The Monster Between My Legs is what Guido, a Sicilian porn star, affectionately calls his penis. He realizes how fitting the nickname is when diagnosed with testicular cancer. Guido fears his upcoming surgery will have damaging effects on his career, as well as his health...

The Six and the Crystals of Ialana by Katlynn Brooke goes back hundreds of years in the past when the island of Mu’A was threatened by a horrible misfortune. Six of its best healers set out to stop the curse but one of them is...

All of Me Wants All of You, written by J.Z. Howard, is an emotional and provocative tale portraying the depths of love. “In order to receive love, it is essential to enjoy pleasure – and to trust being vulnerable to it.” Dean and Kate’s marriage...

Cold Blood: The Antarctic Murders Trilogy by Theodore Jerome Cohen is a spellbinding thriller of subterfuge, murder, deception and betrayal spanning the globe. From the ice-veiled waters off the Antarctic shores, to Chile, Brazil and Europe, Captain Mateo Valderas of the Chilean Navy has spent...

Author Patrick Shannon is a descendant of the main character in Tame the Wild Land. His research is in-depth and revealing of the author's investment in telling a small part of history in a big way. Louis Juchereau de St. Denis was a French Canadian...

Wounded Beacon by Leslie Lee Sanders is a short novella that takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth. The people are forced to band together in small camps in order to survive. In one of these camps, a man named Luke escapes from the grasp of a...

“We do best by embracing those parts about ourselves that we don’t like and ceasing to judge them.” Finding My Invincible Summer by Muriel Vasconcellos is a guideline for understanding how to get the most out of our lives in spite of our failures and...

Five is Book One of the Maor Series, a young adult contemporary fantasy written by Caroline Greyling. Shaylee is your typical 16-year-old who has plenty of hopes and dreams. She’s into dancing, has written a story that’s been published in a magazine, and she loves...

The Bird Room is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories written by Chad Hofmann. The title story is a macabre piece in which a pet parrot carries, along with his ability to speak, an unearthly and evil manifestation of the past. Some...

Vanished From Dust by Shea Norwood is a paranormal adventure that follows the exploits of Eric and Kyle, two eighth-graders in the little town of Dust, Texas. Eric is an average boy, but has recently been bullied in school after a few episodes of strange...

Here Be Dragons by Hannah Steenbock is a collection of eight short stories about magic, mythical creatures and sorcery. From a traveling wizard that fixes toys, to a wizard who loses and searches for his magic deck of cards. From a young girl that tries...

From the Magical Mind of Mindy Munson is a wonderful story written by Nikki Bennett. The Munson kids went to live with Aunt Julie when their parents died. They have problems adjusting to their tragic loss, and their aunt isn’t cool anymore. Aunt Julie buys...

Thought provoking tales are told in the short story collection, The After, by L.L. Sanders. The collection tells three very different stories, all relating to the mysteries of the afterlife. In "The After," we meet the mature and thoughtful Wilshire, as he guides his young...

First Kiss by Barbara Alfaro is a warm and majestic breeze. There is a message of love lost and love gained that was present from the light-hearted "Carnival Music" to the fervor of "First Kiss." There are such beautiful metaphors in the poem "Heart," making...

School of Deaths by Christopher Mannino has a plot that is quite different from your typical YA novel. Suzie, a teenage girl, suddenly finds herself in the world of deaths where she is supposed to be trained to become a death herself. Deaths are the...

Breath of the Titans: Little Black Stormcloud by Riley A. Westbrook and Sara L. Westbrook is a story that centers around a half elf, half dragon boy who just turned 16, named Lovonian. The story begins with Lov and his uncle Nord taking their annual...

“Oooh,” I thought as delicious chills ran down my spine. “A book about vampire-zombies…what could be better?” That was my thinking as I picked up The Journal of Vincent du Maurier, the short novel by author K.P. Ambroziak. And my initial thinking certainly wasn’t off-base....

Lucy London is a bona fide genius, having been at university since the ripe old age of thirteen. Unfortunately, Lucy’s genius status means she doesn’t have the best people skills, which is a shame since she’s currently working in the peer counseling clinic in an...

Despite a bit of a slow start, Leighton's Summer by KC Finn soon drew me in. This is the story of a young man with an unusual gift on the cusp of his sixteenth birthday. It is 1945, after the end of World War II....

Logan and Hailey were excited to get a postcard from their grandma and grandpa while they were in Africa. This postcard was an addition to Logan's collection of postcards, and Hailey had her own collection of beautiful dolls. On this special postcard was a picture...