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Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?

Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night? by Brianna Caplan Sayres is a sibling of the author and illustrator’s other collaborations, Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Where Do Jet Planes Sleep at Night?. The book seems to be a market hybrid. Its 6” by 7.5” trim and thick cardboard

Stitched: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life #1

Stitched: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life #1

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In Stitched, a girl that appears to have been stitched together wakes up in a cemetery without knowing what, who, where, or why she is. Our main character, Crimson Volania Mulch, meets a variety of friends, including a werewolf, a swamp monster, and a witch, who teach her the about the

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Mowgli was a boy who got chased into a wolf’s den by a tiger. The tiger wanted to eat him, but the wolves decided to keep him and raise him as a wolf. Some of the wolves didn’t want him to be a wolf, so Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the

Night Music: Nocturnes

Night Music: Nocturnes

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Crack open the book Night Music by John Connolly in the cold month of January and be woven into the creepy and chilling tales of the unknown and, more often than not, the horrific. His second collection of short stories, which includes two novelettes, will leave even the most devoted of

Fifty Places to Camp Before You Die

Fifty Places to Camp Before You Die

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you are the type of person that calculates success by the number of nights spent around the camp fire under the open sky, than Chris Santella’s curated round-up of Fifty Places to Camp Before You Die; Camping Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations should be your guide, or even better,

The White Hare (Shadows & Light)

The White Hare (Shadows & Light)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book by Nicola Davies is about a girl named Ostra. She is a strong, hardworking girl. Her mother is dead, and her father is gone all day getting fish for the family, so she has to take care of her younger siblings and the house. During the winter months, she

A Torch Against the Night

A Torch Against the Night

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NPR Driveway Moments: Love Stories

NPR Driveway Moments: Love Stories

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Anyone who listens to their local National Public Radio station with any regularity has no doubt experienced a “driveway moment:” the story that is so fascinating that you just can’t bear to get out of the car until you’ve heard the rest of it. NPR’s newest compilation of these compelling pieces

Salad Days

Salad Days

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you are the kind who assembles salads for a quick and easy side dish, you will be sorely disappointed in Salad Days. Amy Pennington collected a large number of excellent salad recipes in nine broad categories from breakfast salads through fruit salads to cooling salads, but most of these are

Alice: Gateway to Evil

Alice: Gateway to Evil

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Some forces in the world are best left alone but when sixteen-year-old Alice and her best friend Delilah decide to meddle with a Ouija board, all Hell literally breaks loose. Alice is your well-to-do typical teenager—good grades, stays out of trouble, and to her knowledge, has a loving family—despite her mother’s

Good Night Owl

Good Night Owl

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Owl is getting ready to go to sleep… until he hears a squeek! But he can’t find the source of the mysterious noise anywhere! It’s not in the cupboards, under the floor, or even in the walls! When will Owl ever get to bed? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Young readers will

Epic Sloth

Epic Sloth

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Philip Gaber’s, Epic Sloth: Tales of the Long Crawl, is nothing short of an intriguing collection of vignettes and poetry. As you peer into the unknown narrator’s thoughts, you’ll begin to observe a recurring pattern of identity struggle, writer’s block, and failed relationships. Throughout the book, many short stories and scenarios

Unselfie

Unselfie

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]What do kids need to be happy and successful? Empathy is the answer, and teachable habits must be taught, practiced, and lived. Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michele Borba, Ed.D. is the perfect title to get the attention of young and old. Empathy is not an “add-on”

The Promise

The Promise

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] They say you never truly know someone until it’s too late. Rebecca, a new wife and mother, is reported to authorities by her abusive husband, Philippe Darnand, a Frenchman and member of the French Milice—a native paramilitary group created during World War II that tortured and terrorized France’s Jews and resisters—after

DIY Home Repairs

DIY Home Repairs

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Home repairs need no longer be intimidating Sarah Beeny’s practical, friendly book, DIY Home Repairs: 100 Fix-It-Yourself Projects. Helpfully divided into common-sense sections, you can learn to do on your own many tasks that would otherwise require calling in an expert, probably at some expense, but which are actually not too

Dragon Frontier: Burning Moon

Dragon Frontier: Burning Moon

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A boy named Jake has dreams about his family so he goes to the land of the Red Moon to find them. Jake’s family has been missing since a dragon’s attack on their wagon train. Jake finds out the truth about his family and it sends him on another quest. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column

The World, America, and Me in the Twentieth Century

The World, America, and Me in the Twentieth Century

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The World, America, and Me in the Twentieth Century by Victor Sutch chronicles the events that ushered humanity into the rapid changes of today’s eclectic culture, events seen through the eyes of someone who has lived long enough to bear witness to the pains and struggles of humankind through the span

The Lion of Sabray

The Lion of Sabray

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Patrick Robinson, the author of the bestseller Lone Survivor about the heroic Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell now brings to us The Lion of Sabray a biography of his rescuer Mohammed Gulab. Robinson tells the full life story of Gulab, from the time he fought the Soviets as a Mujahideen warrior to

Shaun the Sheep: Blast to the Past

Shaun the Sheep: Blast to the Past

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Shaun the Sheep is the leader of the flock on Mossy Bottom Farm, and Shaun is even more clever than the farmer. One day Shaun decided to make a car. He and the flock made the car, a race track, and then Shaun started rolling down the hill. One sheep and

Lost Gods: A Novel

Lost Gods: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Chet Moran is just getting out of jail and is ready to start a new life as a new man. With his pregnant wife Trish, he decides to answer a mysterious internal call to go to his grandmother’s out in the middle of nowhere. The last thing he’d expected was having

Hello Kitty Presents the Storybook Collection: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Hello Kitty Storybook)

Hello Kitty Presents the Storybook Collection: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Hello Kitty Storybook)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Hello Kitty is on a picnic with her sister when she sees a squirrel run by! She follows the squirrel and ends up in Wonderland, where she meets all kinds of fascinating characters, including the Queen of Hearts. But when the Queen’s fresh-baked tarts are stolen, only Hello Kitty can remember

There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons

There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]You can learn to meditate doing almost anything- and Yumi Sakugawa proves that in a series of quirky illustrations that make up the short book, There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons. While a short read, the drawings are stunning, and the words- even more beautiful. The book urges

The Collector

The Collector

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Collector by Sergio Toppi is a graphic novel depicting the fictional adventures of a Caucasian aristocrat collecting various items of personal, cultural, and spiritual significance around the world. Drawn in Toppi’s unique black-and-white “India-ink” style, the book depicts adventures in the American West, Northern Africa, the Pacific Islands, Turkey, Ireland,

Waiting for High Tide

Waiting for High Tide

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There’s a boy who’s by the ocean somewhere and he is waiting for the tide to get higher so he can swim. He has to wait six hours each day for the tide, and six hours is a long time to wait! It is boring waiting, but today is going to be better, because today,

A Frozen Heart

A Frozen Heart

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1510550959044{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for A Frozen Heart by Elizabeth Rudick” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

America’s Tea Parties: Not One but Four! Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia

America’s Tea Parties: Not One but Four! Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Boston Tea Party marks a monumental declaration of the American desire to be independent from rule and taxation under England’s law. Author Marissa Moss writes a children’s historical book, which highlights a critical point which is rarely portrayed in schools, historical movies and anything else about this event. America’s Tea

Fix Your Clothes: The Sustainable Magic of Mending, Patching, and Darning

Fix Your Clothes: The Sustainable Magic of Mending, Patching, and Darning

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] More and more people are finding it desirable to learn the old-fashioned art of mending and fixing clothes, rather than continually buying new ones to replace slightly damaged ones that can easily be fixed. If you have an inclination to frugality, want to do your part to keep clothes out of

Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert

Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Home bakers and dessert lovers will be disappointed in Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert as this volume is a huge academic study by food historian Michael Krondl. It is very extensive and well beyond the interest of most home cooks, even perhaps most professional pastry chefs yet it may be a

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings is a children’s picture book. The author, Jessica Fries-Gaither, wants children to see how scientists have used notebooks in their work. So the book talks about lots of different scientists and what they studied, and why that was important. It talks about Galileo, and Isaac

Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking

Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking

Clothing and fashion is a multi-billion dollar industry, and is often envisioned as exotic, glamorous, and desirable; but that is far from the truth. In Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking, author Anne Elizabeth Moore uncovers the seedy and appalling realities behind this trade, including waste and pollution, horrific working conditions, and exploitation of all kinds,

Sidereus Nuncius

Sidereus Nuncius

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517273154991{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Earth is the planet most favored by Yar, a being like a God and leader of the Collective, united planets and billions of beings under his care and rule. Quentin is a Vestigar, his job is to protect and advance the Way of Yar. Ethan Howard creates a

The Copper Gauntlet

The Copper Gauntlet

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517282995602{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] Callum Hunt has a Chaos-ridden wolf named Havoc. Cal escapes to the Magisterium with his friends and they try to find the Copper Gauntlet that has been stolen. It has the power to separate magicians from their magic. The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare combines

A Face Like Glass

A Face Like Glass

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517273446824{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The underground city of Caverna prides itself on the array of hallucinogenic cheeses, wine that makes you forget, and the only expressions are taught by Facesmiths. Neverfell has spent the last years of her life hiding as the apprentice to Cheesemaster Grandible, with a mask covering her face.

Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Agatha Christie: the queen of mystery. She wrote dozens of mystery novels beloved by millions – but the author herself also had an intriguing, adventurous life. In Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie authors Anne Martinetti, Guillaume Lebeau, and Alexander Franc have collaborated to present an exciting biography in the

Genesis Code

Genesis Code

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The future America is on the decline, and China is on the rise. What can America do to overcome this imbalance and regain her position in the world? Create a superhuman through genetics. That is the overall plot of this novel by Jamie Metzl. It starts with the death of a

Shadow Magic

Shadow Magic

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan is a fun fantasy adventure set in a beautifully imagined world that completely turns any preconceived notions of light and darkness upside down. When Thorn’s path as an accidental slave leads him to Castle Gloom, he meets Lily, the reluctant new ruler of Gehenna and only

PNW Veg

PNW Veg

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This is an excellent trade paperback vegetarian cookbook from the Pacific Northwest. A good reviewer must point out that the book designer totally neglected cooks’ convenience. Many of the longer recipes are cut in half by an illustration thus to follow the recipes you will be flipping pages back and forth—something

Unspotted: One Man’s Obsessive Search for Africa’s Most Elusive Leopard

Unspotted: One Man’s Obsessive Search for Africa’s Most Elusive Leopard

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Unspotted is a short novella by Justin Fox that follows his travels through South Africa in a valiant attempt to spot the elusive Cape Mountain Leopard. To be honest I had never even heard of the Cape Mountain Leopard, a breed native to South Africa that is close to extinction before

Rattlestiltskin

Rattlestiltskin

“‘Promenade and don’t be slow. What’s my name? I’ll bet you know. Shout the answer, loud and plain…'”

Here Comes the Shaggedy

Here Comes the Shaggedy

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Two kids, Kelli and Shawn Anderson, have to go live in another state that has a giant swamp because their dad’s work is studying plants. When they’re there, a lot of strange things begin to happen, including hearing about the legend of the Shaggedy. The conflict is whether they can convince

The Poo Poo Fairy

The Poo Poo Fairy

Paulina the Poo Poo Fairy has a mission: to help make potty training less traumatic for children. Similar to the Tooth Fairy, the guise (as you’ll read in the note to parents) is to make the trip to the toilet something to look forward to. Paulina leaves small gifts after a successful “mission” and a

Colonial Madness

Colonial Madness

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Tori lives with her mother in a small apartment running a dressmaking business that doesn’t earn them very much. Then Tori learns that her Great-aunt Muriel has died, leaving her relatives a test to see who can go two weeks living the old Colonial life. The winner of this contest will

Frightmares: A Creepy Collection of Scary Stories

Frightmares: A Creepy Collection of Scary Stories

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Frightmares by Michael Dahl is a collection of 27 scary short stories. The stories are all different and are moderately scary. This means that they are scary enough to surprise you and scare you a bit but not scary enough to keep you awake at night or to give you nightmares.

Baby Animals of the North

Baby Animals of the North

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Baby Animals of the North is a story written by Katy Main. It has lots of pictures, and many different animals. Polar bears, arctic foxes, moose, and otters are some of the animals in this book. Otters are smart, they use rocks to break open their food. The pictures have lots

The Princess of Trelian

The Princess of Trelian

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What happens in this book, is Meg hears her dragon more and more, and she and her dragon start to have bad dreams. Calen is at the place where all the mages go, so he can’t help Meg because he is very far away. Meg learns that there have been reports

A Year of Picnics: Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors

A Year of Picnics: Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A Year of Picnics Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors by Ashley English details the difference between a bucket of chicken and a blanket, known as a picnic; and a carefully planned Picnic with a capital “P”. This is not exactly a cookbook but more of an event planning

The Girl From Venice

The Girl From Venice

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Clark Gable had quite the ego but Carole Lombard had the cure. She was married to her fellow movie star at the peak of both mutual fame; if the bizarre power coupling of today had existed then they would have been known as Gambard or Lomble. In any event, when the fans were too

Princess Sophie and the Six Swans: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

Princess Sophie and the Six Swans: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Princess Sophie had a nice mother and father and six brothers that she loved very much. But then one day her mother fell ill and died. When their father went out and found another wife, Sophie was really mad. The stepmother wove six shirts, and threw them over the brothers, and

7 Ate 9

7 Ate 9

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] 7 Ate 9 is a delightful tale of an anthropomorphic private “I” Al F. Bet, who is alerted by a distraught anthropomorphic “6” that “7 ate 9!” Our hero I leaps into action, using his detective skills to discover the truth and locate the missing number. Author Tara Lazar offers a

Nadiya’s Kitchen

Nadiya’s Kitchen

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Beginner cooks, even those with modest kitchen skill, will not enjoy using Nadiya’s Kitchen. This cookbook is for advanced cooks even though many simple recipes are included (that they can find anywhere). Nadiya Hussain provides prep time and cooking time. For most cooks, prep times may safely be doubled to be

The Evolution of Beauty

The Evolution of Beauty

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A MacArthur Fellow and Yale ornithology professor, Dr. Richard O. Prum presents readers in The Evolution of Beauty with the contentious theory that aesthetics drives evolution in as much as or more than natural selection. Aesthetic evolution or “Beauty Happening” not only occurs throughout the animal kingdom but gives us a

Let Me Finish!

