In his book The Black Wall Streets of America: Towards a Black Stock Exchange, Woody R. Clermont identifies thriving Black communities with diverse businesses, stating how Black-owned banks and credit unions offered loans that enabled homeownership and business growth. Informal savings groups in churches are...

Having successfully escaped their Grastralenian captors and returned to Earth, Olympia Blunt and the other human survivors attempt to move on from a devastating experience on a hostile planet. Olympia soon discovers that her initial hero status with her people is gradually dwindling. She fears...

Author Thom Kudla brings readers a mesmerizing collection of poetry and short writing pieces in Long-Lost Puzzle Pieces: Second Edition. "Past Judgement" is a beautiful poem that follows a person's journey in life, navigating adulthood and worldly vices until they find clarity and meaning. "The...

The last words from Hinda’s father (Tatae in Yiddish) were: “You will live, and you will tell.” It has taken many years for her story to be written from eleven audio tapes that Hinda Mondlak Goldman recorded before she died in 1985. Tatae’s Promise by...

When dime store operator Dottie Arnez saves a man from a burning plane, her boring life on the brink of a mid-life crisis is filled with excitement. Verna Clay’s new book, Crashed in Oasis, is the story of professional treasure hunter Collin on his latest...

“Le monde d’un rêve revisité” (The world of a revised dream) comes to life in The Memory of Lost Dreams, a novel by Joseph Minart. The protagonist, Raylan Hawke, is a teenager on the run from his primitive village on a devastated Earth that has...

In Shattered by Sharon M. Johnston, Mishca learns that she has no biological parents because she was never born. Wirth created Mishca through cloning as part of his plan to build an army and intended for her to be included in it. Mishca had a...

Love Trip is a contemporary romantic fiction novel written by Alexa Darin. Taylor Grant marveled at the change in scenery as she waited for her little sister, Paula, to pick her up from the ferry. She was still smarting over the thoughtless and cruel way...

Yella’s Prayers by Nadine C. Keels is a beautifully written coming-of-age novel that will have readers inspired by God and His abilities. Bless Heggins is a sixteen-year-old who has been blessed with a gift: she can hear God speak to her. When two troubled teens,...

An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps by Iris Dorbian is a moving book, set within the years following World War II. It is 1945 when Daniel, a Latvian Jew, finally tastes freedom after his horrible experience of the Holocaust. Daniel is...

You Can't Make This Shit Up (True Stories of Life's Crazy Adventures) by Lauren Panobianco is a non-fiction memoir on the life adventures of the author, Lauren Panobianco. This is a book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and...

Amy McNulty weaves a beautiful and tragic fantasy in Ballad of the Beanstalk. Sixteen-year-old Clarion is still reeling after the death of her father. The harp he left her is the one thing that still brings her any happiness, and when she plays, it is...

If you enjoy reading historical intrigue with compelling characters told by a talented storyteller, look no further than Lucille Turner’s The Sultan, the Vampyr and the Soothsayer. This impressive novel transports readers to 15th-century Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, where they meet Sultan Murad...

In Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust, Tammy Bottner delivers an extraordinary account of the horrors her parents and grandparents experienced under the cruel Nazi regime. Told from different family members’ viewpoints, their individual experiences differ, but the...

Elizabeth Stevens gives us a modern twist on a Jane Austen classic in Netherfield Prep: Austen Reimagined. Lily Brewer had lived in Australia with her mother her entire life. When her mother passed away, Lily was shipped off to England to live with her father....

Dangerous Secret by Jessica Lauryn is a delightful romantic murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending. The story revolves around the Washington Valley Hotel in North Conway, where a murder had been committed, but the police said it was suicide. The hotel was closed for three...

Tales from the Dark Side by Jenny Twist is a collection of short horror stories that will have readers relieved that they’re safely tucked away in bed with a cozy Jenny Twist book and not Uncle Vernon, who is still searching for his soul lost...

The Great Camp Escape is a children’s picture book story written by R.C. Wittig. Cameron, his sister, Bridget, and their cousin, Quinn, loved playing outdoors by their grandmother’s house. There were so many things to do, and they always had so much fun. Then one...

In When Dreams Abound: A Return to Chambers Lane, book two of the Chambers Lane Series, the author gives readers a look back at Daniel’s early years, his struggles as the middle child of five, and his desperate need for a father figure as his...

Final Arrangements by Donna Huston Murray is about Gin, a happily married mother of two teens who uses her amateur sleuthing skills to solve unusual murders. Gin's fascinating adventure begins after driving her mother's friend, Iffy Bigelow, to the Philadelphia Flower Show. Iffy plans to...