The Life System: God and Man 101 by Matthew Thedford is a very uplifting book about God and the importance of His presence in our lives. It describes how God gives you the right direction in life and right answers to the questions for which...

Araminta Barrington has several problems. The first is that her father was a notorious and awful gambler; then there’s the fact that her brother died before he could make any headway in erasing the debt. So rather than marry for love, young Araminta is forced...

Stick's Masterpiece by Spencer Hanson is about a cute girl, Stick, who tries to paint small things but ends up creating absolutely beautiful pictures. The underlying message is also a sort of motivation for children to try out new things. Apart from the colors and...

Who wouldn't like to go on a treasure hunt? Fifth-grade friends Silky and Sly discover a haunted ghost ship and buried treasure. Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot in The Ghost of Gasparilla: A Silky and Sly Adventure makes a children's dream come true. Silky, a curious...

For Every Season is the third book of the Vines and Orchards series by Cindy Woodsmall. For those unfamiliar with the series, there is a synopsis to aid in the understanding of the current book. Rhoda Byler has been forced to leave her Pennsylvania orchards...

In Byron's Lane, author Wallace Rogers gives the reader a glimpse from the past. In particular, he writes of how a moment in childhood can change one's outlook and one's goals in adulthood, depending upon the milieu in which one is raised. Following the loss...

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....

The Mysteries of the Red Coyote Inn, written by Lorraine Carey, began in 1884 on Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction in Arizona. The Apache savagely murdered the Peralta family and burned their cabin. Juha, aka ‘Eagle Eye, saw a vision of a red coyote leading...

Eleven-year-old Brody Boondoggle is walking in the woods with his hard-of-hearing Grammy when they discover an animal track of an Akaway – one of the rarest creatures in the universe that nobody has ever seen before. Before they can catch the animal, it bites Brody...

When Elizabeth Carrow Woolfolk overheard her husband say that he was a descendant of THE George Washington, she was inspired to research his family. What started as a simple quest soon became almost an obsession. While the focus of this book is the Woolfolk...

In Love Crazy, author Selby Fleming McPhee recalls the first time she read her father’s letter. She was 41 years old then. The letter evokes many emotions towards her father and her mother, who was angered by her father's decision to join the army during...

Small World Global Protection Agency Bulls and Burglars Issue 002 by Mark Miller is another adventure and mystery themed book. It describes how two elementary school kids, Josh and Madison, discover a network of talented school children from all countries called Small World Global Protection...

How Long Will You Love Me? by Patti Brassard Jefferson is a beautiful book about reassurance, warmth, and love. The book deals with the usual questions all children ask when they are tiny. The answers are given in many unique and imaginative ways which is...

A Mother's Voice by Tracey Winn is a collection of inspiring poems. The poems revolve around human emotions and feelings, nature and the spirit. The author has done some soul searching before putting pen to paper. I read a lot of poetry and what I liked...

The Hex Hunt (Vol.1) by Michelle Lowe is an adventure story of Rain, a farm girl and Sage, the magical fox. Sage is sent by the sorceress when a spell goes wrong. The adventure takes readers to an island, a town of caves where Rain...

Pen or Discipline by Dominique Wilkins is the story about a mother raising two daughters very strictly and how both of them grow up to have totally different characters. Dorothy and Danielle, both raised by the same mother, bring up their sons in a contrasting...

Trey sees a tragic scene unfold before his eyes – at the bottom of the swimming pool! In Hippocampus: The First Book of the Atlantis Revolution by Tom Tancin, young Trey Atlas discovers that there is more to the myth of Atlantis than anyone suspects....

Drinking the Poison and Waiting on Your Neighbor to Die by Dominique Wilkins is about how attitudes can change lives. Savannah hates everything about Kaleena. She tries to make Kaleena's life miserable with her scheming ways and hatred. But Kaleena's attitude of not being bothered...

Jameson Jordan and Devon Danforth met each other when they were teens, an encounter that makes an everlasting impression on each of them. Years later, after Devon's marriage falls apart and her mother disappears, Devon and her pet wolf/husky hybrid Moon head west to Elk’s...

Kea, The Third Way by Alki Nea is an adventure story about Kea and Leo who are childhood friends. They find their lives on a fast track after Kea changes. Gone are the sleepy lives they led in the suburbs. They see themselves in a...