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Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank Blog
Dec 8, 2024

Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank

Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village called Vereiteln Dorf. There, she becomes intrigued by

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Tree Pose by Susan Rogers & John Roosen Blog
May 20, 2024

Tree Pose by Susan Rogers & John Roosen

About the Book: Escape to Tasmania they said … But what was supposed to be a dream for Ric Peters and Elaina Williams has turned into a nightmare. The Devil’s Island is living up to its name, serving

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EDEN by Jamie Lisa Forbes Blog
Apr 25, 2024

EDEN by Jamie Lisa Forbes

About the Book: Rowen Hart has been raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Carolina. It’s the 1950s and he’s drifting through the d

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Soulscapes by Lee Woodman Blog
Jan 26, 2024

Soulscapes by Lee Woodman

About the Book: Soulscapes, the fifth volume in Lee Woodman’s “scapes” series, is an exploration of the way we reach for godliness or soul in our lives and relations. As a seeker who admits, discovers

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Tick Blog
Jan 1, 2024

Tick

Book Summary: In a moment of desperation, Brad Hughes made an impassioned promise to God, but when should his responsibilities end? This question plagues Brad, a widower and owner of a lucrative minin

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The Girls Who Disappeared: A Novel Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Girls Who Disappeared: A Novel

In a small English town lies a haunted road called the Devil’s Corridor. Though the Devil’s Corridor is known for its strange occurrences, teenage Olivia and her three friends drove through it one nig

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The Rail Splitter: A Novel Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Rail Splitter: A Novel

Cribb has already written a novel covering the years of Lincoln’s presidency: Old Abe. In The Rail Splitter, he turns to Lincoln’s youth, offering us a portrait of one of the most respected presidents

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The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War Blog
Jul 18, 2023

The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War

Muhammad was the founder of the Islam religion and was a prophet. Muhammad’s (570-632)’s words and deeds have been chronicled and relayed in the centuries after his passing. Many biographies have been

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Gilded Mountain: A Novel Blog
Jul 14, 2023

Gilded Mountain: A Novel

Manning has made a book as sharp-edged and vital as the Colorado mountains it’s set in. Sylvie Pelletier came to Colorado from Vermont with her family after her father took a mining job. Mining, howev

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In Between Spaces Blog
Jul 14, 2023

In Between Spaces

I’m a sucker for anthologies. There’s something about getting lost in myriad perspectives on a common theme that scratches some kind of persistent itch in my brain. But it’s not very often that one li

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The Labyrinth of Doom Blog
Jul 13, 2023

The Labyrinth of Doom

Tim is a knight-in-training who wakes up every morning to fight off small but deadly fire-breathing dragons. And after Tim falls asleep while attempting to guard the castle gates. And because Tim fell

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The Lost Library Blog
Jul 13, 2023

The Lost Library

The Lost Library is a sweet book about little kids who like reading so much. The plot is very simple and predictable and lacks any measurable detail, so you probably wouldn’t read it more than once. T

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Namaste Is a Greeting Blog
Jul 13, 2023

Namaste Is a Greeting

Namaste Is a Greeting isn’t really about anything except the word “Namaste.” There’s no real storyline, just many fragmented ideas and a little girl pulling it all together. The pictures are a little

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GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1 Blog
Jul 12, 2023

GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1

GRONE is an absolute masterpiece of science fiction. This massive tome of a tale spans literal centuries but somehow still manages to leave you wanting more, long after you’ve turned the last page and

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A Friend Of King Neptune Blog
Jul 12, 2023

A Friend Of King Neptune

Francis X. Lenihan is a process server living in St. Louis when he reunites with his best friend, Dingus. Francis and Dingus served in the Army Medical Corps in the 1970s. Dingus served as it was a fa

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Stalking Justice Blog
Jul 7, 2023

Stalking Justice

It has been four decades since retired detective Larry Klinger lost his son. Yet, at 66, Larry still mourns his loss. Consequently, he joins a group of fathers who suffer from the pain of losing a chi

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Battery Life Blog
Jul 7, 2023

Battery Life

Diane 317 knew something was terribly wrong with her peaceful home. The tremors aboard the Cradle, a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth, were worsening. When Diane’s home began plummeting

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Before All the World: A Novel Blog
Jul 6, 2023

Before All the World: A Novel

Oh, help, I thought, less than a third of the way into this book, I’m reading poetry. It was not a complaint; far from it. Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casu

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Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom Blog
Jul 6, 2023

Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom

Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom almost seems intrusive to read, as it is about the personal and intimate relationship the author and her family had with Betty, and the twelve pearls of wisdom are stori

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The House Guest Blog
Jul 5, 2023

The House Guest

After her wealthy husband suddenly left her, Alyssa Macallan was drowning her sorrows in a hotel bar. She picked the spot specifically because no one in her social circles would ever set foot in a pla

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The Spite House Blog
Jul 5, 2023

The Spite House

Eric Ross and his two daughters are on the run, living out of motels as they try to escape their secrets. Eric comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, which is known to the locals as

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Around the Year Blog
Jun 30, 2023

Around the Year

If you really like Elsa Beskow’s books, you might not like this one, Around the Year, as much. I don’t like it. It’s not as good as the others. It’s all about poetry, but if you like poetry you will p

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The Pirate’s Eye (Stitch Head) Blog
Jun 30, 2023

The Pirate’s Eye (Stitch Head)

Stitch Head Book 2: The Pirate’s Eye is the second one in the series. Stitch Head and his friends found a letter saying that the Professor should enter a professing contest and then the professor left

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The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak Blog
Jun 21, 2023

The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak

Book Summary: One malfunction… Millions dead… The search for answers begins… In the year 2040, the world’s transportation is dominated by a highly advanced artificial intelligence system. However, thi

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Landscapes of the Solar System Blog
Jun 16, 2023

Landscapes of the Solar System

I find outer space really interesting and spooky at the same time, probably because it isn’t the same as here on earth. In Landscapes of the Solar System, there are so many pictures of the planets and

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How Does My Fruit Grow? Blog
Jun 16, 2023

How Does My Fruit Grow?

How Does My Fruit Grow? At first glance of the title, you might think this is a book for little kids, but it is not. This book is packed full of information on how plants grow and change in different

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When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit Blog
Jun 9, 2023

When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit

Deep in the forest in a big oak tree, an owl family lives near the top and a rabbit family lives among the roots. Each family had a baby in the spring. Little Rabbit plays all day, while Little Owl fl

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A Walk to the End of the Earth Blog
Jun 9, 2023

A Walk to the End of the Earth

Jeffrey started the El Camino de Santiago walk to gain clarity in all aspects of his life. Having been a Catholic Priest for seventeen years, he decided to quit as he had enough of the abuse of power

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Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall Blog
May 18, 2023

Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall

Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Aca

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My Expansion by Nancy Manet Blog
Apr 19, 2023

My Expansion by Nancy Manet

Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bears are doing. Never stray from the traditional pat

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