Fleeting Promise: An Enescu Fleet Mystery, Book 5, is a private investigator mystery written by Sherban Young. Hathaway and his new bride, Lesley, had barely gotten home from their honeymoon when they found themselves headed into the Maine woods to attend the grand opening of...

Life is tough for Rosetta Melki as she does the best she can to raise her 15-year-old daughter, Izzie, in Epiphany: The Golding by new author Sonya Deanna Terry. As a free spirit trying to make ends meet in a tough world, Rosetta faces challenges...

Pangalax (The Veya Trilogy Book 1) by SM Koz is the first book in a young adult science fiction trilogy. Aveyana (Veya) is forced to follow her dad onto the US space station Pangalax after the unexpected tragic attack that killed her mother. More important...

Unideate by L.W. Brook is a post-apocalyptic novel about a society that is supposedly perfect, but is in actuality a cult built around a madman. In 2059 there is a nuclear war after an accidental launch. Ten years later, everyone who survived that first devastation...

Epiphany – The Silvering by Sonya Deanna Terry picks up where The Golding leaves off with another budding romance. Meanwhile Rosetta Melki is making discoveries about both her early childhood and the secret project one of her friends has been working on, a project that...

Haiku is a very ancient form of Japanese poetry. It's basically three lines, but it's defined in the number of syllables per line and the nature of its subject. Haiku may look simple, but it's not. Traditionally, it centered around topics of nature, but its...

The Not So Wise Owl by Robert James Parfett is the story of a tatty old owl who never uttered any words of wisdom and the oak dwellers couldn't understand what was wrong with the old owl. It's a funny story written in rhyme, making...

In a family of extraordinary people, Charlie is just Charlie. He was an average or below student in school, never very athletic, never all that great with the women, just kinda average. All he ever wanted was his father to be proud of him. Trouble...

I enjoyed reading the stories in 45 Magazine: Women's Literary Journal by Zorina Frey. This magazine is filled with stories, helpful tips and art. The stories are both fiction and nonfiction and are clearly stated which one they are before you begin reading them. Everything...

Addison Anderson comes from a family of AA’s. Her parents have a penchant for alliteration that accompanies a welcome sense of fun and loyalty. When Addy considers the warmth that surrounds her siblings, nieces, and nephews, she realizes that it is time for her to...

Cardinal by Sara Mack is a contemporary romance. When Jen's life turns upside down, she ends up starting over with her brother in Chicago. She has her guitar and wants to focus on her music, but is unexpectedly distracted by the handsome and dashing...

While I am usually not one for short stories, The Human Condition by Mark Taylor is one of the best books I have read in the last few weeks. This book is a collection of horror short stories, but they are not the kind of...

The Essay is a children’s short story written by Isabell Niland and illustrated by Ashley Teets. Benjamin Stafford is a practicing attorney now, and he’s opened his own office complete with a sign created from an antique desk he inherited from his grandmother. It features...

Brown Buzzard Village is under attack. What’s worse, the Dagger of Protection, which is kept in the village’s ancient temple, has been stolen. Haethowine, the village leader, instructs sixteen-year-old Aldora Leoma to go to the royals to seek help and tell them about the missing...

Working as Lexi’s photographer assistant was the perfect job for Lindley. She could live at home and save on those adult bills that would deem her independent. That was also the problem. She was an adult and sincerely needed to be making her own way...

Trouble in Loveland by Jennifer Peel is a contemporary romance that takes a woman back to her hometown of Loveland, Colorado. When Charlee is seventeen, she has a naïve crush on Ryan, her next door neighbor. When Ryan gets married, Charlee feels like her life...

Adventures in Travel Photography: Exploring Approaches to People of India and Tibet by April Fonti is a beautiful collection of travel photographs which are the result of the author's chance encounters and living with different people. The pictures speak a story of their own and...

Rarely does a book come along that so positively mesmerizes me that I read it from start to finish in a single sitting. Yet that is exactly what I did with Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey. Bailey opens the story with...

I am a big Sherlock fan, not because of the BBC Sherlock, though I do love that incarnation as well. Sherlock Holmes is one of the few characters I can think of who have become archetypal figures in their own right, and in doing so...

The Girl from Berlin: Gruppenführer's Mistress is the second book in Ellie Midwood's historical fiction series, The Girl from Berlin. Annalise realizes that she is playing a very dangerous game when she asks for Gruppenführer Dr. Kaltenbrunner's assistance in exacting revenge on her boss, Reinhard...