Just Say It by Tessa Barrie cuts deep. It is the story of a woman who is trying to find out more about her mother to understand her own self. We can choose our friends, but we cannot choose our family. Carrying forty years of...

Moving Forward is an anthology of short stories and one poem published by the Immigrant Writers Association, a Canadian-based organization. The book brings together the thoughts, experiences, and memories of people who have made the ultimate decision to leave their homelands and emigrate to a...

Hidden horror comes to life in The Salvation of Kora by Yolanda Olson. Young adult Lily struggles to establish a normal life and move on from the traumas of her past, burdened by the twin losses of her mother and sister to different fates. Being...

In Plain Sight is the intriguing story of what kindness can do for the less fortunate. Ashley A. Quinn introduces Rayna, picking vegetables when she finds Mason. The boy had been beaten, burned, and was severely dehydrated. Rayna offers to help him, but Mason refuses...

Life in seventh-century Northumbria was a challenge. Boys were brought up to take over their father’s trade and then expected to carry on the family business. But, when the king demands all men and boys respond to his call to arms and fight a war...

If John Hancock is a superhero with super alcoholism, Juniper Appleblossom is a superhero with super drug addiction. She is what you’ll get in Chrysalis, the first book in The Perfect Order Series by Drew Kientz. Drug peddlers are often junkies themselves, and self-appointed rock...

Careless Love by Steve Zettler depicts a son’s investigation into discovering more about his biological father. His mother, Grace, revealed that his father was actually someone from her vacation in Hawaii. Determined to discover who his father was and what had happened to him, he...

Byron: A Play in Three Acts by Nigel Patten is really a novel dressed up as a play. The long speeches, particularly by George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romantic poet (1788-1824), would be almost impossible to follow by a theater audience, though they make for...

Libertas by Danuta Pfeiffer is the first book in the epic Pocketful of Seeds trilogy. It follows the journey of Fredericka, a young mixed-race uneducated slave raised on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina, and Horace, an emancipated well-educated young black man raised from childhood...

Divine Return by Jeff Walton tells the story of two friends: Dan Lucas, a former employee of US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and Professor Ben Chernick, who died of a heart attack but came back to life after a Near-Death Experience (NDE). Ben describes...