At the heart of Roberta George’s intriguing novel, The Day’s Heat, are layers of thought-provoking events--events that will make us re-evaluate the concept of integration and where it fits into the socio-political spectrum of our lives, most notably among people of color. It challenges interracial...

Born This Way by Tammy Ferebee is a heart-wrenching novella about a boy that's not allowed to be who he really is. The son of a pastor in a religious southern American small town, Joseph realized that he was attracted to people of the same...

OutRAGEous: Them Wild Manic Hippy Years by Linus Treefoot is the story of Simon, Heron, and Zoroaster the kitten. Simon has always lived his life the way he wanted to live it and he is not changing any time soon. When he is exasperated by...

Steve is an ordinary man, living a fulfilling life with his family and enjoying what he does. Although he is happy with his life, recently things have become a little difficult for him. He enjoys his work/personal life balance, but his boss is making things...

Pet Peeves: An Oral History by Diane Michaels begins on the set of a medical drama, Another Day to Live. Here we meet Kendra Lewis-Frost, breakdown writer and queen of amnesia plot lines. Austin Hughes is a comedian booked for a bit part on the...

Split-Level: A Novel by Sande Boritz Berger is a bold, gripping, and well-written novel with unusual themes and sophisticated characters, following a genuinely flawed female protagonist with traits that many readers will identify with. Alex Pearl is a beautiful woman in her late thirties who...

The Broken Canvas: Good Woman Gone Bad by Tai Barnett opens with the thoughts of the protagonist and they represent a powerful internal conflict: “This is the part that I dread the most, pretending like I think I belong on the Red Carpet. Tirelessly writing...

Cowboy by Bob Holt is the story of a young man named Jim Davis, a boy that was born and raised in the '60s on a Texas farm with straight-laced, conservative, and hard-working Texan values. When he finishes school, he enlists in the Army, returning...

Abraham's Other Children: The Arabs by Heidi Tawfik is a historical novel divided into three sections, namely 1800 BC-300 AD Origins, 300 AD-450 AD The Age of Ignorance and Beyond, and 450 AD- 632 AD Culmination. It encompasses over twenty-five centuries of history that is...

Double Down by Bruce Wessell is a fun romp through Las Vegas with a man who has been stretched to the limits by his job, his relationship and his life. Finally, he takes a giant step and does something he never thought he would do....