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Forget Me Not: A Caregiver’s Guide to Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease by Torri L. Fisher is full of invaluable information, both practical and personal, to assist people who are new to caring for loved ones suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Heartfelt and filled with warm touches, Fisher addresses her audience directly, which creates a comfortable trust between her and her readers. Sometimes the casual nature of the narrative can result in difficulties for readers, as some of the scientific recommendations can appear incomplete. However, most of the book provides necessary advice that can prove indispensable to caregivers. An informative and accessible guide, […]

Lighthearted and adventurous, Jeremy Campbell’s Between the Causeways is a tale that will delight every animal lover. When a dog abandons her pup in the woods along a country road, three concerned strangers meet as if by serendipity and exact a plan of rescue, soon unearthing a special bond and new purpose in their lives. Though the novel is subject to some uneven pacing, this is a charming tale about the essential importance of human connection and our animal companions. A uniquely inspiring story, the novel is propelled forward by Campbell’s emotive prose about these lively characters’ inner lives, illuminating […]

Tamar by Sheldon Greene – full subtitle, A Historical Coming of Age Novel of a Jewish Native American Woman in Post-Civil War California – depicts the tumultuous journey of a Jewish/American Indian community who find themselves dispossessed of their ancestral land. The story intimately follows the leader of the community, Tamar, as she navigates such unprecedented events: the building of a railroad, settlers, war, and the relocation of her people to an industrialized world. An inspiring, visceral novel, Tamar will leave you breathless with its wholly unique perspective on this period of history. The dichotomy Greene creates between artificial America […]

A biblically-based look at the religious significance of current events, The Mystery of Iniquity: Last Days Convergence by D.F. Hodge gives the reader insights into why the times we live in are potentially a signal of the return of Christ and the new Kingdom of God. Interestingly, Hodge calls out systemic racism, police brutality, and the subjugation of women as endemic of these turbulent times, which may not always be the case for books with this focus. Hodge’s book also covers the purpose of God, the purpose of evil, and the significance of the signs that surround us. A decidedly […]

Cascadia, the domed Edenic last city left on a ravaged Earth, is the setting for Jonathan Sobe’s mind-bending work of science fiction, Mannequin. The quest for immortality relies on life extension technology produced by the Continuum Corporation, whose CEO Cesare Osvaldo hires troubled private investigator Jessa Bennet to find the missing person who threatens to destroy it all. Moving in and out of projected realities and back and forth across time, Mannequin tackles big questions of truth, reality, good and evil, God and science through a series of dramatic twists in Jessa’s battle to save humanity, for a uniquely […]

A stellar cozy mystery, replete with infidelity, a Halloween setting, an empathetic protagonist, and two well-drawn detectives, Bonnie Traymore’s Killer Motives is a superb first installment of the Hudson Valley Mystery series. There’s a tragic death in Hudson Valley, which brings married couple Victoria and Nick’s life to a standstill, as the victim is Nick’s lover. Could they be the next victims, or is Nick darker than Victoria ever imagined? With spot-on realistic criminal procedures, and the historically detailed setting of the Sleepy Hollow area giving the story a brooding feel, Killer Motives offers a thrilling escape, even with the […]

Kimberly Sullivan’s compelling literary work, In The Shadow of The Apennines, is an emotional journey following an American woman as she escapes to the mountains of Italy, fleeing the memory of a failed marriage, only to find that a getaway can be just as isolating. When she finds the journal of a local woman from a century ago, her world starts to transform, as she finds she is connected to the woman in ways she couldn’t have imagined. While readers may have to suspend disbelief for our heroine’s abrupt mastery of the Italian language, Sullivan’s novel is romantic in the […]

An epic western replete with historical detail, A Distant Ridge: A Novel of the Northern Plains in the 1870s by James McDonough takes the reader back to the post-Civil War United States when the country was expanding and exploding at once. Following Jake Rogers and the 7th Cavalry, McDonough shows how the American Indian was forced into submission while the United States prospered from the resources and land it acquired, offering an accurate depiction of just how the US was able to grow into the country it would become. With a long list of well-crafted characters, including sensitive portraits of […]