Catch A Falling Star is a work of dramatic literary fiction penned by author Keith Julius, and forms book one of The CASA Chronicles. Written for adults, the acronym of the series’ title stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate, in this case the dutiful Beverly...

In The Capsule by Olga Loukianova, Liza lives in her 20x20 flying capsule. Liza’s life takes place inside Net City, like everyone else’s, with their fake avatars and the fake world around them. They’re so used to their virtual reality that meeting someone for real...

The Shop on Peculiar Hill by Grimly Darkwood is Book One of The Vale of Strange. Peter’s parents died in a weird accident and he goes to live with his aunt and uncle. They run a shop on Peculiar Hill, near the Vale of Strange....

Seeds Of Slavery by Joseph F. Baiden is a novel set against the early years of the slave trade during the seventeenth century. It charts the story of two men who endeavor to make their fortune as trans-Atlantic slave traders. Samuel Hastings and Albert Dross...

Stranger Days on Peculiar Hill by Grimly Darkwood continues the tale of The Vale of Strange. Darkwood flawlessly ties book one to book two by making you feel you hadn’t been away from The Vale of Strange for longer than a minute. This book is...

Can You See What Eye See? Envision a Better You and a Better World by M. Chere Sampson is the product of her powerful and enlightening sessions with her group and individual clients. Aptly regarded as a “tool lady,” Sampson has spent time studying people...

The nincompoops are back in the fourth book of the Curmudgeon Avenue series, The Ghosts of Curmudgeon Avenue by Samantha Henthorn. In a wild twist, the side characters of the previous books are in the limelight. However, this does not mean that Edna, Edith, and...

A deadly viral mutation is threatening to bring an end to society in the thrilling science-fiction novel, A Step Ahead of the Fall (Part One: Sanctuary) by I. W. MacDonald. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Dr. Robert Wallace warned the American and...

My Best Thinking by author Sarina Wheatman, while fiction, gives the audience a clear view of what a person seeking rehab could experience. While some classify those seeking treatment as crazy, hopeless, or even worthless, Sarina Wheatman helps the reader to understand that no one...

A man must prove his innocence when his husband is brutally murdered in the breathtaking suspense novel Naive by Charles Royce. Suspected of his husband Lennox's murder, Micah is arrested. The police believe they have a strong case against him, including a weak confession from...

In the third book of The Devil's Bookkeepers series, The Noose Closes by Mark Newhouse, it is now September 1942 in the Lodz ghetto, Poland. Bernard Ostrowski is in complete turmoil after witnessing his wife and child being taken from the ghetto. Bernard tries to...

Karen hasn’t been back to her hometown in South Carolina since her twin brother killed himself years earlier. Getting a call from her alcoholic mother on the day she finds out her husband has been seeing another woman, she heads back to the place where...

“Life is a transformation.” The Ph.D. properly adorning Jaime A. Pineda’s name as the author of Piercing the Cloud assumes immense importance when the reader discovers that the author failed kindergarten, lending added significance to the opening quote. Fortunately, this early setback itself was not...

Timothy Gray has hit a grand-slam home run with Seek Ye First The Kingdom. He talks about contentment as only one who experiences the joy of contentment can. He must practice what he preaches. This book covers the issues faced by most people and the...

Stormy Weather by Ranaildo H. Timms is a short memoir of the author’s time in the Marine Corps. In the preface, the author claims not to be a writer but to know how to tell a story. We learn something about his high school days...

Are you one of these people that likes to make lists? I know I am. A list helps me accomplish all I need to do in a day. It also reminds me of all the things I should think about to balance the to-do list...

The Boy Who Knew How to Believe, written by Ashley Scott and illustrated by Joe Palmisano, is a children's picture book that follows a young boy named Nicky who is certain he will one day get the dog of his dreams. The book begins with...

The Surge by Monica Abbott begins in 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major George Hahn leads a group of U.S. Special Forces to the Babylon Museum. There they find a large heavy crate. From within the crate, two slender gray figures rise...

The Mystic's Way for Regular People by James Alexander is a slim book that explores communion with God and shows how accessible it is to ordinary people. Many people tend to believe that to become a mystic one needs to be learned, a scholar of...

More than anything else, Cindi wants a playmate for Christmas – the four-legged, furry kind. That and snow. But how can she tell everyone what she wants? After all, she is a dog. She decides she must do what human children do and ask Santa...