In A Carriage Ride Home by Sandra H. Esch, Oliver M. Harrington, a young nobleman, is about to introduce his fiancee Emily, a commoner, to his parents. This meeting does not go well and Oliver is forced to choose between his parents or the love...

A Friend for Freckles by Erin Beth Liles is the cute little story of Freckles who is a good friend to the dogs in the city animal shelter. He makes everyone happy there. Though Freckles has been in the shelter for a long while, no...

A Whisper of Smoke is a historical coming of age story written by Angela Hoke. It's set in the 1960s in a suburb right outside of Louisville, Kentucky. While Susanna and her family live in a more suburban setting, her best friend Calvin and his...

A “Closet Sherlockian” is what Trisha White Priebe calls the Sherlock mystery lovers in her book, A Sherlock Holmes Devotional - a case by case devotional based on the Sherlock Holmes mysteries written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In a surprising twist, this book contains Sherlock...

A Diary of Bedtime Stories, Week 2 by Jill Vance is a delightful collection of bedtime stories that can be read out to kids on each day of the week. The stories are narrated by a mother to her twin daughters. The stories she tells...

In the same way that a teddy bear or a hug makes one feel warm and loved, RyAnn Adams Hall’s tender verses in A Book of Poetry for Young Adults (Volume II) will cause any reader to wax nostalgic for a mother’s love. Neither the...

I thought A Fearful Lie by Jean Fournier Johnson was going to be a predictable book with an ending that is all too common. Instead, this book was hard to put down and nothing like I thought it would be. When Gloria accidentally kills a...

A Kiss Before Strangling by Douglas Sandler is a psychological thriller about a killer who wants revenge against the cops whom he thinks killed his fiancee, but all is not what it seems. The story was creepy in a good way. I liked how there...

Imagine waking up one day after the sudden death of your mother and finding out that you are a witch. That’s exactly what happens to 17-year-old Elizabeth in A Witch's Dream World: Chronicles of Elizabeth Fairbairn – Book 1 by Cheryllynn Dyess. Moving in with...

A Step Beyond by Nancy M Bell is the story of what happens when Gort finds himself as another version of himself inside the legendary world of King Arthur. This happens when, in current real life, his abusive Uncle Daniel attacks him and Gort slides...

A Matter of Temperance by Ichabod Temperance is a steampunk adventure heavy on sci-fi, humor, and wordplay. It is told from the alternating POVs of our main characters, Ichabod Temperance and Persephone Plumtartt. Ichabod Temperance is an Alabamian mechanical tinkerer/prodigy with a strong accent and...

Life brings its own ups and downs. We are all faced with several challenges and during these times we need a lift. A Million Smile: 101 True (well, mostly true) Smilemaking Stories by Peter Hartjens is the answer. Peter has compiled a group of stories...

From the moment I saw the cover of The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake: A Wilcox and Griswold Mystery, I was intrigued. Author Robin Newman and illustrator Deborah Zemke have done a fantastic job at grabbing your attention from the get go. Not only...

Ian Patrick Williams’ A.I. P.I. sets a perfect scene for a down-at-the-heel private eye. A jaded, cynical ex-cop with an office he owes rent on in a bad neighbourhood, Raymond, or RMD3000, is one of a minority of artificially intelligent androids, feared and discriminated against...

A Closer Walk with God is an in depth analysis of the way for a Christian to commune with God. In general, persons are encouraged to have an exhilarating relationship with Him. Author Henry Miranda begins his book with a quotation from the Book of...

In A Tale of Hope's Faith, author Diane Weinmann, an animal communicator and healer, writes a heartwarming account of one of her clients named Hope, a mixed breed rescued dog adopted by the loving family of Rosanne. All things are going well until Hope’s sixth...

In A Taste For Killing, competing detectives Carolyn Woods and Jack Heart are both hired to solve a murder, only to realize they are working the same case. To complicate things, Carolyn and Jack have an on again, off again relationship. Then there is Evan...

In a sweet, sad, heartbreaking read, A Thirty-Something Girl, author Lisa Gott tells us the story of Hope. At the age of thirty, Hope has dealt with a lot of difficult things. She's lost a child, been divorced, and struggled mightily with finances. Thankfully, she...

Whoa! Can you say ‘thrill ride?’ That is definitely how I would describe A Fine Line: The Ancients, Part One by author J.C. Brennan. The story begins with the William Healthaway family. Having survived an attack by the Damned and triumphing over Tetron, the evil...

I must confess, I was first attracted to Fernando Torres’ new novel, A Habit of Resistance, by the cover. Gun-toting nuns in full habits; what could be better? Having been raised Catholic, this story was one I simply could not resist. And the book did...