The mail-order bride. Just the idea has intrigued me since I learned of the concept as a little girl. When I saw that this was the premise of Amazing Grace: Book Three of the Hymns of the West Series by author Faith Blum, I knew...

Pip! Zip! Hatch! Love!: A Complete Kid's Guide To Keeping Chickens (Raising Backyard Chickens, Great for Children and Adults) is a nonfiction guide to raising chickens written by Susanne Blumer. The author thinks chickens can be fun pets and entertaining companions, and her book gives...

In The Chronocar, science fiction meets history in a dynamic tale of time travel. When Tony finds a science journal about time travel, he combines this new found knowledge with his own near genius talents to design a Chronocar. His first trip is to meet...

Author Trish Egan has dedicated her book I Am Sunshine to survivors of childhood abuse. Her fictionalized heroine, Idalia, was sexually abused as a child and as a consequence developed coping and survival strategies that made her life appear perfect on the outside, but which...

The Tears of Olive Trees: An Autobiographic Story Featuring Poems From Mahmoud Darwish is a non-fiction memoir written by AbdulKarim Al Makadma, with illustrations by Rawya M. Wadi. The author was born and grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. His family was uprooted...

As a private investigator, Devon Sanders is good, not just good but extremely good; he seems to have a real touch for the job. Never mention it might be magic in his presence, though, because he has stayed as far away from magic as possible...

Search & Seizure is a coming of age memoir written by Marc Hoberman. When Marc was eleven, he got to meet his maternal grandfather, a composer whose work was used in film and television throughout the '40s, '50s and '60s. That meeting and the one...

The Tomb by Lyn Sholes and Joe Moore is a Maxine Decker Thriller. Maxine Decker retired from the OSI but has returned as an adviser. After helping to take down a cartel leader, drug lord and international thief, Maxine heads off for some R and...

Dark…horrifying…utterly and magnificently twisted – so much so that Ivy’s Envy would surely make the Scaremeister himself, Stephen King, tear up with pride. Ivy James isn’t like most young women her age. What Ivy’s wanted all her life, Ivy’s ruthlessly taken – and if she...

Twenty-one-year-old Bobbie Lamont has had enough. Tired of everything her life has to offer, she’s not sure where to go next. In author Zelmer Wilson’s fourth installment of the Bobbie Lamont series, The Distance Between, we find Bobbie at a real crossroads in her life....

Lance Haynes’ One More is a story of one more chance, one more day, one more minute to right the wrongs of the world. Richard Evans is a broken man, a hard working man, trying to overcome life’s burdens. Richard is conducting a geo-chemical...

L.E. Fraser's Skully, Perdition Games blends paranormal and psychological horrors to craft a chilling tale that grips from start to finish. Gabrielle LeBlanc is a strange housewife with a mysterious past. When she disappears and all evidence points to her murder, Samantha McNamara and Reece...

The Keeper's Flame (A Pandoran Novel, #2) by Barbara Kloss is the second book in this young adult fantasy series. Five months have passed since Daria Regius arrived home, but the welcome was anything but heartwarming. The king (her grandfather) has stripped her of her...

Breath of Dragons (A Pandoran Novel, #3) by Barbara Kloss is a high stakes young adult fantasy full of action and adventure. After the death of a prince, Alex and Daria go off in search of Pandora's legendary box. The box supposedly holds a power...

Heir of Pendel (A Pandoran Novel, #4) by Barbara Kloss is the final chapter of a young adult fantasy series that follows the escapades of Daria. By book four, Daria has left Alex to marry a man she doesn't love in order to save the...

All the Skies I Will Not See by Petra March is a delicious book. Delicious? An unusual way to describe a book for sure, but it's delicious in that, like a beautifully prepared meal, all the dishes served work perfectly together. While the possibly slightly...

A Veil of Glass and Rain: Special Edition (A Touch of Cinnamon) (Volume 1) by Petra March is a contemporary romance set in Europe that flashes back and forth between past and present to tell the full story of Brina and Eagan's love. Brina and...

It is very obvious that Jacob Paul Patchen loves his grandparents. His book Life Lessons from Grandpa and His Chicken Coop: A Playful Journey Through Some Serious Sh*t focuses on the life lessons that Patchen’s grandpa taught him around the chicken coop that was on...

Chick Lit And Other Formulas for Life by Abby Rosmarin is a gentle story about life and self-discovery. Katy Sinclaire left college in 2003 and two years later, she is still working in a bookstore, the same one she started in as a teenager. She...

Some Things You Keep is a poignant yet inspirational memoir about the life of the author, JJ Landis. When JJ was around twelve years old, her mother committed suicide and her life soon changed forever. The night her mother died, she immediately had to move...