Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, Leadership is a beautifully written book by H.H. Leonard. The book is a compilation of the author's recollections of the legendary activist Rosa Parks. Narrated by the author, the book describes what kind of person Rosa Parks was,...

In Squeeze Plays by Jeffrey Marshall, business is the name of the game, money is the dice, and New York is the game board. Just when Whitehall Bank pulls the plug on Star Enterprises’ bad loan, Maxim Ripovsky rides to the rescue with a suspiciously...

The Poe Predicament is a historical fiction mystery thriller by Phil Thomas. Recently divorced former college professor Richard Langley's life turns upside down when he gets his hands on an old copy of Tamerlane and Other Poems signed by Edgar Allen Poe himself. Soon, Richard...

Each Alone, Across a Vast Unknown: A Scottish Family's Lives and Solo Journeys To America by Sally Eccleston is the portrayal of the very real family history of the author's paternal and maternal legacies. Set in the mid-to-latter 19th century, Eccleston chronicles three lives that...

In For A Penny: In For a Pounding by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson is the story of an English university lecturer, Thomas Rayne, who becomes frustrated with his meager lifestyle in a 9-5 job that barely affords him a decent living. His wife, who covers most...

Anna Darko’s For Pete’s Sake is one of those short stories that make you question the world around you after reading it. The thump that you heard has more meaning than it did before you read it; the hackles rise when maybe they wouldn’t have...

Nothing about the whole situation involving the sudden demise of Erik Brown’s grandfather Victor Brown added up. The police had found the old man lying dead on the doorstep of his house, a gunshot wound to his head indicating that he had been shot from...

When Michelle Petties started writing about her experience with food, she had thought of a cookbook, but when she finished writing Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, she revealed a different story. More specifically, she tells many stories - 22 in all -...

Rocket Ship by C.OB. is a young adult fantasy that tells the story of two best friends, Gary and Lincoln, who plan to visit the skies on one of the nights where they lie outside, staring up at the stars. They both agree that it...

Poems of Life, Love, and the Meaning of Meaning by Wren is a book of poetry about philosophy and ideas. As the title suggests, it is divided into three sections. The first, “Life,” is about regret for missed opportunities, mistakes that hurt people, and the...

No More Bad Days by Lindsey Whitaker is a “full-speed-ahead” story, with its engaging presentation of the perplexing details surrounding the discovery of the lower half of a beautiful young woman’s body in a suitcase. Where is the rest of her body? Who is she?...

Life is full of love, joy, grief, disbelief and belief, contradictions and controversy, and so much more. But what is life to those who are living? Ask a poet. Life is full of profound thoughts, but only for those who think, only those who believe...

Life hasn’t changed that much. Politics remains partisan and often volatile. But what of life? Ronald Gruner explores this theme in We The Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century. We still have a world full of differing opinions on everything from climate change...

Finley is the fascinating tale of a man who turns into a shark. Written by Divitto Kelly, the book follows thirty-eight-year-old Mark Finley, owner of the Finley Aquarium in Oregon. To prevent his family business from running into the ground, Mark takes a trip to...

Russian spies, cover-up stories, alien visits, alien artifacts, a teenage romance, and tarot cards are only some of the elements in The Tale of the Tarot by DJ Schneider. Mel, the protagonist, is only 15 years old and already had to deal with more than...

Dad Is My Best Friend by Kerice K. Robinson and illustrated by Kavion Robinson tells the story of the beautiful relationship between a father and daughter. Our narrator Angela is a young girl who proudly proclaims that her dad is her best friend. She then...

Justice For All: The Search for Big Poker Tom by Wayne E. Purcell takes place in the sleepy town of Bridgeport, California in the year 1891. A member of the Paiute nation (Native Americans of the region), known as Big Poker Tom, rode into the...

The Holding: Prequel to The Healing by Lynda Faye Schmidt is a work of literary fiction based on real-life events, set in North America in a time of Escape to Witch Mountain and Nancy Drew books. Cate is the central character and the novel is...

Former Assistant District Attorney Miranda Quinn is finally getting her life back together. The legal advice blog-turned-podcast that she started after being fired from her job is scheduled to become a daytime TV show, and she’s excited to get back on her feet again. Then...

Lowell Douglas Bailey ​and Vergie Ellen Terry, who tied the knot on the 28th of May, 1945, belong to the generation of Americans that experienced the last years of coal camp life in West Virginia. In Forged by Coal, their first child, Terry Bailey, tells...