As the Sun Rises, Darkness Falls…Or Does It? (Katiann, 2)
Title: As the Sun Rises, Darkness Falls…Or Does It? (Katiann, 2)
Author: J.D. Kiser
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 978-1480893894
Pages: 396
Genre: Mystery / Thriller / Suspense / Action Fiction
Reviewed by: Alyssa Avina
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One of life’s most difficult lessons to learn is the lesson that other people will not always believe in the same things that you do, and we, as a people, must learn to live with that knowledge and accept it, otherwise risk conflict and mistrust amongst
Stolen Grace
Title: Stolen Grace: A Memoir: How God Rescued Me from the Jaws and Claws of the United Methodist Church
Author: Rev Errol E. Leslie
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing
ISBN: 978-1638449515
Pages: 522
Genre: Christian Church Leadership / Christian Family & Relationships
Reviewed by: Jack Chambers
Hollywood Book Reviews
One of the hardest realizations a person can come to in this life is to realize that we are human, and as such are prone to
Finding Truth
Title: Finding Truth: Journey of a Christian and His Church
Author: William G. Chipman
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN: 979-8603372105
Pages: 192
Genre: Middle grade fiction, Religious, Christian
Reviewed by: Leah Shepherd
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Christian is a sensible, resourceful nine-year-old who finds a way to feed and shelter himself after his parents die of smallpox. He catches fish and traps animals to eat. He’s so mature and practical that you may find it hard to imagine. He even has the foresight and knowledge to build a deer-proof
Confessions of an Elementary School Principal
Title: Confessions of an Elementary School Principal
Author: Meril R. Smith
Publisher: Bookside Press
ISBN: 978-1645847809
Pages: 179
Genre: Adult Non-fiction
Reviewed by: Michaela Gordoni
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Confessions of an Elementary School Principal by author Meril R. Smith is a collection of experiences and life lessons for teaching, learned by the author. It also includes a few experiences and testimonies from other teachers, secretaries, and students of Meril Smith. Through the author’s challenges and experiences, the reader can see how Meril’s success
Medusa’s Lair
Title: Medusa’s Lair
Subtitle: A Chic Sparks-Fish House Gang Novel
Author: Kenneth L. Funderburk
Publisher: Author’s Tranquility Press
Pages: 203
Genre: Fiction / Crime / Thriller
Reviewed by: Jake Bishop
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The Medusa of the title is one bad lady who’s good at pulling the wool over people’s eyes and putting heat between the sheets as she sets her sights on increasing both her prestige and power in decidedly criminal ways. But
Sugar Paper
Title: Sugar Paper
Author: Tootsie Barron
Publisher: Austin Macauley
ISBN: 1645369994
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 226
Reviewed by: Philip Zozzaro
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Kiki Fontana receives a phone call hinting of a raid on the family business. She is alarmed, but knows the tip carries credibility. Her husband and father-in law are rounded up in a raid, but Kiki remains resolute in protecting her small family. Her husband, Bobby, is smart but has become increasingly involved in his family’s business. Kiki is no
Fresh Cheese
Title: Fresh Cheese
Author: Troy Cheese
Publisher: Pageturner, Press and Media
ISBN: 978-1638717607
Genre: Poetry / Religion
Pages: 190
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda
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Fresh Cheese by author Troy Cheese is an intimate, all-encompassing assemblage of poems which cover a myriad of topics in ordinary life based on the author’s true-life events.
The heartfelt poems are unflinchingly honest, raw, and candid, as the author leaves no stone unturned while describing situations in his life
Come, Climb Toward God
Title: Come, Climb Toward God: Are You Hungry for God?
Author: Marianna W. Albritton
Publisher: Brilliant Books Literary
ISBN: 978-1641336963
Pages: 40
Genre: Memoir / Self-Help
Reviewed by: Barbara Bamberger Scott
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Christian writer and teacher Marianna W. Albritton recalls her personal “climb” to greater understanding in this combined manual and memoir.
