The Buzz Boys, by Edward Izzi, is a touching and powerful coming-of-age novel about secrets, trauma, and friendship. The Buzz Boys centers around a group of friends who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. They could have called themselves the Z Boys because each...

T.E.D.D.I.E. B.E.A.R. in S.P.A.C.E. by Victoria Bastedo succeeds in its premise by delivering a psychiatrist to the forefront of the plot where such a character often plays a support role in space opera stories. The SST Featherfleet is no USS Enterprise, but it fares impressively...

Nervous Mary is a historical fiction novel by Laura Atwood Duran based on the experiences of the author's mother-in-law during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. In the year 1936, sixteen-year-old Maria Munoz-Morales' life turns upside down when Spain erupts into a civil...

In Life on a Mountain, the second book in Love is a Cabin Series by Jacque Jacobs, Bella Anderson, a retired professor, hopes to finally work on her novel in her tranquil cabin. It is the third week since she arrived. She still remembers experiences...

Adapted from the screenplay The Third Man in the Ring, which in turn was inspired by the award-winning memoir My Life with the Third Man in the Ring by Barbara Stolfi, Requiem for a Referee relates the story of Teddy Martin, a famous boxing referee...

Tholocco’s Wake: Book One of the Legacy Series by W.W. Van Overbeke is the first in what is obviously planned to be a series that moves back and forth from the current day, 1968 to the late 1930s and 40s. It follows the love, romance,...

Rumi Revisited is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama subgenre. It is aimed at the adult reading audience and was penned by Craig Wells. Set at a crossroads of faith and culture in 1960s Los Angeles where anything outside of Caucasian came with...

Van Horn by Jim Sano starts in the most unusual way with the main character being rescued from being run over in the middle of the road and the story unfolds from there. This makes a person read the book from cover to cover. It...

The Bus Driver's Mother by Beverly Pridgen is the touching story of a mother's relationship with a special needs child. After getting pregnant during her second year in college, Ella starts a family with her college sweetheart, giving birth to six children over the years....

Near Enough to Hold by Kim Golden is a classic boy meets girl romance novel, following several others in a similar vein by this author. Nick who is tragically widowed and without a family, due to an unexplained murder, rescues Keisha from desertion in the...