Fate is a hidden power, something destined to be regardless of what path we follow. It is our destiny that controls our path into the future. “We,/ Innocently free,/ Sit rocking/ In the lap/ Of Destiny.” Simple words which both soothe and demand further contemplation....

A Decade Aborning by Keith Julius is a social issues novel and the fourth book in The CASA Chronicles, preceded by book one, Catch a Falling Star, book two, Born for Adversity, and book three, The Robber of Youth. This installment revolves around a suicidal...

Thank You, Mr. Emerson by Gerald Berns is a contemporary novel that is simple yet magical in the intelligence it exudes. It’s a highly relatable story that takes a look at the conversation of a couple where they discuss their dreams, love, apprehensions, interest, future...

A humorous and imaginative children’s story with important lessons, Reflections of a Feline Being by Paula Grover follows the daily life of a cat who lives with a group of rowdy humans in her den. Miaurra shares her home with a couple and their two...

A Gigantic Leap: First Contact by David Brown is a wide-ranging work that incorporates science fiction, social issues, and suspense. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. In this thought-provoking and moving tale about interplanetary cooperation and the search for peace, we...

Two Rivers: De Trouble I Be See by Bob Rogers is a historical fiction novel set during the Antebellum period on a sweeping rice-producing agricultural slaveholding plantation owned by the Tiffany family in South Carolina. Rogers offers multiple point of view characters with a focus...

Tomorrow We Will Know: A Novel of Imperial Constantinople 1453 by Sandra Worth is set in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, specifically during the siege of Constantinople in the early 1450s. The story follows Emperor Constantine XI and his struggles to keep the...

Tree of Lives, written by Elizabeth Garden and with artwork by Barbara Brose, is a work of women's fiction in a hybrid historical-contemporary setting that follows the account of one woman's journey to self-empowerment in the face of immense adversity. Through the detailed life of...

Edmond Raines may have left the life of a protector behind but a recent tragedy gravitates him back to familiar surroundings as he prepares himself for the inevitable reckoning that must come. With the help of his trusted teacher, he tracks down the people that...

In Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet, by Anthony C. Delauney, Rohan’s big sister Nyra teaches him an important lesson about finances. Nyra bets Rohan that she will give him a dollar every time he catches the football she throws to him, but she...

Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work by Anthony C. Delauney shows that it's sad to watch Mom and Dad leave for work every day. Sisters Lilly and May don’t understand why they have to work. They’d much rather Mom and Dad stayed...

Based on the experiences of his father, Growing Up Tough is a coming-of-age novel by Roderick Saxey. The story is set between the early 1920s and 30s, the time of the Great Depression, when America underwent revolutionary cultural, economic, and societal changes. Shirley Edwin Taylor's...

In Native Blood by Leonard Krishtalka, a biological anthropologist investigating indigenous genetics is killed and the blame lands on the chancellor's Athabascan Native son, an archaeology student engaged in protesting early American genomic probes. Harry Przewalski, a private eye, is sucked into an intricate network of field flaws...

Red Thread: Occult to Science and Beyond by Anne Marie Kampf examines how science and the occult are linked and what this connection reveals about our universe. The book is a reader-friendly study of astrology, alchemy, palmistry, and contemporary science. It explains how our consciousness...

Panda Never Cries by Abdulaziz M. explores the wisdom of pandas and how their way of life can offer valuable lessons for humans in various aspects of our own. The book emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment, finding contentment in simplicity, and...

Wine is extremely popular in some countries and it has become a part of the many ways that several cultures socialize. At some high-end restaurants in addition to the food menu, you will be presented with a wine list that could have pages of wine...

Invisible Sun by Andrew H. Housley is a starkly dark look at suicide and its effects on those left behind. Brothers Ian and Chadwick are reunited after many years apart, in the city of New Orleans, for the awful task of tidying up the affairs...

All Daniel Robinson ever wanted was a normal loving family. To escape an abusive father and mentally ill mother, he leaves home at sixteen to seek refuge with a pastor. But a man he believed would protect him — a man he should have been...

In Blood Influence by I.C. Lawrance, people in the Bowl lived in fear and were aware of the rumors that the Tower took away those with Influence and that they were never seen again. The Influence was inherited by blood, and the Tower needed girls...

“Food is more than sustenance, it’s a shared language of love, history, and community.” I love these opening lines in the Introduction to Lana Taylor Stuart’s My Southern Table. Food is much more than what we eat to survive: it defines who we are and...