Duane is stood up on a blind date and frustrated about it. So frustrated, in fact, that he cuts his hand, thus altering his love line forever, although he doesn't yet know this. This one event changes the course of his life forever. He returns...

The subtitle for Keeping Up With The Joneses by Derek Vaughn says it all: What would you do if a corporation placed a robot in your neighborhood to sell products? Haze is the 9-year-old next door neighbor, except, well, he's actually a robot. After failing...

Dark Sun, Bright Moon is a work of historical fiction by Oliver Sparrow, based on the real ancient history of South America. The plot takes place a millennium ago in the mountainous region of the Andes, where the tribal communities of the Huari empire live...

Jiggles is a very unusual little pig. This is quite a concern for his parents. While Mom, Dad and Jiggles' siblings all frolic in the mud to stay cool, Jiggles wants to run to the river to get clean. He refuses to play with everyone...

AJ Krafton and Ash Krafton's The Heartbeat Thief was not at all the book I expected. Now, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. In this case, it was a very good thing. It is a story of the greatest of loves,...

A baby owl is born and, like all newborns, this baby is very hungry. However, this baby owl, Ollie, never seems to outgrow his hunger and as he grows he eats more and more. His parents have a difficult time keeping up with the baby's...

In Dead Money Run by J. Frank James, Lou Malloy has just maxed out on a fifteen-year prison sentence for the theft of $15 million dollars. Right before leaving prison, he learns that his sister is brutally murdered. Even though he has 15 million reasons...

I absolutely loved The Ant Who Can't - La Hormiga Que No Puede by A.M. Vela and Mary Esparza-Vela. The story is about an ant named Frita who is not very good at carrying food for her colony. One day when Frita’s colony is attacked...

One thing is true for us all: life ends in death. We each must face the end of life with our own particular accumulated insights and skills. What To Do with Your Stuff by Lois G. Tager, M.Ed., CSA is a practical, indispensable guide for...

Planning For Love is the story of Poppy Reagan, a type A personality with terrible luck in the dating and love department. Poppy’s problem is that she chooses poorly, bad boys mostly and cheaters, and they never result in the happy ending she desperately wants....

The Rad Misfits is a young adult adventure novel by Marlina Williams in the post-apocalyptic genre. When only pregnant women and animals survive a worldwide environmental disaster, the next generation of humans on earth are cursed to die when they reach the age of 34....

Agent Gabriel Hunter is called to the scene of a brutal murder that he knows is just one of several committed by the same killer. That means Tori Cooper will soon be involved since she has the unique ability to communicate with the spirits of...

In The Advance Man by Rick Robinson, David Unger is working in his dream job as the advance man for the Vice President. By all accounts, he is unassuming and good at his job. Suddenly, in a flash all that changes. With the nation in...

“The goal is to become intoxicated with life. The tool is the heart. The medium is words.” Writing, as Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe illustrates time and again in her book Myth, Magic, and Metaphor: A Journey into the Heart of Creativity, is a combination of intuition,...

The Path to Job Search Success by Tom Payne begins with an interesting observation that humans are psychologically wired to move in the wrong direction down the job-search path. Tom Payne therefore emphasizes the need to be well prepared with the correct approach at all...

Southern Fried Fiction: How The Insidious Onset Of Depression Derailed a Successful Man's Life is a memoir written by Stuart Hotchkiss. The author's family is steeped in tradition. The grand estate where they lived when Hotchkiss was young was a bittersweet reminder for him in...

The NightShade Forensic Files: Under Dark Skies Book 1 is about the first case of Senior Agent Eleri Eames and medical examiner-turned Agent Donovan Heath. They are recruited by the NightShade division of the FBI to investigate a case of child kidnappings in the heart...

In Ridge by Stephanie Hurt, meet an ex-soldier who is struggling through life with PTSD, until the day he meets 'the One' and his world turns upside down. Ridge is the oldest Cauthen boy. He grew up in a big, happy family. Ridge is kind...

Grace had to overcome a painful tragedy and is doing her best to live each day. Her counselor, Ben Hardy, believes he can be the one to bring healing to Grace and give her back the beautiful life that she had before her painful episode....

The childhood rhyme, "Give me give me never gets; don't you know your manners yet," rattles through my mind as I read this charming story, Treasures in the Winter Vault by Debbie Bertram and Lisa Detanna. It's a lesson that children and adults alike need...