Love & Homegrown Magic by Patricia Bossano is a delightful story of the life of Maggie, born into poverty in the rural backcountry of South America. Dolores and Vincente, Maggie’s parents, were determined their children should receive a good education, and everything in their lives...

The Second Poison is a revenge crime novel by author Pieter Wilhelm. Tony Lynch is a former interrogator with years of experience working for the US Armed Forces. On a routine visit to his family home in Kentucky, Lynch finds out that his father has...

Whispers in the Canyon by Gifford MacShane is an emotionally charged love story. Adam Donovan is deeply rooted in his Irish heritage. He and all of the Donovan clan live by a heartfelt code of conduct. “A man without a family has no one, but...

In the little Bavarian town of Fussen, Karl is an intelligent university student whose life is books, learning, and thinking. Karl is also a closet homosexual. His mother is aware of Karl’s preferences and accepts it. His father does not. Despite Karl and his lover’s...

Lauren Lee Merewether’s Wife of Ay is the second prequel to the Lost Pharaoh Chronicles. Temehu’s mother, Nefertkau, wants to find her a wonderful husband: a person who would put a light in her daughter’s eyes, someone who would answer the question ‘how will you...

Roots, Branches & Buzz Saws: More Stories of August Kibler by TP Graf is an insightful novel about what shapes a life. This story centers on August Kibler, a man who dies. His friend Tyler Ethan Marvel-Jemison is also Kibler's executor and discovers a file...

When I finished reading The Music of Women which author Vincent Panettiere subtitles, “A Stream of Subconsciousness,” I felt as I did after my first rollercoaster ride—“What the hell was that?” Well, first things first—the plot. Charlie Forte is a successful novelist who grows up...

Seeing Ceremony: A Novel With Recipes by Meera Ekkanath Klein is the heartwarming story of Meena, a young Indian girl who rejects the first suitors the Indian matchmaker presents and persuades her mother to allow her to travel. Over in America, Meena resides with her...

The title of Roberta-Leigh Boud’s novel, Jesus the Time Traveller, must, of course, be taken tongue in cheek. We must gear ourselves for something iconoclastic, even comic. What I didn’t expect was something nearing an epic poem. The prose is almost poetry—exquisite writing, hard-hitting imagery,...

Lost Horses by Mark Saha is a collection of stories based upon true-to-life human emotions and characters involved in situations that range from the heartrending tale of a college student suckered into a deal in “Wide River” to the humorous situational misdirection in “Why Men...