BOOK REVIEW LISTINGS

The Gopher King

The Gopher King, by Gojan Nikolich, is fantasy fiction with an ingenious plot told in the first person by Stan Przewalski  - sometimes known as "Stan Without a Plan." Stan is a Vietnam veteran with PTSD. He is the only reporter and the publisher of the weekly Bull River Falls Beacon-News. Stan's home town, the fictional Bull River ...

The Gotten

Astrid Sims is a new girl in town. The Gotten, by Rob Tucker, is a young adult novel that introduces a precocious thirteen-year-old British girl into the world of pre-teen boys. Set in the 1950s in a small Mid-west town, Astrid’s intimidating personality, intellect and boldness set her apart from the other girls. She self-assuredly ...

The Grandmaster

Welcome to the Wagner Institute for Mental Treatment and Investigations. Since 1966, Dr. Johann Wagner has guided his team of paranormal investigators and psychologists in solving supernatural crimes and unlocking the secrets of the human mind. But now a horror from his past has come back to destroy not only Wagner, but everything he has built. Wagner ...

The Graveyard Girl and the Boneyard Boy

In Martin Matthews’ young adult novel, “The Graveyard Girl And The Boneyard Boy,”  he treats readers to a compelling and eminently likable cast of characters. He displays a writing style that draws you in from the very first paragraph. Matthews is a great storyteller who spins an exciting, stirring, ...

The Green House

The Green House by Dan Lawton is a novella that chronicles the life of Girard Remington, an elderly Mathematics professor struggling with his guilt from his feeling of responsibility for an accident that took the life of someone dear to him. The story, told in the third person, recounts a transformative event that happened to Girard, ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it ...

The Gunslinger

Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, ...

The Guy Not Taken

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she stumbles upon her ex-husband's wedding registry, and wonders what would of happen if she would have ended up with the guy not taken. Jessica Norton, in hopes of winning her broker's heart, is listing her beloved, river view apartment. And an unlikely friendship ...

THE HANDLER

Jeffery S. Stephens, author of The Handler. A Nick ReaganThriller is a master of intrigue and espionage. Stephen's novel is so in sync with today's war on terrorism that the author includes a disclaimer that "most of the details are sheer fabrication." Details of terrorist activities are the product of his imagination ...

The Hate Game

"The Hate Game" is a memoir by Gary Trew that recounts his early experiences at the Knoll School in Hove, Sussex, England, starting in 1972. As a young boy, Trew offers an unflinching portrayal of the harsh realities of school bullying and the courage it takes to endure it. His narrative captures the day-to-day challenges, vividly illustrating ...