The Mountain Whippoorwill (Or, How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddlers' Prize) is a folktale originally written by Stephen Vincent Benet and retold by John McEuen, with illustrations by Jas Ingram and Buddy Finethy. The story follows Hill-Billy Jim, a young man born in the...

Stehekin Wilderness Ranch brings together several older and younger adults one summer. As they each go about their duties providing pleasurable adventures and food for visitors, readers are treated to descriptions of arduous hiking trails and forest surrounds. One can almost feel the silence and...

In Hello, Jaynie! When Your Inner Thermostat Goes on a Permanent Vacation, Linda C. Wright takes a somewhat satirical look at married women who are near their 50s and start going through menopause and how it affects their lives, the lives of their husbands, and...

Tears of the Titans is a conceptual exploration that holistically focuses on the accomplishments of the historical greats and events of magnitude across centuries. Written in the first person, it is a compilation of highly informed speculation about titanic decisions considered through the lens of regret....

Past loves and present connections are entangled in The Pursuit of a Duchess by Linda Rae Sande. Philip, the Earl of Crawford, wants to court Lady Amelia but feels his suit could be rejected by Amelia’s brother, Alfred, Duke of Weston. Michael, Marquess of Fenwick,...

How far is too far when you are fighting against corruption? Seth W James considers this question in A Desperate Measure. Cain and Francesca defeated the heinous cabal created by billionaire Deitrich Stinnes. They joined the newly formed European Seawall Foundation so Francesca could start...

In Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land, author Mo Fanning has written a fast-moving adventure, with a bit of mystery and romance. The main character Kyle MacDonald has an innate tenancy to believe the good in people and trust what they tell him. Kyle...

Uranium Mine and Other Stories by Jed Linde is an engaging drama about a man called Charles, whose decisions lead him on a memorable path through life. The book has eight parts, or stories, divided by years, each covering a different period in Charles's...

Everything that happens in Justin Kurian’s The Canticle of Ibiza does so in an ever-present miasma of the mystical. Set, as the title suggests, on the enchanting isle of Ibiza in the late 1980s, this fascinating novel focuses on John, a recently divorced and recently...

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” And Road To Eden by Tim Twombly is one heck of an adventure. Dewey “Doc” Ruggles is under indictment, and his quirky wife hates him, having run off with a charlatan of a guru that's full of crap. For Doc, life...