"The Death of a Shrinking Violet" by James Robinson, Jr. is an eclectic collection of essays and that word should prepare you for such diverse topics as becoming and being a grandfather, marriage, great movies and Sam's club, sleep and so many more. James gives...

"At the Bamboo Bar" is a short and interesting read about “turning fifty” in Bangkok by Morgan McFinn. The book is a compilation of all that happened in the Bamboo bar on the author’s fiftieth birthday. The story is a vivid reminiscence of the various...

The List by Tom Wallace is a fast-paced, thrilling read. It takes the reader on a journey of intrigue immersed in political and corporate greed. Detective Jack Dantzler's quest to solve the mystery behind his parent's deaths thrusts him into a world of international crime....

"Words Falling Like Water" is a very interesting, frustrating, funny, and heartbreaking story all wrapped up into one. First time author Sonya Vaughn explains how the failing auto industry has suffered and how that suffering has impacted the people worldwide. There are examples given within...

"Tax Cheating" is not a book one can take to bed and relax with. It questions and challenges the basis of the US Tax Code, and people’s reasons to avoid, cheat and defraud on their tax statements. The book explores the unwieldy complexity of the...

What are the dreams of a man who was once an orphan, deprived of all the good things of life? "Prickle in a Dream" by Paul Masembe adds vibrant colors to this highly emotional theme: the plight of an orphan in a very hostile social...

"Silence, Inhabited" by Rich Follett contains poems which are like aching nerves, exposed to the reader. The poems are highly autobiographical and deal with a common but less controversial theme: childhood sexual abuse. Having been a pathetic victim of abuse in his childhood, Follett is...

Authors Janet Carpman and Myron Grant have written "Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around" as a guide for the traveler on how to read signs, consult maps and ask for directions. As the Foreword, by Richard Saul Wurman, states, "For directionally challenged people,...

Alex Burns aka Falcon 5, is the type of operative you want on your side. He is the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency and a group of operatives considered renegades. Burns has many enemies that would love to see him dead. Burns and his...

Marco Lobo's "The Witch Hunter's Amulet" is story of the age old struggle for territories and religions. When Portugal occupied India in the sixteenth century it sought to fling out the ancient religions of Islam and Hinduism by whatever means necessary. The tactics of the...

"Hammer Come Down" begins in Alabama in the 1830's. President Andrew Jackson has ordered Native Americans to relocate from their eastern and southern American locales to the Western territories. Jason, an African-American bondsman to Tolin Cobb, returns with Tolin from the Seminole wars in Florida...

In "Heaven 2.0" written by Scott Haworth, Mike is an angel but not of the heavenly type. He is a technological angel sent back to the past to retrieve the recently deceased for resuscitation and transfer back to the far future. The one unified church...

Dena Clayton, editor of "Mother-Daughter Memories: Love Revealed", has come up with an anthology that consists of stories that will surely tug at anyone's heart. Nine women authors share their unique and inspiring memories about their mothers. The stories are varied, ranging from a beautiful...

"Secrets to a Creative Mind: Become the Master of Your Mind" by David Judd Nutting is a book that will touch you deep down in your soul. This book will help you find the secrets and the knowledge buried deep inside your head. You will...

"I Miss You Erma: Amusing Musings of a Non-desperate Housewife" is the life story of author Lynne Boortz. She seems to be a typical American girl growing up in the 1950's. She fell in love with Jerry, got married, had children, and stayed married to...

The words of "Dialect of Dahlias" by poet Gloria J Wimberley danced around in my mind as I read them. Wimberley is one of the few that speak much with few words. Her style is minimalistic and yet so expressive. Wimberley has kept her lines...

Rosean Mile's "The Scales of Six" is the unique story of independent curator Gail Weaver. While she is collecting relics in Indonesia, she discovers a wonder plant that grows widely in the region of Sumatra. It can turn any type of hair into beautiful locks....

"The Middle of Nowhere" begins back in the early twenties. We meet Lucy Malinda Chapman, also known as Skitchy, the fifteen year old daughter of a rancher family in West Texas. When Skitchy falls in love with Pinkney Campbell, a cotton farmer,who is several years...

The British Olympic team and the Para Olympic team are to be housed (sequentially) at the Aldershot army base over the next forty days, and Sergeant Major Crane is in charge of their security. Also present are some invited officers from the Afghan army for...

Marie Allan's Unfailing Love is her own personal story. As a young girl, she goes through extraordinary experiences that scarred her emotionally. Her parents married young and divorced twice and their children has to live through the pain of the separation. Feeling unloved and rejected...