Wheels within wheels or a story within a story, The Muse Of Violence by Bruce Hartman reveals and deceives at the same time. Will Schaefer, 37, a fiction writer with writer's block, leads a seemingly harmless writer's group. His day job is with a large,...

Adaptech merged with Brain Sync, a company that pioneered technology known as the Mind Drive, which allowed the user to control electronic devices through thought alone. Unexpectedly, Brain Sync licensed the Mind Drive to Adaptech for a reasonable fee, making Adaptech widely successful in the...

The Madness Analog by Carl Proujan is an ambitious and thought-provoking thriller. It is part speculative fiction, and part good old-fashioned police detective novel with a huge dose of international espionage thrown in. It is a vast undertaking with scenes in Madrid, Paris, New York,...

'The Locket Lesson' by Terri Kelley is a story that teaches small children values and ethics. The story is about a little girl who goes for shopping with her mother. She likes a locket in the store and while nobody is watching, she slips it...

The burden of achieving social acceptance and outward, physical beauty can be crushing for a teenage girl. But then there are the victories, both small and large; little feats of independence and larger, inward self-acceptance. Jacquelyn Eubanks in The Last Time showcases a sympathetic and...

When a young, healthy employee of LTG, a defense contractor for the US Navy’s drone development program, dies suddenly from an overdose of a dangerous chemical, Jake Palmer is called in to investigate. Jake, an ex-Navy Seal turned private investigator, is reunited with an old...

The prologue to The Money Tree by Helen Yeomans is set in the future “a few years from now” and describes how the Juniperus lucre tree, or the money tree, has become established world-wide. The rest of The Money Tree tells the story about how...

In The Avalon Trilogy by Julie Elizabeth Powell, the reader begins the journey by following kids Davie, Ben, Anne, Chrissie, and Billy through a fantastic journey in a different world called Avalon - one of many different worlds. The time keeper turns up in the...

When a registered letter arrived at the Hirley residence, requesting the presence of their son Jason at the attorney's office, the family had no idea of the adventure that awaited them. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Jason's great-great-grandfather left a will with instructions that...

I LOVED the Hummingbird Way by Sherri Lynea Gerek. It's one of the most thoughtful looks into self-improvement that I've read lately, and believe me, I'm ALWAYS trying to find better ways of improving my life. Tools utilized by Gerek are timeless factors for being...

The Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain by Anna del C. Dye is another tale of the Elf kingdom with a very satisfying conclusion. I have to be careful of spoilers, because I’d really like to tell you all about this story, but too much information...

The Unbreakable Spirit of the Unbreakable Man by Maxine Steele is an inspiring and uplifting book which tells the story of Nicholas Steele who was paralyzed from the neck down when a lightning-struck tree fell on him. What follows is a series of setbacks in...

Victoria Pitts Caine's novel, The Tempering Agent, is a romantic novel set against the backdrop of Egypt. Dr. Priscilla Hackling is working with the police to find the murderer of her fiance, Trey Whittington. He was murdered by Zarka El Din, an Egyptian artifacts trafficker....

The Way Back: A Soldier’s Journey by S.K. Carnes tells the story of John Chapman, a World War I veteran with PTSD and a poet’s soul. He finds work as a farmhand with a dairy farming family who, in their own stalwart, beholden-to-no-one way, help...

The Cost of Freedom: A Novel of Politics and Freedom by Michael Skeen is the story of president T.J. Samuels and is told by his Chief of Staff, Don. T.J. faces a lot in his presidency and that is only in the first weeks and,...

Time travel has a new twist in The Sprocketeers: Great Giza Gonzo. John Stapleton and Sundae create a new kind of historical fiction for kids that explores time travel to ancient Egypt and the pyramids. When the twins, Cooper and Alyx Sprocket, discover an old...

The Furious Case of the Fraudulent Fossil is the story of two children who find themselves on the adventure of a lifetime. Benson and Anita think they are simply going on a field trip to a museum when they first start out their day, but...

Dany Madrid and her father, Dante, move to a ranch in Montana after her mother, Ellen, died. Dany is free spirited and stubborn, and prefers to wear cowboy clothing instead of dresses, much to the disapproval of some townsfolk. Dany becomes involved with a cowboy...

I just know young readers are going to love the story of The Lost Mermaid. This delightful book is written by Jan DiRuzzo and tells an entertaining tale of a mermaid named Lily. Lily got separated from her family, and is all alone in an...

I was quite impressed with Steven Weaver’s The Vault: A Journey of Discovery as I found it an unexpectedly well-written story with distinctive characters, realistic dialogue and a fairly solid plot. While the book is targeted to a younger audience and contains a lot of...