Traitor’s Knot by Cryssa Bazos is a riveting historical romance set against the backdrop of political turmoil, a historic moment in the English Civil War. It’s England in 1650, King Charles I has just been executed by Parliament, and the country is experiencing a semblance...

Afterdeath by Benoit Chartier is a well-crafted tale that will interest fans of young adult paranormal stories. The story starts on a very dismal note that will immediately enable the reader to connect with the compelling characters: “No angels showed up at Grandma Rose’s funeral....

Have you ever watched those TV shows about hoarders and wondered how on earth people can live like that? Perhaps you’ve asked yourself what drives them to fill their kitchens, bathrooms and every room of the house with stuff they’ve dug out of trash piles...

Gene Madness by Linda Guyan is a murder mystery. Meet Tessa North. She’s a serial killer, her entire life built on lies and on secrets. Someone is watching her though, someone knows exactly what she is. Everything changes when she receives a strange package with...

Pigment: The Limbs of the Mukuyu Tree is a literary fiction thriller written by Renee Topper. Aliyah Scott was born with albinism, and her life in the United States was made challenging by the genetic factor that made her skin white, unlike the rich chocolate...

Murphy's Law and the Outdoorsman by Alex Danchanko Jr may be short, but it was very educational. In the book, Danchanko tells of some of the adventures he has had while fishing and hunting. There are twenty-nine short stories in the book and every...

Shaken by Evangeline Kelly is a novel in the Christian contemporary romance genre. It is written in the first person and features Olivia, who has just made the biggest sacrifice of her life. After quitting her job and moving closer to her boyfriend, Harrison, she...

With a print bag over her shoulder, long red hair, and dressed in a frumpy T-shirt and a hideous gold-colored shawl, Ellie Parker was not anyone’s typical date. As Ellie queues at the coffee shop with her heart thumping loudly in her chest, she cannot...

Many children wonder why their parents insist on nightly bath-time. Bathing, to a child, seems to be a pointless endeavor; after all, we will be getting dirty all over again tomorrow. But what if we decided not to bathe for a few days? What kind...

My Buddy Knows Letters by Keith Wheeler is the first in a series of children’s read-along picture books that enable children to enjoy their educational journey. The book has a unique approach to teaching the alphabet as it begins with showing children a picture of...

Murdered In Malaysia: The Altantuya Story by E.S. Shankar is a true crime tale that explores the 2006 murder of the twenty-eight-year-old Mongolian Altantuya. Who actually killed this brilliant woman and for what reason? Much has been made of the murder and questions raised with...

From House to Home (Karina’s Journey Book 1) by Patricia Bell opens with Karina on her way home from school. All the emergency services, including the police, surround the trailer that is her home. Despite seeing a body, who may or may not be her...

The Escape to Cabo is a nonfiction memoir written by S.A. LaPoint. Scott Frieze had never quite gotten over his childhood obsession with becoming a bank robber. He was in the early stages of a comfortable middle-class, middle-age existence, when he decided, finally, to act...

On her first day at Delwick High, sophomore Faith Ticknor is experiencing a mixture of anticipation, fear, and excitement. Being the “new girl” is not fun, but at least she could hope for the best. She had friends in Brownsville and was confident she would...

Speak For The Dead is the seventh book in Christopher Valen’s police procedural series about St. Paul homicide detective John Santana. Born in Colombia and exiled after the powerful Calí cartel killed his parents (for reasons unspecified in this book, but which I’m guessing were...

In introducing Dare to Choose: A Journey of Self-Healing, Marie Chronopoulos states: “A book on self-healing is never just a book. An idea for a book that finds its spark in the shadow of cancer is never just the seed of a story. It becomes...

Good Girls on Bad Drugs: Addiction Nonfiction of the Unhappy Hookers by Mark Mathew Braunstein is a true story. Set near to two of the largest casinos, this is the tale of the girl-next-door, the women who become hooked on heroin, coke, crack and opioids,...

Greekscapes: Illustrated Journeys With an Artist is a nonfiction travel memoir written by Pamela Jane Rogers. Pamela was always an artist. Her mother enjoyed telling the story about how her infant daughter had created her first work of art drawing with her mother’s lipstick...

Sweet, Sweet Stories, Some Sweeter than Others by Daniel Curzon is an eclectic anthology of short stories, where some are not actually ‘sweet,’ despite the title. Suffer the Little Children starts the collection, a story about a kind-hearted couple who are unable to bear children....

Counting Sea Life with the Little Seahorse is an educational and delightfully illustrated children’s book, written by Sheri Fink and Derek Taylor Kent, and illustrated by Lynx Animation Studios. Immediately engaging the reader, the Little Seahorse takes children through a marvelous underwater world of magic...