Life wasn’t easy for young Beatrice. An orphan living with and caring for an aging aunt, she has her sights set on a young man, Isaac, who lives nearby. In Edwina Kiernan’s The Lamp, Beatrice and Isaac try to cement their love in the Victorian...

Steve Schafer's eMortal follows the story of Liv, a 17-year-old genius high schooler who constructs an advanced AI system named Breck. She enters him in a prestigious government-sponsored contest and is determined to place first. If she wins the competition, she will receive an internship...

D. L. Orton's breathtaking novel, Hive, unfolds in a futuristic setting where life is no longer sustainable on Earth. The last survivors are living in a biodome, waiting for life to come to an end. The fate of this world has been tragically altered by...

In Another Time by Jessie Winterspring is a feel-good time-travel romance spanning decades and exploring love across shifting timelines. In 2020, Leo is twenty-seven and still living with his grandparents. He has been in love for years with a girl he once saw in an...

Hungary: Months ago Count Mathias Duma and his English born wife were attacked by wolves. His wife was killed. Mathias was bitten and turned into a werewolf. England: Katherine’s favorite book in her uncle’s library was Destiny and Astrology. She had just curled up with the book...

The premise of this book is that the Witness Protection Program hides people in the past, "The Janus Project". Veteran John Callan witnessed something he wished he hadn’t. It cost him the lives of his wife and daughter. He wanted revenge on Morgan Ropp, instead...

One thing Blake knows about himself is that he is a Super Hero. Blake never thinks he is better than anyone else; he just knows he has choices to make each day, and he tries to make the right ones. One big choice Blake’s mom...

The Classroom CEO made me wonder if Deborah Prichard was going to discuss how administrators could better manipulate their employees. The subtitle, Empowering Teachers Through the Use of Business Leadership Principles, made me worry that a “bottom line" or "impossible accountability" would make teaching even...

Orion by A.S. Johnson is truly a lovely story of two friends who find out that they are really meant for each other in the most adorable and beautiful way. Commander Susan Davis is the pilot of the space shuttle Orion. Chance Walker is an...

True Miracles with Genealogy: Help from Beyond the Veil by Anne Bradshaw is a fascinating look at researching family trees. Bradshaw has compiled many stories of people who have been assisted in their research from those who have already passed on. One such researcher tells...

Stephanie Burkhart is a highly talented author, showing skills of a seasoned author. Her characters are unique, along with individual personalities, and with a plot line that is truly interesting, this story really comes to life before the reader's eyes. She grips the reader instantly,...

Parker Hill is a twenty-year-old college student who is on the cusp of knowing what he wants to do with his life. His father, who is a judge, wants Parker to follow the family into law, but Parker has other ideas; he thinks he might...

Guardians of the Crystal Skulls is the first book in a new series. Linda Arena offers readers a science fiction series that will keep readers coming back for more. The Earth is facing catastrophic changes from a shift in the Earth's axis. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and...

Charles Bourne, thinking he has terminal cancer and life has nothing left to offer, despite having Sarah and a baby on the way, teams up with several people and embarks on daring stunts that could potentially end in death - and does. Sarah tries to...

This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies by Renee Pawlish is a story about one wannabe private-eye named Reed Ferguson. With a love of the old movies and detective shows, his favorite is The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and he plans on...

In this collection of poems, David McDonald lays out the ugly truth of war and its negative effects on soldiers and on our planet. The poem, "A Poppy," was heartwarming in that it expressed the feelings of a flower who wanted to honor the fallen...

Total Blueprint for World Domination seeks to provide the reader with a boilerplate guide to analyze an individual’s goals in life and how to achieve them. These are presented in segments that deal with exploring your feelings, identifying your loves and passions, and what are...

. Sera was born with a curse, or so her village believes. Only Adale is willing to befriend her, and it is a risk with dire consequences for both of them. On the run from the local authorities, Adale and Sera meet Gaius and Pen,...

Six children at Jefferson Elementary School are sitting on stage preparing themselves for an upcoming spelling bee. Each of them has his/her own special way for remembering how to spell a word. Chloe loves long and complicated words, Ryan spells by rhyming, Juan uses knock-knock...

Both of my parents are from Detroit, and I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, so I have a great deal of fondness for the Great Lakes and their beauty. When I first heard about A 1000 Mile Walk on the Beach, it sounded like a...