As a reviewer, there are times when I feel desperate to read something different, something that will instantly engage me with its unique plot, realistic settings, compelling characters, and unfamiliar cultural practices and beliefs. One Hundred Silent Ways by A.A. Mohammad is the book that...

Old Enough, Yet Unmarried by Dr. O is a delightful story about Tessy, a successful doctor, and her four female friends as they battle the joys and challenges of love. Each woman has her own experience with love, marriage, or childbirth throughout the story, and...

How do we find purpose in our lives? This is the question at the heart of Spencer Ulrich's novella On Fulfillment. In the summer of 1945, four US Navy sailors, Captain Philip Hawkins, Connor McTavish, Adam Breight, and Jacob Hartley, were stranded on a remote...

In Obedience, when we meet Emma and the only parents she knows, she calls her father by the odd moniker of “Leader”. Our first question is why? The woman she knows as her mother is the icy Monique. Emma is on constant tenterhooks around...

One Woman, Two Lives Part 1 by Ajay Nair is the story of a rich man named Kelu who fell in love with a lower caste woman named Lakshmi. Due to customs, he cannot marry a lower caste woman without facing severe repercussions, so he...

Out of the Darkness: A Novel by Jeanne Fortune is a deep, compelling novel about overcoming hardship for the YA audience. This story is more than just a story of a girl from Haiti adjusting to life in America; it's grounded in social issues too,...

Operation Olive Tree is set in the West Bank farming village of Deir-Al-Hattab in May of 1983. Students Jamal Shaneen and Irith Goldman attend Neve Shalom High School and develop a friendship through their love for singing. Irith’s father, David Goldman, works at Tel Aviv...

Of Ripeness & The River by Mary F. Burns tells the parallel stories of two women in alternating chapters with date headings. Mary Ferguson was the daughter of a wealthy banking family, happily married to a young carpenter. Her story is told from 1893, when...

Of Ashes and Angels is a romance with a psychological slant written by KC Decker. Justin is a mess after losing his mother. Norah just lost her job as a kindergarten teacher after a controlling ex posted pictures of her breasts on social media. What...

O-B*tch-uary, written by Ticia Rani, tells the tale of a loving wife and mother, Olivia Carpenter, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. The story starts off with Olivia’s medical appointment regarding a questionable lump on both breasts. From doing absolutely normal things on a...