The wonderfully written historical autobiography, Cuba 18, U.S. 50 My Fifty Year Trip: A Tribute to Family and Country, by Dr. Rolando M. Ochoa, DBA, a Miami Dade College professor, recounts a very engaging and interesting lifetime of experiences. This inspiring memoir takes us through...

If you read, as I did, James Sniechowski’s book Worship of Hollow Gods and liked it, you will enjoy picking up An Ambition to Belong, where the author takes us inside the next key phase in his life: becoming a teen and moving on to...

I like memoirs that highlight the contributions of (so called) “ordinary Americans.” Patrolling the Heart of the West: True Tales of a Nevada State Trooper by Steve Raabe is one of those contributions. Told in an engaging style and often punctuated with humor, these vignettes...

Leeway by I.O. Jones is a novel that captures the tensions and the stress that accompany life in a high school in a city like New York, a book with a strong appeal for young adult readers, especially female adolescents. We encounter a young protagonist,...

Spiders In Heaven: A Small Kill Team Story is a military fiction thriller written by Jimmy Miller, who is a retired US Army Warrant Officer. The narrator hadn’t known the two young soldiers whose lives and sacrifice were being memorialized; they were from another Unit,...

Sour Lemon and Sweet Tea: The Sour Lemon Series, Book 1 by Julane Fisher is a beautiful story with some powerful messages for young readers. Eleven-year-old Lillie Mae and her twin, Ellie, live on a chicken farm in Triple Gap, a sleepy town forty miles...

Dancing for a Stranger is the second book by author Isabella Adams to feature physician Andromeda “Andie” Markos, Detective Sean Malone, and a cast of friends from the small town of Tarpon Springs, Florida. Some references are occasionally made regarding the first book in the...

Uncertain Love by Margaret Lynette Sharp is the story of a conflicted young woman as she faces the realities of love. Amanda enjoys her work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office but craves the weekend just like everyone else. She was looking forward to...

From the Shadows: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Renewal by Elizabeth Onyeabor is an uplifting and heartrending book of healing, transformation, renewal, and growth. The author’s feelings, thoughts, perspectives, childhood and adulthood sketches from memory and notes have been shared beautifully through vignettes and verse....

Panther Creek Mountain: The Big Adventure is an action and adventure book for preteens written and illustrated by Clyde McCulley. While Clay, Luke and Sally Jane are fictional characters, some of the stories included are biographical in nature, and were adapted from the author’s memoir...

The Stain of Past Connexions by Eluned McRae is a thriller set in the south part of England and in Scotland/ the Hebrides. Andrew is a barrister, running his estate with his friend, Brodee, a horse trainer and breeder. Nene comes to stay but nobody...

Oblivious by TC Fleshman is the first volume in the Havoc series, a book that looks at the mind of a woman bent on revenge. But how did Lilliana Benson come to this point where notoriety becomes very attractive to her? Lilly has been waiting...

Authenticity Unlocked by Meg Glidden explores the psychology of personal growth and challenges readers to dare to embrace the path of authenticity. In this book, the author answers two very crucial questions on personal growth, and one of the central questions this book answers is:...

Faline Frey is a bounty hunter and a huldra. Her kind, as well as the succubi, rusalki, mermaids, and harpies are known as Wild Women, mythological beings that live among us under the rule of their self-proclaimed guardians—the Hunters. This is how it has been...

This is the Book (Bite-Size Books for Beginning Readers 1) by Bernice Seward is about the book that sat in the nook. A crook takes that book and a rook chases the crook, who has taken that book which was in the nook. There is...

The Swim: A Story About Friendship and the Longest Swim in the World by Jens F. Colting is a beautiful story of friendship between Goliath and Tiny, a shy boy, who become friends after meeting at the community swimming pool. Goliath is wheelchair bound and...

Father Figure by James Cudney was awesome! The story follows the lives of two people, Briana and Amelia. The chapters and years jump back and forth between the two. Briana has always wondered who her father was. Her mother has always been secretive. She takes...

Watching Glass Shatter by James Cudney is the moving yet thrilling tale of one woman’s quest for answers and a way to put her family back together. Olivia Glass has everything, or so she thought. Married for forty years, when an accident takes her husband’s...

“The devil took my hand and led me into darkness.” It’s the calm before the storm in The Shadow of the Firefly by Jeff Shannon. Set in the late '60s in a town called Sycamore Valley, ten-year-old Maggie Schoop loves playing baseball and proving her...

Discovery: Poetry and Art by Rick and Jan Sikes is a very special book. Most of it was written by Rick as a mental escape from prison bars as some of the illustrations show. Tiny cages that appear too small for a man to stand...