Hanu, the protagonist of Wake of Deception by Sasha DeVore, has been living in a clinic for people with mental conditions for a few years. There seems to be no improvement in his condition, and no wonder, too, because he's stopped taking his pills! One...

Crescendo! by GR Jordan is the first Austerly and Kirkgordon adventure. Kirkgordon has lost everything: his wife, kids, and friends. Teamed with Austerly, an eccentric professor obsessed with the supernatural, and a government agent that's more suspicious than trustworthy, Kirkgordon searches for a missing music...

White Lake is a contemporary women's fiction novel written by Susan Amond Todd. Cynthia Lewis's life had been poised on the brink of new and exciting changes. Some were undoubtedly bittersweet, such as driving her son, Christopher, to his new dorm and knowing he was...

The Last Leaf is a children’s book written by William Baldwin and illustrated by Liesl Bell. On the first day of spring each year, new buds and leaves sprout on the branches of the Great Oak Tree. As the buds blossom into shiny green leaves,...

Disaster at Roosevelt Ranch is a romance novel written by Elise Faber. Kelly Hamilton feels like her life is in a sudden tail spin. She hadn’t planned on falling pregnant to Rex Roosevelt, but she knew that telling him about the baby was the right...

Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure is an adventure picture book for children written by John Arvai III and illustrated by Eminence System. Most people think that Christmas ornaments are just there for decoration purposes, but they're really much more than just decorations. Those...

Red Widow by Nathan Wilson is Book One in the Vivian Xu series, a good murder and mystery story, every bit as entertaining as it is engaging. Life has never been easy for Vivian. She’s been used by the crime-riddled world of the Czech Republic....

Arsenic for the Soul by Nathan Wilson is a dark story that twists until a surprising conclusion. Vivian Xu and her friend, Camilla Vesely, have experienced a lot of darkness and psychopaths. In this follow-up to Red Widow, Vivian has re-invented her life after her...

It's interesting to select a book and find that you're getting what you expected and a bit more. It was the genre that drew me to What He Didn't See by Jacqueline Simon Gunn. As this book is classified as romance/suspense, I was curious about...

When nineteen-year-old Tess finds herself alone in the world after her father’s death, she realizes the enormity of life as a single teenage mother. She had no friends, no income, and no place to call home. What else could she do but hit the road...

Books having to do with the Middle East always interest me, and especially those set in Iraq. This is a region that the author says is “older than the flood.” It is a land that has been ruled at one time or another by the...

I truly was blown away by A Journey Toward Perfection. Author Helen Kamenos is an Orthodox Christian and gives a truly stellar description of many tenets of their doctrine. It is very detailed and thorough. I very much enjoyed it because, as is true of...

Sylvie Stewart’s The Spark is another entry in the Carolina Connections series, a book I judged by its cover and one that turned out to be a perfect read in the romance category, a love story that is character-driven and so tightly written that readers...

Tennessee Yankee by Herb Hughes is a historical fiction novel set in the era of the Civil War and its aftermath. Tennessee Yankee is essentially the life story of Aaron Richardson, the son of a plantation owner in the South. The story begins with an...

As Margot begins her sophomore year at Kipperton High School, she is optimistic that it will be a vast improvement upon her freshman experience. With friends Ashley, Cassie, and Walter by her side, Margot is pumped to begin a new chapter in her life; preferably...

Lights Out: Super Speed Sam, Book 6 of 12 is a children's educational storybook written by Monty J. McClaine. Sam is a basset hound who lives with his human family: Jack, Mom, Dad, and his special friend, baby Molly. Only Molly knows that Sam has...

Jelly Bryce — The Man In The Mirror is the final installment in Mike Conti’s Jelly Bryce trilogy and, if you have read the first two, missing out on this one would be like reading a murder mystery and not bothering to read the final...

The Soul of My Son: A Grieving Father's Journey from Skeptic to Psychic Medium is a non-fiction self-help book on grief and bereavement written by Steven Joseph. Joseph and his wife, Karen, had their family planned carefully. Their first child would be walking and potty...

Swahili Folklore by Gloria D. Gonsalves is a collection of rhymes, songs, and Swahili folk tales, and introduces readers to a country called Tanzania, a country located in East Africa, that boasts many treasures. Children are introduced to many things associated with Tanzania through rhymes,...

Herb Hughes pens an action-packed futuristic mystery in The Joystick Murders: A Drake Blast Novel. The year is 2042 and Drake Blast is working a security detail. It is seemingly a low-level assignment, until a Secret Service agent murders the front runner for the 2044...