Marie and Mr. Bee is a children’s story by Margaret Welwood. Marie is content in her cabin in the woods and has many forest friends. She likes helping them with their chores and playing games after she does her housework. One day Mr. Bee enters...

Is there a such thing as a generational curse? Can our sins, dysfunctions, emotions and poor choices be passed down to our children? In The Scream Of Silence: A Short Story Thriller by Pamela Crane, you will be on the edge of your seat as...

Embracing Luddism: Stop the Progress, I Want to Get Off! is a non-fiction social-issues book written by J. Ronald Adair. In 1812, Ned Ludd, a textile worker, led his co-workers in a rebellion against the dangers of the industrial revolution. The author sees himself as...

Those who want to take a peek into the 1920s, when flappers danced about, the stock market roared (notwithstanding the lack of regulations relating to it), and Prohibition was in place, need look no further than John Reisinger’s Death Across the Chesapeake. In this installment...

Loretta’s Caterpillar is the third book in the Loretta’s Insects series, written by Lois Wickstrom and illustrated by Francie Mion. While outside in a field of milkweeds, young Loretta enjoys watching all of the Monarch butterflies flying around the flowers. The next day, however, all...

Death in Unlikely Places: A Max Hurlock Roaring 20s Mystery by John Reisinger is an old-fashioned murder mystery. It’s 1926 and the real estate boom in Florida is on a downward spiral. Real estate developers keep turning up dead, in ways that just shouldn’t be...

24 Hour Journey by Yvette Wilson Bentley is a short story in which the author shares personal testimonies to drive home the important concept of "trusting God." This short story had all the right elements. I was moved by it. I found myself smiling and...

Fossils: Viagra, Snuff, and Rock and Roll by Robert A. Webster is a brilliantly written rockumentary story about four senior citizens that meet in a retirement home. When Charles loses his wife, he and his grand piano are placed in a retirement home. On his...

Type X by M.A. Phipps continues the story of Project W.A.R. It is the second book in a series, and it would be strongly recommended to read the excellent book 1 first to fully understand the plot. Wynter Reeves has been turned into the State’s...

In the year 2051, a rare and fatal event - the Blast - released a lethal dose of radiation that almost wiped out the entire population of Americans on the moon. The Blast killed almost all the adults, leaving behind just three scientists and one...

Jean Davis brings us beautiful fantasy fiction in Sahmara. With the moon as her only source of light, Sahmara runs for freedom from her Atherian captors. Taken from her home four months ago and having endured the rough, dirty hands of a different soldier each...

Time travel and alternate reality stories seem to be very fashionable in movies and on TV these days. I like them when they are done very well and the characters involved are realistically portrayed. It's About Time meets and succeeds my expectations for this kind...

Dreams of Tamar: A Tale of Rejection, Redemption, Restoration, and Faith Volume 1 by Darlene Pryor is listed as Christian fiction, a story that will appeal to women who have suffered a lot because of love, one with a promise of hope. A woman with...

Anticancer - The Preventive Power of Food: A Simple Nutrition Guide to Reduce Cancer Risk by Christina Economidou Pieridou is an educational and informative guide that speaks about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and healthy diet that can help prevent cancer. The book spreads...

Motherhood: Lost and Found by Ann Campanella is an autobiography tracing the story of her life after she married, through several miscarriages, the family dynamics of her parents aging, most specifically her mother’s slow and painful decline with Alzheimer's disease. Her love of horses...

Kurtis Matthew Russell is quick – and I might add, courageous – to tell us his goal for writing this poetry collection: 155 the Poet, Whimsy. He maintains that greatness is an accomplishment attainable by all. Shakespeare, the greatest of the great, authored 154 sonnets....

Key Change by Barbara Valentin is a wonderful romance that involves music, writing, newspapers, coming back from a horrible situation and not falling down the well but changing the situation into something good. Sara, the main character, is working for the Gazette as a music...

A Haven in the Woods by Nancy Shew Bolton is a love story filled with fear, tension and heartache. I thought this was going to be a predictable love story, but it is not. This romance is a picture of contrasts and an example of...

Intelligently written and entertaining, Dwarf: A Legend Is Born by Michael Benningfield is a story that features kings, ogres, giants, sorcerers, and dragons in a power game that could annihilate entire kingdoms. A dwarf with no claims to the throne succeeds in overthrowing the king....

The beauty of nature and the pure joy of selfless love are in stark contrast to the effects of greed, deception and vanity in Silvana: The Greening by Belinda Mellor. Fabiom, heir to the Holding of Deepvale, has always found refuge in the wildwood, home...