When an author quotes a classical writer or two at the beginning of his book, you are likely to expect a literary treat. Strangers in Another Country is Lawrence G. Taylor’s collection of two short stories and two novellas set in the late 60s between...

Sylvester W. Jeffrey, who was called S.W., lived with his siblings on the family farm in Putnam County in northwestern Ohio. Their parents died in 1847. When their grandfather died in 1852, the oldest brother Oliver took over the management of the farm. Aunt Sarah...

It’s fair to say that Different by Datta Groover is a book with a lot going on. What starts as a family drama, with a couple going to marriage counseling, quickly elevates into much more. The family, husband and wife Frank and Sophia, their two...

To the Top of Greenfield Street is a coming of age novel for young adults written by Ryan Standley. It was June and summer should have been Eric’s next opportunity to shed his chubby-boy image through hours of basketball and healthy eating. But this June...

Lost Horses by Mark Saha is a collection of stories based upon true-to-life human emotions and characters involved in situations that range from the heartrending tale of a college student suckered into a deal in “Wide River” to the humorous situational misdirection in “Why Men...

Beloved Comrades: A Novel in Stories by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is an engrossing account of a synagogue and the people who entered it. Spanning three generations, the novel captures the varied lives that touched it or were touched by it. No one knows what goes...

If The Art of Love (& Loathing) by Stephen Daniel Ruiz were an academic treatise, it might be called: A Study in Cynicism. But it is not. Nor, as might be suggested by this inauspicious opening, is it gratuitously heavy-handed in its mordacity. Quite the...

Tsavo: Oddball Researchers Use Data and Guns to Save African Elephants by Daniel B. Botkin is an engaging story that highlights the plight of elephant conservation efforts amidst a backdrop of foreign intervention, danger, violence, local cultural norms, and scientific investigation. Told from numerous character...

Hey You! The Story of a Special Love & Friendship Between Generations... by David Liam Michaels is an engaging tale of love and friendship that brought tears to my eyes. In this novel, the author explores an angle of relationships that is hardly present in...

Death's Kiss is a work of fiction in the dystopian, science fiction, and thriller sub-genres, and was penned by author Regie Khemvisay. In a high concept future built after a terrifying virus wipes out three-quarters of the world’s population, the isolated land of Yliria seems...