Toward the Light: A Year in Paris by Deborah Svec-Carstens is a thoughtful, honest, and refreshingly positive memoir of one woman’s journey to Paris as an American au pair during the early 1990s. The author had just graduated from college and was working alongside her...

Love in a Hurry by Mari Jane Law introduces Miranda Morton, a thirty-nine-year-old single mother desperate to give her son, Oscar, a sibling. She conceived through a turkey baster with her gay friend Luke. She has never been kissed, and her romantic prospects are slim...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

Love may be simple in theory, but relationships rarely are. In The Big Day: Saying “I Do” Only to Discover I Didn’t by Lisa Cheek, the author is walking down the aisle for the first time at forty-nine. She never grew up dreaming about her...

K M McFarland’s Beyond the Veil follows Gabe Stone, a struggling New Orleans singer whose life ends abruptly in a violent shootout. Instead of crossing over, he encounters Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Loa of Resurrection, who offers him a second chance at life on the...

I picked up Come to the Garden by Jennifer Wilder Morgan out of curiosity, in the same way that I picked up For One More Day by Mitch Albom, but my curiosity in both instances has proven to be my best guide. Come to the...

Pleasing Mr. Pepys by Deborah Swift is a compelling novel featuring a historical personage with powerful political undertones. Inspired by the famous Samuel Pepy’s diary, this novel explores some of the key players in the historical events that took place in Pepys’ time. Deb Willet...

Living with a 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist: Mister B by Lynn Byk is a memoir that reads like nothing I have read in a long while. It is well-crafted, with details that capture the very essence of the day-to-day life of a 98-year-old rocket scientist, his...

Music to My Years, Life and Love Between the Notes is a nonfiction memoir as told by Artie Kane to Marian Blue and JoAnn Kane. Artie Kane was a musical prodigy who began taking piano lessons when he was three and a half years old....

There is more to life than meets the eye, and living without the knowledge of or curiosity about things that exist outside the conventional, materialistic system of beliefs is somewhat limiting. Typhoon Honey is a book that aims to create a new path of success...

The Inner Light: How India Influenced The Beatles by Susan Shumsky explores the profound impact of Indian philosophy and spirituality on the members of The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr – during the 1960s. Drawing on her own experiences...

"Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen" by Malinda Mitchel is an adorable tale for ages 9-12. Miss Sugar Crumb is a very nice young lady who enjoys doing things for others and never expects anything in return. She loved to bake pies, cakes, and homemade bread....

Nick Donovan was out of money, out of a job and out of his marriage. He came home early from work and found her in bed with his best friend. His ex wife was pregnant and he wondered if he was the father. He lost...

A Book Of Poems: The Inner Soul was written after a tragedy in the authors life. Surviving an auto accident he put his deepest feelings into his poetry, his inner soul into words. As he writes he portrays sadness, love and loss, joyful expressions and...

Dr. Cassidy Wentworth is the daughter of James Wentworth, President and CEO of a fortune 500 company based out of Dallas Texas has been working on top secret project and someone is out to get control of it one way or another. When hijacking her...

In Trevor’s Song by Susan Helene Gottfried we meet ShapeShifter, a rock band on the verge of hitting it big time. Trevor Wolf is the driving force behind the band. He enjoys the fame, money, women and all the other perks. The women are his...

Her name was Mary Fait. She was the granddaughter of Jean-Luc Fait, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. So why was she in the office of Dr. Alicia Baldwin? Baldwin's first impression of Mary was that she was cold and rude....

Fallen From Grace by J.R. Lindermuth is just what the doctor ordered for a hot, summer afternoon accompanied by a cold glass of iced tea. Set in the late 19th century, Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman rarely has to exert himself in small town Arahpot, Pensylvania,...

This is a book that you must digest, as opposed to just reading. The author presents a body of work that must have taken her a lifetime to collect. This Spiritual Self-help book manages to take esoteric principals and utilize simple analogies to help the...

The Healings is a funny tale of a man's journey to self discovery and enlightenment, peppered with a lot of humor. It is, in short, a very funny collection of many, many stories about a single, very depressed man who has "lost his way." The...