What would you do if you were in love with your childhood sweetheart, but had always been told that marriage between you two was forbidden? That's just what happens in Promised Valley Rebellion by Ron Fritsch. Rose Leaf and Morning Sun wanted to get married,...

Lisa Minassian, daughter of an Armenian immigrant father whose family survived genocide and an English mother whose family withstood the bombing of London in World War II, deliberates and then decides to join the Marines at age nineteen. She has partied until she dropped with...

Pictarine Nebbie loved her parents but not her name; she prefers Pic. Pic and her best friend/cousin, Dar, run an employment agency. Pic meets the most marvelous man, Mason Jump, in the elevator of the building where her employment agency is located. Mason entertains terminally...

Isabel Lindley and Tripp Macauley have been friends for seven years. Isabel is the practical one, and Tripp is always coming up with different things to try. Normally Tripp's quirkiness doesn't bother Isabel, but Tripp's newest hobby of Witchcraft and performing spells is something Isabel...

Michelle Erickson has created a new series sure to please the pickiest fantasy readers. In Chest of Souls Book 1, we meet nine year old Talon and the adventure begins with a human sacrifice. The Sons of Ammon were present as the Guardian clasped the...

The earth has finally captured the attention of the human race as global warming and pollution wreak havoc around the globe. Natural disasters occur randomly and with deadly force on a daily basis to the point that some people have become desensitized to the news....

Was it caused by a war as the government claims, possibly an accident or even natural disaster? No one remembered, but many generations later, the descendents of the North Americans, long in exile in South America, return to the devastation of what was once their...

Charm: An Amazing Story of a Little Black Cat is a memoir and tribute to a special cat written and illustrated by Leyla Atke. When she first saw Charm, he was huddled in the middle of heavy traffic. During a brief lull in the traffic,...

"Under Table Mountain" by Nigel Patten is a lovely historical account of the close of the nineteenth century in South Africa. As the story opens, Colonial Britain has ongoing conflict with the two Boar republics. Through the tension and turmoil of the Johannesburg and Capetown...

"Dark Mind", an Emily Stone Novel is a mystery-thriller story written by Jennifer Chase. Emily Stone and Rick Lopez are police detectives madly in love and on vacation in Hawaii when they stumble upon a sex ring operation and learn that Cassie Thompson, a 9...

I always enjoy reading new books, especially by new authors. Every author needs the chance to have their work read and appreciated. When the opportunity arose to review a new book by a new author, I took the chance. I'm both happy and sad to...

This is a fantasy tale of good versus evil through the eyes of a young teenage girl, Mellie. Running from her sisters’ taunts, she finds herself caught up in the world of the F.A.I.R.I.E.S, where she will learn the world of spiritual warfare against the...

Griffin is a supernatural teen, who is meant to be a Terrae Anglus. Basil, his trainer, was to see him through his Proelium. But because of his former master’s deceit, Griffin has become just an ordinary human. Though Griffin hates being a human, he tries...

I was impressed by how easy the reading could be for such a hard topic. This book is full of hope, success stories, and faith in God. It is an example of how to ride a very tumultuous wave that touches so many of our...

"Return To Finkleton" is a wonderful mystery book for children aged 9-12. Written by K C Hilton, this is the second book in the 'Finkleton Series'. Two years have passed and Jack, Lizzy and Robert are still discovering magical items and protecting their treasured secrets...

Author Linda Campanella's mother, Nancy, was diagnosed with stage four small-cell cancer that had spread to her brain in September of 2008. This was horrible news for Nancy's four children, Linda, Paula, Claudia and Eric as well as her husband of over fifty years, Eckart,...

“Quests of Shadowind: Skyshifter” by L.A. Miller is a sci-fi fantasy book about two siblings, Logan and Mindy, who are dropped into a strange, yet oddly normal world along with the other kids in their neighborhood. They must all work together to find their parents...

In 1991,author Brian Snow had just received his doctorate in Education from Georgetown university. He decided to move from his parents' comfortable home on Cape Cod to Los Angeles as he loved working with special education students and wanted to live his life on his...

Our story begins with NYPD Narcotics Detective Pete Fanning rear ending an SUV; his mind had been preoccupied, flashing back on the previous Thursday when he had shot and killed a man in self-defense. The angry owner of the SUV, Teddy Vijay, an Indian Muslim,...

"Sweat, Glamour and Light Sins", by Alex Canton-Dutari, gives us a glimpse into the gym life of a retired therapist (affectionately known as Abuelo, or grandfather). While most dread the gym and “get in and get out”, Abuelo utilizes the gym for mental support and...