Hollywood Heartbreak: New York Dreams by Kody Christiansen introduces us to Kaleb, a well known female illusionist whose journey took him from Texas to New York and then to Hollywood. A story that is tragic, inspiring and very true. Kaleb goes onto national TV as...

Out Front is a lovely, engaging book by Elizabeth Wu about a girl from a royal family who lives on an island. Because of a storm devastating the island, she finds herself moving to live in China. You will enjoy reading how she meets friends,...

In Your Dreams by Rick Incorvia is the story of Adam, a man who was comatose for two months after his accident. He survived the accident and now, in his comatose state, he has a new life. In his dreamland, he has a new life,...

J.J. Houston: Trail Of The Grey Wolf by B.K. Crawford is set in the summer of 1964, where 13-year-old J.J. Houston decides to investigate the sinister forces behind the disappearance of hundreds of children in Bradford County. She learns about an underground military base located...

In The Girl Who Lost Her Voice by Adam T. Newman, Carlee finds out she has lost her voice one day when she wakes up. Her brother, Tyler, feels sad and it hurts him to see his sister upset. He comes up with the idea...

Have you ever stopped to wonder what will happen to your toys when you grow up? Will they miss playing with you and feel sad and lonely? Jessica D. Adams’s endearing children’s tale, The Underground Toy Society Saves Peggy, explores this possibility. The story starts with...

Erie Energy is the first book in The Ghostlands saga written by C.N. James and Amy Joy. Anastasia misses her boyfriend, Uz. It had been two years since he and his entire family had been traded by Erie Energy to the Sydney Corporation, due to...

Ages of Suffocation: Remembered Dreams by Uzo Amaka breaks down the life of Oma into three different portions. The story starts off with background information about the treatment the girls received from their stepmother in the absence of their father. The sisters led very abusive...

On The Fifth Night by Michael Howard is a very beautiful story of a man who struggles to find meaning in his experience of love and suffering, of life and death, a man with his moments of flights. After losing his first wife, Greta, to...

Order of Vespers by Elyse Reyes is a great young adult novel. What I found most fascinating was a protagonist with a split personality. Up until the moment I began a relationship with a woman who had this mental condition, I thought it was something...

Six Women is an interrelated collection of short stories written by Karen Truesdell Riehl. The Chester Writers Club held monthly meetings at which a selected member would read one of her works to the group. It was expected that the others would feel free to...

Hannah Bradbury is the heroine in The Ugly Teapot: Book One: Hannah by Fred Holmes. Fourteen years old, Hannah has just lost her world-traveling, danger-provoking, death-defying, genius-inspired photographer father. She is devastated, as he was her hero. As compared to her terribly ordinary waitress mother,...

Whoa! Can you say hot? Well, I certainly did after finishing The Odor of Violet, the new offering by author Ju Ephraime. Follow the story of Damien Falconer, a young man who is struggling mightily after he loses both his sight and the woman he...

Between Baby Dolls and Boyfriends: How to Successfully Navigate Your Daughter’s Tween Years by Debi Smith-Racanelli and Kendall Racanelli is a useful tool for all parents, especially moms, to bring them closer to their tweens. The years 9-12, the tween years, are challenging for most...

Los Diggities By Name is an audio/visual dog book for children written by Jeanie Cunningham and Elisabeth Thormodsrud and narrated by Jeanie Cunningham. Each page of the story has a speaker icon, which, when pressed, gives Jeannie's narration of that particular page. Los Diggities is...

The short story Memory of Romance by Beth Durkee was an interesting one. When Beth wins a free month to a dating club, her fiancé encourages her to use it. Beth soon starts dating one guy regularly, all with approval from her fiancé. Eventually she...

Jessica Lost Her Wobble by J. Schlenker is a unique love story with unexpected twists and turns. Jessica, more commonly called Jessie, is a woman in her mid-forties with a lot of baggage. Her self confidence is low and she is unsure of everything and...

Nephilim are thought to have disappeared from Earth at the time of the Great Flood, but in reality, some of them escaped to another dimension. Unfortunately, the majority of the Nephilim women were killed in the flood and the ratio of Nephilim men to women...

The Little Giants as the Mysterious Six in the Tangled Case of the Ghastly Chicken Yegg, Volume 1 is a Christian mystery novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Lynette Harrell. Robyn and Bailey just couldn't understand what was happening to Robyn's chickens. So far,...

For those younger readers and their parents looking for a clean fantasy story based on Christian philosophy, Kristen Reed offers Eirwen’s Dream: Inside Snow White’s Sleeping Mind. Based loosely on the traditional fairytale of Snow White, Eirwen is to assume the throne upon the death...