If you decide to read All the Ways You Can Face the Sky by Farlo Ben Truman -- and you should -- prepare yourself for a very different journey into literary fiction. Truman’s approach might initially confuse you: it will take a while to figure...

A Different Kind of Lovely: A Novel by Petra March is a story that begins with an intriguing line: “Mina Automne danced through the pain until she managed to turn it into pleasure.” And that is an awesome way of introducing a ballerina, a woman...

All the Lies We Live is the third book in the Normal Family Trilogy by Don Trowden, a captivating story with a cunning plot and engaging characters, set on an island in New England. Henry’s family has suffered many tragedies and this time, as he...

Louise is a geologist, and she is the only living person on Mars. The other colonists are dead, struck down by a strange virus. After two months of Louise maintaining the station by herself, a rocket arrives, carrying six men in cryogenic tanks. She has...

I was pleasantly surprised by Abbey's Search for Sanctuary by Eris Field. I had a feeling that I wouldn't like it. I don't know why. Maybe the couple on the cover just looked too perfect. It irritates me when characters in novels are too good...

Kerril hates Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the presents. There is very little about the season that Kerril finds pleasing. After her father left them (at Christmas), Kerril and her mother made a pact to disregard anything associated with Christmas. So, when Kerril is steamrolled...

Alternate Endings by N.E. Lasater is a fiction novel set around an average woman’s life. The beauty of Alternate Endings lies in the fact that, although it is the story of an ordinary woman set in contemporary times, it is at the same time the...

In A Teaspoon of Trouble: The Bachelor Bake-Off Book 1, we meet Carolyn Henderson, a talented NYC chef who has just lost her sister and brother-in-law and is now tasked with raising her adorable little niece, Emma. So back to Montana the girls go,...

The death of their sister hit them hard. She had been missing for a short time, but when her husband was taken into police custody it had sealed her fate. There were rumours that Diego Sanchez had been consorting with narco-criminals, laundering money, and sheltering...

While listed as fiction due to the incorporation of a story line involving fictional characters, Alika: Odyssey of a Navy Dolphin by Donald E. Auten reads more like a non-fiction account of animal training and the use of marine mammals in war-time maneuvers. Beginning with...