Unplugged: 15th Anniversary Edition by Paul McComas is a poignant and powerful story of the life of a 27-year old rock musician, Dayna Clay. As Dayna performs before her thousands of fans each night, while on stage she experiences thoughts about getting away, disappearing or...

My lasting first impression as a first-time reader of the rather prolific writer Ann Morven, based on her “somewhere-in-the-series” novel, The Killing of Hamlet, one of a collection featuring a common-everyday-woman investigator named Sheil B. Wright (because she usually is), is Wow, what perfectly timed...

How Can a Man Die Better by Roy V Gaston is a compelling historical novel with powerful themes of war and fans of Civil War novels will find it utterly fascinating. While there is chaos as the war rages on, Cage Carew is withdrawn, focused...

We are introduced to Maddy when she is in her nineties and has been diagnosed as displaying symptoms of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Determined to stay out of the local care home for as long as possible and in spite of the occasional...

Noonday Flower is a work of clean romantic and dramatic fiction penned by author Carla C. Ohse. In this novel filled with local history, issues of race-based discrimination and the trials of life and love, we find ourselves at home in the all-black resort village...

The Bench on Van Buren Street: Living the Dream by Alexander Flint is a cultural fiction novel that revolves around the colorful personalities walking daily on the Broadwalk, in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Sharing the almost 2 1/2-mile brick straightway of Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, many of...

Italian-born author Patrick Lombardi is distinctly his own voice. He writes with a mixture of acerbity and sharp humor in Junk Sale: Stories & Essays, his collection of essays and short stories. This anthology introduces us to a world that Lombardi inhabits where one cannot...

Life changes dramatically for fifteen-year-old Ella Kühn in August of 1961 in Leah Moyes' book Berlin Butterfly: Ensnare. Berlin is divided by a wall that East Germany is building to keep its residents in. Unfortunately, Ella and her dying father get stuck while she sends...

The Senator's Daughters (Breaking Unity Series) by J.C. Graham is a political thriller and book one of the series. The US government is bankrupt and the country is falling apart. People are not receiving their welfare checks, public housing is falling into disrepair and tensions...

The Emily Dilemma is a work of humorous fiction penned by author Guy Sigley and is the second book in The Barney Conroy Trilogy. Continuing the theme of a man who is trying to get his life together, we find our hero in a fairly...