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From Afar

By Frank Scozzari

From Afar by author Frank Scozzari is a wonderful, wonderful read. It follows the story of our protagonist, Morgan Stanfield, on his quest to find love in St. Petersburg, Russia. A hopeless romantic, Morgan believes that somehow, some way, his trip just might lead him...

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The Last Jazz Fan and Other Poems

By Kenneth Salzmann

The Last Jazz Fan and Other Poems by Kenneth Salzmann is a short collection of poetry that touches on the unique experiences and inspiration of the poet. While short in length, the thirty poems within this collection touch on many subjects including nature, culture, the...

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Singing the Land

A Rural Chronology
By Chila Woychik

Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology by Chila Woychik is a chronological collection of poetic year-in-the life essays about life on an Iowan farm. The author covers a kaleidoscope of experiences in the heartland, from rainstorms to farm animals to wild animals to snowstorms and...

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Angels and Bandits

By Brodie Curtis

Angels and Bandits by Brodie Curtis is a historical fiction novel set during the early days of the Second World War. After being given a taste of flying on a plane, working-class Eddy Beane is hooked on returning to the skies again. Eventually, he finds...

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Bonds of Love & Blood

By Marylee MacDonald

Wow! Just...wow! I just finished reading the absolutely wonderful collection of short stories by author Marylee MacDonald, Bonds of Love & Blood, and I simply cannot get over how fantastic this book was! Anyone who knows me knows that I love short stories in general....

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A Song Beneath Silence

By Apryl Skies

If you like your poetry halfway between reality and the twilight zone of lethargic sleep, this is the book for you. In "A Song Beneath Silence", auth Apryl Skies takes the reader through lyrical moments in which love is always complicated and beauty is held...

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The Strange Marriage of Anne de Bourgh and Other Pride and Prejudice Stories

By Skylar Hamilton Burris

The Strange Marriage of Anne de Bourgh and Other Pride and Prejudice Stories by Skylar Hamilton Burris is a novelette styled like the classic Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Johnson is the new parson and Mr. Collin's successor. The Darcys are ill at ease in his...

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Redesigning Rose

By Lydia Laceby

After a brief conversation with her mother, Rose’s entire life begins to unravel. What she thought was just missing money morphed into the end of her marriage and a new chapter in her life. Looking around her soon-to-be-former home, Rose realizes just how blind she...

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Sympathetic People

By Donna Baier Stein

Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...

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Nobody's Looking

By J.R. Miller

This set of marvelously taut short stories in Nobody’s Looking by J.R. Miller creates more of a tapestry of themes than a formation of discrete tales. With the deftness shown by a confident, sure-handed writer, the author explores the convoluted but continuous crawl, walk, and...

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Molly Bonamici

By James Mulhern

James Mulhern’s supernatural story, Molly Bonamici, revolves around Molly, a high school senior. Molly is in for a big surprise when she follows her grandmother to visit a faith healer in a less than stellar neighborhood in Boston. Lady Jane, the faith healer, tells Molly...

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The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London

A Novella and Other Stories of the '60s
By Elise Frances Miller

The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London - A Novella and Other Stories of the '60s by Elise Frances Miller is a novel that some people might take as a romance, but it is much more than that. More of a woman’s story to find herself...

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The Moving Blade

By Michael Pronko

Jamie hadn't seen her father, Bernard Mattson, for years. They had drifted apart, but things had been about to change. They had planned to reunite, but then his murder put a stop to the plan. But murder is not the only thing she finds in...

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The Art of Writing

Four Principles for Great Writing that Everyone Needs to Know
By Peter Yang

The Art of Writing is a nonfiction self-help writing/publishing book by Peter Yang. While teachers continue to impress upon their students the importance of writing, Americans are increasingly uncomfortable with the written form of communication aside from texting and hurriedly sent emails. Yang acknowledges that...

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Exile and Kingdom Come

Elysium
By Gregory Wallace

Exile and Kingdom Come: Elysium by Gregory Wallace features a collection of poems with themes of surrealism, human encounters, nature, perception, and a lot more. The poems are divided into three parts, each comprising poems that are short and succinct, written in a style that...

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Lost Horses

Seven Stories
By Mark Saha

Lost Horses by Mark Saha is a collection of stories based upon true-to-life human emotions and characters involved in situations that range from the heartrending tale of a college student suckered into a deal in “Wide River” to the humorous situational misdirection in “Why Men...

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The Mourning Report

By Caitlin Garvey

The Mourning Report by Caitlin Garvey is raw with edges of true honesty that you won’t read anywhere else. A non-fiction memoir, Garvey sits her audience down to listen in as she interviews five people who were part of her mother’s passage from life to...

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Dare Not Tell

By Elaine Schroller

Dare Not Tell by Elaine Schroller is a beautifully written and psychologically engaging historical novel that follows a couple as they deal with trauma from war. It has been two decades since Joe Parker, an Australian war hero, left the trenches of war, and while...

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All Hope of Becoming Human

By Lonnie Busch

All Hope of Becoming Human by Lonnie Busch is a science fiction thriller that revolves around multiple characters who encounter dangerous unearthly occurrences following an earthquake. On a site exploration. archaeologist Rebecca Duccati uncovers a mysterious metallic object that attracts the attention of Homeland Security....

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Follow the River Home

By Corran Harrington

I thought Follow the River Home by Corran Harrington was an interesting story. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the life of Daniel Arroyo. Daniel lost his baby sister at a young age and never got over her death....

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