Gray Girl by Susan I. Spieth is an intriguing documentation of life as a female plebe at West Point. While Cadet Jan Wishart struggles to fit into the predominately male class of future Army officers, she discovers the obstacles in her way are not only...

Jerry and Walter are two old fellows in their eighties, living in a rather exclusive Californian retirement village. They share an interest in postage stamps, with Walter specializing in issues from nations that are no longer in existence. The Third Half of Our Lives, subtitled...

‘If she’d been one of his livestock he’d have fed her supplements, wormed her, maybe shot her…’ were Russell's thoughts about the topless dancer in ‘What Happened at Wanda’s Place.’ Whole Worlds Could Pass Away is a fantastic compilation of eleven short stories by...

If you’re going to write a long fiction crime thriller, you'd better make sure of three things: you have a really great plot, gripping characters, and most important of all, the skill to create a true page-turner. Well, Francine Rodriguez certainly followed that mandate in...

The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors by Marc Grossberg is a spellbinding thriller with exceptional characters. The first thing that gripped me and kept me turning the pages is the way the author uses the subplot to create suspense. The narrative builds...

The Strange Birth, Short Life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl by Julian David Stone is the story of a writer of a struggling TV network who was going to lose his job, but he did something and the tables turned in his favor. Jonny...

How The Ideals of America’s Founders Lead Us to Purposeful Living is an observational work based on American history, its principles and proposed ideals, and was penned by author Roger Fortin. Taking the unifying phrase ‘one for all and all for one’ as its central...

Stand Alone is the fourth book in The Sola Series by Ruth Meyer. The story of Grace Neunaber and her children continues as they try to figure their lives out and make some heavy decisions that can make or break their lives. Grace was looking...

The Poker Players by Edward Dreyfus takes us deep inside the male psyche, especially fashioned by the era of the mid-20th century prevailing attitudes. Growing up in the 50’s, there were two cardinal rules for men: 1/ Big Boys Don’t Cry and 2/ You Are...

Eight-year-old Cornelia is faced with a summer break from school and knows just what she wants to do. Since she is always filled with “great ideas”, Cornelia is going to design her own bedroom. The middle child of three girls, she is taking it upon...