A friend asks Tom Bridger for a favor. Bridger, the investigator protagonist in Cary Watson’s second novel, The Skeleton Palms, tells us that he cannot refuse—because he is both a house guest and sleeping with his friend’s wife. This brutal honesty tinged with idiosyncrasy is...

Jerry Schaefer's Cruising through the Teens, Easier Than It Seems is an educational book that offers brilliant ideas to help young adults experiencing struggles in their lives. Some young adults tend to think way more than necessary about situations that have happened already, such as...

The Kingdom I Came to Love by Fernando G Ting is the author's story of his journey from his upbringing in his native home in the Philippines to his transition to life as a worker in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ting begins with a...

Deven Greene’s Unwitting: Erica Rosen MD Trilogy, Book 2 continues with central character Dr. Erica Rosen enjoying her married life with Lim. One day, the pair finds themselves in a dangerous situation. After a suicide bomber causes an explosion during a baseball game at Oracle...

This is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call it That by Nicole E. Williams, MD is an eye-opening self-help and health book about the vagina and what makes it so unique. It's everything you've always wanted to know...

In the early twentieth century, a man uses ingenuity and his ability to skirt the law to forge the life he desires in the historical novel Selectively Lawless: The True Story of Emmett Long, An American Original by Asa Dunnington. Growing up in Texas and...

Max Folsom has created a most likable heroine in former cop turned private investigator Baker. From her unusual name to her often humorous gut reactions and reflections to what she encounters as she tries to figure out why and how a dead body landed in...

Burning Rage by Don Banting is a story addressing a life that many people cannot possibly imagine. Jess had grown up as an outcast, incapable of making friends. When her father left the family when she was ten years old, she felt it was her...

Voices of the Grieving Heart by Mike Bernhardt is a compilation of work that allows a reader to meditate through the words of others during a time that is often the most difficult of our short lives. This is, of course, the grieving process following...

Small Talk with Myself by L.B. Lewis is a short non-fiction memoir that brings us into the world of one woman living on her own in isolation during the pandemic. Lewis transports the reader into the San Francisco Bay area, showing us the corner of...

When an attorney's aunt unexpectedly dies, she discovers her aunt's life was more complex than she realized in the legal mystery, The Advocate's Labyrinth: The Advocate Series Book 12 by Teresa Burrell. When attorney Sabre Brown's Aunt Goldie dies from a heart attack, she becomes...

Rebel’s Knot by Cryssa Bazos takes us back to seventeenth-century Ireland and that eternal struggle against the English and the Irish desire for self-determination. Aine Callaghan is a young Irish lass who has escaped a difficult family situation in Cork to finally find some peace...

Megan Gordon tells me in one of the poignant short stories in her anthology, You Can't Get There From Here, that I am “the cure and the sickness, the cause and the remedy.” Of course, she didn’t aim that at me directly, but story after...

Grounded Eagles is a trilogy of stories revolving around the human side of the world of military aviation in Britain’s WWII. Helena P. Schrader delivers complex plots through the eyes of characters you will wrap your arms around and cheer for to the very end....

Doing the same thing every day can become tedious. The Martinez children have just started their summer vacation and already they’re complaining about being bored: breakfast is boring, playing in the backyard is boring – there’s just nothing new and exciting to capture their attention....

Carolyn was from a stable family filled with love. So it was within reason that she wanted a beautiful career and love life. Only, there are wishes, and there is fate. At nineteen, she married her high school sweetheart, Danny. Unfortunately, what started as a...

Dream Shatter is the first installment of a new series by Ann Hunter, which introduces the dystopian world run by the Circle. In the utopia created by the highly exclusive and secret Circle, life appears to be perfect now that they’ve gotten rid of the...

Tall-Ah Earth by Victoria Lehrer, the fourth book of the New Earth Chronicles, is a visionary epic of action, powerful spiritual awakening, and life in space. Tall-Ah Earth, a terraformed planet similar to Earth, houses many oids, humanoid beings with animal traits like apisoids, reptiloids,...

What do you do when your soulmate walks out on you to live a new life without you? That’s what Kimberly must find out for herself in Ten Thousand I Love Yous by Lisa Slabach. This is the story of one woman’s journey of finding...

Malasangre is a work of fiction in the supernatural and fantasy subgenres. It is aimed at the adult reading audience and was penned by author Shariyah Levvi. The book follows teenager Diego Malasangre as he leaves the safety of his home in the country with...