Beginning with the collection title, When Dolls Talk, Joel R. Dennstedt sets the stage for his macabre and thoughtfully arranged set of stories. With the preconceived notion of horror in the concept of talking dolls, the author swings from a common childhood notion to one...

In Sickness and in Hell: A Collection of Unusual Stories by Stefan Barkow is a precious gem for fans of the short story, but these are not just short stories. They are precious jewels, offered graciously to delight readers. There are eleven stories in this...

On the run, Günter and Helmut are trying to avoid Hitler’s last propaganda command in 1945 of sending 15 and 16-year-old boys to fight for their country. Germany is slowly but surely losing the war when Hitler tries to swing it around to his advantage...

Annette Oppenlander opened doors in her heritage that most people would have kept closed when she penned Surviving the Fatherland: A True Coming-of-age Love Story Set in WWII Germany. She records her parents' young lives as they watch fathers, brothers, and friends go off to...

Lady Dana is an eighteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in the Badlands. It’s a desert-like land where one wouldn’t think any living thing could survive. But there is a complete community of humans surviving, or at least struggling to survive, and then there...

Emily had had enough. Destined: A Novel of the Tarot by Gail Cleare begins with her leaving her old job because her boss once more asked her to do something totally unrelated to her actual job. Leaving her job sets Emily on a new path...

The Sun King: From Retired Engineer to King of Solar Power by David Toth is a contemporary novel that explores how far passion can lead the human soul. “When Harry Lennox retires in May, his friends and neighbors on Mawa Lake say he will lose...

The oceans are officially dead in the post-apocalyptic novel Barren Waters by Julia Shupe. Jeremy's mission is to get his diabetic daughter to San Diego. The only problem is that San Diego is on the other side of the USA, and transport like cars and...

The Fantastic Phantasmic Detective Agency And the Woebegone Oddity of the Underworld by D.L. Dugger is a hilarious, wonderfully wrought investigative novel with a setting that stretches beyond the physical world. Readers are introduced to exemplary young detectives, Toby, Abby, and Billy, who offer their...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost If you’re a voracious reader like myself, then you must have read these lines quoted somewhere or the...

Your health is the most important thing that this life has to offer. As you read Dr. Janet Maker’s account of her life's journey in The Thinking Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer: Take Charge of Your Recovery and Remission about being a breast cancer survivor,...

When twenty-one-year-old virgin Jordan Sullivan discovers she is pregnant and having twins, solving the mystery of how she got pregnant, when she’d never had sex, quickly takes a back seat to a whole new set of choices she is now facing. Initially, it seems that...

Tina’s Adventures: First Day of School is a children’s book written by Tita Horvat and illustrated by Avijit Sil. Nervous about starting her first year at school, Tina is in a panic and asks her mother why she cannot just stay in kindergarten. When she...

The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation by Soren Kaplan is a book on business organization and management centered around creating a culture of innovation, as the title suggests. The Invisible Advantage begins with a brief introduction on the topic of what...

Three different characters try to find something in Down and Out in Kathmandu by Jennifer S. Alderson. Zelda is an idealistic young woman who wants to follow her friends' example and find herself while traveling. She decides being a volunteer in Kathmandu to teach English...

Wolf's Blood: Plague of Snowbrook by Meagan Poetschlag is a mesmerizing tale, suspenseful, and exciting, a story centered on a mysterious plague, a dark family secret and wolves. Clair Wilson is nineteen when her parents decide to leave everything behind in San Diego, moving into...

Eat Sleep Play: A Day in the Life of Baby Sweet Cheeks! by Jamie Sajewel is a rhyming children's book about a baby named Baby Sweet Cheeks. Baby Sweet Cheeks wakes up and eats, she plays with her toys and she goes back to sleep....

Mediocrity in America: A Point of View by Andrew Rodriguez is a slim but powerful book that explores one of the tragic realities that is killing the life of the American people, a trend called mediocrity. The moment I read this title, I thought I...

Lucky Linden: The Ride of My Life by Susan Rozgony is a heartwarming children's book about a dog named Linden. Linden was adopted when she was a puppy by a young woman. The woman would pet her and pick her up and tell her that...

Road Trip Home (A Bahá'í Vision of Hope) by Steven E. Ellis is an inspirational novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of adults and young adults interested in tales of hope, religion, and spirituality. Rose is an eighty-three-year-old Alaskan Native who has...