Ocean One: Only One Ocean, Only One Chance is an environmental science children’s storybook written by Eileen Clancy Biegel and illustrated by Sue Lynn Cotton. As a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, Biegel spent a year on Kure Atoll, which is the subject of...

To Be Had by Sava Buncic is a great read with compelling characters. A lawyer who doesn't earn more than a waiter, Boris feels trapped in Greentown. But how can he give his family the life they deserve when there are no prospects of advancing...

Politics isn’t an easy subject to discuss with anyone because it seems as if everyone is so set in their ways that they refuse to even listen to someone with different views than their own. But in The Secret to Political Happiness by AM Ramsey,...

Miracle on Hammertown Road: One Man's Fall & Salvation is a nonfiction spiritual memoir written by Jim “Bubba” Bay and Mic Ruzich. Bay had always been bigger than his classmates in school, but when he went away to college, he decided to change that. He...

Cleverly plotted and masterfully accomplished, Down to the Needle by Mary Deal is a great entry in the genres of suspense, mystery, and thriller, a story that follows one woman’s gritty investigation to solve an abduction that happened twenty-three years ago. It takes a lot...

Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes is a non-fiction travel memoir set in the 1970s. Man & Horse is a story about a solo journey that John undertakes with his horse, Gizmo, across the continental United States. The book is...

After a car wreck, a young college student wakes up inside a shabby clinic within a strange city in the fascinating urban fantasy, Caligation by Brhi Stokes. After wasting several years in college, Ripley decides to stop drifting and start living. Discarding everything in his...

Revelations by Bellamy Westbay is an intriguing romance novel with some fantasy, paranormal, and supernatural elements. The story begins with our heroine, Gwen, dreaming that she is on a beach. The only reason she knows it is a dream is because, although the details of...

Letters to the Pianist is a historical fiction novel written by S.D. Mayes. The East End of London was not a happy place for a child, or indeed any living creature, in 1941. Fourteen-year-old Ruth and her little sister and brother were among the few...

The past is the last thing on Rose's mind when she sets out to welcome the new Castellan to their castle. But it only takes a single look at the man who has come to be the new master of the castle before the past...

This book is one of the best things I have read in a while in coming-of-age literature. It isn’t just great, it is sweet like honey, absorbing, and it is a tale with very real and unusual characters. In The Unusual Suspects by Dominic Carrillo,...

Hot & Bothered in Cancun by Beverly J. Ray is a breezy read that combines travel, adventure, and one woman’s search for herself into a hilarious ride. Meet Bria, a woman who has known nothing beyond her native city, but who quickly gets seduced by...

There are a lot of traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. Santa Claus, Christmas trees; you name it, there’s a history behind the legend. But the most exciting part of Christmas really isn’t the gifts. It’s the food. It lasts much longer than the...

The cycle of life is a circle. What starts as a seed in freshly tilled soil blossoms to a life that is enjoyed by all, including the one who planted the seeds. But that doesn’t complete the circle. It continues until the summer season ends...

My Wonderful Wobbly World is the autobiography of Charles Irwin, an Englishman born in 1932 with serious physical handicaps resulting from a traumatic birth. He tells his impressive story through chapters which address different phases, issues and themes of his professional and personal life, and...

The Chocolate Pilgrim: A Journey to Self-Discovery and Transformation on the Camino de Santiago by Marie Maccagno is a beautifully written, emotionally intense, and intimately personal account of a month-long trek across Spain by Maccagno, her husband, and their adult son in the spring of...

New York Matrimonial Trial Handbook by Joel R. Brandes is a ground-breaking tool for matrimonial lawyers and attorneys, a powerful legal reference for courtroom trial, designed to help counsel anticipate surprises that can happen during a matrimonial trial, ask the right questions to parties and...

Fire on the Mountain: A Detective Mike Eiser Novel is a police procedural mystery novel written by Clabe Polk. While this is not the first novel in the Mike Eiser series, the author gives enough background information for it to be enjoyed as a standalone...

Deanna Lynn Sletten’s Night Music is a story of hearts divided. Joseph Russo is a soldier in Vietnam. He becomes pen pals with a girl named Charlotte. Char writes to Joe about Grand Falls, her small hometown in Illinois. Joe clings to those letters, they...

Jesus Unbound by Richard Malmed is the story of the most famous man to ever walk the planet (and ascend from it) in the fictional format of a novel. The book reads on the basis of reality and provides an alternate view of all the...