"Best in Show" is a fun book about looking deeper inside a dog show. If your child is an animal lover this is a must read book. I used to show dogs and it is always fun to look at the beautifully groomed dogs, and...

"Ghostly Tidewater Trilogy" is a compilation of ghostly encounters that will leave you with thrills and chills! The spirits here are all willing to reappear, each to fulfill a different course of fate. These tales are centered around a small waterside area community. Could it...

The prodigals finally return from the cattle drive they left on two years before. No excuses as to why a six-month cattle drive took two years. Nor did they give a good explanation as to what they did during those two years away. They expected...

It is summertime and life is good in the Gibson household, or so they all thought. But it all came tumbling down when sixteen year-old Myra Gibson found a paper about an adoption. Her adoption. Is this some kind of a joke or something? Surely...

Four year-old Alice is always lonely, and she wants a baby brother or sister so much that she prays for just that each night. On this one certain night, Alice thinks she hears someone calling her name, someone just barely whispering. She soon discovers a...

"Hollowing Screams" is one of those rare books which are difficult to put down before finishing. The action takes place in a 'typical' small town, peopled with 'typical' small town residents. Having myself lived in small towns for almost 25 years, I felt I knew...

From a midwestern state fair, a Celebrity Caribbean Cruise, the effect of TV on the masses, pop culture, tennis, math, and pop culture, to an analysis of David Lynch films, this collection of essays by David Foster Wallace runs the gamut. The seven pieces in...

I'm not a big fan of books on CD's because I find that it takes longer than simply sitting down to read them. However, seeing this book's blurb and realizing that it might actually be worth the extra time to sit and listen to it,...

"Seeking Adam" is a book about a family that has moved from the fast paced city with their son to get away from their equally fast paced jobs. He is a police officer sending criminals to jail and she is a nurse practitioner patching up...

"The Little Gnome" was written by Sheri Fink and illustrated by Mary Erikson Washam. This children’s story begins by introducing the Little Gnome to readers. Little Gnome was happy as he enjoyed the beautiful flowers, the singing birds, the whispering wind and the warm sunshine...

A tale inhabited by a dysfunctional protagonist, or is she? Her brother and the social workers think so. On the other hand, Wally thinks people just don’t want to understand her, except for her favorite nephew Nigel. “You've got to understand about Wally...” The first...

Retired Intelligence operative, Paul Janson, has a new mission, to get worn out, former operatives from the intelligence sector new useful lives. Janson uses these rehabilitated operatives to form a support group for his second job which includes independent services. Janson's partner, sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid,...

Ana is a beautiful and elegant woman who suffers from bipolar/schizo-affective disorder. She writes letters and keeps them in her backpack never mailing them. She feels her family is better off without her; however, the Rhode Island State Hospital didn’t suit her and she left...

"Home" by Karen Wiesner is the story of a mother trying to come to terms with what home actually is for herself and her son. Della has tried to be supportive of her husband, Declan, but enough is enough. She is tired of broken promises...

"A Matter of Time" is one of the most compelling supernatural tales I have come across in a long time. Any Titanic enthusiast will find a very different take here on the original story. A young college man is catapulted into another dimension where he...

"Auld Lang Syne" takes ringing in the new year to a whole new level! So what does a seventy year old writer have to fear about this special night? Well, quite a lot as he is trapped alone at his home in a paranormal blizzard...

"It's the Bass player" by Cabot Borden will appeal to young musicians or to those that listened to young musicians in the seventies. It describes the pitfalls that can occur with the formation of a band of young boys and girls. They said that was...

FBI agent Tyler Bannister has a problem: actually he has a couple of problems. When his good friend Caleb Williamson, a career officer with the CIA, disappears officials are trying to decide if he is some type of spy who may have defected or whether...

"Something to Cry About" written by Kinnon McArthur is the story of his life growing up in the 60s and 70s while dealing with an abusive father. This tale will horrify and shock the readers. McArthur was a mere sixteen years old when he shot...

Linda Naomi Katz, the author of "Surviving Mental Illness" begins her book by defining mental illness. Some mental illnesses are congenital, some are brought on by chemical imbalances, and others come from a psychological upset and some from an emotional upset such as a divorce,...