The Day I Saw the Hummingbird by Paulette Mahurin follows the adventures and life of Oscar, a young black slave in the heartlands of Louisiana around the time of the Civil War. Oscar and his mother dream of freedom and a life of dignity and...

What Little Girls Are Made Of by C.A. Whittingham is a crime thriller that centers around and bravely confronts the last literary taboo, pedophilia. The narrative dances neatly throughout the point of view of the antagonist and perpetrator, Stefan Mademan, who is being early paroled...

Murcheson County by Rodney Page takes the reader back to the dark days of America’s South when the frontier hinterlands of Georgia were first being opened up for settlement and farming, all on the backs of the Negro slaves. Maureen Salter is reflecting back on...

Two seventeen-year-old teenagers, Beck and Dean, more like brothers than friends, want to run away from their small town of Clatskanie, Oregon. Defiant and reckless Beck wants to escape from the tortuous stranglehold of his abusive stepfather. For years, a world of his own has...

Only seventeen years old, Marilyn VanHoosen, a victim of tuberculosis, was confined to the Trudeau Sanitorium for months. Her mother, Mildred, had refused to have her vaccinated and then seemed angry that Marilyn contracted the disease. Marilyn had recently discovered that her father, Pierre, had...

Billy by Shirley Dawson tells the story of 7-year-old Billy throughout the Second World War. Billy thinks nothing of air raids, they are just a part of his life, until a bomb drops on his school. Scared, he is torn from his family and sent...

Petals: Unfurling a Life with Mental Illness by Marti Eicholz is an engrossing story that is character-driven and explores the journey of Mary Turner, a woman who had a difficult childhood and who has never felt like she really belonged. Determined to succeed, she elopes...

Every Bright and Broken Thing is a work of dramatic and highly emotive teen fiction penned by author Brian McBride. The central characters form a dual perspective in the work, showcasing two brothers who are at different stages of young adulthood. Liam seems like a...

No Looking Back: A Powerful and Emotionally-charged Story of a Young Girl's Struggle for Dignity and Self-Worth by Shirley Dawson is an inspiring story that many readers, especially women, can relate to. Josephine “Josie” Pritchard’s childhood had been punctuated by physical and verbal abuse from...

As accurate as the description of this thriller is, what Serial Wives by Yvonne Walus is really about is so much more than its engaging plotline and its unexpected sub-plots. Enter the world of Constable Zero Zimmerman and the well-paid escorts, Cora and Joy, whom...