My Favorite Season is Spring by Patrice Wilkerson is the perfect picture book to read to children to get them excited about the spring season. It is beautifully illustrated by Brooke Beaver with pictures that every child will enjoy. Children will be able to spot butterflies, bees, flowers, birds, and a kite flying in the sky. The young character, Susie, describes through rhythm and rhyme all the things she loves about spring and why it is her favorite season. She finds so many fun things to do and she loves the outdoors, and you will too! This picture book is a great tool for elementary class ..read more

January The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (audio) Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey In the Weeds by B.K. Borison (audio) Radiant Sin by Katee Robert Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison (audio) Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Verant (audio) Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano (audio) A Guide to Being Just Friends by Sophie Sullivan (audio) Things We Hide From the Light by Lucy Score It’s One of Us by J.T. Ellison Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn Off The Map by Trish Dol ..read more

I’m thrilled to offer a very early review of Meagan Church’s forthcoming novel, THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY, which is slated for publication with Sourcebooks on March 5, 2024. Thank you so much to Sourcebooks and to Meagan for allowing me to read a very early copy! Set during the 1960’s in North Carolina, THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY, tells the story of a teenage girl named Lorraine whose aspirations of becoming an astronaut in the midst of the Space Race unfortunately become thwarted after she becomes pregnant and is forced to live in a maternity home, as was normal during the Baby Scoop era. Though sh ..read more

January Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik The Last Flight by Julie Clark A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas The Maid by Nita Prose (audio) The Family by Naomi Krupitsky (audio) A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann (audio) These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (audio) Group Therapy by BB Easto ..read more

Drama King by Penny Reid About the Book Stuck with her off-limits, taciturn, hunky movie star client during a sudden snowstorm on Christmas Eve, an extremely capable and highly professional bodyguard must keep him alive and warm without letting the tension building between them get too hot. Bathsheba (Beth) Ryan can’t thank her best friend enough for helping her land the job of her dreams. After being relegated to second-string security for politicians in DC, being hired as an undercover personal security specialist by a giant Hollywood studio is exactly the kind of action she’s always wanted ..read more

About the Book It’s 1967, and for young Richard it’s a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother’s abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong—but when he’s run down by bullies at his new school, he meets Mr. Foster, an elderly neighbor who chases off the bullies and invites Richard in for a cup of cocoa. Richard becomes fast fr ..read more

About the Book Someone Else’s Life will publish on February 1, 2023 through Thomas & Mercer (Amazon Publishing) A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved dog are gone the same year. Then a terrible accident leaves her young son traumatized. It’s time for a change. Palm trees, mai tais, peace and quiet―Annie should be at ease, safe in her new Kauai home with her husband and s ..read more

Maddy is a songwriter turned music teacher, who is down on her luck after leaving her longtime beau and leaving Nashville to move back in with her mother in small-town Crowns Grove, Connecticut. Though she dreams of writing songs again, she falls into a teaching position at the local elementary school, helping in the music class, and soon finds herself in charge when the teacher becomes ill. A bonus for Maddy, however, is Travis Montgomery fellow teacher from Kentucky with a sweet Southern charm, who takes an interest in her. Unfortunately, the same mean girl from grade school is now the mean ..read more

About the Book An impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European Front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn’t be more different–a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an exhausted mother looking for a fresh start, and a determined young war worker. At first, the struggles of the home front are all the club members ..read more

About the Book Sarah Sprinkel knows how to jump the hurdles of a man’s world! But when a devastating accident at home threatens to crush her goal of finishing college, she must decide whether to pursue her dreams or save her small cranberry farm. The answer is easy. The only obstacle Sarah didn’t account for when she returned…Nick Saint Cloud. Nick spent the last eight years in New York City tangled in the bedsheets of society’s finest, avoiding his fate and the accompanying secret that comes with it. When he’s suddenly called on to return to the family business on Prince Edward Island, it’s ..read more