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Bankruptcy Didn’t Break Me by Kassondra R. Lewis

Author Kassondra R. Lewis delivers a compassionate and expert guide for anyone facing the emotional and financial chaos of bankruptcy or foreclosure in Bankruptcy Didn’t Break Me. As both a mortgage underwriter and someone who personally faced the dark days of the mortgage crisis more than a decade ago, she is a font of relevant experience and genuine desire to help others.

For those facing bankruptcy or fighting to pull themselves back from the brink of financial ruin, this is an encouraging and uplifting roadmap for future stability. Unlike many other financial self-help books, Lewis strikes a good balance […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-04-17T03:40:39+02:00April 17th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Finance|

The Long Way Home by D.L. Norris

Author D.L. Norris invites readers to slow down and enjoy the view, and perhaps spin a story or two, in The Long Way Home, an insightful and memorable novel about family, grief, and growing up.

Maggie Davis stands like a proud pillar at the heart of this tale, a recently widowed mother running a bed and breakfast in an out-of-the-way corner of Nebraska. Guests come and go, with their stories and burdens, grateful for a home-cooked meal and conversation, but small-town life for Maggie is far from simple. In addition to her own battle with loss and loneliness, she […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-12-14T12:42:12+02:00March 20th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Contemporary Fiction, D.L. Norris|

Sam Razor, Private Investigator: The Blonde with the Bad Nose Job by Carlo Armenise

Sam Razor, a rugged PI with skills for the highest bidder, gets caught up with messy Sin City mob dealings in The Blonde with the Bad Nose Job, the first case in author Carlo Armenise’s Sam Razor, Private Investigator chronicles.

Hunting down the sister of a wealthy Vegas socialite, Sam has to plumb the dirty depths of Vegas, but the real threat may actually be coming from closer to home. Navigating a tangle of lies, false identities, and a number of guns being pointed at his head, this quick-with-a-joke PI jumps from one pot of boiling water to another, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-03-16T06:53:41+02:00March 9th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Carlo Armenise, Detective Fiction|

Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

Author Charlie Suisman delivers a home-cooked platter of playful jabs and thoughtful relationships in Arnold Falls, a book about small town life in all of its strange intimacy.

In a place where everyone knows your business, people’s lives and stories collide in wondrous moments of synchronicity and gossip. In the hamlet of Arnold Falls, this seems particularly true, but that’s mostly due to the insightful lens of Suisman’s writing.

Jeebie Walker sits at the center of this tale as a highly original and unpredictable protagonist, but he is also supported by a cavalcade of memorable characters, as quirky locals […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-03-05T12:01:35+02:00March 5th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction|

24 Hours of Love at the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel by Jacki Gluck

24 Hours of Love at the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel is a heartfelt and fascinating glimpse into one of the most famous chapels in the wedding-heavy wonderland of Las Vegas.

The amount of strange love that has been founded between those walls can fill far more than a single book, but author Jacki Gluck, through direct interviews with the original owners of the chapel, Jim and Vicki Duszynski, has created a remarkable homage to this Sin City staple. The fact that the purveyors of this place are also her parents gives the story even more of a heart-tapping tone, as […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-24T08:08:08+02:00February 21st, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Memoir, Travel|

The Missing Son by Chamnol Cheng

When mysterious objects of a possibly alien origin begin appearing near his island home, Nakoy’s life and the safety of everyone he loves is threatened in The Missing Son by Chamnol Cheng.

After discovering a sinister metal structure in the forest, and then a slimy egg-like object floating in their fishing grounds, Nakoy’s family tries to hide these strange puzzle pieces, but they aren’t the only ones who know about these odd artifacts. A hundred light-years from Earth, a species called Asidrans have been sending their egg pods to different planets for generations, and they aren’t happy when one of […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-18T11:46:03+02:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction|

The Matriarch by Frank Dravis

Intergalactic intrigue, forbidden romance, a missing agent from an advanced peace-keeping organization, and a primitive planet’s ultimate fate collide in The Matriarch, the second book of the impressive Dianis, A World in Turmoil series by author Frank Dravis.

A violent and self-serving mining company is threatening to take control of the precious aquamarine resources on Dianis, while Chief Achelous of the IDB has disappeared and is being hunted, but his son and wife may hold the secret to the planet’s powerful religious sect and the contentious world’s entire future. Heavy with military procedure, sci-fi drama, and remarkably detailed world-building, along […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-17T12:17:00+02:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Frank Dravis, Science Fiction|

Casindra Lost by Marti Ward

The multi-author Paradisi Chronicles kicks off in celestial style with Casindra Lost by Marti Ward, in which Commander Jerome Sideris of the SS Casindra embarks on a solo mission across the stars – a lab rat on the first manned mission to the Andromeda Galaxy.

The front end of the book is exposition-heavy, introducing readers to a future universe of new technology and jargon, from nanorobots, cryochambers, and spider-like construction robots to Lagrangian points, wormhole theory, and EmDrives. The daunting vocabulary quickly becomes natural, however, so even readers new to the genre will quickly become immersed and comfortable.

The sci-fi […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-26T11:48:06+02:00February 7th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Marti Ward, Science Fiction|