How to Make a Life: A Novel by Florence Reiss Kraut is a beautifully written historical novel that explores family themes and the challenges of emigration. It starts with the migration of Ida and her daughter, Bessie, from Ukraine to America in 1905. They believe...

Copy of Me by Kally Khan is boldly honest as in brave, i.e. a female author having the courage to put a woman’s sexual fantasies into detailed, graphic print, not to titillate readers, but to capture the lonely despair a woman feels when a decade-old...

J. E. Mooney's The Siren of Good Intentions: No Path Leads Where You Think It Will is an adventure novel set in 1978 in Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. American Victor Byrnes has just finished a Peace Corps project along the Senegal River. In Dakar,...

Deep From the Heart by Mary Lou Cheatham is a contemporary Christian novel about a female minister named Ava who finds herself in a new state, Texas, in a new church, Grace and Peace, with new people around who don't exactly give off vibes of...

Harvest Moon by Jenny Knipfer is one of the best books I have read in 2020. In fact, it is probably one of the best historical fiction novels I have ever read. I have come away deep in thought, feeling somewhat like I’ve had a...

The Valley Iris is the first book in A Lost Pharaoh Chronicles Prequel Collection by Lauren Lee Merewether. Tey, daughter of Rai, has envisioned her future for a long time. She imagines herself as a good wife to Woser, son of Theshen and Senisonbe. She...

Crossroads of the Mediterranean is the second novel in The Sicily Chronicles by Dick Rosano. Luca was not expecting his visit to Sicily to change his life forever, but it did. He met Vito, a strange man, and that meeting became the starting point of...

Loose Ends In Yokohama: A story of a man on a mission to make peace with his past is a work of fiction in the slice of life, interpersonal and introspective drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Alex Lund. Taking an authentic exploration of...

I have to admit Middle-Aged Crazy by Lynne M. Spreen was not quite what I expected, but I’m far from disappointed. Looking at the cover, I leaped to the conclusion I would find a collection of stories about people hitting 50, going off the rails,...

In Begotten by Joseph Crew, when American history professor Adam Cantwell is asked to deliver a BMW to Turkey for his friend, he agrees knowing it is the perfect opportunity to escape his complex personal life in the summer of 1994. Adam's marriage to Gaby...