A smile is contagious. Ben, the star of Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos’s book, The Boy Who Illustrated Happiness, was a smiler. More importantly, Ben was an optimist. He loved art and lived and breathed to be creative. Those who smile a lot also tend...

Begotten by Sudin Daniel takes readers on an insightful and engaging journey through the life of Christ where there are no Christians and non-Christians but just Christ and the rest of the people. The book is a good manual to make readers realize the greatness...

Surreal and hypnotic, Randall DeVallace's Memoir of a Doomsday Prophet takes the reader through the journey of a man named Edwin Block as he searches for his purpose in life. After failing his final exam, Edwin Block ponders his future when an eccentric man named...

Secret of the Forest is the second volume written by M. R. Neer on Junah Cat and his path to knowledge. After our hero discovered the secret of the garden in the first installment of the series, he broadens the perspective with his next adventure....

Manifestation is a work of fiction in the horror and thriller sub-genres and serves as the second book in the Black Spiral series. It is aimed at mature readers owing to the presence of graphic violence and moderate sexual scenes in the work and was...

April never knew her father: she was told that he’d died shortly after her birth. When she was five years old, her mother married Clark, an entertainment lawyer she’d only known for two weeks. Although it was a turbulent relationship at first between April and...

What’s a lonely widower to do when he needs a much-deserved breather? Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner by Gerald Everett Jones tells of Harrison Gardner, an American widower who purchases a tour package intending to engage in debauchery. He finds something more profound when he meets...

There is darkness in this fairytale that is so appealing, and yet reading it feels so liberating, as if assuring you that everything’s all right. Missing Charlie: A Fairytale Romance by Jess K. Hardy takes romantic fantasy to a new level. Five years ago, 23-year-old...

After a senator is gruesomely murdered, a group of librarians searches for his killer in the delightful urban fantasy, Booked for Murder (Vigilante Magical Librarians: Book 1) by R.J. Blain. Personal magical abilities are measured and quantified by the government, and those who are mundane...

The Judgment Game by Eli Pope tells the harrowing story of the Cader family. They say that time heals all wounds, but how can that be if deep, old wounds fester? Such is the case of Billy Jay Cader. The death of his father is...

Rabbit in the Moon by Heather Diamond is a fascinating memoir centering around the marriage between a white American and her Chinese husband from Hong Kong. At forty-five years old and married, Heather is studying in China for the summer when she meets Fred, who...

Anna Lavrynenko's adult crime thriller, Newbourne: A Cold Case, follows Detective Frank Harris whose life gets turned upside down with the arrival of his only daughter back home from university, following the mysterious disappearance, and possibly death, of one of his colleagues. With the help...

In Panspermia Colonist by Suvra Biswas, a viral brigade of Covids escape a black hole and plan to colonize our solar system. We meet their Master (Crutzfield), the Navigator (Kaposi), the Scientist (Epstein), their Earth contacts Covid (Uncle Gilbert), and sundry other characters who come...

Fifty Things I Love About My Wife: Love Is the Only Way by Keshav Jha is a lovely book. It is a lively and comprehensive testimony to happy matrimony and, more importantly, boundless and rewarding love. This volume begins with a quote from a famous...

Iris is a work of fiction in the crime genre. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by Chand Svare Ghei. The book follows the life of Special Detective Kenneth Johansen through a series of excerpts from his life as an investigator as...

Food and good-looking men are not always a good mix. That’s what Nicola has to learn. But, right now, she’s obsessed with her passion for baking and the goal of winning the Northern Bake Off competition. And, she has her eye on the handsome TV...

The Giant's Giant by Mark Cheverton is a young adult dystopian fantasy, set in a world that experienced a great nuclear disaster that nearly killed all life on Earth. The Earth survived and was renamed Phoniex. The creatures of Phoniex evolved over the centuries, and...

Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy by S.A. Bradley is an intriguing look at horror culture. This author pulls together information that we all may have felt or sensed but never analyzed: centered on the idea that horror is beneficial to...

The Redwood Asylum by L.A. Detwiler is a paranormal horror story. The Redwood Asylum stands alone in a thick forest. The stone façade hides a grim history of criminally insane, disturbed people, hidden away from the world. Jessica Rosen is 26 and she needs to...

Go From Hustle To Flow by Amanda W. Jenkins is a practical and encouraging self-help book that ultimately helps us achieve flow in our work. As a recognized thought leader with proven ability, Amanda has found balance in her life by devoting herself to the...