Dec 19, 2024
Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village calle...
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Nov 4, 2024
The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book: You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several c...
Jul 19, 2024
How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions...
Jun 11, 2024
Part 1: Interview with Ellenmorris Tiegerman, Author of Past Lives Denied
Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce debate over academic freedom and ...
May 28, 2024
Part 7: Interview with Authors of "Fenix and the Firework Fliers: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story"
Introducing “Fenix and the Firework Fliers” by Once Upon a Dance, Christine Herbert and Scott Partridge Embark on a thrilling adventure with Fenix, a ...
May 26, 2024
Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny by Jeremy Clift
About the Book: Seven infants, conceived artificially aboard a rotating space habitat as an experiment to populate the solar system. A fugitive mother...
May 24, 2024
Tree Pose by Susan Rogers & John Roosen
About the Book: Escape to Tasmania they said … But what was supposed to be a dream for Ric Peters and Elaina Williams has turned into a nightmare. The...
May 19, 2024
Little Ships: A Novel by Sandra J Scofield
About the Book: After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next ...
May 1, 2024
Lonely Riders by Michael D. Dennis
About the Book: "Lonely Riders" is a gripping novel by Michael D. Dennis set in Los Angeles, following the tumultuous life of Kyle Whalen. Kyle, a hus...
Apr 28, 2024
EDEN by Jamie Lisa Forbes
About the Book: Rowen Hart has been raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Caroli...
Feb 15, 2024
Ride the Snake Road: Beamo Roamer's Hardcore Jaunt to the Wasteland by LeRoy Wow
About the Book: Ride The Snake Road is a science fiction novel that tells the story of scavenge man Beamo Roamer. Beamo gets his eyes on an ancient mi...
Jan 6, 2024
These Things Happen: A Novel by Michael Eon
Book Summary: Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his pain—except for the one thing that might work. Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the s...
Jul 18, 2023
Fetch, Cat. Fetch!
This delightful and humorous book will engage young readers as they begin to sound out words on their own and help make a lazy cat get some exercise. ...
Jul 18, 2023
Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (29) (Stephanie Plum)
Stephanie Plum counts on her routine while Lula counts on her morning doughnuts, but when they arrive at the office, they’re shocked to find that it h...
Jul 18, 2023
Lulu the Beaver
Learning that people are different is an important intangible that young children will learn, and this book approaches the subject up front and in an ...
Jul 14, 2023
A is for Asian American: An Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Alphabet (Arts and Culture Alphabet)
Do you want to learn more about Asian American culture? Do you like Chinese food, K-pop, or Japanese anime? Read this book to learn more about the his...
Jul 14, 2023
Marya Khan and the Incredible Henna Party (Marya Khan #1)
Meet Marya Khan. Marya is turning eight and she really, really wants a big henna party for her birthday. Her rich neighbor, Alexa, always throws big p...
Jul 14, 2023
Albie on His Way
Albie on His Way is the story of a mouse named Albie who is called to the king to deliver an important message to another king because his king had he...
Jul 13, 2023
Around Here
The prolific and relevant poet J.R. Solonche has given me the gift of writing “how I read poems.” The sense of playfulness is evident in all his writi...
Jul 13, 2023
The Blackout Book Club
January 1942 marks the beginning of Avis Montgomery’s term as librarian of the town library, pressed into service by her brother, who is heading off t...
Jul 13, 2023
The Riders Come Out at Night
In 2003, the Oakland Police Department was placed under a Consent Decree wherein the department was subject to the supervision of a third party acting...
Jul 12, 2023
A House With Good Bones
Sam’s mom has A House with Good Bones. It also has a beautiful rose garden and possibly a ghost. Vultures are watching the house and clearly her mom i...
Jul 12, 2023
Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
Cleopatra Selene was the only surviving daughter of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Marc Anthony. In Cleopatra’s Daughter, Jane Drayco...
Jul 12, 2023
The View from Half Dome
When tragedy strikes the Dickinson family, teenage Isabel runs away from their small apartment in San Francisco to Yosemite. There, she expects to fin...
Jul 7, 2023
Linh’s Rooftop Garden (Where In the Garden?)
Linh is just a little girl looking for some blueberries to have her friends and family over for some yummy food. She explores her entire garden and re...
Jul 7, 2023
Blood Debts (Blood Debts, 1)
In New Orleans, an anti-magic city, twins Chris and Clem are stuck caring for their ill mother in a place that despises who they are. The twins are th...
