Anna and her family have moved into a new neighborhood and Anna is very bored. This is the opening scene in Anna and the Earth Angel (Anna's Angels) by Stephanie Hrehirchuk. Anna does not know anyone there and she does not know how to spend...

Anna loves exploring the coulee and she takes a different route to school every day through the deep ravine near her home in Anna and the Tree Fort by Stephanie Hrehirchuk. Anna loves to discover the myriad faces of the coulee and the Twelve Mile...

The word “nourish” to some people means to eat food that is good for you. Stephanie Hrehirchuk has recreated the concept of nourishing to mean doing anything that is good for you. For instance, creating a new habit not to eat sweets would be nourishing....

What does it take to win in the saturated and highly competitive real estate business? What does it take for an agent to stand out from the teeming masses and not only generate sales, but create a steady stream of income with repeat and loyal...

In The Patchwork Girl by Sebastian Bendix, 16-year-old Padget Beaumont is trudging through life－her scientist dad has mysteriously disappeared for months, she is shunned at school, and lost her best friend because of a boy. Padget is determined to face these annoying hardships and everything...

Every family has some skeletons that must remain buried from the world; however, there are a few secrets that are hidden even from family members -- and rightly so. Life in a Box by JoDee Neathery revolves around two families, the Browns and the Smiths,...

As Glaciers Move by Joseph Whitson is a lovely book of poetry. Whitson has attempted to outline his whole life with poetry. Various episodes appear, including everything from birth to death; first love to marriage. It would seem that one is reading Whitson's most intimate...

Spooky Tales Inspired by Real Ghost Stories by Autumn Chills is a collection of short stories that show just how fragile the boundary between life and death can be. Separated into ten different tales, each story is an account of an encounter with the supernatural,...

More Spooky Tales Inspired by Real Ghost Stories, by Autumn Chills, is a collection of short stories that remind us that our loved ones will comfort us, even in death. Like a pool of memories, these stories remind us of the times when we were...

Reading Irma the Inventor & the Vampire Spiders could be the most fun you have all year! Although she is only in sixth grade, Irma is a science whiz. The problem is, she is so smart and involved in her experiments that she doesn’t relate...

Principal Sam Gets Fit! by Paul Semendinger, Ed.D. is an adorable and informative story for children of all ages. The story begins with Principal Sam waking up on the morning of November 1 and feeling queasy. He had been to many Halloween parties the previous...

Two gunshot fatalities a little over a decade apart encourage a female detective to go undercover in a Detroit strip club in the stunning murder mystery, First Case Scenario by Annemarie DeClark. Harlee is excited about her promotion from working as a Detroit patrol officer...

Encore from Australian author Margaret Lynette Sharp is a collection of twenty-five short stories built around the themes of love, betrayal, loss and redemption. From sixteen-year-old Annie in Annie’s Story, that details her attraction to and obsession with her fantasy about Keiran, to middle-aged Caroline...

What is music? The definition of this art form has dominated the study of music for centuries, but perhaps in its simplest form music is an organization of sounds which comprise time, tonality, and timbre. Taking these three concepts into consideration, one can delve more...

What we see reflects our outlook. In The Photographer's Eye: Seeing With a Camera by Arthur Wenk you will learn the artistic value of photography. Whether you are a novice or an advanced photographer, Arthur provides some simple artistic nuggets that you can use immediately...

Entertaining and inspiring, A Select Group by Blaine C. Readler explores what is intrinsically embedded in human nature, the sentiment most of us wish we never had, but which we must live with and learn to face every day. Caleb isn’t just a divorced man,...

I have read Kathryn R. Biel's work in the past, and her books have always been such fun to read. I was so intrigued by the premise of Once In a Lifetime – a former girl group getting together for a reunion concert. Um, yes...

Kidnapped: The Phalanx Blood Series, Part I is a science fiction novella written by Bruce E. Arrington. Bernard lived a fairly comfortable life; one you might expect to enjoy when your family is comfortably middle class, and your parents are both professionals. His parents thought...

According to the website www.thoughtco.com, “Mass strandings of dolphins are far less common than mass strandings of whales” and “there are many theories about why whales and dolphins sometimes swim into shallow water and end up stranding themselves on beaches in various parts of the...

Is there an expiration date on a marriage? Sounds like a ridiculous question, doesn't it? Adirondack by A. Dudley Johnson Jr. puts the marriage of his fictitious characters, Anna and Will, to the test to explore this strange question. Anna and Will have been childhood...