“Hell on East Rock: A Love Mystery", written by Patrick Mascola, will capture your attention from the first page itself and will keep you turning the pages until you reach the very end to solve the missing pieces of the puzzle. Jennifer has a close...

Taliesin Weaver was twelve years old when the memories of his past lives came flooding back. Taliesin 1 knew and fought with King Arthur. However, that wasn’t the only life he lived. When the memories filled his mind he became unhinged but eventually he came...

Authors Charmaine Hammond and Debra Kasowski help the reader navigate along their destination with a fabulous book entitled "GPS Your Best Life: Charting Your Destination and Getting There in Style". This is a great book on helping the reader understand how not to allow circumstances...

Mortal Gods by Anne Griffith will raise all of the hairs on the back of your neck when you read it. Step into Albuquerque, New Mexico where expectant Mothers are being tortured, mutilated and their babies taken. Peter Kostas, the Detective attached to the case,...

This is another book in 'Karen Pirnot's Ordinary Kids' series which is aimed at pre-teen kids. The main characters in these stories face hurdles. Crighton, an energetic, friendly, popular kid who lives for sports, is diagnosed with leukaemia. Suddenly his life becomes completely different. He...

"The Summer Before the Storm" by Gabriele Wills is initially a romantic story about seemingly kinder and gentler times. Set in the Muskoka wilderness of Canada, the Wyndham family give us a glimpse into the lavish, privileged life of the rich. There are both "old...

"Outerborough Blues” was written by Andrew Cotto. The story of Caesar Stiles is a compelling one with one week in his 20 year old life in a grim Brooklyn neighborhood. The product of a sad dysfunctional home, Caesar has many demons to live with: a...

"Morgan and Clive" is another book in Karen Pirnot's thoughtful and inspiring 'Ordinary Kids series' which is intended for pre-teen kids. The main characters in these stories face hurdles. Here we meet Clive, short for Clivinia, who has just moved to the States from England...

Author Joao Cequeira has created an interesting but fictional book looking back at Fidel Castro, the longtime revolutionary leader of Cuba. Cequeria begins by telling the reader that his God, Jesus Christ, JFK, J.Edgar Hoover and even Fidel himself are purely fictional creations. Then "The...

"Respot the Pin" by Timothy Sawyer gets its title from a bowling term. When the pinsetter might accidentally knock over a pin, the bowling center must return or "respot" the pins to their original position. Keeping this in mind, the story begins with Kirill "Nick"...

Martin Roy Hill's anthology, "Duty", is a compilation of short stories with the common theme of duty to one's country. The cover story 'Duty' is a tale about the mythical red button that starts the atomic war, and the soldiers who are assigned the fatal...

“Galaxy Girl” was written by Dr. Karen Pirnot. This book is perfect for higher elementary children. This tale’s focus is on ten-year-old Allie, whom we first met in “The Above All Others Principal” from the 'Ordinary Kids' series. Allie's brother Peter was injured in a...

“Mice in My Tummy” by Andrea Houdek is a clever little tale of 5 year old Sami Rae, who thinks she has mice living in her tummy, because every time the teacher calls on her she can feel them running around in her tummy. Sami...

“Reluctant Gods” by A.J. Aaron asks you to imagine waking up one Saturday morning and learning that you are literally a god with the power to save the world. Your grandmother, Ayel, is an ancient mystic who showed you the secrets behind the trap door....

Author and life coach Toneal M. Jackson encourages readers to press onward despite their circumstances. She uses the acronym A.B.O.V.E. to help people to cope with adversity in a better manner. A – Adversity -- We all face adversity in our life: death, loss of...

"To Snatch a Thief" is the story of Skye Forrester, a teenager who has been arrested for theft in London in 2089. She was born in poverty and, after both of her parents passed away, she is the sole guardian of her six-year old brother....

In a sleepy Canadian town, the heat is taking its toll on the residents and so is a serial killer that the media dubs “The Kidney Slasher”. He likes young, healthy brunettes with blue eyes, but the seeming randomness of his kills leaves the entire...

"The Adventures of Chubby Cheeks" tells the pro quest story of this boy who, because of his cheeks, was so aptly nicknamed Chubby Cheeks. This is written in Chubby's point of view. His adventure started during summer when every one seemed to have gone somewhere...

Lisen Holt’s quintessential life as a seventeen year old teenager from Woodland Hills abruptly changed when a strange monk-like woman abducted her. Now she has to deal with a foreign world of Garla – her original world, her real home. But Lisen doesn’t feel that...

In the first book of the 'Skymasters Series', "Galaxy Girl", preteen Allie Henderson discovers an intergalactic visitor named Eilla, who looks just like her. She is Allie's galactic cousin from a parallel universe. In the second book, "Under the Universe", things get even more interesting....