The Pit: Memoir of an Emergency Physician by Gary D. Conrad is a powerful medical memoir, written by a professional who has spent fifty years in medicine and over forty of them as an emergency physician. This memoir takes readers into the stressful environment of...

The Cries of Manor Lannigan is a short story by Robert Kearns. After traveling in stormy weather late one night, fatigued Reilly can’t believe his luck when he is offered food and shelter at Manor Lannigan. While dining, Lord Lannigan tells his guest a shocking...

The Colony by Nanette L. Avery is a deep dive into the psyche of a disturbed young boy. It all started for the boy with a note telling him to meet someone at The Bell Jar. Not even knowing what a bell jar was, the...

When the small rural town of Clover, Texas loses the one man who maintained law and order, the town seeks a replacement. The only problem is they don’t want to have to pay a salary. Darlene Nightingale points this out quite clearly. Their only recourse...

Given the enthusiasm for and the celebration of the life of a lesser-known member of the “Founding Fathers” in the U.S. over the past five years, The Lost Diary of Alexander Hamilton by Sophie Schiller has come at a most propitious time. Yes, this is...

A young prince must battle his way back home to defend his kingdom in the thrilling fantasy adventure, The Fugitive Prince (A Tharian Tale) by Daniel Arndt. Sent away as part of a peace treaty a decade ago, Valente, Prince of Tharia, struggles to live...

The Amazing Alphabet Book of the Last Dodo Bird is a work of educational writing and charming non-fiction for young people and was created and illustrated by artist Maggy-Pierre Pelissier with text from author Cecile Gabriele Gregoire. Filled with surreal and spectacular images of animals...

Great things can happen while we sleep. Why? Because that’s when the infinite power of the imagination takes over and worlds and even universes can be created. For the Slumbering Pearl, deep beneath the sea, this is what happens. While she sleeps, the Slumbering Pearl...

The Feathers Flew is a short dramatic story about a man who has been pushed to the edge. The working man does not have it easy, having to pay taxes, deal with the reality of life, work to make ends meet, and take care of...

In 1925, Rita Reilly was born to a middle-class Irish family and grew up in a sheltered home with lots of love. Her family is well-off financially, owning a booming grocery and newsagent store with their living quarters above. When her family travels to Wicklow...

“We are in this world to climb life’s mountains...” states Tracy Stopler through her fictional self, Tali, in her unique, based-on-fact novel, The Ropes That Bind. Tali believes that we feel our best “when we overcome obstacles” because in the “middle of life’s difficulties lies...

The Lioness Never Cries by Kamal Malaker is an autobiography that chronicles the life of a doctor who qualified in Calcutta, India, and made his way to Sierra Leone to work as a physician during the 1960s. The era and setting portray the way of...

Many of us have an inherent fear that stops us from investing our all into following our dreams because self-doubt sometimes threatens to overwhelm our desires. The Surfing Mouse is a short story about a young mouse that faces a challenge just like that. Stefan...

The Last Football Player is a work of fiction in the science fiction, sports fiction, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is intended for the young adult reading audience and was penned by author John Blossom. In this inventive and immersive work filled with great sci-fi...

The Lodger by Robert E. Kearns is about a recently graduated woman, Alice Foley, who accepts a position in Dublin. The trouble was finding suitable accommodation there. Her friends warned her that it might be a nightmare. Alice struggles for a while but eventually finds...

The Chicken on the Moon, written and illustrated by Jana L. Farris, is a delightful children’s picture book. This story follows a nameless chicken from being a newly-hatched chick to his first mission as an astronaut. The narrative describes how the young chick expressed his...

The Fever Hut by Edward McSweegan is a historical novel built around the real events of the U.S. invasion, the subsequent battles against the Spanish in Cuba, and ultimately their occupation of Cuba about the turn of the twentieth century. Duncan Cleary, a young, newly-minted...

Everything that happens in Justin Kurian’s The Canticle of Ibiza does so in an ever-present miasma of the mystical. Set, as the title suggests, on the enchanting isle of Ibiza in the late 1980s, this fascinating novel focuses on John, a recently divorced and recently...

In The Masks of Icesia, Naya Stavridi describes good and evil elements displayed in figures so different from each other. You see how the six characters, John, Maximus, Eve, Joanna, Antricio, and Katerina, demonstrate their interaction with life. They board a carriage, each one immersed...

Keith Thorn’s The Distance We Didn’t See is an incredibly raw, quiet book that looks at how family rifts actually happen—not usually through one big explosion, but through years of small misunderstandings and unaddressed pride. Thorn is brave enough to look back at his own...