Authors: Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-10356-5:  ISBN-10: 0-545-10356-8

A truly wonderful book which will inspire and help you learn more about our planet. The authors have also included a rather helpful back page which gives us some handy tips on how to save energy and look after Earth.

Author: Mark Richards
Photographer: Roger Clegg
Publisher: Cicerone
ISBN: 978-1-85284-558-2

The photographs are timeless and remind us all of our roots to nature. Who wouldn’t love this book?! 

Authors: Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 978-0-439-90887-0

 I loved this and couldn’t put it down.  I even finished it in less then three hours….is that a new record?

Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 0-446-67934-8

The Best of In The Bleachers: A Classic Collection Of Mental Errors is a classic collection of sports cartoons complete with funny captions and jokes all composed by TV and feature animator Steve Moore.

Author: R. L. Geerdes
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1202-0

An enchanting tale.

Author: Charrie Hazard
Publisher: Spoonbill Cove Press
ISBN: 978-0-9815410-2-0

A clever, gripping and almost memoir-like novel which will keep you talking about it for years to come

Author: Gail Graham
Publisher: Jade Phoenix Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-692-00100-4

Sea Changes is a very poignant, moving novel about love, loss and life. Anyone can pick this up and enjoy it but do have those tissues on hand!

Author: Ronnie Lee
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3581-4

Mr Lee’s hypnotic way of thinking pulls you in with every page you turn and fills you in with more knowledge you ever thought existed

Author: Zoey Dean
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0446697194

  A bright, breezy novel to read on a warm summer’s day to help pass a couple of hours

Author: Mary Richardson
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9799666-8-2

Mary Richardson's Truckers  highlights the life truckers lead

Publisher: Armored Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9823141-1-1

This book is great if you love anything strange or perhaps even if you’ve been lucky enough to read some of Sharkchild’s other stories. When will the next volume be out? Fans will have to wait and see!

Author: Darryll Sherman
Publisher: Dog Ear publishing
ISBN:978-159858-690-9

Do you remember eating space dust and chasing your mates with stick guns? These were the times of the 70s and compared to today they seem so dated.

Author: George Franklin Feldman
Publisher: Alan C. Hood & Co Inc
ISBN: 978-0-911469-33-2

Headhunting cannibalism and human sacrifice was not uncommon hundreds of years ago and even in some parts of the world today it is still practiced.

Author: Colin Harvey
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-66-6

A very unusual, scary and at the same time un-put-down-able book to delight fans of the paranormal and the grizzly!

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Publisher: Little Brown

ISBN: 978-0-316-16020-9

The exceptionally talented Stephenie Meyer provides us with  another book in this series of vampire romance.

Author: Bill Fallover
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-256-7 (UK AMAZON)

It is clear Bill Fallover loves all things Zimmer - he has even made a Zimmer frame into a mini work shop! You may be thinking what the hell am I on about but if you just open the first page of this humorous book you will understand perfectly.

Author: Carl David

Publisher: Nightengale Press

ISBN: 978-1-933449-66-1

This memoir begins with a phone call and the words “it’s all over.” Carl’s world came crashing down early that morning and he feared for his mother - could she ever get over what had happened?

Author: Philip Glenister
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-266-6

Author: Emilio Gil
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9817805-6-6

Another brilliant Mark Batty title which celebrates the cultural scene of Spanish design.

Author: Alberto Ferreras
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-446-69789-7             

My first thought was: what an odd book. What are these lessons we are supposedly meant to learn? The author clearly wants to teach us something but what?

Author: Andy Andrews
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 978-0-7852-2921-6

 Twenty-something Andy Andrews is homeless and living underneath the Gulf State Park Pier. He is at a loss as to what his life means and how he arrived here.

Author: Michelle de Kretser
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-00183-0

This is a romance novel you may have difficulty connecting to, however, this is only one person's opinion.

Author: Kris Saknussemm
Publisher: Overlook Press
ISBN: 978-1-59020-176-3

Prepare to go where your wildest imagination wouldn’t. This is the world author Kris Saknussemm has taken us to - a place shrouded in shadow but alive with evil.

