The Mind's Eye is a young adult historical, coming of age novel written by K.C. Finn. It's set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Kit Cavendish and her younger brother, Leighton, are on their way to Wales when we first meet them. They're part of a massive evacuation...

Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music is as raucous and ebullient as its title implies. The cast of characters is a hardscrabble, resilient and eccentric never-say-die cast including Blanche, a French dance hall girl not entirely above selling her favors, a cross-dressing frog catcher named Jenny (hence,...

Weddings, births, pursuits of better lives in a post war depression, aging parents and death are the seeds sown in The Seeds of Sorrow. One family’s story is told, spanning through generations - children grow up, get married, dream dreams and follow them. Lisa Brown’s...

Too Much Left Unsaid profiles the lives of two American women from 1917 through 1969. Lee Collins’ characters, Mattie and Kathy, share similar childhood losses that have an emotional impact on their adult lives and their decision making. Both women dream of becoming well-educated and...

The Portsmouth Alarm: December 1774 by Terri A. DeMitchell is a fictional story based on the actual events leading up to the Revolutionary War. The story is told through the experiences of several young men like Andrew Beckett, who dreams of being a doctor, and...

From Laborer to Author: The Flowers in Heaven are Rooted in Hell by Hoa Ming Truong is a heart-wrenching memoir about the author’s real-life experiences surviving the tyranny of the Viet Cong. Organized into eight detailed chapters, the book spans the time just before the...

The Ox-Boy of Ur by Rose Shaw is a brilliantly researched and developed book for young adults. Set in the year of 2000 BCE, we find a thirteen-year-old boy who has just been sold to a slave trader to pay his father's debts. The young...

Life Song by Christine M. Knight introduces us to Mavis, who was born to be a songbird. Her parents even chose to name her after one, the bird with the song that was worthy of poetry, however, Mavis was not able to soar like a...

Author Robert Peecher, Jr. offers his latest Jackson Speed story entitled Jackson Speed on the Orange Turnpike. He has done a lot of fascinating research which leads to an interesting story. However, his lead character, Jackson Speed, is not a main character you will like....

In A Blazing Gilded Age, by Rich DiSilvio, readers are transported into the world of men who were ahead of their time in the 19th century. Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, Edison and Teddy Roosevelt were determined to make their mark on history and would lie, cheat,...