Beautiful Monsters by Cynthia Ogren takes us into the famous land of Tinsel Town, La La Land, Movie Capital of the World, Hollyweird, Gomorrah, Land of Broken Dreams, hell ... also known as Hollywood. Once there, we meet the beautiful and talented Riley Rindaldi, envied...

In Breaking the Rules by Cat Lavoie, Roxy Rule’s life has just turned upside down. Her lifelong best friend, Ollie, kisses her just before he moves thousands of miles away. She can’t stop thinking about it, even though she’s engaged to someone else. Expecting to...

In Zoey & The Moment of Zen by Cat Lavoie, Zoey is still hung up on her ex, Braden, after a year. She is still hacking into his email and voice mail. Before her obsession turns her into a full-blown stalker, Zoey is sent to...

The Goldsboro Curve is a legal thriller written by William Campbell. Buck lives in the hill country of Southern Ohio. It’s where he grew up and was a young teen in 1955. In the summer, the kids would be doing their chores in the early...

I Love Being a Girl! is a pictorial children’s book written by Kathryn Dixon. The first girl you meet is Emmaline, who introduces the book. It’s all about girls, and how much Emmaline and the other girls introduced in the book love being girls. Each...

The Little Girl’s Little Book of Art is an art history book for girls written and compiled by Kathryn Dixon. The author starts her journey through art history with Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in the 1400s, and proceeds through classical, impressionist and modern artists...

Wally is a penguin that loves the cold place where he lives, but he is always cold there. The snow is wonderful, but he wants to be warm and feel the sun on his body, quite unlike other penguins. He uses a hat, mittens and...

A fantasy adventure with a Western twist, when I saw the premise of Planet Land: The Adventures of Cub and Nash, I just knew I had to read this book. In this, the second volume in the Hidden Earth Series by author Janet Beasley, we...

We all deal with pain and loss in our own way. Kelsie cuts. In Breaking Free by S.M. Koz, Kelsie is consumed with guilt and grief over losing her best friend in a car accident for which she feels responsible. She soon relies on her...

Twinkle by SJ Parkinson introduces us to the richest man in the world who wants to have a 4th of July like he has never had before. He wants to get his name into the record books and to do so he decides to put...

"When God closes a door in your life, he opens a new window." Laura didn't know if she particularly believed in that old saying. She had suffered so much in the last five years since her marriage abruptly ended. Laura has a secret pertaining to...

The Quest of Narrigh: The Other Worlds by SK Holder is a fantasy novel. Connor likes to play an online role-playing game called The Quest of Narrigh. One day while playing, he finds himself in the game, in the fantasy worlds that make up the...

Set in 1983, sixteen-year-old Kate, eight-year-old Tosh and six-year-old Ellie woke up on the streets, discovering their mother has abandoned them. Fearing that the authorities would send them to an orphanage, Kate decided to hitch a ride and brought her younger siblings to Medswell. They...

The Birth of Death is an epic high fantasy novel by author Joseph Macolino, set in an exciting new fantasy world known as Evorath. The first of many stories in this diverse and richly developed world, The Birth of Death’s central characters are the enigmatic...

The Magic of Maxwell and His Tail by Maureen Stolar Kanefield is the charming and adventurous story of Maxwell the mouse. Maxwell is curious and he wants to know about everything. One day, he realizes that his tail is growing longer and he finds himself...

Take a step back in time to a world when dragons flew the skies, travelers arrived on horse or foot, and trading caravans of horse carriages still existed. Branin is one of a rare breed, a dragon shifter or dragshi, that can change form from...

Place of Many Birds by Jan Merry consists of five self-contained stories, but there are various clues and hints of possible connections. Two stories, Killing Time and Spirit of Activity, feature a cyclist, who could be the same person and might even be an older...

Glimpse of Sunlight by Leona DeRosa Bodie and G.E. Gardiner tells the story of Dono and Kyle who are researchers and treasure hunters in search of the fabled Jonathan Dickinson’s sunken treasure. But this is no ordinary treasure hunt, and for Kyle, Dono and many...

Shatter Point by Jeff Altabef is a gripping psychological thriller set a little in the future. Maggie was only young when she first met Cooper. At first friends, she soon found out that there was a darker side to him. She rejects him and moves...

I love historical novels. Anything with history makes a story that much more real. I feel like it could actually have happened, even though the story is fiction, because it is set in an era or around an event that did happen. That is exactly...