Life is full of stories to tell, stories to share. When you pay attention to those around you, it's easy enough to come up with a wealth of stories. A man sits down at the bar with a complete stranger and shares his story about...

Sugar Time by Joy V Smith is an interesting story of time travel that feels episodic in nature. It is broken into chapters that are short and detail separate purposeful trips in a time machine by Sugar, Japheth, and two Chessies named Mingus and Rell....

Lady Bird: Shawn’s Sixth Sense by Gracie Bradford is a short book about a ten-year-old boy, Shawn, and how he adapts to a sight disability with the help of his friend and doggie pal, Lady Bird. Lady Bird is a beagle whose instincts and senses...

“Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton’s teeth fell out.” Phil Pendleton comes across a screaming child with his strangely worn-down mother in the candy aisle. The bizarre pair causes a ruckus that forces the...

Father, Son & Grace by Cindy Hiday is the delightful, yet exciting story of Ray, Benny and Grace. Ray is grieving the loss of his wife. Benny has Downs Syndrome plus another very special quality. He sometimes reads minds. Grace, the wife of a pastor,...

In a unique and well-written recounting of a complicated relationship between a married couple and an individual male friend, The Remembrance of Blue Roses by author Yorker Keith is a book I'm glad I read. Main characters Mark, Hans and Yukari meet and become fast...

Becca Carter’s bomb dog Jake is one of the best in the TSA force. During a routine patrol, Jake discovers an ancient Egyptian jar and couldn’t stop himself from tasting the liquid in it. Strange things happen soon after, with Jake nearly losing his life...

Traits Alive: Famous Creature Similes Expanded by Ken Bolden is a great book for children. The book features 28 different animals, the similes that they are known for, and random facts about each animal. Adults may also learn a few things about animals from this...

A deliciously delightful romp on the fun side, Marry Your Billionaire by C.J. Anaya takes its readers behind the scenes of a Hollywood reality TV show called Marry Your Billionaire – what else! – where 20 beautiful young women vie for the affections of one...

A Day with Grandpa: Little Island Sunshine by Dallacey E Green is a cute little children’s story. Novie is excited to spend the day with her fisherman grandpa on the island of Antigua. Grandpa shows Novie the beauty of the island as they explore it...

Obedience by V.G. Kilgore builds on the Old Testament story of Noah’s Ark. Each chapter begins with a sentence from the biblical story, and the chapters then unfold in the light of those words. Ham doubts his father Noah’s wisdom in building an ark, but...

Breeder by K.B. Hoyle is a brilliant example of dystopian fiction. Humanity has been forced to the brink of extinction, taking with it a large population of wildlife. Fortunately the Unified World Order has introduced a Controlled Repopulation Program and, in the interests of survival,...

Doug Richardson's Reaper: A Lucky Dey thriller is an explosive and action-packed look at the chaos that ensues when a dauntless police officer tries to get justice for a murder no one wants to care about. Now a training officer, Dey must juggle multiple new...

Writing Trash and Hunting Buffalo by Jay Williams contains a great paragraph about the reality of war, including these two sentences: “But that’s what war is. It’s not something you brag about or glorify in poems, because it’s horrible.” These words resonate well with the...

In Mark Miller's Promise of Tomorrow, the Englische had for a long time warned of the impending apocalypse, but many were hesitant to believe until it was almost too late to leave. This was especially true for the Amish community who only believed in God's...

Bella is “the queen of the park.” A small dog, with her curly tail, loud bark and a pink coat that she wore in cold weather, Bella had captured the hearts of not only her family, but all those who saw her perched on the...

True love. Unbridled passion. Rose wrote award winning songs about these things, wrote with confidence and humor. But to experience anything close to it was an alien concept to her. And she liked it that way. In her world, self-control was essential. To allow emotion...

As Listening to Ghosts by Bob Stockton quickly reminds the reader, a good memoir is as much about the quality of voice as it is about the story. Listening to Mr. Stockton talk about his early family years is so akin to sitting down with...

I loved A Cunning Plan by Astrid Arditi. The story follows Sloane Harper who is recently divorced but still madly in love with her scumbag ex-husband. Sloane is approached by an IRS agent named Ethan Cunning, who convinces her to help spy on her ex-husband’s...

Shadows by Angie Martin is a fresh and frightening trek into the world of psychological horror. Via six eerie stories, Martin reflects the turmoil that normal people can feel when things go really wrong—that’s right, normal people. Not the super heroes or the person(s) you...