Santiago is a very strong bull; he’s actually a Taurus bull which, like the Taurus constellation in the skies, is known for its kindness, generosity, trustworthiness, determination, hardworking ethics, and independence, but it’s also strong, stubborn, loyal and patient. Santiago is all of those things,...

Princess Lily Earns Her Beads: A book for children with cancer and their friends is a work of fiction in the fantasy and self-help subgenres. It is intended for young independent readers as well as those who may need a little help from an adult...

Do you ever feel zany and want to escape? Perhaps you zigzag all over your home and your yard. All this zigzagging and zaniness might make you feel dizzy. I know it would make me feel dizzy. Zach is a zebra who, once wild, now...

Broken Alliances: Inside the Rise and Fall of a Global Automotive Empire by Carlos Ghosn and Philippe Riès is a fascinating insider’s look at one of the greatest business scandals of the new millennium. Like many others, when I read of Ghosn’s arrest in Japan,...

Sheila McGraw's Sketchy Characters is a page-turner about a character who has to question the sincerity of everyone around her as she strives desperately to escape the schemes of a serial killer. Jobless, broke, and homeless, Marilyn finds new opportunities to advance her life beyond...

Nadeem’s Journey: A Heart Wrenching Story of a Loving Mother Losing Her Son to Cancer, by Sherine Anniruth, is a moving memoir. As with any memoir involving a family member or loved one with cancer, especially a mother losing a child, there is sadness, bitterness,...

Dani has lived through horrors that nobody should have to experience, and she exists apart from everyone else because of it. She is missing her memory from several major years of her life, and she doesn’t expect to ever get them back. Dani lives by...

A.M.P.D.: Artificial Military Prosthetics Division is a work of fiction in the science fiction and military subgenres, and was penned by author Thomas Hraynyk. The work is best suited to the mature reading audience owing to the presence of graphic violence and sexual content as...

Earth To Larry: School Of Hard Knocks by Sandra Caouette is a kids' adventure story. Larry and Pearl have gone to Pirates Cove and stumbled across a school with a Help Wanted advert on the door. Jumping right in, as usual, Larry is all for...

Stephen Akey's bittersweet love odyssey started with a personal ad in Village Voice, which he described as "the local precursor to today’s online dating sites." Even though he was a "gainfully employed" and "fairly good-looking" New York resident, finding love for 24-year-old Stephen could not...

Amber Graham was an orphan Christian girl with no roots. She longed for a family, and fate smiled on her. A sudden Valentine’s Day invitation to the Wright mansion introduced her to Trey Wright and Ryan Pierce. These two men resented each other but adored...

Have you ever had a day that seemed upside down and topsy turvy? How about totally backward? That’s what happened to Alycat. It all began with a breakfast of seafood gumbo (usually what she ate for supper) instead of the eggs she usually ate for...

In Raising The Bar: A Lawyer’s Memoir, author Ruth Rymer recounts her childhood dreams of becoming a lawyer. Only later in life, when she finds herself fully embedded in the legal system, does she recognize the prejudice women experience. Day after day the author...

The Rescue is the first installment of the Timestream Travelers Chronicles by Sher J. Stultz. Fourteen-year-old Aeneas Entwistle finds himself waking up wearing different socks each night, with gaps in his memories. Alongside his best friends, C.J. and Tabitha, Aeneas discovers from the video feed...

Sacred Mounds by Jim Metzner reads like a magical mystery tour thanks to a clever plot involving spiritual time travel and body switching. The story starts innocently enough with the main character, Salvador Lewis Samuels, trying to save a young woman from drowning in the...

Born into an artistic family in Bologna, Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) is gifted with skills beyond her years, skills that demonstrate her talent at a very early age. Her father, Giovanni Andrea Sirani, has a prosperous studio, but at first, he refuses to train his daughters....

Only a few 4-letter words with “u” in them conjure up more visuals than the word “cult.” And how accurate are those visuals, most of which are based on what we read in newspapers and online? T.O. Paine subtly explores the perceptions we have of...

Reeling from the aftereffects of her five-year-old daughter Lily's death, Tess Parker stumbles into another disastrous event when she is involved in a car accident that sends her sister-in-law Torrie into a coma. With Torrie incapacitated, Tess has no choice but to foster her nephew...

Hyperreality: Beyond the Horizon where Physics Meets Consciousness by Johanna Blomqvist takes an intelligent and curious look at life, reality, and the many connections among physics, metaphysics, quantum physics, and energy, and how the human brain and society put these pieces of existence together. Exploring...

Better To Trust by Heather Frimmer involves Alison Jacobs’ struggle with aphasia from neurosurgery. Her sister, Cynthia, is married to a renowned neurosurgeon, Grant Kaplan. Unbeknownst to others, Grant has been abusing Adderall and Oxycontin for years. Meanwhile, Sadie Kaplan has made a new friend...