"The Hunley: The Civil War's Secret Weapon" by Larry C. Kerr is a novel of historical fiction that tells the story of the H.L. Hunley, the very first submarine to sink an enemy ship. On February 17, 1864, Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley rammed and sank...

“Shoes . . . Are You My Mate?” by Jennifer Moran and Camille Brown is a nonsensical children’s book in which one of the shoes in a pair of soccer cleats, Lefty, believes it is a better, more serious soccer player than the other shoe,...

Amateur sleuth and third year law student Anne Marshall returns in "Ring Around the Rosie", the third in author Jackie Fullerton's mystery series. Anne and her fiance Jason Perry head to Florida to vacation for a week at Jason's parents' home. Just before they arrive,...

"The Adventures of Keeno and Ernest: The Banana Tree” by Maggie van Galen is a cautionary tale about the importance of following rules. Keeno is a mischievous monkey who craves adventure. Ernest is a wise young elephant, and Keeno’s best friend. When Keeno tries to...

Todd Parr’s "The Thankful Book" encourages children to think of things to be thankful for every day. And he offers a list of things we can all be thankful for, just to get them started. Some are sweet: “I am thankful for my ears because...

"All the Awake Animals are Almost Asleep" is an exquisitely illustrated bedtime book. The story starts out with a mother trying to get her little one to lay down his head and sleep. When he says he is not sleepy, his mother tells him that...

"Letters from the Dead" opens in a nursing home where Mary Jane MacIntyre is reminiscing about her sister and gazing at the picture of herself, her sister and a young man at the beach many years before. George R. Hopkins's book is not just Mary...

"Past Tense: 365 Daily Tools for Putting Stress Behind You--for Good" by Shawn Kilgarlin, with wisdom from her husband Ron Kilgarlin, provides daily advice for overcoming stress in a variety of practical ways. In a methodically organized order, Kilgarlin approaches the overall health and well-being...

"Secrets in a Time of Peace" opens slowly on a beautiful sunny morning in Islamabad, Pakistan, in the garden of General Masharif, who is a suspected supporter of a jihad movement of Islam. He is having breakfast with his guests that include retired General Igor...

“Be the Sunshine: Share the Light and Spread the Joy,” written by Angela Thomas and illustrated by Christine Adolph, is the perfect gift book for any woman who may need a little bit of encouragement in her life. This book is divided into nine chapters...

“Welcome to Boingville” by Romeo Gittens is a charming and delightful romp through the town of Boingville, where all the clowns live. Little Christina’s birthday party was fun, but it got much more exciting when two clowns, Jingle and Jangle, arrived to add to the...

“When You Need a Good Laugh: Finding Contagious Joy,” written by Phil Callaway and with photographs by Kevin Rivoli, is a book that will have you smiling on every single page and laughing out loud. This book begins with a story about a woman mistaking...

Easter is a time to celebrate life and the new arrival of spring. So when Lucy Stone takes her grandson to the annual Easter egg hunt in Pine Point, she is stunned to find no eggs on the beautiful Van Vorst estate lawns. It gets...

“Put a Little “Happy” in Your Life” is an adorable gift book with photography taken by Christina Bynum Breaux and the original text written by Jeff Marion. The book is filled with a picture and a single line of text on each page. Each page...

“The Memory Thief” is the debut novel of Emily Colin and she is definitely an author to watch as this is a stunning debut work! Maddie lost her husband when he was killed climbing a mountain. Maddie had a bad feeling about this climb before...

Pete Shasta is a vulnerable, believable, likable police inspector. He is the kind of book cop you really want to get to know. And get to know him you do in the five tightly crafted crime tales that comprise "Falcon’s Bend Case Files, Volume 1:...

The average person might not know too much about Haiti, but Kathleen A. Tobin is passionate about it. A teacher of Latin American history, Kathleen has written a book about why she thinks Haiti is important in the classroom and how she set upon making...

We all need hope; hope provides buoyancy when the struggles and challenges of daily life work to keep you mired in the mud. "Promises of Hope for Difficult Times" by Jane Kirkpatrick is only a small book but it offers a wellspring of that critical...

"Morgan and Clive" is another book in Karen Pirnot's thoughtful and inspiring 'Ordinary Kids series' which is intended for pre-teen kids. The main characters in these stories face hurdles. Here we meet Clive, short for Clivinia, who has just moved to the States from England...

The incredible steamship named Titanic sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic on April 15, 1912, and books have been written and movies produced about this tragic steamship disaster. Troy Veenstra has written "Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession" which covers the Titanic's demise...