A Year Unplugged: A Family's Life Without Technology by Sharael Kolberg is the amazing journey of a family that distanced themselves from technology for a year to bring the family closer. The Kolberg family gave away all their gadgets; their TV, computers, cell phones, digital...

First of all I would like to comment on the cover of the novel. The Fire, the Revelation and the Fall has such an attractive cover that I actually took the novel without reading its blurb. I never do that, ever. I never really believed...

I found Frustrated Witness!: The Real Untold Story of the Adam Walsh Case by Willis Morgan absolutely fascinating. I used to love watching America’s Most Wanted and was surprised when John Walsh, the host’s own son, was murdered. Since I was young at the time,...

Wanderlust by Dawn Schout is a poetry book filled with easy to read and easy to understand poems about a wide range of topics. Some of those topics include cats, husbands and wives, a flight attendant, and hiking in the Colorado river. But even with...

Shaping Destiny by Heather Monroe is the story of Leah Hawk, a young woman getting ready to start her college life without any idea that her destiny isn't hers to control and that fate already has a plan for her. When somebody tries to kidnap...

In The Torch Singer by J. William Penn, screenwriter Lawrence Ross is best known for “Torch,” a very violent police drama, but longs to be recognized for his more serious work, such as his PBS documentary about President Eisenhower’s early years. Then, a director taps...

The Soul Retrieval: A Novel by Ann W. Jarvie is an uplifting and touching story of love, loss, redemption, and healing. The story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Henrietta Clayborn, who is living with her family in New Mexico's Medichero Indian Reservation...

Rylie's New Bike by Mrs RyAnn Adams Hall is the charming story of Rylie who has outgrown her old bike. Her momma decides to get a new one as a birthday gift. On the day of her birthday, her dad goes to Wal-Mart and buys...

Lizz Lund brings back the cooking addicted Mina Kitchen for yet another kooky adventure in Perfectly Pickled. This time Mina decides to give up cooking for a full-time job where she is literally surrounded by dead people. She fights to reorganize her life around the...

In the fourth installment of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series, A Twist of Fortune, author Mike Martin continues his excellent mystery series in fine fashion. Follow the experiences of Sgt. Winston Windflower in both his personal and professional life in Grand Bank, Newfoundland in Canada....

Ninth grade means new beginnings but the mystery that surrounds Pemota Regional High School signifies something much deeper. Rey Naresh, the main character in The Avocadonine and Spring Stone by Patrick Barnes, hasn’t really fitted in, although he has a few friends. Instead of remaining...

Sheryl isn’t a normal girl, she just doesn’t know it yet. A string of peculiar events and family secrets propel this seemingly normal teen’s life on a path to save her family, her town, and possibly even humanity. Deep in the Mississippi Delta, Sheryl must...

The galaxy is vast and inhabited by countless species but communication is still the biggest problem between two people in the terrific new book Across Our Stars: Victor by A. Payne and N.D. Taylor. Dr. Victor del Toro has everything going for him, at least...

The Survivors, Book 1: Summer by V.L. Dreyer is a science fiction romance set in post-apocalyptic New Zealand. Sandy McDermott has been surviving for over 10 years since the world as she knew it ceased to exist. Only eighteen when the epidemic took her loved...

Unlike many other zombie apocalypse stories that keep the ghouls coming, The Survivors Book II: Autumn by V.L. Dreyer deals with the survivors trying to pick up the pieces. After all, zombies are not the only problems this small group faces. Beginning with the death...

With a large part of their compound destroyed by fire, Sandy, Michael and the group living in the Motel have to move on to a safer location. Taking along new group members as well as the Parata Tribe, Sandy leads the survivors south to locate...

The final leg of the journey begins for Sandrine, Michael and the rest of the survivors but it won’t be easy. The Survivors, Book IV: Spring by V.L. Dreyer takes the group further south into the winter with obstacles on the Central Plateau, but then...

Ray Porter is just your average guy. Hard worker, handsome military veteran, on his way home for a weekend break from his minimum salary job. Knowing that he probably made a poor decision to indulge in a few Friday night drinks before hitting the road,...

Unbelieve 2096 by L.W. Brook is a great post-Armageddon novel for young people that takes place in (surprise!) 2096. It is a very believable future where survival is everything and everyone must make the grade or be hunted and killed or exiled. The protagonist, Oliver,...

Whoa! What a heart-pounding thrill ride of a read! That's what I thought when I finished reading Conspiracy of Silence, the first book published by author Glede Browne Kabongo. Follow the story of successful Boston businesswoman Nina Kasai as she lives a seemingly perfect life....