After a year of teaching well-behaved, intelligent students in New York, Kenda Kirkenbaum takes a chance and accepts a job in West Belfield, Mississippi, certain that the only thing different is the location. Unfortunately, Kenda has no idea of social politics in the Deep South....

Gichi Manidoo by Charles J. Musser tells of a realtor, Federico Garcia, a PTSD-suffering veteran from the conflict in Afghanistan, who befriends Marie, the woman whose husband’s house he is trying to sell. Marie, who appears to be a profoundly troubled woman, takes a sudden...

Moms of the Missing: Living the Nightmare by Steffen Hou is a collection of cases in which children (and adults) were abducted and in most cases never heard from again. Hou starts this non-fiction book with the case of Alicia Kozakiewicz, a thirteen-year-old who was...

Hair in All the Wrong Places by Andrew Buckley is more than just another book on werewolves. Colin Strauss had been moving around from one relative's place to another. His parents did not wish to take the responsibility of raising their boy. Finally, at the...

A Quiet Wisdom by Peggy Connolly is a short, compelling story of motherhood and the relationship between the author and her autistic daughter, a book that is packed with love and wisdom and what it takes to find beauty in the unusual and unexpected circumstances...

Daily life for Eve is filled with intrigue and scandal. What else would you expect for one of Washington D.C.’s most wanted escorts? She spends her time dancing at the Tahiti men’s club and rendezvousing with expensive and elite clients. But life hasn’t always been...

You Among the Coordinates by Greg Masters makes you smell the smoke and hear the clinking of glasses filled with liquid to fire up the soul. His writing takes you back in time to places of merriment, sadness, and at times careful introspection throughout...

Bacon Grease & Baseball is a novella-length work of fiction set in the south during the heyday of 1940s America, penned by author John S. Viccellio. A coming of age tale for a young boy stepping into young adulthood, this heart-warming experience follows the...

What Girls Are Good For is a fictional tale about the real-life journalist Elizabeth Cochran or, as she went by a pen name, Nellie Bly. In an era where women were expected to run the household and attend to duties of the gentler sex, Nellie,...

Everywhere She’s Not is a novel penned by author N. John Shore Jr. which focuses on self-destructive behavior, failed relationships and human nature. In this powerfully compelling introspective look at life, we meet our central hero (or anti-hero), David. Though brilliant in some ways, his...

History of the First Queen is the fourth book in The Empyrical Tales by Mark Miller. After Queen Olena returns to Empyrean Castle, elf butler Tym starts regaling her and her friends with the story of Nyssa the Traveller. Sixteen-year-old foster teen Nyssa's life turns...

Terrorist bombings are rife in Pakistan and Lahore, that country’s second-most populous city and one of its wealthiest, has its fair share. Another interesting fact is that 90% of Pakistani women suffer from domestic violence and Pakistan is the third most dangerous country in the...

The Little Child is with his mother in the supermarket and he is having fun tossing his red ball in the air. The second time he tosses the ball, the Little Child is not able to catch it. It bounces, hits, rolls, and stops in...

My Story Isn't Over by Natasha Simon is her autobiography as she recounts her mental illnesses and moves in her life, conquering one thing at a time. Divided into 2 parts, the author shares her stories, her worries and her successes in small chapters that...

Meet the little girl who was born with a hole in her heart in the story Little Love by Rose Stanek. The hole in her heart was not her doing and Little Love tried her best to fill the void in her heart but nothing...

The First House is a superb work of macabre fantasy and moody action and adventure, penned by author Robert Allwood. The first novel in The House Series, this initial adventure starts off with Sarah Seville, a witch’s daughter who loses her twin children in the...

Jay and Tina are preparing for the autumn Hindu festival of Diwali, also known as the Festival of Light. They have created 101 clay diyas, small cup-shaped oil lamps, to light up their house during the festivities. The total of 101 is an important number;...

Chameleon Games by June V. Bourgo is book 2 in The Crossing Trilogy series. I did not read book 1 but I had no trouble getting into Chameleon Games. Chelsea, the main character, is a victim of kidnapping as a young woman and she was...

Infernal Gates by Michael Jack Webb is an enthralling supernatural tale, the age-old battle between good and evil. A plane goes down just after takeoff, killing all except one passenger - Ethan. A bus explodes, killing all but one passenger – Avner. Alec and Donald...

Athena's Choice by Adam Boostrom is a science fiction story with a setting in a distant future where men are extinct. A dangerous experimental virus has killed all men on earth. Fifty years later, in 2099, a project is initiated to bring men back to...