A Healing Hand is a novelette by Monique Hall, set in Rockingham, Australia. While out on a ten-kilometer jog, Alyssa Martin is literally knocked off her feet when she collides with a brick wall in the shape of her former high school best friend’s...

Chhaya was shunned as a child for the dark skin her family considered ugly. She was imprisoned by a culture that devalued women, focusing on assembling dowries to transfer the burden of their keep to a husband via an arranged marriage. But then came Arun,...

A Hidden Sicilian History is a Christian historical fiction by Ettore Grillo. A man finds an old scroll in the library in Enna, Sicily and translates it. The scroll was written by a Sicilian named Vincenzino who performed in a drama at Enna’s deconsecrated Church...

Ashes at Grumble Bluff by Karen Bessey Pease is exciting reading for all ages, but particularly for the adolescent through young adult crowd. The novel keeps readers continually turning the pages to see what happens next to the main characters, Katherine Anne Kirby and Greta...

An Invincible Summer By Betta Ferrendelli is a beautifully written story told with great emotion. Jaime Monroe finds herself in controversial waters when she hears that a local reporter, Leigh Roberts, plans to have her daughter, Ashleigh, forcibly sterilized to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Jaime is...

What is the truth about the Roswell incident? Under the directorship of Allen Dulles, the CIA determined the terrible purpose of the aliens’ invasion by deciphering a reading device recovered from the crash site. But Alien Affairs by Scott Skipper isn't just about Roswell in...

Amina: The Silent One by Fiza Pathan is a compelling, realistic, and sometimes stark read. Amina is essentially a social commentary in the form of fiction. It is the story of Amina, a young Muslim girl born and raised as an unwanted girl child in...

If you want an inventive and innovative way to approach some topics of major social concern, reading Angels, Babies & Bad Guys by Dolly Ogawa-Amsk will certainly give you that. Her book introduces us to Catholic priest, Father Anthony Rossi, who finds himself in the...

Ah, Sweet Life by E. Adrian Dzahn is an extremely moving, beautifully written fictional story about a woman named Andrea Gabe, or Andy. Written in the first person narrative, Andy recounts her childhood and the instability that accompanied it, including sexual abuse and rape by...

A Far Strange Country: Banquet of Choices by Arielle Hunter is a novel of unrest, drugs and murder. In this story set in 1968, a time of great unrest in the civilized world, Pauline and Buck Harper are trying to ride it out on their...