“When I close my eyes, I see you, when I open my eyes, I miss you.” Someone Knows: Highlighting South Dakota’s Cold Cases is a true crime account by Christine Mager Wevik. These fifty-two cold cases are of missing persons and unsolved murders. Many of...

In Tree of Redemption by Jim Davidson, after the death of his friend Armando, Chris decides to pay his respects to the family and visits his friend’s home. Even though Armando was seventy, he was relatively healthy, which made Chris wonder how he died. Eduardo...

El Flamingo is a comedy spy thriller by Nick Davies. Frustrated with his acting career that seems to have hit a roadblock, Lou Galloway leaves Los Angeles on a trip to Mexico, hoping to clear his mind. However, after a drunken encounter with a stranger,...

Complicit (A Legacy of Silence Book 1) by Amy Rivers is an excellent suspense thriller. After her mother’s tragic death, Kate Medina moved back to her family’s home in Alamogordo to care for her father. Kate was now a counselor at the same school she...

I Wish You A Happy Birthday is a heartwarming and inspiring children's picture book by Michael Wong, the award-winning author of I Wish You Happiness, and I Will Always Be Proud of You. It celebrates parents' unconditional love and affection for their children. The story...

Pessimistic Permelia and the Worst Day Ever by Melanie Hawkins introduces Permelia, who believed that everything was always going to go wrong for her. Falling off her swing on a beautiful day proved her right. Realizing that she had math homework didn’t help either. After...

Healthy forty-four-year-old Luke goes to the doctor because he is coughing. Unfortunately, this is the beginning of his travails. Luke has an inoperable cancer tumor that is messing with his lungs and restricting his airways. He has a loving relationship with his video producer wife...

Healing Kiss is a paranormal romance novel by Amanda Uhl. Ever since her mother's death, nurse Lillian Milano has been hiding from the world because of her innate ability to heal the sick. Her gift has made her a target of the underground organization Kinetica...

The Ties That Bind, the second installment in Susan Markloff's young adult urban fantasy saga The Human-Born Era series, is preceded by book one, the award-winning The Rise of the Raidin. The series as a whole follows Jen Monroe, where in Raiden we are introduced...

In Hamza Overcomes: The Story of Forgiveness by Rick Luth, heading to school in his brand-new uniform, Hamza sees a bully he knows from the previous year. He hopes the mean boy has changed his behavior, but it only seems to have worsened. The bully...

Timothy Gene Sojka's novel, 39, is a literary fiction story about Stephen Detals, a former professional baseball player who faces a range of existential struggles, including alcoholism, abandonment, and suicidal thoughts. As Stephen's 39th birthday approaches, he feels the weight of an ominous fate that...

Brainwashed: A True Story of Psychological Domestic Abuse and the PTSD Aftermath is about the long-term effects of psychological and emotional abuse. Kashonia Carnegie, Ph.D., illustrates the traumatic impact of psychological abuse from her own life experiences, which she uses as an in-depth case study...

The Game Café: Stories of New York City in Covid Time is a collection of nine short stories by Eleanor Lerman. As the title suggests, the stories are about individuals living in New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through her stories, we are invited...

Knights of the Calabi-Yau by Brian White follows the story of Lex, the Calabi-Yau, as he seeks to end the nefarious plans of the Wraaken and its followers. After crossing the bridge and coming across a parallel, a wasteland, practically devoid of all life or...

The Kindness Quilt by Indigo Johnson is about a young dinosaur named Dino who goes on a big adventure in the mountains to find his purpose when he tragically gets lost. His loving mother and father search all over for Dino with the help of...

In Search of Forever by Patricia Lee starts on an interesting note. Jayden Clarke had big dreams of honoring his dad by joining the Marines. Those dreams are cut short when he winds up injured and finds himself back in the States. Returning to the...

Diana Kingsley’s Mother in Name Only: A Novel follows the journey of Myrna Kaye, a modern and educated woman who reflects on her life shaped by the societal norms of the ‘50s and ‘60s. As the story opens, Myrna walks barefoot in the warm weather....

In The Scarred Santa by Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy, the author has taken a subject that is very delicate, precious, and controversial and handled it with the utmost care and grace. Lee Ann catches the reader's attention and holds their attention throughout the whole book....

In Doctor Refurb by Marty Essen, after going through a divorce and finally learning how to get on with his life, Dr. Stefan Westin begins dating Tara, the woman who walked his dog. After a long day working at the hospital, Dr. Westin hears a...

In Where the Grass Grows Blue by Hope Gibbs, the last thing Penny Crenshaw expects when she gets a ring cleaned is to walk away with the stark revelation that her husband has been cheating. After divorcing Penny, her ex-husband swiftly remarries the younger woman....