It is the year before the kids go off to secondary school and everyone who loves football wants to make the Hall Park trials. Charlie Fry, an 11-year-old boy who loves football, has dreamed of being a striker for the Hall Park team. His only...

Sex and the American Male by Jay Williams has absolutely nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with advertising and the messages it sends you. As Williams states in his clever cliff-notes: "The author attempted to show how America has become saturated with...

Children forced to live with a relative while their parents face a crisis are generally disoriented and are in need of friends. Many times they are also forced to move away from their known school and neighborhood and so have to adjust to a completely...

Unbelievably bizarre, Remember Me: A Love Story by Mary Funk will capture your heart and challenge your psyche. Sarah Ferguson suffers from horrific nightmares. She takes a “mind-adventure” into the prison of her mind. Through therapy, Sarah attempts to unlock her subconscious. Sarah’s pain takes...

Nine-year-old Susan, a student at Pleasant Grove Middle School, lives in what ought to be a paradise, surrounded by bougainvillea hedges, fountain trees, and a host of caring adults who support and encourage learning. Her potentially idyllic existence is overshadowed, however, by the constant presence...

If you have friends, nieces, nephews, sons, daughters or neighbors dealing with having to confront their own homosexuality or that of a close friend, Between These Walls is an excellent book that just might spare that teen agony and loneliness. Author John Herrick introduces young...

Escape in Time: Miri's Riveting Tale of her Family's Survival During World War II is a young adult historical novel written by Ronit Lowenstein-Malz, translated by Leora Frankel and illustrated by Laurie McGaw. Nessya is a young Israeli whose best friend, Rachel, has given her...

The Giraffe That Will Make You Laugh by Mamma Macs revolves around the story of Cuthburt, the giraffe who is a clown in the circus. Cuthburt does not look like the usual clowns one sees in the circus, but his antics make the crowds laugh...

Algorithm by Arthur M. Doweyko is notches above the ordinary, as the author has incorporated extensive research and excellent descriptive writing. The story begins with Adam Dove, a young teenager, finding something shiny and looking like a coin embedded in a lump of coal in...

Award-winning author John C. Maxwell in Learning From the Giants helps both believers and leaders better understand how to become the leader God has called you to be. John uses biblical characters to explain great leadership examples and how their successes and failures are things...

Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston are two of my favorite authors. Their latest addition to the Pendergast series will please fans. Blue Labyrinth is read by Rene Auberjonois. Many readers will recognize Rene Auberjonois’ distinctive voice from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In the 14th...

David Baldacci has hit the ball out of the park with his book The Escape. Once again, readers are reunited with one of their favorite characters - John Puller, the government's go-to man when it comes to probing the harshest crimes facing the land. In...

Of Moonbeams and Fairies: Collected Tales by Rebecka Vigus is a nice little book for young children. It is a small book, more suited for reading out to little ones. The stories are interesting and sure to please the narrator as well as the listener...

The hair on the back of your neck begins to prickle just the slightest bit and stand up, your breath begins to slowly increase as your heart pumps faster, anxiety spreads through your veins like fire, and you have the most bone chilling feeling about...

Soul Secrets by Miki Jacobs is an interesting and useful spiritual guide meant for people interested in contacting their soul "team," which includes spirit guides, guardian angels and departed ones. What I love about this book is that it is a simple guide which first...

The Oasis of Filth - The Complete Series by Keith Soares is a dystopian novel told from the perspective of a former doctor who faces the outbreak of a lethal combination of leprosy and rabies that turns people into zombies who can infect other people...

The Truth About Moral Issues by Don Blackwell is a book dedicated to help share advice and insight on the moral issues that face people - young and old - in this day and age. While mainly focusing on issues that youths tend to be...

Dear Babies: Crazy Life, Simply Explained by Amy Denby is not your typical parenting book. It is a book of letters to Amy’s babies. Every time Amy experiences something new, she writes them a funny and honest letter. The letters follow the whole ten months...

Bible study is an important practice for anyone trying to develop and maintain a positive Christian attitude. With many different approaches for understanding the word of God, Songs of Deliverance by Debra Griffin Mitchell offers a fresh, straight-forward guide for identifying examples of deliverance. Debra...

In South of Rising Sun, author J.D. McCall tells the story of a US Marshall, Al Taggart, and his efforts to solve Kansas rancher James Harper's trouble with some highly resourceful cattle rustlers. In attempting to solve the mystery of the missing cattle, Taggart is...