The Maranzanos, Espositos, Toscanis, Civellas, and Carusos are five powerful families that rule Chicago. Each family has a signature ducerat, ranging from shock to ice, shadow, fire, and havoc. Then there is the void ducerat, more dangerous than anything, and the genesis of an unimaginable...

Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time by Cliff Beach is an effective, valuable guide to starting and growing your side project. An award-winning international musician, entrepreneur, toastmaster, songwriter, and TEDx speaker, Beach shares his...

Black Artists Rock! The Cool Kids’ Guide A-Z by Cara Reese is a children’s picture book about famous household names in the world that encompass different artistic paths from musicians, photographers, singers, and all other professional landscapes that lie in between. Also represented are lesser-known...

What's Your Story? Personal Deep Dive, Coaching Yourself to Success by Esther Sophia is an interactive and thought-provoking book. It will appeal to people who want to discover how to achieve a lifestyle and career that aligns with who they truly are. It is like...

The Adventures of Soul Sistas: Or How The Sisters Changed the World by Newton Vanriel is a coming-of-age picture book for children. After falling madly in love, getting married, and moving from their hometown of Toronto to become country folk in Espanola, Alexandra and Nathan...

Homesteading for Beginners: How to Start Homesteading From Scratch by Jennifer Tyler is a useful guide that explains everything you need to know about starting a homestead. She discusses how to get electricity, raise animals, and start a garden, to name just a few. She...

Devil's Chew Toy: A Novel by Rob Osler is a charming mystery with endearing characters, animals, humor, and plenty of heart. Hayden wasn't exactly a thrill seeker with the most exciting thing in his life being his blog posts. Then he meets Camilo – a...

Although our world has recently been thrown from crisis to crisis, we have been able to survive disasters and even defeat a pandemic. But how would we fare if a new, more dangerous pandemic struck a large population and caused memory loss in its victims?...

Treating Food Allergies with Modern Medicine by Sanjeev Jain, MD, Ph.D., as the name suggests, explores food allergies, which is a growing concern, becoming an increasingly fatal epidemic. I remember years ago being surprised by a friend’s revelation concerning her peanut allergy. She didn’t show...

April In Chicago is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, suspense, and romance subgenres. It is best suited to the mature reading audience owing to sexually violent content and some other violent scenes and was penned by author Marcia A Oster. In this...

Where the Magic Lies: Perils of Portia Saga #1 by Hermione Lee commences as Amethyst and her mother bring home a log. They are shocked to be confronted by fairies who accuse them of stealing treasure. The penalty is death, but Amethyst bravely offers herself...

Everyone knows that cats are finicky. They like things their way. Another thing cats don’t like is change. Andy Wortlock understands the way of cats and shares how they feel about Christmas in Cats Don’t Like Christmas! Christmas is a time of change. Often, the...

Building High-Trust CommUNITY argues that America's conflicts result from a distrust in society and politics. It begins by examining people and trust in a historical context covering the period from Abraham Lincoln to the COVID pandemic. The book reviews trust at an individual level and...

A Broken Clock Never Boils by C.J. Weiss is a psychological thriller that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. Claire Rossi became obsessed with curing schizophrenic patients after her mother was misdiagnosed and later died because of that. Becoming a psychiatrist...

“You can’t bury your pain successfully although you might convince yourself that you have. There will always be a reckoning.” That bit of wisdom was shared with Asha, the young adult protagonist of I Touched the Moon: A Tale of Abduction and Redemption by Sila...

Always Noel by Kathleen Shoop is the fourth book in her 'Tis the Season series. The author takes you back to when our country struggled to get back on its feet after the Great Depression. Jane Scott dreamed of getting her bachelor's degree to become...

The Gambia: The Smiling Coast by Terry Lister introduces the reader to the West African nation. Terry retired as an MP in Bermuda but continued his international travel. As he journeys, he writes about the various countries he visits. The writing and descriptions are superb....

The tables have turned. Primordial grounds have shifted. And one guy is threatening to throw the world off balance. His name is Lucifer. Tired of being the bad guy, he seeks re-entry into Heaven’s good books, but can evil ever cease to exist? In The...

The Health Hazard: Take Control, Restore Wellbeing and Optimise Impact by Alison Coughlan is a timely, essential guide for overcoming and recovering from stress and burnout. In today’s hectic work environment, the clear boundaries that existed between work and personal life do not exist anymore....

Steven T. Collis pens an engaging story of war, devotion, and survival in his novel, Praying with the Enemy. On June 11, 1951, Captain Ward Miller flies over Korea in his aircraft. On a bomb mission, napalm is his payload. Being a veteran of...