This engaging novel begins on the twenty-first birthday of Ben Steiner, a Jewish student at Columbia University, in May 1975. Living a comfortable life in Beit Yitzhak, or the “B”, a communal house for Jewish students, seemed boring to Ben. He was ready to find...

I've got some catching up to do. I have just finished Just Saying by Jianna Higgins. This is Melanie’s Story and apparently it is just one novel in a series called The Sorrento Series. I love the names. Just Kidding, Just Wondering, Just Going, and...

First Voyage is an historical fiction novel written by Anthony Palmiotti. The world was still struggling back to its feet as the final death throes of the Great Depression dragged on, and Patrick Welch felt for the tired, older longshoreman whose back was bowed under...

White Slave (A Novel) by Wayne Gilbertson is an action adventure story that would appeal to a diverse audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy action stories that take place in Africa and who do not mind the topic of the sex slave...

Just at the beginning of this book, the reader is presented with a very curious conversation taking place between two seemingly important people and a judge, and one of them asks in a tone more alarmed than composed: “Shit what the hell happened? Dr. Max...

Terrible Love by Lyra Bayer is a story that is dark, sensual, and tragic, a story of an unusual love, featuring characters that readers will easily connect to. This is not a story for the fainthearted and it would be fair warning to say that...

What was it like to live with a mental condition in the early years of the 1900s? The Fading of Lloyd by Kit Crumpton captures a family’s story as they struggle to cope with the mental retardation of one of theirs amidst social changes affecting...

Capture Tomorrow (Volume 2) by Ann Heathman is a suspense romance novel in the Tomorrow series. This is a book and series that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy romance mixed with danger. Arianna Garrett and...

To the Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman is a story that espouses the human spirit and the values of community; a story with a beautiful setting and characters that will make readers think about what they are doing for their community; a story that...

A small town weekly paper becomes the central hub in an appalling scandal in The Journalist by Leslie Weatherill. Zoey has just graduated from Berkeley and is looking for a job as a journalist. The only reply to her resume is from a small town...