When I pick up a novel by Stefan Vucak, I know I am in for a thrilling ride. His books seem to have a life of their own. They take readers by the hand and lead them through a landscape of political upheaval, intrigue and...

It is the early years of the last century and Stefan Vladeslav leaves his family's Croatian home, running away from constant family problems. Stefan's father announces his illegitimate son Ivan as an heir and Stefan's mother is obsessed with the family's monetary inheritance. Stefan sells...

Parker Boyce's father served in Vietnam and talked of shooting out an entire Vietnamese village, referring to the dead as "gooks". Parker's uncle ran to Canada to avoid the draft of that Vietnam conflict as it was a war he just didn't believe in at...

Cloud seeding was developed, unbeknownst to many, in 1949, as rains fell for four months from lower Virginia to the Alabama Gulf Coast. Frank Benoit worked for that company, H.T. Wetco owned by Bob Thurston, which was contracted by the United States government. Frank could...

Esther, Alex, and Wilton or "Dubya", work at the local grocery store in a small Illinois town. Their daytime boss is Roger Weatherly. Nobody likes him as he is bossy and not a nice man. To make it worse, Roger still lives at home with...

"Walking Fish" by Joanne Bodin is gritty yet touching contemporary fiction. Artist Talia, a nonconformist by any standards, has had a difficult life. Losing custody of her daughter Sophie when she was five following an unpleasant divorce, Talia has been shut out of her child's...

Jeanne McElvaney begins her book "Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story" by defining three types of memories: Ordinary Memories - retention of experiences; Trauma Memories - memories themselves cannot be recalled at will; and Dissociation Memories - a biological response that separates awareness from consciousness. Abby was...

King Arthur of the Camelot legend was a dark-eyed, dark-haired Silurian as was his mother Igrain and her family before her. "The Silurian: Book One" begins with Arthur's teenage years as he, aged 15 and called The Bear, and his close friend, sixteen year old...

In "Mixed Blessings", a follow up to the book, "It's the Bass Player", Cabot Barden continues with the story of the lives of Toby and Nancy, of their courtship and marriage. The book also covers the story of their friends' romances and marriages. The families...

For pediatric surgeon Elizabeth Finch, life is not always perfect, and throws its punches hard, sometimes because of the choices she makes, but sometimes it just happens. We start following Liz’s story when she finds out that her daughter has been shot. And we continue...