Stray Lines is a collection of poetry by singer-songwriter Paul Tait. As the title suggests, the poems cover varying topics and emotional states, suggesting themes drawn from the author’s past and present states. There is a general sense of alienation and displacement from the world...

Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty by Terrance D. Coffey is the historical saga of one of the most controversial pharaohs to ever come to power in Egypt. Amenhotep III had built a powerful dynasty, ruling Egypt with a firm hand. When his son...

On a drizzly, blustery day in January of 1942, four young Mello brothers, from Woburn, Massachusetts, hop aboard a Boston & Maine Budd Liner and head into Boston for one last fling before shipping off to fight in the Second World War. In a bar...

North American Fat Ass by J.D. Orion is a wonderfully comprehensive book on getting fit and healthy in a balanced way. The book is appropriately named because obesity and unhealthy lifestyles are such a common, widespread occurrence and almost a part of the American culture....

Armageddon’s Arc by Victor Baptiste is a biblical/spiritual page-turner, impossible to put down. It also presents a tremendous challenge for reviewers, as virtually anything one might say would be a spoiler for what is surely one of the most thrillingly unpredictable plot lines in the...

Lady Justice and the Broken Hearts by Robert Thornhill is the latest episode featuring Walt Williams and his gang of renown in Thornhill’s “Lady Justice” mystery/comedy series. Not surprisingly, it is another winning combination of humor and drama, in which our inimitable hero prevails in...

In The Forest's Edge by Ines Galiano, for 450 years after the Black Years the citizens of Civis have taken refuge in the caves and created an underworld civilization. To keep a delicate balance, they live under a strict set of rules. One was a...

Blood sisters and the closest of friends through high school, Anna and Lucinda embark on a nearly unheard of adventure from a secure life in Chicago to the wild, wild west of Arizona in Broken Dreams by Nancy Pennick. In 1927, young ladies just didn’t...

Mary Anne Wilson's early life in a parsonage was nothing compared to the exciting life as an actress in the London theaters. Of course, after her father passed away and her mother remarried a groping monster, the girl had no choice but to accept an...

Arica Miller wakes up in a dungeon in the Sorcerer’s Underworld, only to be rescued by a Time Sprite and taken to the site of the Sorcerer Council that passed sentence against Headmistress Lembrose, otherwise known as Vina, The Sorcerer Wife. The King’s Jewel, Volume...

All You Need to Know to Do Business in China by Orna Taub is a short guide about what a businessman should know when he is going to start a business or a franchise of his business in China. Almost all aspects of the topic...

One Hundred Poems of Tukaram, translated by Chandrakant Mhatre, is a wonderful collection of poetry by a famous Indian saint, Tukaram. The book features an introduction which describes the style, context, and language of Tukaram's poetry. The context covers the deity he worshipped, main events...

Miss Fortune is a coming of age memoir written by Albina Hume. The author was born and raised in a small village in Ukraine. She became very self-conscious about her speech impediment when she began primary school. One of the other students, a little boy,...

There is nothing I love more than historical fiction. Throw in some romance and I am that much happier. And then, if the book is authored by someone I haven't read before, but turns out to be fairly prolific in the genre, well, that's just...

The Whistle-Blower's Confession is an environmental thriller novella written by Jennifer Lang. Aunt Helee was everything to Kelley. She had raised her niece when Kelley's parents were killed in an auto accident, and supported her studies through the collegiate level. When Aunt Helee died from...

The Keepers by Anoosha Lalani is a fantastical tale set in the mythological land of Adam and Eve's birth. Isra is hungry and homeless and, after the death of her parents, in charge of her sister. She knows that there is something unique about herself,...

“Evil wakes. An ancient foe, defeated but not destroyed…and now returned to finish what it began millennia ago. But this time, instead of a single world, the entire galaxy will be the battlefield. None will be safe…and, if we should fail, none will survive.” Veil...

The year is 2175 and so much has changed in the world as we know it. North America is ruled by an arch-demon called The Director, his brother rules Northern Europe. There are clans of werewolves and vampires everywhere, and humans are surviving in the...

Wai-Nani is an exciting historical drama about a Hawaiian girl from a royal family, who runs away from her family to escape an unwanted wedding. She swims to another island, and there she meets and falls in love with Makaha, who is a son of...

Author John Oliver was working in Hawaii when he met John Provoo and decided to tell his story. Nichijo: The Testimony of John Provoo is therefore like an autobiography, as it is written in the first person. According to his ‘testimony’, John Provoo grew up...