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MOTHERS, SONS, BELOVEDS, AND OTHER STRANGERS

IR VERDICT: Watt’s collection of short stories revolves around the intimate yet oftentimes confusing relationships between family, friends and lovers. Although they’re grounded in reality, these tales have a touch of the ephemeral and coincidences...

Marilyn J. Bardsley on THE AMERICAN SWEENEY TODD

THE AMERICAN SWEENEY TODD is the fictionalized first-person journals of a real person, Dr. Frank Sweeney, a brilliant serial killer in mid-1930s Cleveland, Ohio.

Patrick Oster on his oh-so-timely IR Approved book, THE HACKER CHRONICLES

The adventures of dreamy, wise-cracking millennial hacker who discovers a murder the first night on a new job monitoring surveillance cameras in Chicago and turns himself into the world’s first cyber-detective to solve the crime...

Blaine C. Readler on MOONSTROKE: All of my books are simply a recounting of actual events that haven’t happened yet.

It’s been twelve years since a massive solar flare destroyed communications with the American base on the far side of the Moon, killing the platinum mining workers and leaving just three adults to raise thirty-seven...

S. C. Sterling on Teenage Degenerate: A Memoir that Explores the Depths of Methamphetamine + Drug Addiction

In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions. Teenage Degenerate is his story about drug addiction, music and growing up.

HEY NANA!: Connor’s Story of Love

IR VERDICT: HEY NANA!: Connor's Story of Love is a soul-wrenching story of the grief a family experiences when they lose their 9-year old son to a random act of violence, as told from the...

ENDINGS: Poetry and Prose

IR VERDICT: ENDINGS: Poetry and Prose, is a melancholy journey through the themes of Art, Death, Relationships, Being and Reflection. These loosely organized intimate tales are tinged with sentimentality and remorse. Poe’s work has a...

TURBULENT TIMES: The Remarkable Life of William H. Seward

IR VERDICT: TURBULENT TIMES is a fascinating biography of William Henry Seward, the Secretary of State under President Lincoln, this book offers a glimpse into the background of the man known for “Seward’s Folly”. The...

THE FINAL RUE OF NAVEENA BLEU

IR VERDICT: THE FINAL RUE OF NAVEENA BLEU (aka “Navy”) is the tale of a 13 year-old's adventure into a magical land and a mash up of Harry Potter and the BFG (Big Friendly Giant)....