Please Forgive Us, Richard Hauptmann is the title story in an eclectic collection from the pen of Wendy Lewis, a collection which opens with a tale prompted by her stay in Wellington, New Zealand in the late 1990s, combining a wry look at the city’s...

Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength is written by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky. Mania Lichtenstein, affectionately known as Bubbie, was a Polish Holocaust survivor. Mania/Bubbie was a young Polish Jew when WW2 began. She and her family...

Remembering Ravensbruck: Holocaust to Healing by Natalie B. Hess encapsulates a journey from childhood to adulthood. She speaks of her experiences as a Holocaust survivor where she gives glimpses of early childhood images related to the horror of the Holocaust, survival in the Jewish ghetto...

The Goddess Within by Iva Kenaz is the sequel to the historical fantasy book The Witch Within, reading as a stand-alone with its young protagonist, Berka. With knowledge of what Berka divinely possesses, she is raised by her father in the 16th-century Italian wilderness, one...

Billy by Shirley Dawson tells the story of 7-year-old Billy throughout the Second World War. Billy thinks nothing of air raids, they are just a part of his life, until a bomb drops on his school. Scared, he is torn from his family and sent...

James heard a rumbling at night and it was coming nearer. His fish was also scared. Both of them set off to find out where the noise was coming from. They went into the laundry room where the washer was whirling and moaning. James wanted...

Cousins is a thoughtful work of fiction in the horror, supernatural and drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Cynthia Helton. Working as a metaphorical journey through the existential crisis of death itself, the author offers a fascinating narrative in which vampires, who are usually...

No Looking Back: A Powerful and Emotionally-charged Story of a Young Girl's Struggle for Dignity and Self-Worth by Shirley Dawson is an inspiring story that many readers, especially women, can relate to. Josephine “Josie” Pritchard’s childhood had been punctuated by physical and verbal abuse from...

Trapped behind the gates that hold the Jews in their ghetto in Ancona, Italy, Mirelle, a young Jewish woman, yearns to be free. When the French army takes over Mirelle’s town, the previously trapped Jews begin to have more freedom. The gates eventually stay open,...

Darla Kelly survived a kidnapping by a psychopath who also murdered her father. Although still traumatized, she manages to go on with her life with the help of therapy sessions, her friends and her lovable dog, Merlin. However, she’s plagued by a nightmare that keeps...

Sophie is a very brave and determined girl. When surgery leaves her paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair, Sophie discovers new ways to do the things she loves. Like basketball. Before her surgery, she loved to play basketball, among other sports....

In Socks!, written by Amber Morrell and illustrated by Agus Prajogo, Lucy is a chocolate lab with many activities she likes to do, especially play with smelly socks that belong to her parents. She likes being chased by her parents too in a game when...

Short stories are gaining in popularity. There is a growing market for a short story. People are interested in reading short snippets, something they can read from beginning to end in one sitting. With the internet opening up more markets for publishing short stories, writers...

Captain Pistol’s Paradise is a cartoon and graphic novel penned by Rowland B. Wilson with Suzanne Lemieux Wilson. As a cartoonist, and an illustrator for Walt Disney, Rowland B. Wilson lends his skills here to his own highly amusing tale of a pirate who falls...

P is for Pluto by Jackie Kingon is the third book in the Molly Marbles Mystery series. Molly has received the most exciting news! Her restaurant, Molly’s Bistro, has been chosen by Interplanetary Foods to open a branch on Pluto. Before they can officially open,...

In Sophie Washington: My BFF by Tonya Duncan Ellis, Sophie and Chloe have been best friends since they started school and Sophie always imagined that would never change. Although they are very different and have different interests, Sophie is happy just to be friends with...

In T.L. Callahan's Rising Chaos, Lia Davis had known things would be expected of her as Bennett's bond-mate, but when he whisked her away to his home she realized just how much was expected from her. Raised with no knowledge of their people, Lia finds...

The Last City of the Dwarves is a work of truly epic fantasy fiction penned by author Neil Port, and it forms the seventh and final book of the epic series The Paladin Chronicles. In this last installment, many interweaving plotlines are spun together towards...

One can only wonder how the royals of today would survive in Tudor England. Perhaps they wouldn’t have the paparazzi hounding them, but they wouldn’t be able to choose their marriage partners. For Princess Mary, the younger sister of King Henry VIII, marriage for love...

Wally and the Dolphins by Timothy Christian Merritt is a captivating story based on a real golden retriever called Wally – there is a beautiful photograph of him before the story starts. Wally has a “Daddy Tim” who has to go to work every day...