It is 100 hundred years into the future and for the past few generations everyone has been a reader – someone with the ability to read minds and have all their thoughts heard by the rest of the world. Unlike everyone else, 16 year old...

Okay, I’ll admit it – I am a sucker for kids’ books that feature animals. That is why I chose to read “Animal Sound Mix-up” by Connie Arnold. It tickled me that the illustrator’s name was Kit Grady because I have a kitty named Grady,...

Poet Payal Roy explains in the preface that poetry has been a major focus in her life since junior high when she was required to create a poem as a class assignment. Inspired by the emotion of writing as well as nature photography, she includes...

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,...

There are many college football team matches up that are famous like the yearly meet between Yale and Harvard, but none is more famous than the competition between the Crimson Tide of Auburn University and the War Eagles of the University of Alabama. The football...

"Angel" picks up where "Fang" left off. "Fang" has left the flock leaving Max distraught. The more time she spends with Dylan the more she feels drawn to him; after all he was created to be her mate. The mad scientists are determined to convince...

Are you a person who has enjoyed fishing most of your life? Well, David Van Lear is, and he wrote this book to tell of his adventures while fishing. David’s father loved fishing, and taught it to David when he was a young fellow. In...

Having been born to parents with a history of dysfunctional behaviors and addictions, Wanda McGuire was no stranger to this lifestyle herself. Being brought up in this type of situation, Wanda carried these behaviors into her own marriage with a husband with a serious addiction...

While this tale hinges partly on 21st Century technology, the style and substance is very old fashioned, reading not so much like John Gresham or Tom Clancy as Raymond Chandler or Mickey Spillane with just a dash of Nick and Nora Charles thrown in. A...

Cordell Logan is an ex-Air Force Pilot, ex-Special Operations soldier and now an occasional flight instructor. He is also an aspiring Buddhist. When his beautiful ex-wife, Savannah, shows up and tells him that her husband has been murdered in Los Angeles he is somewhat pleased....

William Wordsworth wrote five poems inspired by a young woman named Lucy. Scholars have long speculated as to the identity of Lucy. Was she real? Could she have been a fantasy of William’s imagination? "William and Lucy" is a fictional work speculating on the identity...

"World Beyond the Maelstrom Gate" features a group of multicultural college students. They are brought together when Daniel, an aspiring astronomer in his sophomore year, discovers an error in the calculated path of a small meteor. Daniel and his roommates determine the meteor landed near...

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...

Annie Darling, proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore is sure that the death of her new assistant, Pat Merridew, is not a suicide, but Billy Cameron, the local police chief, disagrees. Pat had recently lost her job at a prominent lawyer’s office and the...

"Single, Black, and Government Owned: A Memoir" by O. Keeys touched my heart. I began reading and could not put the book down until I had read the last page. It is her fault I had to work the next day with only 2 hours...

“With You Always,” written by Danielle Leibovici, LMFT, is a touching story that will be treasured by children and adults alike. A little boy is afraid one night and runs into his grandmother’s room. She comforts him by explaining that no one is ever alone...

S. Thomas Bailey transports readers back to the time of the French and Indian War. It was a fascinating time in history. Our tale begins near Black Creek where Maggie Murray lived in the family’s small cabin. Alone Maggie ran the farm. Her husband had...

In this tale a boy questions whether his parents truly love him. If they loved him they would not make him ___ (you can fill in the blank). He confronts his parents with the question, “If you love me so much" why should I brush...