Let Me Finish!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A boy and his brand new book… He just wants to read, but all of his animal friends keep spoiling the story for him! Is there any way he can escape and have a chance to find out the end for himself? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Author Minh Lê’s debut children’s

I Will Fight Monsters For You

I Will Fight Monsters For You

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In this book, I Will Fight Monsters For You, by Santi Balmes, there is a little girl named Martina. She is going to bed, but she is not happy, because she is afraid that a monster is going to come out from under her bed from under her floor. She thinks

Privateer (Pirate)

Privateer (Pirate)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In “Pirate; Privateer” a man by the name of Hector Lynch is trying to make enough money to support himself and his wife while avoiding the looming life of piracy. He charters a ship belonging to the heathen Kergonan siblings to fish for treasure left behind by a wrecked Spanish galleon,

Ice Dogs

Ice Dogs

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Victoria Secord is a champion musher. One day she leaves her home to go to Cook’s house to look at some more Alaskan Huskies for her team. Along the way a freak snowstorm and an injured city boy challenge her skills and courage and helps to create bonds that could not

The Color of Our Sky: A Novel

The Color of Our Sky: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Born to a village prostitute, Mukta learns at a young age that her fate lies the same way. But after her mother’s death, she gets an unexpected reprieve when she is taken away to be a house girl for a family in the city of Mumbai. Even more unexpected is her

Kalea & Her Sweet Tooth

Kalea & Her Sweet Tooth

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s hard to argue that sugar isn’t delicious or addicting as it is everywhere and can influence our choices in food. Sugar can also lead to a lot of health problem if eaten in excess including tooth decay and diabetes. Have you ever stopped to consider just how much sugar you

Gulag Casual

Gulag Casual

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Austin English brings us a hodgepodge collection of abstract art, as well as short stories to accompany it. Different scenarios are acted out by different sets of characters, yet the drawings are so abstract it is sometimes necessary for the author to provide a guide for the reader to be able

The Big Book of Domination

The Big Book of Domination

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you are looking for a sweet love story to go along with your kinky sex story, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a book with sex, pain, power plays and kink, look no farther. The Big Book of Domination is a compilation of short

The Lonely Ones

The Lonely Ones

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482956374983{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In The Lonely Ones, Kelsey Sutton uses just a few precise words to give us a beautiful, poignant, and imaginative story. Her main character, Fain, is a young girl watching her family disintegrate under the pressures of a recession. At night, Fain is beckoned out of her bed by monsters and fae.

Kings of the Castle

Kings of the Castle

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This is a funny book about a boy that pretends a lot like he is the king of the castle. He pretends that he has to walk into somewhere and he thinks that it gives him great strength and wisdom. He is walking into the ocean. He pretends that a witch

Emerge

Emerge

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Growing up in a secret community isn’t easy but Lia Nautilus manages. She goes to school, hangs out with her friends, and has a crush like any other teenage girl. The only difference is that Lia isn’t a normal teenage girl. In fact she’s a distant cousin of the Little Mermaid.

The Parcel

The Parcel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It wasn’t until I finished reading The Parcel and then, having rolled a cigarette to recover from this harrowing yet strangely heroic journey through Bombay’s prostitution district of Kamathipura, that I realized I had reviewed Anosh Irani’s work before. That was back in 2011 when I was still learning the ropes

Kate Walden Directs: Bride of Slug Man

Kate Walden Directs: Bride of Slug Man

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Life has been nothing but Hollywood glitz and glamor for 12-year-old Kate Walden since she directed and debuted her breakout film NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIE CHICKENS at the Roxy Theater last semester. She’s practically famous at Medford Junior High, and there’s no better time to start filming her next big blockbuster,

Nina the Neighborhood Ninja

Nina the Neighborhood Ninja

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Nina the Ninja is smart and strong and speedy, all qualities needed by the local neighborhood superhero. One seemingly-average day, she uses those qualities to reunite a baby bird with its mommy, build a rain shelter for a cat, and save a family of turtles. It’s lucky that the neighborhood has

Magic for Unlucky Girls

Magic for Unlucky Girls

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Fourteen fairy tales, rewritten and spiced up for the modern adult child in all of us. Magical and tragic with the original Grimm twists, modern day problems and the unlucky girls that need to solve them. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A.A. Balaskovits takes the Brothers Grimm to a whole new level

Anastasia on Her Own (An Anastasia Krupnik story)

Anastasia on Her Own (An Anastasia Krupnik story)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A young girl’s mother is a very bad housekeeper, or so the girl thinks. One day her mom goes away for three weeks, so it’s up to the girl, Anastasia, her brother, and her dad to see about keeping the house up while dealing with the things that life brings. The

Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel

Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Whether they consciously realize it or not, all the works of great novelists are testament to Sigmund Freud’s model of the mind. Hacks have it easy – apply some sparkly phrases to formula, stir, bake and sell. There’s nothing wrong at all with being a hack; for as I have often

Sex on Earth

Sex on Earth

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Appropriately though provocatively titled, Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction is a lighthearted romp through various animals’ intimacies. Author Jules Howard, your friendly neighborhood zoologist, probes, burrows, and excavates to uncover a few of the myriad methods of animal reproduction. Most animals reproduce by sharing genetic material, but the

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: A Spinning Star Book

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: A Spinning Star Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Twinkle, twinkle… a much beloved lullaby gets a revival (not that it needs one) with this clever book, published by Applesauce Press. The words are simply those of the song, spread out among four two-page spreads, while the illustrations on each page are drawings that follow a little boy from playtime

The Knights of the Cold War and The Road to Bin Laden

The Knights of the Cold War and The Road to Bin Laden

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Peter Shadowhawk’s first novel The Knights of the Cold War and the Road to Bin Laden is a historical spy thriller that takes place over 20 years. The time period is between 1962 and 1984, during the height of the Cold War. In Shadowhawk’s book, the reader is introduced to a

Sojo: Memoirs of a Reluctant Sled Dog

Sojo: Memoirs of a Reluctant Sled Dog

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Sojo: Memoirs of a Reluctant Sled Dog is about a reluctant sled dog named Sojo. She travels the frozen Alaskan tundra. She doesn’t want to but she learns that being a sled dog is in her blood. She also learns that sled racing can be very dangers. One day when the

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Sabitri lived a hard life in India, losing her chance at education and love through her own indiscretion. Her choices reverberate through the generations; her daughter, Bela, flees to America with her lover but finds that life and love aren’t quite so simple, while Bela’s daughter, Tara, struggles to find her

Under the Influence: A Novel

Under the Influence: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Readers will love Joyce Maynard’s Under the Influence about a friendship gone bad. Helen is devoid of family after she loses her husband to divorce and then custody of her son after a night of drinking before she meets the charismatic Havillands who make her feel special. The friendship grows while her

Battle Without Honor or Humanity: Volume 2

Battle Without Honor or Humanity: Volume 2

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I actually went and looked this up on Google which at least shows you that research might not be my life, but it is occasionally my obligation. I was curious as to how many random thoughts a person has per minute and the answer was 50,000 a day. Off to the

Royal Bastards

Royal Bastards

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] So stop me if you have heard this before. A young lady is suddenly cast aside when her father has a true heir, she spends her time with the other bastards/outcasts, they are free to roam around and have fun, a nerdy one is love with the girl but the girl

Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A book telling about the famous fairy tale character Little Red-Riding Hood may not seem very exciting, but this story is Red from a different perspective. Red is not scared of anything but magic. But when her granny falls ill, Red is forced to used magic. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Red:

Bad Magic

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] After his older magician brother disappears without warning or trace, not-quite-13-years-old Clay inadvertently defaces a middle school wall with anti-magic graffiti, securing him an unwanted ticket to a retreat for delinquent children on the remote Price Island. Only Earth Ranch isn’t quite what it seems. The enigmatic camp director lives in

Naturally Lean: 125 Nourishing Gluten-Free, Plant-Based Recipes–All Under 300 Calories

Naturally Lean: 125 Nourishing Gluten-Free, Plant-Based Recipes–All Under 300 Calories

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Allyson Kramer’s latest recipe book, Naturally Lean, focuses on making a healthier you. All of the recipes are gluten-free and plant based, but she doesn’t market her recipes as following any popular or crazy fad diet. Her recipes were developed simply on the basis of making the healthiest version of herself

Janine.

Janine.

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Janine is… different. She is her own unique person. She is one of a kind, and she refuses to change just because other people don’t think she’s cool! Then, Janine hears that the popular girl in her class is having a party, and Janine isn’t invited because she’s too strange. What

Pigs and a Blanket

Pigs and a Blanket

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] There are two pigs, and they got a blanket for Christmas or their birthday. They didn’t each get a blanket – their blanket was the same blanket. They say all the stuff they like about their blanket – one pig likes to read and make movies and dance with her blanket. The other pig

The Dumpling Galaxy Cookbook

The Dumpling Galaxy Cookbook

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Dumpling Galaxy Cookbook is Helen You’s famous restaurant in New York, where she has refined dumpling creation into an art form; but if you can’t make the trek to Queens as often as you may like, she has compiled this cookbook of her restaurant’s

My Two Grandmothers

My Two Grandmothers

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There are two grandmothers, and they are very different from each other! One is like a hen and one is like a bee, and one is like the sun and the other is like the moon. One grandmother speaks French, and one speaks English. Their Christmases are different, and their dogs

Secrets of Bearhaven (Bearhaven #1)

Secrets of Bearhaven (Bearhaven #1)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book is about a boy named Spencer. One day his parents disappear. Spencer’s uncle takes him to Bearhaven, where Spencer comes closer to finding out where his parents went. Secrets of Bearhaven by K.E Rocha is a novel about the true meaning of friendship. In this story the bears act

Banished Threads

Banished Threads

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Kaylin McFarren’s Banished Threads has it all: suspense, mystery and romance. Chase Cohen is a treasure hunter who has made plenty of mistakes in his lifetime, however, getting his business partner Rachel Lyons pregnant and asking her to marry him was not one of them. With characters who are damaged, flawed,

The Recipient

The Recipient

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Casey Schillinger is on the brink of death when she receives a much needed heart transplant. Three years down the road, Casey’s life may have improved physically, but in other ways, things haven’t returned to normal. She suffers from insomnia due to terrifying nightmares and unable to keep herself out of

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men…

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men…

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What would it have been like to be the discoverer of a lost, ancient civilization? Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya puts you on the ground with explorers John Stephens, an American diplomat, and his great

Josh Climbs the Tree of Life

Josh Climbs the Tree of Life

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Admit it. As an adult, you have read the Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson series. You casually acknowledge they are “pretty alright” but secretly you beguiled them and wished somebody, anybody, would write these stories for you; us adults. Josh Climbs the Tree of Life does just that with a

67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Kent State shooting on May 4, 1970 seemed to be the epic national tragedy as I was growing up. Maybe because I’m from that part of the country. Post 9/11, Kansas City bombing, and other acts of violence, this catastrophe seems to be fading in memory and importance. In 67

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I don’t really understand this book, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan. I can see the pictures but it really doesn’t make any sense at all – it makes so little sense I can’t even figure out what it is supposed to mean. It is just a story

Because of Miss Bridgerton

Because of Miss Bridgerton

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Julia Quinn’s Because of Miss Bridgerton is an extremely enjoyable read. It is a witty historical romance between two characters that grew up hating each other, only to find that there may be more beneath the surface of their antagonistic relationship- like a deep seeded attraction and respect for the other person.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Rokesby’s and the

The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our “Correct” Beliefs

The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our “Correct” Beliefs

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Faith is a tricky word. Having faith and being certain of what you believe, are varied thoughts, yet seem on the surface to be the same. Peter Enns, a Professor of Biblical Studies writes an outstanding book to address such thoughts, and shake the foundation of faith into searching out what

The Ancient Curse

The Ancient Curse

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Fabrizio Castellani arrives at the Museum of Volterra with the intent to study a statue of a boy. His fascination is disrupted by a series of bizarre phone calls from a woman telling him to leave the boy in peace. When a tomb is discovered and the raiders are murdered, Fabrizio

The Roar of the Lionesses: Women’s Football in England

The Roar of the Lionesses: Women’s Football in England

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] (A Note to North American Readers: The term football is used here instead of soccer. Soccer, in case you didn’t know, comes from an abbreviation of Association Football the rules of which govern the game. So nothing in this review has anything to do with the game you know as football,

Munch: Art Masters Series

Munch: Art Masters Series

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Edvard Munch is best known for his iconic painting “The Scream”, but he was a prolific artist whose work was revolutionary for its time. He painted his emotions, or how an incident made him feel, rather than trying to recreate the external reality. Artist and author Steffen Kverneland has created an

Cat and Dog

Cat and Dog

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Author Helen Oswald and illustrator Zoe Waring created a story about the rivalry between cats and dogs called Cat and Dog. In the beginning, they are opposites: “Cat slept in the day,” “Dog slept at Night.” Every evening, they met for a “scrap.” The word “scrap” may need to be defined

Maisie at 8000 Feet: A Novel

Maisie at 8000 Feet: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Eight year old Maisie has lost her mother, found her father and gained an aunt. Her life is confusing, but her one escape from her fractured reality; she can fly. Her father disappears, her aunt banished from her life and Maisie is suddenly grown up and wondering where her life went

First Seals

First Seals

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It is hard to imagine a world without special forces such as the US Navy SEALs or the US Army Green Berets in this day and age of small scale warfare, surgical strikes, and a war on terrorism, but that was where the United States was in the beginning of WWII.

