And My Father Was There by Noah McCaffrey is a fictional story that is built around a true baseball legend. The main character is a young man named Laird Young the third. He is the son of a former baseball player/former soldier from World War...

Beeswing Makes Friends is a children’s picture book written by James Bruner and Elizabeth Stevens, and illustrated by Daniela Frongia. Long ago, before there were buildings and cities and the time we all think of as familiar, Beeswing played and danced and sang with his...

Luke and Jude. The perfect couple, with two beautiful kids, Emma and Jacob, and a 22-year-long marriage. He has a successful business and she has a job she enjoys. So, what more could Jude Johnson require? Well, an orgasm would be nice! Jude played the...

The Side Job by Don Lubov is a short, interesting and realistic story that follows a young mother on a daring journey to save her sickly daughter. Maggie Gomez gets pregnant at seventeen and, abandoned by her boyfriend, she is left alone with the child....

The Room Above by author Laura Hergane is a work of literary fiction. Although a shortish read, it has the kind of gravity to it that feels much longer. The words read off the page like poetic prose and throughout most of the book have...

Meet Pippin the cat in the story Pippin No Lickin' by Layne Ihde. Unlike other cats who liked to bathe, Pippin disliked preening and he would do anything else other than self-cleaning. His papa told him that things would get caught in his fur and...

Meet Dazzle who was born into a tribe of flying squirrels in the story My Heart Song by Sister Solana D’cunha. Dazzle could not fly and spent most of his time thinking and reading. His cousin Hopper was loyal to his friends and family and...

Colonizing Trappist by Chris Shockowitz is the first book in an epic science fiction saga called The Outward Bound trilogy. It chronicles the human colonization of a planet in the Trappist star system situated many light years from Earth. The forward party, headed up by...

With thematic threads and certain plot elements reminiscent of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the long holiday movie classic It’s A Wonderful Life, D.L. Finn’s short-short book, A Long Walk Home, offers a feel-good antidote to potential seasonal doldrums, as well as a cautionary tale...

An Unnatural Selection by Jannifer Powelson is a murder mystery story. It’s Eklund, Illinois, Saturday night, and Kristen Matthews is having a quiet romantic dinner with Bret, her boyfriend. Just before they get to dessert, Kristen discovers a body – a friend’s body. A naturalist...

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. How many times do we hear this in a lifetime? Jennifer Taylor seems to have it all. The money, the looks, the grades, the boy… Carolyn Samuels has lived in Jennifer’s shadow...

Ben's Adventures: A Day at the Beach is an educational picture book for children written by Elizabeth Gerlach and illustrated by Yip Jar Design. This is Ben’s story. He is a triplet with a brother and sister, and he uses a wheelchair. Ben has cerebral...

Short Stories II by Rich DiSilvio is an eclectic collection of tales ranging from the Roman era to the 19th century right up to the modern day. It includes short stories featuring Armand Arnolfini, a high-powered private detective with CIA connections who specializes in art...

Quinn is the present-day incarnation of an ancient soul, cursed with the memory of his numberless past lives. He is the envoy of an ancient civilization in search of the love and soulmate he lost thousands of years ago. The Emissary by Tamara Veitch and...

Moral Indignation: Embryonic Stem Cells, DNA, and Christians by Sherman P. Bastarache addresses many of the issues surrounding stem cell research and the religious arguments against it. While Bastarache begins by stating it's not possible to cover all of the disputes that arise on the...

Love Over Logic is the second book in the Desert Monsoon series by Diana Hicks, a suspenseful romance with great potential for entertainment. Meet Attorney Emilia Prado whose life has been reduced to fear and hiding after the murder of her father by a local...

Silent Invasion is another enthralling work of science fiction from author Chris Shockowitz. In a subtle twist on the alien discovery story line, this tale focuses on two central protagonists who come together with an impossible shared dilemma. There’s Jeff Smith, CIA, who finds himself...

Christmas is the most magical time of the year – and no place is more magical than Disney World. Sophie’s sister and best friend died, and her eight-year-old niece Ariel only had one wish for Santa Claus. She wanted to spend Christmas at Disney World....

Do you want to write a book and get it published but do not know how to go about it? How To Write Your Book: From an Idea to Your Published Story by Bobbi Madry and Francine Barish-Stern is an insightful and useful guide that...

Meet Dan who is supposed to be a fire dog in The Cookie Eating Fire Dog by Lida Sideris. Dan was supposed to pull on his shiny black boots, slip into his bright yellow coat, and put on his red hat whenever the fire bell...