Uh-Oh Baby! is a children’s picture book written by Rhonda Whitaker and illustrated by Penny Weber. Each page in this book, designed for babies and toddlers and their parents, shows what is a familiar scene for new parents. There’s the delightful game of peek-a-boo which...

Jagged Waters by Sharyn Bradford Lunn is the third book in the Southern Skyes family saga. This is a book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy historical romance stories. Mariah Malone had a nice normal life...

Sharing the Table: A Northwest Chef Instructor’s Quest to Recreate Memorable Meals, by Linda Hierholzer, is certainly an epicurean delight! While this book contains many sumptuous recipes, it is much more than a wonderful cookbook. In the foreword, former student and close friend Sheri L....

H: Infidels of Oil is the latest offering from Ray Palla. And if you enjoy thrillers where the murderous band of antagonists gets their comeuppance from a gaggle of good ‘ole boy roughnecks, then Mr. Palla has a rollicking novel just for you. In a...

Charlie is returning home from her job as a nightclub bouncer when she’s caught up in an attempted robbery. She intervenes and gets stabbed in the side. The two robbers kill another woman, but her daughter escapes. Across the street, Iona, a cyber crime detective...

To Say Goodbye by Lindsay Detwiler is a gem in the contemporary romance genre, a story that features two complex characters and interesting, moving themes. Sophia and Jackson are both characters who have suffered untold heartaches and their past seems to have left deep imprints...

Caribbean Catastrophe by M.K. Scott is the sixth book in The Painted Lady Inn Mysteries. After being dragged along on a cruise vacation, Donna expects it to be a peaceful trip with her friend, but the peace is short lived when her family tags along....

Come As You Are: A Short Novel and Nine Stories is a collection of horror tales for young adult readers, written by Steven Ramirez. Being twelve years old was not the idyllic thing that most grownups remember it being. Ask Ivan, a middle school kid,...

A female detective and a spell-enhanced dog are chasing villains in the enchanting sleuth mystery novel A Bark In The Night (The Talking Dog Detective Agency Book 1) by M.K. Scott. Feeling like she spent a year with an egocentric, loud, boisterous, and germ infested...

Taken is Book 1 in the Stories of the Alien Invasion series by Mel Corbett. It’s an imaginative beginning to what looks like an exciting series. The story follows several seemingly unrelated characters as they flee from an alien invasion. The pacing of the story...

The Elixir: A Bud Hutchins Urban Fantasy by JB Michaels is an exciting, contemporary, action-adventure story. It’s the second in a series and takes place in Chicago, picking up on adventures from the previous story. Wisecracking, teleporting private investigator Bud and his android friend, Bert,...

Future World Rocks! (Going Back to Our Roots) by Terry Tumbler is a science fiction novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy futuristic fiction and who do not mind narrative sex and futuristic bad language....

In The Patchwork Girl by Sebastian Bendix, 16-year-old Padget Beaumont is trudging through life－her scientist dad has mysteriously disappeared for months, she is shunned at school, and lost her best friend because of a boy. Padget is determined to face these annoying hardships and everything...

Fireburn by Apple Gidley takes the reader into the 1870s to the Danish owned island of Saint Croix. Anna Clausen is a young woman who is of Anglo-Danish heritage and she finds herself coming back to her childhood home after her mother passes away. Things...

Coming-of-age, inspirational, and Christian romance are genres blended perfectly in a tale of mystery in Leslea Wahl’s debut novel, The Perfect Blindside. The reader is introduced to two gifted teenagers, Jake and Sophie. Jake is a snowboarder with an Olympic Silver Medal, proud and adored...

An Unexpected Role is a YA story by Leslea Wahl about a sixteen-year-old named Josie. After her mother’s book comes out, Josie is teased incessantly by the entire high school about the antics in the book because they believe the stories are about her. Who...

The Word Search Sage: Yoga for the Brain by Cristina Smith, Rick Smith, and Ingrid Coffin is a self-help, health and fitness book which enables the reader to learn how to solve puzzles, have fun, kill time and actually learn about themselves. I love this...

Jeff W. Horton, author of Future Schism, is a prolific writer: in the past six years, since retiring as an information technology expert, he has published ten books! It is his vast experience with IT that he incorporates into this intriguing, dystopian future world of...

First of all, the cover of Guardians' Betrayal by Johanna Van Zanten is very powerful. The novel brings a very relevant message to readers in telling the story of a family that is broken, but desperately trying to stay together. The story follows Shayla and...

Critical Cover-Up by Margie Miklas tells the story of Allison Jamison who decides on a change of career and takes up a position as a critical care nurse. She anticipates her new role to be one that will be rewarding and enjoyable, but finds herself...