September 27, 2023
The poems making up the lengthy book Bare Witness were written over 50 years, according to author Joseph Small, who describes them as “poems of life and love, anger and hope, humor and passing.” The poems are ordered not chronologically but by theme, in sections titled “Love,” “Awareness,” “Anger,” “Hope,” “Fanciful,” “Homage,” “Life,” “Live” and […]
September 26, 2023
In Just Arrived: A Different World, author Bona Udeze illustrates the immigrant experience through the eyes of a young Nigerian who travels to the U.S. to pursue a higher education and become a citizen.
Emeka has dreamt about travelling to America for most of his youth, and when the day comes, he embarks with a […]
September 26, 2023
A police detective with secret powers discovers he’s one of a new breed of dual-gendered humans, Homo integratis, and learns to shift between his male/female selves in this fantasy novel.
Mike solves crimes by visualizing the scene and drawing the perpetrators, stolen goods, etc. “As he drew it, he became bonded with the drawing. Pictures […]
September 26, 2023
A children’s picture book story about a kind troll who helps a young boy out of a predicament, Oscar and the Noisy Children teaches readers to look out for others.
Oscar, a troll, sees five children playing in the woods; having never encountered human children before, he hides and observes them. The personalities of each […]
September 19, 2023
A retired sawmill operator, David Shopland looks back on his family’s long history in the business, all from the same small town in the west of England.
Shopland starts by setting the scene in seaside Clevedon, Somerset County, before narrating his great-grandfather’s arrival, mid-19th century, carrying just a few tools and a violin. He then […]
September 19, 2023
Sports agent and entrepreneur Henry Organ presents his “personal playbook to getting ahead in life,” couched in the framework of advice on mastering the informational interview.
Organ credits his own success to learning how to knock these interviews—designed to allow job-seekers to make connections and learn about new industries—out of the park; he’s had more […]
September 19, 2023
Imagine embarking on a journey to comprehend the physics of the entire universe with a guide who’s not only an expert but makes the concepts digestible and entertaining. Robert J. Nemiroff offers such a journey in Faster Than Light, a book that initially describes the speed of light, then touches on subjects as esoteric as […]
September 19, 2023
GlennScott Thomas Copper’s novel tells of the coming of age of protagonist Scott Rankin.
Set in 1962, the story follows 13-year-old Scott, who struggles with family strife due to his often-absent father and from violence from bullies. He also has trouble in Catholic school, even though he has promised family members he’ll become a priest […]
September 19, 2023
This post-apocalyptic novel follows a 10-year-old boy with extraordinary powers as he fights for survival amidst humanity’s struggle to raise itself from the ashes of its own destruction.
Although Gee—George Elandier Evansen—survived a nuclear apocalypse that destroyed nearly half the planet eight years earlier, he isn’t exactly lucky. His father, a respected professor, disappeared one […]
September 19, 2023
KJ GoForth’s Glimmer of Hope presents a lengthy, impassioned poem touching on issues such as love, religion, and the problems of modern society.
One assumes the book’s title refers to its centerpiece poem, although the poem itself is untitled. This piece comprises most of the book, other than the one-page poem “Daughter I Never Had.” […]