Personal experience in search and rescue aviation makes for an excellent plot source as demonstrated in Marc Liebman’s Big Mother 40, the call sign of Josh Haman’s helicopter. The North Vietnamese have created a covert base under the call sign of Venom. This base is...

Why We Love Video Games: Stories from the Virtual Playground by Christopher Robert Burnap is the first book I have ever read that is an homage to video games and how they can affect and add enjoyment to our lives. As a part-time gamer myself,...

Imagine having to breathe through a tracheostomy tube. That would really slow you down, make your talking difficult, and running almost impossible. That’s how Trachie-O-Potomus breathes. A lot of children have the same issue as Trachie-O-Potomus. But they’re children just like all the other children;...

There is an old saying, “those who seek a friend without a fault remain without one.” This is so true and poor Reagan, left out from playing with her older sister, has her own difficult lesson to learn. Reagan’s sister wants to play with her...

In John W. Bebout's The Light from Darkness, we meet seventeen-year-old Teddy Miller in Great Tortugas, off the Florida Keys. It’s 1864, during the waning months of the Civil War, and this desolate island is the location of a Yankee prison. Teddy has gone there...

Soon after Laura Lee is hired as a housekeeper, there is a horrible accident and an employee dies. As the investigation goes on, Laura Lee tries to immerse herself in her new routine but the whisperings from the other employees about the resident ghost, the...

The Three-Headed Dagger and The King's Son: Book Two is a fast-paced dark fantasy novel by author Henry Regnault. Five years have passed since the death of Cadence Mage and his brother Christopher. In the meantime, Graves and Meadow have moved in with Jenny. They...

As an Old Memory by Vic Kerry is an edge-of-your-seat horror story. It is 1956 and preparations for the Pinehurst Homecoming Dance are underway until it all goes horribly wrong and Charlotte McAdams is left traumatized for life. Forty years on and the Homecoming Massacre...

You Don’t Want to Get Married by Latesha Kellam is a romance novel that will appeal to young adults. It follows the life of Jasmine, a smart IT consultant, who fell in love with Denzel, a single father. Their shared passion was clear, but his...

Invisible Magic Wand to the Rescue (narrated by Eric Wickstrom) is a story of magic for the elementary school crowd. Rafael Jacimin’s engaging tale of magic wands, waffles, and an earthquake begins over the breakfast table, when Grandpa makes waffles for Caspian and his sister...

The North American Six-Horse Hitch Classic Series is the most prestigious draft horse event on the continent and forms the basic inspiration for a series of picture books written by the well-versed children’s book author, Shani T. Night, a skilled storyteller. With the former book...

If you are in the mood for some fast-paced urban fantasy adventure, get ready to have your socks knocked off by Elior: Prince of Fae. Author Joshuan Rivera Jimenez's deliciously crafted novel brings forth a tale of witches, fae, and changelings that seems bound to...

Alaric Swift has led a lonely life. Only thirteen, he’s been shuffled from one foster family to another. It's rather difficult trying to make friends when you’re moved around a lot and, wherever you go, strange things happen just because you thought about it. When...

Devils You Know by Miles Watson is a brilliant collection of short stories, some with WW2 themes, gangsters, and paranormal settings, and, of course, the devils we all know make an appearance too. All the stories are great, but I do have favorites. In Nosferatu,...

A Multicultural Picnic: Little Polyglot Adventures, Book 3 is an educational adventure picture book for children written by Victor D.O. Santos and illustrated by Eszter Miklos. Dylan and Isabella loved the picnics the family would have whenever their grandparents from Brazil and grandmother from Ukraine...

New Visions on Old Views: Philosophical Essays by Joely R Villalba is a collection of three essays that presents three philosophical ideas that the author believes in. The first essay brings forward the argument that the human DNA carries a musical code that is unique...

The Worthy Negotiation by Kenneth James Allen is a psychological thriller with quite a few puzzling twists and philosophical debates to grip readers. Although James Worthy was accustomed to and trained in the most violent ways of life, he had trouble accepting his current reality....

The inhabitants of Little Sister Island have grown accustomed to the ancient magic that lingers in the bedrock, entwining the island and the islanders together. When an unexplainable quake hits the island, they believe it foretells some future event, although no one is certain what...

The world is filled with different colors and each one is different from the other. The little boy's favorite color is red and the book shows the things that are associated with red. The little girl likes orange and readers get to know the things...

In Reality by DC Wince, The Game is about to begin, a game where there can be only one winner, and the losers' fates will be in the hands of the Watchers. In the searing heat of the Sahara desert and the African savannah, four...