If chocolate were purple and bumblebees swam, For lunch we’d have rainbows, not PB and jam. These are just the first few lines of this wonderful little book! This is the cutest little story. What if chocolate was purple, or lizards sang, or dolphins flew, and bananas...

Victor Bradshaw is Dead by Ryan Davis is a thriller mystery. A serial killer named Serenity Slayer strikes the town of Oakville, Massachusetts. His targets are already decided: a lawyer, a police detective, and a bartender. They are all from different walks of life and...

Darkness Saga: Filii Noctis by Benjamin Richard Long is a tale that digs deep into Nordic symbolism and brings you the supernatural story of Ragnarok. It follows the cycle of events from life, to sustenance, to death, and teaches us (as all good stories...

Lucy's Big Mess by Kim Yannayon is the story of a little cat who has to stay indoors due to rain. She finds umpteen ways to keep herself occupied on that rainy day. She becomes a construction worker, a doctor, a mum, and a princess....

In Healer’s Touch, Llew, a young pickpocket, possesses the ability to heal herself from any injury including a gruesome one such as healing oneself back to life after dying by hanging. However, her healing ability demands a price every time Llew uses it, which will...

Dismal Key is an action and adventure tale set in Southwestern Florida written by Mitch Doxsee. McKlusky is a sixteen-year-old who grew up on Marco Island until his mother remarried and relocated the family to New Jersey. Every summer, McKlusky returns to Florida and crews...

Karen Wyle takes on a unique topic in her new book, Division. It is the story of two brothers, Gordon and Johnny, who are conjoined twins. The story starts out following their life as they grow from young children to teens and then to adults....

Exiles of Gaia is aptly titled. As humans in this future world, we are exiled from Earth. We did not take care of the planet and it could no longer support life. Everyone now lives in space stations or colonies on the moon. Only one...

Comfort Food Without Borders: From Appetizers to Pastas by Sia Ayrom is the first in a three-part series of cook books. Much like how a restaurant presents its meal courses, this first book is filled with appetizers, brunch, sandwiches and burgers, soups, salads, and dumplings,...

In Creek House by Renna Olsen, Katherine Mitchell moves to Wind Valley with her young son, Danny, after her husband was tragically killed. She soon questions whether she made the right decision when strange and mysterious things begin happening at their new home that is...

Art Is Always an Impression of What an Artist Sees: Poetry by Martin Willitts Jr is a collection of story-telling poems which introduce readers to the Impressionist era of Ekphrastic poetry that started with Edouard Manet. The author shares with readers descriptive and enticing stories...

Marionette by T. B. Markinson is the story of seventeen-year-old Paige Alexander. Paige is found in her home with slit wrists by her girlfriend. Her friend convinces her to undergo therapy. Though Paige does not think it is going to help her, she decides to...

It’s Just One of Those Days by Melissa Burke is a well written story that pulled me in immediately. The opening pages are about the main character Liz and she is talking directly to me, sharing her every thought. Liz is having 'one of those...

Stuck in his cabin alone on as a freak snowstorm descends, Stephen is already suffering from fatal boredom when he hears one of his friends arrive, hopefully with beer and cigars. It isn’t any of Stephen’s friends but rather a stranded motorist called Audrey. The...

We often take the food that we eat for granted, forgetting that at some point someone took the time and trouble to create it. In this delightful tale, Cinnamon Diamonds, Mark Piper gives a fictionalized account of the man accredited with inventing the hole in...

Half Popped is a really cute story about Kenny the Kernel. Kenny is upset because he is not popped like the other kernels, so he goes in search around the kitchen for something that will make him like the other kernels. But will Kenny ever...

In Bitter Nothings, Vicki Tyley presents another complex and thrilling tale of dysfunctional families, determined women, and mysterious deaths and disappearances. Graphic designer, Dervla Johns, and her brothers, Gabe and Emmett, are still missing their mother, following her suicide two years earlier. Several years before...

Fatal Liaison by Vicki Tyley is a good story. Dinner for Twelve is a dinner dating agency and the heart of this murder mystery. Megan, at the insistence of her best friend Brenda, attends a dinner against her better judgment. Brenda thinks it is a...

Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl by Melissa Burke is at times beautiful and at times frightening in the vivid descriptions of the deep melancholy and self-destructive feelings of a teenager living with bipolar disease. The pain that she is feeling comes through...

Jacob Mendelsohn shines with his book of short stories. With themes ranging from leaving your past behind to redemption and the broken people on society's edges, All My Goodbyes is a real thought provoker. A boy is the only witness to a tragic crime and...