The year William Bur celebrates his eighteenth birthday, he is full of realizations concerning his life, mainly that his future is one enormous pit of uncertainty. While the rest of his friends, affectionately known as the Group of Seven, seem to have their futures well-organized...

Terrible Love by Lyra Bayer is a story that is dark, sensual, and tragic, a story of an unusual love, featuring characters that readers will easily connect to. This is not a story for the fainthearted and it would be fair warning to say that...

When the only men who fall in front of you are dead, then you either have a problem, or you work in a morgue - or both as it is the case for Lexi, the protagonist of What It Is by Kit Sergeant. The young...

What was it like to live with a mental condition in the early years of the 1900s? The Fading of Lloyd by Kit Crumpton captures a family’s story as they struggle to cope with the mental retardation of one of theirs amidst social changes affecting...

To the Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman is a story that espouses the human spirit and the values of community; a story with a beautiful setting and characters that will make readers think about what they are doing for their community; a story that...

A small town weekly paper becomes the central hub in an appalling scandal in The Journalist by Leslie Weatherill. Zoey has just graduated from Berkeley and is looking for a job as a journalist. The only reply to her resume is from a small town...

Melanie and Mary are twin sisters. They share just about everything. However, one thing is quite different. Mary is married and desperately wants to have a baby of her own. Melanie is not married and very pregnant, a love affair gone sour. When Mary’s husband’s...

The Big Tide by Marc Heberden is a book that features a wide range of literary elements to keep the reader intrigued and spellbound — love, adventure, jealousy, political intrigue, and a conflict that is so masterfully developed that the reader can’t wait to know...

Pura Vida by Annette Montez Kolda follows Sister Bridget Ann who does all she can to help the community, even attempting to stop a robbery. When she's asked to watch over Perla Lopez's children while she searches for her husband in Mexico, Sister Bridget doesn't...

When American soldier John Morton saved a young Parisian woman, Danièle Foucher, from a threatening barber days after Liberation Day celebrations in 1944, a romance began. John and Danielle (she changed her name to the American version) settled in a duplex in Clearsboro, New Jersey....