Prospect Hill by Jason Hill is the sequel to Social Hill and a delightful romp that follows the life of Tony. Told in a mesmerizing, unique, and humorous tone, this novel is, in the narrator’s own words, a “tale of a king with a titled...

Pebbles in the Water by Mandar Naik is a series of short stories that reveal an element of realism associated with humanity. The book consists of four stories. The Third Companion is about a woman who just found out that her dead husband had an...

Protect the Guilty by Pablo Omar Zaragoza and Susan Giffin is an inspiring story that features a unique protagonist, Sam the Ghost. Sam Westmore has been a murderer in his pre-suicide life and has taken the lives of many people, the last of which is...

Parallel Worlds by Wynne Stevens was an unexpected pleasure to read. It was reminiscent of everything that I loved about The Notebook, yet having its own flair and uniqueness. The narrative starts with our perception of reality and interpretation of that reality. It’s a brief...

Prasvapa by Chand Svare Ghei is a collection of short stories that are essentially philosophical in nature. Prasvapa is translated text and contains a few short stories, each with a unique theme, plot line, and characters. However, the underlying philosophical tone that searches for the...

Have you ever had that kind of week where your (largely uninsured) home/business burns to the ground, your wife leaves you, and the IRS starts hounding you for back taxes? That’s the kind of week it’s been for Herodotus Shapiro. When he decides to escape...

Portia’s Revelation by Rich Tenaglia makes you stop and wonder. As a young Anthropology grad student, Max Garrett unearths a box of ancient papyrus papers on a dig in Rome. Faded, fragile and unreadable, the find seems to be nothing, but ultimately turns into the...

Sugar thinks that her life is completely perfect and that nothing could ever come between her and her husband. That’s before she finds the phone with a message that changes everything she thought she knew and threatens to throw her entire family for a loop....

Paradise Bound is one of the most balanced and well written romance novels I have ever read. Not only does Rafaële Désiré know a lot about the Yin and Yang of romance, but she knows a lot about life. The characters are so real you...

A fantasy adventure with a Western twist, when I saw the premise of Planet Land: The Adventures of Cub and Nash, I just knew I had to read this book. In this, the second volume in the Hidden Earth Series by author Janet Beasley, we...