New Releases

SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books

Peach: An Exceptional Teen’s Inspiring Journey for Universal Acceptance by Jenevieve (Peach) Woods

Peach: An Exceptional Teen's Inspiring Journey for Universal AcceptancePeach is a lively and normal teenager, except for the fact she has mitochondrial disease, called MITO, a genetic disorder that means movement and speech are somewhat affected by her condition. Her friend and publisher, Pete Geissler, has presented this book to offer inspiration and hope to others.

The book was written by Peach herself along with Pete Geissler, as she carries on journaling her path through teen events through going to college away from home, and how she deals day to day with her life and faces tasks with her mother, who she clearly has a very strong […]

2018-05-09T10:18:50+02:00March 31st, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |

Great Dates With Your Mate by Laurie Ostby Kehler

Great DatesWhen you get married, you hope it’s forever, but many marriages fail due to the enjoyment and excitement of dates fading away over time. Author Laurie Kehler, a happily married woman, has penned an effective guide on how to have romantic and fun dates with your chosen life partner. Great Dates With Your Mate consists of “starters” for romantic conversation and focuses on drawing in memories and recollections for partners to encourage a strengthening of the relationship.

Throughout the book, the suggestions are helped along with inspirational quotations from writers and other resources, giving some extra pushes for those looking […]

2017-03-31T08:34:44+02:00March 31st, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

The Dragon Orb (The Alaris Chronicles Book 1) by Mike Shelton

The Dragon Orb (The Alaris Chronicles Book 1) by Mike SheltonThe kingdom of Alaris has enjoyed a relative calm for years, in no small part due to its magical prowess. But when the magical barrier that protects the land is broken, three of its brilliant wizards are thrust into an unexpected war for supremacy. It’s more than simply invasion that threatens the kingdom, but the dark secrets rising from within. Will Bakari, Alli, and Roland find themselves on the right side of history? Will they fight together, or against one another?

The Dragon Orb is the first book of the Alaris Chronicles series by Mike Shelton, and brings a refreshing […]

2017-03-30T08:09:18+02:00March 30th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Searching for Gatsby: A Ronnie Lake Murder Mystery by Niki Danforth

Searching for Gatsby: A Ronnie Lake Murder MysteryRonnie Lake is a fifty-something divorcee, starting out as a private investigator. When she’s invited to her wealthy friends’ party, a thief is murdered. The mystery then begins: not only who killed him, but what he was trying to steal. This leads Ronnie deep into the world of antique book collecting, where there’s a lot of money involved, and a lot of potential suspects, in this fun cozy mystery.

The mystery of Searching for Gatsby is two-fold: of course there’s a murder to solve, but also Ronnie Lake has to uncover the business of rare book collecting, with fascinating detail […]

2017-03-23T09:58:09+02:00March 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Scorched Earth (New York in Love Book 1) by Sophia D’Angelo

Scorched Earth by Sophia D'AngeloWhen fate brings two wayward souls together in the New York City, they may overcome their very worst to bring out the best in each other…

Not long ago, Alex Chrisman and his brother were left without parents, forcing Alex to take custody of his brother while struggling to meet the demands of his daily life. A chance encounter brings Danielle Sterling into his life – a young woman new to the city, looking for a fresh start away from an abusive mother. When dark first impressions give way to a bright side, romance begins to blossom, just in time […]

2017-03-23T08:38:37+02:00March 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Alexandria (The Sword of Agrippa Book 2) by Gregory Ness

Alexandria by Greg NessRoy and Renee are on the run. Two scientists whose revolutionary research threatened to change science forever became too much for the financial oligarchy of the United States. Continuing their work with sleep-viewing and dark energy research, the two attempt to piece together a puzzle they are woefully under-equipped to understand. Then an unexpected piece of a larger picture is found in the mind of a certain subject that will take the scientists to a whole new view of reality.

Alexandria, the second book of The Sword of Agrippa series by Gregory Ness, is a near-future sci-fi novella centered […]

2017-03-23T10:11:20+02:00March 22nd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |

Doppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhD

Doppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhDDoppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhD makes the startling claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was actually two people: Lee Harvey Oswald, who did the shooting, and Harvey Oswald, who took the blame. As the cover suggests, they’re similar-looking people – and they had similar lives as well. Both were agents of the CIA, and both were embroiled in a conspiracy to assassinate the president, thereby negating the “lone nut” theory.

Told compellingly in the first person from Harvey Oswald’s point of view, the book doesn’t merely rely on photographic evidence, which can be somewhat dubious, […]

2017-03-21T12:27:00+02:00March 21st, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Sometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. Sheppard

Sometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. SheppardSometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. Sheppard is an inventive literary science fiction novel – a prequel to his also-inventive Explosive Decompression. This novel takes place centuries earlier, and even earlier than the present – the 90s. Buzz, an artist, is dying from brain cancer, and he’s visited by a woman from the future who says she can cure his cancer; she doesn’t want him to die because she loves his art. She has the ability to project her mind into the past, and soon Buzz needs to time travel himself in order to save the art […]

2017-03-20T08:57:35+02:00March 20th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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