Poor Julie. Even though she practices a lot for her upcoming karate test, she just can’t perform in front of other people or animals. She just couldn’t do the flying side kick when others were watching. Her favorite Aunt Mary told Julie about Mister D,...

Little Mouse’s Sweet Treat by Shana Hollowell is a delightful story where readers are introduced to Little Mouse who wants to eat something sweet. He bids goodbye to his mother and goes off to the woods to see his friend, the Bear. He hopes he...

Many children wonder why their parents insist on nightly bath-time. Bathing, to a child, seems to be a pointless endeavor; after all, we will be getting dirty all over again tomorrow. But what if we decided not to bathe for a few days? What kind...

All About You: An Adopted Child's Memoir by Liz Butler Duren is the story of a woman who is trying to find her birth mother and, during that journey, she finds herself. Our story follows Liz; she lived a relatively happy and healthy life, until...

Super Rooster and Wonder Cat is a cute little story with a big concept that can help young children as it is read to them or as they use this book as a starter reader. The colorful illustrations of Hugh Keiser help bring to life...

Doubloon Cove: The Secret of the Ancient Visitors is an action and adventure mystery novel for children and preteens written by Kelly Novak. Twelve-year-old Jeffrey and Steven loved hanging out in their fort, the old shed in the back of Jeffrey’s house. It had been...

Little Rocky is a Norway Spruce tree. He’s not as big as the other trees in the forest. Nor is he as strong, and his branches are bent the wrong way and his needles are seldom green. All Rocky wanted was to be chosen as...

Puppy: 12 Months of Rhymes and Smiles is a dog lover’s delight. Written by Patricia Furstenberg, Puppy deals with the many reasons people bring a puppy into their lives. Not only does it deal with a puppy’s initial reaction to its new home, but this...

Broken and Beautiful by Elizabeth Courtright is an emotionally intense, intelligently plotted, and masterfully written story in the genre of contemporary romance. Written in an absorbing first person, this story takes readers on a high emotional tide, exploring the dynamics of relationships between two couples....

Fragile and Fierce is the second book in the Broken and Beautiful series by Elizabeth Courtright, a mesmerizing story of contemporary romance with great characters. When they finally meet again, Aster doesn’t want to have anything to do with Ryan. All she wants is to...

The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London - A Novella and Other Stories of the '60s by Elise Frances Miller is a novel that some people might take as a romance, but it is much more than that. More of a woman’s story to find herself...

A terrifying presence is out for revenge in the haunting supernatural thriller The Schoharie by Diane M Johnson. Until the erection of the Schoharie bridge in Fort Hunter, Joe Bonner was considered an upright young man. Soon after the bridge construction began, Joe started acting...

An unearthly evil melding with uncontrolled lust creates a terrifying beast that stalks the innocent in the electrifying supernatural thriller, In the Shadow of Porter's Hollow by Yvonne Schuchart. Thirty years ago a traumatizing incident drove Laura Evans' mother to pack up their belongings and...

The Gamer: Sophie Washington is a novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Tonya Duncan Ellis. Sophie’s in sixth grade now, and she’s beginning to understand more of what the pastor is preaching in church on Sundays. Today’s sermon was on resisting the temptation to...

The takeover of the world by the Chinese has begun, but not with destructive weapons, as such, but by simple weight of numbers. All over the world, Chinese men have been mobilized to march into foreign countries by their millions, taking over the financial resources...

Veronica “Roni” Lorimer and Charlotte “Lotti” McAllister are best friends and housemates. Both retired and widowed, they live in a cozy home among the evergreens, on a small island in Puget Sound. When a rock is thrown through a window in their home, the enigma...

In her sensitive and poignant memoir, You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties, Carol E. Anderson bares her heart and soul to readers so beautifully and intelligently that even if you aren’t gay and weren’t born into a Fundamentalist Christian...

The Elephant and the Sheep by Patricia Furstenberg is a fun little book. The story is about an elephant and a sheep that become friends. Each day they meet at the water puddle, but somehow the elephant always arrives first. The sheep tries to beat...

Quincy the Quail Saves a Life by Barbara Renner is the story of Quincy the quail who lives in the desert with his family. It is a beautiful day and Quincy and his mate, Quella, decide to call their chicks for a family meeting. They...

The Gift by L. Kay Adams is the story of Lucille Barby and her childhood rebellion. The account begins with her birth, which proves from the very start that Lucille was a tenacious child when she tried to come out feet first. Throughout her life,...