Happy Holidays: The Charlie Barnes Experience - Vol. 1 is a crime-comedy novel by C.R. Barnes that follows the first-person narrative of a protagonist who goes by the author's namesake Charles Barnes. Charles Barnes wakes up bruised and battered in the parking lot of a...

Don’t Let Me Go by Jamila Mikhail is an enchanting take on the young adult genre as it features an inanimate toy soldier that not only comes to life but has an existential crisis as well. Here we have a young girl named Joanie, who...

Angel’s Grove, written by Lana Lindemann, is set during World War 2. It follows the journey of the main character Adelisa, who, along with her husband and two children, are forced out of their home. They get sent to Angel’s Grove where everything gets far...

How do you cope when you lose your entire family? By opening a warehouse on wheels, of course! Hannah Mercer does exactly that in Al Schnupp’s Goods & Effects. As she rebuilds her life with her store-on-wheels, she lives many lives with the people she...

Zane Hollister is back from prison, and he wants one thing: Jenny. The only problem is Jen is with Colton, the tech whiz from Silicon Valley who made her feel secure and balanced. Zane, on the other hand, is pure danger! Tall, muscular, and charming,...

Eddie’s Boy: A Novel by Robert Schwab is a great story of an accident turned into a blessing, a story of survival, love, family, and human connection. Until his fortieth birthday, Dr. Landon Ratliff had lived a very busy life, devoting his time and energy...

Sacred Fool by Nathan Dean Talamantez is a letter of love, recognition, and unwavering reverence to Alejandro Jodorowsky. After reading, I am quite smitten with both Jodorowsky and Talamantez. Sacred Fool leaves no stone unturned while diving into sophisticated depths and meanings hidden within his...

When zillionaire entrepreneur Roger Haines acquired a piece of land that had a crystal cavern, it quickly became the essential factor in cementing the success of the Mariner Twenty Project; the first human mission to Mars. The task is to develop the first base for...

How bad can a mother-in-law be? In Ectopic, Merethe Walther explores the lengths to which Caroline will go to possess Emilie’s unborn baby after her husband Vincent is killed in the car she was driving. The suspense in Ectopic kept me on edge until the...

In The Train to Kuranda, a broken man, emaciated and deformed from his wartime experience, Bill Allen boards a train in Cairns to travel to Kuranda, hoping to connect with the wife he left behind to go to war. In straightforward language, author David Maiville...