“We are in this world to climb life’s mountains...” states Tracy Stopler through her fictional self, Tali, in her unique, based-on-fact novel, The Ropes That Bind. Tali believes that we feel our best “when we overcome obstacles” because in the “middle of life’s difficulties lies...

Life is full of both challenges and blessings, and one can seem to overshadow the other at times. In Larry's case, he happens to be swimming in challenges. Larry's marital problems receive the proverbial final nail in the coffin when his wife asks to bring...

Finding The Way by Immigrant Writers Association is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and essays from thirteen Canadian immigrants. The first in the fiction section of the anthology, Where I Set My Anvil, immediately sets the general tone of the collection. 'The land here, despite...

Every Saint a Sinner by Pearl Solas is a bittersweet story that defies and sometimes horrifies the imagination and yet captures the reader in its overall themes of love and forgiveness. When lawyer Veronica Matthews’ twelve-year-old son is raped by a Catholic priest at his...

When is a memoir not a memoir? When it's The Truth: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel of Love, Betrayal, Redemption, and Revenge (So Help Me God Series) by DF Kennedy, a riveting, romantic work of fiction inspired by actual experiences in the author’s life. The emotions...

Malone Ridge by James K. Dill follows a young woman's journey as she navigates the trials and tribulations of life to carve out a path for herself. Eve Malone was the star cross-country runner of her high school, eager to pursue further studies in college....

Forbidden love features prominently in Paolo G. Grossi's The Tiergarten Tales. Take a journey along the streets of Berlin when it was the heart of the great Prussian empire and feel the pulse of the men who longed for companionship of a similar kind but...

Life Dust by Pam Webber is a historical romance set in the Vietnam war era. Andy and Nettie were looking forward to getting married. Planning their wedding and living in blissful oblivion, their illusion was broken when Andy was suddenly deployed to South Vietnam for...

Deborah’s Gift by Lois Ann Abraham is a tale of triumph born out of tragedy. Deborah’s parents died when she was young, leaving Deborah in the care of her grandmother in St. Louis. Deborah learns to paint her way out of heartache. She hopes that...

Dineh is an autobiographical novel by Ida Maze and is translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub from Yiddish to English. Describing the personal experience of a woman living through the First Russian Revolution in the form of an autobiography, Dineh takes the readers to an impoverished...