When we first meet Hannah, she is fighting traffic on her way to her grandmother's funeral. She is bringing her grandmother's embalmed canary, which, according to family legend, alerted her grandfather to toxic fumes in the coal mine her grandmother owned. Hannah is dreading the...

Like being on an elevated train and lurching from one stop to another, "The Green Line" by E.C. Diskin takes the reader on a scary but productive journey. Abby is the lawyer in a Chicago firm who finds herself in jeopardy when she gets on...

Jewish and Protestant girls faced the various aspects of life with different perspectives, during the Nazi regime. Anna Mendel joins the resistance and Ingrid Brecht becomes a guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. After fifty years of being an American rabbi's wife, Ingrid reaches out to...

“Hannah's Voice” by Robb Grindstaff is the story of Hannah, who decided to stop speaking when she was six years old. Her mother always asked her the same questions again and again. Other people did the same and Hannah thought she might as well stop...

Jake is a starry-eyed adolescent, who is so much in love with Erika that he cannot see that they are drifting apart. He is caught up with school and work and planning a life in their little Illinois town, with its bandstand park and its...

"A Christmas of Grace" is the story of eleven year old Grace Gillian and her almost six year old brother Henry James. For the Gillian children life had never really been stable. Because of their alcoholic mother, Grace had always been the one to make...

There are no cliches in this story about Ethan and Carrie. Jana Krause writes "The Orbiter" with no ordinary boundaries or expected plot conflicts. There is also a cosmic darkness to this unconventional tale. The story begins in the womb and it ends at the...

“Puck” by Kevin White is the beautiful, heart-warming and heart-wrenching story of Kathy and Jason and their autistic young son Luke. Ice hockey becomes the thread that connects Luke to the outside world. Luke’s story is told to us through the eyes and heart of...

It has been quite some time since Elizaveta parted with Timofey, but the lovely Muscovite will later learn that her path will cross his in a series of dangerous events manipulated by her former lover. The novel begins with Elizaveta making her way to work;...

Rick Robinson’s latest novel “Alligator Alley” will leave you pondering about the course your life is on and leave you thinking about true happiness in life. James has had a successful life; however, he is fifty years old and feel empty inside. James decides to...