A moving portrayal of an interracial romance… In this impressively moving YA romance, Swann narrates the love story of an interracial couple who struggle against the barriers erected by family and friends in 80s conservative society. Sensitive and obedient… Read More ›
Month: September 2019
My Pet Slime (My Pet Slime Book 1) by Courtney Sheinmel
Charming from start to finish… In Sheinmel’s delightful chapter book, a young girl makes her own pet and learns how messy and hard it is to take care of a pet. Piper Maclane who is allergic to pets wishes… Read More ›
A Spell of Murder (A Lost Maidens Loch Mystery Book 1) by Kennedy Kerr
A delightful cozy mystery… Kennedy Kerr takes the reader on a journey to a sleepy town in Scotland where the village witch helps police with the investigation of a murder in the first installment of A Lost Maidens Loch… Read More ›
Magpie by Sophie Draper
Dark and engrossing… Draper’s dark psychological thriller takes the reader on a suspenseful journey as a woman sifts through the lies and deceits of her broken marriage to learns about her missing eighteen-year-old son. Claire is trying to unravel the… Read More ›
The Last Wife by Nicola Marsh
Engrossing… Marsh takes the reader on a thrilling journey in her latest as one woman unravels a family’s lies, deceptions, and hidden secrets. It’s been five years since Ria’s husband Grayson Parker walked out on her and their daughter Shelley…. Read More ›
Problem at the Playground (Undersea Mystery Club Book 1) by Courtney Carbone
A fun-filled, adventurous ride… Courtney Carbone takes the reader on an adventurous sea ride with a mermaid and her best friend as they solve the mystery of the disappearing playground in her first installment in Undersea Mystery Club… Read More ›
Strangers She Knows by Christina Dodd
Thoroughly entertaining… The thrilling latest from Dodd, the last of the Cape Charade series, takes Kellen, Max and their ten-year-old daughter Rae to an isolated island to escape a serial killer. After murder of the Cape Charade undertaker Arthur… Read More ›
Nessie Quest by Melissa Savage
A fun-filled adventure… Ada Ru is excited to go to Disney World for her upcoming summer vacations before the beginning of grade six in Denver when her father relocates the family to Fort Augustus, a small town in Scotland for… Read More ›
The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted by Conor Grennan
An entertainer but with a dull start… During a class presentation, the eighth grader Jack Carlson finds himself transported to the Hadley Academy, a secret institution that tracks teens with unlikely gifts and trains them to protect the world from… Read More ›
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
A page-turner… When twenty-one-year-old Julie Stender is found brutally murdered in her apartment, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are called to investigate the case. As detectives wade through the long list of suspects, the victim’s landlady… Read More ›