We Whisper: And Other Poems is a touching collection of poetry by a gay black American author, Cedric Jones. Cedric is a talented writer and several themes are addressed simply and poignantly. The poem “I am more” is a stark and beautiful work where the...

In Walking Up a Slide by Daley James Francis, Jason Chapman is awash in sorrow. Lila Holmes is getting married...and not to him. Like many young men with a broken heart, he is prepared to go into a tailspin of bad choices that may or...

Dale Martin writes an impressive sci-fi thriller in The Lineage. In the year 3735, the land of Cassia is suffering, its people are unknowingly enslaved. The “new age of peace” is a façade for darkness. Hiding out among the poor and the beggars, King...

Susie finds out her mommy has cancer. Susie is not sure what that means exactly so she goes to her grandmother to seek out the answer. Susie asks her grandmother a few questions about cancer such as what it is; does it make a person...

The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander's Medallion by Gayle Ridinger and Paolo Pochettino has a complex plot that should grab any reader with an interest in history. It jumps back and forth between 19th century and 21st century adventures by...

Daily Happy Living: How to be Happy Each Day in spite of the Challenges We Face Daily, by using the Joycentrix System is a philosophical self-help book written by Gopi Menon. Menon surveys the attitudes fostered by established religions, which often posit a view that...

Circumstellar Heliocentric by J.W. Lolite is a powerful fantasy story narrated by Ingrid Fairheit, apparently an ordinary teenager. The action is rapid as she narrates a horrific experience in an encounter with some 'Ankida', an ancient race of alien hybrids who have human form. Thousands...

Agnil and the Tree Spirits (Agnil's Worlds Book 3) by Susan Navas is the third book in the series of Agnil. In this magical story, we see Agnil being asked to help the elves whose world is threatened by the Navigator, who is destroying the...

St. Nic, Inc, is an action and adventure thriller written by SR Staley. Peter Peary is a washed-up explorer in his early twenties. He excelled in school, graduated on a fast track and was making waves as the consummate explorer until the fateful trip to...

The Red Ribbon by Rachel B. Ledge tells the story of a tragic turn of events in 1770s England. Julia Ridler finds herself tormented nightly by the murder of her best friend, Annie, by her almost betrothed, Roland de Claire. In her grief and madness,...

"Being a birth parent in the adoption world can be difficult. It is hard to talk or write about." So confides Darrick C. Rizzo, author of The Open Adoption. That difficulty takes on a special meaning for birth fathers, silent voices rarely heard regarding the...

The life of a working mother can be difficult. There are times when you have to weigh up your professional obligations against the personal and familial obligations you have toward your family and, more specifically, your children. Understanding how to develop a personal life outside...

Grak is a small-minded, self-centered nomad living in a tribe before pre-recorded history. And as the title of the book - Things Grak Hates - says, he hates things. Lots and lots of things. When things don't go his way, he blames everyone but himself....

In Stealing Destiny by J.D. Selmser, Destiny is the prize and both Zahir and Damien want her, but only one can have her and the other will live in hell… forever. When Damien kissed Destiny for the first time, he knew she was the one....

Life of Irrational Choices is an inspirational memoir and self-help book written by Apoorv Vishnoi. The author shares his life chart with the reader, showing the high and low points of his life from the age of 5 through 30 years. Then he shares his...

John Raimey returns in epic fashion in “The Northern Star: Civil War” by Author Mike Gullicksonas. Ten years after Raimey gives up all that is dear to him for love of country, he finds himself leaping out of a plane into the heart of a...

Julia's father was killed in an accident at work. She and her mother still miss him very much and they struggle to continue their lives together without his loving presence. They never thought to question the events of the day, the plant explosion that killed...

Want is a young adult dystopian fiction novel much in the same vein as Hunger Games and Divergent. Aurelia Cole has been selected for the prestigious honor of working at the Lunar City Hospital - home of the Elitists and ruling class of the Earth...

I read Gristle and Bone: A Short Story Collection written by Duncan Ralston shortly after Halloween, a fitting time for such a read. This anthology begins with Baby Teeth, the tale of a woman unable to have a child...or is she? Just how far would...

Crossing the Date Line: Adventures of a Traveling Geologist by John Sollo is the true story of one man’s amazing career travelling the world as a geologist. From Algeria to Alaska and New Zealand to Papua New Guinea, his incredible experiences in fifteen countries are...