Sammy, a scientist, lived with his wife Dorotea, also a scientist, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Elika in a cozy blue house on top of a hill in the suburbs of Hartsdale, New York. Aunt Caroline was coming that Friday to join in Elika's birthday celebrations....

The Wing Walker by Bernard J Fleury tells The Life and Times Of Irene Maude O’Connor Carlberg. Irene was one of the great feminists, a woman who really pushed the boundaries of what women could do. Nothing could tame her adventurous spirit, such as motorcycle...

An unnamed little boy has a funny idea of what it means to be strong. His pet parrot/imaginary friend, Bruce (who initially acts like the feathery green spirit of toxic masculinity) has the same view. Strength is nothing but brawn, stubbornness and pure machismo. When...

The Fairies of Frost is a wonderful journey through winter told in lilting rhyme by Hayley Nystrom with beautiful illustrations by Alexandra Bulankina. As autumn comes to an end, the winter sprites come out to play. With names like Powder, Slush, Twizzle, Shimmer, Toasty, Ginger,...

The Lover and Interpreter of Human Oddities: A Novella by Anthony Labriola is the story of a man who loves to discover human oddities and tries to find a way to interpret them. Dr. Clive Wango is an eccentric man and he knows it. He...

The Afterlife of Alice Watkins is a fascinating journey into science fiction penned by author Matilda Scotney. Titled Book One in a continuing series, the novel deals with the tricky concept of time travel as well as aliens, space and wild adventures. The title character...

The Promise is the story of World War II through the eyes of soldiers Will and Jimmy. Rose is the girl who has been in love with Will and they enjoyed many carefree hours together along the seaside coast of her English village. There...

The Reversible Mask: An Elizabethan Spy Novel by Loretta Goldberg centers on an historical event and brings to life strong personages. It is the summer of 1566 and Oxford is experiencing growth in many aspects of life — art, science, politics. While everyone is celebrating...

The Resurrected: The Emperor’s Guard Series is an epic fantasy novella written by Kevin Hopson. Commander Asgall regarded the civilian’s report of the attack upon him with mixed misgivings and concern. Ever since the Resurrected launched their failed coup against the Emperor and his government,...

The Scream Behind Her Smile by Athena Daniels is a romantic thriller. After reluctantly agreeing to accommodate her husband's old school friend until she finds a job and place to stay, Claire finds herself increasingly sidelined in her own home. While Claire is a successful...

The Quarry is the second novel in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman. Set in 1933, the story follows a group of characters as they navigate the adventure called life while trying to survive. Life in their small town is not that interesting so...

The Farm Fires by Laurie Loveman is the third book in the historical fiction mystery series, the Firehouse Family, preceded by book one, Memories, and book two, The Quarry. Reading as a stand-alone (but definitely enhanced by the first two installments), Loveman returns readers to...

I don’t know who Ted Halstead is, but I know one thing about him for sure. While writing The Second Korean War, he did his homework. I spent four years in the demilitarized zone in the 1980s. I've walked in a couple of tunnels big...

The Rogue by Lee W. Brainard has a fascinating plot. It’s 2018 when astronomer Irina Kirilenko detects an extremely large comet out beyond Neptune. It’s not yet visible to telescopes, but the comet’s trajectory shows that it will come dangerously close to Mars in 2024....

The Missing Branch is the fifth book in A Bulwark Anthology by Kay MacLeod. This is the story of Izzie Murray who started researching her family history, but it has now become an obsession for her. However, things take a serious turn when she finds...

The Illusion by D.J. Cooper is the second installment of the Bulwark Anthology series which is written by various authors and based on Bulwark by Brit Lunden. Dr. Peter Kent finally asks Deputy Terence Blake out after work so it should be the best day...

The Financially Independent Millennial: How I Became a Millionaire in My Thirties by Rick Orford is a nonfiction business book written for millennials, a book that teaches readers ground-breaking tricks to reach financial freedom before they become forty. In this book, the author explores what...

JB had known from the moment his eyes first met Ellie's that they were meant to be together. His grandma had called what he experienced 'the knowing.' He was drawn to her beyond anything he had experienced before. She was a rich Yankee, he a...

As a writer and reader of thrillers, memoirs are not usually my thing. And these days when I see an article about sport, my eyes glaze over. It is a long time since I played any kind of sport myself and, well, these days sportsmen...

In The Vampire's Curse: Life Eternal by J.G. Gatewood, Chris has been suffering from brain cancer for the past five years and his last days of life have finally arrived. Alone in his hospital bed, scared of his fast-approaching death, he is approached by Byron,...