Jon Ridley: The Beginning is a work of fiction in the science fiction and action-adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Andrew P. Smith. Written for young adult audiences, the novel focuses on our titular character Jon, who faces immense difficulties at an early age...

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...

Monty’s skin is a mocha color. He’s very proud of how he looks and all he can do. He has a great singing voice and he loves dancing to the beat. He’s just a really fun-loving, happy little boy, like any other boy. Differences are...

The Evolved Masculine: Be The Man The World Needs & The One She Craves by Destin Gerek is an excellent book that all men should read to become evolved versions of their own selves. This book is a good tool for men to learn about...

The Lover's Rhapsody: Ecstatic Love Poems of Rapture, Awakening, and God by Adam Siddiq is an exquisite collection of love poems that brings to mind the fascinating works by Jalaluddin Rumi, Hafiz, and the mysticism, spirituality, and Sufism that dominated their works. The author's spiritual...

Two years after their father's death, Julia, Anna, and Marion descend on their childhood mansion. A house that harbors childhood memories and the spirit of their high-handed father. There, the girls are forced to reexamine their past, themselves, and their relationship with their father. The...

Josef Schneider is a young boy who loves art. Learning to paint and draw from his grandmother, he finds it a joy in his life. All of this sadly changes when she dies and World War Two begins. He and his brother are unlike many...

The Alignment by Douglas L. Wilson is a modern sci-fi/horror story set in the year 2012. Detective Sergeant Sean Dunne shot and killed an unarmed man. It led to the destruction of his family life and a steady decline in his career due to his...

Secrets are no fun. Secrets are for everyone. Yet, some secrets just shouldn’t be shared. Carmen Garcia, a patient in St. Michael’s Asylum in Maine, has her own secret that just so happens to go by the name of a doctor – specifically, Dr. Micah...

Stray Witch is book one in Eva Alton's The Vampires of Emberbury series. Alba had suffered her husband's abuse for years. He was a hotshot lawyer with a mean temper who threw the threat of divorce as easily as he threw his verbal insults and...

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...

Wanting to change the world without being recognized, six highly successful businessmen hire an anonymous third-party to hunt for unethical deeds or actions that need to be rectified in the riveting novel, Chase: The Secret Billionaire Society, Book One by Nancy Pennick. Billionaire Chase and...

A Little Noble by Janet R. Macreery is a historical fiction story that follows a young teen protagonist, Mercy Laroche, as she travels through Scotland after being dispatched to deliver her uncle's message to a Mr. Kingsnot Silver. Abandoned by her chaperone following a tragic...

Lise Norwood is an insurance investigator with a degree in art history. Her case in Red Canvas by Andrew Nance involves a heretofore unknown piece of collaborative art – a sketch really – by two giants of early 20th-century art. Recovering the priceless piece, lost...

Three Degrees and Gone is a dystopian novel set in the year 2080 when author J Stewart Willis takes us to America which is suffering badly from climate change. Sea levels have risen, leaving several cities underwater, frequent and fierce hurricanes have battered the land,...

Awakening Body Consciousness: Seven Steps to Integrating Body, Mind, and Heart by Patty de Llosa was straightforward and discussed exactly what the title suggests – body consciousness. Body consciousness, or conscious awareness, is, essentially, a mental state where an individual is truly aware of the...

Inhale by Colleen Songs is the non-fiction shocking memoir of a woman who goes the distance for love only to find that by allowing James into the lives of herself and her two children, she has unwittingly committed herself to years of abuse, isolation, and...

Become inspired by philosopher, historian, linguist, and political activist Avram Noam Chomsky as author Jeffery Martin demonstrates through poetry the artistic inspiration that he garners through Chomsky. Muse Moments: Poetry Inspired by Noam Chomsky by Jeffery Martin comes to life through the poems created by...

Finding metaphors to describe Kyot: The Storybook Puzzle Box by Brian Bennudriti is not too difficult. Lego, Minecraft, stage magicians, and even Boccaccio's Decameron come to mind - even though the stories in this collection number far more than a hundred. But these are...

If your mother told you that you were a goat, would you believe her? Even if she’d been telling you the same thing since the time you were born? Well, MerryLyn’s a chicken and her mother has told her since she hatched that she was...