In a great shorter-form novel, Landfall, by author Joseph Jablonski, we follow Jake Thomas, a man who's ready for a different kind of life after spending thirty years working at sea. But he finds it difficult to put his old life behind him, especially when...

Teaching readers to incorporate bliss into everyday mundane tasks is the goal of certified life coach Veronica N. Cuyugan. Her book, Become Your Own Bliss, is a guide for achieving this rare state of happiness. Cuyugan reached her own version of "rock bottom" at a...

Chronicles of the Nocturnal Forest by Vanessa Kings is a fairy tale that will enchant and captivate young readers. Melanie lives in her own world and is always daydreaming. She feels that no one understands her. One day she meets a fairy who tells her...

I must confess that I love mysteries, and I’m always looking for new books in this genre. Unfortunately, I’ve been getting a little bit burned out on my favorite books lately. So many of them seem the same, and I often guess the bad guy...

Second Hand Stops by Katie St. Clair is the first book in the Van Buren Series. Left alone on a doorstep, Julia Malone is joined by several telepathic children to form a hotchpotch family of sorts under the watchful eye of the strange Mistress Lilliun....

Squishy Face and the Moon by Jennifer Oneal Gunn is a combination of the normal fears that children have with some basic science. The two main characters are Squishy Face, a young girl younger than ten, and Big Mama, her mommy. One night Squishy Face...

Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen M. Rodgers unveils the world of Johnnie Kitchen. Johnnie comes from a family that is good at keeping secrets. Her mom has been missing for years, and she doesn't know why? Maybe the statue at Soldier’s Park knows the answer....

The Final Salute is a military fiction by Kathleen Rodgers. Colonel Tuck Westerfield, a fighter pilot at Beauregard Air Force base who flew in the Gulf war, mourns the death of his friend and colleague. His unhappiness rises after catching his Commanding Officer cheating with...

Winter’s Past is the first book in contemporary Christian romance writer Mary E. Hanks' Second Chances Series. Winter’s Past tells the story of Winter Cowan, a Christian Evangelist and motivational speaker. Winter’s ministry, Passion’s Prayer, travels all around the country in a beat-up old jalopy...

Whether brick and mortar or online, one of the tools that a business owner needs to acquire business success and a steady revenue stream is a branded online presence. “You must utilize every minute you can to getting the most out of your efforts,” says...

In Captured Lies: Book One of The Caspian Wine Series written by Maggie Thom, Bailey was successful in her adult life. This was a far cry from her pitiful childhood, which mostly consisted of constantly moving from house to house, town to town. All her...

Reap Not the Dragon is Book 2 of Debra Kristi's contemporary urban fantasy, The Age of the Hybrid. This series is set in Mystic's Carnival, a special world that is the setting for a number of different authors' works. Sebastian is a Reaper. He hasn't...

Chukcha the Mountain Monkey by Tamara Popa is an adorable story about the bonding between a wild monkey and the people living in the mountainous region of Ethiopia. Chukcha is given a tree house to live in, but her favorite haunt is the neighbor's wall...

Clone Drones is the third book in R.C. Carter and J.P. Carter's detective mystery series, the O'Rourke Crime Novels. Ryan O'Rourke has a fairly busy, if routine, set of assignments for his crew. The lone operative who won't be working is his fiancee, Siobhan, who'll...

Voice of Innocence by Lindsay Detwiler is a bittersweet, coming-of-age novel. Emma Groves is studious and keeps to herself. While sitting in art class on the first day of her tenth grade year, she finds herself partnered with the new student, Corbin Jones. From that...

Can your memories put you in danger or would they salvage your relationship when everything indicates that there was no relationship to start with? In Love or Deception by Morgan K. Wyatt, Amy has no recollection of anything. The only thing she remembers is that...

I loved The Stonegate Sword! This is all you really need to know. I'm going to tell you about the accurate portrayal of the characters. I'm going to tell you about the very realistic feel of this fictional world, a world that feels so real...

Dogs Don't Talk is a young adult coming of age story written by Nancy May. Benjamin is a junior in high school who's recently moved to Adele, Virginia, with his family. They've moved several times before because of his father's job, but Benjamin's hoping this...

Life – Citizens of Logan Pond, Book 1 by Rebecca Belliston is set in the future but without all of the science fiction mumbo jumbo. The story happens in Logan Pond, Illinois, with the 30 plus clan members who have survived a deadly economic crash....

Flash 40: Life's Moments by Janelle Jalbert is an interesting collection of flash fiction pieces divided into several perspectives; beginnings, middles, endings and beyond. All realistic defining moments of people’s lives are instilled in the stories. The collection starts off with “Awkward,” which is an...