Love, life, beauty, poignant, short, challenging and wholehearted are just a few words to describe The Other Side of Here: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems by Shuna Meade. Each story stands on its own and, with a few added short poems, creates a...

Snapshots From My Uneventful Life is a non-fiction humorous memoir written by David I. Aboulafia. In his introduction, the author theorizes that our memories of past events are really more like snapshots taken in succession, and so the memoirs that comprise this book are his...

Testimony of The Protected: How One Lost Warrior Was Found is a non-fiction military memoir written by Doug Milliken. Milliken’s college deferment did not protect him from the Maine draft board’s notice. After the disastrous Tet Offensive, the draft boards were scrambling to provide the...

Wow! That's what I thought when I finished reading the delightful story, The Heavenly Grille Cafe, by author J.T. Livingston. Follow the story of Amanda Turner, a young woman who definitely needs a change of pace. She's lost her parents, home and job, all in...

Tracy A. Seiden’s Stardust and Fire: Tales of a Hopeful Romantic comprises a collection of seventy-one poems about the many varying aspects of heterosexual love, passion, desire, attraction and romance. The first of the short pieces, "Childhood Forever," comes close to conventional rhyming poetry, but...

Absolution by Ashley Lucero is a suspenseful, hair raising piece of fiction. Alex Constance’s parents are divorcing and her brother, Derek, is going off to Marine Corps boot camp. Everything seems to be changing. Loneliness and sadness begin to overshadow her. The new challenges occurring...

Lily Is... Wide Awake by Brandon Brand is a rhyming story for children. In the book, Lily cannot fall asleep because she keeps hearing and seeing things in the dark. Lily and her parents blame her overactive imagination and fear of the dark on reading...

Deadly Secret is a romantic suspense novel written by Kathleen Boaz. Dr. Dakota Remington is tired of dealing with death as the Coroner at Clarin General Hospital in Los Angeles. She's selling her house and moving back to San Francisco to be with her mother....

Two Stories About Dreams: The Hunter and the Dame and Fairy Trap by Ainny Klover is an audiobook that will soothe your racing mind. This audiobook has two stories and both of them are fascinating. I’m talking about Arabian Nights fascinating. The Hunter and the...

The Cow in the Doorway is a young adult/new adult coming of age novel written by Gino Bardi. Tony Vitelli was not all that sure he really wanted to go to Cornell University despite the excited urgings of his father. He’d feel a lot more...

Ice Dream's Wish by Nasrin Mottahedeh tells a tale of the snowman known as Ice Dream. When Ice Dream was created, he was given special gifts which consisted of two sparkly marbles for eyes, a red rose bud for a heart, and a big yellow...

Billy Beakhorn and the Booger Man by Melanie Michael is about Billy Beakhorn who blows his nose onto his sleeve when he coughs and sneezes. What comes out of his nose is not normal, it's slimy and icky. The muck becomes Booger Man and he...

Todd: The Cedar Cove Chronicles, Book One by Cynthia Ulmer is a fictional novel that is the first part in the Cedar Cove Chronicles series. Todd is set in a typical Southern setting of the '40s and '50s. Life then was more simple and uncomplicated,...

Countdown: Cannon Steel by John P. Szeker is a thrilling, fast paced tale that pits two forces against the United States: terrorism and a comet that threatens to strike the Eastern Seaboard. As government officials scramble to thwart the dual threats, an insightful Midwestern pastor...

As someone who has spent a great deal of her life in Australia, I'm Not Your Baby took me by surprise. Fortunately for me and my daughters, none of us encountered Aussie males the likes of those the author, Joy Jennings, had the misfortune to...

Sophie's Different (James Madison Series Book 3) by Patrick Hodges is a children’s story for middle school students about the negative aspects of bullying. This book is the third in a series. In this story, a few years have passed since the end of Hodges’...

Dillon's Rising: Dublin, 1916 by A.G. Lyttle is the story of finding something beautiful in the middle of hell, and knowing that it will last forever. There is an uprising in Ireland in 1916. Things are going downhill very quickly. Dillon is a loyalist agent...

Dads Fight With Fire is the first volume in The Amazing Adventures of My Dad series. Written in rhyme by Graham Burket and illustrated by Zach Stoppel, this unique series introduces a man with two jobs – father and firefighter – as seen through the...

The Velvet Rope is a memoir written by Brent Lymer, detailing life as a nightclub doorman in the 1990s. Working in a low-paying, high risk job is the most fun that Brent had ever had. Wearing a suit and working in an office means having...

Dear God, It's Maddie Bell by LaShaunda K. Jackson-Williams is a heart wrenching story about a ten-year-old girl named Maddie Bell. Maddie's grandmother, Bertha, dies and Maddie is left in the care of her Aunt Faye. She is quickly put into a foster home...