Shucking Capers: Small Stories From a Big Island is a memoir with roots in a walled hilltop town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily. Maria Teresa Agozzino’s father, Lillo, is the eldest son of a Sicilian patriarchal family. Pamela, her mother, is British, and as...

The fictional account of a true story, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution, written by Phillip Bruce Chute, is an intriguing tale. Alice Barro experienced poverty as a child and a young woman. Raymond McDade was the owner...

The Couple’s Adventure – Over 200 Ideas to See, Hear, Taste, and Try in Southeast Texas is a work of non-fiction in the travel, adventure, and advice sub-genres, and was penned by Kvaala. As the title suggests, the work is intended for couples seeking new...

So what is a citizen of the world? According to author Carol J. Yee in her book Welcome Back to Abuja Once Again: How I Became a Citizen of the World, it is a citizen who engages comfortably with the world, bridging cultural differences with...

“The Mistress had always envisaged the kennels as a club for like-minded dogs who would frolic during the day and sleep soundly at night with minimum supervision.” Hmm! Really? And what about the incessant barking? You can’t expect to fill a kennel with dogs and...

Prepping Your Family For an Emergency: Simple Steps to Staying Safe During a Disaster by Suzanne Lowe is a timely book that could save your life. Lowe pulls together lots of great information in one place on how you can help prepare yourself and your...

Advancing Reproductive Choice: Leading with Conviction and Compassion, A Memoir is a profound look back at Elizabeth S. Maguire's noble vocation of empowering women by showing them the path to freedom of choice. One of the countless unsung heroes who have devoted their lives to...

Yara and Purr: The Rescue of a Purring Monkey, written by Yossi Lapid and illustrated by Joanna Pasek, is a children's eco-picture book that revolves around its titular characters, a young girl named Yara and a baby Caqueta Titi monkey named Purr. Purr is feeding...

After the death of her mother, a young woman returns to her girlhood home and discovers secrets from her family's past that have a life-changing impact on her present in the spectacular romantic suspense novel, The Aviculturist (Atmospheric and Compelling, a Fast Paced Cornish Thriller)...

In recent times, travel has been extremely limited. But after months at home, you may be thinking of exploring new locations. Central Florida has many hidden gems that you may not have been aware of. From museums to parks and lakes, Central Florida is filled...

As far as alien invasion themes are concerned, The Barkuu: Dawn of a Species by Lauren Wright has a nightmarish premise. This is a story that plays with your paranoid fantasies about ranking low in the order of species. Maybe we should give aliens a...

Beyond Pipe Dreams And Platitudes is a compilation of essays in which clinical psychologist Dr. Geraldine K. Piorkowski shares her knowledge from fifty years of working with people from diverse socio-economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. She discovered that everyone has common requirements to bring fulfillment...

The 3-0 by Liborio Lungaro is a story that is based, as the subtitle aptly puts it, on a True Story of the Largest Police Corruption Scandal in New York City's History: The Dirty Thirty. Set in the 1990s, the book follows this historic event...

Looking for a better way to feed yourself and your family? A healthier, more enjoyable way? Imagine a store-bought piece of fruit or vegetable. Who knows where or when it was harvested, but it probably was underripe when picked and shipped a fair distance, perhaps...

Abaddon by Rovshan Abdullaoglu tells the tale of a highly respected Dublin Investigator, Sean O’Neil, who has just arrived in the historic town of Cobh, Cork. O’Neil has been assigned to catch a serial killer whose trademark of horrifying torture and mutilation before death leaves...

Sun Kissed by Diaris Marie Jones is a powerful, exquisitely written historical novel of two families in post-Civil War New Orleans. Great literature reveals the unrevealed, and Ms. Jones’ astounding account opens our eyes to the unique race culture in its rising disrepair. The rules...

Puppy Pete’s Imaginary Jungle (Crochet Me a Story) by Rachel Hilz is a story about a crocheted puppy and his imagination. It’s raining outside, and Puppy Pete is bored with nothing to do inside. So he has a brilliant idea to use his imagination to...

Secret of the Forest is the second volume written by M. R. Neer on Junah Cat and his path to knowledge. After our hero discovered the secret of the garden in the first installment of the series, he broadens the perspective with his next adventure....

Gorilla Tales: My Life as a Professional Primate by Donald McLeod is an award-winning, riveting, funny memoir about a Hollywood actor who's played gorillas in some of the biggest movies in recent memory. Maybe you've never thought of it, but someone is inside those ape...

I was having a conversation with another author on social media when InstaGrateful by Sheri Fink showed up on the RF review list. The conversation went along these lines. My friend said, “I’ve spent the past three hours responding to messages and posting on forums,...