Owen Black has created a first-rate young adult fantasy in "The Realms of Animar". Teenage Thane lives and goes to school in the village of Avryndale in Animar where everyone is called a polymorph for they have two forms, one human and one animal. The...

The year was 1944 and twenty year old Rudolph Meier was a Nazi POW working in local cotton fields while he was held at Camp Papago Park near Phoenix, Arizona. He was serving as a radio operator on a German submarine stationed near the eastern...

RSDS is a horrible affliction. The brain refuses to turn off the pain that can inhabit any part of or almost all of the body. Mary Jane Gonzales' brief book "In the Blink of an Eye: My Life with RSDS" does an excellent job of...

Who hasn't wished for the impossible? To be in someone else’s shoes? To have what someone else possess? Life is always greener on the other side, right? But how many people get their wish? When Darcy and Cybil wonder what it would be like to...

"A Gentleman and a Rogue" by Stephanie Burkhart is a delightful historical romance. Edmund Windsor and his cousin Alice, along with Jonas Byron, return to 2011 and realize that the world is powered by gasoline and electricity instead of the better choice of compressed natural...

"Chocrotes and the World Without Questions" is the most brilliant tale of all times. It beautifully teaches children, and thus the future generations, that questions are good. I loved the story and certainly enjoyed the telling. It is a great book that needs to be...

Always by D.A. Lawson is a realistic romance with a lot of depth. It opens in an almost sinister way with Julie McCourt feeling threatened by her ex-fiancé who won’t leave her alone. She also feels guilty at letting this situation come about. But Julie...

"Cherokee Talisman" by David-Michael Harding is a strong look into the lives of strong Cherokee warriors during a time when nothing in the land they lived in was certain. You are first introduced to the mighty Cherokee warrior known as the Dragon who sides with...

"The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap" by Paulette Mahurin is an emotional story that shows just what effect hatred can have on not just one or two people but on an entire community. Paulette Mahurin writes a novel that will leave you emotionally involved with each...

"Words Falling Like Water" is a very interesting, frustrating, funny, and heartbreaking story all wrapped up into one. First time author Sonya Vaughn explains how the failing auto industry has suffered and how that suffering has impacted the people worldwide. There are examples given within...

"Awaken and Unleash Your Victor" written by author Ogor Winnie Okoye is truly an amazing book. Unleashing the Victor within ourselves is a must if we are to become the person we were destined to be. Many times we fail to understand the importance that...

"The Girl from Long Guyland" by Lara Reznik takes us into the world of successful IT executive Laila Levin. Laila seems to have it all; the great job, a great marriage, and overall just a great life. Suddenly life starts to seem not so perfect....

"The Daughter of The King" by Carlene Havel and Sharon Fauchuex is extremely palatable to a reader who adores historical fiction replete with creativity. The novel is a fictional recreation of the story related to Princess Michal, the daughter of King Saul. The writers...

"The Love Walk" By Amanda Beth is a 15-week devotional with devotions on Corinthians 13:4-8 and focuses on 15 different traits of love. Each devotion is followed by an encouragement, an inspirational prayer and scriptures to meditate on and a verse to be memorized. Additional...

Paul Zecos is a man to be reckoned with. He is on a mission to impart his version of what Jesus’ messages were to humankind. The subtitle - "Theory of Everything" - explains what he is attempting to do. I believe he is an heir...

I always love a good historical novel that can seamlessly take us back and forth between two time periods. Michelle Kallio's "Betrayal" does exactly that. This is the story of two women: a happily dating modern day woman living in Canada named Lydia and Anne...

"The Silver Sphere" by Michael Dadich is about six teens sent from the Earth to a place called Azimuth after members of the Aulic Assembly disappear. Only these members can work the Silver Sphere. The Sphere pinpoints the location of an evil being called Biskara,...

Carla and James are 11 years old, the age when certain children are chosen for quests. Carla’s quest starts with her spotting a gnome in a red hat in her garden. With James joining her, both of them set off on an adventure that takes...

"The Middle of Nowhere" begins back in the early twenties. We meet Lucy Malinda Chapman, also known as Skitchy, the fifteen year old daughter of a rancher family in West Texas. When Skitchy falls in love with Pinkney Campbell, a cotton farmer,who is several years...

Marie Allan's Unfailing Love is her own personal story. As a young girl, she goes through extraordinary experiences that scarred her emotionally. Her parents married young and divorced twice and their children has to live through the pain of the separation. Feeling unloved and rejected...