Roman smoothly weaves lessons on responsibility, teamwork, and perseverance into her entertaining tale. Captain No Beard and his hardworking crew are off on another fun, educational adventure in this next installment of Carole P.... Read More

Unrelenting action elevates this thriller, whose tone is set through the speech and behavior of its characters. The action is unrelenting from prologue to postmortem in Stephen Wilson’s "The White River Killer", a mystery set in a... Read More

A life coach/counselor condenses twenty years of working with clients into this potentially transformational book. "The Path Within" is both a book and a program. To be more exact, the book essentially replicates “The Path Within... Read More

Drama conveyed through passionate dialogue against a vivid setting bolsters this interesting addition to the new-adult genre. Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. Or your hot neighbor for the fact that you knew him when he... Read More

Snappy, funny noir mashes up with vampires and unholy ritual in this entertaining caper. Van H. Avram doesn’t know much about vampires, but he does know about women. They seem to follow him everywhere: skinny, blond, dead women who... Read More

Hollywood’s strivers take a skewering in this noir-ish satire. Beneath the glib Hollywood-insider banter captured on a podcast interview lurks a dark, satirical tale of bad luck, betrayal, and murder in Adam Novak’s book, "Take... Read More

"The Canyon" features a narrator with exceptionally observant powers struggling to find his place in the world. Scotty, the fourteen-year-old narrator of Stanley Crawford’s novel "The Canyon", is a keen observer of life. “Life” in... Read More

"Maximus" combines faith and fantasy to the maximum, taking its characters on a religious journey to find salvation. Richard Black’s "Maximus" is a sword-and-sandal epic that combines warrior odyssey with spiritual enlightenment. At... Read More