Ann Letzter's The Vanishings is a short sci-fi tale of a modern Earth, where there is affluence, world peace, and no problems which plague the world today. The citizen's largest fear is the mysterious vanishings that started to occur 20 years ago, prevalent among newborn...

The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer by Laxmi Hariharan is a YA dystopian novel set in the city of Mumbai. Soon after a terrifying encounter with a subway pervert propels her out of the hustle and grind of her everyday life, Ruby Iyer, the titular...

America, We Need a Raise by Mark Mullen is a carefully considered, cogently written, impeccably well researched and painstakingly documented explanation of how and why the Middle Class is disappearing in America and what those making decisions at the higher levels of government might do...

When her father is severely injured at the family store and Emma discovers that her younger brother has left home to join the Confederate Army, she realizes the only way to get answers about Harrison and her older brother, Will, is to join the army...

Exciting and captivating, The Lost Prophet by James B. McPike takes you through the Middle East on an adventure of biblical proportions. When a madman destroys the Tomb of the Prophets, Vince Ramsey is called back from a well-deserved vacation to perform his duties as...

Justice Buried is a young adult fantasy novel by Hilary Thompson, and the first part of the Starbright series. Justice is the name given to a prophesied maiden who will come from the stars to save the three remaining cities upon a post-apocalyptic Earth. In...

A Walk Back Home by Gilbert Garcia is a memoir relating the details of his boyhood, growing up in a Mexican family in the south side of Los Angeles. His story is composed of short vignettes, told from the young boy’s perspective, in the '40s...

An African-American cowboy and U.S. Marshal in Indian territory, Cole Winter accepts a commission to bring in Joseph Two Guns, his own brother. So begins the story in To the Gallows by author G.S. Luckett. Cole knows that Joseph is not guilty of the crime...

Sto-etry: Love. Nature. Song. by Christopher Meesto Erato is a hopeful, insightful, and winning collection of poems and stories born of a life lived in appreciation of love, nature, music, and humanity. Christopher Meesto Erato explores the landscape of the human heart and the environs...

What if? We all ask this and we often spend an enormous amount of time concocting various answers. In Lemongrass Hope, Kate gets her answer, and in a very surprising way. After a painful miscarriage that results in a marriage proposal and promises of a...

Listen Up! The Other Side Is Talking by Kelle Sutliff, as the author says, is pearls of wisdom and inspirational ideas for a fuller life. The book begins with her journey in search of the person inside her, how she held nature in reverence, the...

Things We Lost in the Night: A Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves by Larry J. Dunlap is an honest memoir in which the author has carefully depicted his years as a young and struggling musician,...

Relapse by Jake Anderson begins with an admission that, like a good fisherman, he would have become a proud alcoholic. But before he could become addicted to alcohol, skate boarding became his close companion and his “first addiction.” A horrible accident separates him from skateboarding...

Hollywood Clown by Jason Lassen begins with a birthday party, with the author in the company of Robert De Niro, whose son’s birthday is the celebration. After lengthy preparation about the games to play, costumes to wear and styles to conduct, the author find himself...

Daniel the Draw-er by S.J. Henderson is a magical children’s tale about Daniel and his magic pencil. Daniel is your average nine-year-old boy and he loves to draw. His mom is concerned about him and wants him to go out and find more friends. “Daniel,...

Sad. Happy. Heart-warming and heart-breaking. Those are the words I would use to describe The Fifth Floor by Julie Oleszek. In 1970s Chicago, young Anna thrives in the commotion of her large and rambunctious family. With ten children in the home, there is always something...

Hawkins Lane by Judith Kirscht is a realistic novel about human nature, family, relationships, as well as prejudices in the society we live in. Hawkins Lane starts with Ned Hawkins and his brother sitting in the courtroom, awaiting a verdict at their father’s trial. Their...

Spinner is another great book by the author Michael J Bowler, who also penned the Children of the Knight series. Spinner tells the story of a teenage boy, Alex, who suffers from Spina Bifida and has to use a wheelchair, and his gang of special-ed(ucation)...

Dark Surf by TC Zmak is a horror story with a difference. Jake Ryder’s life changes in an instant when his best friend is killed by a great white shark while surfing. This isn’t the first shark death though – the numbers have been steadily...

Beneath The Greater Sky by Andrew Voelker begins on a seemingly hopeful note: Ryan going out for a jog after coming home, his pregnant wife Kathy due in five weeks, and him receiving a quilt his wife made for their child. But things go awry...