I was as intrigued by the disclaimer as the premise for this title. It explains that No Nursery Rhyme by Violet Reigns is an adult tale that some readers might find shocking. As a reader who has been around the block a few times, I...

Nepal One Day at a Time is a nonfiction travel memoir written by Patti Shales Lefkos. She and her husband had always been travelers and adventurers and had explored out-of-the-way places all over the world. Then her husband had critical health issues while they were...

Mine to Carry: An Irish Woman's Passage through Forbidden Pregnancy by Christine Mulvey is a poignant, heartbreaking memoir of one woman’s journey through an unwanted pregnancy against the backdrop of a culture that condemns pregnancy outside wedlock. Twenty-two-year old Christine is full of life with...

In Firebirds by AJ Ryan, one summer in the 1980s, in Oregon, a group of friends decides this is the perfect time to transition from high school girls to women. Angela and her friends constantly discuss their impending entrance into the world of serious relationships...

“A Cruel Calm: Paris Between the Wars” takes readers back on a visit to an era when Paris was the cultural capital of the world, a time when Paris was recovering from the First World War and awaiting the next great war. Libby Whitaker and...

In her book “Messages from Nature,” Patricia Daly-Lipe gives her readers a collection of interesting short stories about many areas of the journey of life. She also includes a really nice tale written by her late father, which to me was a great honor to...

Deflowered Lyric by J.J. Staples is a disturbing novel that speaks about the realities of the society we live in. Sexual abuse is rampant in our society and this story is sketched around three characters, Lyric, Jada and Judith, who all undergo abuse at the...