The Lost Wisdom of the Magi: The Memoirs of Sophia Zealotes by Susie Helme is a historical fiction novel set in the first century and revolves around its titular character, a young woman of the time named Sophia. Sophia is the Jewish descendant of a...

Exploratory Tales: A Novel by Laura Clementz is the story of two people as they fight a battle within to find the answers they desperately need. All her life, Mikita was groomed to take over after her father and become a spiritual leader for her...

Thunder and lightning evoke a sense of dread in our minds, no matter how old we are. But not many of us know the reasons behind them. In his epic fantasy novel Dragons in the Clouds, David Blair explains that lightning is nothing but the...

In his novel Golan, F.X. Holden takes us on a fast-paced, intricately detailed journey into a future with the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. Built around conflicts between nations with deep histories of animosity, Holden delivers the action through the eyes of the warfighters and...

Detective Sarah Stone was on the tail of someone she believed to be a serial killer after many missing girls were reported. There seemed to be a pattern. After hitting roadblocks with her boss trying to get help, she took off on her own. The...

Preying On The Church by Kimberley B. Jones is a dramatic novel about a woman going through a crisis of faith following the death of her son. Margie Johnson is a middle-aged African American woman who regularly attends the Rockford Baptist Church. Apart from her...

A Strange Chat at the Fruit Stand by Lesha Greenlea is an inspiring book on one of the main lessons in Christianity, namely God's presence in our lives. The author paints a tragic but painfully familiar story about a protagonist who was so caught up...

Manage My Meditation: Seven Days to a Powerful Tool for Success and Transformation is an instructional manual for learning how to meditate. Author Kenneth Martz, Psy.D., has been meditating for more than 20 years and says the practice is his favorite tool. Martz explains why...

The way Mr. Invisible by Sawyer Ique begins, for a moment, I wondered what was happening. Then I remembered I was reading Mr. Invisible and that he was still hiding and I had to find him. Finally, he asks the reader to help make him...

If you are ready to immerse yourself in a world full of goblins, witches, fairies, and magic, then James Dreadful and the Spell-Guardian is the book for you. When we first meet James, he is living a typical teenage life with his adoptive parents. His...

Julian D. Parrott has carefully set the stage in his spy, detective, and romance novel, Fit For Purpose, from the prologue to the last page. The author slowly involves the reader with each character in the story. The main characters are Tom Price, Nia Williams,...

In a special zoo where animals were well fed and well cared for, Jerry Giraffe was getting too much food and gaining weight, while Zany Zebra was getting too little food and losing weight. Mr. Dennis, the zookeeper, was baffled, but, upon the advice of...

The Fountain Of My Destiny is a collection of poems written by Trevian J. Hunter Brannon. Filled with pop culture references and relevant social commentary, the poems are written in a post-modern style influenced by hip hop and rap. Author Trevian J. Hunter Brannon uses...

Siblings Cody and Anna are going exploring in their own backyard. They have all the equipment they need and they’re excited to be studying insects and bugs, anything they can find that lives in their yard. First, they find a bush cricket and admire its...

Mina's Rain Dance, written by Sarah-Luisa McAneney and illustrated by Zita Varga, is a children's picture book about a young girl with a passion for dance. The book begins with a glimpse into Mina's dance class where her lack of finesse and inability to stick...

Killing Strangers by Ram Gopal is a stunning novel filled with political and religious realism; a tale of crime that poignantly addresses one of the ills of contemporary American society: mass shootings. Larry Watson is an ex-FBI agent who goes to Atlanta Tech Corridor for...

Doctor Bob: Amorous Adventures of a Psychiatrist Addicted to Women and Alcohol by Peter Kelton is a challenging, complex amalgam of psychiatry, cosmology, birdwatching, communing with animals, fine food and drink, chaotic relationships, Japanese design, Mafia surveillance, the pathos of Skid Row, Amazonian forestry, helping...

No Gravestone Unturned by Debbie De Louise is the fifth book in the Cobble Cove Mystery Series. It’s October and Hallowe’en is fast approaching. Alicia is helping with the library’s Hallowe’en party preparations when she learns that John’s aunt has died and all his cousins...

Pete the Picassofish is just one of the many colorful personalities you will meet in The Adventures of the Picassofish. Johanna Hurmerinta introduces Pete and a host of his other finned friends through the pages of this beautifully illustrated children’s book. Johanna tells an exciting...

If brevity is the soul of flash fiction, then well-executed brevity makes for exemplary flash fiction. A Year of Shorts: Flash Fiction, a collection curated by Barbara Venkataraman, is an example of such execution. This compilation is grouped by themes corresponding to the seasons of...