BOOK REVIEW LISTINGS

The Unsteady Object of Hope

Poignant and riveting, The Unsteady Object of Hope, by Robert Raker, is a dark novel centered on the horrors of the savage murders of several children. The novel illuminates the tremendous amount of collateral damage that a community endures because of these killings. Raker uses first-person accounts of the private lives of multiple characters affected ...

The Vampire Armand

In this installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. We travel with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood -- a ruined city under Mongol dominion -- and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him ...

The Villains Who Snapped My Spine: A Memoir

The Villains Who Snapped My Spine is a memoir by A. H. Nazzareno. He wrote it while he convalesced in a hospital bed recovering from major surgery. Unlike most memoirs, this book does not dwell on sequential past experiences. Instead, the author hints at the medical diagnosis that has him hospital-bound and then uses humor to ...

The Wacky World of Jet

The appealing front cover of Nicci Belter’s children’s book, The Wacky World of Jet and Jotty, What a Beach Day, will entice beginning readers and their parents to invest in this adorable paperback. The author has many years of experience teaching kids in elementary school to read. She has put her expertise into this beginning chapter ...

The Wake of Expectations

Javier De Lucia’s The Wake of Expectations is a gritty, nostalgic, and deeply honest coming-of-age journey that spans the transition from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. The narrative follows Calvin “Cal” McShane, whose life is irrevocably altered when his father, Jack, wins a $5 million lottery jackpot during Cal’s senior ...

The Walk-On

Richard Podkowski's intriguing sports fiction, The Walk-On, set in his native Chicago, follows the rise and fall of Mike “the Steelman” Stalowski, an aging NFL football player from the Southeast Side.

Like an intercepted pass, the novel grabs the reader's attention, as the hometown hero suffers the consequences ...

The Wanderer: The Planetary Fixer Trilogy Book 1

New author P. R. Ramos is proud to introduce his first book, The Wanderer, in a new series, The Planetary Fixer Trilogy. The novel is an amalgamation of different genres and will appeal to science fiction and adventure lovers and readers who enjoy a good suspenseful plot. 

Although the book contains some explicit language and ...

The War Blog

The War Blog written by Glen Sobey is a story about a 17-year-old Crystal M. Rose who starts a movement that speaks out about rape, sexual abuse, and drug addiction. The story takes place in a small community which is depicted as an Alaskan Sodom and Gomorrah. The protagonist, Crystal, is the daughter of two drug addicts, who named her after their ...

The Wastelands

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own...

The Watanabe Name

Ever wonder about the reputation of a family’s name? The Watanabe Name, by Sakura Nobeyama is a fascinating historical fiction with mystery and suspense, intriguing characters and complicated family dynamics. The setting for this novel is in Japan. The author’s Japanese background and her education in English literature and history provide ...