The late nineteenth century is full of stories of men (and women) intoxicated by the lure of riches just waiting to be mined in previously uncharted western North American territories. Entire towns sprang up, almost overnight, as people moved in to follow their lust for...

An eye-opening book with a fitting title and an enticing cover, Strugglehood: A Practical Guide to Financial Situations No One Bothered Teaching Us by Brandon Brumage is what many of us need. If you struggle with mind-boggling topics and issues such as credit cards, budgeting,...

Candid Conversations: Real Women. Real Life. Real Faith by Heather Hart collects insightful accounts from inspiring women. The book encourages women to be candid about their struggles so that they can come together and support each other. In the chapter Your Life is God’s Story,...

The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater by Norman Mathews is an autobiography chronicling the author's life as he transitions from a confusing and often abusive childhood, born in a sleet of uncertainty (literally, as it turns out). Masked by imagination...

Judy Kelly pens a story of self-discovery in her novel Blessings and Curses. Olivia did it; she’s ready to graduate from the seminary. Even though she is thrilled, a dark cloud hovers over her excitement. Olivia has decided not to become a priest after all....

Invisible Target: Breaking the Cycle of Educator Sexual Abuse by Andrea Clemens is a compelling memoir that brilliantly tells the story of educator sexual abuse, a story that is as emotional as it is enlightening, but one of hope, courage, and a woman’s resolve to...

The Foundry: Dianis, A World In Turmoil is a science fiction tale by author Frank Dravis, and is the opening novel to a new series focusing on the planet Dianis. In a galaxy fraught with war by the fearsome Turboii, the world of Dianis is...

Shattered by Jody Calkins is a different kind of story, because the main character is dead. Marris is 15 years old and an orphan. She’s been living in a late 21st century academy for unwanted children for a few years, and has three more years...

Tainted is a brilliant and intense young adult novel written by Jody Calkins. Shep and Charlie met each other unexpectedly when Shep saved her life in a dire situation. Ever since they first met they could not get enough of each other, but all the...

The discovery of a 450-year-old diary by Michael Devon’s friend was the beginning of an intriguing quest. Michael was working on a book on the Shakespeare authorship controversy. An old friend, Hank, (nickname for Henrietta Claudia Wells), owned a secondhand bookstore and loved to find...

Mall Hair Maladies is a young adult coming of age novel written by Kristy Jo Volchko. It was 1985 and, as far as thirteen-year-old Tanya was concerned, Pittsburgh was the center of the universe. She was in the eighth grade now, the last year of...

Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender by Lise Pearlman is a spellbinding biography of an unflagging woman, a powerful lawyer whose contribution helped in shaping the societal conscience of her time, from the McCarthy Era until the '70s. Fay...

The Stars In Her Eyes by Isabel Scheck is a novella about the evolution of the relationship between two individuals, one who is so enamored by and in love with a young teenaged woman (or girl, as she is often referred to) that they equate...

Panterror! The Epic Babysitting Adventures of Rachel Pugsley, an action packed fantasy novel by Gregory Saur, begins with high school graduate Rachel Pugsley finding herself babysitting for two kids in a different state. With the rules of a babysitter drilled into her by her mother,...

Dimitri Kosloff, a famous film director, had been found stabbed and dismembered at his usual Friday and Saturday night suite. He was as well known for his sexual preferences as he was for his Academy Awards, so his murder caused quite a stir. The evidence...

The Wealth Elite: A Groundbreaking Study of the Psychology of the Super Rich by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is a non-fiction book or rather a study on what makes some of the world’s wealthiest self-made millionaires stand out from other people, and what are their common...

In her latest book, Green Snakes on the Ceiling, award-winning writer Sandy Richards has come up with a delightful way for children to learn colors and counting, along with identifying various animals who find themselves in the weirdest situations ever! You don’t have to be...

The Seduction of Cameron MacKay: The Nightingales - Book 2 by Sheri Humphreys is the love story of surgeon Cameron MacKay and Elissa Lockwood, a nurse in Miss Nightingale's cadre. Cameron MacKay is a surgeon at Koulali Hospital and he has been with his regiment...

Graduated: The Meantime Stories, No. 5 is a satirical short story written by Svingen and Pedersen. Audrey Riddlerfinch is finding that she’s not exactly enjoying the full college experience normally accorded to incoming freshmen at the Dictators’ College. While the rest of the student body...

In The Yiddish Gangster's Daughter, author Joan Lipinsky Cochran introduces us to Becky Ruchinsky, a forty-something mother of two who finds her life moving in some totally unexpected directions. Her two sons have headed off to college, leaving her at home with her husband, Daniel,...