Author Archives
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Choking on the Splinters by Jim Lively
A tangled tale that is both engrossing and illuminating… Charles Sanders Pierce, Lively’s retired attorney protagonist, gets entangled in a sinister web of dangerous conspiracy in this page-turning mystery. It’s been four years since Sander’s wife died, and his fifty-fifth… Read More ›
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The First Robot President by Robert Carlyle Taylor
An exciting, entertaining read… Taylor’s absorbing debut is marked with political and SF intrigue, environmental concerns, and human drama. It is 2484. Marrying advanced robots from General Google Motors is something only the rich and famous can afford. So, it’s… Read More ›
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They Only Wear Black Hats by Edward Izzi
A taut, fast-paced thriller with wrenching twists and turns… Izzi returns with his latest thriller, featuring the sharp, gutsy Detective Mike Palazzola of Detroit’s Third Precinct embroiled in a serial killing investigation. Detective Palazzola is tired of seeing the hellish… Read More ›
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Face the Night by Alan Lastufka
Densely textured and adroitly plotted… In Lastufka’s page-turning psychological suspense, a young woman’s search for a hellish figure leads her deep into a dark web of long-buried secrets. Adriana Krause is at her wit’s end: she is barely making the… Read More ›
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Summer Of ’82: Coming of Age in the Forgotten South by Allen Madding
A coming-of-age YA story that is as hauntingly authentic as it is deeply thought-provoking. The summer of 1982 in Whitiker County in Southwest Georgia was another hot and dry season. The best friends, Ricky, Jimmy, and Buck, are ready to… Read More ›
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Overcast by Michael Froilan
Varied, dexterous, and tender poems… Froilan’s latest is a collection of imaginative, evocative free verse poems. There is introspection. There are thoughtful reflections and musings about life, love, and happiness. Some poems touch upon racial and class disparity, woke culture,… Read More ›
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Airborne: A Story Book that wants to fly by Heiner Thiessen
Delightful and thoroughly absorbing… Thiessen beautifully brings to life the courageous people throughout history who dared to go where no one had gone before in this entertaining story book. United by the common theme of the resilience of the human… Read More ›
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A Time to Forget in East Berlin by CG FEWSTON
Vivid, nuanced, and poetic… Set in the 1970s in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Fewston’s second installment in the three part series explores the grave moral complexities of life through the tense encounters of John Lockwood, a former CIA… Read More ›
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What If Jesus Were A Coach? by Michael W Taylor
Contemplative, absorbing, and insightful… Truly a wonderful book. Taylor shares the spiritual pathway to connect with God without following strict religious doctrines that usually surround Christianity in his soul-searching latest book. He talks about his early childhood and later adult… Read More ›
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Nothing in Time Separating by K. Lumpkin
A compelling and inspiring story of love, courage, and resilience… Lumpkin adeptly blends high-tension of a deeply suspenseful thriller with hefty doses of romance and religion, taking readers on one woman’s journey to unraveling the mysteries of her past. When… Read More ›
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