I was slightly disappointed in this book. Oh, not in a way that I didn't enjoy it. I did enjoy it thoroughly. It was a just a wee bit off for me. I can't quite put my finger on it, maybe it was because it...

Lost Innocents, written by Jean Rowden, is an enticing, thrilling ride that will take you through the experience of being a detective. Eighteen-year-old Virginia discovers a secret hidden beneath the enlightened veneer of Victorian England. Young children are vanishing from their homes, but the upper...

Flesh and Blood by Julie Cambria is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep the reader engaged in the book right to the very end. Victoria Clark, daughter of a preacher and a mother who has never shown her love, was pregnant at fifteen and...

Priscilla Patterson has lived all her life in hiding. Her mother was abducted by Murray Coburn and used by him and his friends. Priss shows up at Murray's office claiming to be his daughter. The only thing on her mind is killing the man who...

Does your child ever feel left out? Maybe he is an only child and yearns for another sibling to play with? Or, maybe she has other brothers and sisters and feels like she is not given the same amount of attention. This...

This is a heartfelt story about Sammy Scallop, who starts out being very popular in elementary school; but after an incident where he was helping to save his sister, he cracked his shell. This imperfection left him less popular amongst the other creatures, especially...

Jesus Potter Harry Christ by Derek Murphy is a scholarly journey through ancient mythology, cosmology, astrology, early church history and modern metaphor to demonstrate how our spiritual beliefs spring from the stories we tell ourselves—and have always told ourselves-about life, the physical world we observe,...

Alex McCann Johnson is a new-to-me author and his debut book, Vindico is fantastic. It's a mythological young reader's book, but it's filled with action and it's never boring. It truly kept me turning the pages. By the end of the book, I was sitting...

A Doctor's Journey by Fredric Mendelsohn, M.D. is a delightful read for those who crave to view medicine as a humanistic profession. Dr. Mendelsohn takes us through a brief autobiographical journey in which his musical background will eventually play a large role in the...

Somewhere In Between, written by Meredith Wood, is an excellent coming of age story about thirteen-year-old Rowan as she faces her father's death and her mother's remarrying. But Rowan isn't an ordinary teenager. She can communicate with her dead father and does so when she...

Wow. That's the one word I can think of right now, right this minute, to describe this book. It's not a light book at all. It's not a beautiful book. It's heart wrenching. It WILL bring tears to your eyes. It WILL make you stop...

In The Ghost of Bud Parrott, author Judson Hout has created a memorable glimpse into past Southern culture. Bud Parrot is a young Black man who has always worked in the cotton fields of Jackson County, Arkansas. He fashions a better life for...

The littlest ant lived in his ant palace with many brothers and sisters. One day a bad wind storm came and blew down their ant palace, and it blew the littlest ant far away from her family. She was so sad, but started walking to...

A Hypnotic Suggestion by Allison Jones is a gripping suspense right from the beginning. When John Harkins had a 7:00 a.m. meeting with Michael Freidan, his father-in-law, little did he know that morning that his life was about to take a complete turn! Walking into...

This is a poem about Halloween night, how eerie it feels with the moon shinning bright, casting shadows. The stillness in the pumpkin patch, the cornstalks and scarecrow, but wait, did that scarecrow lurch in the moonlight? Can that really happen? Another feeling is the chilly...

In Timmy Meets the Tadpole Twins by P. J. Lawton, Timmy goes to his grandparent’s farm each summer after school is out. He always loves going to their farm, because they do fun stuff with him, like hayrides, hiking in the woods, campfires and roasted...

The adventure room was built by Mom for her three children to play in to keep them from bubbling all over the house. As the siblings played in their new room, they started talking about the different things they wanted to be: a doctor, a...

The Spruce Gum Box is author Elizabeth Wilder's debut novel and she has tweaked the imagination of readers with interest in the cultural and historical development of the state of Maine. Set by the Aroostook River in a disputed area bordering Nova Scotia, a...

Sixteen-year-old Marcie's life isn't exactly normal. Her mother walked out on the family when she was twelve, her younger brother has become a neat freak, and her father's new girlfriend isn't exactly the "motherly" type. To top it off, her best friend has a secret...

Cecile and The Treasures of Belamor by Marilyn F. Churchill offers children a delightful fairy tale. I was quickly reminded of the fairy tales I grew up with, tales of dragons that breathed fire, knights in their shining armor, unicorns with horns that sparkled, and...