BOOK REVIEW LISTINGS

The Things I Love

 "The Things I Love" by Christina M. Carroll is a heartwarming book that delves into the nostalgic journey of a 10-year-old boy and his mother as they fondly reminisce about his childhood passions and joys. Through vivid storytelling and captivating illustrations by Jenny Slife, the book embodies the essence of the old writer's ...

The Tree and the Girl

The Tree and the Girl by Andrea Hahnfeld is a beautiful but melancholy fable that teaches a moral lesson about the prideful heart. Hahnfeld beautifully illustrated book relates the sad but redeeming tale of a once beautiful fir tree who suffered with a prideful heart. The tale serves as a cautionary example of the dangers of pride and losing sight ...

The Truth Behind COVID-19 Preview

The Truth Behind Covid-19 Preview by Mack “Cordell” Moore is an expose on issues surrounding Covid-19 and its containment.  The book’s compelling arguments and information about the Pandemic ask numerous disturbing questions that need to be considered and thoughtfully explored.

The coronavirus Covid-19 has upended ...

The Turning

Five very different people hear a voice, have a feeling, or are at unrest with themselves. All five have very strong feelings and each responds to those feelings. God speaking, stirring and leading them. All five of them brought together to do what? None of the five began their journey with a clear understanding of what God wanted them to do. ...

The Twisted Crown

The Twisted Crown by Anita Bunkley is a well-turned piece of historical fiction that seamlessly weaves together real events that happened during the Civil War and the reconstruction years. The protagonist is a woman named “Eva Philips” who is spirited away from slavery in the dark of night from the Stillwater Plantation in South Carolina. ...

The Unexpected CEO

Survival to success, Traumas to opportunity are captured in the opening chapters of Shirin Behzadi’s memoir, “Unexpected CEO. Gas Station Cashier to Billion Dollar CEO”.  Readers will be astounded to discover a heart warming rags to riches success story that takes Shirin from her place of birth in a tiny village in ...

The Unsteady Object of Hope

Poignant and riveting, The Unsteady Object of Hope, by Robert Raker, is a dark novel centered on the horrors of the savage murders of several children. The novel illuminates the tremendous amount of collateral damage that a community endures because of these killings. Raker uses first-person accounts of the private lives of multiple characters affected ...

The Vampire Armand

In this installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. We travel with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood -- a ruined city under Mongol dominion -- and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him ...

The Villains Who Snapped My Spine: A Memoir

The Villains Who Snapped My Spine is a memoir by A. H. Nazzareno. He wrote it while he convalesced in a hospital bed recovering from major surgery. Unlike most memoirs, this book does not dwell on sequential past experiences. Instead, the author hints at the medical diagnosis that has him hospital-bound and then uses humor to ...

The Wacky World of Jet

The appealing front cover of Nicci Belter’s children’s book, The Wacky World of Jet and Jotty, What a Beach Day, will entice beginning readers and their parents to invest in this adorable paperback. The author has many years of experience teaching kids in elementary school to read. She has put her expertise into this beginning chapter ...