Twenty-one-year-old Lizzie loves life and a wedding is sure in the future to the love of her life, Daniel. That is until a tragic accident happens, taking her best friend and leaving Lizzie severely injured, not to mention ending her relationship with Daniel. She convinces...

Those Around Him by Brett Shapiro is a very unusual book but catches your interest from the first page to the last. The time period is 2019 in Florida sometime before Hurricane Dorian hit the coast. The main characters in this book are Andrew, Charles,...

The Substitute is Lacy’s story. The year is 1965, the day would have been her 70th wedding anniversary to Benjamin, but he died five years ago and she is missing him and remembering the life they shared. Lacy spends most of the story sitting in...

The Dedicated Dancer by Marcy Bowser tells the amazing story of Annie Taylor (nee Edson) who grew up in Auburn, New York. Annie attended a city school in winter and worked on a farm in summer where she also attended a district school. Annie’s father...

Out of the Darkness: A Novel by Jeanne Fortune is a deep, compelling novel about overcoming hardship for the YA audience. This story is more than just a story of a girl from Haiti adjusting to life in America; it's grounded in social issues too,...

Coal is a slice-of-life story written by Dave von Beck. Rummaging through an old box in the basement of his childhood home in Seattle, forty-two-year-old Ken discovers a collection of letters saved by his older sister Carole Priscilla Sharpe, a.k.a. Cole. Eight years ago, his...

At the Castle of Dreams is the fifth book in A Country Girl Empress series by A. Piper Burgi. Crown Prince Rudolph is found dead at his hunting lodge along with his mistress. Devastated and grief-stricken, Sisi and Franz have no idea what really happened....

Marriage, loss, and separation are well-defined in Peter A. Friedrichs’ And the Stars Kept Watch. Something precious has been building in the life of an ordinary family, but it all deteriorates after an unexpected tragedy. It becomes the moving personal story of grieving, anger, blame,...

God Came to my Garage Sale, by renowned Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro, is an intriguing work of fiction that delves deep into the nature and existence of God from an atheist's point of view, using a garage sale as the focal point and setting. Spiritual...

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...