"Harry the Hairless Wonder Dog" by Melanie Hughes is intended for early elementary children and it appears appropriate to that audience. Harry is a very unusual dog; he has no hair on his body except for a bit on the top of his head. He...

"Instant Poetry" by Larry Berger is an interesting concept. At interactive poetry readings, listeners in the audience would call out topics and the author would then put the topic into words. It seems that almost any word or concept is fair game. There are poems...

“Butterflies know more 'bout living than humans.” Butterflies have a short life span. But they know to make the most of the time they have, and not to look back. Scratch was helping Mag move out of the cottage when he shared that bit of...

This is an amazing book. It is the heart-felt story of a man’s inner and outer journey on a quest for what we all want in life: significance and meaning. Author Mike Frank made a boyhood vow that propelled him into the high-flying corporate world....

Southern born Bo Grayson enjoys his life as a Colorado Rockies Keystone ski resort employee for he skis, waits tables and parties. His childhood friends have gone on to successful business careers, Levi as a law firm partner, Pen (Penelope) in the high-end home decorating...

"Gesso Squad: The Graphic Novel, Volume One" features teenagers from Chandler High School who work for the United Nations. They are American Lyra Newton known as "The Purple Hat", Marshall Conte known as "Kitty Boy" from Peru, Sumi Caballo or "Lady Splatter" from Haiti, Sanford...

"The Liffey Flows On By" written by Niki Phillips is a well-written book with great characters spanning four generations. It is a saga of Irish brothers, their families and their friends starting in 1893 and ending in 1946. As the reader becomes acquainted with the...

Johnny Smith's mother dies after giving birth to him and according to Johnny, he has been a disappointment to women ever since. Now at 33, Johnny has been best man at weddings for far too many times, and now he is best man for his...

James Sajo’s “The Salome Effect” is an interesting, suspenseful read that explores human behavior and addresses the concepts of pain and redemption. Robert is an American veteran who is living in Italy and working as an English teacher. Robert frequents the Fantasy Club with the...

Let’s see a show of hands of how many wives feel that their husbands don’t express themselves or engage in enough conversation. That is most of us, right? Author Tony Hawkins explores this phenomenon in “Married Men Don’t Talk” with the experience of more than...

Ann Ballard is tired of the waiting, the loneliness, the questions. Will she ever be able to put her husband to rest? Gene has been missing/dead for years, yet she is still married to him until the courts deem otherwise. If only the mother-in-law would...

Our story begins with NYPD Narcotics Detective Pete Fanning rear ending an SUV; his mind had been preoccupied, flashing back on the previous Thursday when he had shot and killed a man in self-defense. The angry owner of the SUV, Teddy Vijay, an Indian Muslim,...

It takes an excellent author to maintain a series successfully over four books but this is what R Peter Ubtrent does in this next novel in the absorbing and complex 'Dark Pilgrim' series. And if anything, the quality goes up. The excitement continues with the...

It happens to all of us. Everything seems to be going great for us, then we get news that knocks life right out from under us. That was what happened to this author, and this is why she decided to write this book. Tracy thought...

"Rebellion of Silence" is set in the city of Kirave in a future world where violent, blood-thirsty creatures called Rahion are invading what's left of the city and killing off the remains of its populations. The Leagian are still in control of Kirave but it...

The year is 1586 and the setting is Elizabethian England with the incessant and often violent struggles between Catholics and Protestants ongoing. Red-haired Caistor Parons is, to the uneducated eye, just an orphan but he has been appointed to be Assistant Secretary to Queen Elizabeth's...

Spencer Shane’s life is pretty bad, his dad is dead, his mum is addicted to drugs, and he is bullied by the boy whose mum was killed in the drink-driving incident his dad caused. All he wants to do is be invisible to his class...

In “Is God Saying He’s the One?” author Susan Rohrer talks about hearing from Heaven about the man in your life. I recently saw a Pinterest post that read, “If he doesn’t care about your soul, he’s not your soulmate.” That post is the crux...

"A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics" by Jeffrey A Zilahy is a great book. It is unique and very well done. And the title turns out to be true - mathematics actually is fun. Well, at least in this author’s hands. He has an engaging...

Are you a creative person, or someone who has brilliant ideas about inventing things? Then this book is sure for you! In the first two parts of his book, Kenneth Thurber talks about a framework he developed that is useful for thinking about and conceiving...