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...

Ass, Cash & Grass: Welcome to Cali by Chad Vegas is a great read, after the spellbinding Sex, Drugs & Corruption: Welcome to Peru which explored the adventure of two American carpenters and their unusual ploy to beat a government bent on sinking them. That...

Get ready for a hilarious ride in Potlatch: A Comedy by Bruce Hartman. With her father serving a life sentence of house arrest, her mother immersed in the responsibilities of a no-show job, and sister Tiffany in search of a future husband, Alice Coggins does...

Sweet, Sweet Stories, Some Sweeter than Others by Daniel Curzon is an eclectic anthology of short stories, where some are not actually ‘sweet,’ despite the title. Suffer the Little Children starts the collection, a story about a kind-hearted couple who are unable to bear children....

La Fortuna: The Wheel of Fortune by Vera Zegarac is an engaging story that explores one woman’s journey to finding true love. When the twenty-seven-year-old archaeologist and professor, Carla Blumberg meets Eric Schottel, a lawyer twelve years her senior, the attraction is mutual and they...

Veronica “Roni” Lorimer and Charlotte “Lotti” McAllister are best friends and housemates. Both retired and widowed, they live in a cozy home among the evergreens, on a small island in Puget Sound. When a rock is thrown through a window in their home, the enigma...

Growing up is hard. Growing up without one parent is even harder. In The Broken Branches, written by Becky Lee Villareal, Sarafina Garcia, a young Hispanic girl, desperately wants to go to Towngate Magnet School to learn the craft of writing and to become a...

Debbie and Mia just moved into a new place at Garfield Flats. Slowly getting used to life in their new flat, they expected it to be normal, even a bit boring. Nevertheless, surprises await them around every corner, helping the two girls embark on interesting...

If you’re a writer and aspire to one day pen a humorous novel or memoir, read First Friday by Tory Hartmann. If you were raised in a very religious Catholic home, especially an Irish Catholic home, and aren’t too hung up on someone having a...

Grond: The Raven High is the first book in the Grond series by Yuri Hamaganov. Translated from the original Russian, the thrilling narrative chronicles the early life of Olga Voronov. She is a ‘changed’ human and has lived in a self-contained orbital space facility from...