After a year of teaching well-behaved, intelligent students in New York, Kenda Kirkenbaum takes a chance and accepts a job in West Belfield, Mississippi, certain that the only thing different is the location. Unfortunately, Kenda has no idea of social politics in the Deep South....

Mother Blues by Owen Thomas is a novel with emotional depth. Set against the backdrop of turbulence, as Hurricane Harvey submerges Houston in misery, Davis Payne lives with inner chaos that has threatened his life over the years. A man plagued by tragedy, he has...

One Last Good Day (Eelings’ Rare Earth, Book 1) by Kimberly Coleman is set in the sleepy small town of Moira, Texas. The Eeling brothers, Warren and Rich, argue about money, their land deed, and about moving to Dallas for a better life. Left by...

I so enjoyed Don Trowden’s Normal Family, the first book in this trilogy, that I didn’t think twice before grabbing No One Ran to the Altar. The 10-year-old narrator of that first book, Henry, had me laughing and crying throughout the entire story. I was...

Rattlesnake & Son is the eleventh novel in the Rattlesnake Lawyer Series by Jonathan Miller. Dan Shepard was called to Truth and Consequences, New Mexico to represent a boy who had been caught shoplifting. Thinking that this would be an open and shut case, he...

Young Diamond La Rue knows that family is everything. She has grown up feeling protected by her closely bonded family until she goes to college. And now, it’s a completely different world out here, a world that will challenge her naivety and family beliefs. As...

Mariposa Intersections by Bruno Huber is the story of two people who came from different walks of life but destiny brought them together. Rafael and Gabriela were young when they first met, so it was inevitable that they drew apart. Years later, Gabriela is now...

Wildfire Weeds is a work of very recent historical fiction focused on the cultivation of illegal marijuana plants and was penned by author Mori Natura. The story focuses on an intimate week in the lives of Willow and Spruce Wilder in Mendocino County, where their...

Achieving Superpersonhood: Three East African Lives is a novel in the literary genre penned by author William Peace. In this sweeping narrative that crosses cultural divides and exposes the realities of living on the continent of Africa, we encounter the choices of three young people...