Run: Your Personal Guide to Winning Public Office by Senator Marian Walsh is an informative guide that lays out the necessary tools for candidacy, perfect for first-timers or re-elections, candidate supporters and informed voters. Each detailed chapter explains the political process in layman’s terms, while...

The underground sex trade of Manhattan is dealing with a problem that is much worse than the cops; prostitutes are disappearing one by one. An excellent but tired cop from the department of missing persons, Detective Larson, is on the case. However, it seems impossible...

With little time for herself between her family and the job, social worker Lindsey Chandler convinces herself to enroll in a “Mythology for Modern Times” course at The New School for Social Research. While there, she encounters Joan Archer, a seemingly kindred spirit, in a...

Man Up to Eating Disorders by Andrew Walen is a good self-help memoir for men and boys struggling with weight and eating disorders. The book speaks about the author’s eating disorders which he has categorized under three sections, starting with the emotional eating experience. The...

A Meeting of Clans by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins intrigued me all the way through. This fictional fantasy takes place 14,000 years ago and explores the migration of a small group of people who, for one reason or another, either have been exiled from their homeland,...

The sea is awash with blood. The Merwin Queen is dead and the Houses of Mervidia are in a frenzy over who should claim the Fangs. Tradition holds that the next ruler should be of divine lineage, a member of a dwindling line of seers....

Twisted, by Lola Smirnova, is a nightmare journey into the life of Julia, a young woman from Ukraine who, struggling for a future, follows her sister's path into the sex trade. In the post-Soviet break-up world, there is little to offer in the way of...

Liberty: A Dog with a Job is a cute educational story written by Terri Kelley. Jovie is excited to go camping with her mother and cousin near the lake. They have fun swimming and fishing, and Jovie’s chore is wood collecting for the fire. She...

Dysfunctional: A Matilda Schmidt, Paranormal Psychologist Trilogy is a combination of three of Cynthia St. Aubin’s books. This trilogy includes the stories Unlovable, Unlucky, and Unhappy. From dealing with an irritating diaper-wearing Cupid in Unlovable to trying to wrap her mind around a seemingly delusional...

Indian Feather by author Owen Roberts is a lovely little book. Alex is fascinated by the beautiful Indian headdress displayed on his grandfather’s dresser. It had belonged to his great-great grandfather, who was an Indian chief of a tribe. Alex wanted one of the feathers,...

When your ex-husband leaves you for a much younger woman, things are bad. But when that ex-husband has to share a room with you at your daughter’s destination wedding because the hotel mixed up the reservations, things go from bad to worse. This is where...

Arizona Wildlife Notebook by Garry Rogers is a rather comprehensive checklist of wildlife species existing in the State of Arizona. This notebook provides a brief description for each of eleven (11) groups of wildlife, conservation status of all extant species within that group in Arizona,...

Picking up where her aunt, Phyllis Downing Carlson (Aunt Phil), a respected and dedicated historian of Alaska, left off, Laurel Downing Bill has compiled a comprehensive account of Alaska’s history. Combining the research of her late aunt and her own extensive research, Bill’s book, Aunt...

In her memoir Not So Black and White, Alexis Wilson reflects back on her life journey and the people that formed an important part of that journey, especially her father, and how they made a profound impact on her life. Alexis takes you back to...

Christmas All Year is a children’s book that really captures the magic of the books I read as a child and brings back many happy memories of how wonderful and magical Christmas used to be. It is written perfectly by author Terri Kelley and combined...

A Bug and a Wish by Karen Scheuer is a story that revolves around the relevant topic of bullying. Tyler dreads going to school because he is always teased by the other boys for the way he walks. Then his good friend Danae comes up...

A man awakes in a mausoleum, with no idea how he got there or who he is. As his memories are hazy, the murals on the walls seem to hold clues to his identity. When he finally has the chance to get out from the...

Aunt Phil's Trunk: Volume Two continues the Bringing Alaska's History Alive Series written by Phyllis Downing Carlson and her niece, Laurel Downing Bill. This volume covers much of the exploration and resource development that took place in Alaska during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

In Unconventional Investing, Tim Higgins, certified professional planner, and Michael Hajek III, certified professional accountant, totally defy traditional investing methods by supplying irrefutable evidence that confirms one thing: they do not work. For example, the 60/40 rule -- the time-honored notion that your portfolio...

It’s all in there: literature, science, history, art, mythology, romance, mysticism; from Fibonacci to physics, A Confederacy of Joy by Juan-Paolo Perre has something for every taste. Reading Juan-Paolo Perre’s impeccably crafted poetry and prose is like meeting the world’s most brilliant conversationalist in a...