Fourteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival by Leslie Johansen Nack is a deeply emotional and moving story about the coming of age of our narrator and author who had to deal with the divorce of her parents, the abuse by her father,...

Being a hit man wasn’t hard for Rico — provided you played by the rules. Having to deliver a necklace of red rubies for his boss, he has the bad luck to have them taken from him by a small time gambler owing money. The...

Little does Jack Elliot realize exactly how his life will be changed after receiving a phone call from his uncle’s lawyer. Rushing ‘home’ to New York City from his hard-won, self-made happiness in Montreal, Jack is immersed in intrigue that began at the dawn of...

Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

In Love and Mercy: Up On Roan Mountain by Martha Arrowood Pelc, Ollie, the first character introduced, faces more in her short life than most adults face in a lifetime. There is a mix of love and major tragedy in each family that’s compelling and...

Romance, 50’s Style by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a set of two nostalgic stories of romance in the 1950s. Whatever it Takes is the first story, set in both Sydney and in London. Lisa is studying in London and finds herself falling hard for Liam,...

In Exonerated by S.A. Dymond, Ed Roletti is a police officer. One day he is on duty when a call comes over the radio about a murder scene. Ed double checks the address and then races over there. He knows this address! His younger sister,...

Cinderella Tears by Jui-Wei Yang is a romance that touches upon a woman’s desperate desire to be wanted by a man. Hailey is being abused by her live-in boyfriend, Sam, but she refuses to leave him. Sam showers her with gifts and attention, when he...

My Dragon's Time Machine is an illustrated children’s book by Dominic Parisi. Dominic has a dragon for a pet. Since his dragon needed a name, Dominic called him Walter. Walter has his very own time machine. Whenever Dominic wishes to travel somewhere in time, he...

Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is a collection of twelve short stories of varying lengths. The author, Radhika Mukherjee, recommends reading each with a break in between to allow time for assimilation of the meaning; they have a central thread - isolation and discovery...

Forefathers & Founding Fathers by Michael Gorton takes us back in time to the early days of the colonies, but first the story starts in London. Samuel meets Mary, a woman who is highly educated, and they go through a life that is nothing short...

Three Divisions: Leo by Celeste Prater is the story of two people who need a little saving, even though both of them don’t know it yet. Jillian Dosh is an attorney who hasn’t had a relationship for quite some time. She just hasn’t met someone...

In Jacqueline, author Jackie Minniti tells a story she grew up hearing about the real life Jacqueline Falna, a young girl in war-torn France following the Nazi invasion of her country. Jacqueline’s father is missing in action and believed to be dead. Struggling with her...

Hungry For Touch: A Journey From Fear To Desire by Laureen Peltier is a non-fiction memoir about the author’s tormenting memory of her father taking sexual advantage of her and molesting her. Peltier has tried to forget the damaging memories, but when the sexual trauma...

In an intelligent and intriguing new installment in the Heroes of Distant Planets series, Return to Lan Darr by Anderson Atlas is a book that readers will have a hard time putting down after they start reading. Follow the story of 15-year-old Allan Westerfield, a...

Welcome to Monstrovia (Tales of Monstrovia, Volume 1) by Mark H. Newhouse centers on young Brodie Adkins, who is sent to spend a vacation with an uncle he has never met. He thinks he is going to Key West, Florida, but he arrives in Monstrovia...

You Should Write a Book! True Tales of An Unstable Life is a collection of anecdotes written by Kristan Braziel. Although life is meant to be easy, this memoir shows that some lives are a little bit more difficult than others, with a falling antique...

Islands by Sara Stamey is a romantic suspense story. Susan Dunne is an archaeologist who travels to a beautiful Caribbean island on a grant to study petroglyphs. She has a second agenda in mind, though; investigating the death of her brother the year before. After...

Cut Your Cravings: Discover Why You Fail To Diet & How You Can Lose Weight Once and For All is a non-fiction health and wellness self-help book written by Rae Roth. The author is a personal coach whose online site helps people adopt a healthier...

Clayton's Honor by MK McClintock is a clean historical romance that will keep your heart beating and your palms sweating. Set in Ireland in 1892, the novel follows Anne Doyle. She lost her father in the war and her mother died of madness; she only...