After a short, explanatory prologue, Mark Scott Smith plunges straight into the action in his amazing historical novel, The Osprey and the Sea Wolf: The Battle of the Atlantic 1942. “Amazing” because he has shown the conflict from both the American and German sides, and...

Escape from Doubting Castle (Abigail and Her King) by Mary E. Laders is a great tale of deception and adventure. Abigail has been sent away from the only place she could call home, banned forever. Or at least until she can escape from Prince Beelzebub,...

Uncle Bud's Health Mine and the Girl Who's Going to Fix the World by Mary Patterson Thornburg starts with the misfortunes of Bud Lomax. He lost his ranch to the bank, and his daughter ran away. Bud's next business endeavor, the Cozy Nook Café, was...

Lunchmeat: A Novel by Ben D'Alessio is an interesting story with unusual characters. Victor Ferraro lives in the 90’s, but he feels like a “tourist in his own hometown.” The story begins on his seventh birthday in Short Hills in 1997. The reader is introduced...

The Dog Thief and Other Stories is a collection of literary fiction stories written by Jill Kearney. Kearney writes about people living in impoverished and remote parts of Washington State, and the animals who form, in many cases, their reason for living and their connection...

Avenging Angels by J.R. Wirth begins when abused children exact revenge on their abusers and ensure they can never harm another child. Fast forward thirty-one years later, and we see social worker Jennifer and her colleagues investigating crimes of violence and abuse against children. Elsewhere,...

Crime Delayed: A Buck Taylor Novel by Chuck Morgan is a compelling crime novel set in Aspen, Colorado; a tale of murder and a gritty investigation, filled with twists and surprises that set the reader’s heart racing. It all starts with a wildlife ranger who...

Jia brings her small cargo ship to Cassini station in search of a new hauling assignment. She meets Flynn, a pirate, someone who tried to kill her once. Station security cannot hold him as he has not committed any crime on Cassini, but the UN...

Carliss Maddox's #thebuildup: 12 Daily Affirmations for Young Boys of Color covers the important subject of self-belief and how this can be improved with simple daily affirmations. In today's society, children have high expectations of themselves when they are very young, and through media, parents...

I like memoirs that highlight the contributions of (so called) “ordinary Americans.” Patrolling the Heart of the West: True Tales of a Nevada State Trooper by Steve Raabe is one of those contributions. Told in an engaging style and often punctuated with humor, these vignettes...

The Girl He Left Behind by Lesley Hayes is the tale, told by Kat, of a relationship between two women in which she is the less dominant partner. She meets Alex, her lover, after a failed marriage and becomes part of the gay community in...

Battlefield America by Erich Hartung is a modern day military war story with a twist. Instead of the bombings and battles being played out across the oceans, it is on the home soil of the United States that an unexpected attack takes place in the...

Remanded To The Night Café by ME Smith is a debut novel telling the story of John Clarke, an ever so ordinary man. A man who once had a wife, a home, and a job. A man who believed that if you did everything right...

Oliver's Diary: A LGBTQ+ Love Story is a nonfiction book about relationships written by Robert Groves. Oliver fell in love with Christopher Standridge from the time they were in third grade together. He wasn’t the first boy Oliver had felt attracted to, but he would...

Charlie Hendricks had a successful military career with numerous deployments keeping him away from home, but now he really wants to try to enjoy life with his family. Working for a high-powered firm on a multi-billion-dollar project, however, is not going to leave him much...

Angel and Skip would never have expected their school dance to end in a confrontation with three masked men in the parking lot. They definitely wouldn’t have thought that one of those men would give them a case full of money and tell them to...

Discovering the Great Teacher in You: A Guide to Mindset and Practice by Christopher M. Stabile is a guide for teachers and teachers-to-be. It is composed of great information, amazing advice and even of parables (in order to make your learning journey more vivid). For...

Sophie’s Light by Matthew S. Cox is a novella that on the surface reads like a magical fable, cut from the same cloth as classic tales from The Brothers Grimm, where a young protagonist finds herself in a strange place surrounded by strange characters. Think...

In This Ground: A Novel by Beth Castrodale tells the story of Ben Dirjery. Once a member of The Vagrants, a rock band, he gave it all up to be a father and to settle down. He gets a job at the Bolster Hill Cemetery...

In the middle of the nineteenth century, life in Germany for the average person was incredibly hard. A failed revolution, crop failures, the potato blight, plus political and religious repression made many look to the “new world” of the United States for salvation and freedom....