One thing Blake knows about himself is that he is a Super Hero. Blake never thinks he is better than anyone else; he just knows he has choices to make each day, and he tries to make the right ones. One big choice Blake’s mom...

Fifo 50 States by Hayley Rose is an excellent tool for teaching children about the 50 states. Information pertaining to each state is included in a poem, as well as the state bird, flower and tree. This small book also teaches the state capital and...

Hank Moss was a pro tennis player, but when the North Tower went down on September 11 and killed his only sibling, Catherine, he decides to put his career on hold and join Operation Enduring Freedom, even though his wife Isabel begged him not to....

Dean, the main character in Leading Team Alpha, finds himself dealing with some tough business decisions and decides to reach out to a former professor for leadership advice. Unlike other business books, this is a fictional novel but is filled with leadership principles. DiGirolamo takes...

The Pirate Bride is an intriguing story about Rachel, a 13-year-old who expresses disappointment in going on vacation with her family until her Mom and Dad surprise of her with a surf instructor to help her learn to surf. Rachel is very excited because surfing...

The Classroom CEO made me wonder if Deborah Prichard was going to discuss how administrators could better manipulate their employees. The subtitle, Empowering Teachers Through the Use of Business Leadership Principles, made me worry that a “bottom line" or "impossible accountability" would make teaching even...

Orion by A.S. Johnson is truly a lovely story of two friends who find out that they are really meant for each other in the most adorable and beautiful way. Commander Susan Davis is the pilot of the space shuttle Orion. Chance Walker is an...

True Miracles with Genealogy: Help from Beyond the Veil by Anne Bradshaw is a fascinating look at researching family trees. Bradshaw has compiled many stories of people who have been assisted in their research from those who have already passed on. One such researcher tells...

Wendell is an orphan who wanders around the city stealing what he can, especially food to survive. Sometimes he would pick up a job, including keeping crows out of the fields for one of the residents. This only lasted a few days, but Wendell did...

Stephanie Burkhart is a highly talented author, showing skills of a seasoned author. Her characters are unique, along with individual personalities, and with a plot line that is truly interesting, this story really comes to life before the reader's eyes. She grips the reader instantly,...

Dustyn Jane Vermeer is in love with the perfect man. There's only one problem: he is dead! Sixteen-year-old Dusty was was living in Florida with her dad and older sister, Sadie, when a family tragedy caused them to move back to their dad's childhood home,...

A Star Curiously Singing is a fascinating look at what could be the future. Kerry Nietz pictures a world dependent of technology. Humans that excellent in technology are given implants and forced into slave labor. The implants allow the Masters to communicate and punish the...

J. H. Bográn spins an exciting, multi-level thriller in which pilot Bill Porter, a widower with a child, loses everything that he loves in his downward alcoholic spiral. Devising a plan to hijack a plane, he starts a series of events that affect many lives:...

Poet Leslie-Anne Brill divides her collection "New York Dreaming: Poems of the City, the Suburbs, and Daily Life" into five sections: the city, the suburbs, from the editorial desk, love, and life. This division could represent stages of human development that one would expect...

Rosemary Gard's Destiny's Dowry begins on the country side of Croatia in the later 1800s with a birth and a death. Mila was dying, and her last desire was to hold her unborn son in her arms. Her husband Mato rushes out and retrieves an...

Parker Hill is a twenty-year-old college student who is on the cusp of knowing what he wants to do with his life. His father, who is a judge, wants Parker to follow the family into law, but Parker has other ideas; he thinks he might...

I'm not a big memoir reader; I prefer the stuff that isn't so realistic and that I can get lost in. But, occasionally, I find an author who can create their memoir in such a way that hits home with me and sucks me into...

The Reprobate by George Warholak is the story of his life, a story that shows how God can take a messed up life and turn it around for His good. In Part One the author relates back to his growing up years, telling all about...

Like most females, Ondrea L. Davis had carefully planned her wedding. Her family did not approve of her choice for a husband, but once they realized she was determined to marry Marceous King, they supported her decision. A wedding is usually considered the bride's special...

A Trevott's Tale is a charming story about small people and their doings in a land named Trelandia. The tale starts by introducing some of the people and places of this world. It progresses to a particular young Trevott by the name of Waldon Woodott....