That Certain Summer by Mary Verdick is a light springy romance with a suspenseful undertone to it. Sally Grimes from Winner, Iowa, wants to be a writer but so far has not progressed past writing for the local newspaper. Now she has a chance to...

Scott Antwan’s poetry collection “Love Drunk” follows a lover through the many stages of love to its eventual end. The speaker in the book begins by expressing a desire to find true love, then finds an object of his affection to pine for, and then...

As an architect and educator, Bill Asti is more than well qualified to write on how people must work together to create sustainable communities for future generations. He has worked with knowledgeable, dedicated people like Win Rockefeller and Edward Durrell Stone. Asti is quite vocal...

Storyteller, actor, and American Civil Celebrant Gerald Fierst has created a book about weddings, but it's not about how to buy gowns and flowers, arrange for the reception, and where to place the candles. The Heart of the Wedding puts the magic back in a...

A Beautiful Kind of Broken is a good addition to the plethora of books on spiritual guidance. Author Luke Holter really covers how to forgive others in a way that is easy to understand and apply. He writes quite candidly about religions that point fingers...

Kathleen Rehl has created a little gem of a book in Moving Forward on Your Own, A Financial Guide for Widows. She was widowed suddenly and shares with the reader the grief, blankness, and the symptoms of widowhood in an easy-to-read format with colored photographs,...

I found this book quite interesting. The author frequently speaks of herself as on a journey dealing with suicide. This empowered me to know that I can help anyone with this issue by referring them to this particular book. I enjoyed the fact that it...

This book discusses marriage from a Biblical perspective. I believe that anyone, married or not, would experience what the true meaning of marriage is in our society today, and how what happened back in ancient times is applicable to what is going on in the...

Garrison and Louisa were a married couple who remained childless. Garrison was a CIA agent and Louisa a nurse. When a neighborhood house fire left a Down’s syndrome child orphaned and homeless, Louisa wanted to adopt him. Garrison and Louisa loved Noah very much. They...

House of Northern Lights by Valen Watson is an amazing novel that takes the reader on a trip to the far northwestern regions, the land of the Haida people whose history goes back a long ways. Liselle (Elle) leaves her failing marriage and urban life...

Public Safety Architecture focuses on the safety of public buildings, particularly specialized buildings such as a jail, bank, or courthouse. The criterion the architect must meet includes: “security, survivability, community acceptance, technology, and the ever-evolving mission statement.” Public Safety Architecture is an in-depth look at...

Martha, A Novel by Diana Wallis Taylor is about the Biblical Martha. After the death of her mother, Martha took on the care of the household and her family: her brother Lazarus, her sister Mary, and her father. She was always the caretaker, leaving her to...

Clint Johnson's book, Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites, is jam-packed with fascinating information, pictures and historical details. The book is organized into 18 different tours, 4 in the state of West Virginia and 14 in the state of Virginia. Each chapter is...

In Energy, Convenient Solutions, the book recaps problems with use of fossil fuels, diminishing oil reserves, an increasing price for what remains and the impact on America and the world. The book provides a lot of social commentary and makes dire predictions on the damaging...

Poet Leslie-Anne Brill divides her collection "New York Dreaming: Poems of the City, the Suburbs, and Daily Life" into five sections: the city, the suburbs, from the editorial desk, love, and life. This division could represent stages of human development that one would expect...

Where Am I Going was written to help people find themselves and where they are spiritually. Even when one is really happy and life is going well, something is still missing in one's inner life if he/she hasn't found where he/she stands spiritually. Michelle Cromer...

Indemnity by Paula Wiseman is book #2 in her Covenant of Trust series. Seven years after Bobbie forgave her husband, Chuck, for his affair with Tracy Ravenna, she thought everything was behind them. That is until the new school year began and Jackson Charles Ravenna...

CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring system) uses a high-tech system to watch and track changes in blood sugar at all times day and night. These systems are different from the usual needle gun and monitoring device used by most people now. Though it is not any...

Edmund Industan and Neil Konrad Binayao’s poetry collection Healing Garden of Verses is divided into ten sections and uses haiku to tell the story of the creation of Earth, human beings’ rejection of God, and finally of the joy one experiences when he/she returns to...

The title, The Bubble Boys: How Mistaken Educational Ideals and Practices Are Causing A Warped Social Fabric, gives the impression that this will be another book about what we're doing wrong in education and why and how to fix it. Jason Goetz, who admits being...