The Typishly Tales (Six Further Short Stories) by Jonathan Land Evans is a collection of short stories that examine human nature, focussing on the thoughts that define humanity as prisoners of the mind. In each story, there is a single narrator who confronts fear resulting...

The Places Left Unfilled, a memoir by M.C. Cauley is a refreshing change, both in how the memoir is written and in its almost surprising revelation of the details of a sexual relationship between a minor and a middle-aged adult. Let’s look at that second...

The Very Hungry Dragon is a children’s fairy tale picture book written by Nathan Miles (a six-year-old) and illustrated by Joe Shawcross. What is a trio of goats to do when their food is continually stolen by a lazy and hungry dragon with a propensity...

Nikki Lee Taylor says, “The Secrets We Keep is a confronting look at the complexities of a family and the lengths a mother will go to for her child.” While I agree with that statement, I hope very few families are as complex as those...

The River Jewel: A Letter Series Novella by Kathleen Shoop is a wonderful historical drama romance that takes place in Des Moines, Iowa in the mid-nineteenth century. Part of what is clearly a larger series of stories involving this family, The River Jewel focuses on...

The Sting of Death by M.A.N. is an urban fantasy with interesting characters and a good plot, a great story for readers who enjoy books featuring vigilante heroes and characters. Najeer Rankins is a man with a vision. He wants peace for the world, and...

The Syndrome: One Bug, One Bite Will Change Your Life As You Know It by Mark Adkins is a fictional short story that revolves around the seemingly sudden change of child to teenager. Adkins narrates this story from the first-person point of view of a...

The Dashingly Deceitful Dragon is a children’s picture book that highlights fake news and the issues surrounding misinformation. Author Brandon Tullos takes us on a journey to a quiet town with very nice people who are tricked by a dragon. They believe the dragon’s lies....

The plans of a white supremacist group to re-establish segregation and slavery in the United States are jeopardized by the ghost of a young woman and her psychic friend in the electrifying thriller, The Society (Elizabeth Grant Thrillers Book 1) by C.G. Abbot. Seven years...

The Unsub by Owen Parr is Book 7 of the Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mysteries series. Joey Mancuso is in Miami Beach but not for a vacation. Miami Beach police have shown no interest in the death of Gene Wells, a hedge fund employee...

“The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.” - Gregory Widen. The Cookbook & Guide For Your Probationary Firefighters & First Responders: Become a Great Cook and an Even Greater Firefighter or First Responder is written by Michael Fields. Rookie...

The Keepers by Aaron N. Knight is a dystopian fiction novel wherein secrets are revealed in the most shocking ways. Stephen Phillips (a journalist) and Alex Jamison (an archaeology professor) were researching OOPART when they made the most astonishing discovery. They found that the artifacts...

The Dorks by Timothy Imhoff is a light-hearted look at coming-of-age. Jason Davis has spent the bulk of his young life living with his grandparents in Sarasota, Florida after his mother was tragically killed in a car accident when he was eight. Unable to cope...

The Evil Covid Ninja: A Grandmother's Letter to Her Grandchildren by Pamela Tomlin is an informative book that speaks about Covid-19 in an interesting and engaging way. A grandmother is writing to her grandchildren, telling them about the Covid Ninja which people on the planet...

The Borderland Between Two Worlds by Ayesha F. Hamid is a memoir that details the author's life in the United States after migrating from Karachi, Pakistan in the early 1980s. Leaving behind the luxury of a high standard of living and the consistency of cultural...

Nicole Wachell’s The Right Amount of Brilliance follows the story of two prominent professors in California: Jake Washington and Sebastian Barnabas. The two men meet and discover that they are twins who were separated at the age of three. While they try to understand and...

The Holocaust Engine: A Post-Apocalyptic Pandemic Thriller is a work of fiction in the action and adventure, thriller, and horror sub-genres, and was penned by author duo David Rike and Stephen Patrick. In this fascinating and gripping thriller read for adult audiences, we find ourselves...

The Midnight Monster Train, written and illustrated by E.V. Eklund, is an enjoyable children’s adventure book. This captivating story invites the young reader to join a variety of ghouls and goblins on a bewitching train ride. The skeletons are singing while ghosts roam the cars...

After nearly eight decades, a woman who left her home and family behind returns to defend herself against the prejudice and bigotry that sent her away in the first place, in the touching historical novel The Bootlegger's Mistress by Marc Curtis Little. When she was...

The World Does Not Revolve Around Curmudgeon Avenue replaces the stars of its previous novels with the Rose sisters (Toonan and Wantha), Georgina Foote, Zandra, and many other side characters (some fresh faces and some familiar ones). Wantha Rose stumbled upon Georgina Foote at Manchester...