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...

Hickory Trail (Memories of a Home Book 3) by Scott Douglas Vaughan is a novel based on the author's time growing up on Hickory Trail, a place situated two miles from downtown Acorn in north Georgia. Frank Wilcox is the author's alter ego and the...

At the heart of Roberta George’s intriguing novel, The Day’s Heat, are layers of thought-provoking events--events that will make us re-evaluate the concept of integration and where it fits into the socio-political spectrum of our lives, most notably among people of color. It challenges interracial...

Gentle Mentals by Veronica Padilla takes a look at a wide variety of mental illnesses. At first glance, the book appears to be aimed at children. It’s colorful and has many pictures but little text. Once you look closer though, you soon see that children...

Lindsay Richardson and her sister Meg have lost their father and are now full-time caregivers for their mother who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Lindsay is starting a new job at Copley Industries, and after meeting her boss, Dean Copley, she is more nervous than...

Jivana was happy; she was thriving in her personal life and her career was at a phenomenal level. She was a junior marketing VP at her company and she was soon up for a promotion. She had one goal and it was to climb to...

Do you remember the award-winning 1973 sci-fi movie Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston? If so, and if you enjoyed the premise behind it, you will be both intrigued and entertained by Beyond Soylent Green 2050, written by Michael and Danny D’agostino. This novel definitely goes...

Set in 1937, Italy, Angelo Grimani is trying to find a way to keep his Reschen Valley reservoir in his own hands, but he is struggling. He needs the help of a local and the only person he knows who can help him is his...

Pet Peeves: An Oral History by Diane Michaels begins on the set of a medical drama, Another Day to Live. Here we meet Kendra Lewis-Frost, breakdown writer and queen of amnesia plot lines. Austin Hughes is a comedian booked for a bit part on the...

The Midnight Midwife is the third book in the Seventeenth Century Midwives series by Annelisa Christensen. It is set in the 17th-century busy market town of St. Albans, where Abigale Harris works as a midwife, trying to make a living for her three adopted daughters...