Dan Harper is just an ordinary guy, having an ordinary day until he spills sauce on his tie during lunch. When he visits a Humane Society thrift store near his office for an inexpensive replacement, merely touching a secondhand tie triggers a flood of gruesome...

Poppy Johnson, an exemplary, exceptional and a super-focused high school junior, is given the prestigious Denton Award. The full paid scholarship to Columbia University has been Poppy’s and her family’s dream ever since Poppy could remember. It is awarded only to one outstanding student. In...

Authors Aaron J. Cox and Gregory L. Wright write from experience. They do not claim to have degrees in psychology or that they are renowned therapists. Instead they are individuals who have faced bad relationships and survived. The titles of the chapters worried me at...

"The Housekeeper's Son" by Christopher Loke is a compelling and, at times, complicated tale. Christopher Loke weaves quite a story involving Eleanor, hired as housekeeper, her son David, and the Cunningham family, Elizabeth, Katherine and Edmund. Add abuse, incest and murder, and you have the...

"Gerry the Giraffe" is written by Melissa Northway and illustrated by Jennifer Mercede. The first thing that jumped out at me when I saw this book was the delightful colors of Gerry. The illustrator has given him orange, giving him the look of a quirky...

It is Feburary 2, 1973, and in the state of Washington, Lizette Karlson comes home to her father, famed anthropologist Einar Karlson. Lizette has overwhelming problems including the fact that she was attacked and raped a few months before. Mentally frail but highly artistic Lizette...

Golden girl Heven Montgomery had it all: the looks, the body, the talent, the popularity and the good grades, and she is (of course) a cheerleader. Life is perfect until one day something dreadful happens. Heven is attacked by some horrific creature while walking home...

In Chicago, FBI Agent Nick Catlin spent months setting up a sting on Damon Hannah’s business, INYO Industries, that supposedly focuses on high-end medical equipment. It is clear there is a leak in the FBI team. Twice an enormous explosion has obliterated all traces of...

“Red Leaves and the Living Token” by Benjamin David Burrell is a riveting fantasy featuring multiple interwoven sub-plots, with a captivating over-arching theme. Three distinct “species” of characters are the primary personalities in this story: Bota, Zo, and Petra. The Bota are a BOTAnical species,...

Samantha English’s life has become a deep dark nightmarish dream. Her best friend Lucas whom she had grown up with and his brother Ethan are powerful angels. They are special angels sent from above to help watch over and protect Samantha. The life that she...

Scarlet the dolphin and Hailey have teamed up and are ready for another adventure in the deep blue sea where Scarlet lives. This time, it is on the west coast, the Pacific Ocean, where their new adventure takes place. Scarlet takes her best friend Hailey...

Ms. Antypowich is a new author to me. This is her second book in her 'Thompson Family Trilogy' and is written in an incredibly amazing manner. I was captured completely, from start to finish, and by the end of the book, I was left with...

Joy, Gabby and Maxine have been friends since their college years at Morgan State University. Now Joy and Maxine are driving Gabby to the hospital to have her baby who is fathered by the famous Rayshawn Robinson, a quarterback with the Baltimore Ravens, even though...

Recently unemployed computer programmer Nan Burton has had a series of setbacks including losing her job, her apartment, and her car. So, when she inherits a California beach cottage from her great-great-aunt, she is really delighted since she has loved the old cottage since she...

"Asymmetric Warfare for Entrepreneurs" by Luan Hanratty is frankly an ingenious book. Its approach of applying a tactic of the famous Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt war, and which he wrote about in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", to entrepreneurship in the ‘warfare’ of...

Kory's sister Callie is killed in what police say is a hit and run. Kory, however, believes that her sister was beaten to death. She goes to the old campground that her grandfather sold and takes a cabin with the intent of finding her sister's...

Young Danny Firoth was just an average middle school kid, just like everyone else, or so he thought. Then, one innocent school day turned out to be like no other day. Danny’s day started out like any other. But, one fateful event would change the...

Natalie was beaten and verbally abused by her mother when she was growing up. All she wanted to do was get away and live a normal life. But, when she was 14 her mother's boyfriend almost killed her and did kill her mother. After...

If I had to describe this book in one word it would be captivating! Once I started reading I couldn't put it down! On 9-11-2013, a brazen terrorist attack took place at the Annenberg theater in Center City, PA. Though 290 people were taken hostage this...

“I Am a Squirmy Wormy” by Robin A. Knaggs is a grandmother’s story for her grand-daughter. Whenever it was time for a diaper change or bath or bed time or whatever, the author would make up little rhymes to keep her little “squirmy wormy” calmed...