Heads Above Water
Stephanie Dagg is a new author to me. I love finding new ones who will hook me and hold me until the end of the story with just a few pages. That is what she did here for me. I loved the way she took...
Stephanie Dagg is a new author to me. I love finding new ones who will hook me and hold me until the end of the story with just a few pages. That is what she did here for me. I loved the way she took...
In his book “Finding Real Purpose,” author Kenneth Nkemnacho gives readers a deep insight into how to find the real purpose of our lives as it should be. God created each one of us with a special purpose, so the only way to find your...
Alice's job is writing for the soap opera "All My Tomorrows". Peter wants out of his contract on a prime time drama. The deal he got is to appear for a limited time on Alice's soap. She is less than enthusiastic when Peter, his agent...
“The Harvest” by Clint Morey paints a picture of a very different future America: one in which synthetic humans are cultivated on remote, highly secretive, and extremely well-secured facilities to serve as organ transplant donors. Legally designated as non-human, the so-called mutants have no rights,...
Cali is the niece of the king. Her father wants her to take over the mage school when he retires and marry a man of his choosing. However, Cali is not interested in either. One day she meets Galadin, a sea captain. She asks him...
Serenya was raised by Douglas Barnaby her after her mother died giving birth to her. He loved her and treated her as if she were his biological daughter. Together they made ale for his tavern. Serenya played the piano in the tavern and attracted the...
Born in 1870, Christian takes to wandering as a young man, doing odd jobs. One day, close to his old family place, he is hired as a farmhand by a beautiful young woman, Corinne. As she walks away, he finds a whiskey bottle at his...
"Mind over Mind" by Karina Fabian grips you from the first page. Eighteen year old Deryl - or Ydrel as he prefers to be called - hears voices in his head that make him act in certain ways, and because of this he has been...
Haunted by his wife’s death -- a suicide -- and the day he found her dead and cold, floating in the lake behind his house, Alex Crawford has spent almost two years longing to escape from the guilt of his wife’s death. After writing what...
This is interesting fantastical paranormal but with a good story at its heart. Vern is a dragon private investigator partnered with Catholic Faerie nun Sister Grace. Vern was cursed by St George to live a constructive, good life. The two of them fight evil on...
Daniel Saynuk does a wonderful job in his book, "Guide Doggie: Learn How Guide Dogs Help the Blind In This Coloring Book.” He helps the reader understand the importance of a guide dog and the benefit he provides to someone who is blind. The dogs...
Jo Carrol's "Hidden Tiger Raging Mountain" is a straightforward account of her journey in the country. The story unfolds in Wiltshire, England, where she resides and then at the brightly-lit Nepal International Airport, upon her arrival. A confessed wanderlust, she leaves behind daughters and grandchildren...
An English teacher does not only teach English as a subject, especially in the case of those who teach General English in higher levels or conversation classes. They have to keep updated with the latest issues in the world, from the US election to celebrity...
"You're not mine." That had been Bushy's excuse to inflict torture on his son, Kramer, the adult narrator recollecting his past in David Nelson's remarkable novel "The Shade Tree Choir." Returning to his childhood hometown on the event of his father's funeral, Kramer finds that...
"Untraceable" is the story of a teenager named Grace whose father disappeared some months ago. He worked in wildlife patrol and rescue, and everyone assumes he is dead. Grace believes otherwise, however, and she takes it upon herself to prove it. Her days are spent...
"The Way of Nacor: Tales of Eden" by Jeff Horton follows the Seekers children Rachel, Michael, Jessie, and Eli on an adventure to an alien land called Zantura. The children make friends with the natives (called Rephaim), and find out that the Relic of Nacor...
The collection of poems entitled "Not afraid to Be Real" by Maranda Russell is obviously a daring statement on the diversified circumstances of a common man's life. The poems are fresh, both thematically and technically, and they leave the reader to muse on the truths...
"Beautifully Absurd" by Robert Ashley MD is a curious medical fiction book that introduces us to Paul Matthews, a man who rebelled against the status quo of being a husband, father and bread winner. This rebellion will leave him with the desire to see the...
Caitlyn McCollum had spent years trying to escape her past. She changed her name to Katie and met the kind of man who would give her the things she wanted. Ethan was everything she had ever hoped for. But lately, everything she has worked so...
I always love a good historical novel that can seamlessly take us back and forth between two time periods. Michelle Kallio's "Betrayal" does exactly that. This is the story of two women: a happily dating modern day woman living in Canada named Lydia and Anne...