Against the Wind by Joy Cee is a most enjoyable memoir that will have female readers reliving their own memories of young romance. And if those female readers were themselves beachgoers, whose eyes were drawn to the suntanned masculine bodies of surfer boys or lifeguards,...

Sexual abuse is one of the common sources of emotional and psychological suffering for millions of women across the world and this pain has paralyzed some of them, making it exceedingly difficult for them to generously give and receive love. In When the Woman Abused...

Sylvester W. Jeffrey, who was called S.W., lived with his siblings on the family farm in Putnam County in northwestern Ohio. Their parents died in 1847. When their grandfather died in 1852, the oldest brother Oliver took over the management of the farm. Aunt Sarah...

Puffy and the Formidable Foe by Ann M. Hannon, Marie G. Lepkowski, and Margaret B. Hannon is the cute story of Puffy the cat who goes hunting for a rat. He pokes his head into a hole and finds a mole instead. He decides to...

Piercing the Veil by Eric J Wentz is an intense political thriller that features very compelling characters. In a story set against the historical background of World War II, the reader will encounter coalitions between intelligence bodies—like the OSS, the CIA, the SAS, and the...

Izzie the Inchworm's First Day of School by Viki Heagy is a fun children's book that follows a young inchworm named Izzie. It is Izzie's first day at a new school, and she's feeling very nervous. She doesn't have any friends at the new school,...

If you’re like me, you read travel guides for pleasure. Key West & The Lower Keys Travel Guide, by local residents Karuna Eberl and Steve Alberts, is one of the best travel guides I’ve ever read. To say that it’s entertaining doesn’t begin to cover...

Charlene the Star is born into a horse racing family. Her father and brother are both racing champions and her mother loves to race, too. Even Charlene the Star’s best friends, Ann and Blossom, love to race. Charlene the Star is not too sure about...

There is good and evil, and then there is The Darkness. In this supernatural thriller, Shadow in the Light by Alex McCann Johnson, two men are drawn together in yet another lifetime to play out their roles as guardians of the light and the dark....

How to Live the Good Life: A User's Guide for Modern Humans by Arthur M Jackson is a book that explores a topic that will immediately arrest the attention of theologians and philosophers, and anyone interested in the idea of a good and ordered life....

Can’t Stop the Funk is from The Detective Cooter Holland mystery series by H. Max Hiller. Real estate developers offer exorbitant deals to residents in the Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest section of New Orleans. Detective Cooter Holland thinks the deals are questionable after his...

Pinky Chenille and the Rainbow Hunters is a delightful rhyming story that young children will thoroughly enjoy. When Pinky and Princess Adeline discover all of the colors are gone from Addendale, a special land as you look past Mars, they begin searching everywhere, looking for...

At the Root by Kimberly Miles is the author’s journey toward the importance of taking responsibility for her health and managing her life after realizing the importance one's mouth plays in one’s overall health and well-being. Many of us go through unexplained health problems that...

In When a Meerkat Moves to the City, Oscar is a meerkat. He is a very dapper, dignified little fellow with “a black shimmering top hat with a red bow tie on his neck.” He was always very different from the rest of his family...

I really enjoyed reading Overcoming The See-Saw Of Wisdom Against Fear by Shon Shree Lewis. The book has a voice and tone that is right on point; it is friendly, but also has a firmness that draws you, as the reader, in to see the...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman and Shoshannah Brombacher have written a friendly and conversational book illustrating the Jewish philosophy of the marriage contract, the wedding ceremony, and some hints for staying happily married throughout your life. The book’s title, Under the Chuppah, refers to the traditional...

Meat The Family, based on Meat My Uncle by Erez Bailen is a humorous science fiction work written by Nick Coronis. So you thought your family was dysfunctional? James Jones would have a thing or three to tell you about dysfunctional families, and he would...

When the Light Goes Out is an apocalyptic thriller novel written by Shawn Bartek. Ami’s life had changed forever when her dad died. It had been several months now since that awful evening, and her mom’s apparent break with reality had, if anything, worsened. Ami...

Little Goat on the Prairie is written by Chad Edwards and illustrated by Julijana Mijailovic, and tells the story of a young Prairie Goat named Billie. Every day he looks out over the fence to the horizon and wonders what wonderful world lies there. He...

In Katie Lewington’s Here Comes the Sun, the collection focuses on one summer of traveling that the author embarked upon. As readers we can guess a bit at the exact locations, with the only hints being the use of the words “Euro” and “Europe.” Although...