“God knows your pain and has your healing.” These words mark the start of the first poem in Winning: 30 Days of Motivational Poetry by 1UniqueWriter. It is a compelling sentence that will resonate with many who have been through trials on their journey through...

It’s tough being a teenager. Period. I am middle aged now, but I remember this like it was yesterday. In my writing, I have often advocated having a course on life to teach young people about some of the difficult choices they will have to...

Anomaly is a Christian science fiction thriller written by John L. Owens. Joel loved his morning runs along Green Port Beach in Florida. He even braved category 4 hurricane winds to be out there, pounding the sand and watching as the waves crashed upon the...

Lorna versus Laura by Cynthia Hilston takes place during World War II. Lorna is a young teacher raising her younger brother after their parents died in a horrific car accident. Lorna goes onto autopilot and focuses on taking care of the only family she has...

Cruel and Unusual: Four Short Stories of Judicial Horror by Erik Dean features four horror short stories that will take readers' breath away. Revisit the inhumane treatment of witches who were tried and burned at the stake in England. Meet Helen and the other witches...

Runa returns late one night to the home she shares with her brother and sister-in-law. Strange sounds greet her at the entrance: slurping, lip smacking, tearing. Nobody answers her call, but the dim light of the hearth reveals her brother gorging himself on the remains...

Harmony is a student at the best school ever known. It teaches life lessons and experiences. This school is known as Earth. Class students are sent to experience different lives and learn from them. But while they are there, they don't know any of this;...

Turbulence by Barry Litherland is a story of hope. It’s time to move on again. Joe doesn’t know if or when he will see his wife and children again, but staying would mean putting them in danger. One act; doing what he thought was the...

An aging actress gets a second chance at love in the stunning romance novel, Maybe This Time by Susan B. James. At forty-nine, Jennifer Knight is happy with her life. She has a shining career as an actress in London, and she lives close to...

One Hell Of A Ride by Ju Ephraime is a western historical romance novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy western romance and who do not mind explicit language and sexual situations. Cassie Sorrento’s...

A Hell For All Seasons by Emiliya Ahmadova is a collection of horrific tales about the people who managed to escape damnation. From accidentally bartering your soul to a demon, to breaking up marriages if only for the sake of your vanity, to even being...

Vanished by N.V. Baker is a moving love story that isn’t at all about the romance. Instead, we are transported to the Middle East and see through the eyes of someone who appreciates the nuances of the local culture. Vanished follows the separate lives of...

Town is an adventure mystery novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Stephen Kozan and illustrated by Tony Maulfair. What had happened to White Tanks, Pennsylvania, and who were the mysterious black shadow figures that so many of the town’s remaining residents had had the...

Future World Rocks! (Going Back to Our Roots) by Terry Tumbler is a science fiction novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of mature young adults and adults who enjoy futuristic fiction and who do not mind narrative sex and futuristic bad language....

According to the website www.thoughtco.com, “Mass strandings of dolphins are far less common than mass strandings of whales” and “there are many theories about why whales and dolphins sometimes swim into shallow water and end up stranding themselves on beaches in various parts of the...

An imaginative interpretation of mythology makes Stacy Benedict’s debut novel, Hound Dog Confidential, unforgettable. Leela and Reidar are knights, the police of Primordial society. Their latest assignment is to find a missing socialite who’s addicted to clay, the most dangerous form of dark alchemy. But...

Flower Shields by C.A. King is the first book in the Four Horsemen series. After flunking out of college, Tara feels at a loss while her job search keeps turning up empty ... until the rain drives her into a family friend's flower shop. She's...

Although I didn’t read the first book in the Miller Hoffman series by Zelmer Wilson, this second entry, Next Best Thing, reads so well and it is absorbing. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the book is character-driven, and the internal conflict is superbly explored....

Nikki McCormack’s Dissident is the first book in the Forbidden Things series, an epic fantasy that is well written and structured. Indigo is a gifted young woman with an extraordinary ascard power, but society only allows her to use a limited amount of her power...

Fire and Ice by Michele Barrow-Belisle is the first book in the Faerie Song Saga trilogy. Lorelei Alundra has always had the gift of healing, has always been considered an outsider. She thought the worst of her problems was trying to find a way to...