Male Sex Work and Society

Male Sex Work and Society

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When people talk, or think, about sex work they generally will talk about female sex work or prostitution. What is generally ignored is male sex work and the role that it plays in society. Male Sex Work and Society helps :ll that gap in the literature by exploring the world of male sex work through

The Map to Everywhere

The Map to Everywhere

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517284619953{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] Master Thief Fin is on a quest to find the pieces of a map he needs in order to find his mother who was kidnapped long ago. He is joined in his quest by Marrill, who also needs the map, but for a different reason – to get

Unspeakable Gift

Unspeakable Gift

  It’s hard to believe that less than forty years ago, pregnancy out of wedlock was so taboo that young women were locked away and hidden for the duration of their pregnancy and the infant was then given up for adoption as families had reputations to uphold, despite the long term mental anguish endured by

The Avengers Storybook Collection

The Avengers Storybook Collection

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] While Marvel comic books, movies, and TV shows are ways to introduce the Avengers to a child, The Avengers Storybook Collection makes it easy for a child to understand each Avenger’s background without using overt sex, violence, or vulgar speech. The storybook also allows parents to bond with their children, especially

The Genius of Birds

The Genius of Birds

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Genius of Birds is, as you can guess, all about how fascinating those creatures are. It starts out by talking about birds’ intelligence – how do you measure it? If you just measure brain size, of course, an elephant far outstrips any bird for sheer size, but crows are arguably

Painless

Painless

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] David Hart has a rare condition that causes him not to feel pain. Most kids who have CIPA don’t usually survive childhood, but David is seventeen and has beaten the odds so far. His whole life has been monitored and he lives by a careful set of rules. Luna, a nurse

Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale

Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A long time ago, some fairy tales were written, and they have been twisted and distorted until no one remembers often what the original truly was. In sleeping beauty, was Maleficent evil or nice? Were the queen and king really to blame? And those three little fairies, what was the actual

Search and Find Space

Search and Find Space

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book, Search and Find Space, is super boring. You might think it will actually teach you something about space, but it doesn’t. All it does is have a bunch of pictures of aliens and made-up space robots and things the author, Joshua George, made up. So it is kind of

Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm: Recipes from Land and Sea

Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm: Recipes from Land and Sea

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The word for this book is “Savor”. This is not a book of fast foods. Once a month, on the full moon, Annemarie Ahern, the author of Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm has a dinner party with ten to sixteen guests. The book lists recipes and preparations for these

play dead

play dead

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Vital, joyful, erotic, disgusting, sharp, witty, wounding, frightening, or praising whatever Francine J. Harris’ play dead is trying to do, it certainly is memorable. The collection is divided into three sections, “startle,” “blink,” and “freeze,” and Harris uses every tool in the box. Words streak across the page. There are tight formal

Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCool

Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCool

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCool by Jeanne Willis is about a girl named Lucinda. She is always very pretty and very careful about what she looks like, but she is also very, very, very rude! She loves to tell everyone that they need to change the way they look, and be beautiful

Okay, So Look

Okay, So Look

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In the beginning…in a way you’ve never seen it before. Hilariously funny take on Genesis with irreverent answers to all those niggling questions everyone that has read the Bible has, whether they admit it or not. Beginning with the foreword; Genesis takes on a whole new meaning as God creates the

Dark Stallions

Dark Stallions

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Dark Stallions: Legend of the Centurions is a trilogy about the immortal beings that have graced the earth for centuries. Jack Walker is a talented horse trainer in a small rural Colorado town. He has an uncanny affinity for horses and a huge secret to hide. Jack is the human form

Somewhere Among

Somewhere Among

Ema is half American, half Japanese, so she feels like she doesn’t belong anywhere, because she’s half-and-half. Her mother is pregnant with her little sister, and Ema’s parents decide they and Ema should go and visit Ema’s Japanese grandparents. While Ema is in Japan she attends a Japanese school and meets a boy named Masa,

Amulet IV

Amulet IV

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] After the death of his first wife Aripele, Aulus rescues his Pontic love Hypsicratea—former queen of the indomitable Mithridates the Great—and with his newly inherited riches, thanks in part to Cicero’s legal savviness, they return to Rome with their two inherited sons, Bazes and Quintus. When Quintus—the son of Aripele—is mistaken

Global Magic

Global Magic

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] From Professor Hornborg’s Introduction to Global Magic: Magic is not merely a practice constrained by the absence of objectively efficacious knowledge but a particular kind of social strategy for achieving specific ends. As defined here, magic hinges on the attribution to certain objects of an agency that is actually contingent on

James Joyce’s Teaching Life and Methods

James Joyce’s Teaching Life and Methods

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I suppose it barely deserves mention that we writers are obsessed with language. After all, ours is a business dependent on describing the mundanely familiar as something exotic and fresh. The imagination enters into that, but so does the choice of the actual words. According to the editors of the Oxford

The Sisters Grimm Fairy-Tale Detectives #1

The Sisters Grimm Fairy-Tale Detectives #1

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Sabrina and Daphne are two orphans who are on their way to live with their grandmother. But their grandmother reveals to them that all the Grimm Fairy Tales are true, and that Sabrina and Daphne are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, who were detectives. The Grimm detectives’ goal was to clear

Wild Blood

Wild Blood

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1517308266817{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308277730{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Estrella has always been a wild horse who has never carried a burden on her back but she knows what it’s like. Carrying her herd to the Mighties, the Continental Divide, to the sweet grasses is an enormous task, but one that she knows she

Animas, Book Two Flight of the King

Animas, Book Two Flight of the King

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for C.R. Grey’s Animas – Flight of the King, Book 2.” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Land of Love and Ruins

Land of Love and Ruins

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you have ever yearned to go to Iceland, or even better, inside the insightful mind of one of Iceland’s greatest writers, then Land of Love and Ruins by Oddny Eir is just the ticket. Part memoir, part diary, part dream-log, part travel guide, Eir travels Iceland (and England and France)

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Jean Valjean was imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his hungry family. When he is released years later, he has the choice to be honest or to go back to his old ways. A kind bishop’s action sets him on the right path. He becomes an honest and

As Kinky as You Wanna Be

As Kinky as You Wanna Be

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Do you have a kinky side that you want to explore? Does your partner have a kinky side that they want you to explore? As Kinky As You Want To Be is chalk full of tips, tricks, and short stories written by erotic story writers like Janine Ashbless and Nikki Magennis,

A Crowded Heart

A Crowded Heart

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1510547336872{margin-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The weight of war lasts long after the fighting has stopped and for men like Willis, a Canadian soldier who willfully volunteered, the grisly scenes endured during World War II would forever be a burden for not only him, but to those close to him as well. Drowning his post traumatic stress

Grim Tidings: Hellhound Chronicles

Grim Tidings: Hellhound Chronicles

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The welcome back to the gritty, violent, and altogether unsavory reality of Ava and Leo’s lives is just as twisted and painful as we’ve come to expect in the world of reapers and hounds. In Grim Tidings we pick up with our hellspawn couple on the way to Minneapolis to visit

Assassin’s Silence: A David Slaton Novel

Assassin’s Silence: A David Slaton Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Ward Larsen has created a super assassin the likes of Jason Bourne. In Assassin’s Silence, David Slaton is a former Mossad operative who has gone dark and has been living under the radar as a stonemason in Malta. His life is quiet and serene until a team of mercenaries blow his

LUZ

LUZ

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Like most Cubans, Clara is tired of living a substandard life beneath a controlling communist regime that has left her father dead, her sister blind, and her newly beloved husband working hundreds of miles away. When the opportunity arises for Clara to flee the country without risk of being picked up

Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Get Smart! How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field by bestselling author, Brian Tracy, is not another simplistic positive thinking book. It’s a book of thinking tools to help people move forward in life, and even take “quantum leaps.” Intelligence is defined as

Attack of the Dragons

Attack of the Dragons

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In the ancient village of Mouseborg, Geronimo Stiltonord the smarty-mouseking prefers reading and writing to training for battle against the fearsome dragons. But when the village chief’s wife gets sick and the only way to help her get better is wild mint tea, Geronimo somehow gets roped into going on a

Klickitat

Klickitat

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Vivian and Audra are two sisters with a deep connection, until Audra starts drifting away. She becomes obsessed with living in the wild, away from society, and meets a strange person from a strange place. Her sister Vivian has “spells” in which she has emotional overloads, and Audra seems to be

William Marrion Branham God’s Twentieth-Century Prophet

William Marrion Branham God’s Twentieth-Century Prophet

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Once in awhile a revival figure emerges in history and challenges people about their beliefs, culture, and ultimate aspirations in life. In William Marrion Branham: God’s Twentieth-Century Prophet, Victor Sutch has masterfully created a juxtaposition of two inspiring lives: Jesus of Nazareth and the post-World War II Christian Minister, William Branham.

Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World’s Most Important Food

Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World’s Most Important Food

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Eggs are a perfect food, which explains why they are beloved in every culture across every continent. Rachel Khong has curated a lovely homage to this food in Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World’s Most Important Food. It is a cookbook, but also so much more.

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (Women of Action)

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (Women of Action)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] During World War II while the men went off the fight the women stayed behind to work in wartime industries, to keep America running. While much has been written on the contributions of white women, Rosie the Riveter, little has been written about the experiences of African-American women during the war.

The Dark Ones

The Dark Ones

  The supernatural world is often not what it appears. The Dark Ones are a lethal pack of werewolves known for their black color and ruthless penchant for death and violence. As Rose and her pack discover, the barrier between the immortals and the “others” of the supernatural realm not only includes a major difference

I Dare You Not to Yawn

I Dare You Not to Yawn

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s so difficult not to feel sleepy when you get in your nice, cozy jammies and snuggle in your warm bed! Helene Boudreau’s I Dare You Not to Yawn is the adorable struggles of a young boy’s trying not to go to sleep. This board book is sturdy with good sized

This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Immigration is what started the creation of our country. As stated in the book This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne, if you aren’t a Native American Indian, then you’re either an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant. This fantastically written book is an

Building Machines: An Interactive Guide to Construction Machines

Building Machines: An Interactive Guide to Construction Machines

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Most young children are fascinated by big construction machines, and the older they get, the more questions they have. How do front loaders, wrecking balls, cement mixers, and other big trucks work? What jobs do they do in construction sites and around town? For the young reader with big questions and

Defensive Eating with Morrissey: Vegan Recipes from the One You Left Behind

Defensive Eating with Morrissey: Vegan Recipes from the One You Left Behind

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s not easy being Morrissey, but now, at least, he has plenty of things to eat. Defensive Eating with Morrissey is packed full of delicious meat-free, cruelty-free vegan recipes that will ensure that food, at least, is no longer a struggle. This slim cookbook is half recipes, half tongue-in-cheek drawings of

Boxcar Kids: Mystery of the Missing Pop Idol

Boxcar Kids: Mystery of the Missing Pop Idol

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Boxcar Children go to a mall to watch the filming of a television singing contest. When the contest is about to start, pop star Madlynn Rose disappears and soon after they discover that she is gone. One of the judges tells the Boxcar Children about the disappearance. The Boxcar Children

Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War

Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] According to Greek mythology, Cassandra had been given the power of prophecy by Apollo when he tried to seduce her. When she rejected his advances, Apollo spit in her mouth thereby laying a curse that whenever she tells her prophecy, nobody would believe her. Cassandra in Oz is the story of

Sir Gawain Green Knight

Sir Gawain Green Knight

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517280714499{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is Michael Morpurgo’s retelling of a classic tale. Sir Gawain is a knight of King Arthur’s famous Round Table. One Christmas, a giant Green Knight enters their feast celebration and challenges the knights to a contest. He will allow a knight to

The Ugly Dumpling

The Ugly Dumpling

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Stephanie Campisi’s book The Ugly Dumpling is a story about a dumpling who thinks he is ugly. It is a bit like the story of the ugly duckling, but very different. The dumpling meets a cockroach in the restaurant where he lives, who tells him he is not ugly. They go

How to Read the Bible

How to Read the Bible

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The bible itself can be daunting. It’s sacred and the versions make it often confusing about which one to use. Attending a class at church can be just as overwhelming because some people memorize scripture without an understanding and don’t relate the passage to the context of what the verse is

An Armadillo in New York

An Armadillo in New York

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In the book An Armadillo in New York by Julie Kraulis, there was an armadillo named Arlo, and he was going to New York to meet Lady Liberty. His grandfather made him a journal of where he should go on adventures. I like this book because it is fun, interesting, and

The Passenger

The Passenger

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Imagine the life in disguise you have built for yourself has begun to fall apart, thanks to the untimely death of your spouse. He fell down the stairs and sure, it wasn’t your fault, but would the police believe you once they realize you aren’t who you say you are? That

Seekers: Forest of Wolves #4

Seekers: Forest of Wolves #4

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517280095773{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”] When the four bears go into a new forest, Toklo, a brown grizzly bear, finds out that it was the place where he was born. He is excited to hear this. His younger brother died here, so Toklo wants to find the grave. But an older bear tells

The Christmas Elf

The Christmas Elf

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] One of the main beauties of Christmas is how all the beauty of family love and sharing is condensed into one day. Similarly, many of the best-loved works about Christmas are equally presented in condensed form, whether that is The Night Before Christmas, The Little Match Girl,or a pleasant ninety minutes spent watching your

Moonkind

Moonkind

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for Moonkind by Sarah Prineas” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][TS-VCSC-Vimeo content_vimeo=”https://vimeo.com/155443243″ lightbox_play=”true” lightbox_loop=”true” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”30″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Joey Counts to Ten

Joey Counts to Ten

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This Australian cumulative counting (up to ten) book, Joey Counts to Ten, by Sally Morgan, and illustrated by Ambelin Kwaymullina, will introduce animals, some native to Australia, to kids. American parents may want to do a little Google-searching to explain to children that Joey is not only the name of the

The Sparks Fly Upward

The Sparks Fly Upward

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Nathan Miller is a kindred spirit from North Carolina. Set in the 1970’s, this novel follows young Nate during the summer before college as he begins a budding romance with former classmate, Becky Jenkins. Nate battles his inner-demons and continues to try to do the right thing while exposed to new surroundings

Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas gives a well researched and comprehensive glimpse into the life of Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams. At first it was hard to imagine that Louisa Adams would have a riveting biography of 457 pages, and I must admit

Cody and the Rules of Life

Cody and the Rules of Life

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Cody and the Rules of Life is kind of about two people: Cody, and her older brother, Wyatt. Wyatt wants to get a new bike, called The Cobra, but when he gets it, he seems to love it more than he loves Cody, because he doesn’t pay attention to her anymore.

