The dynamics of life within the Beltway come alive in The iCongressman: The Michael Bennit Series Book 2 by Mikael Carlson. Michael Bennit, a former Green Beret and history teacher, his staff made up of his former exceptional high school students and his girlfriend, a...

A sweet but spicy journey from seed to table, The Life and Dreams of Pimientos de Padrόn by Katherine Anne Lee is a fascinating telling of this spicy Mexican dish. An interesting hybrid of poetry and prose, Katherine Anne Lee starts us off in the...

Street Light by R.L. Herron is the third book in the Reichold Street Trilogy. It also happens to be the first book in the series that I have read. Street Light is sort of a follow up book of all the events that have occurred...

If fantasy and pirates are your thing, you just found your next favorite book! Stefan Wishart is the heir to the throne, but his father, the Prince Consort, despises him. Only when Stefan learns of his true parentage, a deadly pirate, does he realize why...

Born to the Sultan's concubine, Wasim ibn Baibars al-Bunduqdari was considered a lesser person, a bastard, and as such had really never been acknowledged by his father. He was, however, close to his older brother Barakah, who was destined to be the next ruler of...

The Garden of Unfortunate Souls by Eddie Mark opens with the mayor's tearaway son Audwin crashing into the home of Bible-bashing single mother Loretta Ford and her unfortunate son Shadrack at three in the morning. While the boy's dad wants to keep the potential scandal...

It's rare to come away from a 500-page book wanting more, not because the story hasn't been perfectly executed, but because the reader wants to sustain the feelings of sheer pleasure she/he felt while reading. That's how I felt reading Smokey Bear: The Cub Who...

A man used to always being in control, Fred was very much disturbed by the unknown or by what he could not manipulate and/or control. The root cause of his latest troubles lay in four coded pages he had recently discovered in a book written...

Life is too short. Nothing is promised. Live life to the fullest each day. No one could have told the Purcell sisters, Dana and Lisa, that one of them would die at a young age. This is what happened in No More Tears by Tina...

The Suffering of Innocents is a contemporary fiction novel written by Marc Zirogiannis. Laura and Sam Job have been happily married for over 25 years. They're both attorneys who have adjusted their schedules to accommodate their careers and the needs of their family. Sammy is...