A Place Halfway by K.C. Finn is the third book in the Synsk series. The book focuses on sixteen-year-old Josie who has a lot more to deal with than the average 1960s teenager. She is but one of a school full of psychic children who...

I chose to read Inside the Anxiety Brain by Lori Flemming because my daughter and I both suffer from anxiety. I wanted to hear someone else’s perspective about how they deal with it. Reading this book was extremely helpful to me. Flemming has a casual way...

Snack Van by Jay Saph is a story of human behavior and how envy and irritation can make ordinary people dangerous. the story has three people who belong to three different areas and social standings, but are linked together because of one single emotion: desperation....

In a wonderful and well-written story appropriate for readers from young adulthood to old age, author Deborah D. Ferguson has created Sweet Sixteen. Continuing the story of Sandy Evans, whom readers first met in Ferguson's debut novel Almost April, they will find the same lovely...

In a sweet and heartwarming story, author Deborah D. Ferguson's debut novel Almost April is one that will be appreciated by a wide variety of readers. Following the story of twelve-year-old Sandy Evans, the reader will find what will first appear to be a sad...

Dangled Carat by Hilary Grossman is one sensational read. Readers everywhere will be pulled in like a moth to a flame. This funny and romantic story will take readers on a journey, a journey deep into the lives of one very interesting couple. Women know...

Wow! Just, wow! How's that for a review? That's honestly what I thought when I finished reading author Roy Dias' fantastic new novel, The Aspeans: The Invasion. Follow the story of James, a young man with Asperger's syndrome, as he and others with Asperger's have...

The Hat Trick Murders by John A MacEachern is a murder mystery. Colin Macdonald has a promising future ahead of him as an NHL hockey player – until he finds himself arrested for the murder of three students, his own fiancée included. His best friend...

The Boy in The Bin by Charles W. Massie is a somewhat quirky, fun read. I say quirky because there were some chapters and situations that you just don’t see much in other books. This is a good thing in my opinion. I read a...

The Trees Outside: Family Tree, the Novel is a collection of poetry with an essay and an excerpt from author Andrea Carr’s debut novel, Family Tree, the Novel. The author explains in her introduction that The Trees Outside is not a sequel to Family Tree,...

Ghetto by M.L. Sparrow is an exciting look at our world in the near future. Unlike many novels about the future, Ghetto feels close, warm, and totally possible. Part of the surprising warmth and intimacy of Ghetto is the amazing voice of our narrator, Sunny,...

The Girl with The Blue Umbrella is Heather Awad’s debut collection of observational and thoughtful poems. A very readable collection that covers a whole variety of themes around everyday life, and what it is to live and be human. Relationships, the passing of time, memories,...

The Krakow Klub by Philip C. Elrod is a cross between a spy-action thriller and a science fiction novel. The book’s main character is John Scott, who is half-human and half-Mylean, the only survivor of a doomed planet. A supercomputer aboard a space station harvests...

Cisco Bandits (A Gwynn Reznick Novel) by Inge-Lise Goss centers on newly trained operative Gwynn Reznick, who goes undercover for her first assignment; investigating one of the highly private companies who call on Ruben Dordi’s Investigation Group. Posing as an accountant for the Prudell Energy...

Forget Me Not by Allison Whitmore is the story of Teddi and Calvin – two young people who should not even be friends but find themselves deeply in love. The story takes place in the early 1940s in a small quiet town in New York...

While I am usually not one for short stories, The Human Condition by Mark Taylor is one of the best books I have read in the last few weeks. This book is a collection of horror short stories, but they are not the kind of...

An evil priest in service to the Lord of Chaos is performing gruesome experiments on children and animals, yet a nameless young girl seems to rise above it all in Sorrow’s Heart by G.S. Scott. As this innocent child develops into a young woman, she...

Cross Examinations: Crime in Columbus by John Hegenberger is a collection of four short stories, all of which contain the word “ache” in the title. The common element in each story is Eliot Cross, the main protagonist who’s a P.I. and the owner of the...

How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden is the story of Ann, a woman who learned from a young age that men are hurtful and to be feared. With one failed marriage that ended suddenly when her husband died, Ann is afraid for...

Lady Joe by Mark Saha is a humorous tale of a desperate man. When Lee Estes loses a prized blue roan named Lady Joe, he had no idea what amount of trouble he will be in. The buyer for Lady Joe wants his horse in...