A File of a Life by Christina McKinney is the story of a daughter as she experiences her mother’s presence through the things she left behind. Jill never got over her mother Bobbie’s death. She never found closure, and that translated into her other relationships....

Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle by Kevin St Jarre is almost a coming of age story, but with a twist. When Tom Tibbets takes a job at a weekly newspaper in a small town in New Hampshire, he has no idea he will become more...

"At that moment, the moon breaks through the clouds and magnifies Rokurobei’s silhouette, standing at the handrail of the fortified wall. I freeze...Time skips a beat. Then I realize that the serpent’s neck is looking in the opposite direction; I sense he’s deep in thought,...

Farewell, Everything is a work of fiction in the supernatural, magic realism, and horror sub-genres, and was penned by author Véva Perala. This lavishly tragic and bittersweet tale does contain some themes which certain readers may be sensitive to, such as drug usage, discrimination, death,...

Hinterland by L.M. Brown is an engrossing and emotionally rich story that explores themes of love, family, and parenting. Nicholas Giovanni drives a taxi at night and adores spending time with his five-year-old daughter, Kate. His wife, Kathleen, has been unstable, health-wise, even before their...

Valiance by Vanessa Caraveo is a young adult story that will inspire and educate people of all ages and creeds. Diego Herrera was born deaf and mute and his parents are illegal immigrants from Mexico. All these things mean that life is not easy for...

Vietnam has become a word synonymous with American failure, a lost cause that exhausted manpower and resources. Edgar Tiffany’s Audie Murphy in Saigon attests to this. The book is divided into his long essay accounts of his experiences as a medic during the Vietnam War....

Nicole Wachell’s The Right Amount of Brilliance follows the story of two prominent professors in California: Jake Washington and Sebastian Barnabas. The two men meet and discover that they are twins who were separated at the age of three. While they try to understand and...

Paul Sutton and Don Frank, who just graduated high school in Santa Monica, were surfing buddies. The Vietnam War and the draft were in full swing. Both young men joined the Naval Air Reserves, and both were stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines. When...

Quest of the Sleeping Princess is Mary Sheeran’s second novel that looks at the life of Susan McFadden, who has a deep-rooted passion for ballet. The year is 1988, and a gala performance in New York is at the core of the book’s plot. McFadden...