Prisoner Moon is an historical fiction novel written by John Van Roekel. Edwin Horst is a prisoner of war on his way to a POW labor camp based outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The fifteen-year-old was sitting by himself on the train and did what...

Wrinkled Heartbeats: A Novel by Temple Emmet Williams is a thrilling read. Captain George McKlane is a war hero. He recently lost his wife Agnes, and his son is trying to persuade him to sell up. George calls in Martha Krumble, a real estate broker,...

What does it feel like to be broken at one’s own early beginnings, neglected, and filled with untold setbacks? AntiHero by J.M. Fibelkorn is a wonderful story of an ordinary young boy whose adolescence is filled with all kinds of vicissitudes. The second year high...

To Live Out Loud: A Novel by Paulette Mahurin is not only a novel, it’s a good primer on the Dreyfus case, a cause celebre in late 19th century France that highlighted the issue of French anti-Semitism. In To Live Out Loud, the story is...

His Name Was Ben by Paulette Mahurin is an excellent, heartfelt book. It follows the growing relationship between Sara and Ben. They are each dealing with different forms of cancer, which take them along separate routes until they are referred to a particular specialist clinic....

Split: A Child, A Priest, and the Catholic Church by Mary Dispenza rocked my world for two reasons. First, I attended Catholic schools till I was 18; second, I was, like Mary, a victim of child sexual abuse. But if Split rocked my world,...

You’re Not a Caveman, Don’t Eat Like One by Jennifer Swallow RD is a guide to enable people to make choices based on preferences, desires, or health and not based on misinformation or myths. Jennifer attacks the first myth by asking, ‘We are not cavemen,...

Is there a connection between the hurricanes that originate off the West Coast of Africa and the slave trade to the Americas? Is it possible angry, restless spirits have created problems for those who participated in slavery and their descendants? CP Patrick’s gripping storytelling in...

Dark Justice is a true crime memoir written by Dianne Cooper. The author’s childhood was abruptly ended when she became pregnant at the age of fifteen. Her father rushed over to Joseph’s house to confront his minister father and demand that Joseph marry his daughter....

Destiny’s Plan is a romance novel by Victoria Saccenti and the first book in the Destiny’s Series. Set during the Vietnam war, the plot recounts the first meeting of Raquelita Muro and Matthew Buchanan just as he is about be recruited and sent off to...

Emma McCoy dealt bravely with the untimely death of her husband, but coming so soon after his rejection of her and their young family was almost too much to bear. She withdrew socially and focused on raising her three girls, Lily, Dahlia and Rose, and...

Fight for Dawn: The Dawn Trilogy Book 2 by Komali da Silva is the follow up to Angels Dawn, and Dawn knows she should have known better. Dawn wanted her life to go back to normal after the loss of her best friend Nate, but...

Stumbling across a beautiful stone in the mud by the local water pump, Cade thinks it will be the perfect gift for his mother. At home, though, it becomes the catalyst for major changes in their lives. In Finders Keepers by Dorothy A. Winsor, the...

Emlynn knows a thing or two about guilt and death. She's never struggled against her gift of sensing the dead, until an accident kills her mother. Now her "gift" is taking over her life. When her father moves her to a remote Yorkshire house, Emlynn...

Scandalous Endeavors by Amanda Mariel is the story of Amelia, a woman of 19 who loses her father after several weeks of illness. Amelia's uncle arrived in England after learning that her father was sick. After the funeral he decides that Amelia will return with...

When a notorious drug kingpin appears to be on the verge of getting away with yet another murder in New York City, NYPD homicide detective Kelli Storm refuses to sit back and watch it happen without a fight. Along with her new partner, she launches...

Ooo...Ooo...Ooo! Is it bad that all I can do is make delighted sounds as I am preparing to write my review for Switch-A-Wish by author M.B. Earnheardt? I hope not, because I did, and this book certainly deserves all of my excitement! This is the...

In The Game Master by Ian D. Copsey, Josh is a mild-mannered kid who’s trying to fit in with everyone as best as he can. In order not to be picked on or bullied, Josh befriended the least aggressive of the troublemakers, Alex. Alex always...

Breathless by Jessica Bayliss is a short novel/story with a paranormal theme. Leah is on a diving holiday in the Caribbean, looking for closure and resolution after the death of her twin brother, Evan. She escapes death herself: scuba diving instructor Dale comes to her...

Touching the Wire by Rebecca Bryn is a story of all the women of the Holocaust. Miriam, a Jewish nurse, steps down from a cattle wagon and into the heart of Chuck, a young doctor, but saving her from the gas chamber exposes her to...