Come, Climb Toward God: Are You Hungry for God opens with an elaborate metaphor as the author attempts to climb a ladder to reach a beautiful golden apple. She thinks
Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden
Title: Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden
Author: Dr. Wm. Patric Leedom
Publisher: Author Reputation Press LLD
ISBN: 978-1-64961-075-1
Pages: 298
Genre: Romance
Reviewed by: Suzanne Gattis
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The book Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden is a romantic story of love and connection that gives insight into how a relationship move through the ebbs and flows and provides goals of an honest growing relationship. With a series of letters and some comments to add more insight, readers see a relationship become an everlasting
Until Death Do You Part
Title: Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets Their Sicilian Cousins
Author: Wm. Hovey Smith
Publisher: Wm. Hovey Smith
ISBN: 978-1956161267
Pages: 370
Genre: Romantic Comedy / American Literature
Reviewed by: Jack Chambers
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One of the strongest yet most complex groups of people you will inevitably find in life is that of the family unit. Whether it is the family you are born into or the family you make for yourself, family has a way of either being
Stories Beyond Belief
Title: Stories Beyond Belief: The Ultimate Collection
Author: S.R. Sutton
Publisher: PageTurner Press & Media
ISBN: B09V1XLQW2
Pages: 520
Genre: Fantasy
Reviewed by: Jennifer Bailey
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Stories Beyond Belief: The Ultimate Collection is a collection of six short stories ranging from legends of witches, a vampire who travels through time to find a cure to being a vampire, reporters who seek to find answers to a curse, someone impersonating another just to ruin their life, a young woman who has been
The DNR Trilogy: Volume 3: Clinical Justice
Title: The DNR Trilogy: Volume 3: Clinical Justice
Author: Don W. Hill, M.D.
Publisher: Bookwhip Company; 1st edition
ISBN: B096T454MJ
Pages: 492
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Reviewed by: Anthony Avina
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The path to understanding ourselves and the Universe as a whole often begins by turning inwards. To truly understand all things, we must first understand what dwells beneath the surface of our own lives, and that means facing both the light and the darkness which inhabits us all. The
Steamboat Seasons
Title: Steamboat Seasons: The Sequel to Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles A Historical Novel
Author: Kendall D Gott
Publisher: Covenant Books
ISBN: 978-1636300788
Pages: 328
Genre: Literature / Historical Fiction
Reviewed by: Jack Chambers
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One thing which people often fail to realize as wars ravage our world is what happens to us all in the aftermath of that war. So preoccupied with the horrors going on during the war, the hard
One Lifetime is Not Enough
Title: One Lifetime is Not Enough
Author: Rex Nelson
Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
ISBN: 1647538432
Pages: 298
Genre: Inspiration & Spirituality
Reviewed by: Lisa Brown-Gilbert
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Author Rex Nelson Greenwald’s, One Lifetime Is Not Enough, offers readers access to the endearing and ultimately inspirational life’s journey of Timothy Coy. His is a journey replete with spiritual awakening as well as many sage life lessons, especially focused on when it comes
Lt. Williams on the Color Front
Title: Lt. Williams on the Color Front
Author: Christopher C. Bell Jr.
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 978-1681768373
Pages: 196
Genre: Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction
Reviewed by: Tony Espinoza
Hollywood Book Reviews
For many in the world, the fight to end discrimination has become one of the biggest and longest fought battles they will ever tackle. In a world with a long and storied history of violence and rapid discrimination based on
Black, White, and Gray All Over
Title: Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
Author: Frederick Reynolds
Publisher: MindStir Media
ISBN: 1638485216
Pages: 396
Genre: Memoir
Reviewed by: David Allen
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Every once in a great while, a book comes along that truly captures the spirit of the times. Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement is one of those books.
