Set in a world that is similar to our own, “January Black” by Wendy S. Russo is an intriguing mystery, a sweet love story, and has a twist at the end that will bring a smile to your face! Young Matty Ducayne has caught the...

"Outerborough Blues” was written by Andrew Cotto. The story of Caesar Stiles is a compelling one with one week in his 20 year old life in a grim Brooklyn neighborhood. The product of a sad dysfunctional home, Caesar has many demons to live with: a...

"The Serapis Fraktur" is a futuristic story set off by the discovery of antique dealer Charles Dawes of a Fraktur that is dated 1748. A Fraktur is a schoolmaster creation that commemorates rites of passage such as baptism, marriage, graduation, and death. This particular Fraktur...

"Heal Your Broken Heart", written by Michael Kane, is a must read book, for anyone dealing with the loss of a spouse, partner or friend. It deals caringly with the emotional pain caused by the sudden loss of a loved one. Michael skilfully propels the...

"Makai Queen", a dream vision experienced by the heroine of the story, Tessa, from a mystery ship on the high seas, is the prelude to a startling future, very difficult to envisage. The story starts with a very ordinary scene of Tessa on a beach,...

"The Strength in Knowing" by Alan Appt is an innovative and inspirational self-realization/help book which is based on his hindsight into his own personal life experiences. This refreshingly new take on all of the things that we allow to emotionally and intellectually plague us shows...

The way that K.D. Rose puts words together in Inside Sorrow creates an absence not only within the heart of the reader, but also upon the page where the letters and phrases are contained. This book of collected poems is organized in a chronological way,...

In "Parry Pretty and the Eight Realms: Caught in the Slipstream of Time" by S.J. Musgraves, the young heroine Parry Pretty is both contorted and confused as she continues to wake up on the same day over and over again, caught in the slipstream which...

Marla Martenson, noted author of "Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker", returns with "Hearts on the Line: The Elusive Pursuit of Love in the City of Angels". This delightful further look into her life and lifestyle is highly readable and often quite humorous as the...

"Shattered Paradise: Memoirs of a Nicaraguan War Child" is Ileana Araguti's life story. As a child, she grows up in an isolated farm house near a mystical city dubbed as the City of Mist. Her grandfather Abuelo Lalo tells her stories that ground her to...

Martha Stettinius writes so very well in this memoir of how she, her family and caregivers dealt with her mother Judy's dementia as it moved from mild to progressively worsening stages. The author is very forthright in telling readers that she wished she had paid...

There is a new Darlene Quinn book out in her Webs series and it is one you will not want to miss out on! “Unpredictable Webs” draws the reader back into the retail and fashion world as well as the lives of Ashleigh and Conrad...

"The Adventures of Chubby Cheeks" tells the pro quest story of this boy who, because of his cheeks, was so aptly nicknamed Chubby Cheeks. This is written in Chubby's point of view. His adventure started during summer when every one seemed to have gone somewhere...

"Snow Bound" by Elizabeth Kirke is a very different kind of fantasy and magic story because the author has thrown the box of magical fantasy wide open and been able to successfully include a wide range of magical fantasy beings into the story in this...

In her devotional guide, Carla McDougal captures the essence of what it is to be still and wait upon the Lord. Written from the perspective of a busy mother trying to find time with God, "My Prayer Chair" empathizes with every one of us who...

"Seven Tears" is the story of Birch, a young woman, who was abused by her grandfather when she was six years old. Her mother had also been abused as a child, and her attempts to get help had resulted in her being considered a drama...

"Dead Medium" revolves around seventy-five year old May Elizabeth Trump’s life after death. A hermit who doesn't really want to do anything with everybody else during her lifetime, she reluctantly agrees to help Penny Saunders, a woman who dies a few days before her, to...

"Willowtree" by Mike Bove is a mystery set in a small town in Arizona. I hesitate to add ‘cozy’ to that description because that term conjures up garrulous, bumbling amateurs enthusiastically poking around in affairs that don’t concern them. This isn’t the case here as...

“Gathering Strength: Conversations with Afghan Women” is a comprehensive, non-fiction compilation of the past and present experiences of the women of Afghanistan. The book begins with a detailed account of the history of Afghanistan as well as its geography. The majority of the book is...

"DJ's Lullaby: A Mother's Love Song" is a children's book about a mom who was waiting and praying for a child for her to love. There are pictures, drawn by M.A. Moisa, that accompany Lucy Rivas Enriquez's text about the mom's mommy parts that are...