Hidden horror comes to life in The Salvation of Kora by Yolanda Olson. Young adult Lily struggles to establish a normal life and move on from the traumas of her past, burdened by the twin losses of her mother and sister to different fates. Being...

Few people know the value of self-love. Unfortunately, too many equate self-love with selfishness and narcissism. Leslie Leong authored Self-Love Agreements: Renew Your Mind & Renew Your Life to correct these misunderstandings and to encourage healthy self-love. Leslie reminds us that if we expect others...

Habits That Changed Everything: Change Your Life with Good Habits and Regain Your Power to Be Happy is a combination of an autobiography and a self-help book. Author Leslie Leong writes about his extensive life changes and encourages others to make similar transformations. He challenges...

Sincere Thoughts is a lovely book of Christian poetry done in free verse by Karen A. White. The poems cover spiritual struggles, including pain, loss, grief, and separation from God, but joy and hope are also woven throughout. The poem Return is about the journey...

Joseph Horiuchi, a second-generation Japanese American, liked being a sailor in the merchant navy. He had to accept discrimination for being Japanese, and his crewmates rarely socialized with him. In May 1942, Captain Merrill Kendrick commanded a convoy destroyer on the Atlantic run fighting off...

Restitution: A Sean Coleman Thriller is the fifth book in the Sean Coleman Thriller series by John A. Daly. Sean was finally getting a break, and he was happy spending some quality days with his friends. His good friend Dusty was getting married, so Sean...

The Perfect Gift: Something Special, written by Emma L. Price and illustrated by Beverly Hawkins Hall, is a story about a little boy named Marlon. His class has been given the assignment of finding presents to give to children in the hospital. Marlon asks his...

Music Shall Untune the Sky by Lou Kemp is book one in the Celwyn series. Celwyn embarks on an adventure to help his friend Professor Xiau Kang pick his wife up from Singapore. Their trip comes with some surprises as Prince Leo and his daughter...

Imani's Undersea Adventure by T. M. Jackson takes place in an aquarium. Imani, a young black girl, and her grandfather are touring the aquarium. As her grandfather starts to share with her facts about the aquatic life they are seeing, Imani notices a scuba diver...

Keepers by Cheryl Burman tells the story of Raine and Teddy who experience marital upheaval. The narrative commences in 1951 as Raine, short for Lorraine, struggles to manage by herself with baby Stevie in a rough shack. It flashes back to 1949 when Raine works...

Camp is a work of fiction in the historical and social issues subgenres and was penned by author David Hatton. It is largely suited to the mature adult reading audience owing to its truly harrowing themes. We meet central protagonist George Taylor in 1925 when...

Somewhere Above It All by Holli Fawcett Clayton follows the story of a tenacious woman struggling to get over the grief of losing her husband. After a devastating opioid addiction claims the life of Brody Halleck, a rising baseball star, his wife Marren's life turns...

Eternity, Sekhet Saga Book 3 by KK Weakley is a horror novel designed to take the reader into the underworld realm ruled by Lucifer and his Queen Lilith. Lucifer and Lilith enjoy playing games to satisfy their need for entertainment. Those within their realm are...

Workman's Complication: The First Kate McCall Crime Caper, by Rich Leder, is full of mystery, drama, entertainment, funny-bone humor, and unforgettable characters, especially Kate. Some leading ladies are predictable, ho-hum, or unconvincing, but Kate is a multi-talented woman. One moment she's minding her own business...

Humans Are The Problem: A Monster's Anthology is a short story collection of monster tales penned by 20 different authors and put together by editors Willow Becker and Mike Cluff. "Root Rot" by Sarah Reed puts a new twist on the myth of the tooth...

Bulletproof Decisions: How Executives Can Get it Right, Every Time by Ruben Ugarte is a non-fiction self-help guide on changing leadership perspectives to a strategy better aligned with success. Ugarte offers a uniquely detailed blueprint for how sweeping the scope of the book truly is....

Moving Forward is an anthology of short stories and one poem published by the Immigrant Writers Association, a Canadian-based organization. The book brings together the thoughts, experiences, and memories of people who have made the ultimate decision to leave their homelands and emigrate to a...

Barely accustomed to life as a student at the University of Chicago after transferring from NYU, Zak Skinner’s life takes one giant wild turn. It all starts with a fellow student, David Wade, introducing Zak Skinner to drugs. Before Zak knows it, he has developed...

Faith Lost is the second Shepherd & Associates novel by Judith Erwin. Scarlett Kavanagh discovered she worked well with Jake Shepherd while he investigated her brother-in-law's death. Leaving her successful law business behind, Scarlett works her first official case with Jake, a child abduction. Someone...

Church After: Finding Transformation in Unexpected Change by Anna Mitchell Hall is a non-fiction guide to the reality of transition and how best to not only adapt but to thrive. When I initially came across Hall's book, I assumed it was a post-pandemic manual on...