Our society is beset
Escape From Ukraine
Title: Escape From Ukraine: One Man’s Journey to The Black Sea
Author: Ward R. Anderson
Publisher: Inks & Bindings
ISBN: TBA
Pages: TBA
Genre: Historical Fiction / Family Saga / Coming of Age
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda
Hollywood Book Reviews
Escape From Ukraine: One Man’s Journey to The Black Sea is a sweeping historical novel by author Ward R. Anderson. Set against the backdrop of Stalin’s horrifying regime, Nazi occupation of Ukraine, postwar Communism, and Russia’s
The Faithful Dog
Title: The Faithful Dog: A Civil War Story
Author: Terry Lee Caruthers
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN: 978-1-68433-978-5
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 216
Reviewed by: Arthur Thares
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There is just something about a story about a dog which immediately attaches itself to your heart. Even though this book is a work of fiction, it is based on actual events patchworked together by author Terry Lee Caruthers’s dedicated researched and filled in with some imaginative interpretation. After reading this novel, you
Finding Magdalena
Title: Finding Magdalena
Author: Shannon Condon
Publisher: Rowanvale Books Ltd.
ISBN: 978-1912655311
Pages: 370
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Reviewed by: Liz Konkel
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Maggie Curran has lost everything. During her Freshman year, her parents are killed in an accident, leaving her to work through her grief at boarding school, and with the help of her best friend (who may also be in love with her), she makes it through another year. Her new
Dark Nights – First in the Until Dawn Series
Title: Dark Nights – First in the Until Dawn Series
Author: Jordan E. Walker
Publisher: Writer’s Branding
ISBN: 978-1954341159
Pages: 180
Genre: Fantasy
Reviewed By: Susan Brown
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This imaginative fantasy begins in mystery with an enigmatic cloaked figure who magically disappears in a poof of smoke. That is just one of the many mystifying and fanciful events which take place in Dark Nights – First in the Until Dawn Series, the first installment of this storyline by author
The Evolutionary Cosmos
Title: The Evolutionary Cosmos: Outside-In Thinking the Universe
Authors: Richard Westberg and Cal Orey
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-6655-5472-5
Pages: 126
Genre: Science / Cosmology
Reviewed by: Jason Lulos
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A theory of everything? The Legos of the Universe? Speculative works in theoretical physics, such as The Evolutionary Cosmos, sometimes seem to contain elements of mysticism and that is because, in their ruminations about the mysteries of the Universe and the bizarre manifestations of quantum
Becoming The Admiral’s Wife
Title: Becoming The Admiral’s Wife – A Dual Memoir of a Called Pair
Author: Cecily Watson Kelln
Publisher: Proisle Publishing Services, LLC
ISBN: 1737525550
Pages: 420
Genre: Memoir
Reviewed by: Margie Przybylski
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One of the most interesting memoirs I have ever read – Becoming the Admiral’s Wife is the story of Cecily Watson Kelln’s life and her journey in love and marriage to her husband. What is interesting is the
Quoting Matilda
Title: Quoting Matilda: The Words and History of a Forgotten Suffragist
Author: Susan Savion
Publisher: PageTurner Press and Media
ISBN: 9798886221404
Pages: 184
Genre: Women’s Studies History
Reviewed by: Tony Espinoza
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There have been many movements over the years that bring a group of people together in an effort to fight against oppression and for equality. Equality can be a difficult thing to accomplish, as longstanding prejudices and viewpoints which have been embedded into a person’s heart since
Naughty Nata
Title: Naughty Nata
Author: Donna Deal
Publisher: Mainspring Books
ISBN: 978-1641336840
Pages: 52
Genre: Action & Adventure Erotica
Reviewed by: Jack Chambers
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Of the many life lessons we learn at an early age, learning to always speak the truth is often the first and most important rule we are given. For in telling the truth, honesty and open communication help build and improve a relationship, whereas a lie can take hold
E Troubled Destiny
Title: E-Troubled Destiny: Can Love Grow Out of Chaos?
Author: R. Drew Springfield
Publisher: Pageturner Press and Media
ISBN: 979-8886221527
Genre: Romance/ General Fiction
Pages: 320
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda
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E-Troubled Destiny: Can Love Grow Out of Chaos? is an intelligently written book by R. Drew Springfield. The text follows Elaine, an American woman whose life is upended after her marriage crumbles leaving her frustrated and weary. With a rebellious 16-year-old daughter to take care of too, Elaine concludes that