When we are young, we are so absorbed with our own lives and paving our own way in the world that we often don’t take the time to sit down with those who came before us. Often, our grandparents have lived through tough and trying...

A Dream Life: From the U.S. Army During the Berlin Crisis to the Spectacle of Hollywood and the Height of Broadway is an LGBTQ novel written by Patrick J. Suraci. When Philip Greco was called up for military service, the priest at Saint Malachy’s Actors’...

Dylan peeked around the corner and grinned. He wanted to sneak up on his daddy. He crouched down low and snuck down the hall. Tip, tip, tippy toe, and that is how Dylan snuck up on his daddy—always. Each time he tried to sneak up...

The Advocate's Justice (The Advocate Series) by Teresa Burrell is a murder mystery. Sabre Brown is an attorney with a job on her hands – to save Conner from a life behind bars. Fifteen-year-old Conner is accused of murdering Bullet, his grandma’s abusive boyfriend. The...

The Advocate’s Illusion by Teresa Burrell is the ninth in a series featuring the feisty and loveable Sabre Brown together with her long-suffering boyfriend JP, who doubles up as her private investigator. Ron, her brother, is also a part time member of the team. An...

Edwin Wong’s The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy is one of those books that invite one to discover new things about old fields. In this case, the subject is tragedy, one of the classic forms of art. Wong reaffirms its importance in our time because...

The Mark of Fallen Flame is the first book in the Weapon of Fire and Ash series by Brittany Matsen and it is an explosive opening for an urban fantasy novel with hints of coming of age. Emma Duvall is just two days away from...

The Time of No One by Tom De Poto is a brilliantly imagined and expertly written historical novel that plunges readers into a tense moment in Italy during WWII. Set against the backdrop of Rome in 1943, the story follows the dangerous adventure of an...

Meet Tommy who loves to help his Mommy in the storybook Mommy's Precious Helper by Hollie Day, and he will show young readers how to do it. Tommy is always by his Mommy's side and she loves the help he provides. She says that he...

Rebels and Thieves by Russell Williams is a crime thriller with a lot of merit, from the deft plotting to the ingenious handling of characters and thematic development. The conflict starts with the struggles of an investment company and quickly escalates into a terrorist threat...

Ted the Friendly Frog and the Race at Golden Lake is an animal adventure picture book for children, grades K-3, written by Scott McCall and illustrated by Autumn Brook. The Golden Lake Frog Meet was a major event for frogs, and it attracted participants from...

There are three modes of travel: air, land, and sea. Through the Porthole: First Cruise Cunard's Queen Victoria by Gary Troia takes readers on an exciting trip along with the author on his first cruise on the Queen Victoria. His account of ten days on...

In Ray Dennis Does The Secret by Gary Troia, as Ray Dennis sits handcuffed at the airport in Baltimore, about to be deported for drug offences, he wonders what his life has become. As he lands back in England, he is determined to discover why...

Indian Summer: A Tale of Lust, Murder and Class Division (Earl Town Book 1) by C. James Brown is a gritty crime novel. Earl Town, small town ex-cop turned private investigator, works out of his apartment in South Boston. His workload includes rather mundane tasks...

Plebe: My Year at The Citadel is a work of memoir non-fiction based around military experiences, written by author Doc Sanborn. Largely suitable for readers of all ages, the memoir takes us through the plebe year of its author, in which he was a new...

The Dung Beetles of Liberia by Daniel V Meier is the story of a young college undergraduate at Cornell who drops out of school to take a job flying planes in Liberia. He leaves behind his astonished family and his almost-fiancée in a bid to...

Sheriff Clay Finnes wasn’t sure what was happening in the normally sleepy community of Bulwark, Georgia. Outside of town, a foul-smelling green lake had appeared seemingly overnight and covered the road near J.B. Stratton’s cabin. Travelers in a Ford Fusion had attempted to drive through...

From Luke. G Dahl, author of the Daddy’s Curse series…which I really enjoyed reading…comes yet another story, Faith Under Water, that captures the heartaches of human suffering in a short novel. Like the previous series, Faith Under Water is a biography that reads more like...

Hidden Gems: Quest for the Great Diamond is an educational action and adventure novel for children and preteens written by Hagop Kane Boughazian and illustrated by Joel Sigua. Gemstone was a small village located next to the Jeweled Forest, a stunningly beautiful woodland retreat where...

Last Flocks of the Geese by Philip Dodd is a collection of verse that could possibly be described as both deeply diverse and eclectic. Dodd does not limit himself in his topics and ranges across various time periods and historical characters seemingly randomly and yet...