Author Thom Kudla brings readers a mesmerizing collection of poetry and short writing pieces in Long-Lost Puzzle Pieces: Second Edition. "Past Judgement" is a beautiful poem that follows a person's journey in life, navigating adulthood and worldly vices until they find clarity and meaning. "The...

In The Artist Instance by Faruk Brbovic, during the winters, Anela Foster paints impossible patterns—doorways that threaten reality’s fabric, capturing loops with precision from angles that are hard to attain. She is under the illusion that she is painting a nightmare. Then Elysia Harrington enters...

Parenting can be an exciting as well as a challenging experience. While most parents want what’s best for their children, determining what exactly is best for them is perhaps the most demanding part. What many fail to realize is that parenting is not just about...

The Accident by Kenneth E. Bliss is a Christian sci-fi novel about the power of faith and fighting for what you believe in. When psionic EMT Paul Miller finds a 5-year-old child in a wrecked car with his deceased parents inside, he is shocked, but...

A Fine Scottish Time: The Magical Matchmakers of Seven Cairns, Book 1, by Maeve Greyson, follows Jessa Tamson as her life is falling apart. After a devastating breakup, the loss of her dream job, a stolen car, and a sudden rent increase, she’s one disaster...

Illegitimate by Maddie Lock is a memoir that begins with Maddie as a child in postwar Germany. Maddie was left with her grandma, while her mother, Susi, moved between countries and relationships. Maddie was later sent to live with Susi, who married Ted, a US...

Marie Turcios's memoir, Hakuna Shida: Memories of a Guatemalan Family in Africa, traces how her family came to live in Africa. She recounts the 2007 move to Kenya after her husband accepted work with an international agricultural firm. The family settles in Thika for several...

Dividing Untangled Light: Verses of the Finite Heart, by Eufe Tantia Jr., is a vibrant and vivid hymn to the spiritual dimension of life. In this sweet and silken poetry collection, every event of human existence becomes an occasion for spiritual connection and self-awareness. Nature,...

In Michelle Miller’s Where the Clouds Cannot Find Me Revisited, Marisol is a mother in Mobile, Alabama, whose life narrows to a single imperative after her infant son Jacob Oliver is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. As doctors work to stabilize Jake, Marisol...

How often are mental health issues pushed under the carpet and ignored? In Breaking Perfect, Elyse Heartwell brings the pain and suffering out of the shadows and into the light. The Dawson family appears perfect on the outside, wealthy and successful, but behind closed doors,...

Born and brought up in London’s East End in 1952, Steven James Foreman longed for adventure and headed for Africa in 1992 to follow his dream. He was to stay for 30 years, returning to the UK in 2024. He recounts his experiences in From...

Futureproofing Humanity by Robert M. Geraci examines how modern scientific discoveries changed the way people understand the fate of human civilization. After geology and evolutionary theory revealed that life emerged through natural processes across immense spans of time, the possibility that humanity might also disappear...

K.S. Krown’s Devious Demons is a dark, seductive reimagining of a biblical myth set against the privileged, glittering backdrop of modern London. The story follows Lilley Meade. She never craved love, until she meets Edward, who is gentle, yet hides a power that Lilley doesn’t...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death by Dan Flanigan is a collection of emotional poems that speaks about the death of his wife, and brings together beauty and suffering in a creative and aesthetic way. Written in free verse and as prose poems, they...

Allison Troyer has no idea how to manage a household. Her mother died when she was young. She was raised by her unmarried aunt. The woman never taught Allison how to cook, clean or manage a house. She considered Allison messy. Allison spent most of...

A Sister’s Test is a story of trials and joys. Woven into this tail of the Plain Life is the fact that the Amish often face the same tribulations as the rest of us. They walk the fine line between nurturing their children and spoiling...

It`s the summer of 1896 and Betsy Nelson has just received a telegram stating that her father, who is the pastor of the community church along the Lehigh Canal in Walnutport Pa., has just had a heart attack and will have to resign his position...

"Thrall" by Jennifer Quintenz is a zesty and very enjoyable YA paranormal novel. The opening seems a little conventional. We meet teenager Braedyn, bright and gutsy but a bit of a social misfit, against the usual background of American high school with the moody beauties...

Born in 1870, Christian takes to wandering as a young man, doing odd jobs. One day, close to his old family place, he is hired as a farmhand by a beautiful young woman, Corinne. As she walks away, he finds a whiskey bottle at his...