Tucker’s Story is a lovely book by Bobbie Asad. Tucker is a Shepherd who lived with a family until he was three years old. One day his owner deliberately left him at the park, and he was sad, confused and hungry. Luckily, there were kind...

The Father is an interesting story about three generations of the Whitaker family. Joseph Whitaker was a farmer. He raised his son, John; John raised his son, Morgan; and Morgan named his child John, giving him his grandfather’s name. Author Brett Williams traced the lineage...

To Bind the Nation’s Wounds by James Huber is the second stirring episode of Huber’s trilogy, in which the USA’s economic and political failures prompt a coalition of southwestern states to secede from the Union. Extremely plausible, To Bind the Nation’s Wounds sounds a clarion...

The Shadow of Loss is a young adult coming of age story written by Josefina Gutierrez. Evelyn Gonzalez had a nervous breakdown when she was in her junior year of high school, and her sister had her committed to an institution. Now she's being released,...

Three Rules is the story of Hope Wellman who suffered abuse at the hands of her stepfather’s brother Lucas. At the story opens, Hope is attending the funeral of her abuser and she slowly unravels the story of how she came to be a Wellman...

Eleven-year-old Jenny thinks her mother pays more attention to her older brother, Brian, and little sister, Janine. She misses her father who is hospitalised, and often quarrels with her mother who never listens to her. Jenny believes she is a misfit in the family. She...

The Way Out by Dick Elder is a story about the life of Rick Elkins. He is a former US Navy fighter pilot who is eighty-three and recounting his tale while battling with heart failure, and deciding if he wants to have surgery that may...

The protagonist of Deborah L. Norris’ novel The House Guest: Pathway to Persuasion is Maggie Davis, a middle-aged widow who lives together with her daughter Jenna in a Victorian mansion that belonged to her grandfather, while also offering it as a bed and breakfast accommodation....

Andy Friessen, his wife Laura, and their children have packed up and moved to Montana to escape his blue-blooded mother. In The Deadline, Andy and Laura learn that their five-year-old, Gabriel, is sick and needs a bone marrow transplant, which opens up a can of...

Most people know the famous tale of the Earp Brothers and the gunfight in Tombstone. Most have also heard of their friend Doc Holliday, the rough and tough gambler and ladies’ man, known to be deadly with his pistols. But what if there was more...