Life is hard for 24-year-old Truly Alaney. She works three jobs to keep living in an apartment owned by a horrible landlord and to pay for her psychiatric consultations. She has trouble sleeping and suffers from nightmares. She has no memories of her childhood. When...

Cooperative Wisdom: Bringing People Together When Things Fall Apart by Donald Scherer PhD. and Carolyn Jabs M.A. is an insightful book for readers who prefer to do the right thing for others instead of bad and harmful deeds. Human beings flourish in settings where cooperation...

Vampire Huntress by Rosemary A Johns is book 1 of the Rebel Angels Series. Violet was a normal girl, taken in as a baby after being abandoned in London. Everything changes on the day she turns 21. Suddenly, Violet is awash with powers she never...

Shadow of the Coalition: The Two Towers Dystopian Science Fiction Romance series by Jamie A. Waters features headstrong Kayla, a ruin rat with ties to the tower and emerging abilities that make her a valuable commodity. As she struggles to manage both her love life...

Antitheus by G.A. Minton is a blend of horror and fantasy, a story that brilliantly handles the all-time conflict between good and evil. The very title of the book suggests a subject that is “against God,” and yes, readers are drawn into a world where...

Psychological disturbing and emotionally intense, The Rites of Passage by Jonathan A. Taylor is a coming-of-age story with LGBTQ hints, a novel that follows the story of Jamie Goldberg and his quest to understand and accept who he is. From the early years of his...

Ruins of Fate: The Omni Towers, Prequel by Jamie Waters takes place after a world similar to Earth now is devastated by environmental disasters. Forced to sift through dangerous ruins just to survive, the main character, Skye, struggles to maintain her precarious place in a...

Jack Cooper was only twelve when he lost his father and best friend, John Cooper (Redds), to a tragic accident. Now his mom, Jill, urges Jack to travel with her from Pennsylvania to Alaska; it will be a trip Redds planned for the whole family...

The Irreducible Primary is a non-fiction consideration of spirituality penned by author Rob Taylor, self-summarized as ‘A Dialogue on Nature, Spirituality, and the Human Condition’. This short work of deep thought considers the relationships we, as humans, have with ourselves as well as aspects such...

Dogs Don’t Look Both Ways is a fictionalized memoir written by Jane Hanser. It’s Joey’s story from the time he was born, along with his eight other brothers and sisters to mother Cocoa. Joey is a Labrador retriever. His bloodlines are quite distinguished with a...

Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir On Growing the Courage to Bloom is a work of non-fiction in the autobiographical, memoir, and inspirational writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and is penned by Kylee J. Marshall. In this heartfelt...

Suspense, intrigue, mystery, excitement and romance, Land Sharks: A Swindle in Sumatra has it all and more. Lexi is a fraud investigator for an exclusive Beverly Hills bank and the heroine of the story. She is sent on an assignment to Sumatra to bring back...

The Brothers’ Keepers by Matthew Peters is an intriguing psychological thriller about a Jesuit religious historian who is asked to assist the FBI in uncovering a US Senator’s murder. The protagonist, Nick, enters a world of white-knuckled friction where scandalous politics tangle with ecclesiastical Soldiers...

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...

"Vignettes & Postcards" edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook contains a collection of humorous, lyrical, and philosophical short stories that I found utterly engaging. The editors demonstrate keen literary instincts in anthologizing these fine pieces of short fiction. Anna Pook has led writer's workshops...

In Homecoming, a Wisconsin Reunion Romance by Janet Wellington, Cory had her heart broken in divorce. Her husband used her to get where he wanted to be in his career and then left her for someone younger and richer. Cory moved back to Faythe, Wisconsin,...

Have you ever had that kind of week where your (largely uninsured) home/business burns to the ground, your wife leaves you, and the IRS starts hounding you for back taxes? That’s the kind of week it’s been for Herodotus Shapiro. When he decides to escape...

Coyote’s Song by Renee Benzaim connects two women from the past and the present through a Miwok legend. In 1989, five-year-old Evangeline disappeared from her front yard. Ten years later in 1999, Hannah Kelly is searching for a subject for her new novel. She investigates...

The Proposal: A Leap of Faith is a romantic short story based on actual events, and written by Cheryl Holloway. After ten years of dating her much-loved beau, Marvin, Carol wonders if he will ever pop the question. Not wanting to die a single woman,...

Linda Joy Myers' The Forger of Marseille is set in WWII, as Europe falls into the terrifying grip of Hitler and Nazi Germany. The story is inspired by the historical figure of Varian Fry, an American journalist who helped countless refugees escape from France. Sarah...