In The Gift of Misfortune, Haitian siblings, Armand and Deborah Etienne, live in fear of an unpredictable future in their hometown of Port-au-Prince and the rest of Haiti. The young Etiennes are not rich, but they have a comfortable life compared to most people who...

In Dust to Blood: Red Slaves #1 by Tonya Cannariato, Anne Crosby enjoys a relatively free lifestyle travelling the world as a researcher for the Stone Think Tank. A trip to Moscow turns into more of an adventure than she is expecting, though, as she...

The Money Pit treasure has been out of reach for 200 years. Carlos Sheldon and his student assistant Laura Gates are determined to bring it up out of the hole and show that it wasn’t just a legend after all in Jenn Rekka’s Last Assault...

Home Finances for Couples by Leo Ostapiv is a practical book that teaches couples how to manage their finances, stay on top of their debts, and create a healthy financial environment for their family. It all starts with a common goal for both partners and...

Habit, motivation, food, exercise and results are all necessary steps that are outlined very clearly in Keeping Youth Alive: Five Steps for Reshaping Your Relationship to Food and Exercise by Tim Tweedy. Habits bring comfort and with repetition they become something that we can’t live...

Hank of Twin Rivers was such a delightful read that I hated to see it end. It's the story of young Hank Heaton, and takes place in 1855. Hank and his family live in a soddy along Buck Creek in a small Iowa settlement. It...

Grain by Doug Bentley is an erudite, insightful, and provocative poetic journey through the mystical regions of the human psyche. From first word to last, this thought-provoking volume of sonnets and free verse begs to be pondered - to be mulled over and savored like...

An Evening With Grandpa by Diana Matlin a delightful story about how Annie is forced to stay at home because she is unwell. She feels sad, thinking of the long and boring evening at home with Grandpa while her family is having a good time...

What's Lost in the Dark by V.R. Avent is an erotic romance story about two people so completely in love but their pasts always keep getting in the way. Abigail and Zach had just started dating, but they were completely in love; they did not...

Where Do Belly Buttons Come From?: The Non-historical Truth by Jeffery Warren Scott is a cute story that will affirm to children that all of them are loved and special. It is delightful to read the reason of how belly buttons came into existence and...

Lemonade Revealed by Will Chluho is a somewhat ground-breaking novel for those wanting a personal philosophical study without spending classroom time. Initially, a boy is discovered unconscious on a Pacific Island beach and when he awakens, he is startled to find three entities attempting to...

Wendy Won’t Go by Amanda M. Lyons is a sad, haunting tale of a young mother and wife who died giving birth to Sara, but could not leave the earthly plane. Her death was unexpected, and unexpectedly horrendous and painful. Her husband, Billy, was devastated...

This Time for Keeps is an intense character study about healing and forgiveness, and how they sometimes go hand in hand. Dr. Isabelle DiStefano was the victim of a violent attack at the clinic where she volunteers, but the attack has left Isabelle struggling. She...

The Shifter's Trail by Adam Alexander is an exciting science fiction story that will enthrall kids with all its action and adventure. Andromeda and her two friends have an unusual experience while at school. A fireball crosses the sky and it creates a lot of...

Kate J. Kuligowski's Our Most Treasured Tails covers her sixty years of love, devotion, care and kindness while rescuing abandoned, mistreated, abused and neglected dogs. As a daughter, mother, wife, teacher and animal advocate, Kuligowski relates stories of her life-long struggle to rescue and protect...

It’s not often that a bride and groom and family members get arrested on the couple’s wedding day. But that is exactly what happened to Abigail and Zach on what should have been the happiest day of their lives. The newlyweds both come from dysfunctional...

While a lover of history, anthropology, and criminalistics, the story of Michael Collins was one I was only vaguely acquainted with before reading SM Sigerson's The Assassination of Michael Collins. The book's description is what first caught my attention. I greatly enjoyed reading the book....

Bells on Her Toes by Diana J. Febry is a murder mystery with an equine slant. DCI Peter Hatherall and Detective Fiona Williams investigate a suspicious fire in a barn on the Elmsgrove Estate, and find a body in the barn. The Earl of Ditchburn...

The House by Lacey Deaver is a good Christian story from beginning to end. Cheri is a troubled young woman running for her life. She hides in a truck in Seattle and, after three days without food and water, she escapes from the truck...

Binnacle Bay is a police procedural mystery written by S.C. Harker. Pat, the Binnacle Bay Chief of Police, has been called out to investigate a possible shooting at Gus and Sasha Murdock’s house on Sea Strand. When he arrives, a dog is barking and no...