Sun Kissed by Diaris Marie Jones is a powerful, exquisitely written historical novel of two families in post-Civil War New Orleans. Great literature reveals the unrevealed, and Ms. Jones’ astounding account opens our eyes to the unique race culture in its rising disrepair. The rules...

Stepping Up is a work of fiction in the family drama genre and is the third installment in the Sisters in a Small Town series. It is suitable for all ages and was penned by Holly Kerr. The book continues the saga of the Skatt...

Stay Calm: This is War by A.J. Lecours is a “fictional” deep dive into the mind and psyche of a “grunt” soldier serving in Afghanistan. The reader is taken through the travails, excitement, terror, and crushing boredom that entails the daily life of an ordinary...

Summer of Love and Evil by Michael Kinnamon is set in small-town Iowa in 1967. Charles Weaver has just graduated from high school as the valedictorian and he’s working for the summer on his hometown street crew before starting college. He works with several memorable...

In August 1997, Hayley Larson, a 16-year-old teen who usually followed her parents’ rules, decided it was time to break a few. She went with her friends to a lakefront mansion where alcohol, drugs, and sex were plentiful. The wealthy parents were out of town,...

Sacred Fool by Nathan Dean Talamantez is a letter of love, recognition, and unwavering reverence to Alejandro Jodorowsky. After reading, I am quite smitten with both Jodorowsky and Talamantez. Sacred Fool leaves no stone unturned while diving into sophisticated depths and meanings hidden within his...

Patricia Leavy’s Shooting Stars centers around the love story of Tess and Jack. Tess Lee is a famous novelist who has won a slew of awards and has donated millions to public libraries and raised tens of millions more. One fateful night, she meets a...

Solidarity by Andre Wallace is a dramatic work of fiction about friendship and love that touches the heart, mind, and soul. The plot centers on five friends, beginning in 1967, when conflict, change, and fighting for rights are the norm. The setting is a rural...

Ed Protzel's Something in Madness is set in post-Civil War Turkle, Mississippi. Durksen Hurst, a white former Union Army captain of a black unit, returns home to Mississippi with Antoinette, Big Josh, Long Lou, and a boy named Caleb, only to find that blacks are...

Singing Grass by Ian M. Evans interweaves New Mexico’s complex history with a thought-provoking case between a clinical psychologist struggling with a difficult, crushing past and a man whose story possesses a troubling likeness to American frontiersman Kit Carson. When Dr. Richard Young accepts the...