Great books continue to have contemporary relevance, can be endlessly gleaned for fresh data and interpretation, and contain great ideas which have occupied the minds of thinkers from antiquity. Essays on the Classics by Jason R. Goetz establishes these fundamental truths as he introduces the...

Lifting the Lid is a superb adventure-comedy by Rob Johnson. Some people can spend their entire dull lives living inside the box. Unfortunately, Trevor isn’t smart enough to do that. When faced with another poor job review, he decides to take the company up on...

Dinosaur George and the Paleonauts: Episode One: Raptor Island by George Blasing and Mark Miller is an exhilarating and adventurous short story, introducing young readers to the concept of time travel, paleontology, and prehistoric animals and dinosaurs. Move over Jurassic Park; here comes Dinosaur George...

Carlo the Mouse, Book 1: Too Many Rules for One Little Mouse by Mrs. D. is absolutely stunning in both its graphics and the lessons it teaches. Carlo is a baby mouse (mouselet?) who eats like a horse. He lives with his family inside the...

Greg's daring rescue of Cassie during Hurricane Amy was all caught on camera. And the scorching kiss Cassie gave Greg made all the TV viewers think they were an item, but they couldn't be more wrong. Greg came to Texas to investigate an organization that...

Darkness Saga: Filii Noctis by Benjamin Richard Long is a tale that digs deep into Nordic symbolism and brings you the supernatural story of Ragnarok. It follows the cycle of events from life, to sustenance, to death, and teaches us (as all good stories...

In 1889 there is a mining town that has been divided between those men who struggle to feed their families, and the rich or the gentry that are living up on Westleigh Hill. When Henry Postlewaite leaves for Golborne to make his fortune, he leaves...

King of the Mountain by P.J. Dunn introduces readers to the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The novel also introduces readers to the actual account of Major Patrick Ferguson who commanded the British Loyalist...

Sam and the Fly, written and illustrated by Sheryl Tidlund, is the first of hopefully many books about Sam and his adventures. Sam is a Boxer and he is a good watchdog. He enjoys playing with his toys and take naps. However, one day his...

In Runaway Girl, Lucius, leader of the vampire clan, wants his daughter Amelia to take over his reign alongside Damian, a half-blood. Unfortunately there are several problems. Amelia’s soul is scattered and resides in several human females, which they must find first in order to...

Eriq La Salle has carried over his characters Phee and Quincy from the last nail biter, Laws of Depravity, to Laws of Wrath. Phee and Quincy are on a well-earned leave after their last thrilling case, only to be called back from their brief vacation....

Brylee Branson is about to turn seventeen but her life is far from typical for a seventeen-year-old. She's a dead talker, or medium, someone who can see and talk to the dead. It's a gift she didn't realise she had until her parents moved her...

The Thirty Something Snap by Alan Helgasson is the story of Howard Perkins. Howard Perkins is a public relations agent working in New York City. He is touching forty and constantly worried about finding love. He is keen to have a relationship, though the fear...

Gloria Weinberg’s Child of Sorrow is a fictional account of a true story. In 1959, in Clewiston, Florida, seventeen-year-old “Vicki Bayle,” attractive, smart, and dreaming of doing something remarkable with her life, becomes pregnant. By the time her parents learn of her pregnancy, it’s too...

At first, I was a bit put off by the stilted style of the writing in Dead or Alive Agent Orange by Mary Rincon. Everything is so short and clipped that I felt it was jarring. However, as I thought about how this kind of...

Muslim extremists continue to use terror to disrupt life on the new Utopian planet of Medina in this 26th-century based sci-fi thriller, Attack on Orbital 454 by Mark Clay Grove. After an explosion destroys a major portion of Orbital 454, killing 250,000 people and most...

Healing Your Life with Water: How to use your Mind Body & Water Connection to Awaken Your Inner Fountain of Youth by Diana E. Ruiz is a spiritual book which speaks about the cleansing and healing properties of water. The human body is made up...

Knowing Jack by Julie Elizabeth Powell is an intriguing, suspense-filled story for children. Jack has a premonition that something bad is going to happen on their planned trip to the Lake District. He does not know how to dissuade his parents from taking that trip....

Lucy's Big Mess by Kim Yannayon is the story of a little cat who has to stay indoors due to rain. She finds umpteen ways to keep herself occupied on that rainy day. She becomes a construction worker, a doctor, a mum, and a princess....

Poor Anna. That girl had a lot of sorrow and trauma to overcome, first with her momma dying in childbirth, the typhoid plague, and a flood that wiped out tons of her fellow townspeople and left Anna desperately ill. When she recovered, her father had...