pie" is a delightful original fairy tale that will appeal to many preteen readers. Caterwault, the Witch's black cat, longs to escape her den and does so one day while she is sleeping. He takes a small bag...

Congrats to 10 year old Jesse Dowell, the author of this children’s book, and to his parents as well, who have inspired his love of books and the desire to write at such a young age. I didn’t realize this book was written by a...

Faith Fairchild is a caterer but like a modern day Miss Marple, she has a knack for solving mysteries. Husband Tom is a pastor who himself is troubled by a large amount of money missing from the a church fund. An elderly friend tells her...

"The Monetarist and the Evolving Crisis: Wake Up, Americans: We Are Losing Our Great Nation" by William H. James, Ph.D. provides the definition of monetarism as a debt-based monetary and banking system which, in effect, can create money out of thin air. The focus of...

Poet Hamed Vahidi has written serious, thought-provoking poetry in "The Ruins of the Soul" that call up clear images of third world people whose daily lives are often uphill battles. The poet has divided this slim book of poetry into two sections: lyric poems which...

Never having read Susan Meissner, I started with a blank slate of opinion and ended up loving the book! "The Girl in the Glass" is a story with multiple subplots which intrigue the reader from the first page to the last. Meg has been waiting...

The book starts with a prologue that is actually the end, and then reverts to the beginning, where Ellenore Gin is teaching and Theodore Kim is engaged in a bar fight. It then switches to an observatory, where Telev focuses the telescope on some coordinates,...

This is a sweet tale about a group of three children who spend a year with their grandmother on her farm. The book is filled with imagery throughout and simple, yet beautiful illustrations. The children spend a year with their grandmother and learn about farming...

"The Chronicles of the Mira" tells a cumulative story about a land called Loz and the feud between the Mira and the Scintillates. It does this through three short stories, each from a different character's perspective. The Scintillates and the Mira are cousins of a...

More than ever, people are asking questions about the rapture and second coming of Christ. With so many happenings in the world that are in line with what the Bible says will happen, we all want to know what the Bible says will happen next....

"The Jackal and the Giant" is a fantasy adventure story with Seth as an unlikely hero. He enters a different world after escaping from a bully. The story unfolds as his hiding place number seventeen at Stony Brook Middle School is discovered by Jacklyn, also...

"The Flight of the Griffin" by C.M. Gray is a great book for a child or young adult with fun themes that resound through the book. The five main characters who are living in an old boat called The Griffin end up becoming heroes at...

In "The Grave and the Figure Eight," author Tucker has taken the reader to the post WWI era. Terence Garth has just returned home from battle. Being wounded emotionally, he has returned to his uncle's home in Kentucky, seemingly to rest before a return to...