While I am usually not one for short stories, The Human Condition by Mark Taylor is one of the best books I have read in the last few weeks. This book is a collection of horror short stories, but they are not the kind of...

The Essay is a children’s short story written by Isabell Niland and illustrated by Ashley Teets. Benjamin Stafford is a practicing attorney now, and he’s opened his own office complete with a sign created from an antique desk he inherited from his grandmother. It features...

The Fair and Foul by Allie Potts is set in the future where the boundaries between reality and technology are blurred. It is set in the near future where artificial intelligence is very advanced. Juliane Faris is one of those programmers who wants to change...

I really enjoyed reading The Thing with Feathers by Anne Sweazy-Kulju. This story starts off in the 1920s and is about the lives of Blair Bowman and Will Marshall. Blair has been abused by her father since she was a little girl. Will decides to...

In Situ is a conceptual science fiction novel by David Samuel Frazier. The plot centers around paleontologist Alexandra Moss, a charming young woman who sets out to discover the ancient fossils of dinosaurs on a dig in Utah. What Alexandra discovers there will change her...

In Natura is a science fiction novel by David Samuel Frazier, the sequel to In Situ and the second book in the Arzat series. After discovering the incredible truth about the intelligent dinosaur-like creatures of 65 million years ago, In Natura picks up where In...

The Amicable Divorce by Marla Bradeen is a chick-lit novel. Vanessa hates her job with a passion and, just having had her driver’s license suspended, she is not looking forward to her upcoming thirtieth birthday. Things can’t get any worse…can they? Without any warning, Brian,...

The Silver Dragon of Nital by Vik Walker is the imaginative tale of what happens when young Nathan ventures into Gimblet’s shop on his way home from school one day. Little does he realize that he was, apparently, always destined to do this! Nathan discovers...

The Man Who Only Has One Truth in Him is a collection of poems from Angelos Michalopoulos. These poems seemed almost more like prose, what with the deep descriptions and actual plot happening within most. They are very wordy compared to most collections, but the...

Vanessa Bogenholm’s The Moral Line explores the consequences of a woman, Alexandria, who in her late 40s begins a career in whoredom following the end of her third failed marriage. Opening with Alexandria’s husband repulsing every effort of hers to sustain their relationship, she resorts...

The Boy Next Door: Falling for You, Book 1 is a young adult coming of age novel written by Danielle Lee Zwissler. Keri was looking forward to a relaxed morning in her dorm room, watching a favorite show and eating chocolate chip cookies, when her...

The Nest by Beatrix S. Tambunan is an illustrated children’s book about a family of birds. Two parent birds await the hatching of their baby and discuss moving into a bigger nest when the egg has hatched. Papa Bird initially tells Momma Bird that they...

Fast-paced, intense, and utterly absorbing makes an apt description of The Migrant by Lucian Leonte, a novel with great potential to grab the interest of fans of sci-fi and futuristic books. Set in the future, in the 2200s, readers are introduced to two powerful characters,...

The Seven Year Dress by Paulette Mahurin tells of the rise of Nazism in Germany and the concentration camps, as related by aged survivor Paulette Mahurin to a young nursing student who rents a room in her apartment. There have been numerous holocaust memoirs, but...

The Adventures of Sam Maverick is a historical work for children written by Lynn M. Fichtner and illustrated by Morgane Xenos. Sam Maverick was a colorful and authentic Texas pioneer who lived from 1803-1870. While many Americans are not all that familiar with the man,...

The Day My Fart Followed Me To Hockey by Sam Lawrence and Ben Jackson is the hilarious story of Timmy, who wants to be part of the hockey team, but thinks he is not that good at playing the game. Little Fart encourages and supports...

Books having to do with the Middle East always interest me, and especially those set in Iraq. This is a region that the author says is “older than the flood.” It is a land that has been ruled at one time or another by the...

The Hedgecock Friasko by Rick Hussey is a mystery novel set in Florida. When a runner is shot in a relatively safe neighborhood, Detectives Lucinda Cruz and Gus Michaelangelo McMurphy are baffled when they show up at the man's hospital room to find it empty....

I absolutely loved reading The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill. I wanted to move to Virginia immediately and buy a farm. The Smith family had horses, dogs, cats and an Angus steer named Pork Chop that the family calls Daddy’s cow. Brad meets Nancy at...

In the first book of a planned series of young adult fantasy fiction by author S.J. Lem, The Waterfall Traveler will suck readers in from the very first pages and won’t let them go until the very end. Follow the story of eighteen-year-old Ri, a...