The screen door was a status symbol in the South back in the '70s. Families took pride in having a nice screen door, and it was symbolic of growing up Down South. Damaging it in any way led to punishment. I liked the life description...

Whispering Wind by David E. Scott is a short story about a boy named Whispering Wind. Whispering Wind is in pursuit of a buckskin mustang named Twister. Twister is a wild mustang with its own personality and he refuses to be caught. Despite Twister’s wildness,...

Five Steps to Enlightenment: Awakening to Divine Love by Mark Aspa is an uplifting book which reiterates the presence of God in everyone's lives and His healing power, and the author's voyage into the spiritual world which changed his entire existence. The author speaks about...

Banana Chronicles: Fishing For Bananas by Timothy Brower is a delightful and creative children's pictorial and early reader book, introducing its young reading audience to the concepts of fairness, accountability within a public community, and an introduction into the world of economics. The author has...

The Traveling Man by Michael P. King is an exhilarating ride into the world of con artists. We are taken on two different cons. The first is where we meet the titular traveling man, his wife, and Buddy, an associate, working a real estate con....

In an absolutely glowing introduction to Lacland, the fictional Midwestern town that author Tara Woolpy uses to loosely tie her books in the Lacland series together, Releasing Gillian’s Wolves is an absolute joy to read. The story follows our protagonist Gillian Sach, the long suffering...

Sometimes, when I read a book, something about the words on the page, the story, or just the feelings that the story evokes in my heart make me realize that a part of the book will always be a part of me. So is the...

First, a disclaimer: I have read other Tara Woolpy books and I absolutely love them, the town of Lacland and this author. And I must say, Midnight Supper at the Rise and Shine did not disappoint me in the least. Follow the story of former...

Blowing Sandstorm by Horace Crenshaw Jr. is an account of the author’s military unit, and its deployment in support of Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF). After a delightful narration of the entry of Horace Crenshaw Jr. into this world, a rather panoramic description about his growth...

Mount Rainier had stood like a towering dormant sentinel, watching over the Puget Sound area for millennia. Then, on a clear September morning, something deep inside the heart of the sleeping volcano shifted. For the Brock family, and the millions of residents who lived in...

Love, Lies & Consequences by Natasha D. Frazier is a story filled with love, lies and romance that will keep readers glued to the pages. Raegan is happy with the life she is leading until she meets Rico. Though she does not believe in sex...

The Mystic High Adventures of Fannie Flame & Crew by Claudia Hagen introduces ballooning as a ‘form of flight where the destination is irrelevant and the journey is everything.’ How the author developed an instant liking of this costly game, what difficulties she had to...

Epic of Time by Sandip Goswami is a sweeping collection of brutally honest and mesmerizing poems reflecting the pain, passion, and paradoxes of contemporary India. Complex issues are addressed in staccato phrases brimming with poignant parallelism and a deeply personal sense of urgency. This collection...

Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter is a story that grabbed me from the beginning pages and wouldn't let go! We first meet Jubilee Stallings on her eighteenth birthday, and it isn't a happy celebration at all. Instead I found my heart aching for this...

Where Death Speaks is a horror novel written by Ronnie Stich. Richard Ravestone has been fascinated by the occult from the moment he first peered into the occult and parapsychology section of the public library as a young boy. He still gets that forbidden thrill...

Years of Autistic Creativity by Joseph D. Smith is a unique book of "lyrics" written for the reader to peruse and enjoy at leisure. It is a whimsical book about love and how best to express that love or understand that one is in love....

You'll have an affinity for the Elements Series of Raymond Henri after reading Tear of God. This action packed sci-fi adventure starts off with a camping trip in which Mink's parents, Jure and Nyam, are trying to help their 16-year-old son find his element affinity....

In The 70% Guy, Chisel Phoenix describes to us a world of dating unlike one we've ever known before. With digital technology, the world is an even smaller place. Who has time to be trapped in a monogamous relationship when there are countless other ways...

Other than needle-pricked fingers and scissor cuts, it's hard to imagine the fine art of sewing as being a dangerous occupation. Then again, millions of young people continue to slave away in sweatshops all over the world; so a story like the one about an...

Finding out that your best friend apparently committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the university you both go to is not the way to start a Monday, least of all for Alexandra Neve, who has the feeling that her friend Irina Anderson did...