The year is 1866 and Thomas and Hallie Wells are ready to head west. They have sold their farm, and almost everything they have in anticipation of moving to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. When Tom is killed just about a month before the five...

A Little Hair of the Dog by Jane McBride is the story of Ann Bixby and Henry. While it was the death of her mother that had 15-year-old Ann and her father moving away from her hometown and her best friend Kell,ironically it's the death...

Rescue on the Rio: Lilah, Finding Home Series #2 continues with Hallie Wells Jerome from Book One, Cry of the West, sending her husband’s good friend, Rush Garrett, a bounty hunter, to locate and escort her sister, Lilah Parker on a visit to Oregon....

Nice guys may finish last but it's hard to keep a good kid down. Kris Yankee in Cracking the Code: Spreading Rumors tells a delightful story of 11-year-old Toby Karlson who suffers from a bad reputation. Toby or TK lives with his Uncle Jack since...

Come Follow Zaci the Zebra and his friends as they venture through the African plains of their home for the first time without any of their parents. While having so much fun singing and playing on their adventure, they find themselves in a scary place...

Zaci the Zebra Has an Adventure by Pippa Wilson is about a zebra, a very shy little guy who never wants to leave his tree or meet other little animals to play with. His mother worries about him, and so comes up with a plan...

Reach for the Sky: Super Speed Sam, Book 2 is a children’s animal book for grades 3-6 written by Monty J. McClaine. Sam’s a basset hound who loves the McClaine family. He’s especially close to baby Molly, but he also takes special care of six-year-old...

Luckey Haskins and the Zoo Adventure by Brian Sooy is an encouraging and educational book for children that will motivate and guide them to go on adventures, unlock their imaginations, make every single day extraordinary, and create magic in their lives. Luckey Haskins was like...

Somewhere by the Sea (Finding Somewhere Series, Book I) by Verna Clay is a treasure trove of emotional triggers that take a young widowed woman to her deceased family’s dream place as a final challenge to hold onto, and let go of, her departed husband...

Please Follow the Rules (Mrs Glenda's Book Nook) by Glenda Peele is a charming and educational story of a family that lives on a farm and what happens when one of the children disobeys his mom and mayhem ensues. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have three...

A Dress the Color of the Sky by Jennifer Irwin is a romance novel featuring Prudence Aldrich, also known as Prue, a woman who is having a hard time navigating her life. Under the control of her abusive husband, Nick, Prue copes with her pain...

Teenage angst, unreasonable parents, family secrets and ghosts – Lost on the Water by D.G. Driver has it all, and more. Fourteen-year-old Dannie is uprooted from her home in California and sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in rural Tennessee. Almost immediately she...

The stories of kings and kingdoms, heirs to thrones and usurpers are as old as history itself, particularly British history. What if a British royal family aggressively took hold of the throne, systematically eliminating the very existence of the previous family? Sounds like the stuff...

Being Different Is The New Cool is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Crann and illustrated by Abira Das. It tells the story of Maddie, a sweet girl with a unique birthmark and a streak of white hair. She often faces bullying because of...

I have read, reviewed, and enjoyed all of Anna del C. Dye’s books. In my opinion, this one far surpasses the rest. Normally, when I review a book, I give a summary. It is difficult to summarize "Curse of The Elfs" without giving too much...

I had the pleasure of reviewing Betty Collier's book, Angel In My Room, and was absolutely pleased with the outcome of that book. She truly touched the heart from the start and kept it locked in a gripping manner until the end. So, taking the...

"In the Shadow of Elvis" is the story of the legitimate, illegitimate son of the legendary King of Rock ‘n Roll, John Dennis Smith. Author Rico Austin meets Elvis’s son at a chance meeting in Cave Creek, Arizona, and this book follows the journey of...

Ladies finding true love is like ordering a meal in a restaurant? According to Olivia Engelstein, a happily married 40-year-old woman, mother and author of “Order the Man of Your Dreams: A Tasty Recipe to Find Love,” the process is the same. You look over...

“Shahira and the Flying Elfs” by Anna del C. Dye is one of several books written by this author on the topic of Elfs. Just reading how consistently and with such details she describes the Elfs, their strengths and weaknesses, their talents, their life style,...

Great books continue to have contemporary relevance, can be endlessly gleaned for fresh data and interpretation, and contain great ideas which have occupied the minds of thinkers from antiquity. Essays on the Classics by Jason R. Goetz establishes these fundamental truths as he introduces the...