Hard Cider by Barbara Stark-Nemon is a book about discovery and determination. The main character, Abbie Rose, is a woman in her fifties looking to explore the opportunities in a new chapter of her life. Though her children are all grown, she is slowly getting...

Billy Graham in Heaven by Bill Branyon is a science fiction tale that delves into an otherworldly landscape following the death of the titular character. As promised, the setting for a great deal of the book is in heaven, but not the heavenly vista that...

The Singer at Penn Station: A Script Based on a True Story by Josephine deBois is filled with drama, intelligently written and exciting, to say the least. Sergeant Samuel is downgraded and he finds himself working with Huang in the traffic control department. It is...

From page one, the reader discovers this is not a typical romantic novel. Annealing is not a common word in the English language, and the author includes the definition: to heat and cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; to...

In his novel Where Summer Strives, Thomas Thornburg takes us on a journey to a working class neighbourhood of a Midwestern city, towards the end of the Second World War, where social and racial divides are very much still the norm. When a wealthy, educated,...

Although Mutch Katsonga, author of Where Wildfires Glow, classifies his book as a Young Adult/Coming of Age story, I’d be more inclined to describe it as a psychological thriller: the plot and one of the principle characters, Carol, are positively chilling! Furthermore, given the information...

The Pages in Between: A Story of Love, Life & Cocktails by Renay Jordan is a heartwarming story of love, friendship, parenting and the adventure of two woman — Lilah and Isabel — on a journey that will make you question what you think you...

When Richard Winters points his Harley away from New York and heads south, looking for peace and a release from the memories of a devastating love affair, he wants nothing more than solitude and an opportunity to find himself again. The small town of Summitville...

The Year of Oceans by Sean Anderson is a novel about the grief suffered by one man after the death of his wife. Hugo Larson, a retired accountant living in North Seattle, lives alone and goes through a gamut of emotions in the aftermath of...

Mae Keaney returns to her childhood home in the out-of-the-way Chappaquiddick region of Martha’s Vineyard with only one thought: rebuild her life and leave the darkness of the past behind, and she is determined to count on no one. A cottage overlooking the water offers...