Better Off Here is a collection of dystopian short stories by Melissa R. Mendelson. The book begins with the story "In Jellyfish, We Trust," where a young student must pay a hefty price to stay alive. A person fights to live out their numbered days...

Addiction is a terrible beast that was all-consuming during Georgette’s childhood. Dianne C. Braley’s The Silence in the Sound features Georgette’s point of view of growing up in a home with an alcoholic father, sharing her memories of Martha’s Vineyard. Later estranged from her family...

The Damned of Magdeburg by H. Allenger is a historical fiction novel that chronicles the lead-up to the 17th-century Sack of Magdeburg, one of the most notorious massacres in world history. Allenger explores the human elements of a period that we don't really know much...

Charting a Marriage is a must-read for couples and any other reader with the urge for something refreshing. The central figures of Joanna Kadish’s book, Shelli and Stefan Matson, are a smart, attractive, and educated Jewish couple who reside in suburban New Jersey. After starting...

Silhouettes of Time is a collection of short stories by Dr. Maya Mitra Das with a foreword by Janice De Jesus. There are eleven stories, though the longest is divided into five parts. Most of the stories hearken to Dr. Das’s homeland and include reminiscences...

As a beautiful black woman, attracting male suitors is not a problem for Edwina Jennings. Unfortunately, she doesn't find any of them appealing enough, even though she wishes to have a child. Coming from a poor, dysfunctional background, Edwina's gift of lucid dreaming helped her...

Sita and the Prince of Tigers by Winona Howe is a wonderful and peculiar story from the heart of India told by no one else before. It's the story of Sita, a stubborn, motherless young girl who is happy to live alone at the edge...

Each Alone, Across a Vast Unknown: A Scottish Family's Lives and Solo Journeys To America by Sally Eccleston is the portrayal of the very real family history of the author's paternal and maternal legacies. Set in the mid-to-latter 19th century, Eccleston chronicles three lives that...

The wheels of time continue to turn for Estella and her family in The Road From Money: The Journey Continues (Part 3) the latest part in the series by Sylvester Boyd Jr. in which Estella recounts dealing with the latter years of segregation, the civil...

The Waiting Room by Joan S. Peck is an inspiring story that explores the qualities of enduring friendship. The story unravels in 1983, inside a waiting room in a doctor’s office. Allison, Bella, and Marianne, in striped, oversized wraparound gowns, are nervously waiting for the...