Life is tough for Rosetta Melki as she does the best she can to raise her 15-year-old daughter, Izzie, in Epiphany: The Golding by new author Sonya Deanna Terry. As a free spirit trying to make ends meet in a tough world, Rosetta faces challenges...

Left Across the Border by Patrice Foster is an enlightening read for everyone as it deals openly and honestly with the reasons, dangers, and symptoms of depression. A 14-year-old Mexican girl leaves her family home to start a new life in America. The dream is...

They Called Her Paperback Rose: A Hera Hunter Mystery is a private sleuth novel written by Ellie DeFarr. Hera Hunter is a private investigator in Centreville. On her way to visit Bernie’s Market, she saw two teenaged girls fighting, with one girl obviously larger and...

The Tomb by Lyn Sholes and Joe Moore is a Maxine Decker Thriller. Maxine Decker retired from the OSI but has returned as an adviser. After helping to take down a cartel leader, drug lord and international thief, Maxine heads off for some R and...

What a great book I just finished! That's what I thought when I finished Waving Backwards, the new novel by author V.L. Brunskill. Follow our protagonist, Lara Bonavito, as she goes on a search for her biological roots. Lara had been adopted into a abusive...

The reason I chose to read Creamed at the Coffee Cabana: A Cozy Mystery by Constance Barker was simply because it had “coffee” in the title. When the most hated lady in Sweet Home, Florida, is found murdered in the Coffee Cabana, Lily Parker, owner...

“Death was not what she had expected it to be — no light at the end of the tunnel, no angels hovering over her to take her to paradise. Now not even a cup of coffee to soothe her nerves.” Daphne Drayton haunts her former...

In an absolutely amazing piece of work, debut author Jacki Skole brings us Dogland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Dog Problem. In a wonderful piece of investigation into the supply of dogs in our country, Jacki Skole has taken her heartfelt interest in...

Every day, Miss Erickson hears mysterious music coming from behind a locked door at the Lang School of Fine Arts. When the strict Mrs. Borg tells her to leave the door alone, her curiosity drives her to uncover the secrets of the ever-closed door....

In What's It Gonna Be? by Cassandra Piat, Lucy knows she needs to make a change. Though head over heels in love with her long-time boyfriend, Matt, she can’t be truly happy knowing Matt won’t ever take the plunge and marry her. She understands that...

Drama Queen by Joe Cosentino is the first book in his Nicky and Noah mystery series. The premise is that these two men are teachers at the fictional Treemeadow College in New England. They teach in the Theatre Department, an enormous department that includes many...

Haiku is a very ancient form of Japanese poetry. It's basically three lines, but it's defined in the number of syllables per line and the nature of its subject. Haiku may look simple, but it's not. Traditionally, it centered around topics of nature, but its...

Broken Places by Rachel Thompson is a very descriptive, well-written memoir of abuse. Broken Places is a collection of non-fiction essays, short stories, and poetry. Author Rachel Thompson has a well-developed vocabulary for describing one of the worst experiences of her life — sexual abuse...

Marie and Her Friend the Sea Turtle by Nicole Weaver is a story about a little girl that rescues a sea turtle. The sea turtle gets stuck on the beach after laying its eggs. When Marie finds it, it begs for her help in getting...

In a story that is in turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Seven Days to Goodbye, the first book in a planned series by debut author Sheri S. Levy, readers will find themselves completely immersed in a book that is hard to put down. Follow protagonist Trina,...

Clayborne Zsigmond is a dangerous, ‭‬ruthless black market arms broker.‭ ‬Dydre Rowyn travels around the world, doing ‬business on behalf of Clayborne Zsigmond.‭ ‬Occasionally, ‭‬she uses other aliases, but of course, ‬the people she does‭ ‬business ‬with‭ ‬don‭’‬t‭ ‬care if‭ ‬those are her real‭ ‬names...

Snack Van by Jay Saph is a story of human behavior and how envy and irritation can make ordinary people dangerous. the story has three people who belong to three different areas and social standings, but are linked together because of one single emotion: desperation....

Aventuras in Spain: A Memoir by Sandra Staas is a lighthearted account of how Sandra managed to learn to speak Spanish fluently while living in Spain. She writes about society in the early seventies when Franco, the dictator, was still in power. How she lands...

Cicada: A Stone Age World Novel (The Cicada Series Book 1) by M.L. Banner is an engaging apocalyptic story where a group of people including scientists are trying to find solutions to the solar storms slowly causing harm to the earth. Now these scientists are...

Cisco Bandits (A Gwynn Reznick Novel) by Inge-Lise Goss centers on newly trained operative Gwynn Reznick, who goes undercover for her first assignment; investigating one of the highly private companies who call on Ruben Dordi’s Investigation Group. Posing as an accountant for the Prudell Energy...