Sabbatical for Love, a romance novel, opens with self-described playboy Drew Sutherland taking voice lessons from the famous Maestro Luciani to prepare for a career in opera. In his mid-20s, Drew is rich, handsome and entitled. He has drifted from one vocation to the next, finally deciding on voice as his future. But in the […]

In the tradition of sweeping historical fiction, author Mark Wilkerson tells the story of two brothers in love with the same girl whose lives diverge after chance puts them in the path of the deadly California flood in 1905 – the same flood that created the Salton Sea. Their saga spans nearly 30 decades: through […]

Scarata Mia is an ambitious novel. It has an ambitious plot, encompassing romance, mystery, Sioux spiritual traditions and race relations. It also has an ambitious page count: 700. But in the end, Scarata Mia proves too ambitious an undertaking to live up to its aspirations.

Author Helene Lapaire’s novel tells the story of Katteya Gray, […]

It’s impossible to read Coming Clean and not feel inspired by Chris Stone’s journey from career criminal and heroin addict to advocate for ex-prisoners and troubled youth. Having spent the first decades of his life in and out of Australian jails for assault and armed robbery, Stone turned his life around at age 35 in […]

Peter Beamish’s Dancing With Nature makes an adventure out of explaining new theories in human-animal communications. The narrative begins aboard the vessel Ceres, with Beamish and five others departing their home in Trinity, Newfoundland to travel along the island’s east coast to Labrador. The motley crew of scientists, naturalists, one teenager, and a photographer set […]

Rooting for the underdog is a satisfying endeavor, especially when the purported villain is a multinational pharmaceutical company. That means most readers will want to root for Henryk Behr, resident of a small town in Scotland. In his book, he explains the sudden ruination of his health during September 2010 after he ingested two capsules […]

It is 592 AD, and two young princes from the East Anglians have set out to forge an alliance with the king of Wedresfeld, father to the lovely princess Niartha. Older brother Eni (also known as Wulf) falls hard for her, but his brother Raedwald is chosen to be betrothed. Niartha and Wulf meet secretly, […]

Claiming to have invented a groundbreaking clean automobile engine, Dietrich Otto contracts Ed Talbot’s startup company to test the invention in an around-the-world car rally from New York to Paris. (The rally includes un-timed days to transport the cars overseas.) When one of Ed’s business partners is murdered, Ed winds up driving the car — […]

Though physically distant from his grandchildren during their formative years, David Nagle wanted to share the wisdom he had acquired in his decades of living. So he mentored them through a series of e-mails during their teens and early 20s as “grandpadavid.” This book compiles his personal musings, as well as his practical advice for […]

In this short book of poems, Elmer S. Binion celebrates love, faith and God. A devoted family man, Binion worked for years as a mechanic on the electric trolley and diesel buses in Dayton, Ohio until his retirement in 1991. His poetry is rooted in simple devotion, and his verses attempt to capture the spiritual […]