What can I say? Twelve by Kindra M. Austin is the most powerful thing I have read in recent memory. It may be the most powerful collection of poetry on the planet. It is real. It is honest and devoid of the pretentiousness of most...

Hood Educated is Roxana Preciado’s honest and passionate poetry collection that reveals her struggles, pain, courage and healing process. It is a collection about loneliness, brokenness, hopelessness yet defying all odds to become much more than you thought was possible. The collection is powerful and...

MOMcarcerated is a humorous fiction novel about aging written by M.R. Abbott. Hedwig Elisabeth Dorner, or Mom, was a sprightly and relatively agile woman of seventy-six years, who still loved to take care of her garden, itself a glowing testament to the skill and green...

Gary McDougall’s Don’t Tell Me There Ain’t No God reads in such a way that you are immediately invested in who this man is and what is transpiring on the page. One of the quotes that really painted a picture for me of what life...

Kayla Koala and her Mama is a children’s picture book written by Ha-Le Thai and illustrated by Chuileng Muivah. Kayla Koala and her mama lived idyllic lives in the Australian bush. By day, they were each other’s playmates and at night Mama was always there...

Trauma For Sale by Roxana Preciado is a very intimate collection of poetry that comes with full-color artworks and personal photographs of the author. Having gone through numerous traumatic experiences in her life, she has finally conquered her demons and is making a beautiful life...

When life throws a stick into the spokes of our bicycle, we often sit down, head in our hands, and say: “Why me?” What if we really should be asking ourselves: “Why not me? How can I turn this into something positive?” In...

Graceful Agony: An Intimate Memoir of Living with Fibro & Chronic Fatigue is a heart-wrenching memoir by Debra Morgan. Living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, Morgan takes us on an intimate journey of how the disease has transformed her life. Raised by her grandmother and...

Gaslighting by Deborah Vinall is a self-help book providing a step-by-step guide to identifying and dealing with being gaslit in relationships and, ultimately, how to recover from emotional abuse. She starts by helping the reader determine whether they are experiencing gaslighting by asking specific questions...

In Invisible Tears, an autobiography by Iram Gilani, the author’s early childhood shifted with her mother’s grief over the son she lost. She was sent to live with a family that couldn’t have children of their own while her mother was carrying another child. This...

Little Boy, I Know Your Name: A Second-Generation Memoir from Inherited Holocaust Trauma by Mitchell Raff is an insightful, heartwrenching story of the author's life. Mitchell's father and mother both endured the unspeakable evils perpetuated on the Jews during the Holocaust. This left them ill-equipped...

Mr. Kerfuffle Lost His Duffle by R.W. Starr is a delightful and charming story about a friendly ogre with big dreams. Mr. Kerfuffle proves that not all ogres are the same as he works to care for the forest and all his friends. But as...

Do toxic relationships make you feel helpless and exhausted? Do you have doubts about the possibility of ever healing from them? Good news! If you want to develop genuine interpersonal connections and overcome unhealthy ones, Ava Linden's Healing After Toxic Relationships is the right book...

Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings by Brandi Dredge is an amazing true story of courage and resilience. Sixteen-year-old Caroline loved hanging out with her friends, but she longed to meet the man who owned the apartment they met in. Some...

Next Chapter Travel by Emma Scattergood is a fascinating journey across the world, utilizing cruise ships, trains, buses, and even tuk-tuks to visit an amazing variety of countries and cultures. In a post-COVID world, two middle-aged Australians, both with physical constraints, wanted to reignite their...

Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks by Emma Scattergood is the first of a series of travelogues that document the author and her husband Darryl’s adventures in travelling around the world by a variety of means. An inveterate blogger from Australia, the author has compiled a...

In Fractured, Debra Morgan recounts her upbringing after being abandoned by her biological mother as a young child; her grandmother raises her in a household characterized by blurred family roles. Her upbringing is marked by repeated exposure to emotional and physical abuse, along with manipulation...

Brinda Carey has seen more turmoil and heartache in her own life than most will ever see in a theater. A victim of incest before kindergarten, she endures the aggressive advances of the one man in her life she should be able to trust infinitely....

Reading I Just Wanted Love by D.J. Burr was a revelation. It was also heartbreaking to so intensely feel the pain and confusion of what it is like to grow up gay and "co-dependent." Just what does it mean to be a "co-dependent"? According to...

Forever Mine is a lovely romance traveling from the present back to the past of 1897. The story opens in the present when Victoria enters an art gallery to find a special picture and a very special man, though she doesn’t really know what they...