The Australian outback was facing a drought and Wally was trying to convince the commander that it was time to move the mob on. There was not enough to eat and the mob was starving to death. There were no signs of rain coming and...

Frankie loved playing with his yellow duck, Pete. He had found Pete on the street, and he was dirty and had no smile on his face. Frankie cleaned him and they played for a while. Pete was happy and the smile came back to his...

Do you ever wonder why some people just seem to breeze through life without a care in the world? Do they have special character traits or can their secret be learned by anyone? If you are struggling with achieving goals or setting clear boundaries, then...

Sandra J. Jackson’s Catching Butterflies is a dystopian story of siblings April and Beth on their quest to find their way home. After escaping their captor, they found themselves with very little memory of their past. The siblings were at the mercy of nature, surrounded...

Magic Harbor is a work of fantasy fiction written for a young adult audience by author Kristen L. Jackson. The second novel in the Keeper of the Watch Series, this adventure can be read as a standalone but does also follow on from Keeper of...

Lying with the Devil by Lana Lindemann is a psychological thriller. Mary is nothing special. A student who doesn’t know what she wants out of life until everything changes. Kidnapped by a serial killer, Mary expects to die but, instead, she is kept chained in...

Stumbling Toward Happiness by Kat Lehmann is a collection of poetry that illustrates the struggles of growing up and the bittersweetness of life itself. The poetry is separated into several parts, each of which carries a specific theme. From Sweeping the Corners, which illustrates the...

In The Medium by David Hatton, we meet Michael and Suzanne, parents who are grieving over the death of their young son, Jason. Suzanne, unbeknownst to her husband, has attended an event featuring a psychic medium – Jackie Wallace. She is hoping to connect with...

The setting for Heart Land by Kimberly Stuart is partly in New York City and partly in Iowa. Grace was raised in Iowa by her grandmother after her parents were killed when she was a teenager. Grace left for New York City soon after her...

What was supposed to be a simple college archaeological dig at Ghost Creek turns out to be anything but. The site is located on private property in the Utah outback and guarded by three armed men. Their odd behavior excites the suspicion of one of...

The Ethanol Papers is an extensive and detailed work of non-fiction which was penned by author Marc J Rauch. Subtitled as ‘The Whole Story on Ethanol Fuel’, this informative and straight-talking narrative takes its readers through an economic, performance-related and environmental debate which has raged...

In The River Nymph by Anne Lovett, Tenny runs away from home, hoping to leave behind all the pain from her childhood. Her brother had gone off to war, never to return home, and Tenny is determined to find him. Tenny wishes to make something...

When we’re young and feeling invincible, unless we have cause, we don’t give a lot of thought to our health, let alone our eyes. That all changes as we age and begin to notice we aren’t seeing as clearly as we once did, or we...

An elderly man discovers an anomalous creature on the Irish moors in the jarring short story, Jeremiah Kildare and the Wolf of the Same County by Robert E. Kearns. Jeremiah Kildare lives in a state of stasis. He has lived in the county of Kildare...

On Swift Wings: The Travails of Cygnus by Brett Wiens is a meld of adventure, fantasy, and humor, a novel filled with humor and fun moments. The protagonist is Cygnus, a young man who survives a plane crash in the ocean, and unwittingly finds himself...

Princess Dembe was the sole heir to the throne in the Beloved Land. Everyone called her Busingye but her father fondly called her Dembe. The day she was born her father, King Rumba, met the king of the Buganda kingdom and signed a peace agreement...

Blood of the Key is a superb work of fantasy fiction, adventure, and intrigue penned by author duo Amanda Muratoff and Kayla Mansur. Forming the second novel of the Berylian Key Trilogy (also part of the Pantracia Chronicles), this fully cinematic and atmospheric story picks...

A local shop-owner is found standing over her dead con-artist boyfriend's body and her best friend must prove her innocence in the entertaining murder mystery Fatal Break (An Aloha Lagoon Mystery Book 15) by Beth Prentice. Sam, short for Samantha, is the children's surf instructor...

Broken Forest by Eliza Tilton is the first book in The Daath Chronicles. Avikar spends every day trying to forget the day he lost his little brother as it haunts him every moment. Their lives have found a happy routine with an impending engagement that...

Cooper: The making of a service dog is a nonfiction memoir written by Clyde Hoch. Hoch was a tank commander in Vietnam in the late sixties, a time when that conflict was at its peak. He was hospitalized when the tank he was riding in...