How High How Far by Michael Verrett is a children’s poetry book about how high and how far things will go to meet their goals, whether it be a cat chasing a mouse or a giant pig pile, an animal hopping contest or a fish...

I loved The Three Little Frogs by Gary Montgomery! What a beautiful story it is. Three little frogs build houses for themselves to live in. One builds a house of weeds and grasses, another builds his house of sticks and reeds, and the third builds...

Cycles Of Hatred: Will He? by Linda Heavner Gerald was a hard novel to read because it hit home with me and I am sure it will do the same for many other readers as well. The author opened the novel with a prayer, which...

Due to Logan Quinn’s escape from hell, the apocalypse on Earth is imminent. He’s accused of opening a portal that will let all hell-bound creatures enter the world of the living. Two angels in earthly bodies, Joseph and Gertrude, try to get the location of...

New York-based architect Holly Williams flies to Boston, England to visit her mother who has been put in a nursing home, just days before Hurricane Diana destroys a large portion of the city. The year is 2040 and Holly’s Hurricane by Marie Carter tells how...

Meet five-year-old Emily in the storybook Freshly Baked Pie by Lora Rozler. Emily does not think being five is easy and it is all about bouncing pigtails and wearing colorful dresses. She is not too happy going to bed when the sun is still out,...

When Isaiah’s mother tells him that they are going to visit a botanical garden, he is not impressed. He would much rather stay home and play video games. He doesn’t even know what the word botanical means. When she uses his given name rather than...

Gia was hoping her move from New York to a small town in Florida would erase her past. She really hadn’t done anything bad in the big city, but her ex-husband was a scoundrel, one who cheated people out of their money and who had...

Death at First Sight by Lena Gregory is the first book in the Bay Island Psychic Mystery series. It all starts when Cass Donovan does a reading for Ellie Callahan. What should have been a routine reading goes horribly wrong as a shadow crosses Cass'...

The Maddie Chronicles features three books in the series by Hannah R. Goodman: My Sister’s Wedding, My Summer Vacation, and Fear of Falling, a compelling collection in which readers encounter high school student Maddie Hickman who is determined to rediscover herself and pursue a life...

Perhaps you know a girl like Nicki Valentine. She might be a classmate. Or your best friend’s daughter. Or even your daughter. She’s one of those girls whose language and appearance offend most adults, and about whom classmates gossip and teachers despair. But as is...

I, Claudia: A Novel of the Ancient World by Lin Wilder is one of the fascinating books I have read — wonderful historical references, Christian and mythological underpinnings, with strong considerations of some of the troubling spiritual questions of all time. Born in Delphi and...

In the sizzling romance, Sugar by Ugod, a small-time girl with big hopes and big dreams, who has always desired love with a healthy romance, a woman married to an ex-military, gorgeous and caring man, finds herself in an adventure that makes her take a...

Picture a highly sophisticated, technologically advanced organization controlled by a clever control freak of superior intelligence, whose personal agenda is world domination of key areas of politics, society, entertainment and media. Envision a limitless access to money that allows Victor Youngblood to hire the best...

Pixie Shoes is a children’s short story written by Rachel Ellyn. What if you were a pixie who was new to an area, who didn’t know anybody, because you were in the new stages of life? This story is about Neesa, a young pixie who...

A little boy takes a stroll in his garden with his teddy bear in Where, Bear? by Rachel Ellyn. Mom calls out to be careful, which seems a silly thing to say, since the boy has his bear and the bear has his boy. They...

Meet Hamlet, Vivienne Scarlett, and Edith in A Pig Packed to Piccadilly by Rachel Ellyn. Hamlet, the pink pig with a pin-curl tail, and Vivienne Scarlett have had many adventures together and they were good friends. But they had a fight last week and Vivienne...

A tainted box of chocolates poisons the recipient and disrupts a Valentine's Day party in the engaging mystery novel, Love on the Rocks (Cobble Cove Mystery #4) by Debbie De Louise. Gilly and Sheriff Ramsay are returning from their honeymoon in Hawaii. The Cobble Cove...

What does it really mean to be Prince Charming? For that matter, what does it really mean to be Cinderella? Dmitriv is supposed to choose a wife at the ball, but he’s having too much fun flirting with all the ladies who hover around him....

Stephen Stanley's Puzzle Body, by Stephen Stanley, is a fun and informative read, full of exciting situations and interesting facts. The book takes the reader on an incredible journey inside the human body, covering the important parts while telling a story of monsters that can...