In "Back to Blood", Tom Wolfe tells a complex tale of modern Miami with all of its racial, social, and cultural conflicts. The story focuses on the lives of two young Cubans struggling to rise above the constraints of their circumstances. They start out as...

The year is 1999 and the place is Egdon, New York, a rural town northwest of New York City. "The Rules of Dreaming" unravels in Palmer Institute, a private psychiatric hospital located around fifty miles north of Egdon. This is a place for the criminally...

Janna McMahan has penned a novel that should disturb us all. She reminds us that there are homeless and hungry teenagers that need our help. Her latest book “Anonymity” introduces readers to Lorelei. Lorelei left Portland over a year ago making her way across the...

"The Absent Woman" is the story of a woman's journey to find herself. Virginia Johnstone seems to have it all: a beautiful family, a job and a comfortable life in Seattle. She is, however, bored with her life and the urge to give it a...

From the cop John Ryan to the Dame Carol Cortland, from the Ballroom Dancer to the Tour Guide, Alexander Flint has a story that will surely interest you in his book "Tales from the Sea." These are stories from his experiences on several cruises aboard...

It is the 1970's and Jimmy Carter is President of the United States. Beautiful and brilliant Jill McGill works as an executive for a major oil company. Some years before, Jill had met Iranian Bijan Azad who was educated in the United States but lives...

Author Joao Cequeira has created an interesting but fictional book looking back at Fidel Castro, the longtime revolutionary leader of Cuba. Cequeria begins by telling the reader that his God, Jesus Christ, JFK, J.Edgar Hoover and even Fidel himself are purely fictional creations. Then "The...

Amber works in social services. She loves the results of the work she does, but does not always like the circumstances leading up to those results. Her workplace is Florida. Her office is the Department of Children and Families. Amber spends much of her waking...

Love Is As Strong As Death by Ci'Monique Green is one of those stories that seems to transcend its genre some and just ends up as a book that grips you. Ci'Monique introduces us to Sarai Jenkins, a born again virgin who has guarded her...

There are books written that draw the reader in to read each and every word, and "Born in Rio" is one of those! It is 2007 and Rita Ray is a New York executive who lives and breathes her job. Then she receives a phone...