Colton Foster, once hailed as a renowned expert in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, had his reputation destroyed when a shadowy antiquities dealer outwitted him with master forgeries from Solomon’s Temple. Ten years later, an 800-year-old letter is discovered in an excavation site in Turkey—the ancient...

It is Feburary 2, 1973, and in the state of Washington, Lizette Karlson comes home to her father, famed anthropologist Einar Karlson. Lizette has overwhelming problems including the fact that she was attacked and raped a few months before. Mentally frail but highly artistic Lizette...

The audio book version of “Priscilla and the Great Santa Search,” written by Nathaniel Hobbie and illustrated by Jocelyn Hobbie, is sure to become a treasured Christmas tradition in your family! After seeing so many Santa Clauses all around as Christmas is approaching, Priscilla and...

“Top of the World: Toot & Puddle,” written by Holly Hobbie and shared in an audio version, is an adorable story of friendship for young children that adults too will enjoy listening to. Puddle sees a note on the table when he wakes up one...

Chris Gall is at it again with his Dinotrux characters. This time, the Dinotrux are tired of being stuck in a drafty museum for millions of years where people visit and do so many things with them such as poking, prodding, shaking and studying them....

“Red Leaves and the Living Token” by Benjamin David Burrell is a riveting fantasy featuring multiple interwoven sub-plots, with a captivating over-arching theme. Three distinct “species” of characters are the primary personalities in this story: Bota, Zo, and Petra. The Bota are a BOTAnical species,...

Scarlet the dolphin and Hailey have teamed up and are ready for another adventure in the deep blue sea where Scarlet lives. This time, it is on the west coast, the Pacific Ocean, where their new adventure takes place. Scarlet takes her best friend Hailey...

Roxanne St. Claire's latest romance novel "Barefoot in the Rain" is typical St. Claire. Abused and abandoned as a child, Jocelyn Bloom becomes a life coach to California stars. When trapped in a web of lies, she is forced to abandon her career and move...

In "Skating on the Edge", author Joelle Charbonneau has her main character of Rebecca Robbins about to hop into the dunk tank at the Senior Center carnival. At the last minute, Rebecca has to attend to the skating rink she inherited following the death of...

It is cast in a futuristic steam punk setting with a web of excitement in each paragraph. Lady Arabella Trunkett is thrown into a world of suspicion and questions when her father is kidnapped. Is it politically driven? Is the yonder countryman to blame? She...

"Blues in the Wind-ReVisited" is a redo of the original book by Whitney LeBlanc. As a reader, I am grateful she took the time to reformulate the book as it was thoroughly enjoyable. The novel is set in small town Louisiana in the 1930's and...

"Ups and Downs at the Boardwalk" by Karl Beckstrand is a concept-teaching book for very young children, and is appropriate even for infants, from birth through to about age 3 or 4. It uses very vivid colors throughout, which is sure to gain and maintain...

In 1996, Los Angeles Police Detective Danny McGuire investigates the horrific murder of wealthy Andrew Jakes and the brutal beating and rape of his beautiful young wife, Angela. Danny resettles in France and marries, but the murder pattern continues. In England police are faced with...

Azzy went to a lodge where she thought she would find Sam. The manager claimed not to know him but then secretly called to tell him someone was looking for him. After Sam arrived at the lodge and was talking to Azzy there was an...

Cassie McPherson works long hours as vice president in charge of accounts for her father's construction company, M&M. They keep losing work to their chief competitor, Sutton Construction, and now the rumor is that their account with Slumber Suites is being taken over by Sutton...

Edna Spencer tells of her family's relocation from Oakridge, Tennessee, to Worcester, Massachusetts, when, in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority took over the land where her family and other black families had made their homes for years. She tells honestly of the effects of segregation....

Author-poet Stephan Cox writes a wide variety of poems that comment on modern life in "Dead Birds Fall from the Sky". The title of this collection of poems is also the first offering in this book. "Dead Birds" has nearly two hundred fifty pages of...

"Starry River of the Sky" by Grace Lin is truly one of those books you want your young readers to read. It is a book whose messages will stay with the child long after the story has ended. The moon has been missing in the...

"At the Bamboo Bar" is a short and interesting read about “turning fifty” in Bangkok by Morgan McFinn. The book is a compilation of all that happened in the Bamboo bar on the author’s fiftieth birthday. The story is a vivid reminiscence of the various...

"A Killer in the Rye" is the next in the Delia Rosen Murray's Deli series and it is every bit as entertaining as its predecessor. Gwen Katz is recently divorced and in charge of her Uncle Murray's Kosher Deli in Nashville, Tennessee. Gwen is lost...