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-06822-2

 

This little book, This Is Water contains important thoughts that the late David Foster Wallace learnt about life. It was first given as a commencement address and widely discussed before the author’s death. D F Wallace says the ordinary things that we talk about - those day- to- day things in many cases have a life or death importance.

Author: Paul Hutchins
Publisher: Imagination Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9817123-3-8

 Have you ever considered our planet to be like a spec of dust? Apparently, this is what Earth looks like if you try and imagine space and the cosmos in clearer perspective. It is so small, Hutchins explains, that Earth looks so insignificant among the vast realms of space.

Author: Susan Marcus and Susie Monday
Publisher: Foundry media
ISBN: 978-0-615-19060-0

Who says creative thinking is child’s play?

Author: Tom Gauthier
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1234-1
 

In 1996 a young Benjamin Wade set out on a voyage in a tiny sea kayak. His dream was to travel across the seas for 6,000 miles and discover what really lay deep inside his very soul.

Author: James Beverly
Publisher: Nightengale Press
ISBN: 978-1-933449-76-0

 This delightful children’s book by James Beverly is the perfect “tail” to read. It has been awarded and is said to enlighten readers about the values our pets bring into life.

Author: Richard Phillips
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9815462-6-1

Perry Symons first heard the voice of the Lord as his knife sliced through the flesh of Vanessa. There was plenty of blood of course which bubbled out across his arms hot and slick making holding the body difficult.

This is the start of this novel which promises to uncover the shocking discovery of an alien ship. Do aliens even exist? The answer perhaps lies beneath the surface.

Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Back Bay Books (Little Brown)
ISBN: 0-316-95511-6

This novel was not well received when first published in 1948 and a few years ago a new publisher reincarnated it. It has now become a classic of the Bronx and Herbie Bookbinder and is now a legend.

Author: Martha A. Taylor
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3471-8

An enjoyable and unforgettable tale of love, partnerships and society.

Authors: Nicey and Wifey
Publisher: Time Warner
ISBN-13: 978-0751537659

 
England in particular is perhaps most renowned for its love of tea and biscuits. If it wasn’t for us Brits then all the tea and biscuit makers would probably be out of business. So it seems fitting that there is a book which finally gives our tea-drinking, biscuit crunching British culture its due.

Author: James Alexander Protzman
Publisher: Kitsune Books
ISBN: 978-0-979200-7-9

Protzman’s writing is original and satirical although quite thoughtful. He encapsulates the essence of life perfectly in his writing. 

Author: David Artuso
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-54-3

If you enjoy your fantasy reads then this is perhaps another book to add to your collection.

Author: Sandee Sgarlata
Publisher: AC Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9800824-2-5

 Author Sandee Sgarlata experienced her own share of problems when she herself started High School. Trouble seemed to follow her and for most of her time she felt lost, alone and afraid.  She hopes that by writing The Day After Tomorrow she can show others a simpler more fulfilling way to live through the eyes of Julia Monroe.

Author: Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis
Publisher: Oak Tree Press
ISBN: 978-1-892343-54-3

McGinnis has decided to write The Addiction Monster and the Square Cat for ages 10 upwards to help educate our young generation to just say no to drugs and to “be smart, don’t start”.

Author: Michael R. Brown
Publisher: Petrarca Press
ISBN: 978-0-9820402-0-1

 An autobiography written with much poetic flare and a good helping of emotion.

Author: Janson Manchesk
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
ISBN: 978-1-934454-28-2

The Chemist (A Cale Van Waring Adventure) is a thrilling, chilling and mystifying whodunit, which you will not be able to put down.

Author: Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-4392-0901-1

Drugs turn sane into insane, rational into irrational, nice into nasty and love into pain. They tear families apart, ruin once good friendships and most of all leave ripples that reach out and affect everyone.

Author: Cheryl Saban
Publisher: Hay House
ISBN: 978-1-4019-2395-2

What is your self-worth? Find out with psychologist Cheryl Saban’s new book.

