John Proctor is about to turn seventy when he decides to buy a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the now mostly desolate mill town where he had grown up. Nostalgia haunts his waking hours and he often reminisces about the happier times in his...

Chris Lombardi brings us an intriguing literary piece in Blue: Season. It is the year 1993 and the month of August in East Baltimore. Molly O’Donnell gets hit by a car on one of her nightly runs and ends up being sent to a psychiatric...

Larry Lockridge’s Out of Wedlock is part of the Enigma Quartet series. Jess Freeman has spontaneous eidetic imagery as psychiatrists would call it. He will disconnect and go into a trance for hours to escape reality. He also has terrible nightmares that make him scream...

C. Gary Johnston pens an insightful dramatic tale in New Leaves in Winter. It is the holiday season; the weather has turned cold and somewhat precarious for travel. However, the frigid and threatening atmosphere of Starlinger’s Advertising far surpasses the wintry elements outside. Daniel Pierce...

The New Prosperity Museum by Edward Averett is a moving tale about miracles and remembrances. You are introduced to Henry James George right from his birth. He is the namesake of the great novelist and displays a prodigious facility at reading at age three. His...

In The Unsealing, Robert Brighton has taken an unusual genre and written a story that catches the reader's attention from the opening overture to the last page of the book. This plot covers intrigue, murder, romance, love lost, ill-gotten gains, blackmail, greed, and guilt. ...

Kafka in Tangier by Mohammed Said Hjiouij is a modern retelling of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Jawad Al-Idrisi forsakes his dream of becoming a literary critic to become a teacher. His thoughtless father showed no remorse for his neglect and watched his son work tirelessly to...

UnMasked by Julie Cadman is the story of three strong generational women named Kylie, Patti, and Jen. More often than not, Kylie finds herself sandwiched between Jen and Patti since the two do not get along with each other. Despite loving them, she has learned...

Hold Circulation: Trial and Redemption is the latest installment in Syntell Smith’s Call Numbers series. The book follows the staff of the 58th Street Branch Library as their lives are complicated by lost loves, estranged parents, cheating boyfriends, imminent births, and bereavement. It doesn’t take...

Soulful Return by Fidelis O Mkparu is a beautiful tale about change, death, life, renewal, and identity. Doctor Afamefuna Onochie Nwaku is a Nigerian-born, Harvard-trained medical doctor whose thriving medical practice is disrupted by a phone call from his sister in Nigeria. Adaku implores him...