Retta Brooks is a fifteen-year-old starting actual school for the first time in her life. Her mother, being a paranoid worrier, homeschooled her until Retta finally convinced her mother to let her attend high school like a regular kid. The more she tries to fit...

Time Lies: The Cognizant Awakens by Mario Diana is a time travel novel that takes the genre into previously unexplored territory. The story follows a small crew on board a craft that sails through time, landing in different centuries on command. A timepiece from the...

Curse of the Blacknoc Witch is a dark fantasy novel for young adults written by Tori V. Rainn. Samuel never dreamed that the Curse was anything more than a boogie-man story designed to make kids behave until he ended up in an alien forest in...

The rain outside had stopped and Trudy Matoody was happy knowing she could go outside and walk down to the pond. She hoped she would find a friend who loved to sing, just like her. She went to the front door and started singing. Her...

Why Dandelions Grow is a children’s picture book written by Nita Marie Clark and illustrated by Kathy Doherty. God knew he had one more thing to do when he was finished creating the world. He thought about it for a while, then he realized exactly...

Below the Radar is a captivating read and its creator, Dana Ridenour, is a writer you’ll want to add to your “favorite authors” list. A now-retired FBI agent, Ridenour knows from first-hand experience what protagonist Lexie Montgomery is getting herself into when, against her therapist’s...

Discover Gold: Search for The Gold Within and Reach for Dreams by DonnaLee Overly is a self-help book by a critical care nurse. The author wrote this book as a motivation for readers to be content with life so that when they reach their final...

The Last Road Home by Danny Johnson is set in the deep South in the 50’s and 60’s. Junebug and Fancy become best friends at the age of eight. One is a white orphan, the other, a black sharecropper’s daughter. The story follows them as...

Life Is Big is a work of fiction written in the literary style by author Kiki Denis. Focusing on primary themes such as death and illness, conceptual thinking, and historical progressive thinkers, this accessible read is suitable for audiences of all sensitivities. We find ourselves...

Ask older attendees of a memoir writing workshop what the subject of their intended memoir will be, and 90% will reply that, encouraged by their families, their memoirs will be a recollection of the most memorable events, big or small, in their lives. Finding Joe...

Butterflies Blue: An Interlude in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Chambers Lane Series) by Daniel Maldonado is an intriguing romance novella about moving forward from a painful past. After a turbulent, heart-breaking relationship, Layla Little hopes to move forward and leave the past behind. She goes...

Jose Luis Mendoza is 53 years old and about to lose his job as a storeman at a Walmart in California. He’s also about to be kicked out of his shared apartment due to his marijuana habit. Jose Luis likes to blame everyone around him,...

Mission: Accept by Stacy Eaton is the second book in the Rise Again Warrior Series, a compelling story with great characters. Dana Donahue has grown up spoiled. She gets everything she wants, and she believes that life is easy. Thanks to a dad who provides...

Year One is a work of fiction in the science fiction and thriller sub-genres and was penned by author Sasha DeVore. Written for young adult audiences, this novel forms the third and final installment in The Wake Trilogy, continuing the story of Hanu and the...

Abruption is a work of fiction in the action, contemporary thriller, and terrorism sub-genres, and it is the first novel in the Broken Gladiator Series penned by author Thom Gordon. Written for adult reading audiences, the work does contain the use of explicit language, graphic...

Seasons Out of Time by Kimberly Wenzler is a wonderful story for fans of women's fiction. Heather Harrison is separated, and ironically, she writes an advice column that offers surprising answers to people involved in relationships, opening new perspectives, and challenging them. Then a man...

Withlacoochee Jitterbug is a work of fiction in the historical, interpersonal drama and slice of life sub-genres, and was penned by author Ted Leavengood. It focuses on two characters who undergo some very trying times indeed, leading them to later accomplishments and the promise of...

Three Commands: Jesus' Fulfillment of the Law Through Love by Bruce Pagano II is a non-fiction Christian guide that is founded on the basis of love even though love didn't feel like the direction in which Pagano was initially headed. At the collapse of one...

The first thing that caught my attention in Enduring Times by Betty Godfrey is the opening that reminded me of my village and the sound of crowing in the morning. For five years, Jennifer has been married to Bill, against the wishes of her domineering...

Cheetah on the Wing: Military History and Downfall by Mitchell Krautant is an engrossing memoir that will delight fans of the military genre. But there is more to it than that. It is the story of an interesting character who suffers under an unfair and...