Life isn’t always easy and when you have secrets, even from your closest friends, it can be even more difficult. For the seven women of The Two Bits Club, life isn’t what it appears from the outside. These women have suffered in life and some...

In The Funeral Singer by Linda Budzinski, Melanie Martin has always been that weird girl who sings at her parents’ funeral home. After an unplanned but amazing performance of “Amazing Grace” at a rock star’s funeral, she is suddenly thrust into the spotlight and is...

"Being a birth parent in the adoption world can be difficult. It is hard to talk or write about." So confides Darrick C. Rizzo, author of The Open Adoption. That difficulty takes on a special meaning for birth fathers, silent voices rarely heard regarding the...

The Smiling Buddha is a fast paced story based on acts of terrorism. It begins in the city of Kuala Lumpur where Rav, a cleaner who works the night shift at Likud Bank, is tempted by a display of large gold coins. He makes...

The Father is an interesting story about three generations of the Whitaker family. Joseph Whitaker was a farmer. He raised his son, John; John raised his son, Morgan; and Morgan named his child John, giving him his grandfather’s name. Author Brett Williams traced the lineage...

In Daryl Hajek’s Blood Blossom, Vivian Hutchins’ hope to reunite and restore her relationship with her younger sister, Christine, is ruined. Christine wants nothing but revenge – the dark feeling has not subsided, even after 22 years. She is hell-bent on going after their mysterious...

The Prodigal Son is Book 11 of the Reverend Curtis Black series written by Kimberla Lawson Roby and read by Peter Jay Fernandez. In this installment, the focus is on Matthew and Dillion. Things are not going well for Matthew. His wife Racquel’s behavior is...

In Take a Load Off, Mona Jamborski by Joanna Franklin Bell, Mona lives by herself in a condo, and she hasn't left it for several years. She's always had a weight problem, but it's never been quite as bad as the 528 pounds her scale...

The Last Eucharist: A True War Story, set in the quotidian town of Jackrabbit, Arizona, features an amputee Vietnam veteran, Thomas, who earns his meager living doing headstands for the sneering common masses outside of a theatre. While Thomas spends his earnings from these "atrocity...

Tomris: October 1942 by A. Yavuz Oruc is a story many of us can relate to, where a young girl has a dream of being a fashion designer. The difference is her dream is taking place during the early years of the Turkish republic. There...