Daddy is Cool Like That by Mary McMahon and Jennifer Bucciero Boyles is a children’s picture book that depicts a young family who has recently had their father diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Partly inspired by Boyles's familial journey with the disease, it shows other...

Touch by Rebecca Miller is the story of two troubled teens, Megan and Shawn, whose lives intersect in a small town and are changed forever. Megan and her brothers are starting over in a new town, a fresh start their father says, after the tragic...

When Addie realizes her oldest daughter is living a waking nightmare of mental illness, she fights to support Seri without neglecting her youngest child, while maintaining a healthy marriage. This ambitious undertaking backfires in multiple ways as Seri listens to the Voice in her head...

In a place where most people, even his friend Herman, preferred the cold comfort of death to life, David Korda’s survival instincts refused to succumb. When Leibig offered David’s services to Frau Hausler in G. Gruen’s The Uniform, David suddenly found himself on a two-hour...

In Freedom's Light by Sharon Gloger Friedman is the story of Anica Amselem and her struggles because she followed a certain religion. Set in the late 1700s, our protagonist Anica struggled to hide her religion amid the consistent pressure on conversos Christians. She secretly practiced...

Do Over by Juliet Rose is the story of Samantha Rutliff, a woman who struggles with an undiagnosed mental illness. Sam made a terrible mistake and hurt some important people in her life. Devastated and regretful, Sam packed her bags and left her house. She...

There are very few moments in life when I will take the time to sit down and listen to an entire audiobook in one sitting. Today was one of those days when I began listening to The End of Miracles: A Novel by Monica Starkman....

Sleeping with Cancer is a contemporary slice-of-life drama novel by Phillip Riley. Emily's life turns upside down when she witnesses her former boyfriend and a Chinese man dying in a shootout at her apartment, leaving 1.2 million dollars in a duffle bag. Trying to ignore...

My Boys, by Ronald L. Ruiz, is a fictional YA drama. Abel Mendoza finds himself at the end of an unfulfilling career as a Public Defender. He has been passed over for promotions and as he feels more and more unable to help his young...

Women in eighteenth-century Paris were subjected to a level of discrimination we’d never accept in the twenty-first century. Adelaide Labille-Guiard was no exception. She married young, but her passion wasn’t her husband; it was rather her painting. This created a volatile relationship, one that she...