I’m sixty years old. I was a kid during the turbulent ’60s. I graduated from high school in 1976. I missed the Vietnam draft by about a year. So, I lived through the times described by John Hansen in The War Comes Home. Never have...

In Kilborn by Wayne Hughes, Drake Kilborn is running his family's crop-spraying business since his father became ill with heart problems. Mentally unstable since the death of his beloved mother, Drake becomes the source of problems for almost everyone in his hometown. When an employee...

In Coulee Abolitionists by Steven Kent Olson, a historical story set in 1854, 14-year-old Anton Narvik was living a normal life until one day his life was changed because of a simple truth. Fugitives were hiding in a coulee valley on their farm, and there...

“Even now, after almost forty years, I still hurt. And I’m one of the lucky ones.” Friendly Casualties is a novel consisting of short stories compiled to create overall vivid imagery of author Tom Glenn’s experience and memories of Vietnam. As a rare strategy often...

Seashells, Gator Bones, and the Church of Everlasting Liability: Stories from a Small Florida Town in the 1930s is a book that will make you laugh and want to move right into the fictional town of Toad Springs, Florida as soon as possible. Sixteen...

The Rabbi Wore Bell-bottoms is a charming and quirky fictionalized memoir penned by author Art Novak and read in audiobook format by the author as well. Based on and expanded from the author’s real memories of being a chaplain’s assistant at Fort Leonard Wood during...

The Transmogrification of Toby Pickles by Wilf Tilley is a journey back in time to 1960s Britain where the swinging sixties, laced with post-war austerity and conservatism were very much on a headlong rush to culture clash. Mick is an Assistant Stage Manager for a...

Vices/Virtues by Beatrice DeSoprontu is an interesting piece of contemporary literature that attempts to go inside the minds of its characters and determine what motivates them in their decision-making and why they made those choices. It is very much a novel of “manners” in the...

Chasing Hope by Dana Wayne is the story of two lost souls who are trying to find a hold in this world, but they end up finding each other and themselves in the process. Max Logan joined the Marines and for 18 years he gave...

The Water Tower Club by BK Mayo is a story filled with drama, suspense, and mystery. It has been a decade since Darryl Coombs left his hometown of Grotin, Kansas, just after graduation from high school, escaping his painful past. When his sister, Libby, is...