Earnest Hemingway once said: “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” Perhaps Basant Raj, author of When Love Calls, feels likewise. It is obvious this is an author who loves the power of words: he...

The Austrian: A War Criminal’s Story by Ellie Midwood opens with a short prologue entitled “Nuremberg prison, October 1946.” Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a former leader of the Austrian SS, has been tried by the International Military Tribunal and sentenced to hang. He is preparing to meet...

The Ghost with the Green Thumb (True Girls) (Volume 2) by Maggie M Larche is a short preteen story, second in the True Girls series. Beth lost her beloved grandmother six months ago and, although she has learned to accept it and move on, her...

Stepping Up (True Girls) (Volume 3) by Maggie M Larche is the third in a series of preteen novels. Jenna has what seems to be the perfect life. One day something happens to change everything; her father loses his job. That means there is no...

Mystic Tides is a romance novel written by C.J. Godwin. Seventeen-year-old Aden Wilder had just finished celebrating his birthday with friends on the beach. With a bonfire ablaze, Aden bids farewell to his friends. He was also leaving Alaska to live with his Aunt Tess...

Young Jacob is enthralled with the walking stick that he finds. His grandfather tells him to look closer and explains that it's called a praying mantis because its front legs are bent as if it's praying. Only Grandfather notices that there's only one front leg....

After two well-deserved years on death row for the inexcusable murder of a family of four, Tobias Butler only scoffed at the Pen Pal mails that adorned his prison cell. The anger dripping from the ink of multiple avengers of the death penalty was quite...

Ranger and Keys by Danielle A. Vann is the story of Ranger, the Great Pyrenees, whom Miss Keys, the Skunk, meets on Miss Darlene Doppler Darcy's unique farm. Miss Keys' momma has been around humans for a while and knows how to do a few...

Fireworks in the Night by Sherry Miller is a wonderfully illustrated and engaging flight of fantasy that will most certainly appeal to younger children and their parents alike. This is aimed at primary school readers, as the story develops nicely to help young children connect...

The Cilantro in Apple Pie is a young adult coming of age story written by Kimberley Nadine Knights. Sixteen-year-old Rubie found herself on a plane with her sister and brother-in-law, bound for a Boston suburb for a number of rational reasons, but New England was...

What is the secret that ten women are willing to take to the grave, even if it means their lives? A Secret to the Grave (Detective Parker Bell) Volume 1 by Jane Blythe is a murder mystery that has suspense at every turn. Detective Parker...

That’s Not Hay in My Hair: Big Apple to Big Adventures by Juliette Turner is a children’s book. Juliette lives in a cramped apartment in New York with her mum and her pets. It’s the first day of the summer holidays and she is about...

A Hidden Sicilian History is a Christian historical fiction by Ettore Grillo. A man finds an old scroll in the library in Enna, Sicily and translates it. The scroll was written by a Sicilian named Vincenzino who performed in a drama at Enna’s deconsecrated Church...

Under My Skin by Zoe Markham is the story of Chloe, who once used to be a teenager just like all others. But then she died and her father, a scientist, turned her into some sort of zombie. Chloe is alive and dead at the...

Wynter's life takes an extreme turn in Ultraxenopia, which is book one in the Project W.A.R. series by M.A. Phipps. At the age of 21, all people have to take a test whose outcome will determine what the person's role in society will be. Wynter,...

When her father, Officer Thomas Chang Sr., is murdered, Jenny is thrust into the world of the dead and struggles with her responsibility as a supernatural Protector as well as her new powers. She must face an old evil that is loose in the world...

Icefall is the true story of Alex Staniforth’s journey to reach the top of Mount Everest. What is remarkable about Alex’s story is that he was only eighteen years old. Alex was also a sick child and suffered from bouts of epilepsy. But because of...

I meet a lot of ex-pats with interesting stories. Most of them can’t tell them very well. JR Ingrisano most certainly can. His well written novel, Captain Jolly’s Do Over, is honestly refreshing and unique. I've heard similar tales here in Thailand and, being from...

Looking Through Water: A Novel is Bob Rich’s coming-of-age story told through fishing lessons. William McKay’s grandson, Kyle, is troubled. The only way William knows how to help Kyle is by telling Kyle stories about his own past. William tells Kyle stories about an Adirondacks...

Stark September: Stark Trilogy, Book 1 is a military romance written by C.D. Bradley. Kira Riley was an army brat, and her mother's devastation after losing her special ops husband when Kira was young made her adamant about never getting too heavily involved with a...