Olivia Brophie and the Sky Island by Christopher Tozier is a delightful story for children, filled with adventure and whimsy. Olivia has accidentally frozen the entire world's water and, along with that, she finds out that her uncle and aunt have been kidnapped by the...

Young World Travelers and the Magical Crystal Globe by Demetra Tsavaris-Lecourezos is a magical adventure story book for children. “The best part is, if the person who holds the Magical Crystal Globe shuts his eyes, he can imagine he is whoever he wants to be,...

Even when Sean was a baby, he was a strange little fellow. He danced instead of walking and he sang instead of speaking. He wrote in secret code over the walls of his room. He was soon nicknamed "Weirdo Calhoun." While those around him saw...

Keys to the Corner Office: Success Strategies for Women by Women by Rhonda F. Rhyne is the perfect how-to book for any aspiring female executive. Organized into five parts with sixty chapters, the practical manual provides the proven strategies and a road map for achieving...

Ruthless gang bangers, drug deals gone bad and bloody shootouts -- that's what you can expect in Welcome to the Brier Patch by Darrell McMann. This true crime drama tells the story of the life of McMann, a rookie white boy cop with the Mobile...

Clarence and the Traveling Circus is a children's storybook written by Melissa Northway and illustrated by Carolyn Le. Clarence is so clumsy that the kids in town call him Clumsy Clarence. He's useless at sports, but his clumsiness disappears when he's juggling. Clarence can juggle...

Loxy and his sister Lana live on a far away planet. They and their parents, along with four other families, were sent there to determine if the planet could support life and, if so, to build a colony. Loxy and Lana, as well as the...

Cecile and The Future of Dragons: Mystic Heroine Adventures by Marilyn Churchill is a fascinating tale filled with fantasy and adventure that will take readers on an enchanting journey of whimsy, wizards, new lands, a world of dragons and much more. Sixteen-year-old Princess Cecile is...

In What The Heart Knows, we first meet Bill when he is persuaded to invite Emily to visit him. Of course this is an insane request because Bill hasn’t seen Emily in years and has been secretly in love with her for quite some time....

Peril in the Park (A Jamie Quinn Mystery) by Barbara Venkataraman is the third in the Jamie Quinn Mystery series. In this novel, Jamie Quinn, a lawyer who gets involved in unlikely murder mysteries, is once again the somewhat unwilling participant in two mysteries. A...

In Love on the Lido Deck, Barbara Oliverio tells the story of Kiera, of how she quit a high-powered systems analyst career and turned to event planning instead. As her business begins to take off, she learns that her mother, recently widowed, has a new...

Mouse by the Tail is a terrific fantasy by Kae Jeen Wong. Tavi Fable is a student at the Piscare Academy for Mice. He and the other mice are puzzled about the large gathering of owls they see, as well as the mysterious disappearances of...

Oriana Oakleigh and the Dragon Danes by W.R. Cooper is the second book of the series and Oriana is back. Alas, her home, beloved Oakleigh Manor, is just not right. However, she will not stop her quest to save the faerie world before it is...

North of the Tension Line by J.F. Riordan is true to its title, meandering through a year in a small community after city gal Fiona buys a ramshackle cottage on the remote side of the ferry -- just to prove that she can survive island...

Where the Monsters Are by Gerald Dean Rice features Gerry, an executive in a company, who has some mental health issues. He is on medication for the condition, although the events in the story seem to suggest that it is not working. Gerry meets a...

I love classic vampires (stay away sparklies!). And I love Japan even more. Yet when I read the description of Sword of the Undead by Steven Fujita, I was quite skeptical. A combination of the classic Bram Stoker Dracula story and Japanese history? Boy, I...

In Emma and the Cutting Horse, Martha Deeringer has woven a delightful tale around the adventures of Emma, a fourteen-year-old girl who, with her parents, lives on a cattle ranch in Texas. Raising cattle has its moments, but for most small ranchers it does little...

Anna is the world's only known superhero and greatly loved by the people. However, she finds herself losing interest in her day job, so she plans a trip to Mars. Along the way, she meets several other women, all who have their own stories to...

For the Love of Ellen is an entertaining novelette about three friends in their seventies. Blanche, Nellie and Ellen lived in the town of Cameron. They were extremely close and always looked forward to sharing each other’s company. Ellen advertised for a landscaper to...

Written in the Stars by Jayme Ardente-Silliman starts off with 13-year-old Sophie Watters, who is beyond thrilled to go to The Spinners concert, go backstage, and meet the lead singer, Geoff Mann, her long-time crush. Not only did she meet him, but she also got...