Call My Name by Jenni Ogden is an impressive and complex novel, especially concerning friendship, motherhood, and grief. It follows Olivia Newman, an orphaned girl who is raised by her mother's best friend, Cathie Tulloch, and her husband. Now aged 22 and a newly graduated...

Bag O’ Goodies by Jolly Walker Bittick is a set of poems and short stories including characters from the U.S Navy and biker gangs. Predominant themes in the book include alcoholism, friendship, and romantic encounters and relationships. All the poems and short stories seem connected....

The Soul Sector: Valcara Incorporated by Michael Karolewski takes you on a paranormal journey you won't forget. To Rose Ryder, the afterlife was just something people talked about. It didn’t exist and she didn’t believe in it. Until she finds herself in Valcara - the...

In L.A. Dreams, A.M. Morrell describes how Cory dreamed of being in a famous band with his best friend Eddy, living it up in Los Angeles, but he was stuck in a dismal life back in Texas. When Eddy passes away unexpectedly, Cory blames himself...

A Cage for the Wind by Dave Matthes is the story of an unstable aspiring writer trapped by the demons of his mind. Through a mesmerizing blend of prose and poetic verses, the book follows the life of Jerry, a self-confessed liar prone to delusions...

In quickly trying to get her adoptive parents' house ready to sell after their deaths, Karen Johnson runs across an old trunk in the attic of the house. The trunk is full of old family historical memories Karen is eager to check out, and in...

Finding Grace: A Novel by Maren Cooper is an emotional story of a broken family. Charles “Charlie” Booker grew up in foster homes, and when he met Caroline Tate in college, he felt he finally had a home. Before they knew it, the couple fell...

Monty’s Coming of Age: The Grand European Tour (The Saga of Monty) by Eustace Hope Langmore is a somewhat farcical look at what was known as the Grand European Tour during the Victorian era of Great Britain. Montague Finch-Morton (Monty) was born into privilege and...

Lorraine Haas writes about the struggles Margaret “Maggie” Rose Locke faces during World War II in her novel The Scent Of Gardenias: A Strong Woman Overcoming Circumstances Novel. Maggie wants to leave behind her childhood home and oppressive father. One afternoon, Maggie’s younger brother James...

We meet a seventy-eight-year-old woman named Edna O’Hare in Shadows by Peter J. Manos. Her husband, James Hashimoto, died almost a year ago. He was born in Hiroshima and was only two years old when the bomb went off. Edna has nightmares about nuclear war,...