Magic Streets: Prague Bound Book One by Marco Marek is a fantastically captivating tale that begins with photographer Jack Harson deciding to rent an apartment, as opposed to staying in a hotel, during his week-long assignment. Vltava Orient is the manager of the eight-story apartment...

A Light in the Darkness: Transcending Chronic Illness through the Power of Art and Attitude is a memoir by Lisa A. Sniderman, an award-winning singer-songwriter, artist, and playwright. Sniderman was diagnosed in 2008 with a rare, incurable autoimmune disease called dermatomyositis (DM). Just as she...

Katie M Marshall’s romantic comedy, The Other Half of the Moon, will amuse and delight the reader with the friends and family that push men at Aphrodite Miller. Named after the goddess of love, Aphrodite lacks the qualities of her namesake. Her lack of luck...

In Payback by Steve Bassett, in 1946, the right arm of a third victim is found in the Newark city dump. Lieutenant Nick Cisco and his partner Kevin McClosky discover all three victims were connected to an American-German Bund, with sympathies for the Nazi regime...

Dark Enemy is the fifth book in the Host Saga by Michael J. Farlow. The Van Childs who reluctantly became a beacon of hope for the people of Earth is long gone. In his place is a man who is now sure of himself and...

In Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony, Ace and her family are spending the summer in Cherokee, North Carolina. She just tries to take it day by day, taking care of her autistic brother and dealing with her alcoholic mother and absent father. Then, she meets...

Gill D Anderson’s The Chosen Seven tells the story of six strangers whose lives are changed forever when a lunatic with a gun came into Alessandro’s Cucina. Farzad Abed, crazy and angry with the world, claimed to be a terrorist and that his sudden violence...

Aidan's biggest wish is to be a knight in the White Army of Delmar. The fact that he is a poor sixteen-year-old farmer with deceased parents does not deter him from dreaming and practicing with wooden sword dummies. He realizes his dreams and becomes a...

In Ellie Collins’s educational coming-of-age book, Mad Max & Sweet Sarah, Max leaves his home in O’ahu, Hawaii for Seattle, Washington to reconnect with his estranged father. As the plane arrives in Seattle, Max thinks of the next two weeks of his life with dread....

Frozen Harvest is a sleuth murder mystery written by Joseph Benedict. Winter in Minneapolis held few charms for private investigator Joel Vicks. It was mid-December, and the roller door that separated his unfashionably dreary warehouse offices from the grimy piles of snow outside did little...

Life in Saint Paul’s Bay, Malta in 1967 felt stifling for sixteen-year-old Melita. She lived in a male-dominated society, in a family where her father and brothers held the power. When Ross Macdonald came into her life, she found the love and affirmation she had...

An Unexpected Temptation by Sophie Barnes is a heartwarming historical romance filled with messages of love and forgiveness. At the age of fourteen, Lady Athena Townsbridge stood up in church and stopped the woman her brother loved from marrying another man. It was the...

Detective Nick Larson and his partner, Detective Victor Sacco, are overloaded. New York Police Department's Sixteenth Precinct in Manhattan is at minimal staff with the flu, and the cases keep pouring in. When Nick is called to an apparent suicide, his instincts immediately tell him...

Unshattered Hope: When It All Seemed to Crumble, Hope Remained by Valencia Lorissaint is a story of resilience and fighting. It is the story of the author as she got control of her life when everything seemed lost. Valencia is Haitian and lived in the...

Something for Bebe by Neil A White is a well-written thriller, geared for young adults. Maddy Holt is barely out of high school when her beloved friend and mentor retires. She owed him for taking a chance with her and paving the way for her...

Repelled and yet intrigued by her mature neighbor, a high school senior gets caught in his world of madness and murder in the blood-curdling novel Red Romance: A Contemporary Thriller by Timberly Price. Layla Fabian's parents move her from the sunny beaches of Florida to...

Wes, also known as Irish Black, was a stellar detective who got the job done, but his methods were brutal. Once again, he took a life during interrogation, which got him kicked off the police force. This left Kevin behind, his work partner and best...

Dead Tree Tales by Rush Leaming is about a lot more than a dead tree. It’s a mystery. It’s a crime story. It’s a thriller. It’s a powerful comment on today’s society and politics. But as a lover of nature, I loved how Leaming paid...

My Brother Themba by Michele van Rensburg is a novel with strong historical underpinnings, exploring racial tension in South Africa. It follows two key characters, Themba, the child of an inter-racial relationship, and Alex, a white boy. Against the backdrop of the apartheid system, these...

Defying the Ghosts by Joan Marie Verba tells the suspenseful story of a young woman's creepy night in a haunted house. After her mother kicks her out of her house on her eighteenth birthday, Charlene spends the next few weeks scouting homeless shelters and camping...