Lily and Lucy by Ed Ehlers is the perfect story for children to read along with their parents. We follow Max and Tucker, two Australian Shepherd dogs, as they go for a walk into the wooded forest with their ‘Daddy’. This is not just every...

Beka Wueste's The Unsent Letters of Lucy Prior is a literary novel narrated through a series of letters. After Lucy Prior passed away, her brother-in-law, Nate Prior, hired the death administrator, Art Burleson, to correctly distribute her possessions to the members of her family. Art...

William Wordsworth wrote five poems inspired by a young woman named Lucy. Scholars have long speculated as to the identity of Lucy. Was she real? Could she have been a fantasy of William’s imagination? "William and Lucy" is a fictional work speculating on the identity...

Ghost Writers: The Haunting of Lake Lucy by Sandy Deutscher Green is a unique and eerie novel-in-verse that captivates readers from the very first page. The story follows 13-year-old Jayce, who, during a lakeside summer vacation, becomes convinced that the ghost haunting his nightmares lives...

The Little Adventures of Erig the Earwig, written by Andy Evans and illustrated by Lucy Fleming, follows Erig, an earwig, on a series of adventures to learn about life and its challenges. After completing four training challenges set by his mother, Erig meets Bob, a...

Forget Me Not is a beautiful and poignant children’s book by Carolyn O’Boyle and Lucy McLouglin. This touching story respectfully and lovingly addresses the loss of a beloved pet. Rose and her dog Dotty were always inseparable and shared many adventures together. The loss of...

Mona Lisa's Ghost: Lucy Nightingale, Book 2 is a science fiction and fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Nancy Kunhardt Lodge. Who stole the Mona Lisa from its secure location in the Louvre, leaving no traces of the theft? Lucy Nightingale and her...

Being Me: Lucy's Tale (Shark Stories) by Traci Swain is a compelling story about a shark who deals with bullying. The main character Lucy is a Great White shark. She struggles with a disability and for this, she is relentlessly tormented. This book is a...

"Silver Linings" will reach out to young adult readers and draw them in. Lucy Mackensie and her father Mac (please don't call him by his first name, Benjamin) have lived in many U.S. cities. Mac is an actor and a teacher. He has been a...

The Mermaid Broker by Sue Hinkin is a thriller and the fourth book in the Vega and Middleton series, preceded by Deadly Focus, Low Country Blood, and The Burn Patient, reading as a stand-alone like its predecessors. This installment begins with a marine biologist named...

Patient X by Art Smukler, MD is a gripping mystery that begins with a startling scene—Jake Bennett sees his brother Nelson, who died two years earlier, alive in a crowded Santa Monica street. This moment sets off a chain of events that pulls Jake into...

One early September morning, Meg Reynolds was heading to a medical appointment after a night shift at the plant. Meg hit a little girl named Jessie Carter at a crosswalk near an elementary school with her car. Meg didn't have a phone with her and...

Petunia the Perfectionist is a children's picture book written by Marissa Bader with illustrations by Ellie Beykzadeh. It tells the story of Petunia, a young girl who is obsessed with perfection. Her pursuit of perfection leaves her with no time for fun and takes away...

Betrayal comes in all shapes and sizes. After reading Kathryn Taylor's Two Minus One: A Memoir, I am pretty confident that there is no easy way to separate an honest person from a dishonest one. Jim said all the right words and stood by Kathryn...

Rebecca Monhollon’s Mischief on the Mountain is a story set late in the nineteenth century on a homestead in Tennessee in the shadow of what the locals called the Smoky Mountains, though the name was still unofficial until 1934. A mixture of history, pathos and...

Gloria Weinberg’s Child of Sorrow is a fictional account of a true story. In 1959, in Clewiston, Florida, seventeen-year-old “Vicki Bayle,” attractive, smart, and dreaming of doing something remarkable with her life, becomes pregnant. By the time her parents learn of her pregnancy, it’s too...

Mabon is the first book in The Clandestine Chronicles by Kellie M Davies, a spellbinding tale of romance and magic with memorable characters. The narrative begins on the day her father died, sixteen years ago, and on her birthday. “I wasn't a rule-breaker, but today...

Every legend is a story with a lesson to share. A mermaid kidnaps children swimming in a Colombian river on Good Friday, a day of religious observance, and many, fasting, easily fall victim to the mermaid who only wants children to play with her in...

The Legend of Roberto Cofresi: A Puerto Rican Hero by Janet Balletta and illustrated by Estella Mejia is a colorful story of the legend of Robert Cofresi. Brothers Jacob and Joseph love playing pirates and corsairs in their back garden – it all started when...

Moving can be Murder is a well-written mystery with totally believable characters that anyone of any age, not just those facing retirement, will enjoy. Carol and Jim Andrews love their aging Victorian home in suburban Connecticut, but they understand, reluctantly, that it is time...