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 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...

The Haunted Purse is a young adult paranormal mystery novel written by Kimberly Baer. As they waited at the counter for Toni to make her purchase at the thrift store, Libby spied a flash of blue denim sticking out of a cardboard box on a...

The Beast of Bellevue by Grace Chen is a mesmerizing young adult fantasy tale that follows very interesting characters in a complex setting where relationships can be precarious and challenging. Seventeen-year-old Ava Pierce is not on the best of terms with her parents, who look...

The Complete Teacher: Thought-Provoking Ideas for Balanced and Meaningful Teaching by Greg Noyes is a book written by a teacher for teachers. It covers more than 100 topics related to teaching; no wonder the title of the book is The Complete Teacher. The topics range...

Bobby Cotton spends his days filling customers’ orders at his local coffee shop and pining after one of his regulars. Everything changes, however, when he stumbles across a dead woman in the woods. He’s never met her before, but something about her draws him. Before...

The Psychs of Manhattan by CC Harris is a psychological thriller with unexpected twists and turns. The Life of a Wall Street financier is upended when he loses $400,000 belonging to the Russian Mafia and his own money in what seems to be a sure-winner...

The Pvritan by Birgitte Margen is a thriller with a touch of horror thrown in. Two bodies – a man with his eyes gone and his skin carved into the wings of a demon and a young girl in ice, her skin carved to look...

A four-hundred-year-old witch returns after centuries of being exiled and kidnaps the daughter of a witch from a famous Las Vegas act in the spectacular fantasy novel, The Witches of Vegas by Mark Rosendorf. When Isis was nine years old, Sebastian prevents Isis from being...