The poems in Applied Freedom help sustain the fact that we are all human. From the gentle breath of "Crying Tears" to the passion of "Romantic Discovery," Mr. Boychev shows that emotions have an effect on everyone. As much as humans would like to believe...

M. Robertson’s Mask Among The Bones is an action-adventure thriller set in the world of archaeology and the illegal sale of artifacts. Young grad student Jessica Lane is given a map to the location of a sacred jade mask. She is aware that others also...

I LOVED the Hummingbird Way by Sherri Lynea Gerek. It's one of the most thoughtful looks into self-improvement that I've read lately, and believe me, I'm ALWAYS trying to find better ways of improving my life. Tools utilized by Gerek are timeless factors for being...

Pearls and Poison by Duffy Brown is the third in her Consignment Shop Mystery series, set in Savannah, Georgia. The books feature Reagan Summerside, owner of said consignment shop, the Prissy Fox, and a budding amateur sleuth, more like ‘Stephanie Plum meets Scarlett O'Hara’ than...

In August Fog by A.L. Goulden, Monica is content with her life with her husband, Alex. They have worked hard ever since Alex’s affair years ago. The relationship is a bit predictable, they are set in their routines, and the sex is just mediocre, but...

Sleight Malice is the second in Vicki Tyley's series of stand-alone thrillers set in Melbourne, Australia. Following her recent separation from cheating husband, Trent, website designer Desley James, has been leaning on best friend, Laura, for support. After waving Laura off home after a wine-filled...

Thin Blood is the first of Vicki Tyley’s exciting, Australia-set mystery thrillers. Jacinta Deller is a tenacious, but recently out of work, investigative journalist looking around for a career-enhancing scoop. Set on the trail of a missing, presumed dead, local woman by her newly moved...

Vicki Tyley continues her rise to be one of the best modern thriller writers around with Brittle Shadows, a disconcerting but compelling mystery about one woman’s belief that her recently deceased sister did not, as recorded, take her own life. Jemma Dalton flies into Melbourne...

Elderberry Croft by Becky Doughty is the story of Willow Goodhope and the way her presence brought together many of the residents of The Coach House Trailer Park, changing their lives in ways that they never even knew needed changing. Willow Goodhope moves into a...

Be a Critical Thinker: Hone Your Mind to Think Critically by Donald L. Karshner teaches readers to do precisely that through analyzing, checking sources of information, doubting assumptions, accepting other points of view, challenging other points of view, taking notes, etc. The book starts with...

No good deed goes unpunished, at least that's how it seems to Claudia when she travels to the eccentric northern Wisconsin town of Barley to uncover the owner and secrets held by an old watch. In Winter Watch, Claudia ends up stranded in Barley due...

In Actium’s Wake, Ralph Jackman uses the voice of Roman senator and soldier Marcus Rutilius Crispus to tell the story of the events following the battle at Actium. In this battle, Octavian - son of Julius Caesar - defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, leading to...

Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...

The Crystal Key by T.L. Howard is a captivating story about a young girl named Mirah, whose life was disrupted by a man named Rasmun, a man searching for the girl with the crystal key that will help his Lord come into power. Though he...

Elly Hays is a story that takes place in the early 1800s. The book opens with a speech from Tecumseh urging the Creek Village that lives in the Mississippi Territory where Tafv and his son live to join forces and go to war against the...

Finding Fire by K.R. Robidoux imagines a world where the elemental gods passed gifts on to humans. Of course, this can never just be a happy thing - there also has to be a faction that sees this as evil and wants to destroy any...

From the opening poem of this collection (‘Geography’) you know you are in the hands of a cultured, knowledgeable and thoughtful poet. Richard Pacheco knows art is about ‘vanishing points.’ Artists, like poets, direct their audience, as Auden might say, even to the quiet corners...

Yokai Blues by John LaTorre is the story of Nick, a detective that deals in Yokai Relations. Nick finds himself being stalked by a demon that kills people with a toxic cloud of cigarette smoke, evidently not only by the stench, but a yellowing of...

The Angel with Burnt Wings by Scarlett Jensen is the story of Alice and her descent from an angel to the pits of hell. At a young age, Alice was molested and raped. Fearing negative reaction and rejection, she didn't tell anyone about it. Instead...

Use all the Crayons! by Chris Rodell is a fun read about being happy, no matter what your circumstances. Rodell’s premise is that colorful people have all the fun and are typically happy. Happy people aren’t necessarily colorful. Similar to those emailed lists that get...