Olivia Lauren loves to travel with her family and in Olivia Travels: A Guide to Modes of Transportation by Melissa-Sue John and Olivia Lauren, the book discusses various modes of transportation. Olivia has never gone up in an air balloon. Her favorite modes of transportation...

Olivia Lauren is at a fashion show and she gets to model on the runway. She and her friends have a great idea. They decide to explore the things they are going to wear in A Guide to Things We Wear: Olivia Lauren's Book 5...

Disco Balls of the Universe by Shaneika Burchell-Kerr and Imani Ariana Grant is an informative and educational book for children that introduces them to the eight planets of the solar system. The little girl thinks everyone wonders like her what is beyond the sky and...

I May Not Be Like You, But We Could Be Friends by Sabrena Bishop is a beautiful book that tackles the topic of being different, friendship, acceptance, sharing, and dealing with bullies. The book opens at the Lauren Simone Fitness Center where though the children...

There are library stacks full of books written to help parents with the challenge of raising troubled children. Emotional Recovery from your Troubled Child by Richard Schwindt is a little different. The focus of this book is not on the child, but on the parents...

Mr. Hoopeyloops Meets Rex, A Very Clumsy Boy is a heartwarming children's book written by Andi Cann and illustrated by Fabrice Bertolotto. Rex is a young boy who dreams of helping Mr. Hoopeyloops in his glass shop. The only thing is that he's very clumsy...

Silent Survivor by Deborah Shlian is a military medical thriller that churns out suspense at a pace to put a reader's pulse into overdrive. Mackenzie Dodd is a war veteran with the horrors of both what she witnessed and what she endured through deployment, and...

The Great and the Small by A.T. Balsara is an amazing book. On one level, it’s the story of intelligent rats, told from their point of view through vivid descriptions and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. All of that, however, is on the surface. Beneath the warm...

It had been a long time since college, but Bobby Wade travels to Cedar Key to take care of business that he should have handled years ago in The Promise of Cedar Key by Rick Robinson. Playing catch-up is difficult though, especially when it involves...

Hopping to America: A Rabbit’s Tale of La Befana is a children’s picture book written by Diana Pishner Walker and illustrated by Ashley Teets. After moving from Italy to America, the Riepule family wonder what surprises lie in store for them. They quickly discover other...

Readers who adored The Chronicles of Narnia will find Prophecy of Thol by Dawn Greenfield Ireland to be equally delightful. First it is the accident, then an eight-month-long period in a coma. Then come the nightmares that are as troubling as they are inexplicable. Years...

The Last Dog by Dawn Greenfield Ireland is a dystopian story with an irresistible appeal to fans of dogs and animal lovers. The story is set in a reformed distant future, reconstructed after chaos and governed by the World Guild, a global government that takes...

So it turns out that there’s not just one tooth fairy, there are lots of them! Everything is explained in The Tooth Collector Fairies: Home from Decay Valley by Denise Ditto Satterfield. The fairies attend school at Oral Academy under Crown Mistress Molar in Brushalot,...

Up Harvey's Creek by Karl L. Stewart is a mesmerizing, absorbing story of family, war, and a young boy’s struggle to make sense of life when his family becomes “wobbly.” Stuart Lee Roy Carter is young, just eleven, and he has been increasingly aware that...

Long Walk Home by Don Helin is an exciting thriller full of action, intrigue, and a smidgen of mystery that’s altogether riveting, as it follows an unusual character in his quest for the truth about his father’s death. It’s been thirty years since Colonel Zack...

If you enjoy a good Jane Austen fan fiction, A Short Period of Exquisite Felicity by A. D'Orazio is just the book for you. In this alternate version of the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the engagement between the two passionate protagonists of...

A Town Called Vengeance (Brokeheart Series Book 2) by Kevin Wolf is the second book in this series that takes place in the time of the old west. What makes this series different from your typical western tale is the addition of the supernatural. In...

In Lost and Found (Mysterious Tales from Fairy Falls, #1) by Sharon Ledwith, Fairy Falls Animal Shelter no longer has the financial resources to take in and provide for its animals. A fifteen-year-old calico cat named Whiskey overhears the news and decides that the animals...

I liked Beasts Shall Reign Over the Earth! by Michael and Danny D'Agostino. It is a good detective story that paints a great picture of life in Manhattan, particularly the family life of a proud family of recent immigrants. I like to read stories like...

Sonja is the story of a woman who is trying to find her place in the world, while still staying true to herself, and to discover who she is. Swedish beauty, curvaceous body and a vivacious personality describe Sonja perfectly. Beautiful with dreams of becoming...