Up Close And Personal is the story of Angie Fletcher and Jason MacDonald. She is a former farm girl with aspirations of being a big time news reporter and taking the world by storm with her understanding fiancé by her side. Jason is a reformed...

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge: A Biography for Children by Susan Barnett Braun is an informative book for children about the Duchess of Cambridge. The book throws light on the Duchess, from her early days in school to later on her meeting with the prince,...

Kate Reilly is just about to begin one of the biggest races of the year when she receives terrible news; something has happened to her boyfriend that has everyone buzzing. No one knows why he was leaving the track on a race day or why...

Cowslip: A Slave by Betsy Haynes tells of slavery from a unique perspective - that of a 13-year-old female slave named Cowslip. The story starts during the Civil War as Cowslip and several other children are being sold at a slave auction and follows Cowslip...

Unleashed is the first in the Sydney Rye novel series by Emily Kimelman. The story opens with a prologue hinting at how the life of a young directionless coffeehouse server, Joy Humbolt, takes a 90 degree turn and she becomes Sydney Rye. In this first...

Shadow Journey: A Mrs. Blackstone Story by S.D. O’Donnell is a short story based on one of the characters in O’Donnell’s book, Deadly Memories. The story tells of a woman, Vera Blackstone, and her husband, Ted. Ted is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He...

This is another story about Gaston the dog, Gregorie the parrot, and their master Mr. Marceau. They live in a small town in northern France, and the dog and the parrot enjoy taking their walks around the gardens, searching for peaches, and going places with...

Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Ficklin is the first book in the Stolen Empire series. The book, aimed at young adults, is the fictional account of Sophia of Prussia. It’s based loosely on the life of Catherine the Great. Sofia, also called Sofie, comes...

While there are some grammatical errors in this short story, they add to the rawness and impact rather than depreciate it. The author is a confessed sufferer of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) acquired during his service in Afghanistan. The story involves tenseness in the...

Midnight Meditations for Nurses: A Nurse's Soul Revealed, by Diane Bouffard, is sensitively written and worthwhile as it speaks to this under-appreciated group of people. My mother is in a nursing home and I have gotten to know some of the nurses there. They are...

Readers are reunited with Gideon Crew in The Lost Island. This is the third book Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have written in the Gideon Crew series. Gideon Crew is a brilliant scientist and a master thief. Gideon’s employer, Eli Glinn, has given him what...

Fae was the middle child of a brood of children her mother and father produced on their mountain farm in the early 1900s. Fae, a fiery redhead, always thinking she deserved a better life and demanding things her way, wanted off the farm more than...

Legend of Loch Ness Monster for Kids: A Mystery in the United Kingdom by Amber Richards is an insightful book that throws light on Loch Ness and its mystery. This fascinating topic has been brought to children with the help of facts and pictures, which...

Dana Hui Lim’s Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields is the autobiography of a life lived during one of the most painful times in human history. Hui is the sixth child born to Lim Cher Hoi and Tom Tai Keng in...

Leftover People is the sequel to No Sleep 'til Sudbury and captures the zeitgeist of the road trip Canadian author Brent Jensen takes to unleash his first book upon an unwary US public. He has an unlikely accomplice and guide in Christopher Long, a native...

The Last Eucharist: A True War Story, set in the quotidian town of Jackrabbit, Arizona, features an amputee Vietnam veteran, Thomas, who earns his meager living doing headstands for the sneering common masses outside of a theatre. While Thomas spends his earnings from these "atrocity...

The Princess in Pink: A True Tale by Samantha Michael is a true story written in fairy story style. Samantha was horrifically injured when the car she was in was in an accident. The driver was drunk. Samantha tells the tale of her journey from...

The Firedragon: A Flynn Nightsider tale by Mary Fan is a fast paced dystopian novella centered around Aurelia Sun. She is a fourteen-year-old 'Norm' determined to prove elitist 'Enchanters' wrong by being the first Norm to win the Challenge and show the world that they...

I must admit that the title Jupiter and Gilgamesh intrigued me. Then when I read the subtitle, A Novel of Texas and Sumeria, I had to throw out my preconceptions and wonder what Texas and Sumeria had in common. More than I originally thought. Jupiter...

Read the label - how many times have we been told to do just that when purchasing human food? It's the fine print that we tend to avoid because, well, it's fine print and no one wants to read the fine print. Plus, it's frightening...