Straightforward and humorous, this medical perspective on weight loss brings a no-nonsense attitude to personal betterment. Part cheerleader, part drill sergeant, Dr. Lisa Clark is shouting out a message to overweight Americans: manage... Read More

Scary as well as enlightening, this unique and mesmerizing novel is a page-turner. A forty-year-old man transcends space and time after an accident propels him into the body of his younger self. On a mission to save his sister from a... Read More

This slapstick with heart invites affection for its loyal, charming, off-the-cuff characters. The merry band of misfits in D. L. Williams’s debut novel won’t let a little bad luck get them down. The characters in "Pennies from Hell",... Read More

The Red Scare, homophobia and, of course, murder, highlight Peter S. Fischer’s wonderfully crafted fifth noir-style detective mystery set in Hollywood’s Golden Age. "The Unkindness of Strangers" is the fifth installment in Peter S.... Read More

Characters from Hollywood’s past come back to Technicolor life in this fast-paced, well-crafted mystery. Everybody Wants an Oscar, the fourth book in Peter S. Fischer’s The Hollywood Murder Mysteries series, is another hard-boiled... Read More

Contentment—it’s what we all seek, but it often proves difficult to find. Poet Michael Araza seems to have achieved a certain level of this sought-after state of mind, and he expresses it in Peace in the Sky: 75 Poems for Humanity.... Read More

Poems reflect unique experience of author, who has seen much in her life. Writing poetry is, in some ways, an intimate expression of inner thoughts and feelings. In her poetry collection "Places in the Heart", Florence V. Gilmore-Kersee... Read More

Milton succeeds in establishing a sense of impending disaster—a race against the clock—as a horrific kidnapping is seen through a parent’s eyes. Two twelve-year-old girls are abducted from a Caribbean island to be used as sex... Read More