Larry Gets Lost in Seattle: 10th Anniversary Edition

Larry Gets Lost in Seattle: 10th Anniversary Edition

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In this tenth anniversary edition of Larry Gets Lost in Seattle, the dog Larry gets separated from his owner, Pete. As each searches for the other, both come upon major landmarks of Seattle like Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Pioneer Square and more in this rhyming saga, delightfully illustrated by

Mission to Moon Farm (Secrets of Bearhaven #2)

Mission to Moon Farm (Secrets of Bearhaven #2)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] When Spencer Plain’s parents went missing Spencer discovered a place called Bearhaven, a city of bears. Here bears eat, play, talk, and live together. But when Spencer’s best bear cub friend Kate goes missing and the clues in the woods point to only one place, Moon Farm the most dangerous factory

A Trip to Jeremyville Adult Coloring Book

A Trip to Jeremyville Adult Coloring Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A Trip to Jeremyville by Jeremy Ville is a coloring book with approximately 130 pages. Every page is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to relieve stress through relaxation. It is very easy to lose oneself in the work of Jeremyville. Coloring has been proven to relieve stress, however this artist takes it one

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]If you are a history buff looking for adventure, Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya is the book for you. John Stephens, a U.S. ambassador, used his advantageous political position to gain access to rumored ruins

Dandelion Angel: A Novel

Dandelion Angel: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Are women destined to become the mother they were raised with? How terrifying when out of our mouths, the words that haunted us growing up comes oozing out and we feel transported to that time in our life when we felt small, unworthy, and knew we would never measure up to the

The Syndrome (Kingdom Keepers, #7)

The Syndrome (Kingdom Keepers, #7)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for A Kingdom Keepers Adventure, The Syndrome” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][TS-VCSC-Vimeo content_vimeo=”https://vimeo.com/155343927″ lightbox_play=”true” lightbox_loop=”true” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”30″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Bountiful Bonsai

Bountiful Bonsai

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Bonsai, the traditional art form of growing miniature trees in pots, produces exquisitely beautiful plants that many people would love to use to decorate their homes; unfortunately, traditional bonsai are not suitable for indoors. However, Richard W. Bender proposes a different approach to bonsai that is – and is productive and

A New Family

A New Family

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] How can three women pull off multiple con -jobs luring rich men away from all of their possessions and simply disappear, along with the trail of millions of dollars? That is exactly what PI Bart Northcote has been hired to do in this third book of the Bart Northcote series, A

I Can’t Believe It!

I Can’t Believe It!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I Can’t Believe It! by the publishers at DK this is about a bunch of crazy things that are hard to believe – but actually they are not that hard to believe, because you probably already know a lot of those things are true. And there are a lot of even

Red Ribbons

Red Ribbons

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It absolutely delights me that Polis Books has released the first US edition of Louise Phillips’ Red Ribbons. Phillips is Ireland’s finest mystery writer and Red Ribbons marked the first appearance of her criminal psychologist Kate Pearson, however my enjoyment of the occasion is not so much for the writer or

What Families Can Learn

What Families Can Learn

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Striking a balance between work and family has been the perennial problem that many working parents have to deal with and in most cases, their attention often veers towards one. In What Families Can Learn from Corporate America Heather J. Wasielewski shares expert advice on the art of shifting perspective, changing

Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking

Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482953892013{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The research and study to write this monumental art history book, Rembrandt, The Painter Thinking must have taken years by author Ernst van de Wetering. Nevertheless, Wetering states early in the book that much of the material has been published by him in previous publications and in this volume he compiles the

A Timeline History of the Thirteen Colonies

A Timeline History of the Thirteen Colonies

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Students learning about the early American History have an outstanding reference in A Timeline History of the Thirteen Colonies. This is part of the Timeline Trackers: America’s Beginning series and is by Mary K. Pratt. This full color visual display along a timeline breaks down historical events in an easy to

Finger Painting Weekend Workshop

Finger Painting Weekend Workshop

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Finger Painting Weekend Workshop: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Brush-Free Works of Art by Iris Scott is a beautiful book with outstanding, colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions for those who have never painted before. The author, whose work is in galleries in many cities and has garnered worldwide attention, enthusiastically insists that

Epic Kitchen Adventures: Tasty Treats Ready in Minutes!

Epic Kitchen Adventures: Tasty Treats Ready in Minutes!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Epic Kitchen Adventures: Tasty Treats Ready in Minutes! begins with an inherent contradiction in its title. Anything “epic” cannot be accomplished in “minutes”. Clever disjunction, but the book only manages to succeed in being obnoxious. ‘Unicorn Poo Cookies’? Seriously? Or how about the gourmet ‘One-Minute Microwave Pizzas’ made with saltines. How more epic can you

Scarecrow’s Panic Plot

Scarecrow’s Panic Plot

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] One of Batman’s enemies is the villain Scarecrow. Scarecrow fits The Dark Knight with a fear helmet that slowly doses him with fear gas. Batman has to go along with Scarecrow’s plot because any attempt to remove the helmet will release the full dose of fear gas, which will kill him.

Making Your First Year a Success

Making Your First Year a Success

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Making Your First Year a Success: A Classroom Survival Guide for Middle and High School Teachers is by Robert L. Wyatt III and J. Elaine White, both veteran teachers and professors. Many of their tips will help secondary teachers, particularly suggestions like standing at the door to greet students, displaying student work,

Harvey Drew and the Bling Bots

Harvey Drew and the Bling Bots

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Cas Lester’s Harvey Drew series is busting with wit, suspense, and bravery. In Lester’s latest Harvey Drew story, Harvey Drew and the Bling Bots, Harvey and his misfit crew aboard the Toxic Spew, face a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to recover a very valuable piece of space junk. However, getting their hands on

Human Behavior in Extreme Situations

Human Behavior in Extreme Situations

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] You’re in the midst of your English class of twenty-five high school students debating the symbolism of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Mid-sentence, a chill runs up your spine and all at once, twenty-six heads turn towards the door attempting to assess why fireworks are going off in the hallway. Screams shattering

Inside of a Dog: Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Inside of a Dog: Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Have you ever looked at a dog and wondered what they were thinking? Well, if you have, this book is for you. Alexandra Horowitz takes you on a journey through a dog’s world. From head to tail, from shoulders to paws, she helps you understand what dogs see, smell, and know.

Multiple Listings

Multiple Listings

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Multiple Listings is a lesson in what makes a house a home. A better floor plan, a bigger yard, a prettier kitchen, can’t take the place of the love of the people inside. This is a lesson Real Estate Appraiser Nicki Daniels has to learn the hard way. Nicki grew up

Love Your Enemies in Case Your Friends Turn Out to be Bastards

Love Your Enemies in Case Your Friends Turn Out to be Bastards

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Don’t be fooled! This book isn’t just for professionals and the scholarly types. If you’re a fan of the adult cartoon Archer or Tucker Max’s I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, but those college days are but a faint memory, then you’ll find, Love Your Enemies in Case Your Friends

The Best Days Are Dog Days

The Best Days Are Dog Days

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A dog and his best friend, a little girl he calls Sis, spend all day together, every day. They stretch, eat, play at the park, and even have baths at the same time. For the two of them, every day is a dog day, which means every day is a great

Sea Glass Summer

Sea Glass Summer

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482955933913{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Heidi Stoddart’s Sea Glass Summer is story great for children who have to move from their home to somewhere else. Molly loves her home on the beach and spending time with her Gram. She is sad and scared when her parents tell her they’re moving far away.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The story is very short, but

Dinosaur Pirates!

Dinosaur Pirates!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The aptly titled Dinosaur Pirates! by Penny Dale features (surprise, surprise) saurian scallywags sailing the seven seas. The story, while not told in rhyme, has repeating phrases that lend it a lyrical quality. The big buccaneers dig up buried treasure (as all pirates should). Then they are menaced by a shipload

Twinkie Chan’s Crocheted Abode a la Mode

Twinkie Chan’s Crocheted Abode a la Mode

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If your house, office, or school supplies need a pop of color and a dash of flavor Twinkie Chan’s Crocheted Abode A La Mode is the book for you. From a banana split throw pillow to ice cream cone shower mitts to a TV dinner tablet cozy, Twinkie Chan’s patterns will

A Life in Questions

A Life in Questions

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It was just the other day, after one of the putrid demonstrations of junk theatre dubiously described as a debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that I was engaged in a Skype conversation with one of my North American client authors, an extremely well-educated man well-versed in both government and electoral politics. As

Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing

Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This is a true story about a boy named Ohiyesa. When he was older, he was called Charles Eastman, and he wrote about when he was a boy in Indian Boyhood: The True Story of a Sioux Upbringing. This book was written by Michael Oren Fitzgerald who used a lot of

Escaping Peril

Escaping Peril

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Sometimes your problem is that you want to be loyal to one person but you are pressed to be loyal to another person. A dragon named Peril felt this way. One day she is loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her as a notorious death monster, and the next day she

Those Crazy Notions of Otherwise Intelligent People

Those Crazy Notions of Otherwise Intelligent People

[vc_row preset=”mpc_preset_266″ content_preset=”_mpc_preset_266″ css=”.vc_custom_1472738337466{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][mpc_textblock content_width=”100″] How many times have you picked up a book labeled humor or comedy only to find it amiss of any real humor? It’s because comedic fiction is the most difficult type of literature to write and tragicomedy even more difficult. You may have a great sense of humor,

Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] With this being the 500th anniversary of the Reformation you are seeing a lot of books coming out that cover some part of that topic. This new book by Alex Ryrie covers more than just Luther and the beginning of Protestantism; it covers the entire history of Protestantism from Luther to

Dinosaur Isle

Dinosaur Isle

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Tracy Lee Ford has an interesting twist on the creation of modern day dinosaurs in his book entitled Dinosaur Isle. The plot has a Jurassic Park feel to it, but instead of creating dinosaurs for entertainment purposes as attractions at an amusement park, Dinosaur Isle doctors are “growing” dinosaurs to study

Sex Facts: 369 Facts to Blow You Away

Sex Facts: 369 Facts to Blow You Away

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Do you want to be able to wow people at parties by your knowledge of all things sex? Do you dream of dropping sexual knowledge bombs on the unsuspecting? Do you know that kissing is more hygienic than shaking hands? Do you know the average length of a 200 pound gorilla’s

The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50

The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Everyone has heard of the wild twenties, flirty thirties, and amazing forties when in regards to your sexual pleasure; however what happens after turning fifty? Not much is said when men and women turn fifty and older and how they keep the sex “alive.” In comes The Ultimate Guide to Sex

The Too-Scary Story

The Too-Scary Story

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] When Papa puts Walter and Grace, his two brave explorers to bed, he starts to tell them a bedtime story. Grace wants a scary story, but Walter doesn’t want it to be scary at all. With the constant pleas for “scary” and cries of “too scary,” Papa settles into his story,

Immortal Guardians (Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts #1)

Immortal Guardians (Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts #1)

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The Boring Book

The Boring Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In this book, there is a book that people say is super super boring. All the people that try to read it fall asleep because it is so super boring. But then the words in the book said they were tired of being boring, and they wanted to have fun instead!

