Stories like The Ormond Girl by Mireille Pavane remind me why I love short fiction. The story moves along at a fast clip with an elegant and fluid style reminiscent of Jane Austen and concludes with a seemingly ambiguous ending, though enough clues are given...

Living with IBS or any form of digestive disorder can be a challenge at best. What can one eat? What foods are making one sick – full of gas, cramps, and worse, like Crohn’s or colitis? How does one eat through a flare-up and make...

The Rekindler by Chiara Talluto is a dystopian novel that explores themes of faith, revival, and resistance in a world dominated by a one-world government and religion. The story follows Captain Benjamin Morris, a former Marine and devout Christian, who is determined to resurrect Christianity...

Spanning a lifetime of seventy years, Dawn Beecroft Teetzel’s My Mary: A Story of One Barnardo Home Child is a heartbreaking and emotional story, but also a deeply moving tale of enduring love. Mary Thistle, the titular Mary, was a Barnardo Home Child. Like thousands...

The World We Deserve is a work of fiction penned by author T.K. Kanwar in the dystopian, science fiction, and adventure subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience. The narrative unfolds in a dystopian mid-21st-century America, transformed by the Great Reset. Digital...

The Piano Lover is a work of fiction in the cultural writing, interpersonal drama, and intrigue subgenres, and it forms the opening novel of the Piano Lover Trilogy. The work is best suited to mature readers owing to one explicit scene and some adult themes....

In books one and two of the Ages of Malice series by Lloyd Jeffries, reporter Emery Merrick is offered a second chance at life, then introduced to Thaddeus Drake, who's actually the first murderer in the history of man: Cain. Assigned to a special report,...

Maya loves the outdoors. She loves to watch the leaves falling and she enjoys dancing to the music made by the swaying trees. She is like the lotus flower, “a strong-willed flower, resilient as a nurtured child.” In Patricia Ambinder’s As Maya Grows in the...

Petra, a spirited young wild horse, has some growing up to do. In the meantime, however, she loves to gallop like the wind, faster than any of the other wild horses in her herd, even faster than her best friend, Felia. In Hazel Dains’s Like...

Fracked is an outstanding novel by Morris Denton. Rand Holub was left at the front gate of The Ranch, a school for troubled boys. Rand was autistic, and his parents no longer wanted to look after him. Souter exposed Rand to as many different mechanical...

In So What? Keep Going!, Rob L. Lowe shares his experience of abuse, racism, and making a great life regardless of the troubles he encountered. Rob, who grew up without his parents, had a rough time finding balance in life. He found himself moving from...

Incepta Nova by Robin Alexander Young is a young adult dystopian novel about a sixteen-year-old boy waking up in the corruption and politics of a future civilization. Kayden McRae and his brother Brodie have been left all alone in the world after their uncle's passing....

Fed up with his renowned warrior mother's overbearing behavior toward him, Kavi disobeys her orders and sets out on a perilous quest with a young Bricker. Little does he know how unprepared he is for this adventure until he and his friends are taken prisoner...

A Thunderbolt Into Nettle is a work of fiction penned by author Samantha E Talbot in the historical, occult suspense, and dark drama subgenres. It is best suited to adult readers owing to some moderate scenes of violence. Readers are invited to explore the gruesome...

Scarlett, Izzy, and Hazel were perfectly ordinary elementary school kids. When the trio wished to punish all the bad guys in the world, they did not imagine that their wish would come true in a most unusual way. As it happened, the lunch ladies passed...

My Favorite Things: And What My Friends Like Too is a children's book written and illustrated by Jeanne Holmberg. If you love playtime with your friends, what are their names? Riley loves the playground, eating berries, reading, going to the zoo, drawing, and petting baby...

Slavia is not immune to the wave of changes across the Eastern Bloc countries brought about by Perestroika. Even the police, who had been trained to suppress demonstrations against the regime, looked on, as this was what the people wanted. Ionescu had been the president...

Before You by Cheryl Lyric follows a woman's path to self-discovery as she navigates her way through love and romance. Raised in a dysfunctional family, Isabelle Amour grew up dreaming of one day falling in love with the ideal man and having a family of...

Possibilities is a collection of stories and musings by Jeff Layton. It has themes of life, death, and the afterlife. The characters have lucid dreams and subconscious experiences that transform their lives and open their minds to new possibilities. Join a hiker who finds a...

Piano Lover: The Musical is a work of fiction in the literary, interpersonal drama, and sociocultural issues subgenres, and it forms the second work in a trilogy. It is best suited to mature adult readers owing to its themes and some explicit sexual scenes. Penned...