Africa: An Artist's SafariReviewed by Yuka Mizushima

I love watching Animal Planet, especially when they feature wild jungle cats. Imagine getting the opportunity to see them in real life! Fred Krakowiak had always dreamed of going on a safari and had been attending safari conventions for a number of years. He recently realized that due to the increasing number of endangered species, now is the time to go.

"Africa: An Artist’s Safari" shares his personal experiences and artwork.

Reviewed by Bob Pike

Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

Kate Conner is the busiest mom in town. She has to balance the wife and mother ‘thing’ with returning to the world of the working mother. Think ‘Buffy’ all grown up and living in suburbia where she’s saving her town by ‘knocking off’ one demon at a time. The problem is her family doesn’t know she’s the demon killer ‘queen.’ Until now.

Reviewed by Maria Elmvang

"How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls" is Chick Lit with a capital C and capital L which makes it one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a very long time.

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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

Jane Lawless is celebrating the New Year with close friends and family when she learns her father has been tapped to run for Governor of Minnesota. His campaign explodes and he appears to be on the fast track to the Governor’s mansion when a reporter surfaces with an old murder that might take down his bid for office, cost his son his life, and send the men working for him to prison.

Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

Reading Sloane Crosley’s essays titled "I Was Told There’d Be Cake" disrupted my family on more than one evening. After continually disturbing my husband by laughing out loud and for long periods of time, he asked me to read in my office. When I finished the book, he picked it up and now I’ve requested that he read it elsewhere as his guffaws are disturbing my peace and quiet.

Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

Tom Bailey’s novel "Cotton Song" is set in Hushpuckashaw County, Mississippi. It’s a raw and visceral view of the relationships between blacks and whites in the south during World War II. Readers are invited into the story just after Letitia Johnson, a black nanny, is lynched, tarred and burned for drowning Dorothy, the infant daughter of her employer, Sissy. The accused had raised Sissy from birth.

Reviewed by Andrea Sisco

It’s the 1970s in small town Riggold, Georgia. There’s not much in Riggold, a thousand plus citizens, one traffic light, one Dollar General Store, one losing football team, one diner, one Baptist church, and one Dairy Queen, thankfully.

Reviewed by Rachael Dimond

"No One Heard Her Scream" is the debut book by new author Jordan Dane. A young girl named Danielle Montgomery was abducted and presumed dead after the police were unable to find her body. Now five months later, her older sister, Detective Rebecca Montgomery is dealing with the aftermath and emotions of coming to terms with Danielle’s murder.