Milcreek Pond by Kay Carroll is a true-to-life story about fourteen-year-old Molly, an African-American/Native American girl in 1879 Mississippi who refuses to “stay in her place”. Molly’s mother, Enola, worries constantly that her daughter is headed for trouble if she continues to want more out...

Dead Already by Mike Krentz is a top-notch medical thriller that will have you hooked until the end. Emergency room doctor Zack Winston has a haunted past, and it plays well against the second main character, Bridget Larsen, a defense attorney whose cynical attitude has...

Grandmothers are special. We love to do all kinds of things with Grandma: read together, cook together, go to the museum, play games and so much more. For any child with a special Grandma, there is a treasure chest of memories of all the wonderful...

Daily Bread by Antoinette Truglio Martin is a children's chapter book that follows the story of young Sicilian-American Liboria “Lily” Taglia. Lily, her older sister Margaret, and the rest of their working-class family are bound by the mutual respect each has for their roles and...

Housewife Chronicles by Jennifer Snow is a contemporary women's fiction novel around a suburban housewife named Beth Cartwright, her dead husband Howard, and Howard's mistress—who is also Beth's next-door neighbor and former yoga instructor—Gina Thompson. Two weeks before Howard bites the dust, Beth learns...

A thrilling science fiction mystery, Houdini's Rendezvous by George Moore is about Sean St. Jean, the founder of Babbage Labs, Incorporated, who owns the lion’s share of the company profits. With the recent death of his first and only CFO, Max Bennet, Alison Kessler steps...

Nicole Beverly’s abusive ex-husband offered fellow prisoners payment to murder her. Finding Nicole is a graphic memoir recording the author’s experiences as a victim, and survivor, of shocking domestic violence and her battle for justice and safety. It includes, at the end, a brief guidebook...

Pamphlet 2020 by Paul Tait is a visceral volume of poetry written by an accomplished writer and musician. His musical side is quite evident in his poetry--some lyrical, some as rapid as drumsticks that roll down the page. The imagery and ideas he conveys are...

Ice and Bone by Diane Olsen is part two in the Rising Wind series. You could read this book as a stand-alone without reading the first one as the author does a decent job of bringing her readers up to speed, but my recommendation...

Joyous Lies by Margaret Ann Spence is a bittersweet saga about deception and those mistruths or half-truths we sometimes concoct within families to protect ourselves and others from what we think may harm them. Maelle was a Ph.D. botany student with a deep and abiding...

Island Girl is a work of fiction in the epic fantasy genre and serves as the first book in the Strands of Existence series. It is aimed at older readers and comes with a content warning for threats of sexual violence. It was penned by...

Tactile Therapy: Volume One by Durell Arrington is a science fiction novel with plenty of action and drama to keep you entertained for hours. The story follows two aliens who arrive on Earth with different goals that lead down the same path. Minutia came to...

In Reality by DC Wince, The Game is about to begin, a game where there can be only one winner, and the losers' fates will be in the hands of the Watchers. In the searing heat of the Sahara desert and the African savannah, four...

Do you wonder what skeletons lie in your closet? Have you studied your family history, or looked into genealogy to trace your roots? When William T. Packwood started looking into his family’s past, he was surprised to find his ancestors hailed from New London, Connecticut...

Believe! A Woman's Odyssey from Tragic to Magic by Lisa Nicks-Balthasar is an engaging and heartrending memoir that chronicles the author's life story where she speaks about the untimely death of her partner Keith who was her high school sweetheart because of brain cancer. The...

Find Your YOU by Tony Ashcraft is a non-fiction self-help guide for those who feel like they're little more than a hamster in a wheel as they continue to chase, achieve, and enjoy virtually nothing. Ashcraft shifts focus from the parameters of a simple, single...

Dance Adventures: True Stories About Dancing Abroad by Megan Taylor Morrison is a unique collection of essays opening a doorway into the wonderful world of dance. If you're the curious type and like to learn new things, you'll love this book about dance. I must...

Dads are wonderful. They love their little girls and they enjoy spending time with them. But, one thing dads are not very good at doing is a little girl’s hair. Especially if it’s long and thick. As a little girl, I don’t think I could...

Have you ever had a green cake? No, not a mint cake, but a green cake, one made with pistachios. That’s right, pistachios, also “called the happy nut because they smile at you.” Well, at least that’s what Grandma says. She’s visiting Shani for the...

Flanagan’s Flight is a journey back in time through the late 1970s and many of the happenings of the 1980s. Jerry and Maria are the stars of the story: meeting, falling very much in love, and marrying in 1978. The reader becomes embedded in their...