An imaginative, fairy tale-like story, Ruby Lane by RJ Simon is an exciting and enchanting tale for children. Young Ruby lets her imagination take her to faraway and interesting places while leaving her day-to-day responsibilities behind. Her room is a mess and her cat, Catty,...

Frederick Law Olmsted is known as the “father of American landscape architecture.” He designed large city public parks as well as the grounds for private estates, academic institutions, and other famous sites. What is not as well-known are the facts about his wife, family, and...

Are you afraid of the things that go bump in the night? Of the shadows that mysteriously creep around the walls of your room? Are they monsters? Are they going to hurt you? It’s okay to be afraid, but we have to try hard to...

Tiny Tin House by L. Marisatter is based on the premise that following a second civil war, the United States of America was split in two. The Christian States of America become the Christian equivalent of the Islamic states of Iran and Afghanistan. Although legally...

"Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen" was written by author, Judith Newton. I absolutely love this book. Each chapter of this delightful book combines a story from the author's life with a corresponding recipe. This book is divided into five sections, each representing...

Ernie Price lives in the tiny town of Hubbell, Michigan. He took care of his parents until their death, then he filled his days running the local service station and his evenings volunteering at the church, or working to repair toys so that he can...

With The Clock Strikes Midnight, Joan Curtis has written a true page-turner. The plot follows a successful business woman named Janie as she takes a journey back over her life. The diagnosis of terminal cancer (given on the opening page, so no plot spoiler there)...

Nicole Quinn’s It’s a Nightmare (The Gold Stone Girl Book 1) is set over a million years into the future, in a world where humanity is split between the abused and the abusers under the rule of the Night Mare. The few who escape the...

When Jenna shares an elevator with gorgeous actor Jacob Walker, little does she know that it's only the start... Day after day, Jacob comes into Jen's coffee shop and the two soon become tentative friends. However, geography and numerous misunderstandings drive a wedge between them,...

The moment we are asked to give a presentation or a sales pitch, the nerves kick in and every negative feeling we've ever had about doing a presentation suddenly tries to take over. Thanks to Subbarao Mukkavilli and Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression, you...

Danuta Pfeiffer's Chiseled: A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity, and Divine Wine is the amazing story of Danuta's life - filled with deception, devastation, and determination - that takes readers on a courageous journey. Told in three parts, Danuta's story begins at her beginning, as a...

What a great book I just finished! That's what I thought when I finished Waving Backwards, the new novel by author V.L. Brunskill. Follow our protagonist, Lara Bonavito, as she goes on a search for her biological roots. Lara had been adopted into a abusive...

In What's It Gonna Be? by Cassandra Piat, Lucy knows she needs to make a change. Though head over heels in love with her long-time boyfriend, Matt, she can’t be truly happy knowing Matt won’t ever take the plunge and marry her. She understands that...

In an absolutely wonderful work of fiction with a very interesting true historical basis, Scarlet Letter Lives by author Maureen K. Wlodarczyk follows the story of the owners of three copies of an 1850s release of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The books start...

Rebels from Olympus (The Rebels Duet) by Sandy Milczarek is a fantasy story. Justus Appleyard is about to have his world turned upside down. His long-absent father is not the person Justus thought he was, and neither is his mother. Justus himself is not entirely...

Tails of Sweetbrier by Deanie Humphrys-Dunne is an inspirational and true YA story. Deanie has cerebral palsy and her parents are told she will never be able to walk. But her father has other ideas and, after setting up Sweetbriers riding school, he sets about...

Ten-year-old Delbert has been sulking ever since his grandfather died because his grandfather meant the world to him. Delbert and his grandfather did a lot together and now all Delbert wants to do is stay in his room and think about their times together. Delbert...

A Deep Thing by A.K. Smith is a suspense novel about a young widow searching for her lost husband's secrets. Kendall Riggs lost her husband, Tim, over sixteen months ago in a diving accident in a cenote. She is still feeling the pain of her...

The Frost Bloom Garden by Romarin Demetri is the second in the Supernatural London Underground series. Romarin has settled into a comfort zone after the obstacles she faced when arriving in London. She finally feels at home with her housemates, bonded over everything they’ve gone...

What do you do when the things that go bump in your dreams take form during waking hours? A normal person would attempt to run away as far and as fast as they could. But if you’re sisters Mia and Jamie, you live through it...