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...

Adam MacDonnel is a social worker who tries his best to do good. He deals with a very troubled young boy, Dylan, who goes through several foster homes until he is eventually adopted aged five. He then leaves his position and life moves on. Ten...

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...

The Leader’s Journey by Dr. Artika R. Tyner begins with an interesting quote: Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front. Introducing leadership as a journey often mistaken for a destination, the author presents the topic in three parts, answering the...

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...

The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More by Meredith Marple describes a group of people in the Great Wharf area. Several characters have had traumatic experiences that shape their behaviors in the book. Jean lost her husband, Richie's father, to an accident. Mallory has a...

Love, life, beauty, poignant, short, challenging and wholehearted are just a few words to describe The Other Side of Here: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems by Shuna Meade. Each story stands on its own and, with a few added short poems, creates a...

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...

A young girl, scarred for life from a brutal assault, thrown out of her home by a mother who no longer can stand to look at her – this girl now lives above the comic book store where she works. She hides her scarred face...

How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden is the story of Ann, a woman who learned from a young age that men are hurtful and to be feared. With one failed marriage that ended suddenly when her husband died, Ann is afraid for...

Wow! Just wow! How's that for a review? I just finished reading the beautiful new work of historical fiction by debut author Alexandra Norland, In Liberty's Wake: A Novel of British America. Follow the story of Arabella Alden, a privileged young woman in the British...

Varuna - A Thames Barge that was Home by Caroline Havord begins when she, leading a life of humdrum tranquility with her daughter, terrier and kittens, falls in love. The gentleman in question, Bryn William, being a man of taste, introduces her to life on...