“Journey to Inner Light” is a collection of short stories by various authors coming from different parts of the world, with completely different backgrounds. All these authors, however, have something in common and that is the courage to face the challenges that life has to...

In "Breakdown at Clear River," senior Cullen Brewer seems to be the golden boy at Clear River College in West Virginia. He is the starting quarterback in the football team and also student body president. But, things begin to go wrong in the team when...

I very much enjoyed reading "The Iranian Scorpion" by William Peace. The story line was suspenseful and fast moving, with seamless plot lines that kept me guessing. Robert, a US government DEA agent, was stationed in Afghanistan to get a handle on and find a...

“A Pius Man” by Declan Finn revolves around Giovanni Figlia and his task to protect the new African pope who stirs up controversy for wanting to make Pius XII - otherwise known as the Hitler pope - a saint. Making things worse, a body falls...

“Sunderwynde Revisited” by Joel D. Bresler is a convoluted tale about a family of four living in a house that was built on ground cursed hundreds of years earlier by an angered medicine man. The curse was a bit obscure; it was either supposed to...

The premise of "Please Receive Your Healing from Heaven" is that, in broad terms, believers are not enjoying the fullness of blessings available from heaven. Cyndi White sets out to show believers how to do this and receive healing: physical, spiritual, mental, and also the...

It is 2003, and Pamela Beasley works for social services as a case manager. Three months later, however, she is charged with health care fraud and laundering. She is then sent to spend time behind bars where she learns how it is to fight for...

In "The 5 Feminine Power Virtues" Vanessa Halloum brings her readers on an exploratory journey of fulfilling their feminine needs amid this male-dominated world. Holloum completely redefines what being a woman is today, and how we should embrace our femininity instead of forcing ourselves to...

Elliot is living a life plagued by loneliness even if he doesn’t know it yet. He has his work, his training assistant, the Bennett family that work for him and a cantankerous father who mostly sits on the porch with his doting dog Banner. But...

In Waverly Curtis's latest Chihuahua mystery sleuth novel entitled "Chihuahua Confidential", Pepe and his companion Geri are invited to Hollywood to do a pilot for a new show called Dancing With Dogs. No sooner do they arrive at the studio than they discover that one...

In "Boom and Crash Musician", Sam Denov tells his poignant story as a child of a struggling immigrant family from Mogilev, now known as Belarus, in Chicago during 1930's Great Depression. The youngest of five children who lost his mother to suicide, Denov inherited his...

Societal norm is that Fridays are the best day for people with Monday being the worst. In fact, most heart attacks happen on Mondays! It all comes down to our perspective: how we perceive and handle life as it comes. We can either be empowered...

There was once a force of labor that was not led or represented by any...then came along the unions. They organized, fought for rights and seemed to better the lives of their members. But what happened behind the scenes? "Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and...

Most of us wouldn't think of pairing green beans with ice cream, but Bill Sims Jr. discovered that they ARE compatible. When as a young boy he refused to eat his green beans, his mother offered him ice cream as a reward and he miraculously...

Author Jim Haskins displays an incredible amount of courage and determination in "Our Hearts were Khaki and Gay"’ Back in 1950, openly admitting you were gay was unheard of. Then, compound it with the fact that he was also serving for the U.S. armed forces...

"Choice and Consequence" by Timothy Fiscus is a quick read, but upon finishing the book it is worthwhile to go back and review anything you may have highlighted or underlined. Fiscus has drawn on many sources such as Carolyn Myss, Zen, Deepak Chopra, popular movies,...

“The Answer: The Road to Peace” is an inspiring story written by R.S. Kurtz. In this book, Mrs. Kurtz tells about her personal journey through her more than 80 years of life. In this candid narrative, she describes what was like growing up as a...

"I Wonder What It’s Like To Be" is a children’s book about a little boy that walks around all of the time wondering. And the very first page explains wonder, so here it is: Welcome! I walk around and wonder, I have a hat that says I do. As...

“Voluntary” by Aaron Powell is a short, powerful vignette of one possible near-future dystopia. Earth has been polluted, abused, over-populated, and just generally degraded beyond the point at which it can sustain the life it is expected to support. In a desperate attempt to stem...

In “Between the Shadow and the Flame”, Geoffrey Lee Hodge tells the story of a nuclear attack that kills most of the planet's population and leaves the world in chaos. Sophia is one of the survivors and gets rescued from the rubble of her house...