Children have a relentless and overwhelming purpose in life: to live, to grow, to learn, and, yes, to ask too many questions. From their waking moments till they drift off to dreamland at night, there will be an endless barrage of questions, usually directed at...

Abriana & Josephine is an LGBTQ romance novel by Edmund Hulton and Ann Cushing Tobin. Born to a middle-class family of third-generation Irish immigrants in Bogota, New Jersey, Josephine O'Brien had a rough childhood growing up abused by her father. On the other hand, au...

In Forest High by Bob Boone, nine stories offer slice-of-life portraits of teachers with secret lives, checkered pasts, bad habits, fleeting romances, surprising depths, and questionable values. You know, like most of us. I thought the story called Coach was especially poignant, largely because of...

Henry Bradfield travels home with his family to visit his parents, only to find them clearing out all their old stuff in a garage sale. He isn't bothered until he discovers some of his most precious childhood mementos are the fastest-moving items. Trying to secure...

The Sharecropper's Son by Bobby Dan Cobbs follows the life of Dusty, a young man trapped in the cycle of poverty and oppression in rural Alabama. In the cotton fields, Dusty is consumed by a family's history of exploitation stemming from slavery's aftermath, dreaming of...

Stumbling Stones is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, interpersonal drama, and sociocultural writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Bonnie Suchman, the novel follows the life of Alice Heppenheimer, a woman born into a...

A Regrettable Charade is a work of fiction penned by author Laura Beers in the historical romance, interpersonal drama, and suspense subgenres, and is the sixth novel in the Lords & Ladies of Mayfair book series. The work is best suited to the general adult...

Climbing to the Sun by Shelley Burchfield started with Kizzy Beecham giving birth to a little girl on January 23, 1901. Seeta Young, the midwife, assured the scared young mother that her daughter looked like a white baby, although her biological father was black. Twenty-seven...

In Love, Ruthie by Bonnie MacDougall, Ruthie Lucas is enjoying her view of Sebastian Bay when she receives a letter from a close friend, Jane. The letter asks Ruthie for her interpretation of a quote from a William Wordsworth poem, described as "child is father...

Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a novel by Jeffrey Blount. Ostracized by his family after a visit to a prostitute is sensationalized in the media, a well-known Black billionaire flees Washington, D.C. amid the heartbreaking ending of his marriage to seek seclusion and...