Native Companions is the first book in the Dreamtime Mysteries by Jenni Barnett. This extraordinary historical tale is set in Australia and follows two timelines: modern-day Rex Graham, a mixed-race Indigenous anthropology student, and the stories about his Aboriginal grandmother’s people. Rex, who suffered in...

Sand and Smoke by Carl Cota-Robles is the first book in the Dragon Destiny series. Maya’s dream is to attend a Serpentine school and to bond with a Sun Dragon of her very own. When she receives news of her acceptance, it’s only the first...

Seductive Santino is a work of fiction in the new adult sub-genre with plenty of sizzling romance and family drama and was penned by author Anne Marie Citro. Forming the fourth volume of the Savage’s Buck & Doe series, the novel is written for adult...

Wildchilds by Eugenia Melian is the story of a woman who is forced to confront her past if she wants her future to be happy with her daughter. Iris rebuilt her life as a sculptor and left her past behind in Paris. Living in California...

A mother depicts the joys and trials she experienced in the first few years of motherhood in the poignant memoir I Love You More Than Coffee by Melissa Face. When Melissa and her husband saw the two pink lines on the pregnancy test stick, they...

Enough by C.D. 'Tony' Hylton III is the story of Rick Hill as he battles small-town politics and learns that there is a lot more to small communities than meets the eye. Rick left his comfortable job at a reputable firm so that he could...

In Judas In Jerusalem by Joseph Lewis Heil, we are introduced to Judas Iscariot as a young boy living with an abusive father and later a stepfather who wants him out of the way. Judas wanders about, learning to steal, lie and cheat. When he...

Walks Through Life is a collection of nine short stories that convey messages about being humane and having empathy. From powerful kingdoms to sea monsters, each story has a memorable setting that is distinct from the others. Divine Ax is about an enemy king who...

Drum Beats, Heart Beats is a work of non-fiction that is written in a memoir style by author Maria Nhambu. This work completes a memoir trilogy chronicling the journey of culture, empowerment, and identity of the author: the Dancing Soul Trilogy. After the harrowing experiences...

Someone’s Story is a work of fiction in the coming of age and family drama sub-genres and was penned by author B. A. Bellec. Written for mature young adult audiences, the book does feature some more sensitive themes such as abortion, death, bullying, and substance...

From a Rectangle is an educational concept picture book for children written by Najah A. Jabbar and illustrated by Craig Ledger. It was nothing more than a rectangle drawn on a sheet of paper until a hand turned it onto its side. Adding in two...

Side Steps: Terrorizing Sound Bites is a volume of collected poetry on a variety of personal and socio-cultural themes and was penned by author Amy Jean. Written for adult audiences due to some content and language usage, the work explores the experience of women still...

Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites Part 2: Some Things are Black and White by Amy Jean, with illustrations by Eric Savage, is a non-fiction poetic memoir that follows Jean's first book and its shared title. Many of Jean's work correlates to her own life and...

Lost Girls goes through a variety of stories from different women; they range from love to heartache, to grief, to making themselves heard and the importance of leaving the past behind. An unmarried young woman finds solace and comfort in a breast feeder’s support group,...

Weeper by Greg Morgan is a historical novel that will haunt you. Set against the violent backdrop of the Civil War, there are mysterious customs and professions surrounding death that most have long forgotten or know nothing about. The author leads you into the shadow...

Atomic Kiss by Brendan S Bigney is a collection of entertaining and insightful free-verse poems. The poem “The People that We Meet” opens the collection. It examines the many people one meets in a lifetime and encourages appreciating those among them who turn out to...

Divine Poetry: 2013-14 Is Where It All began is a collection of poetry suitable for all ages. It was penned by author Saven “Con-A” Watts. The collection is a selection of poems that the author produced at a formative stage in their writing career as...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream might be one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, with countless stage, film, and tv adaptations performed over the years. It is a brave task to readapt a story many people recognize, but Paul Leonard Murray has successfully pulled it off. While...

The action-driven play Pericles, the Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, as rendered in rhyming couplets of modern English by Paul Leonard Murray, director of the Belgrade English Language Theater, with input from his students, is just as exciting as the original, but it is...

After tackling A Midsummer Night’s Dream so successfully, Paul Leonard Murray turns his attention to Shakespeare’s tragedies, namely Macbeth. Most readers will already know the plot of ‘the Scottish play’; Macbeth and his ambitious wife scheme to murder King Duncan while he sleeps and be...