IR VERDICT: Britt Lind shines in her spellbinding autobiography LEARNING HOW TO FLY: A SPEED REEL JOURNEY TOWARD LIFE’S PURPOSE. This charming book chronicles the life story of the charismatic…
IR VERDICT: Star Trek, World's Fairs, and the international race to the moon inspired creativity and inventiveness in children throughout much of the 20th century. Some of that drive and…
IR VERDICT: In recent years, the opportunities in the job market for freelance and contract writers has shifted into a new, more lucrative area: the corporate workplace. THE WORKPLACE WRITER’S…
Alex Trent discovers that his newly-discovered power to heal people comes at a horrible cost to himself and the people around him. He must find a way to get rid of The Healer’s Curse before it kills him.
IR VERDICT: In Sean McCloy’s harrowing book, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH HITCHCOCK, an eccentric, cunning sociopath meets unhinged individuals in 1970s London. Under the eerie trance of Alfred…
IR VERDICT: Vincent Hunanyan's lyrically written BLACK BOOK OF POEMS has a sorrowful tone to it, ranging from wistful regrets to raging and anguish. However, the author’s tendency to use…
IR VERDICT: Sometimes uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking, BABY DOLLS & NINJA SWORDS is the story of one devoted, inspired woman's ongoing effort to alleviate the suffering that children experience at the…
A troubled 28-year-old waitress struggles to choose between an honest reality and the deceptive comfort of familiarity following a catastrophic technology and infrastructure collapse.
Survivors of Pan21—who didn’t report to one of the camps—are being hunted by a ruthless group of Texas Rangers throughout the Republic
RENTED SOULS is about an ordinary (maybe too ordinary) man named Dwarf, who gets involved with an agency that fights off threats from the supernatural realm known as the Ether.
In 1944, 168 Allied airmen, including my father, were captured by the Gestapo, sentenced to death, and shipped by boxcar to Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
IR VERDICT: ESCAPEMENT is a work so driven by passionate intensity, musical and emotional, that its 500+ page length ends up feeling more like 50. The evocative, lyrical writing is…
IR VERDICT: SHAME PROOF PARENTING is author Mercedes Samudio’s mission to help parents realize their full potential by creating their own parenting style, a unique approach that recognizes the impossible…
IR VERDICT: TINY TIM AND THE GHOST OF EBENEZER SCROOGE, the sequel to A CHRISTMAS CAROL, begins with Ebenezer’s death seven days before Christmas 1857. Creating an acceptable sequel to…
IR VERDICT: THE INVESTOR, a fictional story of young Suluk James's quest to find jade and fulfill his father's legacy is one of high adventure but also of culture: author…
IR VERDICT: Phillip Vega’s LAST EXIT TO MONTAUK is a heartfelt and heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a Long Island teenager’s first experience with love and loss. The story slowly draws…
IR VERDICT: UTOPAI is an intriguing and philosophical look into the mechanisms of a Utopian society where humanity is trying to redefine meaning after the evolution of technology supersedes human ability.
IR VERDICT: LENGTH OF DAYS is an epic narrative that chronicles the adventures of a girl who falls from our world into a parallel realm where a prophecy pronounces her…
IR VERDICT: EXHUMATION is the story of a hero fighting a war on two fronts: the attack on his city and the loss of his memories. He must rediscover the…
IR VERDICT: BENEATH A SHOOTING STAR is the story of two Pakistani girls; childhood friends who are dragged apart by religious differences and who must find the courage to fight…
In this well-written book by Trudie Collins, readers follow a group of VAMPIRE HUNTERS as they train a new member and deal with one of their own being turned into,…
IR VERDICT: HOW TO SELF-PUBLISH A CHILDREN’S BOOK is a concise, well-written and sensibly structured guide, broken into chapters that focus on various aspects of the writing and publishing process.
LONERS AND MOTHERS is about the depth of the bond that exists between loners and their mothers, and how loners live in a kind of limbo between life and death.
Ali is an Iraqi refugee boy who lives with his beekeeper grandfather in Los Angeles.