In Lessons Learned: Short Stories of Continuity and Resilience, Michele L Turner expertly and simply recounts singular events in both her personal and professional life which prepared her, in her words, to ‘receive' her career passion. Immediately she was introduced to the discipline of Disaster...

Bernado’s Circus is a work of fiction in the drama and historical fiction subgenres. It is best suited to the mature reading audience owing to graphic scenes of sex and violence, as well as dark themes such as abuse and murder, and was penned by...

Another Time in a Vacuum by Roland Burisch is a witty fantasy adventure of anachronistic proportions. Meet Monty, a time-traveling historian who travels back to 1673. Imagine the thrill of excitement that greets him as he meets one of history’s most important diarists, Samuel Pepys....

Chasing Zorba: A Journey of Self-Discovery in a VW Bus, by Jerry Steimel, is an intriguing travelogue of introspection and fulfilling a lifelong dream. The Vietnam War is a powder keg in America, along with other social issues, and the author has just finished college....

Clochán by Lawrence P. O’Brien takes us back to the late eighteenth century and the mystical, superstitious Emerald Isle. As a young six-year-old boy, Kevin Neal had watched his entire family butchered by the English soldiers in the rebellion of 1798. He watched his two...

Sacred Tears is a work of fiction in the women’s fiction and interpersonal drama subgenres, and was penned by author Claudia Terry Pemberton. The work is intended for the general adult reading audience and contains some reference to tragic events, but no explicit content. Our...

Path of Affliction by Nick Campanella is a fascinating tale of murder and greed that will appeal to fans of crime thrillers. Frankie Buccetti and his friends are out hunting deer when they hear gunshots. Instead of calling 911, Frankie convinces his friends to head...

T. C. Weber’s Born in Salt does a good job of finding that sweet spot between a dystopian future and sociopolitical commentary. This is a tale in which Ben Adamson, a young farm boy from Illinois, becomes a strong opposition against an oppressive government. His...

Tarra Light’s Angel of Auschwitz: A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness and Healing describes the atrocities of Auschwitz during the Holocaust. She places the reader in Poland where the destruction of the Jewish race and all its horrors are front and center. A young girl, Natasza,...

Soulstealer by Shane Boulware is a supernatural urban fantasy. Nythan has his future planned out, determined to make a life for himself in the military. Everything changes when he is assaulted and a strange mist leaves his assailant and enters Nythan. From that point forward,...

A Reduction of Men by Jason C. Dykehouse is a speculative fantasy set in an alternate historical world and revolving around one Mister Oshka Hyggens, who unwittingly makes a name for himself at perhaps the most inopportune moment possible. The cartography provided appears pretty straightforward...

A Debt of War by Michael Ringering is a World War II novel quite unlike any war book I have ever read. When Paul Bacca and his siblings attend their mother’s funeral in 2009, Paul is shocked and surprised to be approached by an elderly...

Confessions of a Janissary by Nicholas Downing is an absorbing, compelling work of Christian historical fiction. This engrossing story is set in the early Ottoman Empire, in the latter part of the 14th century. Christian boys are taken from their families by the Sultan and...

In Gail Meath’s original mystery novel, Songbird, a talented composer suddenly dies from what seems like a straightforward cause but a brilliant detective, Jax Diamond, suspects that the man was murdered. Jax’s private investigation of Sam Sanders, a composer who has just completed writing a...

Susana Illera Martínez's new book, Lala: A Different Kind of Lizard/ Una Lagartija Diferente is a story that celebrates individuality. Lala's family consists of her mom, dad, and two sisters. Lala goes to school and plays at the pond, but Lala has an unusual friend,...

An irrational fear of holes becomes the source of horror in A.G. Sullivan's Trypophobia. Young Ben Brennan is the unfortunate trypophobic in this tale, and his father, Brian, will bear the brunt of his anxiety disorder. It begins when Brian is awakened one night to...

And Tyler No More by Stan Haynes is a fictionalized and exciting look at a purported plot to assassinate the tenth president of the United States. The reader is taken back in time to an era rife with political and social conflict as the Civil...

Somnium by the award-winning Kristy Kamin is a moving, compelling dystopian novel about what it means to be yourself in a world that doesn't always understand or accept differences. Imagine a perfect place and time where your wildest dreams are fulfilled during the daytime. Then...

Mementos by Theodore Jerome Cohen is a compilation of original flash fiction and short stories, and book four in the author's series, Mementos Anthologies. Using stock photography and photographs taken by others that depict a scene or a person as a prompt, Cohen weaves bite-sized...

In the historical romance novel Greetings from Asbury Park: A World War II Love Story by Luigina Vecchione, a young Italian woman and an American soldier fall in love during his brief assignment in war-ravaged Italy. Even though Mariella is just a teenager, the war...