I Only Wanted to Be a Dad by Steve Petrou is a mirror into the head and heart of a man who is having trouble becoming a dad. Although men might disagree, they are very complicated creatures. They keep their emotions to themselves, which makes...

In the third volume of Tales of Titans, Founding Fathers, Women Warriors & WWII, Rich DiSilvio delights us with his information on the Founding Fathers. These short biographies of men like James Madison, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the other men who played...

Cleta Virgil Cox: Shenanigans of a Funeral Home Janitor by Lana Ramos tells the story of Cleta and her amazing gift for seeing the recently departed and ‘helping’ them come to terms with their death and move onto a better place. She, however, does not...

Author team of husband and wife Ray and Debi Stanton have taken great care in working with Daniel Burton, the lone survivor and witness to the Waynesville murders. They have also worked to corroborate as much of what he said as they were able. That...

A fun frolic down Fantasy Lane is the best way I think I could possibly describe The Royal Treatment by Melanie Summers. This is an out and out funny, chick-lit read with no pretensions of being anything else. Tessa Sharpe, a twenty-eight-year-old former journalist, has...

The World's Largest Yard Sale (is murder) by Linda S. Browning is the fourth book in the Leslie & Belinda Mystery series. When Leslie and Belinda's friend, Mrs Towers, discovers that she's paid for another Mrs Towers' surgery, they go to confront the woman and...

The poetry of John Sibley Williams as exhibited in this brief collection of short verse, Disinheritance, seems to congregate around the theme of a family remembered, often as if spoken by the recently deceased, and most disturbingly around the death of a young child, a...

The Woozler’s Halloween: Meeda and Me, written and illustrated by Rhonda Paglia, is a delightful children’s story full of richly detailed, colorful characters and artworks. The book has a sweet and appealing writing style that graces each page. The Woozler’s Halloween tells the tale of...

History Lessons by Linda Leigh Hargrove is a relatively short novella that leaves the reader wanting more (and it seems there is more to come with these characters in future books). Paula Raye Lawrence is a poor girl from a dirt-poor African-American family in rural...

Finding Your Inner Will by Terence Simmons is a self help book that sets out to help you seize your own willpower and make things happen in your life. Do you have the ability to control your emotions, impulses and temptations? You may think that...

Curses of Scale by S.D. Reeves is a journey of magic and self-discovery. Teenager Niena has one dream: to attend an elite college to become a bard. Just as a dragon awakens and terrorizes the land, Niena takes advantage of an opportunity and runs away,...

The Whispered Tales of Graves Grove is an anthology of dark and scary short stories with a difference. When the creators of this anthology called for submissions, they stipulated that all the stories must revolve around the mythical town of Graves Grove, a small town...

My Impossible Life by Liza Cheuk May Chan is an incredible memoir that follows the life of a Chinese woman from her early upbringing in Hong Kong and her coming of age in New York City, where she completed her undergraduate studies in the 1970s....

I love speculative fiction. I love a good thriller. Sometimes it seems I haven’t seen the two genres combined into a great book since cyber punk exploded onto the scene. The Infinet by John Akers is such a book and it is great. I find...

A thirty-year-old man suffers so many setbacks — a marriage that isn't working well, a failing business, and anxiety. But things change with a chance meeting that pulls him out of his miserable life and catapults him straight into a life of success and affluence....

A suspicious diving accident sends a detective, a doctor, and a medical examiner on a hunt for the killer in the exciting murder mystery novel, Last Man Out by Isabella Adams. When Dr. Andromeda Markos examines Tony, a cave diver, for the bends, he seems...

Inspired by a true story, The Lion and the Dog by Patricia Furstenberg is a heartwarming story about the friendship between a Dachshund dog, Milo, and Leo the lion who lives in the heart of a zoo. The dog’s best friend is the frog...

The Cheetah and the Dog by Patricia Furstenberg, like her other animal story books, is inspired by the real life story of Kasi the cheetah and Mtani the Labrador dog and their friendship. The story gives insight on the importance of friendship. Kasi and Mtani...

Hope Between Heartbeats by Liz Newman is a collection of poems about love and romance. The different poems are divided into four categories: life, love, loss and learning. They also come with a moving dedication (especially the one about “pillars of strength of resilience”) and...

Cordelia has a monstrous secret, one that no one knows about, not even her adoptive family, nor the society she lives in. Not even her best friend, Wally. Here is the secret — she is a monster in the morning. Cordelia Grey grew up in...