Hailey loves to wear pretty dresses. She has a closet full of dresses in all different colors. One day her mother gives her a new dress. This one is white. Hailey plans to wear it to her birthday party, but unfortunately she spills something on...

Sandy has a sweet tooth. She loves to eat candy, cakes and ice cream. Anything sweet will do. One day, Sandy challenges her mother to guess what sweet delight she wants that day. Sandy’s mother goes through the entire list of Sandy’s favorites, but...

Hailey likes to eat. That’s a good thing, but it’s what she likes to eat that causes problems. She likes to have a hamburger and fries for lunch. And she loves her candy. When she can’t fit into her favorite jeans or her favorite red...

All Manner of Murder by June Woolerton is the first book in the Cara Carter Mysteries. Cara Carter wants a simple vacation, but she knows it's a long shot with her two friends and their loud children. Her peaceful trip is off to a rough...

The O'Brien (A Ballysea Mystery) by Frances Powell is a captivating sleuth mystery. After her life takes an unexpected turn, Catherine Murphy is rescued by two unexpected heroes. One is a larger than life Irish Wolfhound, and the other is Jeff, a lawyer, and her...

A Bad Wind Blowing (A Ballysea Mystery) by Frances Powell is an intriguing murder mystery that takes place on the coast of Ireland. After a year of living on the Irish coast, Cat Murphy and her enormous canine companion, O'Brien, have settled into their cottage...

The first superlative technique that strikes the curious reader of Brian Cohn’s science fiction/mystery, The Last Detective, is the author’s masterful use of descriptive prose, something seen less and less these days, but guaranteed to place one forcefully and engagingly in a most dramatic present....

Guitar Quotes: Positive and Funny Quotes from the World's Best Players by David A. Ogren is a wonderful book. While the quotes curated by Ogren are from guitar players, they are actually profound and full of life wisdom. The book contains six chapters all suitably...

Can people from different worlds co-exist together within the confines of a specific geographic area? In the historical fictional story, My Father's Kingdom: A Novel of Puritan New England by James W. George, in the 17th century, the Native Americans and the whites not only...

Election 2064 by Scott McDermott is a fascinating look into the future of American politics. This book follows several characters as they navigate a political landscape that, though rather grim, isn’t vastly different from today’s. It certainly is a lot more treacherous, however. From...

Jane McGarry's novel, Not Every Girl, features Olivia Davenport pursuing her dreams. Unlike most of the young women in Adelina, Olivia was not looking for someone to marry. Instead, she trained with the boys to be a squire. When King William is set to make...

Midland Club by Mark Spano is a gritty story of love, secrets, corruption and murder in a small Midwestern town, a story that is told in an exciting and absorbing voice. Meet Richard St. Pierre, a man who spends sleepless nights wondering if Puce, the...

Fall Into Magic is the first installment in the Seasons of Summer Novella Series written by Melissa Baldwin. Summer Peters is left devastated when her boyfriend, Jake, breaks up with her during their vacation together. Busying herself with mountains of work when she gets home,...

In Winter Can Wait by Melissa Baldwin, Alexander and Summer have been dating for some time and they are moving forward to the next level, but both of them have baggage that they have brought to the relationship. Summer was left on the beach in...

The Bucktown Babies: Father Gunter, Demon Hunter, Book 1 is a paranormal thriller novel written by Janine R. Pestel. Johann Gunter had been in a resting pattern between “gigs” when he watched a news broadcast about the strangely high incidence of sudden infant deaths that...

Monoland: Into the Gray Horizon by E.A. Minin is a supernatural novel with a very unique concept and a powerful hook. It is a story about the afterlife, but not the afterlife as a clearly defined place where souls enter after they take their last...

The Truth Lies: A Florida Saga by Cindy Foley is a historical novel that captures life on the ranch and develops around a huge conflict between two powerful families. The conflict that would define the hostility between the two families for generations started when an...

Still Waters: What Lies Beneath will Change You Forever by Ellen K. Bennett is a powerful love story, a sizzling romance that is character-driven and that will keep the reader’s eyes riveted on the pages. “I wish Mark’s friend Greg would stop staring at me....

If you like “incredible journey” type tales, To Yellowstone: A Journey Home by Robert Scott McKinnon is for you. Originally published in hardback in 1975, it’s a dramatic animal adventure story sprinkled with humor which follows an elderly elk pair (monarch bull and cow) who...

Traveling the Twisting Troubling Tanglelows' Trail is a picture book on social/family issues for children, grades pre-k-3, written by Greg McGoon and illustrated by Jessa Orr. Oh, those Tanglelows and the problems they can cause! It's so important to be aware of those tricky little...