'“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 Quest for a Nest: The Magical Power of Persistence by Michal Y. Noah is a beautiful storybook with good messages for young readers that will motivate and encourage them to handle life in a positive way. Melody wants a place of her own. The...

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...

A Mound Over Hell by Gary Morgenstein is the opening book in the Dark Depths series, a novel with a powerful dystopian setting, dark and disturbing, but a tale of hope. “The end of the world as we know it” appears in most dystopian book...

What a great read! Karen Hanson Stuyck clearly knows her audience. A Deadly Courtship (An Alexandra Sinclair Mystery) is a fast-paced, adventurous kind of historical romance that has more going for it than just seeing two of the ton fall for each other. We open...

A Bee in His Bonnet by Bernard J. Fleury Ed.D. is a creative biography of his maternal grandfather, Frank King (1877-1958). Born and raised an Englishman of mixed Ojibwa heritage, Frank adopted the United States as his home and served with distinction over a long...