Organize Your Time Wisely: The 7 Most Effective Ways To Manage Your Time, Increase Productivity, And Accomplish More Goals In Less Time by Ben Markay is an uplifting book that gives effective guidance on how to manage time, increase productivity, and accomplish more goals in...

The Other Side of the Story by Daphine Priscilla Brown-Jack is an inspirational, heartfelt story of a woman's battle during a critical time in her family's life. The author's desire to share such a story is humbling. It takes courage to share personal things with...

Bound: The Silverton Chronicles by Carmen Fox is a well-written urban fantasy romance whose main protagonist, the vampire Florian, possesses the good looks of an Edward Cullen and the conflicted soul of Rice’s LeStat. As the story opens, Florian (a.k.a. Flo) appears to have turned...

The Whizbang Machine: The Whizbang Machine Series, Book 1 is a young adult mystery novel written by Danielle A. Vann. Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Yale loves her typewriter, even if it's not as efficient and easy to use as a laptop or word processor. While she's no...

Scott Archer Jones’ A Rising Tide of People Swept Away takes us right in the heart of Albuquerque’s less privileged class where we meet a series of curious characters, one as thought provoking as the other. Gerald Matthew Roger (GMR), a ten-year-old boy, escapes from...

Little does Jack Elliot realize exactly how his life will be changed after receiving a phone call from his uncle’s lawyer. Rushing ‘home’ to New York City from his hard-won, self-made happiness in Montreal, Jack is immersed in intrigue that began at the dawn of...

The Healer by C.J. Anaya (Book One of the Healer series) draws upon ancient forces, gods, and demons from Japanese mythology to craft a thrilling and richly layered modern epic for Young Adult readers. In the first book of what promises to be an enthralling...

In a great new work of Christian fiction by author Sylvia Bambola, The Babel Conspiracy is a story that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and obsessively turning the pages from the start all the way through to the very end. Follow...

The Hunted Tribe by Roma Gray is going to be a great series. I just know it. Roma Gray is really good at blending ordinary life with the magical and fantastical. The writing and the characters really stand out in Declaration of War, the first...

Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

For me, as a reader, there's nothing more satisfying than picking up a book that I just can't put down. That usually only happens if the book is a thriller or a mystery written by a very skilled writer. It rarely happens when I read...

Screamer by R.E. Wood is a haunting tale of life. Julia Woodson is slowly pulling her life back together following her decision to divorce her abusive husband, Todd. She has two children and she must protect them and defend her home against the man she...

Rebecca's Coronation by Gary Green is book three in the Redemption series. Rebecca is an orphan whose grandmother has guided her to a world of magic and adventure. Rebecca’s enemy, Pan, urges her to stop fighting him and just let him kill her. She mocks...

Vicki E. Hartman’s My Father’s Battle chronicles a warrior’s fight against the nightmares of World War II. In his youth, Ken Rowland joined the army and took part in decisive battles. Returning home at twenty-one, he’d seen a lot of evil on the war front...

Paper Wishes, The Magical Girl Series Volume 1 is a young adult romantic fantasy centered on a grieving young woman named Vilvian. She is mourning the loss of her mother, who left her with a Japanese fable that for every origami star you fold, it...

In Love and Mercy: Up On Roan Mountain by Martha Arrowood Pelc, Ollie, the first character introduced, faces more in her short life than most adults face in a lifetime. There is a mix of love and major tragedy in each family that’s compelling and...

Mysteries Beyond the Grave by Amy Louise Hill is a collection of two short stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat with excitement. They are suspenseful, exciting, and scary. The first story in the book — Letters — is about someone...

Bethany Lopez's 7 Months (Time for Love) is the seventh in a series. Ming is a hard worker. All she wants to be is a great lawyer, daughter and friend, but, as she turns 35, her focus must move away from her career. All her...

Glimpse, a superbly crafted speculative short story by Daniel P. Douglas, offers the reader a provocative future mystery on which to ponder: What happens when an older couple finally decides to leave their well-outfitted bomb shelter? First, the story must deal out a series of...

A Day That God Made by Mike Masi is a true story, although the author refers to himself throughout as “the pilot.” The opening is a dramatic air crash in the frozen wastes of Alaska. Following that, the book reverts to detailing the pilot’s early...