What is Ikala? A person, a place, a thing…or something else entirely? In Ikala: The Frozen Pond, Joe Trabocco describes it as “the hands of the soul that come to collect you.” This haunting, poetic journey begins with the wonder of childhood and the glow...

Darkarh's favorite and most honorable son, Egoragh, is murdered. Darkarh presses his seal ring to Egoragh's neck and sends Egoragh's body, via flamingos, to Steukhon, the priest, who transforms the dead Egoragh into mortal form as a baby, Egorh. Egorh is raised by St. Matthew...

This was an incredibly well written novel. Bryant took characters that are intriguing and an unusual plot line that has ups, downs, ins and outs like no other novel I've read. The demons she created were lifelike and real, and I could almost feel these...

Many children and adults are diagnosed with autism each year. Once this was surrounded by misconception; now, there is a possibility of understanding and perhaps helping individuals with autism. It is with this desire that I chose this book, to see if I could learn...

Corinthia Falls is a community church in northeastern Oklahoma. The Sunday the prank happened, as with all Sunday mornings, one side of the church was filled with sitters: the quieter people, those who worship within themselves, not showing anyone how they feel. The other side...

"ZAFTAN MISCREANTS" is a science fiction novel that pits the Zaftans and the Gundies against one another. Ensign Sam is an android, who was created by the navy. Sam is sent on mission aboard the Gundy flagship Tiger. Sam is an android, though she is...

"Pancardi's Pride" by Ron Clooney is an outstanding mystery novel that will appeal to would-be detectives in all walks of life. In the Palazzo Piti in Florence, Italy, lies a fortune in money and jewels. The problem is how to get it out. Enter a...

Sam was tired of being bullied by Truman. Chloe, Sam’s best friend, insisted that the only way to stop the bullying was to fight back. Things didn’t go quite as she planned and Sam knew they had only made things worse. Thanks to his grandparents...

Betty Collier's Angel In My Room is a heart warming, emotionally moving story of hope and life. I hardly ever read these kinds of books, but once in a while I will, and this one just reached out, gripped me and never let go. Ms....

Wendi Sotis' novel "Promises" is a beautiful love story that takes the reader back in time to the characters in "Pride and Prejudice." Sotis begins her story in 1801 in London where the reader meets our two main characters at a bookstore. Fitzwilliam Darcy is...

"Dreams and Expectations" by Wendi Sotis is a new take on Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice". We have the same characters and much of the same action in the Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwiliam Darcy love affair, but we see it in much more detail. We...

Ms. Antypowich is a new author to me. This is her second book in her 'Thompson Family Trilogy' and is written in an incredibly amazing manner. I was captured completely, from start to finish, and by the end of the book, I was left with...

Recently unemployed computer programmer Nan Burton has had a series of setbacks including losing her job, her apartment, and her car. So, when she inherits a California beach cottage from her great-great-aunt, she is really delighted since she has loved the old cottage since she...

"All Hallow’s Eve" is an imaginative, highly original reworking of the Darcy-Elizabeth Bennett love affair from Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice". Characters absent from the original book are introduced to us, such as Darcy’s parents and Elizabeth’s grandparents, and all the familiar ones have some...

What a great ride I had reading this book! I actually didn’t want to put it down. It is a smart family-friendly tale. I was worried about the theme at first, but it was very well done and it has become a great read. Pete...

One night, James Decker gets killed while saving a young girl. Problem is, he doesn't stay dead--he's an Eternal--and starts seeing all sorts of supernatural beings, including the ghosts of his dead grandpa, his long-dead dad, and his dead girlfriend. The young girl he saved,...

A true storm takes the two alien worlds of Korin and Arranon by surprise as Erynn begins to discover her unknown abilities. Faced with the possible destruction of her home world and a related planet, Erynn and her friends from the academy, the Anbas warriors...

Erynn continues to grow in her special abilities that allow her to search for the way to stop the threat to her world. "Fire and Ice: Storm of Arranon" smoothly picks up the unfolding events begun in Book 1 as Erynn becomes more in tune...

The Special by J.E. Pendelton is set in the uncertain years leading up to the Second World War. While hitchhiking to California in search of a better life, Billy Pendleton finds himself building an automobile. He goes on to set speed records and becomes a...

The title itself is self-explanatory. Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes? by M.E. Brines sheds light on this question by employing logic and cautious experimental evidence. Brines also elucidates the difference between magical thinking –- a method employed by the western world until the scientific revolution...