Jul 6, 2023
Babble!: And How Punctuation Saved It
How would a town without punctuation sound? The sound might make you scream! Well, the village of Babble couldn’t scream or ask why not before a young...
Jul 6, 2023
The Story of Ukraine: An Anthem of Glory and Freedom (English and Ukrainian Edition)
Known for its fertile soil and its abundant supply of natural resources, Ukraine is a nation inhabited by more than forty million people. The Ukrainia...
Jul 6, 2023
Ready… Set… Frog!
Ready…Set…Frog! is an adorable story that teaches young readers and listeners a valuable lesson. Frog is a youngster who becomes very excited when his...
Jul 5, 2023
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
In Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, debut author Rita Chang-Eppig picks apart the legacy of power and examines it against the contexts of patriarchal ...
Jul 5, 2023
Games for Dead Girls
When Charlie meets Emily while on summer vacation, the young girls immediately bond over scary stories. Emily is afraid of her father, so Charlie make...
Jul 5, 2023
When in Rome: A Novel
Can a fifty-two year-old woman be the central character in a coming-of-age novel? In skillful hands, she can. Claire is in desperate need of resolving...
Jul 4, 2023
The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
Language has its own personality, one that adapts and evolves to meet the pressures of its time but has the binding power to attract and cohere its sp...
Jul 4, 2023
The Shards: A novel
Bret Easton Ellis has been avoiding his past as if it were the plague. In his senior year at the Buckley School, friendships were tested, relationship...
Jul 4, 2023
Glitterland (Spires, 1)
Glitterland is hands down one of the best romances I’ve read this year. I don’t know how I went so long without reading any of Alexis Hall’s books! Th...
Jun 29, 2023
Nila’s Perfect Coat
Norene Paulson writes picture books that celebrate friendship, acceptance, and inclusion, and Nila’s Perfect Coat exemplifies the generosity of helpin...
Jun 29, 2023
Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, the Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle
Children and adults of all ages will find great joy in reading this fantastic adventure story by author Steven Joseph. Snoodles in Space tells the sto...
Jun 26, 2023
Mighty Bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent
Mighty Bad Land is an excellent memoir. Author Bruce Luyendyk, geologist and namesake of Antarctica’s Mount Luyendyk, writes of his and his team’s dan...
Jun 26, 2023
Requiem for Betrayal
Could adolescent high school jealousy in South Bend, Indiana, be the catalyst for a vicious murder in Paris, France? After learning of the murder of a...
Jun 26, 2023
Drawing with Squiggles & Wiggles: Create 100+ Cartoons with Fun Shapes! (Drawing With Christopher Hart)
A lot of young people would love to be able to draw, but they are intimidated by the idea of it. They are afraid it is too hard and takes a very speci...
Jun 15, 2023
76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa
Acclaimed author Larry Alexander brings readers a riveting account in 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa. Told from the American and Japanese perspectives, c...
Jun 15, 2023
Brighter Dawn (Amish Memories)
After her parents’ die in a car crash, Ivy Zimmerman travels across the country to stay with her father’s distant family before an international Menno...
Jun 15, 2023
The Game is a Footnote (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery)
Gemma isn’t a stranger to investigating mysteries but this is her first time investigating a potentially haunted house. Scarlet House has a long histo...
Jun 9, 2023
The House of Eve
Readers who love complicated stories about parallel lives will be absorbed by these stories of two women who ultimately share the same destiny. I love...
Jun 9, 2023
The Earl and the Pharaoh
Just a small hole, punched in the rock, enabled archeologist and eminent Egyptologist Howard Carter to glimpse the treasures soon to be revealed. And ...
Jun 9, 2023
Emilienne: A Novel of Belle Époque Paris
With her new book, Pamela Billings Ewen brings us back to a time in France before World War I, when the lovers of wealthy and influential men went out...
May 13, 2023
Ms. Pretty Rickey The Street Sweeper by Bryneen Gary
Book Summary: Ms. Pretty Rickey: The Street Sweeper is a Force to Be Reckoned with, Infamous Poetry about Chief Officials, Freedom from War, Dirty Mon...
Apr 22, 2023
I Eat Men Like Air by Alice Berman
Book Summary: A lavish, snowy weekend in New Hampshire ends in tragedy – and, a few months later, one of the party-goers is found dead. As famed podca...