Although I didn’t read the first book in the Miller Hoffman series by Zelmer Wilson, this second entry, Next Best Thing, reads so well and it is absorbing. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the book is character-driven, and the internal conflict is superbly explored....

Deanna Lynn Sletten’s Night Music is a story of hearts divided. Joseph Russo is a soldier in Vietnam. He becomes pen pals with a girl named Charlotte. Char writes to Joe about Grand Falls, her small hometown in Illinois. Joe clings to those letters, they...

Neurotec and Other Tales by Marcus Bolt is a collection of short stories with the underlying theme of philosophy. Neurotec and Other Tales starts off simply by listing the names of the 29 stories and then the first story begins immediately. The stories themselves are...

Never Summer by Tim Blaine is an adventure mixed with elements of self-discovery, the search for meaning, and the hidden importance of mortality. Vlad D’Agostino has lived the best days of his life in Japan. Now diagnosed with tuberculosis in its terminal phase and barely...

Next Therapist Please is a semi-autobiographical romantic comedy written by Laurie Finkelstein. Janie Weiss was thrilled with how well her paintings had been received. Her agent, Angie, was getting her work exposure in art galleries where her use of color and innovative mixed media was...

National Parks by Rolf Margenau is a satire on the current as well as a possible progressively worse future political climate in the United States. National Parks is alternatively funny and sarcastic, with the grim underlying reality of the current state of politics. The novel...

North of the Killing Hand is another brilliant entry in the Compass Crimes Series by Joni M Fisher, a compelling and intricately woven story for fans of crime fiction. The plot centers on Nefi Jenkins, whose experience of murder will shape her future in unimaginable...

Noemi Waits For Tomorrow is a cute story by PB &j about a little girl, Noemi, who has recently moved into town and hasn’t made any friends yet. When Noemi’s mother casually mentions tomorrow, it gets her imagination flowing ... What is tomorrow like? Her...

Napoleon's Rosebud by Humphry Knipe is a fictionalized account of a speculated affair between Napoleon and a local girl while he was in exile, and his efforts to escape. Napoleon's Rosebud begins with an introduction to the Knipe family in the early 1800s on the...

Ninth Ward Blues is an urban fiction novel written by Janelle Smith Toussant. Tracey's life changed dramatically when she was thirteen years old. Her parents hadn't been getting along for some time, but they finally decided they just couldn't live in the same house anymore....