Weird & Wacky Inventions

Weird & Wacky Inventions

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517307951053{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1517308004340{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Weird & Wacky Inventions by Jim Murphy is a non-fiction book about, you guessed it, weird and wacky inventions from long ago. Some examples of these inventions are a self-tipping hat for men, a haircutting machine, an arm and hand purse, and a portable

The Burning Page

The Burning Page

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Ever since Librarian spy, Irene went against orders to rescue her assistant, Kai, and interfered with the dragons and Fae, she’s been on probation with the Library. She and Kai have been sent on fetch and retrieve missions, which take a turn for the worse

Library Lust

Library Lust

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] We’ve all seen it on the news, city politics that pit people, services, and community against one another. In the end, the taxpayers bear the weight of the crisis through higher taxes and reduced services and the employees suffer, having to endure hostile working conditions. Library Lust by NS Navla takes

The Big Fear

The Big Fear

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Andrew Case’s police procedural The Big Fear tells the story of a New York City cop who on a muggy August night shoots a fellow officer who was armed. The shooting catches the attention of an ambitious civilian investigator. The civilian investigator, Leonard Mitchell is promised promotion to the head of

Curious Cat Spy Club

Curious Cat Spy Club

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A zorse – half horse, half zebra – is running wild in traffic. A girl feeds him carrot cookies and he calms down. The cookies were for the girl’s father’s baking company. So the owner of the zorse offers to explain what happens to the cookies. The zorse’s owner, the girl,

The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener

The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] As the owner of a veritable black thumb, I’m always on the lookout for good tips on successfully growing and maintaining a simple garden. The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener by Cinead McTernan provides the perfect combination of gardening how-to’s and creating easy edible creations with your bounty. The basics are well-covered, everything

Releasing the Demons

Releasing the Demons

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In the world created by L.D. Rose in Releasing The Demons, the war between vampires and humans has destroyed most of the major cities as we know them. People are afraid to leave their house after dusk, barricading themselves against possible vampire attacks. That is all but a few brave detectives

Snoopy’s Happy Day: A Peanuts Puppet Book

Snoopy’s Happy Day: A Peanuts Puppet Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Everyone’s favorite white beagle is ready for a brand new day! Read along as he visits friends, plays games, and even does his famous dance. For Snoopy, every day is a happy day! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Young readers will adore this cute puppet board book featuring characters from the beloved

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] With it being the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution you would expect to see many books written by professors and journalist, what is rare is a book written by an award winning fiction author. But that is what we get from China Mieville in his new book October. Let me

When the Moon Is Low: A Novel

When the Moon Is Low: A Novel

Fereiba did not have the happiest childhood: she lost her mother as an infant, then spent her youth trying to earn her stepmother’s affection. But things turned out happy enough when she married–and eventually fell in love with–Mahmoud. But when the Taliban murders her husband, Fereiba makes the difficult decision to leave Afghanistan with her

One Pan & Done: Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your Table

One Pan & Done: Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your Table

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Wouldn’t it be nice if making dinner was as simple as throwing everything in the oven and, voila, out comes a perfectly-cooked meal? Well, Molly Gilbert’s new cookbook gets you about as close to that dream as you can get. One Pan & Done: Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your

Money, Power & Sex: A Love Story

Money, Power & Sex: A Love Story

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Nichelle’s life was finally coming together perfectly. She had a nice car, a good job, and had found a man who worshipped her body like a Goddess that she is. Lucas was everything a girl dreamed of waking next to every morning, but sometimes our past just refuses to let us

The Search for Family

The Search for Family

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It won’t be long before Bart Northcote takes over the turf of detective novels as a compelling character that readers will love. Fans of The Ishtar Cup can be certain they are in for a delightful treat. In this new Bart Northcote novel, the suave and savvy detective signs up for

Wildly into the Dark

Wildly into the Dark

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Poet Tyler Knott Gregson has become a bestselling author on and off. Wildly into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind is the author’s third book. He seems to have hauled out an old typewriter and at times even older, yellowed paper upon which to type, put

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] At the core of Roger G. King’s first novel Affirmative Action is a second American Civil War. This fits in nicely with the expanding genre of apocalyptic American fiction. There is a fine old German word, zeitgeist, that translates into English as “Spirit of the Age” and its application here is

DIY Updos, Knots, and Twists: Easy, Step-by-Step Styling Instructions for 35 Hair Styles

DIY Updos, Knots, and Twists: Easy, Step-by-Step Styling Instructions for 35 Hair Styles

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Polish your ponytail, embellish your braids, and elevate the everyday bun with 35 upscale hairstyles that can be done in minutes. Elevate your everyday look to chic with beautiful braids and updos, with styles like the French Braid Looped Bun and the Twist Wrap Chignon, or add a playful touch with

The Big Book of Exit Strategies

The Big Book of Exit Strategies

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] “My nostalgia is a pyromaniac I follow into a condemned barn that once served as a night club as if there were a dance left in any of us.” -Jamaal May, The Tendencies of Walls Jamaal May’s second poetry collection, The Big Book of Exit Strategies is a tender force with

Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes for No-Knead Loaves & Meals to Savor Every Slice

Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes for No-Knead Loaves & Meals to Savor Every Slice

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Freshly-made bread, warm from the oven – could there be anything better? Many people are nervous about making bread, but with Alexandra Stafford’s No-Knead basic bread recipe, really nothing could be easier. It is an incredibly simple recipe that almost guarantees good results. But Stafford’s beautiful book, Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes

Schizo: Anti-Hero Nursery Rhyme

Schizo: Anti-Hero Nursery Rhyme

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Russell Pond is a boy who grew up in the backwoods area of some unmentioned state, surrounded by characters who all seem as if they should be locked up (whether it be in jail or an insane asylum). He suffers from multiple personalities, which are only made worse with multiple head

Darkstorm

Darkstorm

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Darkstorm by M.L. Spencer is a fascinating blend of fiction, mystery, and fantasy, a combination powerful enough to create a world where readers will want to escape. Set 1000 years ago at a time when magic reigned and conflicts were common, two powerful people are threatened by an imminent war that could

Chaos:Worlds Beyond

Chaos:Worlds Beyond

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Enter into a virtual menagerie of worlds and travel to each via space hopping toddler Gods and Goddesses and void worms that brings slaves and soldiers, deadly new lifeforms and demons all come together as warring factions that fight for superiority. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] C.W. Holcomb creates multiple worlds and

Karachi, Dacca…and Back

Karachi, Dacca…and Back

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Karachi, Dacca…and Back is the story of one woman’s survival amid harrowing experiences of domestic violence and isolation, and the people who helped her along the way in her search “to reclaim her children.” Isabel’s narrative takes readers back to the late 1950s in New York when in her early 20s

Botticelli Reimagined

Botticelli Reimagined

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Here is a massive volume so thick it may be too much for some coffee tables. Botticelli Reimagined was assembled by four museum curators Ana Debenetti, Mark Evans, Ruben Rebmann and Stefan Wepplemann. It is all about the highly influential Italian painter Sandro Botticelli. Not very popular during his lifetime and

Dark Sea

Dark Sea

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Dark Sea contains all the elements of a sustaining series of entertaining novels. It’s protagonist Lili contains a deep spiritualism tied in with native American and other legend-based cultures. Her partner in life, Cal Green aka Sitting Crow is a well-realized character who is not merely a sidekick to Lili. The Cape

Mirror Mirror 1

Mirror Mirror 1

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Somewhere between an art/literary journal, a compilation of artist’s sketch books and a scanned copy of a poet’s notebook, Mirror Mirror 1, edited by Blaise Larmee is a minimalistic dialogue subverting the idea of what a physical book should and can be. Those who enjoy contemplating the transference of paper culture

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] John Guy proves why he is one of the top British historians in Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years. Not only has he chosen to write about the period of the last Tudor monarch’s reign that are skimmed over by other historians, the end of her life, he has thoroughly researched this from

Home For Dinner

Home For Dinner

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s an undisputed fact that eating dinner together regularly has benefits for the entire family. Younger kids tend to have a broader vocabulary. Older kids tend to have healthier body weights. Teenagers are less likely to develop eating disorders. And those are just a few of the benefits! The dinner table

How to be a Scientist

How to be a Scientist

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Scientists try to learn about a lot of things, but they have to do things kind of in the same way. This book, How to Be a Scientist by Steve Mould, helps you learn how to do things like a scientist does. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There are lots of different

The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim

The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482956672137{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What would you do if you found out that works of Gothic literature such as Dracula or Frankenstein were based on real monsters? Would you live in fear? Edgar Brim, of England in the late 1800’s, is plagued by night terrors any time he goes to sleep, and is already living in

Mast Island

Mast Island

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Anne Nichols Reynolds Mast Island is a suspenseful mystery that delves into the murky depths of family honor and obligation. After the death of her beloved grandmother, artist Abby Parson’s life is turned upside down by the revelation that her grandmother, and only family, was not an actual blood relation. Abby’s

Darklands

Darklands

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Dark fantasy fans looking to stow away the day with a good book will revel in the newest release Darklands, book three of the Rhenwars Saga series, by award-winning Indie author M.L. Spencer. The purpose of a series is to start with the first book and read them sequentially, though realistically

The Thank You Book

The Thank You Book

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It is very important to say thank you and be thankful for the blessings in your life. Some of the funniest books are by Mo Williams, who writes the pigeon books and Elephant & Piggie books. Somehow the pigeon is always in the book somewhere too, which is super funny because the book isn’t about

Harlem Renaissance Party

Harlem Renaissance Party

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Harlem Renaissance is the name for the early twentieth-century African-American Cultural Revolution centered in Harlem, in New York City. The years between the world wars saw a gathering of talent in New York that led to an outpouring of music, visual and performing art, athletics and literature from the black

The Dark Days Pact

The Dark Days Pact

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Lady Helen’s world as been turned upside down as everything she has ever known as changed. Thrust into keeping up with her changing world Lady Helen must keep on her toes to not only protect those around her, but to protect herself. Lord Carlston has

Lighten Your Load

Lighten Your Load

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Lighten Your Load is a short but practical guide of 35 suggestions on how to declutter and detoxify your life. Karin Kiser brings a witty and simple approach to how to simplify your life and free yourself from the physical, emotional, and mental stressors that tend to overwhelm our everyday life.

Power Geopolitics in the Pacific Age

Power Geopolitics in the Pacific Age

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] More than two centuries after throwing off its own colonial status, the United States still looks at the world through a set of European-shaped glasses. For instance, we refer to Japan, China, the Philippines and so forth collectively as the Far East. What is wrong with Near West, or Pacific West?

Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South

Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Chicken processing might be one of the most dangerous, degrading, and worst jobs in America today. Many immigrants start working in chicken processing facilities in the deep south of Mississippi and anthropologist Angela Stuesse examines how immigrants have changed the face of the deep south in her new book Scratching Out A Living. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Mother Cary’s Butter Knife

Mother Cary’s Butter Knife

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Keenan Mowat was about to go out to sea one day when an old man told him that if he was going, he should take a hook, an axe, and a silver knife, and that if big waves were about to toss the ship, he should throw those things, one at

Skin and Bones

Skin and Bones

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] After months of meetings and tests and evaluations, Jack Plumb, now nicknamed “Bones,” finally agreed to enter a treatment facility to deal with his anorexia. Like many of the teenagers there, he’s not really sure he has a problem. In the facility, Bones meets Lard, his compulsive overeating roommate, and Alice,

The Babar Collection: Five Classic Stories

The Babar Collection: Five Classic Stories

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517282529917{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] The Babar Collection: Five Classic Storie” by Jean de Brunhoff has stories about Babar, the elephant. The first story talks about how Babar lost his parents and ran away to Paris, where he learned to wear clothes and became friends with an old, rich lady. When he went

Look

Look

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A robot named Artie (R-TY) travels around asking questions, and trying to find something; what he is looking for, he does not know. All he knows is the desert, as he has continuously wheeled around the same routes based on some preprogrammed desire. Artie ends up finding many things in Look,

The Witch of Napoli

The Witch of Napoli

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Italian witchcraft isn’t a topic you commonly come across when reading a book, let alone a fiction book. Author Michael Schmicker’s new book The Witch of Napoli is loosely based off true historical events that took place in Italy during the nineteenth century. Orphaned as a child, main character Alessandra Poverelli,

The Grimstones Collection

The Grimstones Collection

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Grimstones Collection by Asphyxia is a collection of four shorter tales about The Grimstones, who are Gothic dolls. The stories are written in diary format, as if they were written by one of the dolls. The stories tell of the dolls’ daily lives in their home and around town. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom:

What’s Great About Oregon?

What’s Great About Oregon?

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Having been to Oregon several times, I was excited to read this book with its ten places that make this unique state great. The photos are realistic and beautiful and the book is inviting for young people or first-time visitors. The “must-see” locations include Portland, Crater Lake National Park, Family fun

Princesses of Bread

Princesses of Bread

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In Princesses of Bread by She Shil Kim there are three princesses who live in a kingdom that makes bread every day. The queen makes bread and wants her daughters to learn how to make bread too, but the sisters aren’t interested. But one day the mother gets ill, so the daughters

Idiot’s Guides: Drawing Pets

Idiot’s Guides: Drawing Pets

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Idiot’s Guides to Drawing Pets is a step-by-step instructional manual on how to draw 50 pets. Covering a wide range of animals, Williams’s lessons include mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and one arachnid that are grouped into five levels of difficulty—from easier to more challenging. Williams offers a fresh detailed and user-friendly

Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In 2012, I had the opportunity to drive across country in route to my new duty station, located in Portsmouth, NH. I had to make a stop on the way in New London, CT, and as it happened, I was also chasing the last remnants of Superstorm Sandy. I got to

Unwanted Love Story: My True Love Story

Unwanted Love Story: My True Love Story

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Unwanted Love Story is one man’s memoir on the life and times of growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Covering a span of over 80 years, Nolan shares a flurry of personal and incidental stories from the past to the present—his amazing birth, family history, growing up in the midst of

My Hand

My Hand

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What kinds of interesting things can a hand do? It can push and pull, draw and walk, and even wave hello or goodbye. In this cute, simple picture book, Satoshi Kitamura invites parents and kids to play along and explore what their hands can do. My Hand has easy words and

Children of Earth and Sky

Children of Earth and Sky

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The art on the cover catches your eye, and the book description on the back secures the deal in reading this novel. Short and simple, yet intriguing, the cover hints at just enough mystery and adventure to appeal to most readers. Children of Earth and Sky, by Guy Gavriel Kay, is

Finding Fraser

Finding Fraser

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] KC Dyer’s Finding Fraser is a sweet and comedic novel about a young woman, Emma Sheridan, who embarks on a quest to leave her boring and mundane life in Chicago behind and begin an adventure through Scotland in hopes of finding her own romantic hero. She aims to follow the path

Packed: Lunch Hacks to Squeeze More Nutrients Into Your Day

Packed: Lunch Hacks to Squeeze More Nutrients Into Your Day

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Still eating sandwiches every day? Maybe running for take out? It’s time to up your lunch game. Becky Alexander and Michelle Lake understand how difficult it can be to break out of your regular rut, but they also know how important lunch is for sustaining your energy and nourishing you, body

Counting Thyme

Counting Thyme

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Thyme and her family have moved from San Diego, California, to New York, because her five-year-old brother, Val, has cancer, and they needed to go to New York to get medicine for him. At first, Thyme thinks she will only be staying in New York for three months, but then she

Age of Adventure

Age of Adventure

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Diamond weaves an adventure story of fantasy, bravery, and disillusionment that is easy to follow and enjoy given its brief nature and inability to delve too deep into the world Diamond has created. Although there is just a taste of Diamond’s world of Fae and Elf Kings and Dark Lords, the

I Will Not Kill Myself, Olivia

I Will Not Kill Myself, Olivia

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Jimmy Wharton is a natural competitor, pushing himself to be the best of the best and beating himself down when he is not. As a championship surfer by age fifteen, his world crashes down around him after a surfing accident renders him unable to surf again. Turning his focus to his

The Author

The Author

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Of course writers don’t see themselves as God. Writers would be much better at universal creation than the Old Bearded Guy – more action, less void and hot women on every planet. Nonetheless, we writers do get accused of god-like delusions, but only by people who know us really, really well.