Author: Kris King

Publisher: BridgewayBooks

ISBN: 978-1-934454-31-2

Author Kris King advises us there are five different ways to view this book, ensuring you’ll find a way that suits you. I chose to go with the third option - this meant opening the book at any page and seeing what you could “find for yourself in the moment.” This way is called synchronicity and worked well for me.

Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Back Bay Books (Little Brown)
ISBN: 0-316-92528-4

 A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again  is a book of essays authored by the late David Foster Wallace who also authored Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System.  Detailed inside are essays ranging from David Lynch to tennis players and human completeness.

Author: Bruce Cooke
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-44-4

Be warned: not a book for the easily disturbed but a fairly good tale if you can take it.

Author: Dawn Beaumont-Lane
Publisher: RealTime Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-906806-56-9

Fairy Glade and Other Enchanting Tales is a book to delight children of all ages. It is one of those books which never really gets “old” and can even be enjoyed by an adult.

Author: Rick D. Niece
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9815462-0-9

As I finished reading this novel, in under a day, no less, I had a tear in my eye. This is truly a wonderful book describing what childhood was like as a boy back in carefree times with sunny afternoons and penny sweets and a friendship that in the end, were never broken. 

Author: Rebeca Seitz
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-0-8054-4691-3

This story is based on the author’s own experiences about the other woman in a relationship and she could do this to another woman. The novel is a manual of how to cope, understand , forgive and move on in relationships. It is about how book clubs, knitting clubs etc can unite women through common hobbies to find emotional support.

Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Center Street
ISBN: 978-1-59995-195-9

A really enjoyable novel that will grab your attention from the first page and not let you go till the very last.

Author: Walter Krumm
Publisher: Bridgeway Books
ISBN: 978-1-934454-22-0

 My first thought as I read this book was what a brilliant idea for a story. Cameron has been having an affair with a woman named Emily who he met on the internet. She has brought excitement back into his life and what’s more she fulfils his deepest, darkest fantasies; stuff he wouldn’t tell his wife.

Author: Alex Gray
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 978-1-84744-025-9

Being a river man is no pleasant task. Occasionally river men find that the river conceals not only rubbish and man’s unwanted junk but more sinister things. Pulling dead bodies from the watery depth is far more obnoxious then just dredging for rubbish.

Author: Jeffrey D. Schlaman Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9815462-5-4

 If you are after a book that handles the current economic crisis, look no further. Subprime Factor has everything on this subject that you will possibly need plus a conspiracy or two.

Author: Larry C. James. Ph.D
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-446-50928-2

This is a book authored by someone who has actually been in Guantanamo Bay and this account reveals all the things that transpired.

Author: Larion Wills
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
ISBN: 978-1-934041-30-7

A perfect gift for those of you who know someone who has a leaning towards the darker side of life and the spirit realm. Wonderfully entrancing.

Author: Josh Bazell
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-03222-3

Beat the Reaper is a novel laced with dark humour and suspense. An absolute must if you are looking for a fresh new voice in the comic-suspense genre and once you start it, you won’t put this one down.

Author: Dr. Frank L. Johnson
ISBN: 9781419691973
Publisher: BookSurge

Poetic Words of Inspiration

Author: Lady Annabel Goldsmith
Publisher: Sphere (an imprint of Little Brown)
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3820-5

 
Copper - a wonderful tale about a mongrel recounting his adventures that took him all over the place.

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: Guideposts
ISBN: 978-0-8249-4771-2

A novel about inner strength and what a “happy ending” really means.

Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publisher: FaithWords, Hachette Group
ISBN: 978-0-446-58210-0

Christmas was going to be no different for Nora. She and the twins were going to dress the tree even though she so much missed their father Gordon. He had been held up in Germany because of the weather conditions. It would probably be the last Christmas the twins would be at home…and still Gordon didn’t ring.

Author: Ronnie Ka Ching Lee
Publisher: OutskirtsPress
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1148-1

Ronnie Ka Ching Lee is back with his latest volume of philosophical poetry. Lee studies economics and business, a book that all students of philosophy have been waiting for to add to their collection. It is also a tome for anyone interested in deep thinking and how we ourselves can improve our own lives and the lives of others.

