In As Ever, Pudd, Anita was in a marriage for many years to a man whom she loved dearly and had a family with. They had a good marriage, but when she met Lou, she didn’t realize how much more she could care for a...

Christopher Madsen did not imagine that he would write a book but circumstances find him as the new owner of a sailboat that has seen glorious days and this will change his life in a way that he never imagined. Rowdy is the story of...

Susan Elmore’s novel, Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes, is a non-fiction, true crime story that happened in the late 1800s. Emma Bond, a young schoolteacher is viciously gang-raped and left for dead in her school. She miraculously survives...

Letters to Loretta From The Radio Shack by Laura Lynn Ashworth is a collection of letters between two childhood friends, Loretta and Sal, during WWII. Through their correspondence, Loretta and Sal slowly blossom into sweethearts as Loretta writes from their hometown of Chicago, Illinois, while...

Gilbert Ohanian does a wonderful job dissecting the experience of bullying, not only from the child's perspective but from the parent's and teacher's viewpoints as well. In his book, Chestnuts: A True Story About Being Bullied, he shares his personal story of how he was...

The horrifying story of Valya Chervenyashka is one that you will not soon forget. Notes From Hell by Nikolay Yordanov and Valya Chervenyashka relates the story of the Bulgarian nurse who was kidnapped from the El Fatih Hospital, Benghazi, Libya in 1999, blindfolded, gagged and...

Broken Pieces by Rachel Thompson is truly a unique book. A compilation of essays, each one independent of but connected to the rest, so as to construct a seemingly random string of confessions from the very soul of the author. Seen as one, they make...

Ruthless gang bangers, drug deals gone bad and bloody shootouts -- that's what you can expect in Welcome to the Brier Patch by Darrell McMann. This true crime drama tells the story of the life of McMann, a rookie white boy cop with the Mobile...

Typhoon Haiyan, the Untold Story: A Story of Hope and Survival by Albert Mulles is a book that describes one of the most devastating typhoons in history; Typhoon Haiyan. It is about the incredible journey of survival, chaos, loss and the struggle and will to...

A Girl Lost to the World and Found in the Art of War by Hailey Dollar is the author’s soul-searching story of her struggles, conflicts and her ups and downs in life. The book speaks about the author's constant need to connect with her inner...