We all deal with pain and loss in our own way. Kelsie cuts. In Breaking Free by S.M. Koz, Kelsie is consumed with guilt and grief over losing her best friend in a car accident for which she feels responsible. She soon relies on her...

Mr. Smile by Samuel Thompson is a delightful book about two men who had an enduring friendship. The story begins on a rooftop where Craig Greely was about commit suicide by jumping off the roof of his apartment building. As he was about to make...

Full Circle by Theodore Jerome Cohen is the poignant story of one man's 50-year journey from the beginning of his music lessons as a child, to his triumphant debut as a concert soloist, following a fascinating lifetime of intriguing diversions. Loosely based on the author's...

Oliver’s Hunger Dragon is a children’s book written by Sherry Alexander and illustrated by Amy Rottinger. Oliver has a dragon whom he’s never seen; the dragon’s name is Hunger, and he rumbles and grumbles for food. Oliver’s embarrassed by his noisy companion -- no matter...

Nirmala: The Mud Blossom is realistic fiction written by Fiza Pathan, set in the reclamation area of Mumbai, India. When the reader first meets Nirmala, she's being beaten with a belt by her mother for reading a library copy of a Dickens novel, when she...

Maritime investigator Brick Morgan is called to assist the Chief Director of Security with the investigation of a rape aboard the luxurious cruise ship, the Matisse. Brick - the Chief Security Officer - thinking this would be an easy case with a relaxing trip to...

Random Shootings is a contemporary fiction novel written by Frank Drury. John, a newspaper reporter, and his wife, Diana, were living in Jacksonville, Florida, until one evening when John almost got involved in a sexual situation with his neighbor, Diana. When her husband, Cliff, came...

Country Roads: The Internal Life of a Mannish Rascal is a story based on a fourteen-year-old black youngster named Randolph. Randolph grew up in the era when blacks and whites were socially segregated. Blacks lived in a particular area in the town of Cedar Grove...

Red, White & Blues is an epic undertaking by author L.V. Sage. It takes the reader into two divergent cultures, that of the 1960s hippie in San Francisco and that of the Vietnam war veteran. The juxtaposition of these two stories is beautifully researched and...

Mexican Eskimo, Book 1: Exmikan by Anker Frankoni is a real trip that will take readers into the life of one human being who readily accepts whatever is offered in life without looking at the consequences that might happen. The book has adventure, myths, legends,...