How to Spy on a Shark

How to Spy on a Shark

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] How to Spy on a Shark has a bright beautiful cover with a large shark, and big teeth. The story has lot of rhyming words on every page, making it easy to listen to. The scientists spy on a Mako shark and pup. A baby shark is tagged and then followed

The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Early in the winter of 1952, one of the most daring rescues you probably never heard about happened off the east coast of the United States. Two WWII era tankers, built in haste to provide needed supplies during the war, broke apart in a fierce storm known as a Nor’ Easter.

A Dylan Odyssey: 15 Literary Trail Maps

A Dylan Odyssey: 15 Literary Trail Maps

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A Dylan Odyssey: 15 Literary Trail Maps is a must-read for any Dylan Thomas fan, and if you are travelling to Wales, use it as a guide. Fifteen Welsh writers, artists and family members chronologically follow the footsteps of the great poet complete with pictures, maps, essays and poems. A hybrid

Dostoyevsky: A Life of Contradiction

Dostoyevsky: A Life of Contradiction

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] He is one of the most famous authors in Russian literature, if not in world literature. He wrote some of the most famous books, one of them being Crime and Punishment. Many consider him to be father of Russian realism, and he was almost executed before he wrote his most famous

Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country

Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Chuck Pfarrer writes a stunning historical novel entitled Philip Nolan: A Man Without a Country. Pfarrer uses a short story written by Edward Everett Hale and published in “The Atlantic” in 1863 as basis and launching point for his novel. The protagonist of the novel is Philip Nolan who, in 1807,

The Spy’s Secret (Key Hunters #2)

The Spy’s Secret (Key Hunters #2)

“The letters tumbled in the air around them and began to spell words. The words turned into sentences, the sentences paragraphs. Before long, they could barely see through the letter confetti. Then everything went black.”

Dinosaur Disco

Dinosaur Disco

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s Saturday night, and all of the dinosaurs are living it up at the disco! Styracosaurus, Maiasaura, Pteranodons, and more are all dancing the night away. But what will happen when the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex makes his appearance on the dance floor?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Deborah Kelly’s Dinosaur Disco is a cute picture book that combines two of children’s

An After Bedtime Story

An After Bedtime Story

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s late, and little Nina is almost asleep… or is she?! Before mom and dad know it, Nina is out of bed and back out in the living room, making messes and causing mischief with the rest of the family. Can they convince her to leave the desserts alone and go

The Adventures of Black Dog: Beached Whale

The Adventures of Black Dog: Beached Whale

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In The Adventures of Black Dog: Beached Whale by Tiffany Schmidt there is this dog named Black Dog, and she finds a bottle with a message inside. It’s from a whale, and the whale said he was beached on the shore and needs some help. Then Black Dog and his family

Albina and the Dog-Men

Albina and the Dog-Men

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In a Chilean village, a deformed Lithuanian woman runs an exotic dance hall with a mysterious ingénue whose bite turns men into ravenous dogs. With a deranged city inspector nipping at their heels, Isaac (misnamed for the son of Abraham and nicknamed Crabby for her hunched stature), the pale and beautiful

Feeding a Family: A Real-Life Plan for Making Dinner Work

Feeding a Family: A Real-Life Plan for Making Dinner Work

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Feeding a Family is specifically written for young families raising small children. With this in mind, when writing this cookbook, Sarah Waldman created a wonderful cookbook that any young family would enjoy and benefit from. The format is different: Waldman goes through a year, starting with winter, and suggests a large

It’s Our Garden

It’s Our Garden

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Acequia Madre Elementary School has a garden that everyone helps cultivate. With the help of teachers, parents, and a few volunteers, kids at the school get to spend part of their day learning how to make food grow. There is always so much to do! In

An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Samia has always dreamed of running in the Olympics. The first time she ran, even though she came in last, she did her best. When she came home, she trained even harder so she could run in the next Olympics. It was really hard for Samia to even get to train

Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place

Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It is a region of the world that the vast majority of Americans would not be able to find on a map. But it has been the heart of one of the longest running, and deadliest, wars ever. It is the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and

Bailey’s Story: A Dog’s Purpose Novel

Bailey’s Story: A Dog’s Purpose Novel

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There is something magical about the instant love for a puppy. Combined with a young boy receiving his first puppy which is sure to be a lifelong friend, Bailey’s Story is about a young dog who finds his human. This charming story is beautifully written from the point of view of Bailey, the young Labrador who

The Mysterious Moonstone (Key Hunters)

The Mysterious Moonstone (Key Hunters)

“‘You don’t understand,’ Lady Musgrave said. ‘The Musgrave Moonstone is cursed!'”

The Kaminsky Cure

The Kaminsky Cure

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christopher New’s historical fiction The Kaminsky Cure takes place in Austria during the Third Reich. It tells the story of one family with both Jewish and Aryan blood trying their best to survive in a time of great upheaval. The patriarch of the family, Willibald, is a pure-blood Aryan as well as a Lutheran

Tumbledown Manor

Tumbledown Manor

“Lisa was beginning to understand that Trumperton was a house to live with rather than in.”

Miles From Tomorrowland Who Stole the Stellosphere?

Miles From Tomorrowland Who Stole the Stellosphere?

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Miles from Tomorrowland: Who Stole the Stellosphere? is a World of Reading level 1 book. The illustrations are so vivid that it is almost like watching the show on the Disney channel itself. The story is a typical Miles adventure written in a format of easy to read words and short sentence

Animas, Legacy of the Claw Book One

Animas, Legacy of the Claw Book One

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for Legacy of the Claw, Book One in the Animas Series” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Death of a Diva

Death of a Diva

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you are hesitant to read this book after having read the synopsis and you like noir, you are in luck. Rich in prose with detailed research readers of Death of a Diva will be seamlessly transported to 1941 New York where young German-Jewess immigrant, Misia Safran, has just been questioned

Upside-Down Magic

Upside-Down Magic

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517307174625{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517307696255{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] Nory has a magic power that is more special than what some other people have. Most other people with her power can change into a regular animal, but Nory can change into an animal with parts of another animal; for instance, a kitty with dragon’s

A Buddhist Grief Observed

A Buddhist Grief Observed

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Buddhism focuses on compassion and balance. When your world is turned upside down due to the loss of a loved one, or some other traumatic event, how do you incorporate the balance of life? How is it possible to have compassion for others when you feel the world has stripped away

President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath

President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Oh no! President William Howard Taft has gotten himself stuck in his tub! What is a world leader to do? Call all his advisers, of course. But can they solve his problem? Mac Barnett’s book, ‘President Taft is Stuck in the Bath’ is a very cute way to introduce children to

Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching a Creative Life

Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching a Creative Life

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Have you been harboring a secret (or not so secret) desire to make a living being an artist? Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller use broad strokes to describe ways one can jump start a career in the visual field in the guide, How to Start Your Career as an Artist. This

Hooray for Birds!

Hooray for Birds!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Lucy Cousins, creator of the Maisy series and award-winning artist, invites children to use their imaginations and to be a bird for a day with Hooray for Birds! Each colorful page tells what one can do as a bird, such as ” Wake up and shout ‘cock-a-doodle-doo!” [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines

Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines is an excellent memoir by Alfred Scott McLaren during his time as a submariner during the Cold War. McLaren served on three different attack submarines: USS Greenfish, USS Seadragon, and USS Skipjack. In the chapters, McLaren takes the reader on

You’re Doing THAT in the Talent Show?!

You’re Doing THAT in the Talent Show?!

There’s a hippo who really wants to go be in a talent show with her friend mouse. She comes up with all these ideas that she thinks will be really fun, and every time she says, “oh, yes, yes!” but he says, “oh, no, no!” and says, “you’re doing THAT in the talent show?” It

Uncle Grandpa’s Cheesy Joke Book

Uncle Grandpa’s Cheesy Joke Book

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] If you need some laughs, and you’re in a silly mood, Uncle Grandpa Cheesy Joke Book by Wrigley Stuart is what you are looking for. Kids love to tell jokes, but sometimes coming up with something more unique than asking why the chicken crossed the road, is difficult. This super silly

Absolution

Absolution

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A car accident has changed the lives of Jack, his girlfriend, Ally, and his best friend, Callum, forever. After Jack takes off due to his overwhelming guilt of what he’s done to Ally, Callum has stepped up to help Ally recover. Just as they’re getting their lives back together, Jack’s father

Redder Than Blood

Redder Than Blood

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A girl who is the only one moving about her castle as the others remain frozen, another who can turn into a swan at choice, a husband who cuts pieces off of people that he would like to keep; these are just a few of the short stories contained within Redder

The Guild Of Geniuses

The Guild Of Geniuses

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There is a famous actor, and he has a pet monkey. They are best friends. On the actor’s birthday, he has to go to a movie to act, but his monkey is really sad before he goes. So he asks the best scientists to see why he is sad. The scientists

Foxlowe: A Novel

Foxlowe: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] To little ungrown Green, Foxlowe is the entire world. It is in this house on the moors where she grew up with The Family, performing rituals, celebrating Solstice, and playing with her friend Toby and little sister Blue, who was brought one winter as a baby. It is through Green’s child

The Requiem Red

The Requiem Red

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Jane–clinically known as Patient Twenty-Nine–has lived in Soothing Hills, an asylum for the mentally ill and chronically sick, for nearly her entire life because of her mysterious musical gifts. She lives at the mercy of the doctors, including the unpredictable Dr. Frost, and the nurses and orderlies who work there. But

Stop Following Me, Moon!

Stop Following Me, Moon!

The bear is hungry – he is so cute! Then he sees some berries that the squirrel is eating, and then he takes them all! He takes all the honey, and the fisherman’s fish, and the campers’ snacks. Then he sees the moon and he thinks it is following him because he took everyone’s food!

The Pillars of Ponderay

The Pillars of Ponderay

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The Ishtar Cup

The Ishtar Cup

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Ishtar Cup by Murray Lee Eiland Jr is book 1 in the detective series featuring Bartram Northcote. An anonymous client hires Northcote to locate the mysterious Ishtar Cup, a relic that has survived through the Gulf War and that has been taken out of Iraq. The competent, knowledgeable, and suave

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In this Dear Dumb Diary, Jamie Kelly’s best friend Isabella, and the popular girl Angeline, want to be rich and famous and want tons of money, and they also want a phone, so they try to make money. So they sell plates with the four food groups on it. They try

The World of Norm: May Contain Buts

The World of Norm: May Contain Buts

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Norm, a young boy of nearly 13, always gets into trouble. Norm thinks that because he gets in trouble so much that it is “flipping unfair.” The book tells about a lot of events in his life and he almost always gets in trouble. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The World of

Cupcake Envy

Cupcake Envy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for Cupcake Envy by Amy Eilert” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Your Smallest Bones

Your Smallest Bones

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There is a technique for relief from headache or muscle pain I learned years and years ago in an acting class. The sufferer rests on his back, eyes closed and considers the pain. At first, it is a huge wash that covers the body in a blanket studded with nails, but

Tales of the Fallen Beasts (Spirit Animals: Special Edition)

Tales of the Fallen Beasts (Spirit Animals: Special Edition)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517281717826{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] Across the world, kids are summoning the Great Beasts, the most powerful animals on Erdas. There is a man hunting the legendary beasts, and one side must fulfill their destiny and win. If the wrong side wins, the world will perish. Tales of the Fallen Beasts (Spirit Animals:

The Dragon Engine

The Dragon Engine

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A group of friends together again. One last adventure together. A chance to save one of their own. This is the premise of The Dragon Engine. A brilliantly designed tale in a medieval setting, a group of friends will leave their retirement, fame and wealth behind to take on one last

Glow Pops: Super-Easy Superfood Recipes to Help You Look and Feel Your Best

Glow Pops: Super-Easy Superfood Recipes to Help You Look and Feel Your Best

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Popsicles are not usually thought of as health food – in fact, that juxtaposition may make you squirm. But in Glow Pops: Super-Easy Superfood Recipes to Help You Look and Feel Your Best author Liz Moody presents delicious, frosty recipes that will change your mind. Moody’s goal is to get you

It’s a Doggy Dog World

It’s a Doggy Dog World

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book is about a dog named Abby and she misbehaves a lot, so Jimmy Bishop’s parents enrolled her in obedience school! Now Abby is acting like any other boring dog, instead of the crime fighter that she is. Now the gang has to bring Abby back to her old self,

The Cancer Solution: Taking Charge of Your Life with Cancer

The Cancer Solution: Taking Charge of Your Life with Cancer

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Cancer Solution is a very informative read for anyone who has cancer or family members of someone who has cancer. Information such as the different types of cancer and the stages of cancer and what each one means can be found in this book. Jack C. Westman has put a

A Fine Line

A Fine Line

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1510546915777{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Author Gianrico Carofiglio brings to light the real moral struggle defense lawyers endure in defending the criminals they are hired to represent. Carofiglio puts his readers in the seat of thinking like the counsel for the defense through his character Avvocato Guido Guerrieri. Guido prides himself in only taking select clients

