The Little Book of Laughter by Maureen Sangiorgio fits neatly into the humor section of your neighborhood book store. Sangiorgio takes on the task of compiling a collection of jokes, funny stories, and limericks for the reader to enjoy. In this era of political correctness,...

Whether at home or on a road trip, it can be hard to keep a child or children entertained. It's not difficult if your young readers have a copy of Are We There Yet? by Lucy Griffith. This children’s activity book contains over eighty-five activities...

Liberty Man by Brad Livengood is a historical novel with beautiful elements of romance. Gabriel Brower is stunned when William Kinney, a soldier of the American Revolution and a man who is supposed to have died 150 years ago, suddenly appears in his living room....

Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers is a work of non-fiction and medical memoir penned by author Marianna Crane. Set during the 1980s, this highly emotive and truly fascinating memoir takes us into the world of senior care in a poorer area...

The world around us is filled with beauty in the people, in the events, in the world itself, and yet it can be difficult to see that beauty for ourselves. The poet is someone who can help us to see that beauty, but also to...

Sweet Haven is a contemporary romance novel written by Dean Hodel. Lili Sanders was a goddess in the kitchen. She didn’t mess with the crudities of meat and gravy stocks; rather, she created airy and sweet marvels that her clientele loved to watch being created...

What a delightful book for children! Delight is what children will experience while enjoying Maribel’s Rainy Day, beautifully designed by Jeffrey Vallis and superbly illustrated by Ignacio G. But what teachers and parents will find especially pleasing is the content of Maribel’s story, written by...

Meet Hank, Mack, and Poppy, the little monster crew in Little Monsters Guide to Learning Computers, iPads and Phones by Kate Marshall. They have got new gadgets and are trying to figure out how to use them. There are rules they need to follow, and...

The Write Way to Get a Girlfriend is a coming of age/concept novel for young adults written by Alfred R. Taylor. Juan Rivera was not at all impressed by his mother’s decision to hire a writing tutor for him. He did well in his math...

A Christmas elf is assigned to a family to send an annual report to Santa in the comical family story, Letters from a Christmas Elf: Unexpected Humor For Any Season by Kurt and Kirsten Johnston. Santa has assigned his best and brightest elf graduate from...

Haunted Hearts: A Ghost Story by Kimberly Dean sees sparks flying between Callie Thompson and Chief Carter Landry even as he writes her a speeding ticket. When Callie reaches Shadow Valley, she is disappointed to see that the house Aunt Jeanne bequeathed her needs repair....

The Piggy Market is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Rachel Lockavitch McWaters. McWaters explores the ramifications of the popular children’s counting rhyme about piggies in this whimsical and clever book about piggies who go to market. Beginning with her considerations about which...

Sweet Solace (Seattle Sound Series Book 1) by Alexa Padgett is a contemporary romance novel with plenty of twists and turns. Sweet Solace is about Asher and Dahlia who met when they were teenagers and were mutually attracted to each other. However, Dahlia was in...

Jendi Reiter’s An Incomplete List of My Wishes comprises several Southern tales (specifically, the state of Georgia) amongst others, some set in the Reagan era of the 1980s, as well as others in the '90s. Important as the South is, however, it really serves as...

Born on the last day of a sweltering summer, just like all the Queens before her, Sofia Addington knows she is born to be Queen of Arandale. The only thing is that she’s never vied for such a life and she hates to become Queen...

I have not read Remnants of Eden by D.S. Causey, yet the art depicted in The Official Art of Remnants of Eden is so riveting, so descriptive, and so thought provoking that I immediately wanted to read the book itself and delve further into the...

Emerald Rose by Jennifer Sharp is a short romantic story. Emerald and Sam have been friends forever; Sam is a baker and Emerald runs her own antique shop left to her by her parents after their deaths in a Valentine’s Day accident. Now it’s a...

I Love The Way You Giggle by Jennifer Sharp is the adorable story of two friends who love each other so much that they love everything about each other. The little boy loves the way the girl giggles and the way her giggles grow; he...

Rain Doesn't Fall on Angels is an historical fiction novel written by Erin Eldridge. It was 1940, and Bastian and his mate, Friedrich, were chilled and terrified as they waited in the Ardennes Forest for their orders. The two young men had gone through Tank...

Drinking from the Trough: A Veterinarian's Memoir by Mary Carlson takes the reader into the world of veterinary science. When teacher Mary meets and (later) marries Colorado vet student Earl, she is motivated to study veterinary medicine herself and subsequently open her own feline-only practice....