Abby's move to the small town of Astley, following her marriage, is not what she had imagined for her life. A successful singer with a good job and a city girl at heart, it is a huge sacrifice to make for a husband who seems...

Pearls among Stones by Christena AV Williams is a collection of poems where the poet speaks about diverse topics. Her writings are influenced by God and music and some of the poems revolve around that theme. They also speak about her inner turmoil and she...

Nebraska's Map is a real treasure of its own. Roger Ladd Memmott has created a world of uncertainty to surround his volatile, over-thinking characters, whose intricately woven existence is both insular and dangerous. Rubi and Wyatt share a common love, birthed during primary school and...

Voicings by Carroll Blair is a collection of poems that takes readers through a range of emotions, thoughts, and feelings. The short poems are constructed with much skill and they stand on their own, balanced in their thoughts and flow. The rich verses capture readers...

When a comet was found to be headed straight for a collision with the planet Kriel, two spacecraft were created to save selected people who would propagate the race wherever they landed. One of the spacecraft landed on Rukana and the other on planet Earth....

Strange Life by Eleanor Lerman is a collection of poems that speaks to readers on many levels. They are direct and honest and they take us through a journey of myriad emotions that dominate life and living in general. The simplicity and symmetry in her...

Bleeding Gull: Look, Feel, Fly by Raed Anis Al-Jishi is a collection of poems exploring universal themes such as life, death and love as well as more contemporary ones like cancer and autism. The poems are short, fitting on one page, but the imagery and...

Life Song by Christine M. Knight introduces us to Mavis, who was born to be a songbird. Her parents even chose to name her after one, the bird with the song that was worthy of poetry, however, Mavis was not able to soar like a...

Shelly’s New Shell is a children’s fable written and illustrated by Elisabeth Ekornes. Shelly is a hermit crab who loves to play in the ocean’s waves and has a lot of fun with her hermit crab friends. One day, she looks at Crabelina’s shell, which...

Sequela by Cleland Smith is adult science fiction at its best. Sequela opens with the strangest and most interesting job interview I've ever read. From there, Cleland Smith introduces us to our protagonist, Kester Lowe. Kester is a scientist. He creates designer viruses and at...

We Whisper: And Other Poems is a touching collection of poetry by a gay black American author, Cedric Jones. Cedric is a talented writer and several themes are addressed simply and poignantly. The poem “I am more” is a stark and beautiful work where the...

To say that Paige Lyman has been through a lot is an understatement. She's been through the proverbial wringer, and has been scorned by her former love who turned to the priesthood. In a sort of bitter revenge, she begins to seduce men of the...

Massive Black Hole is a contemporary fiction novel written by Andrea Barbosa. It's the story of three very different women whose lives are forever changed by their time together in New York City. Agatha came from a broken home in Texas and was taken in...

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...

Chaos on Kariba: Houseboat from Hell by Hilary Chase is a story of a woman who is trying to find the love of her life at the opposite corner of the world. When she met Anton, Paula had no idea that she would cross the...

Stories from the Olden Days: A Humorous Look at Growing Up in the 1950's & '60s is a collection of short non-fiction vignettes written by William P. Robertson. These stories work together as a memoir of the author's earliest years through to his graduation from...

Denise N. Fyffe picks a difficult subject to shine in: love. There are dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds upon hundreds, of book shelves worth of poetry collections dealing with romance and varying emotions that tend to accompany it. Yet, somehow, against all odds, Sensuous...

Willow's Walk by Rusty Blackwood is the life journey of Willow Lane Sutherland-Crosby. Born near Smith Falls in the Upper Ottawa Valley, on a dairy farm that belongs to her grandfather, she grows up in a closely knit family and is particularly close to her...

It is very obvious that Jacob Paul Patchen loves his grandparents. His book Life Lessons from Grandpa and His Chicken Coop: A Playful Journey Through Some Serious Sh*t focuses on the life lessons that Patchen’s grandpa taught him around the chicken coop that was on...

In a simply lovely and engaging story by author Gudrun Mouw, From Ashes into Light tells a unique story through the voices of three separate and special voices. Ruth, a young Jewish woman living in Austria during Kristallnacht; Saqapaya, a Native American man living in...