Alexia Burton is an actress and her career trajectory is steadily rising and would rise faster if she could fix one thing: her sexual experience and confidence. She needs a lover but that’s all because she believes a man interfered with her mother’s career, leaving...

Set in 1941 New York, Death of a Diva: From Berlin to Broadway by Brigitte Goldstein is a noir mystery novel about the death of Stella Berger. A famous screen and stage star, the veteran actress was brutally murdered at a Broadway theater. A swift...

Gabbie Flowers and the Key to the Universe is a children and preteens' book written by Dianne Caplin. Gabbie seems like a normal, everyday eleven-year-old kid by day. She lives with her grandmother, Nana Alice, and her older sister, Victoria, in a brownstone in New...

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like in eight hundred years time? Have you wondered what humanity would be like after an Armageddon or apocalyptic disaster? Would the human race even exist? And what in what manner would those surviving humans thrive? Liberty...

Holy Ground is a historical mystery written by Karl F. Hollenbach. David Crist is an attorney whose plans to spend Saturday with his wife and son are put on hold after he gets a message from his secretary that his Uncle Bob needs to consult...

Rosabelle by Linda Harrington is a delightful children’s book set in rural New Zealand, in the 1970s. The main focus of the story falls upon 11-year-old Jane Williams, and their father’s racehorse, the titular Rosabelle. When Jane’s father has a suspicious accident at the racing...

Have You Ever? is a picture book filled with outrageously funny sentences and illustrations. I can guarantee that you have not even thought about the hilariously crazy situations that this book presents. For example, can you honestly say that a toupee-wearing tortoise taunting a tarantula...

Facing Up is a young adult coming of age story written by Carolyn Gilpin. Carly is one of thousands of young adults attending university, but she feels isolated and oh, so different from everyone else. One side of her face is scarred from a disastrous...

Over the Rainbow by Mohsen Sharifi is inspirational against all the odds that conflict showers on ordinary people. When Saddam Hussein’s chemical warfare against the civilian masses within his own country decimates the population, leaving many traumatized and burned folk in its wake, Hiwa philosophically...

Sigh. That was my reaction when I finished David C. Edmonds’ new work, Lily of Peru. You know, the type of sigh you emit after you’ve finished a book that has left you with a deeply satisfying feeling of having read a really, really great...

Courage Comes is a children’s adventure novel by Daniel Thomas McDonald, and forms book one in the Butchery & Books Saga. It follows the quest of a classic trio of young heroes – Mort, Nihlus and Tesa – who trade their childish games of heroism...

Lexi Goes on Vacation to The Outer Banks by Janice Wills Kingsbury is a beautiful and heartwarming story that conveys a message of compassion, love and the gift of living to readers. Lexi is picked up from the streets of Virginia by a good person...

Delightful. Delightful. Delightful. I’m not sure how many more times I should write that word, but it’s the best one I can come up with to describe The View North from Liberal Cemetery by debut novelist Joel Wapnick. Following protagonist Carl Anderson through his journal...

Angels and Imperfections by Daniel Roland Banks is the story of Private Detective John Wesley Tucker whose life revolves around fighting evil. From his neighbour to the streets of a small town in East Texas, it seems Tucker’s mission will be never-ending. What starts out...

Bachelor At Her Bidding by Kate Hardy is the story of Ryan Henderson and Rachel Cassidy. Ryan is roped into being auctioned off for charity, even though he really doesn’t want to date. Ryan has come back to Marietta to help care for his aging...

Genetically Privileged - Redux by A.W. Daniels starts with an introduction to Joe and Mary Christianson, a childless couple who, like many couples unable to conceive naturally, are at a fertility clinic looking to science and modern medicine to conceive a child. So far, so...

Move over Marvel Agent Carter. Allow some room for the likes of Miss Alice White. An independent and intelligent woman, Alice is an interesting character who can come across as a strong or a weak female, depending on the situation in which she is involved....

The short story continues alive and well, and Tales 2 Inspire: The Diamond Collection is living proof. Editor and author Lois Stern - with Stan Cupery M.D. and Tom Eliopoulos - has compiled twenty-three award winning stories from previous collections, and has presented to readers...

Three Decades of Lily by Diane C Smyth is the story of five women who, growing up in differing circumstances, each exciting in its own right, happen to join together in life and flourish. The story starts at the funeral of one of the five...

Not in the Pink by Tina Martel is the most stunning and unusual memoir I have ever seen or read. Why do I say “seen”? Because when you read Not in the Pink, you actually SEE Tina Martel’s journey from her discovery of breast cancer,...