A Republic's Rise by Clinton Aldrich is a tale with a strong appeal to fans of historical novels, especially those with a setting evolving around WWII. Before WWII, the Reich Chamber of Culture orders Derek Schorr, an art graduate student at Berlin Academy of Arts,...

There is a childhood story I always enjoyed, The Little Engine Who Could by Watty Piper. What a refreshing, encouraging story about determination and never giving up. What about a weak little tree? Blown about by strong winds, almost trampled by big feet, flooded roots...

A Mother's Journey of Love, Death, and Forgiveness by Jackie Loret De Mola is a compilation of social media posts, photographs, and journaling that she had the presence of mind to articulate in the aftermath of the death of her son, Frank Loret de Mola....

Sometimes, a really good book will convey the same kind of human warmth embodied by close friends gathered together on a cold winter’s day. Such is the case with Jeff Turner’s heartwarming (heartrending) novel, A Rescued Soul. While his narrative literally includes those familiar winter...

Arthur Yavelberg has authored A Theology for the Rest of Us, resisting the usual theological jargon and dogmatism. When I saw this title, I thought it would be a Christian volume written on the layman’s level. I was dead wrong. Arthur incorporates Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism,...

S. Jones-Marshall is a poet. One does not usually think about those in the military reading poetry, but Jones-Marshall writes with them in mind. Many of our men and women in uniform have sustained Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and too often feel their life is...

A Murder of Principal by Saralyn Richard is a pulsating murder mystery set in a black majority Midwestern high school in 1993. RJ Stoker is the new principal at Lincoln High. Determined to shake off the old way of doing things, Stoker tries to enable...

A New Dream Arises by Gregory Kopp is part of the Kopp Chronicles. In A New Dream Arises, the author opens the American connection with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, and how Vice President Andrew Johnson felt about what President Abraham Lincoln...

Have you ever seen a homeless person in the area where you live? Have you ever taken the time and shown the compassion to buy that person a meal? Have you ever thought, “I wish there were something I could do to help the homeless?”...

Cricket is angry. Her parents lied to her, taking her from her home and friends on their distant, dying planet to live on Earth. She has to go to school like a human teenager and do her best to fit into this strange, desert town...

A Chronicle of Angels by Vincent Thomas Vok is an inspiring poem divided into sections: a poem about angels that presents an insightful allegory of spiritual and human encounters. The author writes about his experience with angels from human and spiritual perspectives. Some angels can...

A Siblings Guide To Autism is about a girl whose twin brother is on the spectrum and is writing this book for her little sister so she knows what to do when it comes to their autistic sibling. The narrator of the story wishes sometimes...

“Can I have...,” little Stevie continually whined as he rode the grocery cart while his Mommy did the shopping. “No Sweetie,” she repeatedly answered. Stevie wasn’t about to give up. He wanted to know why she could buy what she wanted and he couldn’t. It’s...

Antony is a retired C.I.A. operative who decides to buy a vineyard from an old Italian gentleman he struck up a conversation with one day. He is enjoying his new life in Italy while regretting the loss of his one true love of many years...

Growing up is not easy, but things get a little better when you have the right people to inspire you. The childhood of Clarence, an African-American boy and the protagonist of A Colored Child's Belly by Lakella L. Davenport, is not as carefree as that...

A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and Precognition by Terje G. Simonsen is an extensive, thought-provoking, and engaging assortment of the paranormal that includes lore, parapsychological evidence, and a variety of sources that feature scientists, archaeologists, and physicists. Simonsen...

What can I say about a book that stars a family of witches? In A Witchy Surprise by Rhonda Hopkins, the main character Charley is approaching seventeen, and, to date, there is little sign she has inherited the family traits, until the day she and...

In A Dangerous Pursuit: Regency Spies & Secrets Book 1, Lord Hawthorn, Baldwin Radcliffe, returns to England after three years undercover in France. He warns his handler of a French spy who traveled to England for nefarious reasons and sets out to search for the...

A New Way To Hope: Stories That Describe The Journey To Hope by William Stephenson, Ph.D. is a collection of touching stories from the author’s documentation of his medical practice. As a respected counseling psychologist with decades of experience, Stephenson focused on patients with little...

A Death in The Family by Mark Pifher is a fantastic mystery that will make you lose yourself in its pages. The story follows a father/daughter duo that opened an investigation into a murder; however, they triggered a chain of events they were not ready...