Michael Pronko's mystery novel Azabu Getaway: Detective Hiroshi Series Book 5 is a gripping murder and crime story set in Tokyo. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is a forensic accountant, investigating financial crimes. He is fluent in English, having lived in Boston for some years. Joseph Leung,...

The Decompression Palms by Anna Alexis Michel is an intriguing novel set in Florida. The story opens with a poignant scene as Antoine and Line have breakfast together in the kitchen. They sit side by side, facing the palm trees like most Sundays. This time,...

Soap-Stud & Blue-Movie Girl: High-octane Tales of Hollywood by David Godolphin features two short novellas with passionate characters with a story to tell. Short and satirical, both novellas are set in 1990s Hollywood where the characters yearn for success and fulfilled dreams. Blue-Movie Girl follows...

Poetry has all too often been pushed aside or completely ignored as nothing more than a difficult genre to understand. We Are Poetry: Lessons I Didn’t Learn in a Textbook by Kym Gordon Moore is something different and shows how poetry teaches us many things...

In The Only Me by Marissa Bader, we are introduced to a set of twins that couldn’t be more different. Stella loves to dress up in frilly dresses and outfits while her sister is more of a tomboy and prefers to wear t-shirts and leggings....

Agent C2C: Positive for People and Planet is an action-packed and illustrated adventure which is climate and planet conscious from cover to cover. It is best suited to the young adult and adult reading audiences and was created by author team Ehrengard Hohbach, George Hohbach,...

In Almost Full Circle: From Montserrat to Canada and Back-ish, Jacqueline Greer Graham takes readers back to her Caribbean roots, her youth in Montserrat, and her time in Canada with her mother and stepfather. She remembers the wonderful and positive experiences she had as a...

Karen Henton introduces us to delightful characters in her picture book Meet the Snozzeralls, with illustrations by Sarah-Leigh Wills. The Snozzeralls are a family who lives in the face of a human and through their adventures we learn more about the anatomy of the human...

A Trophy Life is a short work of fiction by Robert E. Kearns. It opens in England where a retired company executive named Allister comes upon a trophy that has been discarded near a dumpster. Allister takes the trophy home and cleans it up, noticing...

Following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, 17-year-old Ronald Schulz chose to leave home, establish a commune in Chicago, and join the Yippee revolution. Thus began his road trip, in which he encountered a variety of characters, including a sexually unsatisfied deacon, homosexual guys who gave...

The Olympus Project is a work of fiction in the science fiction and dystopian subgenres and forms the first installment in the Gaia series. It is best suited to mature readers and was penned by author Zoë Routh. In this opening adventure to what promises...

What is STEM? It’s an acronym and we’re familiar with acronyms in an era that lives by them. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine. There are a lot of men and women who have excelled in different strands of STEM, but more has...

Cheers! The Path You Choose #3 is a “choose your own story” book. As the title implies, it’s the third book of a series by Jill Ammon Vanderwood and a continuation of the previous book. However, people don’t need to have read the earlier book,...

Victoria followed her husband Nick to Angie’s house as she suspected Nick and Angie of having an affair. At Angie’s house, Victoria got out of her car, stumbled on a rock, and lost her balance. She scraped her arm when she fell. Victoria saw Nick...

Larry Lockridge’s Out of Wedlock is part of the Enigma Quartet series. Jess Freeman has spontaneous eidetic imagery as psychiatrists would call it. He will disconnect and go into a trance for hours to escape reality. He also has terrible nightmares that make him scream...

Do Nothing: A Griffin Knight Murder Mystery Thriller by Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. is the first short story in what promises to be a fascinating and gritty series of crime stories involving this protagonist, Homicide Detective Griffin Knight. When Griffin is called to the scene...

Spinach is to Popeye as Empathic Mastery: A 5-Step System to Go from Emotional Hot Mess to Thriving Success is to empaths. Author Jennifer Elizabeth Moore is the savior of our times, as individualism, socioeconomic development, social media, and work pressure have largely contributed to...

The Silver Woman of Fire: Gather Your Nerve and Live by Elizabeth Upton is a thought-provoking collection of realistic and reflective insights. There are twenty-four chapters in this book with titles like To Be Real, The Soul of Life - Your Imagination, Laughter Can Save...

Until I left high school, most of my teachers were nuns, not to mention a source of fascination. What did they wear to bed at night? Are they bald under those black veils? What do they confess if they don’t even sin? As a young...

I’m not sure whether Little Loose Ends by Bonnie Traymore should more correctly be called Large Loose Ends. I had not read the first book in the series, but there was enough of a back story to explain how the saga continues with one of...