A Tale of the Builder by Jonathan Hatendi is an interesting story that follows the life of Mawara, who started off in a very unusual manner and grew up to be a respectable rural builder, a man who went to school at an older age....

What would you do if you finally got accepted as an apprentice to your dream mentor? Would you go, even if it meant leaving your family in another country? A Dash of Belladonna by J. Rackham is a children's fantasy novel about a young girl...

A Soul Passenger: When Love Collides by Brenda-Lee Ranta is a unique love story where readers are introduced to two souls who meet each other just in time and rescue each other from their otherwise hopeless lives. It is a story about survival, self-doubt, and...

For some reason, Linda Penner's title of A Hitman Is Cheaper Than Divorce! made me think that this book would be a guide for would-be divorcées along the lines of “learn from my mistakes.” Although that turned out not to be the case, what I...

'“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The road to popularity is paved with pompoms.” My mother’s exact words as she dropped me off for my first day of high school.’ While her sister DeeDee is busy being the perfect student of social...

A Perfect Patricide is a stunning entry in a series by Krzysztof Pacyński, a political thriller with strong historical and cultural references. It is set against the cultural backdrop of American society in the 1980s, where a seasoned senator from Alabama is running for President....

A Bigger Piece of Blue by Dan T. Cox is a collection of short stories that incorporate the experiences of characters going through different challenges in their lives, and which touch on love, family relations, making life-changing decisions and experiencing resulting consequences. The writer emphasizes...

Each of the four seasons of the year brings its treasures and surprises. Each season is filled with songs that warm the heart and bring joy to all, especially a family of teddies who soak up all the fun and pleasure each season offers. Spring...

A Death in Tuscany is a murder mystery by Dick Rosano. Filippo “Phil” Trantino is a thirty-two-year-old Italian-American who was born in Tuscany but raised in the United Sates since he was a child. Returning periodically to visit his grandfather at their family’s wine estate,...

A Perfect Patricide by Krzysztof Pacyński is an engaging thriller with memorable characters and an intriguing plot, the second part in a series. Senator Jefferson Dent is running for the office of the president as a Democratic candidate, but there is more to the battle...

Jory, the female protagonist of A Thousand Faces by Janci Patterson, is special: she has grown up in a shapeshifter family, which means that her parents, as well as Jory herself, have the ability to morph their body into someone else's. Her parents, like many...

A Life Naive by Oliver Phipps is the story of Hershal Lawson, a trusting and upstanding younger man in Missouri, who could easily be called John Doe, so much is he the humdrum and monochrome Everyman. He's spent his days looking after his Me'ma, who...

Sometimes a book comes along like A Bloody Wonderful War by Herb Hughes that grabs the reader from the first page. The world as we know it has changed; war, the killing and destruction are obsolete. Casualties are replaced by points, and target dummies are...

Sara doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in a morgue after a night spent with her friends, but she’s definitely not expecting to meet Dalton and find out about an entire world she never even dreamed existed. Of course, no one told...

In A Separate Power by Loren W Cooper, humans are not the only ones who inhabit the planet. There are the so-called 'bodiless' (basically spirits/entities that can possess a human), and as you might guess, humankind's relationship to them is not the best. Some human...

In A Town Called Redemption by Jodi Gardner Bremer, Tex is a young drifter who enters town and plans to quickly be moving on. However, God and Martha have other plans for Tex. Martha is a widowed, retired school teacher and her life now is...

With no limits on genres that the collection of short stories showcases, A Matter of Words by Brian Paone, Randy Blazak, Chuck Mosley, Kim Loraine, Leah Lederman, Douglas Esper, Travis West, Michelle Bailey, Richard Salgado, Stephanie Rogish and Jacob Prytherch explores different writing styles and...

A Journey of Words by Brian Paone, JM Ames, et al. invites the reader to explore another world of the unexplained and obscure in this second volume of short stories by a collection of talented authors. Discover if karma exists when a man’s family is...

A Haunting of Words by Brian Paone, DW Vogel, et al. is a diverse collection of short stories that will make you think about everyday events in a new light. Each story is thought provoking and has a dark side, with an ending you would...

The story of Philip in A Chain of Events is one of the most touching and beautiful stories you will ever read. It is also one of the most violent, sometimes almost unbelievably so. But given that this historical fiction is based on facts, thoroughly...