Author: Tamara Pray Frazier
Publisher: Julian' s Legacy Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-615-22488-6

A remarkable recovery!  After a weekend at home a miracle occurred. You will have to read the book to discover what it was and how it happened and when.

Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
Foreword by Michael Leon
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9799666-9-9

The front cover of this book featuring skateboard graphics is simple and sophisticated and the pages within are simply amazing.

Author: Norman Adams
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 978184502208-2

Blood & Granite is a chilling book packed with the most grizzly and notorious homicides to have been committed in Aberdeen over the last hundred years. Even if you weren’t alive during those horrific times this book will certainly show you what it was like.

Author: Linda Rader Overman
Publisher: Plain View Press
ISBN: 978-1-891386-62-6

This story is touching, tender and compelling. It is quite an involved poignant story of growing up in the sex, drugs and rock and roll era of the sixties.

Authors: Aviva Yael and P.M. Chen

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

ISBN-10: 0446582077: ISBN-13: 978-0446582070

For anyone who has ever considered getting a tattoo or even for those of you who have them, this is the book for you.

Chronicled inside are the most insane, ridiculous and shocking tattoos to have been inked onto the skin of the anonymous, the insane and the down-right stupid.

Author: David Sedaris

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

ISBN-10: 0316035904: ISBN-13: 978-0316035903

David Sedaris has now expanded and updated Holidays on Ice - his original book which was published back in 1997.

This will appeal to those of you who have read his first book and I can safely guarantee there will be a few stories in this new addition that you will love!

Author: Laurie Dean
Illustrated by Kevin Collier
Publisher: Big Tent Books
ISBN: 978-1-60131-035-4

 If you have a child who has a dog or loves dogs then this delightful little story- book would be the perfect present to give them. It is aimed at children aged 3-9 years but could cater for “kids and dogs of all ages”.

Author: Dandi Daley Mackall

Illustrator: Deborah Chabrian

Publisher: Zonderkidz (Zondervan)

ISBN-10: 0310713285:  ISBN-13: 978-0310713289

Jack is making his journey home on Christmas Eve when he hears the cry of a train whistle and is reminded his Dad will not be able to make it home in time for Christmas. Yet, as soon as Jack arrives home he can smell cookies…does this mean good news?

Author: Philip Carlo
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 978-0-06-142984-2

Author: Jen Blackert

ISBN: 978-1434811721

Seven Dragons is a self-help book aimed at giving you a “limitless mind” through a series of self-coaching questions and tools.

Author: Gwendolyn Zepeda

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

ISBN-10: 0446698520: ISBN-13: 978-0446698528

However, if you are looking for something a little deeper and more impressionable then maybe this isn’t the right choice for you. While the story is very enjoyable, I do fear there just isn’t the right ingredient for the more well-read bookworms out there.

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Illustrator: Daniel Brown

Publisher: Zonderkidz

ISBN-13: 978-0310712121

 A fun book to read with its rhyming verses and an underlying light-hearted theme.

Author: Lauraine Snelling

ISBN: 978-0-446-58208-7

Publisher: Faith Words (Hachette Book Group)

If you love horses, dogs and enjoy a happy ending then this story is one for you. It has a huge feel good factor about love, loss and second chances in life.

Author: Michael Shilling

Book title: Rock Bottom

Publisher: Back Bay Books

ISBN: 978-0-316-03192-9

Rock Bottom is the a tale of a disgraced rock group called Blood Orphans who were once the next big thing and then one day found themselves at, yep, rock bottom.

Author: Joseph Niezgoda

ISBN: 978-0942257458

Publisher: New Chapter Press 

On a bus ride home from school eight year old Joseph Niezgoda first learnt about The Beatles. They were going to be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and Joseph was determined to watch it. Niezgoda, who was an instant a fan, writes fondly of his love for the band. It seemed that the fresh-faced boys from Liverpool had not only built up a huge fan base in Britain but also in America.

Author: M. Ann Jacoby

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-446-19971-1

This book is poignant, sharply written and with a brilliant ending. It is an incredible first novel and I can't wait for M. Ann Jacoby next novel.

