Category: nonfiction

Guest Post – braveing the way by Laurel C. Fox

    Synopsis When Laurel’s fourteen-year-old daughter experiences a life-altering event, her entire world is upended overnight. Faced with her child’s precarious fight to survive and the daunting road of rehabilitation ahead, Laurel discovers fountains of courage and devotion she didn’t know she possessed. Despite the hardships and her own private grief, Laurel tackles each […]

Spotlight – Elk Love by Lynne Spriggs O’Connor

  Synopsis Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her […]

Review – Eat Dessert First by Elise Thomas

  Synopsis Fast, easy, delicious deals with desserts at the front. In 2020, when the world was hit with a pandemic, Elise Thomas used her own small kitchen oven to begin baking her signature gourmet cookies. Selling them first out of her garage, her business quickly skyrocketed into a successful chain of bakeries—Cookie Co.—and earned […]

Review & #Giveaway – Bound in Silence by Christina Stephens

    BOUND IN SILENCE: by Christena Stephens   True Crime / Texas History / Nonfiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Page Count: 286 pages Publication Date: February 26, 2024   Scroll down for a giveaway!   Synopsis On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent […]

Excerpt – The Ultimate Guide to Careers in Aviation by Julien Martinson

  Synopsis Julien Martinson’s life has an unwavering passion for aviation. From his early days as a flight attendant to his diverse roles in airside security, ground operations, and terminal management, aviation has been the constant thread weaving through his career. Driven by a thirst for knowledge and a desire to excel, Julien Martinson pursued […]

Audiobook Spotlight – Second Lives

  SECOND LIVES: The Journey of Brain-Injury Survivors and Their Healers By Ralph B. Lilly, MD & Diane F. Kramer with Joyce Stamp Lilly   Audiobook / Biography / Medical Professionals / Neuroscience Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Listening Length: 6 hours and 21 minutes Publication Date: February 28, 2024     Synopsis “Discharged from a […]

Excerpt – This Familiar Heart by Babette Hale

      THIS FAMILIAR HEART:   AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY   by   Babette Fraser Hale   Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages         In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface […]

Excerpt – Bird’s Eye View by Jan Capps

  Synopsis   When Jan moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce, she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn’t anticipate all the ways she will change. To make sense of her professional, personal, and parenting turmoil in a country […]

Excerpt – A Yellow House in the Mountains by Glenn Hileman

    Synopsis   Lyle is a struggling teenager with low self-esteem. His poor decisions reinforce his reputation as a troublemaker. Marylin arrives at a new high school and navigates the challenge of fitting in. When Lyle sets his eyes on the new girl at school, he is smitten. He is determined to win Marylin’s […]