The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman was a New York Times Best Seller a few years ago. A novel that weaves the stories of three generations of women together and to their family history, it takes a c…
Ties That Bind is the fifth Cobbled Court Quilts novel. It is recommended that readers read the previous four books as they provide the background on the supporting characters, but the book…
It is always fascinating to go to the origination point of literary characters that have become ubiquitous and iconic to a culture. Sometimes the current cultural perception is leagues away from…
Once again, James Patterson throws us into another exciting adventure of Maximum Ride and her winged cohorts. Like the two previous novels in this series, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports is…
Small towns make great settings for amateur sleuths. Everyone living in them knows everyone else's business and some are even willing to share. The Devil's Puzzle is set along th…
The Candy Shop War: Arcade Catastrophe picks up where the first book left off. There is no exposition on characters and hardly any reference to the first book; however, Arcade Ca…
It seems we are all familiar with the mean-spirited Mr. Scrooge. But what of his equally awful partner, Jacob Marley? In this tale, author R. William Bennett supposes Marley had more to do with Scroog…
After reading Kimberley Griffiths Little's wonderful novel, The Healing Spell, earlier this year, I was excited to get my hands on a copy of Circle of Secrets. The story did not disappoint! …
The Dark Unwinding is an unusual, atmospheric, sometimes creepy read with a whole lot of heart. I was engaged immediately by the book's unique premise—how many books can you say you've read in which t…
The Drowned Cities is an exciting, fast-paced, and violent book taking place in the distant future, where the American government has collapsed and Washington D.C. is sinking into the ocean, filled wi…
Brilliant comedic writing is the jewel in Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. The author knows exactly how to describe a scene so that the reader can envision all the comical…
Magisterium was not quite like any book I've read before. Part futuristic dystopia, part dreamlike fantasy, this story weaves together a number of disparate elements into one intriguing whole. Reading…
