The Stuff of Life by Asif Zaidi is a “simple” collection of thoughts and maybe essays from the author. It’s non-fiction “self-help,” but mostly it is meant to be a spiritual guide/philosophy on how to live life and [...]
King James Brings The Land a Crown is a nonfiction book about the Cavaliers 2016 run in the Finals. Chris Parker chronicles the team’s journey from the failures of 2015 to the big win of 2016 – each player sometimes struggling with [...]
Peter Quinones’ Postmodern Deconstruction Madhouse reads like a set of short stories featuring a variety of different characters with one stand-out character being that of New York City. It features a cast of odd-balls, from Virginia [...]
The Arthurian Tales have been told a number of different times in a myriad of ways, and Carmel Niland’s A Darker Magic This Way Comes is one such “telling” or twist on the classic tale. It begins with Merlin, advising that [...]
Road trips with your friends are fun. Lengthy road trips that take place in the 80s after three free-rolling friends decide that they’re tired of trying to make it in 1980s Hollywood are fun, interesting, and introspective. Searching for [...]
J.A. Wright’s How to Grow an Addict, is a novelization about Randall, a young girl who is trying to navigate the testy waters of her family life and come out unscathed despite growing up in a house full of addicts and abusers. It reads [...]
Human Behavior in Extreme Situations, by Robert H. Koff, Ph.D., and Kathryn Hanna, is a nonfiction expository on what the title implies. It begins by laying out specific examples in history where people have survived (or not survived) in extreme [...]
Great Day in the Morning by Deb E. Mohr is a fictionalized account of Grace Ann Dunbar and her time growing up in the 1960s. It chronicles her family and their “help,” presenting many different instances of racism and cruelty in her [...]
Sharky Marky and the Big Race is another children’s picture book by Lance Olsen and Thomas Perry. Technically the first book in the series – this reviewer happened to read them out of order – it’s about ‘Sharky [...]
Sharky Marky and the Scavenger Hunt (An Alphabetic Adventure) is a children’s picture book by Lance Olsen and Thomas Perry. Sharky Marky follows the adventures of its protagonist (obviously:) Sharky Marky, and his race through a scavenger [...]
I Was A Champion Then is a collection of short stories by Alfred A. Meyer collected from Christopher’s father’s mass of writings he found after Alfred had passed away. They are fiction stories that center on baseball, love, and family. The [...]
Movie Game By Michael Ebner is tagged as a young adult, general fiction novel. It begins with our protagonist, Joe (aged 14) realizing that he’s lost his girlfriend. She dies after spending a long time in a coma. The font in the novel [...]
Designer Crime by Allen Whitehead is a thriller/heist novel that centers around a group of architects who fall into misfortune when one of them gets involved with a shady casino owner who doubles as a loan shark. In the process, they lose one of [...]
Living Well, Saving for Life: A Guide To Creating Wealth on a Modest Income by Neil Chodorow is just what it says in the title, a guide about how to retire. It can be classed as a sort of financial textbook as well, as it provides lots of [...]
Flare, by Jonathan Maas, is a science-fiction novel about a solar flare that nearly wipes out the human race along with almost everything else on the planet. Not only does it wipe out most of humanity, but it renders a permanent threat for those [...]
Phantasia, by M.U. Riyadad, is a fantasy novel intermingled with science fiction. It’s about Red, the main character who begins his journey with an exam that’s meant to determine whether or not he gets into a revered academy that [...]
The Rebel’s Redemption by Jacquie Biggar is a thriller romance about a small-town girl and a prodigal son returning after a long absence. It’s clear from the outset that Annie and Jared have had a previous relationship, and he went [...]
Wife of the Deceased by Dawn M. Bell is a memoir about the author’s struggles after she loses her husband in a tragic airplane crash. The book chronicles the period of time before and after she loses her husband, and is drawn mostly from [...]
Deep Wealth by Chad S. Hamilton is classified as an investing/finance book, though there are also sections of the book that fit in the subcategories of psychology and sociology. The author describes financing in a way that goes beyond how [...]
Lover’s Intuition by Noelle Greene is a thriller romance about a woman in the small town of Blue Mill trying to get her landscaping business off the ground. There’s a catch, though – she’s a psychic. The novel starts out [...]