Author: Linda Wagner

Illustrated by: Pearl L. Ollie

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-4327-3233-2

Linda Wagner works as a nurse and has been inspired by her grandchildren to write books, especially those that focus on the wonders of nature.

Publisher:  Mark Batty Publisher

ISBN: 978-0-979554674

Reviewer Jessica Roberts Interviews Nathan Anderson, photographer for Decay

Author: Glen E. Page M.D.

Publisher: Synergy Books

ISBN: 978-1-933538-96-9

Glen E. Page is a physician and surgeon who found it very difficult getting to sleep. As a result and as he had more time alone with his thoughts, he was motivated to write The Last Plague. Page lives in southern Idaho with his wife Jane and nine children and he is currently working on his next book in the series.

Author: Kate McLaughlin

Publisher: Behler Publications

ISBN: 978-1-933016-49-8

If there is one woman who knows all about Bipolar Disorder then it should be Kate McLaughlin, mother of two children who suffer from this medical condition. She is the author of the touching book Mommy I’m Still Here.

Author: Reg McKay

Publisher: Black and White publishing

ISBN: 978-1-84502-145-0

This book features page after page of murder accounts written by author Reg McKay so if you like your novels grizzly this is the one for you.

Scotland has been home to a number of murderers, including the world’s first serial killer, Peter Manuel, who was hanged for the murder of seven people.

Author: Toby Smith

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4196-9665-7

From childhood Carrie has suffered terrifying nightmares and particularly remembers one of her most vivid ones at a time when she was just seven years old.

After seeing the deteriorating carcass of a small lamb while out on a visit to a friend, Carrie was plagued by a dream in which a connection was made between the dead lamb, a human skeleton and her very own closet.

Author: Susanna Barlow

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 978-0-595-40777-4

Susanna Barlow was born into a family who believed in the religious sect “Work”. There were two other sects called “Gentile” and “Apostate”.

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Author: Ronnie Lee

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-4327-2542-6                        

There may be many people who have been anxiously waiting for this new book of Ronnie Lee’s to be published. His previous works may have indeed been helpful to them immensely with Ronnie’s great knowledge and zest for the meaning of life.

Authors: Nathan Troi Anderson & J.K. Putnam

Publisher:  Mark Batty Publisher

ISBN: 978-0-979554674

What does beauty mean to you? It may be as delicate as a newly sprung flower or as stubble as a puddle of rain dew.

Author: Jim Hewitson

Publisher: Black and White publishing

ISBN: 1-902927-84-2

Jim Hewiston’s Scottish Miscellany is full of anything and everything a Scotsman (or woman!) or indeed anyone else needs to know. From off-the-wall observations to the most unusual tales of the highlands, this is laugh-out-loud funny and absurdly interesting.

Author John Adam

Illustrator Barbara L. Gibson

Publisher: Feather Rock Books

ISBN 13: 978-1-934066-12-6

Author John Adams decided to write The Dragonfly Door after he learned about the Dragonfly project, a non-profit organization started by an 11-year-old. His book gained much praise and a group actually performed The Dragonfly Door as a play.

Author:  Francis T. Perry Williams

ISBN: 978-1-934454-00-8

Publisher: Bridgeway Books

 

Chapter one begins by saying “sparkling lakes and streams, a small but very regal looking waterfall, and gorgeous green vegetation made up the Edenic landscape. The air smelled clean, and you could almost taste the freshness of it. Life here was always in perfect harmony, as the higher powers that be intended.”

Author:  Joseph N. Chappelle

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-4327-2584-6

Author Joseph N. Chappelle is a retired social worker who plays cello for the Albany Area Senior Orchestra. He has served the Peace Corps in Namibia and with Habitat for Humanity as an International Partner in Malawi.

Author: Cheryl Peck

Publisher: 5 Spot

ISBN: 0-446-69229-8

This hilarious book has been compared to the writing of Erma Bombeck and written in a series of mini-essays by a woman who clearly feels confident, has a good sense of humour and “does not grow tomatoes and rarely sits in lawn chairs”.