Letters of Forgiveness by Cathy Schaffer is a fascinating story, filled with humanity and realism and following very compelling characters. At twenty-four, Katie is a Second Lieutenant, an intelligent and very skilled fighter. In a mission that goes wrong in Afghanistan, she loses a lover,...

Summer of Two Worlds (3rd edition) by J. Arthur Moore is a coming-of-age story that takes place six years after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Prairie Cub is an orphan raised since the age of three as the son of a Sioux warrior....

Vengeance: Children of Faust is a work of fiction in the paranormal, horror and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Chris Ulm. The book is recommended for mature readers who do not mind sensitive subject matter, as it does contain explicit language usage, scenes...

Rich White Americans by Virginia Dale is an unforgettable suspense thriller. Meet Inny, an optimistic, adventurous psychology major at Berkeley in 1963, who falls in love with the first black English professor at the college, is nearly raped then stalked by the stepson of a...

Something Lost Something Found by Natalia Paruzel-Gibson tells us the story of Ella. Ella is missing someone in her life: her mother. She has good memories of doing things with her family, particularly her mother, so she begins a search to find happiness again....

Kid Lit: An Introduction to Literary Criticism by Tom Durwood is a non-fiction education guide easing the reader into more interesting and reflective literary criticism. Tom Durwood has been a teacher for thirty-two years and offers us his expertise and experience, as teaching has nothing...

Starships & Apocalypse: Volume One by Andrew P. McGregor is a collection of stories covering different sub-genres under the science fiction label. Each story has a different take on triumph, grit, time travel, immortality, or simply people trying to exist. Some stories are bizarre, and...

Heartbreak and Rage by K. Gordon Neufeld is the non-fiction memoir of the author's journey into, through, and eventually out of the control of the infamous cult leader Sun Myung Moon and his Unification movement. The book starts with a little insight into Neufeld's life...

Bloodletting and Germs: A Doctor in Nineteenth-Century Rural New York by Thomas Rosenthal is a historical novel that explores strong medical themes and the work of Dr. Jabez Allen, a setting that is at the turning point in medical history. Dr. Allen is not particularly...

Solar Warden by Peter Fuller is a science fiction story featuring Colonel Steve Richardson, a USAF combat pilot. When his F-35 goes down in the northern Afghanistan mountains, he suffers a bad head injury, and with help a long way off, he fears his life...

Cult Fiction by K. Gordon Neufeld is a semi-biographical, creative memoir that covers the author’s development as a writer over almost two decades while he was involved with the Unification Church, a cult-like offshoot of Christianity led by an enigmatic leader named Sun Myung Moon....

Prophet and Loss: Stories of Extreme Beliefs has been cleverly titled by K. Gordon Neufeld. The first account, the title story, opens with a flashback to a woman following a man who acknowledges her only to insist she keeps up with him, despite her desperate...

Sometimes it’s difficult to be different: having different clothes, different hairstyles, and so on. However, it can also be cool. For one thing, if you’re not wearing the same outfits as everyone else, you’ll stand out a little more. You’ll be a novelty. Wearing bright...

We tend to take for granted what we enjoyed in our youth: time spent with grandparents, learning Grandma’s traditional recipes, and pottering about together in the kitchen. There is love involved in the making of food, the serving of it, and the enjoyment of eating...

Child of Prophecy is a mesmerizing final entry in the Titanian Chronicles by Leisl Kaberry. This is a beautifully written fantasy that made me want to read the entire collection of books in the series. There is so much at stake in this entry. Lenna,...

Iceapelago by Peter Brennan is a dystopian environmental fiction thriller and the first book in the author's Iceapelago series. The book lays its foundation with a chilling look at a future where climate change has altered the world as we know it, taking the landscape...

In Requiem For Thursday by Douglas Cockell, when Detective Eilert Weiss is called to a supposed accidental drowning, the clues do not correspond to unintentional death. Another drowning of a young girl in similar circumstances not long before raises the suspicion that a serial killer...

What We Know For Sure by Lia Ocampo are the real stories of immigrants who came to the United States through the Special Immigration Visa initiative for Filipinos who dedicate their careers, usually twenty years but in Ocampo's case it was eighteen, in the service...

Inclined Elders are men and women who have made a conscious choice to ignore society's mindset of 'decline' and 'over the hill' as they age and have embraced an optimistic mindset of continuing to climb ever upwards. Inclined Elders: How to rebrand aging for self...

Illusional Reality is a young adult epic fantasy written by Karina Kantas. Becky rushed out of her office building and began looking for a cab to take her back home. Her somewhat battered Mini hadn't cooperated when she tried to start it to go to...