Codex: Codex Special Edition by World Codex Staff is a short book that brings to the modern day a fragment of history that many have heard of, but not many know of: the first and last publication that was dubbed Planet Poetry. A poetry contest...

Don’t be fooled by the title. Writing While Female or Black or Gay: Diverse Voices in Publishing is a book for all writers. I think a lot of readers would love it too. If you are a real reader, a lifelong lover of books, you...

From love to reflection, journeys to interpretations, Gary W. Burns' Bridges: To There is a collection of short poems that reflect on many things, and encourage the reader, in turn, to reflect on themselves. Peaceful, tranquil, and relaxing are but a few things stirred as...

Mall Hair Maladies is a young adult coming of age novel written by Kristy Jo Volchko. It was 1985 and, as far as thirteen-year-old Tanya was concerned, Pittsburgh was the center of the universe. She was in the eighth grade now, the last year of...

Toenail Soup is a humorous story for children, grades K-3, written by C.M. Walsh. Joey was a pretty typical seven-year-old, who loved going out and playing with his dog and watching bugs and other creepy crawly critters, but he certainly did like strange food. Joey’s...

Don't Expect Me To Cry is a powerful autobiography by Janet Bentley, relating the horrors of mental, physical, and sexual abuse she endured from infancy. In an amazing piece of writing, Janet tells her story, reflecting her thoughts and experiences at critical stages of her...

Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See by Frank Harmon is a fascinating book that will give a new perspective on the places we come from and the lives we lead. The author helps us realize that home is just not the place we...

Life Only Different: A Novel by Jim D Buchanan is an interesting romance with an intriguing setting, a plot that takes readers to exotic places and introduces them to feisty and vibrant characters. From the very start of the narrative, the reader encounters one of...

Known Entity: An Unauthorized History by Phil Klahn is a fun read, a narrative that captures the soul and spirit of a band. It opens with a short prologue that explains why some bands disintegrate: "Bands come and bands go. Some fade quietly, eroded by...

A Dog's Kiss by Matt Wanicur is a beautiful story that captures the love between humans and dogs. Elijah has moved away from his house located in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He now lives in San Diego, California and is happy with the way his life...

Where Grass Grows High: And Slavers' Hounds Don't Howl by Nancy Glenn Powell is a non-fiction book on the life and family of Samuel Glenn, one of her ancestors that lived during the Civil War times. This book follows his story based on the memories...

Gillyflower by Diane Wald is a tender and magical story about two sensitive souls who cross a unique kind of path. When Nora Forrest, a talented artist, learns that her longtime crush, Irish actor Hugh Sheenan, will be in Manhattan for the production of...

Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona is an elegant, epic, fecund odyssey of lyrical imagery, steeped in time-honored mythic tradition and yet endlessly inventive. Cardona is alternately stentorian and coy – his imagery swells like distant thunder even as it dances. In the truest Shakespearean...

Pet Peeves: An Oral History by Diane Michaels begins on the set of a medical drama, Another Day to Live. Here we meet Kendra Lewis-Frost, breakdown writer and queen of amnesia plot lines. Austin Hughes is a comedian booked for a bit part on the...

Llywelyn by Michael Hill is an interesting story set in a small, beautiful valley in Wales. Llywelyn has lived and farmed in this village all his life, but now he is about to lose everything and he is helpless about it. The valley has been...

Captain Fin is a work of young adult fiction penned by author Amanda M. Thrasher and adapted from a screenplay by Kevin James O’Neill. In this tale, we find our hero Hannah Gunner in a state of turmoil regarding the secrets unveiled about her life....

Analyze, Act, Advance by Agustin Argelich is an insightful and helpful book of thoughts which is a compendium of both technical training and self-taught humanism. The book has four sections: The Challenge, Obstacles and barriers to be overcome, Strategies and available tools, and The Life...

We read a lot of war memoirs from those who have been at the front, but what happens to those left behind? In Home Front: A Memoir from WWII, C.D. Peterson chronicles life in a rural community just before, during, and after the war, following...

Shadow of Doubt by SL Beaumont is a suspenseful novel challenging the notion of trust and betrayal in close relationships. Jessica McDonald has the life most people dream of – she’s happily married and enjoys a successful career as a banker in London. But overnight,...

Patty Humphrey thought it would be just another Sunday morning helping her husband, Associate Pastor Matt Humphrey, when a mysterious stranger walks into church service. It starts as just another "meet and greet" common to pastors' wives and church secretaries until the stranger, Artie, draws...