Emily had it all: a fun job on the board walk, a sexy surfer boyfriend, and a killer camera. Her grades were great and her future was bright. So why not live it up and party with her friends? Why not enjoy those fleeting moments...

“Death was not what she had expected it to be — no light at the end of the tunnel, no angels hovering over her to take her to paradise. Now not even a cup of coffee to soothe her nerves.” Daphne Drayton haunts her former...

Grant Leishman’s book, The Second Coming, opens with a man recovering consciousness in hospital, and trying to remember his identity. Whoever he is, he’s sure he has a mission to accomplish and very little time to do it. Gradually his memory returns. He, Jose Castillo...

Having read, reviewed, and loved The Edge of the World, I immediately followed it with Daniel's Fork: A Mystery set in the Daniel's Fork Universe. The story, the characters, and the talent of author Zeecé Lugo ensured that I would continue to immerse myself in...

I think everyone's had moments when they've wished they could look into the future or thought, gee, I sure wish I'd had some warning that was about to happen. But when just that scenario starts to happen in the life of Sadie Perkins, the protagonist...

Provoke Not The Children by Michael W. Anderson is a dystopian story where children are turned over to professionals. These child rearing experts, called Proxies, are tasked with the difficult job of raising and educating the world's youth. They alone know what is best for...

Travelling Seeds by Rebecca Bielawski is the third book in the Mummy Nature series. This book teaches kids about how far seeds travel and how plants grow from a little seed. Bielawski uses colorful illustrations to demonstrate the process of germination. I thought Travelling Seeds was...

And the Wind Whispered by Dan Jorgensen contains several scenes that are so exciting that they become almost impossible to put down. The discovery of a dead man’s body in a cave by a trio of young reporters gets the ball rolling. Later there is...

The Christmas Cowboy (Sweet Western Holiday Romance) (Volume 1) by Shanna Hatfield is a sweet contemporary romance that offers up everything a reader could want in a romance: a strong, independent heroine, a handsome and charming but slightly stubborn hero, and a holiday to wrap...

The Department of Zenitation: A Layman’s Guide To Making Spirituality Work In Real Life by Thomas E. Ziemann is a collection of some of the best spiritual, practical, and innovative ideas gleaned from the wisest people who ever lived. Uplifting statements designed to nourish the...

Wow, what a book! That's the first thought I had after finishing Dead Letter by author Marc Kuhn. Follow the stories of Sandra Henderson and Robert Harris, high school sweethearts in 1943. They live in idyllic Centerville, Maryland near the beautiful Lake Corsica and the...

The Final Conflict is a science fiction novella written by Colin Duffy. The story takes place in the distant future. It’s main character is a lifelong historian and scholar who has been accepted into the government’s historical research program. His task is to try to...

Graceful Last Chapters: Helping Seniors Who Need More Care by Cynthia Neher Martindale is a comprehensive manual on everything one needs to know about the travails and intricacies of elderly care. Told in a frank, no-nonsense style, the book covers every detail caregivers, family members...

When Judge Makena called Pancho McMartin asking for a favour, as much as Pancho did not want to mess up his good relationship with the judge, this was one favour he was hesitant to grant. However, when the administrative judge asks for a favour, you...

Killer Whale Rock: A Boy's Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness by Tim Garvin is a coming of age adventure for young readers. Twelve-year-old Sam Jefferson moves across the country from Arizona to Alaska and discovers that Alaska is a big wilderness, different than anything he...

Convergent 9.0 by Paul H. Landes is an exciting corporate espionage thriller. One of the things I liked about it most was the variety of interesting settings. We start at a huge ranch in Montana but quickly find ourselves in locales like San Francisco, London,...

The Griffin's Gauntlet by Wesley Lowe is a young adult fantasy that starts with fairy magic. Sharon is deposited into a world completely different from her own. She is recruited by a good witch to protect the land from the evil Dragon King. Sharon accepts...

I loved the concept of Open the Doors to You by Casey Rislov. I think it can be hard to come up with a fresh idea in a children's book that hasn't been overdone to death, but I have never seen a book about doors....

Universal Life Lessons: From My Brilliant Blue Bohemian Butterfly is a short self-help book by Susan Ball. The author presents eighty-five life lessons in a semi-biographical form as she writes about the life of Anna Rose Paas, a woman born in 1985 with Ring 22...

Hinesh Vithal's novel National Park will entertain young and older children alike. Follow the story of Raja, a family dog from India, who goes with his owners to a National Park. Raja is plagued by nightmares of a lion every night, the family is worried...