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...

In this second book of Jennifer Quintenz's Daughter's of Lilith series, Braedyn Murphy was just your average girl, living in a small town and knowing that there had to be more to life than her sleepy town of Puerto Escondido. Of course, her whole life...

Chris Culver is one of the new greats in suspense and thriller fiction. The Abbey explodes onto the scene in delightful audio book format to the enjoyment of suspense fans everywhere. Meet Detective Ash Rashid. He's a cynical and jaded homicide detective with no desire...

The Iron Queen (Daughters of Zeus) by Kaitlin Bevis is about Persephone who is captured by Zeus, trying to stand up against his power. Hades, her husband who loves her very much, wants to protect Persephone from Zeus and his torment. He comes up with...

Rescued, by Brian Brown is about a father, mother and daughter, flying in a small plane to visit a second daughter. They crash into the wilderness of the mountains. They survive the impact, but all are injured. Rescuers must locate them and get them to...

Bosley's First Words by Tim Johnson is an interesting and unique kind of name-object children’s book. While it follows the pattern and guidelines that most similar books follow (introducing the name, numbers, colors, food, etc.) Bosley has one major difference: he’s bilingual. In this series,...

What is a Friend is Terri Kelley’s attempt to expose children to the idea of friendship and community, which can be confusing to children when they are very young. I, for one, think that Terri hit another home run with this book. Kids may understand...

Jessica and Emily are moving to a new house in London, and Jessica is not terribly thrilled with the prospect, in Melanie Dore's Young Adult and Preteen Historical Novel, The Elephant Tree. The two sisters are surprised and thrilled when they finally arrive at the...

Severed by Dax Varley is a rehashing of the horror classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow told from the perspective of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter of Sleepy Hollow's richest landowner. But Kat has dreams beyond plantation life and marriage to Brom, the Van...

In the Thief of Hope by Cindy Young-Turner, after a race of fairies called the Tuatha seal the veil between their world and the mortal one they quickly fade into myth and legend as the mortal realm suffers under the rule of tyrant kings and...