A Daughter’s Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing by Sarah Birnbach is a heartwarming and eye-opening look at a woman’s attempt to fulfill a religious obligation for her father but seems to run into every issue imaginable to prevent it, be it traditionalists...

Stella and James are the stars of House of Diamonds, with an interesting cast. Stella has just left Perth, Australia, and Damian, her domineering boss and the man she was in love with. She arrives in Sydney to move in with her sister and...

Hollyland: A Novel is an engaging work in the women’s fiction and romance subgenres. It is best suited to the mature reading audience due to moderate sex references and adult language and was penned by author Patricia Leavy. In this charming and exciting work filled...

Two Floors Above Grief: A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We called Home by Kevin O’Connor is the best self-published memoir I’ve read this year. This concerns a family of undertakers and provides an examination of the day-to-day concerns of family life...

With the American healthcare system being the most expensive in the world, priorities tend to differ when it comes to analyzing the financial metrics of initiatives. As the author Firouz Daneshgari says, the system is expensive compared to what it brings in return. After years...

David Horn delights us with Do the Robot! In this third book in the Eudora Space Kid series, Eudora is up to her usual shenanigans aboard the AstroLiner Athena. She lands herself in some hot water when she programs Walter, the only robot officer, to...

The Dirt Bike Detective by Douglas L. Hoover is about five middle school misfits and outcasts doing a paranormal investigation of Raven Ridge Academy, their castle-like, gargoyle-embellished school that is rumored to be haunted. They were brought together by a self-proclaimed paranormal expert newcomer, and...

Old Enough, Yet Unmarried by Dr. O is a delightful story about Tessy, a successful doctor, and her four female friends as they battle the joys and challenges of love. Each woman has her own experience with love, marriage, or childbirth throughout the story, and...

Ange Hilstron has lived her life to the fullest. She had accomplished her dreams and in her old age felt as if she was 78 years old young. In later life, she feared the inevitability of a stroke. Her health was declining, and she knew...

The Beast in the Shadows is a thrilling second book in Douglas L. Hoover’s Dirt Bike Detective series. Oliver and his friends have succeeded in saving the world from mayhem and are happy to pick up another mystery to solve: what happened to the pizza...

Formula 1215 is a sci-fi suspense thriller by John S. Kennedy and Michael A. Bisson. Dr. Richard Walker is a man full of secrets. When a former best friend and the subject of Richard's laboratory experiment, John McBride, visits him after twenty years, Richard asks...

Lucky Jack (1894 – 2000): Memoirs of a World War 1 POW by S. Bavey is a legacy memoir narrated in the first person by Jack Rogers and collated by his granddaughter, who is the author. Rogers lived until the age of 106 and his...

The Liminal: Book 1 by Michael Padjen is a young adult urban fantasy set primarily in modern-day Holly Springs, North Carolina. Callie, a fourteen-year-old girl, can travel into The Liminal, a space between worlds where all manner of creatures and realms exist. She can find...

In A Murder in Ashwood by Robert Brighton, the illustrious community of Ashwood was thrown into chaos when Alicia Miller cheated on her husband, Edward, with her attorney, Arthur Pendle. The duo exchanged love letters that revealed dirty secrets about Arthur’s boss, the District Attorney....

Nature Study Buddies is the third book in Leigh's Wheelie Adventures series by Charlene McIver and is illustrated by Claudia Gadotti. It’s nature study week and Leigh, Cosmo, and Tara have chosen to study some nocturnal animals in Leigh’s backyard. But if they want to...

Interviewing Michael is the first novel in the Siel Series by Desiree Span, featuring Allison Webber, an aspiring journalist who is determined to interview Sandra Siel. The singer granted Allison an interview but did not reveal much. Michael’s unexpected drunken presence interrupted the interview. To...

Conflicted Man by Eric Landfried continues the story of a man named Doyle that started in Solitary Man. We follow Doyle on his mission to find the truth. With a wonderful mix of faith, danger, family, and tough questions, this action-packed follow-up is a hit....

A consortium of scientists has discovered several ways of slowing down the aging process. The backers have invited some of the wealthiest people in the world to attend an event in which everything is revealed. The only two catches are that the scientists are being...

Fairies in the Garden, written by Ennes Higgins and illustrated by Dimi D. Lupa is a mid-grade children's picture book and part of Lola's Adventure series. The book begins with an introduction to children Lola, Liam, Toby, and Sara as they loll about at Nana's...

An unexpected financial calamity strikes Ivy Sinclair with a double blow when she learns that she's been fired and simultaneously receives notice that her apartment lease has been canceled. In a reversal of fate, Ivy suddenly gets a job offer without an interview, on a...