A Change of Heart

A Change of Heart

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In the 1940s, America was still suffering strongly under segregation and Jim Crow laws. So when Lanier Phillips joined the Navy, he was hoping to escape the danger of racism, but he found it running rampant in the military as well. When his ship hit the rocks near Newfoundland and started

Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems

Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Solutions for Cold Feet and other little problems, by Canadian author and illustrator Carey Sookocheff, will charm young readers of age five and younger and help them think critically to solve other or bigger problems. Problems include a missing shoe, getting caught in the rain, a melting ice cream cone, a boring

What Elephants Know

What Elephants Know

In a world where children are allowed to run free, and helicopter parents are almost non-existent, begins the story of Nandu, a young boy who is orphaned and found by a man who cares for elephants. What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein is a unique tale of a wild boy who is connected in a deep

Avalon Castle

Avalon Castle

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Avalon Castle is set in 1867 England when being a thirty year old woman with no marriage prospects nearly deemed you a spinster for the rest of your life. Rachel Garland had accepted that love and romance may not be a part of her future, but she had found solace in

Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life

Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I LOVE cookbooks! I don’t enjoy cooking. It’s weird but not unheard of – good intentions but no follow through. With Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life, Trisha Yearwood’s newest cookbook filled with her favorite recipes that have been modified to fit her healthier lifestyle, non-cooks will be

Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright

Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Ada Goth is the daughter of Lord Goth, who has allowed the dog-judging contest to take place at his manor this year. Ada’s friend Emily, and some other friends are coming over to watch the show. But during the first night, there are weird snuffling sounds, and in the morning, shoes

Artfully Spoken: 30 Beautifully Illustrated Life Changing Quotations

Artfully Spoken: 30 Beautifully Illustrated Life Changing Quotations

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Even though Ryan McArthur didn’t pen the well-known inspirational quotes that line the pages of Artfully Spoken, his creativity may match the likes of those who did- Einstein, Tolstoy, Wilde, DaVinci. This small book features minimalist and modern, almost graphic design inspired art representations of deep, thoughtful quotations. Mirroring every page

The Renewable Energy Home Handbook

The Renewable Energy Home Handbook

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Wouldn’t it be fantastic to never get an electric or heating bill again? Even better – to get a check from the electric company for the surplus electricity you’ve generated? If this is your dream, The Renewable Energy Home Handbook by Lindsay Porter is a nice starting resource. Porter discusses a

Chess: Be the King!

Chess: Be the King!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book is really awesome. Chess: Be the King! is really easy to understand all the things the authors are telling you about. There are lots of diagrams and illustrations that make it clear and easy to follow what is happening. It goes over all the rules and the set up,

The Dragon of Trelian

The Dragon of Trelian

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Calen is trying to learn magic, but he doesn’t like it much because it is mostly just learning about plants and doing errands for his master. And there is a princess named Meg, who is princessy enough, but is not as ‘princessy’ as she could be. One day they meet and

Seeking the Snow Leopard

Seeking the Snow Leopard

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Jon Miceler and his team go all around the Himalayan mountains in China and Mongolia, tracking the Snow Leopard to see if they can get some information about it. After a lot of searching, they finally find one. They shoot it with a tranquilizer gun so they can get some samples

Adulthood is a Myth: A Sarah’s Scribbles Collection

Adulthood is a Myth: A Sarah’s Scribbles Collection

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Adulthood is a Myth is an entertaining collection of comic shorts by Sarah Andersen that will leave any introvert, college student, or college age female giggling like a maniac. Andersen had a tendency to point out things about ourselves that wouldn’t have crossed our minds otherwise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

If you have an author whose books continually end up on the bestseller list, there is a reason: it’s because the author consistently writes books that are deeply researched and also entertaining to read. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick is one of those books by

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Stories spanning the globe occupy the pages of A Kind of Compass, an anthology of short stories from 17 writers, curated with an introduction by the editor Belinda McKeon. The name A Kind of Compass comes from the theme of the story collection- distance. The theme of distance isn’t always written

Unholy Bargain

Unholy Bargain

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] So let’s suppose that we start with the question: How can a writer make a thriller fresh and, you know, thrilling? It can’t be from the setting as every town and mountaintop on Earth has to have been used by now for some version of a deadly confrontation. Villains come in

Once Upon a Place

Once Upon a Place

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Once Upon a Place is a collection of Irish stories and poems, compiled by Eoin Colfer. One of the stories is about a boy who has been told all his life not to go swimming alone. But one day, when his parents are not paying attention, he goes out to the

How to Win at Shopping

How to Win at Shopping

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Shopping is a task that, for good or ill, everyone has to undertake. How to Win at Shopping asserts that shopping is a skill that can be learned, and that knowing the right tips can make every shopping venture a success. Authors David Zyla and Eila Mell, stylists and fashion consultants,

Sew Over It Vintage

Sew Over It Vintage

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Brush off your vintage flair sleeves, its time to add box pleats, fur cuffs, and a fascinator to your wardrobe. From a 1950’s caplet, to a 1930’s cowl-neck dress, sailor blouses, skirts and dressing gowns, everything you need to sculpt the perfect vintage wardrobe is here. Pull out pieces to enhance

Mrs Luther and Her Sisters: Women in The Reformation

Mrs Luther and Her Sisters: Women in The Reformation

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Textbooks on the Reformation, and its aftermath, history, and long-term impact; largely ignore the role that women played, sometimes the wife of Martin Luther is mentioned briefly. While there have been some scholarly books written about the women of the Reformation, it has largely been silent in the popular presses. Derek

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Like walking into a weird street fair right as it’s about to close, Stephen King introduces you to his world of horror and grotesque tales in his newest book The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. It’s a collection of short stories some previously published and some new for the collection, each with a

A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities

A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book, A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles, and Dilemmas, by Roy Sorensen, is aptly named. It is collection, like a jumbled junk drawer, of interesting verbal, mathematical, lingual, and geometric anomalies. Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, David Hume, and Freud (among others) appear on the pages.

100 Deadly Skills

100 Deadly Skills

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Ever wondered how to build an IED, knife fight like a pro, or totally incinerate a corpse? Perhaps you have yearned to know how to avoid detection and survive for an extended time off the grid, or maybe you simply wish to know how to stay safe in the face of

Bread for the Table

Bread for the Table

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There comes a point in every person’s life when they wonder if this is as good as it gets. This is reality even for those fortunate enough to have carved out a successful path for their future, but for people like thirty-year old Sage, this is their reality every single day.

Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty

Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] William Bligh, a captain in the British Navy, sailed on the 23rd of December, 1787, to Otaheite (now Tahiti) for breadfruit plants. After waiting for the breadfruit plants to mature, the Bounty left for the West Indies, never to arrive. On the momentous morning of 28th of April, 1789, Fletcher Christian,

Explorers of the Wild

Explorers of the Wild

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Boys will be boys and little bears with be…little bears. What happens with a curious boy and bear happen upon each other in the woods? This is the lighthearted premise of the book, Explorers of the Wild by Cale Atkinson that reminds readers that there are a lot of new, neat

The Smell of Other People’s Houses

The Smell of Other People’s Houses

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Alaska not only sounds like a different way of life, it truly is. During the time when it merged with the United States to become part of America, the lives of four young people are intertwined in a small Alaskan fishing village. These young people

Old MacDonald’s Things That Go

Old MacDonald’s Things That Go

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] It’s hard to bring new life into a possibly tired classic, but Jane Clarke instills new life into the beloved Old MacDonald had a Farm rhyme with Old MacDonald’s Things That Go. She updates the rhyme using different vehicles: a bus, a plane, and even a combine harvester! Full-page illustrations of

The Doll Collection

The Doll Collection

What is it about dolls that has captured the imagination of people throughout the years? Shown with their continuous appearance in both horror films and in the hearts of children, The Doll Collection explores several different sides of what dolls are, what they stand for, and how we feel about them, with 17 short stories

Animal Weapons

Animal Weapons

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Author Emlen is the Professor you always hoped you would get for biology. With joyous discovery he writes of the evolution and development of animal weapons. When three factors are present, competition, economic defensibility and one-on-one battles, the arms race is on whether it is in dung beetles, flies, termites, shrimp,

ITDN

ITDN

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] ITDN is comic book containing 11 “stories” and an additional excerpt of bits and pieces by artist Andrew Burkholder. The title itself is a pseudo-acronym – it doesn’t actually stand for anything and is in fact just 4 random letters. Strange? You haven’t seen anything until you open the book. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom:

Stack the Cats

Stack the Cats

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Although ten cats are too numerous, there are ways to stack them! In this clever book, Stack the Cats, words and pictures by talented author and artist Susie Ghahremani show cats playing and sleeping and piled into a stack. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The seemingly simple, colorful illustrations will teach counting

An Elephant & Piggie Biggie!

An Elephant & Piggie Biggie!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What’s better than a book by the beloved Mo Willems? A BIG book of Mo Willems’ stories! And young readers will not be disappointed when parents hand them An Elephant and Piggie Biggie! It includes five Elephant & Piggie classics (but really, what Willems book isn’t a classic) that can be

Turnstiles

Turnstiles

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] How many times have you walked down the street and had a serendipitous moment and thought it luck to have found something, caught the glimpse of a familiar face, or were in a conversation with a complete stranger only to get the feeling that you know the person they are talking

Phillipa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister

Phillipa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for Liz Kessler’s Philippa Fisher and the Fairy Godsister” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Cool Nature: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages

Cool Nature: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Cool Nature: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages by Amy-Jane Beer tells you about all sorts of things in nature, and it is also an activity book that has experiments or activities you can do to explore nature. You learn about things like spotting animal footprints. That is an

The Apothecary’s Curse

The Apothecary’s Curse

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In Victorian London, when Dr. Simon Bell appeals to apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune to save his wife from cancer. Gaelan gives him an elixir made from an ancient manuscript that was supposed to save his beloved Sophie, instead it kills her. Simon drinks the rest of the elixir, only to discover it

River Road: A Novel

River Road: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] After the death of her daughter, college professor Nancy Lewis’ life hasn’t been the same. But on the night she’s denied tenure, things take a turn for the worse and she becomes the prime suspect in the death of one of her own students. But Nancy soon realizes that there’s more

A Suitable Affair

A Suitable Affair

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A Suitable Affair is a period romance/mystery piece set in London in 1813. Lady Susanna is from a prominent and respectable family, yet she loves to push the envelope on propriety- never quite going too far for society backlash. Lord Westcott, however, enjoys being inappropriate and dallying on the side of

Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends

Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A lot of kids like sports and know about current sports stars but they don’t know that much about important sports figures of the past. Kid Athletes by David Stabler introduces readers to 16 stars in a lot of different sports, not just football, basketball, and baseball. Included are people like

Let’s Cook Italian, A Family Cookbook: Cuciniamo italiano, Un ricettario di famiglia

Let’s Cook Italian, A Family Cookbook: Cuciniamo italiano, Un ricettario di famiglia

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Who doesn’t love Italian food? If you want the pleasure of eating this delicious cuisine often, start with the lovely little volume, Let’s Cook Italian, A Family Cookbook by Anna Prandoni. Italian food is all about family, and author Prandoni here shares her family’s favorite recipes, with many of her memories

Nightstruck

Nightstruck

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Jenna Black brings us a horror/fantasy in which the streets of Philadelphia change at night into something more sinister. Everything appears to change, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, as soon as the sun goes down. The main character, Becket, is the daughter of the police commissioner. When she starts seeing things,

Q Island

Q Island

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What happens when people have seen one too many zombie movies, and there are rumors of an illness very similar to the “zombie” plague spreading around? Q Island takes us there in a panic-filled story that takes place on Long Island. Russell James’ work is so vivid, you can feel yourself becoming attached to the

The Grumpy Pets

The Grumpy Pets

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Billy’s mom is taking him and his sister Sara to the pet store, where hopefully both kids will be able to find their perfect pets. Sara finds all kinds of animals that she loves, but to Billy, every potential pet just seems too… happy. But then Billy finds a motley collection

Like a Child’s New Toy

Like a Child’s New Toy

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Abigail Worthington is a lonely, troubled woman who has difficulties reconciling with her past, but besides the fact that she’s not yet over her ex-husband, she has to deal with a young ghost that visits her occasionally. Life could have become normal again for Abby when she meets and falls in

Fragrant Heart: A Tale of Love, Life and Food in Asia

Fragrant Heart: A Tale of Love, Life and Food in Asia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Many readers who enjoy armchair travel will enjoy Fragrant Heart, an extensive Asian travelogue —but just as many readers will skip pages, even chapters as this is quite extensive and, unfortunately, in paperback edition. Miranda Emmerson is a good writer but she is often lost in details and often sidetracks; both in the travelogue

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard: A Peter Nimble Adventure

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard: A Peter Nimble Adventure

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Sophie Quire is the daughter of the most famous bookseller in her village. One day, she is sent on a quest by a mysterious person. Along the way, she meets some interesting characters, including a young boy who helps her but challenges her as well. In the end she has learned

Heartwood Hotel, Book 1 A True Home and Book 2 The Greatest Gift

Heartwood Hotel, Book 1 A True Home and Book 2 The Greatest Gift

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Mona the mouse is looking for a new home after a storm floods out her latest home. While she is crossing a log over a stream she hears a pack of wolves howl. She is so scared that she falls off, and the river carries her to a totally different part

Basic Fermentation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation (DIY)

Basic Fermentation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation (DIY)

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] In these days of DIY’s, producing something relatively simple in your own kitchen instead of buying it in a market is often preferred by many home cooks. Thus this little booklet, Basic Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz is a welcome additions to kitchens of DIY cooks. Although small in size, the

Dinner for Dogs

Dinner for Dogs

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] What’s that smell? Food! It’s always on your beloved dog’s mind. So why not feed them healthy and nutritious meals? Not only does cooking for your dog keep them healthy and happy but it can also save on vet bills. In the special cookbook for dogs, Henrietta Morrison will give you

