This week I’ve been thoroughly engrossed by Charles Paul Collins’ historical novel The Remembering: Of Leather & Stone. A fictional account of the lives of real members of the author's family throughout the ages, this book manages to give a compelling insight into the history...

Originally from Trinidad, Shayaa Muhammad embraces his family legacy and the culture of his Caribbean home. In The Coo Coo Vegan, he discusses recipes handed down from his talented great-grandmother and uncles and he adds his own flair to the dishes. Without using meat or...

The urge to move west for a fresh start is woven deeply into American history, and in The Road West by Larry K. Collins, we follow one such journey that brings out our innate pioneering spirit. While this is a work of fiction, it’s based...

Tudor Alexander’s The Last Patient is a beautifully written story set against the backdrop of the historical upheaval of post-war Eastern Europe. The novel combines historical fiction with personal conflict, exploring a family’s struggles under communist oppression. The novel begins with the story of Kostea,...

The Show Must Go On is the first novel in the Robert Dart Thrillers series by Jonathon Kelley. The story follows Robert Dart, a seasoned agent of the International Cyber Security Service (ICSS). His latest mission started when he was dispatched to investigate a cyberattack...

The Stormy Kromer Kitten by Erin Byrnes Bailey narrates the fascinating history behind the Stormy Kromer cap while featuring an adorable calico kitten. The story introduces us to George Kromer, a young man residing in the small town of Kaukauna, Wisconsin. He falls in love...

Pinche, a smuggler working for Colombian drug lords, had fallen out of favor with his bosses, an outcome of failures in his operations. Given a last chance to redeem himself, Pinche is tasked with smuggling a group of immigrants, alongside “merchandise”, through the Gap, a...

The Red Mist by Chad McCoskey centers on a man who gains the power of teleportation (or misting) after he survives a harrowing vehicular accident. He becomes a vigilante, dubbed the "Red Mist", and uses his newfound abilities to fight crime with the help of...

The Lights of Greyfare by Juno Guadalupe is a gothic horror novel set in a Northeastern coastal town where mysterious "lights" have appeared. Needful of change, anything to pull her out of a deep depression resulting from a nasty and brutal divorce, journalist Katherine "Kat"...

The Giant's Book of Poems by Daniel A. Freedman is a collection of original poetry, combining surreal imagery, episodic narration, and fragmented syntax to present observational snapshots of the extraordinary and ordinary. Cirche La Bas imagines sculptures in the Louvre speaking with humor and wisdom...

The Preacher’s Son by T.R. Brown explores faith, family, and the complexities of relationships. Set in the Carolinas, the novel follows Caleb Boone, the son of a Southern Baptist minister, as he returns home after his father, Elijah Boone, dies. What begins as a journey...

Russell Luyt's The Midnight Factory unfolds in New Albion, a world ruled by fear and control. After a political event—known as the Great Change—takes effect, the Bureau for Virtue becomes the governing body that regulates New Albion through surveillance, propaganda, and an addictive drug called...

Captain Jonathan Haraden, also known as “the Salamander”, has endured the deepest heartbreak of his life: losing his wife, Hannah. His grief is a heavy burden he constantly carries, but even so, the world continues to turn. Jon’s grief propels him back to sea with...

The Sirens of Sayhurn by Keith Pyeatt follows different characters whose lives connect through a strange song that crosses between Earth and a hidden world called Sayhurn. Clayton, a humble maintenance man trying to rebuild his life, moves into a house with a bizarre tune...

In The Daphne Project by Jacqui Lents, Daphne Patterson, a thirty-something librarian, faces her lowest point. She is betrayed by the man she thought would be forever; she is unemployed, and she is living with her overbearing mother. She needs a new start. But how...

The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mother and a younger brother who is involved in street...

The Purple Pill: How to Balance Success in a Divided World presents Kiani Mills’s account of realizing that her life was shaped by learned patterns absorbed long before she could evaluate them. She describes how early conditioning guided her toward functioning efficiently in social and...

The Procrastination Solution by Bobby L. Butler is a practical guide for anyone who has ever watched a deadline creep closer while somehow still not starting the work. Butler spent years trapped in his own cycle of delay before hitting a wall with a missed...

The End of the Sidewalk by Nancy Schutt McCorkle centers on a white girl named Gertrude, or Trudy, growing up in Mississippi during the early 1960s. Segregation and clashes over civil rights are part of her everyday life. Her mother, who serves on the state’s...

Entertaining and well-researched, A. Piper Burgi’s The Exploress and the Pillars of Eternity is a fine example of historical fiction. Set in the early nineteenth century, at a time when Egypt was just beginning to allow Europeans access to their country and its archaeological treasures,...