My Kingdom, Your Heaven by Scott C. Davis is a fantasy novel that would appeal most to a diverse audience of young adults and adults who enjoy fast paced mystery/fantasy novels. The book takes place during the time period of the American Civil War and...

Nighthawk: Chief Hazel by C. Edgar North is a novel that will undoubtedly tantalize readers who love character-driven stories; it is a compelling tale involving drug dealers, arms trafficking, murder, and a couple who will fight all odds to stay together and to protect their...

A Wizard's Forge by A.M. Justice is the first book in The Woern Saga, a fantasy that has elements of a thriller and sci-fi beautifully knit into its fabric, a compelling tale of war, kidnapping, revenge and redemption. Many years ago, a crew of explorers...

Readers looking for a character-driven tale with a strong storyline will enjoy Mike Miller’s Worthy of This Great City, a novel with powerful themes that are masterfully integrated into the plot. Readers will encounter two memorable characters, among others; the journalist, Con Manos, and a...

Summer of Change is an adventure novel for young adults and preteens written by Martha Passel. MatiLou Butler and her parents moved away from the city and onto their 40-acre farm some fifty miles away from Albuquerque, New Mexico when she was six years old....

Set against the backdrop of the Christmas season, Milton the Christmas Moose by Steve and Jean Goodwin is a story of compassion, self-acceptance, and love. Milton the Moose loves Christmas and his entire family, along with him, counted down the days to Christmas every year....

If I Suddenly Became a Bumblebee by Regina Puckett is an entertaining and delightful storybook for young readers where they get to see what would happen if one turns into a bumblebee, a furry cat, a galloping horse, an adorable doggie, a beautiful starfish, a...

Words are about expressions of emotions or events. Words can tell a story, become a novel, create a poem or become as personal as in a memoir, biography or autobiography. In Running Wild Anthology of Short Stories Volume 1 by Lisa Diane Kastner, you will...

Life at the Oaklyn Diner was pretty much all Lauren knew. She clocked in, did her shift, and spent nearly all of her spare time in the company of the diner owners, Mr. and Mrs. P. With her father’s erratic work hours and unpredictable alcohol...

Trace by Ian M. Smith is the story of Joanne Shaughnessy in what started out as a normal day, searching for a job and answers to her phantom limb pain. The New Age doctor she sees suggests she participates in a study on the Chi...

Do You Want to Work in Baseball? by Bill Geivett is an engaging read that gives insights on baseball with details on the preparation and work that goes behind getting an interview call or employment in the competitive world of professional sports. The author’s experience...

Jason Henderson's Beneath the Bridge is another beautiful novel I have read this year. When Elle Jensen’s mother is murdered, the only logical thing for the girl and her father to do is get as far away from Seattle as possible. In her new setting,...

Rise of the Aranthians features the first three books in the Osric's Wand series by Jack D. Albrecht Jr and Ashley Delay, a fantasy series that will take readers to strange lands filled with magic and extraordinary characters. The Wand-Maker’s Debate features Osric and his...

Weedmonkey by Lisa V. Proulx is a moving memoir which tells the story of how a little girl called Virgie was brought into the world amidst the remnants of what was the old south, amongst wealth, judgement, poverty, and injustice. Virgie’s mother is considered a...

Rachel McGrath's memoir, Embracing the Storm, is possibly one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read. Her style, transparency, openness and storytelling pull you deep into this heart-wrenching account of her battle against her body to conceive and carry a baby to full term....

Babushka loves to tell her grandson, Janoush, bedtime stories. She is a very seasoned storyteller and each story she tells has a lesson, a moral, to share. There is the story of the ladybug and the daisy and the mean boy set on destroying everything...

The White Tower by Michael Wisehart is the first book in The Aldoran Chronicles. In this world, the use of magic is forbidden because the Great Wizard Wars wreaked havoc in Aldoran, yet the ones who judge and persecute wielders of magic use magic themselves...

Many people think that Madison Rosewood has it all – a free ride to college, a great best friend, and the chance to make something of herself. For Madison, though, that isn’t important because, now that she is turning 18, she can finally begin the...

Tate is struggling with the fact that her parents are dead, her Nana is dying, her husband is cheating on her, and she is keeping all of the pain deep within. With her last breath, Nana Maria asks Tate to go to Europe and...

In The Dark Side of Honor by S.T. Phillips, two worlds collide. In Belize, drug kingpin Jorge Deperalta - aka The Shark - ran his multi-billion dollar empire trafficking cocaine and literally feeding traitors to the four tiger sharks contained on his compound. Recently, his...