"Heavy Bags of Soul" paints a rather dour picture of the modern world. In this engaging collection of poems and prosody is chronicled the trials and pitfalls of an oppressive world that is as absurd as it is tiring. Yet despite this dim outlook on...

Coconut Secret Exposed is the work of Charles Chou who learned about the healing powers of coconut oil from a Taiwanese healer referred to as the Master. There are many anecdotes about the success her patients had with the treatment from ailments ranging from a...

Pushing Through the Darkness: From Montserrat to Montserrat by Linette Arthurton Bruno tells the story of a young married couple, Clementine and Christophe, as they honeymoon in the Caribbean islands. The young couple revels in the history of events in both Montserrat and Martinique as...

Imagine a world where you woke up every day unable to recognize where you were, who you were with, or even your own face in the mirror. This is the terror facing Christine in S.J. Watson’s “Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel.” Christine’s mind...

"Gideon's Chariot" opens with the mysterious death in Langston, California, of Homicide Captain Brad Logan's brother-in-law, Jerry, who meets an unexplained and gruesome death. This is followed by the disappearance of Marshal Gordan, who reported having confronted an alien. The plot thickens when...

“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...