The setting for parts of "Singing Her Alive" by Diana K. Perkins is Willimantic, Connecticut, during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Our tale spans three generations. Sarah returned from Boston to Willimantic to bury her grandmother and assist her mother in cleaning out...

Jeanne McElvaney begins her book "Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story" by defining three types of memories: Ordinary Memories - retention of experiences; Trauma Memories - memories themselves cannot be recalled at will; and Dissociation Memories - a biological response that separates awareness from consciousness. Abby was...

Janice Baylis, Ph.D. has complied a vast amount of information and exercises pertaining to dreams in her book "Dream Dynamics and Decoding: Personal, Practical, Powerful Messages." Baylis begins with a brief introduction to dreams and dreams analysis and then jumps right into the fascinating world...

Unison by Eleni Papanou is a well-written science fiction book. It is told by Damon, the leading character of the story, in great detail. The time is after the Great Cataclysm and the city is Unity. Home is a very large dome offering protection from...

Being in love with a vampire is never easy. Having fought for their relationship, famous rock star Trey has only a few weeks to wait until he can be made immortal by his girlfriend Aurora. But the course of true love never runs smooth, and...

"Dreams and Expectations" by Wendi Sotis is a new take on Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice". We have the same characters and much of the same action in the Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwiliam Darcy love affair, but we see it in much more detail. We...

“The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch”, the debut novel by Ashland Menshouse, is a wonderful story about several youngsters, which begins the night before they start their first term of High School. Aubrey, Buzz, and Adriqa have been neighborhood friends forever and soon...

"Walking Fish" by Joanne Bodin is gritty yet touching contemporary fiction. Artist Talia, a nonconformist by any standards, has had a difficult life. Losing custody of her daughter Sophie when she was five following an unpleasant divorce, Talia has been shut out of her child's...

"Chef ReCee Jay & Friends" is a charming tale of a young girl and her friend Carb, the monkey, as they plan a day of sugar-filled fun. From cupcakes to cookies to lemonade tea, the two fill their basket with tempting snacks. As ReCee and...

"Fission" by Tom Weston is based on a true story. Our tale centers on Lise Mietner, a Physicist. Women were expected to get married and raise a family, not to dream or pursue a career and especially not in a field like Physics. The year...

"Lily of the Springs" by Carole Bellacera transports us back to the 1950s and 1960s with strong reminders of the morals, music, love and turbulence of the times. Lily lives in a small Kentucky town with her very strict Southern Baptist parents. Jake is the...

In "The Dragon Gem" by Brian Beam Korinalis Karell, also known as Korin, is the leading character and the narrator. Korin has long been overwhelmed by dreams of being taken from his birth parents as a mere baby. He has spent many years searching for...

A winner on so many levels! "Non-Local Flow", a life via literature, could hardly be better, not just for its chosen genre, but because of the overall spirit of the book. Thankfully, Mary Orme Ellis did not choose to list this book in the genre...

Rajappan begins his book "The Illuminator: Access to Universal Intelligence" with an introduction in which he discusses “feeling good in moments of pressure.” He stresses that we should not allow situations surrounding us to control the way we feel. As we delved farther into the...

African-American Lisa Rivers is a genius, starting college at age twelve, but her home life has been difficult and not supportive. Lisa is a highly paid computer designer for the United States government and has developed an incredible program that can locate anyone anywhere once...

It is California in 1993, and Jazmin Valdez and Stephannie Bengochea are best friends. Both were born on March 15, 1975, which makes them astrological twins according to Jaz’s mom, an amateur astrologer. Steph is not so sure, but she doesn’t care. She...

"The One Year Marriage: A Formula For Enduring Love" by G. Stephen Renfrey, Ph.D., covers exams, love, romance, marriage and relationships. In the Preface Renfrey addresses a major problem with marriage. We too often go into it with idyllic notions of what a marriage should...

"Rift Healer" by Diane M. Haynes is a young adult fantasy sure to please readers. A small earthquake opened rifts allowing vile creatures to escape and terrorize the enchanted forest. Gisele turned to her friends for help but only two teenagers were willing to help,...

In 1940, General Charles DeGaulle sent a letter to his fellow Frenchmen urging them to resist the Nazis. And so began the famous French Resistance with its many unsung heroes. In the United States in 1944, teenage Joe and Raymond watch as the owner of...

Newly divorced, Maggie lives a pretty mundane life. She learns the old customs and language of her ancestors, the Mi’kmag people, through her grandmother Maggie and they linger in her memories. After her grandmother’s death, Maggie finds solace in her dreams where her grandmother still...