Tac and Tuk is a children's animal story book written by Carolee Wells Henney and illustrated by Heather Ewing Klose. Tac and Tuk are ground squirrel cousins who live on the prairie in Texas. Their colony is a large one with about fifty families who...

They Called Her Paperback Rose: A Hera Hunter Mystery is a private sleuth novel written by Ellie DeFarr. Hera Hunter is a private investigator in Centreville. On her way to visit Bernie’s Market, she saw two teenaged girls fighting, with one girl obviously larger and...

Julian North is a young man without a real goal in life in The Lost Revolution by Tom Ulicny. After losing his parents at the age of nine, Julian was raised by an American couple. A sudden interest, or feelings of guilt as the case...

The Kiev Connection: A Matti James Mystery, Book 2 is a paranormal mystery/thriller written by M.A.R. Unger. Matti is a forensic facial reconstructionist who works part-time with the Clark County Coroner's Office in Las Vegas. When she's not working, she's usually with her private sleuthing...

When Matthew finds a tiny girl under the old truck in the yard, he questions her in hopes of discovering why she was there and from whence she came. Where were her parents? How did she get to this location? Feeling reasonably confident that he...

The Great Time Lock Disaster by C. Lee McKenzie is a charming, fast-paced middle grade novel with lots of magic and mayhem. Pete Riley is not a very good wizard. He has trouble with spells and, during a magic lesson with a witch named Harriet,...

In Margaret A. Millmore’s What Haunts Me (Ghost Killer, Book I), ghosts and demons do not haunt the living in the traditional sense, but plague the innocent with diseases, physical deformities and deadly addictions. They will haunt their victims for a lifetime or kill them...

A year after their adventure in the town beneath the magical Christmas tree, Christmas Eve once again finds Hailey and her family gathered in her grandpa’s house. After decorating the tree, Jacob, Hailey’s best friend, takes the older cousins for a short walk. Arriving at...

Ivory Shepard, known as The Razor, narrates her own story in P.S. Bartlett’s Demons & Pearls (The Razor’s Adventures Book 1). It opens when the pirate ship, Demon Sea, attacks a merchant vessel. Not satisfied with taking her cargo, Captain Barclay commands that her crew...

Strength and talent are not limited to men, although that was how it was seen in 15th century Florence under the rule of the powerful Medici family and the Church. When Viviana is faced with the murder of Guiliano de Medici by the hands of...

Cassie’s Hope is Sue Lloyd’s touching YA novel about a fourteen-year-old girl called Cassie who is in remission from leukemia, and an adorable beagle called Hope. Hope tests trials of a new improved drug for leukemia at Morton Animal Research Centre. In hospital, Cassie sees...

Glimpse, a superbly crafted speculative short story by Daniel P. Douglas, offers the reader a provocative future mystery on which to ponder: What happens when an older couple finally decides to leave their well-outfitted bomb shelter? First, the story must deal out a series of...

Electromancer is a fantasy novel written by Daco. Alexa Manchester was following in her father's footsteps by finishing his pet project. The Magpie generator, which he projected would be the green energy source to finally solve the energy crisis that had the entire planet in...

Jonathan Quick is the proprietor and founder of Quick Baseball Artifacts. He deals in treasures and goes beyond the call of duty to find them. When The Fungo Society, an active group of senior citizen baseball players, calls upon Quick to assist in an urgent...

The Spirit of Steel is Book Two of The Morus Chronicles, a children’s fantasy by J.R. Roper. Thirteen-year-old Ethan Morus, who possesses treasure hunting instincts, is closely watched by sorcerers from the Light and Dark. They need Ethan’s talents to locate another legendary ancient treasure...

Dotty and the Calendar House Key is the first book in The Dotty Series by Emma Warner-Reed. Rushing home as fast as she can, nine-year-old Dotty Parsons and her best friend, Sylvia, are eager to watch the fireworks display in Dotty’s back yard. Tragedy strikes,...

Hybris by Don Trimble is a novel that explores human greed and the insatiable thirst for power and how far they can lead the human soul. A powerful cartel is determined to establish a one-world government and take total control of the entire world —...

Jessica Lost Her Wobble by J. Schlenker is a unique love story with unexpected twists and turns. Jessica, more commonly called Jessie, is a woman in her mid-forties with a lot of baggage. Her self confidence is low and she is unsure of everything and...

The Goddess of Undo by Kat Drennan is a heartwarming, beautifully written women’s fiction laced with powerful currents of energy and lessons for every woman. Evie has not seen her mother since she was three years old. Now at fifty-five, she has a mid-life crisis...

I’ve been fortunate to have read for review a string of top-notch novels for Reader’s Favorite the past several weeks and The Drift by David Maxwell earned its way to the top of that list. In this stunning science-fiction thriller, the town of Crystal Falls...