Surrounded By Madness: A Memoir of Mental Illness and Family Secrets by Rachel Pruchno Ph.D. is a heart-breaking memoir of a woman who loses both her mother and daughter to mental illness. It is an honest account of a woman's desperation and powerlessness in handling...

I just completed one of the most engaging reads of recent months: Long Live the Suicide King by Aaron Michael Ritchey. It opens with 17-year-old JD, who is troubled by an event that transpired just days prior while with his friends and under the influence...

I was quite impressed with Steven Weaver’s The Vault: A Journey of Discovery as I found it an unexpectedly well-written story with distinctive characters, realistic dialogue and a fairly solid plot. While the book is targeted to a younger audience and contains a lot of...

Rise of November by author Mario. E. Perez is a dystopian novel about the overnight death of our world and the emptiness that follows, as seen through the eyes of the protagonist over a seven-day period. The fight for survival and the shocks caused from...

Fire by L.B. Gilbert is the first book in The Elementals series. Diana has a job as the Fire Elemental to find and kill monsters, whether they be supernatural or human. When a little girl from her past goes missing, she travels to Boston to...

Shallow Basin by Suzanne Cowles introduces us to Beau Boudreaux in his senior year as he tries to change his destiny. His parents, who have schemed since he was a child, have kept him on the fast track to being a lawyer, marrying a girl...

Author Michael A.T. Stewart in his book Quotable Quotes gives the reader some wonderful nuggets of truth. This is more than a book just filled with insightful quotes, but a book that expounds upon that quote and takes the reader deeper into the truth and...

If you like reading page turners that keep you guessing, you’ll enjoy The Mangled Spoon by Joan Mauch. From the moment you read about the starving, dishevelled, and disoriented Miss Joan who is found scavenging for food in a dumpster in Chapter One, you will...

H.D. Nicolay a well-known educator, teacher, trainer and family therapist, has created an easy to follow guide for helping people of all ages with reading and writing disabilities to learn how to become error-free spellers and improve their reading and writing. In his book are...

As Time and Again starts, we meet a young man called Hawthorne Jacobs as he’s being beaten to a pulp, presumably by the man who has abducted his sister. From the first few paragraphs the story moves quickly. Next we meet Melanie, a modern woman...

Post-apocalyptic survival isn’t easy for anyone, but it just got tougher for Ruin Rat Kayla in Jamie A. Waters' The Two Towers. Headstrong and independent, Kayla is a skilled scavenger and an intelligent computer hacker. She has caught the eye of one of the lead...

Lorie Emerson, like many others of this era, is traveling with her uncle on a wagon train headed west on the Oregon Trail. But after the unexpected death of her uncle, Lorie is asked by the wagon master to leave the group at the next...

Halloween Ball at Dracula's Castle by Glenn Stevens features two Dallas cheerleaders called Jill and Vickie, who win tickets to a Halloween Ball. The ball is being thrown by Count Dracula, who everyone thinks is an actor on a TV show called 'The Vampire Next...

No Tears For My Father is a non-fiction book and, that being said, there are some readers unable to handle the subject matter of the book. Viga Boland recounts her life with an abusive father, not only physically but sexually as well. She does not...

I smiled while reading the first tale from Mr. Chiardi and Other Stories. My smile then changed to laughter which didn’t stop until this entertaining book was finished. Can you picture an elderly couple getting the urge to slide down a snow covered hill on...

Are You Respectful Today? is a children’s book from the Becoming a Better You! series that teaches young children at an early age to start becoming respectful in a very simple, engaging manner. The book takes you through a series of easy ways for your...

Primeval Origins: Paths of Anguish by Brett Vonsik is, I fervently hope, volume 1 of at least a trilogy. Vonsik begins Primeval Origins on a Bolivian archaeological dig, where the fossilized skeleton of the largest known example of a prehistoric carnivore on Earth has been...

Raven’s Passion is a wonderful young adult book written by Mary Adair. Raven is raised by his adoptive parents. He is a confused, temperamental young man who does not know who his white biological father is, and feels like a misfit with the Cherokees. He...

Orion Poe and the Lost Explorer is the first volume of The Amazing Adventures of Orion Poe, a children and preteen action and adventure fantasy series written by Will Summerhouse. Orion lives with his grandpa in coastal Maine where his grandpa mans the West Quoddy...

Love has a strange way of drawing together individuals that seem to not only be extremely unlikely to meet, but are diametrically opposed to ever create a bond. Passion’s Vision by Mary Adair explores this truth as the female warrior, New Moon, struggles with a...