In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

“No responsibilities but/ to sleep, eat and excrete.” Profound words about the beginning of one’s life. It’s poetry; the life of poetry, life in verse. In Fran Abrams’ Gathering Memories, Collecting Dust, a poet explores her life, from the first few hours of existence through...

Cat Dreaming by Stephanie Schorow is an engaging story set in June 1989. It opens with a gloriously chaotic scene: three friends, Elektra, Maureen, and Tina, sneak a cat into a hospital, desperate to use it to rouse their friend, Sarah, from a coma. The...

Not all superheroes wear capes—some have whiskers and paws. My Cat Hopper by Melissa Carrigee is a children’s picture book about an adventure-seeking, playful copper-colored cat named Hopper. With each page, he takes on a new role, like riding a toy chopper, wearing his favorite...

A farewell doesn’t mean the end. Bella's Light: A Story About Pet Loss and Love That Never Ends by Robert Kusserow is the story of two sister pups with a special bond, Bella and Lucy. They do absolutely everything together. One day, Bella feels something...

Wave is a supernatural mystery by T.A. Styles. It follows a mother as she discovers her son has a strange and dangerous gift. Sadie Williams is surprised to see her son wave for the first time at only nine months old. However, some shocking things...

A giant space mass has smashed its way through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, sending asteroids all across the solar system, some headed for Earth. The US president wants to nuke them, but scientists insist that it won’t help and that they’ll 100%...

Upon his mother's passing, Wolfgang Barnes, a movie producer of some substance, relocates from Portland to Florida to settle his late mother's estate. As he carries out this task, he contemplates how best to put his previous works to use and promptly comes up with...

I Wasn’t Ready to Lose You by Brady E. McGiffin is a thought-provoking exploration of grief. Asher lost his grandpa, E.R., at the tender age of nine. Ever since then, he has lived with an otherworldly silence. Shortly after his grief began, he felt...

Thirty-year-old Alex Harper seeks a new start after losing his mother and is pulled into an unexpected adventure in The Sudden Adventure by D. Michael Hewlett. He leaves Chattanooga, Tennessee, for Clarksdale, Virginia, where he buys a historic house rumored to have a century-old treasure....

In Robert James Saniscalchi's Andromidus, President Jameson enters the last year of his presidency guarding Magnanotron, an American force-field technology that has already changed military defense. When leaked battlefield images expose its existence, Chinese Premier Lu Cho turns that discovery into a covert campaign to...

In his memoir Six Weeks, William Ledbetter follows the final illness of his sister, Nancy, after doctors find that cancer has reached the area around her brain and spine. Nancy asks to leave the hospital and spend her remaining time in her adult daughter's New...

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

Eliza Sky's attempt to create a new life for herself away from the orphanage she once called home looks to be yielding fruit. She has joined an odd group, young girls of different races with a zest for life she has never experienced and a...

In B.A. Bellec’s Cobalt Lungs, after cobalt spores make outdoor air deadly, twenty-four-year-old Maddy lives inside Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, which has been converted into a crowded Safe Zone. Her father died there, her mother is gone, and her grandmother can no longer travel, so Maddy...

Imagine a situation where humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads. The question becomes whether it is ready for the next step. Paul Anthony explores this significant theme in The Awakening of Humanity. He outlines humanity’s prior contact with an advanced civilization from another world. This...

Join the Flock and Other Poems by David Somerfleck is a very interesting poetry collection. I quickly found myself drawn into David Somerfleck's world. The poems move through memories, family stories, relationships, work experiences, and encounters with nature. There is no single storyline holding everything...

In Jesus’ Story, Brian P. Sheets reorganizes the four Gospels, together with part of Acts, into one chronological account of Jesus Christ’s earthly life. Sheets begins with the announcements surrounding John the Baptist and Jesus, then follows Jesus through childhood into the ministry that leads...

What would you do if you woke up without any memory of who you are? In Between Rooms by Adrian M. Mompoint is the story of a woman who experiences that phenomenon. The story begins as she’s waking up. She’s somewhere she doesn’t recognize, and...

In D.R. Berlin's The Third Estate: Devil's Tango, military doctor Captain Sophie Allard is tending a dying gunshot patient, John Doe 109, who whispers about Dossier 1627, calling her 'the key.' Hours later, assassins close in and Sophie is accused of causing the death of...