In Motherhood, Siamak Vakili tells the story of a young woman, Ms. Shahverdi, whose life-long dream was to become a medical doctor. In spite of growing up in a very poor home, she got married to a respectable man while she was studying, fell pregnant...

Those Around Him by Brett Shapiro is a very unusual book but catches your interest from the first page to the last. The time period is 2019 in Florida sometime before Hurricane Dorian hit the coast. The main characters in this book are Andrew, Charles,...

The Substitute is Lacy’s story. The year is 1965, the day would have been her 70th wedding anniversary to Benjamin, but he died five years ago and she is missing him and remembering the life they shared. Lacy spends most of the story sitting in...

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,...

Coal is a slice-of-life story written by Dave von Beck. Rummaging through an old box in the basement of his childhood home in Seattle, forty-two-year-old Ken discovers a collection of letters saved by his older sister Carole Priscilla Sharpe, a.k.a. Cole. Eight years ago, his...

You Won’t Know Her Name by Shanti Hershenson tells a chilling story about an unnamed girl’s experiences with middle school bullying. Told in a unique style of poetry, The Girl begins a new middle school as an innocent eleven-year-old. Eager to fit in, she and...

Marriage, loss, and separation are well-defined in Peter A. Friedrichs’ And the Stars Kept Watch. Something precious has been building in the life of an ordinary family, but it all deteriorates after an unexpected tragedy. It becomes the moving personal story of grieving, anger, blame,...

Life Lessons by J.E. Rowney is an inspirational New Adult novel about Violet Cobham who dreams of becoming a midwife. Now the path to midwifery is hard work, and being part of a team, learning how to get along with and respect other members of...

The Buzz Boys, by Edward Izzi, is a touching and powerful coming-of-age novel about secrets, trauma, and friendship. The Buzz Boys centers around a group of friends who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. They could have called themselves the Z Boys because each...

Adapted from the screenplay The Third Man in the Ring, which in turn was inspired by the award-winning memoir My Life with the Third Man in the Ring by Barbara Stolfi, Requiem for a Referee relates the story of Teddy Martin, a famous boxing referee...