Hammer and Nails

Hammer and Nails

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Hammer and Nails, there is a girl named Darcy, and she is upset because her best friend is sick, so she can’t play with her. So her dad says, ‘We can do a Darcy-Daddy Date!’ Darcy thinks that ruined her playdate, but she says she will try it. So they take turns doing the

Oscar and the Amazing Gravity Repellent

Oscar and the Amazing Gravity Repellent

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A clumsy boy named Oscar finds an old, abandoned caboose. Inside the caboose, he discovers some bottles of Dr. Oopsie’s Amazing Gravity Repellent and begins a series of anti-gravity adventures. Through those adventures, he begins to learn what it means to own up to his actions. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Oscar

Gork, the Teenage Dragon

Gork, the Teenage Dragon

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Gork isn’t the fiercest or the scariest dragon in the Universe, actually he’s far from it. Gork’s big, emotional heart and his tiny horns put together with his low ratings in almost every conceivable category that makes a great dragon would automatically doom any other dragon after graduation to become a

The Taken (Foxcraft #1)

The Taken (Foxcraft #1)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for The Taken, book #1 in Inbali Iserles’ Foxcraft Series!” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][TS-VCSC-Vimeo content_vimeo=”https://vimeo.com/155469940″ lightbox_play=”true” lightbox_loop=”true” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”30″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

How to Read the Bible

How to Read the Bible

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Bible itself can be daunting. It’s sacred and the versions make it often confusing about which one to use. Attending a class at church can be just as overwhelming because some people memorize scripture without an understanding and don’t relate the passage to the context of what the verse is

The Matchbox Diary

The Matchbox Diary

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book tells the story of a great-grandfather, who is telling his great-granddaughter about his life growing up. When he was a child, he didn’t know how to read or write, so he kept a diary by putting things in little matchboxes. Each thing was to remember something that happened in

The Knitting All Around Stitch Dictionary

The Knitting All Around Stitch Dictionary

Knitting is a relaxing hobby that allows for endless creativity and invention. According to the author, Wendy Bernard, stitch dictionaries are like cookbooks for knitting. The Knitting All Around Stitch Dictionary offering 150 stitch patterns for you to try; however, this is not a collection of projects; rather, it is a collection of different types of

The Quest to the Uncharted Lands

The Quest to the Uncharted Lands

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Stella Glass is a stowaway on the airship the “Iron Glory” on its trip to the uncharted lands of Solace. Her parents are on the ship, so Stella came along so she would know what happens to them. The mountains they have to cross are very dangerous and could literally destroy

In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs

In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Maria Popova perfectly nails the challenge of a book like this – where a series of writers share their personal opinion as to how, where and why a particular Beatles song – when she notes in her own essay on Yellow Submarine that, ‘Interpretation of course always reveals far more about

Cassie and Jasper to the Rescue

Cassie and Jasper to the Rescue

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] A boy named Jasper sees a really skinny horse with overgrown hooves apparently locked up in a corral. He knows the horse is being mistreated so he makes up a plan to go with his female friend Cassidy to rescue the horse. Meanwhile, Cassidy is also having problems at school that

The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning

The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book continues the story of twin teens Alex and Connor in the Land of Stories, where fairy tales are real. This time they have to fight the Grand Armée to keep them from taking over the fairy tale world. At the same time, Alex (a girl) is in training to

Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A virtual smorgasbord of science fiction and fantasy that invites readers to sample new authors with short stories and novellas that have been chosen by top authors in the field. From an arm that thinks it is a portion of highway to angels that are devils and much more between, relax and try something

One Night

One Night

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] One Night is a spinning tale of betrayal, lust, murder and deception. Eric Jerome Dickey weaves a love story intricately into the story of two people who are down on their luck and facing both their worst and best night together. Jackie thought she faced her worst fears years before when

The Measure of the Moon

The Measure of the Moon

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Trudging through the woods after tumbling off his spooked horse, nine year old Greer Donner stumbles on a man beating a woman. After bravely stepping up to let the woman escape, Greer’s sheltered life takes a traumatic turn that bewilders his entire family. On the flip side, is Gillian: product of

Irmina

Irmina

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Rather than looking at the broad scope of the Holocaust, with its horrors and statistics, this book focuses on the experience of a single civilian, illuminating part of the answer to the question: How did so many people collude to allow this atrocity? Irmina by Barbara Yelin tells the story of

Maya Gods and Monsters: Supernatural Stories from the Underworld and Beyond

Maya Gods and Monsters: Supernatural Stories from the Underworld and Beyond

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Throughout history, humans have felt an inherent need to understand everything around them. What we can’t explain with science, we fill in with stories, religion, or both. In modern times, we now have science to fill in a large number of the knowledge gaps that were previously unknown to us. However,

Conscious Coupling

Conscious Coupling

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Many times marriages hit rough spots or the word marriage scares many people. A relationship is a huge step and commitment. Drs. Don Desroches and Dana Greco wrote the book Conscious Coupling to help with the common issues that could arise in a relationship. These doctors are both divorce mediators but

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] How exactly would the history of those days leading up to the crucifixion of Christ look like if all of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were chronologically combined? Upon first opening John Douma’s book, The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John: Merged into One Historic Calendar of

Into the Black

Into the Black

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Unless you are truly interested in the history of Space Shuttle Columbia, this thick volume Into The Black is not going to be for you. Author Rowland White is an excellent researcher and writer but the painstaking details of the US space program are likely beyond most readers’ attention span. This

The Great Game in Cuba: CIA and the Cuban Revolution

The Great Game in Cuba: CIA and the Cuban Revolution

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Great Game in Cuba tells the story of Robert J. Kleberg Jr, the proprietor of the legendary King Ranch in Texas. During the 1950’s Kleberg’s ranch expanded across many countries. That feat required Kleberg to forge alliances with world leaders in order to operate

City of the Yeti

City of the Yeti

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Fans of The Sister’s Grimm will particularly be drawn to author Robert Love’s debut tween fiction, City of the Yeti, an enticing fantasy adventure mixed with 1920s history, Bhutanese folklore, and diversity. Young readers will be thrilled to cross over from the typical realms of wizards and mythology into rarely explored

Tomorrow War: The Chronicles of Max [Redacted]

Tomorrow War: The Chronicles of Max [Redacted]

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Tomorrow War: The Chronicles of Max [Redacted] is post-apocalyptic novel written by J.L. Bourne. In the book, the protagonist of the story, Max who trains as a survivalist. His training comes in handy when a covert military mission in Syria goes horribly wrong which triggers a series of cataclysmic events in

Wilbur the Gay Unicorn

Wilbur the Gay Unicorn

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We all know the wise old saying, ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover.’ Well, there’s corollary to that. It goes, ‘You can’t judge a book by its title either.’ Oh it’s true, it’s damn true. Just ask anyone who picked up a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey thinking there was finally a

Paraíso: A Novel

Paraíso: A Novel

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Gordon Chapin weaves an intimate, winding, and shocking story of two estranged siblings and their struggle to find peace with each other in the book, Paraiso. The siblings, Peter and Wendy (don’t worry there are a few neverland references) were extremely close growing up. The book chronicles their teenage attempt to run

Dumbass Too

Dumbass Too

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Jesus. Four hundred and seven pages of Donald Trump quotes. This is a terrible book to bring out so soon after New Year’s as anyone who has resolved to lose weight, quit smoking, ease back on the booze or do anything else possibly life-lengthening will, after reading all this word spew burn

Make It Easy: 120 Mix-and-Match Recipes to Cook from Scratch

Make It Easy: 120 Mix-and-Match Recipes to Cook from Scratch

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] I don’t enjoy cooking, but I love a good cookbook. My family’s meals might be about to improve! Stacie Billis’ Make It Easy: 120 Mix-and-Match Recipes to Cook from Scratch – With Smart Store-Bought Shortcuts When You Need them is filled with encouragement, tips, and 120 recipes that seem like more. She

Seekers: Burning Horizon 5

Seekers: Burning Horizon 5

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Lusa is a black bear. Lusa and the three other bears are returning to Great Bear Lake, which is the black bears’ home. They have been there before, in book 2 of the original Seekers series, and now it is time for them to find their home. They have been traveling

Idiot’s Guides: Everyday Makeup Secrets

Idiot’s Guides: Everyday Makeup Secrets

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The Idiot’s Guide to Everyday Makeup Secrets, is an all-in-one comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to put your best face forward, exploring the depths of what makes makeup work, and why. From professional secrets, to basic principles of art and design, every avenue is lavishly explored. Once you

The Spell Bind- Oh My Godmother Series #3

The Spell Bind- Oh My Godmother Series #3

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Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica

Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica is a collection of erotic short stories featuring (as you can probably imagine) sex toys. This collection is astonishingly diverse and includes stories featuring strap ons, vibrators, and vegetables, along with fantasy inventions the likes of which cannot be found in stores. The writing styles found

Little Dead Riding Hood

Little Dead Riding Hood

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Christina Ling’s Video Book Review for Little Dead Riding Hood, Book 2 in the Scarily Ever Laughter Series by Amie & Bethanie Borst” font_container=”tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%23cf030e|line_height:1.1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Oleo%20Script%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1480714318902{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1480714721424{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

All About China

All About China

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The stories, songs, crafts, and pictures in this short book tell about China, both from long ago as well as modern day. The stories describe how China and the world came to be. The crafts are fun and do not require a lot of objects that you do not already have

The Mind of God

The Mind of God

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Elizabeth Greene has been estranged from her father for over six months when the professor mysteriously goes missing after a break-in at his campus lab. Elizabeth is left with a clue to find a microchip that is the missing piece to technology Professor Greene has been secretly working on for years.

The Call of the Farm

The Call of the Farm

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Rochelle Bilow’s The Call of the Farm chronicles Rochelle’s year at Stonehill farm, and her love affair with Ian, a farmer, and her life long love of great food. Ro struggles with confidence issues, and feeling like maybe shes still an outsider at the farm while dealing with her rocky relationship

Thor’s Serpents

Thor’s Serpents

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517285192164{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”] The descendants of Norse Gods must gather together to fight those trying to bring the world to an end. Things are not easy for them because they have to fight their own personal battles – external and internal – as well. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517285210060{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]

When You Give an Imp a Penny

When You Give an Imp a Penny

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] There is a girl who gives an imp a penny. The imp then asks her to give him a coin bag. Then he asks for a shovel to buy his coin bag. Every thing he does makes him have to do something else or want something else. Usually he makes a

And Then You’re Dead

And Then You’re Dead

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] This book is about how you would really die if you did something. Like if you were in an airplane and the window popped out, or if you lost your head, or if you were buried alive. What would happen if you were hit by a meteorite, or barreled over Niagara

Amulet II: The Gallic War

Amulet II: The Gallic War

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Wounded in the Battle at Tigranocerta, Roman Ninth Legionnaire, Aulus Veridius Scapula, recovers under the watchful care of Pontus Queen, Hypsicratea. Upon a sounding alarm that the King is returning, Aulus must say his goodbyes, depart for Rome, claim his pension back pay, and find his stolen amulet. Accompanied by his

The Face: A Time Code

The Face: A Time Code

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308477342{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517308484209{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965124583{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Ruth Ozeki’s The Face: A Time Code is a novella-length essay on her face. Yes, apparently this is a literary tradition. Replacing Buddha with a mirror on the meditation altar, Ozeki looks at herself for three hours. The result is an autobiographical narrative bridged with time

Desert City Diva

Desert City Diva

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Rolly Waters is a middle-aged guitar player and private detective. After playing a gig with his band, he meets Macy Starr, a tattooed, rough around the edges, golden-eyed DJ. Macy is half Rolly’s age, but that doesn’t stop their attraction or Rolly’s willingness to take her on as a client. Macy’s

Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You

Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to Get Deep Inside of You

  Here we have a tiny (six-by-six inches) vegan cookbook Comfort Eating with Nick Cave though author Automne Zingg does not tell us who Cave is with whom she shares comfort foods. The recipe ingredients and instructions look if they were written for the recipe writer Joshua Ploeg for his own use in his vegan

Simple Green Suppers: A Fresh Strategy for One-Dish Vegetarian Meals

Simple Green Suppers: A Fresh Strategy for One-Dish Vegetarian Meals

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Who knew vegetables could be so versatile? Susie Middleton, that’s who, and she shares this knowledge with you in her extensive new cookbook, Simple Green Suppers: A Fresh Strategy for One-Dish Vegetarian Meals. Middleton has an almost exhaustive intimacy with all sorts of delicious vegetables, and in this book she really

Furniture Bible

Furniture Bible

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Author Christophe Pourny has compiled an excellent and highly readable guide to restoring and repairing old furniture. A true master artisan, he sees the beauty and inherent possibility of every style and era, and his enthusiasm is infectious. The book begins with a brief history of furniture, with some tips on

It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again

It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] For those that are able to afford to actually retire, they do so and after a week or so of sleeping in without having to be anywhere, do anything or have a daily to do list, they wonder “Now what?” Sometimes this leaves those people who worked hard all their life

Tomatomania!

Tomatomania!

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] The humble tomato just might be one of the most beloved plants in the quintessential summer garden. And with so many varieties out there, sometimes it’s hard to choose what kind to grow! A good old paste tomato, for sauces and such? A hearty beefsteak, to adorn burgers and salads? One

The Tut Clone Contracts

The Tut Clone Contracts

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1482965111884{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text] Set in the not-so-distant future, molecular paleobiologist, Sandra LaFaccia, and image archivist, Fred Edwards, work at the Oriental Institute, a Egyptology research branch of the University of Chicago. Fixated on observing a live clone, they set out to do just that; carefully cloning ancient Egyptian royal, Akhenaten. Opening a reproduction agency

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