I really enjoyed reading The Thing with Feathers by Anne Sweazy-Kulju. This story starts off in the 1920s and is about the lives of Blair Bowman and Will Marshall. Blair has been abused by her father since she was a little girl. Will decides to...

The Bad Girl is a literary fiction novella written by L. Donsky-Levine. New York City in the 1970s is a hectic and swirling place filled with life and vibrant colors. Though it’s been two years since Fitz Darcy was wounded on Hamburger Hill in Vietnam...

The Methuselarity Transformation is a science fiction novel written by Rick Moskovitz. Marcus Takana has given up on his future, ever since the environmental calamity that impoverished his family when he was 22 years old and he joined the ranks of the data deprived. He’s...

Sad. Happy. Heart-warming and heart-breaking. Those are the words I would use to describe The Fifth Floor by Julie Oleszek. In 1970s Chicago, young Anna thrives in the commotion of her large and rambunctious family. With ten children in the home, there is always something...

Turnstiles by Andrea McKenzie Raine is a story of three perfect strangers who are trying to find an idyllic world where things are as they should be. The novel revolves around three main characters: Martin Sourdough, Willis Hancocks Jr, and Evelyn. Evelyn is a prostitute,...

That Birds Would Sing is a novel of recollected adolescence by Joanna Franklin Bell. After reading a shocking obituary in her local newspaper, the once-mousy and watchful April Jones dissects her freshman year of high school, unpicking the pieces to make sense of the harrowing...

In Jon Reisfeld’s The Reform Artists, Martin Silkwood has found himself in dire straits. His wife Katie has up and left their home in Maryland, taking with her the kids and even the family dog. Martin has no clue where his wife is or why...

In The National Memorial, John Barth Jr pits a crusader for a better world against the societal undercurrents that aim only to drag all down to the lowest common denominator. Henry Beaugard is an ordinary man who works hard to realize his vision of empowering...

Although distressing, painful and despairing, Amita Trasi's writing portrays the resilient power of hope and the unbreakable bond of friendship in The Color of Our Sky: A Novel Set in India. Two young girls, with very different backgrounds and personalities, form an everlasting alliance. Mukta,...

The Miseducation of a Zombie by Timothe Davis is marvelously clever satire, centered around his main character - a human by the name of Jo V. Al, or Vic to his friends; a high ranking official known as a Serenity Ambassador, or keeper of the...