Author Bryna Kranzler writes of her remarkable grandfather's life as a young man in "The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck". In the early years of the last century, a young Jew, Jacob Marateck, goes from his yeshiva onto enlisting in the Russian...

In Dr. Jerome Schulte's book, "The Immortality Complex", he lists three things that are the philosophical theorems of his book: the essence of humanness is need, the essence of need is feelings, and the essence of feeling is growth. Need is the continued growth through...

"Winds of Redemption" draws the reader back in time to the days shortly after the Civil War, but before many of the western states even had a name, instead they were still called territories. Men sometimes had to be their own law, and justice was...

Leslie and Taylor loved their dance teacher Madame Lumiere and built their self-confidence as she taught them. Madame Lumiere was in her eighties and was one of the oldest dance instructors, yet she was amazing. The lady was from Larkspur and had a slight Irish...

"Out of the Shadow of Poverty: Living the American Dream through Faith" by R. Jenkins-Oliver with Lakiesha Oliver is a memoir about a girl and her family making the most of what life handed to them. This family stuck together during the good and bad...

Five women, each with their own tribulation, walk through life with their dreams that mean everything to them. The Visitor comes to make changes, to provide each a gem that, if things go well, will be the pivotal point that they yearn for. The plot...

"Parrot & Sweeney" by Alan Roberts is a humorous 'whodunit' novel containing three separate short stories. The main characters Detective Chief Superintendent George Parrot and Detective Daniel Sweeney are called into action to help solve a kidnapping that turns out to be the result of...

"Demon Soul" by Christine Ashworth isn’t run-of-the-mill paranormal. Ashworth has taken the genre and given it refreshingly original treatment. We have Rose Walters, who has made a bit of a mess of her life so far and nearly died, being given a chance to come...

La Flore police woman Tara Tanner feels that there is a serial killer loose in the town she serves. The body of a woman, Terri Gibson, initially reported missing by her longtime friend Sophia, is found with the head brutally mashed. Overweight Cassandra is found...

"Patchwork of Me" by Gregory G. Allen begins with Sara’s odd dream, in which she was married to Carol and they had a child that died from a shark attack. The recurring dream caused her to question her sexuality although she was very sexually active....

The setting for parts of "Singing Her Alive" by Diana K. Perkins is Willimantic, Connecticut, during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Our tale spans three generations. Sarah returned from Boston to Willimantic to bury her grandmother and assist her mother in cleaning out...

Author Elizabeth Kimmel has another winner for mid-grade children. In "ParaNorman", seventh grader Norman Babcock finds himself a loner and an outcast in the small New England town of Blithe Hollow. The area is known for its history of witch trials and Blithe Hollow has...

When Olivia and Joel Cameron invited their family to spend the weekend at their new country home, little did they know that it would be twelve long years later before they would host the family again. Joel’s wild and sexy brother Scott was found dead,...

Six Arizona-based authors present an anthology of poetry, essays and short fiction from their collective works. They are all compiled in the book “Under Sonoran Skies”. I am sure readers will be taken away with these writings about a lot of different situations and places....

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...

Jack Miller, a seasoned FBI agent, and Ross Fruen, who he quickly nicknames Junior, are assigned to the case of a series of bank robberies. Things change considerably when during the latest robbery a pregnant woman is killed. The thief has never killed before, so...

"Hopping Roller Coasters" starts with Rachel being diagnosed with cancer, but the story goes back in time, where a bipolar Rachel falls in love with her daughter, Marina, a small bundle of pink weighing three pounds. "Hopping Roller Coasters" takes readers on a journey from...

In wondering about her German roots, J.J. and her cousin Sophie decide to take a trip to Europe to see what they could find out. The trip started off with flight complications, and then they find the village of Hummersen, a tiny little place sandwiched...

Janice Baylis, Ph.D. has complied a vast amount of information and exercises pertaining to dreams in her book "Dream Dynamics and Decoding: Personal, Practical, Powerful Messages." Baylis begins with a brief introduction to dreams and dreams analysis and then jumps right into the fascinating world...

"Have Fun & Get It Done: Graduate From a Top University in 3 Years or Less Without Being a Genius," written by Jenee Ariel Dana, is a must-have for all high school juniors and seniors who are college bound! Split into short chapters focusing on...