“I have discovered that when you look into a dog’s eyes there is a power that draws you in,” says Leon Robertson in the introductory chapter to ARF & Soul and the book shares more of what one gets when one explores the mind of...

An Irish Lullaby by Louis Michael Manzo inspires belief in the miraculous. Father Sean O’Connor is semi-retired, and at 75 years old he is back at his beloved Saint Aloysius Parish. Reflecting, holding his Medal of Honor medallion, he realizes time has somehow escaped him....

A Life Naive by Oliver Phipps is the story of Hershal Lawson, a trusting and upstanding younger man in Missouri, who could easily be called John Doe, so much is he the humdrum and monochrome Everyman. He's spent his days looking after his Me'ma, who...

Patty Friedmann’s An Organized Panic takes the reader inside the workings of many families, but in this particular family the protagonists have no reason to suffer financially or spiritually from the power Ronald wields. Despite this, Cesca submits to the pressure he exerts after their...

A Mound Over Hell by Gary Morgenstein is the opening book in the Dark Depths series, a novel with a powerful dystopian setting, dark and disturbing, but a tale of hope. “The end of the world as we know it” appears in most dystopian book...

A Sisterhood of Women Living Life by Cheryl Holloway is a superb collection of short stories with messages of hope and inspiration. The stories are about real people and real subject matter. You will see people going through emotional suffering as they try to resolve...

In A Town Called Redemption by Jodi Gardner Bremer, Tex is a young drifter who enters town and plans to quickly be moving on. However, God and Martha have other plans for Tex. Martha is a widowed, retired school teacher and her life now is...

The story of Philip in A Chain of Events is one of the most touching and beautiful stories you will ever read. It is also one of the most violent, sometimes almost unbelievably so. But given that this historical fiction is based on facts, thoroughly...

A Tale of the Builder by Jonathan Hatendi is an interesting story that follows the life of Mawara, who started off in a very unusual manner and grew up to be a respectable rural builder, a man who went to school at an older age....

Christmas is only two weeks away and Alicia is bubbling with excitement in Alicia and the Light Bulb People in Star Factory 13 by Barbara Roman. Alicia has been asked by her mother to choose a lamp with a personality for her room as a...