PURSUIT OF LIGHT
by Sandy Brewer 
I said earlier that I seldom read self-help or inspiration, but I opened this book when it came across my desk and I couldn’t put it down.  Part memoir, part inspiration, and completely enthralling, Pursuit of Light is not an easy read.  Chronicling the story of an excruciating case of child […]

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CHASING WINDMILLS
by Catherine Ryan Hyde 
An acclaimed writer and an award-winning short story writer whose novel, Paying It Forward, put the term into a movie and into our language, Catherine Ryan Hyde’s voice excels when she is writing for young adults.  As in her powerful young adult novel, Becoming Chloe, in Chasing Windmills Ryan-Hyde puts her […]

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CURSE OF THE SPELLMANS
by Lisa Lutz
A lot of books are funny, and some books make us care about the characters and the outcome.  When you put the two together, you get a wildly entertaining book that is really worth reading - and Lisa Lutz does just that.  Isabel “Izzy” Spellman is one of those characters […]

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BELONG TO ME
by Maria de los Santos
We have all read those books that pass from friend to friend - and that we put our names in just to make certain we get back.  Those books we keep on our shelves knowing we will read them again some time.  Belong to Me by Marisa de los […]

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WHAT SHAMU TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE
by Amy Sutherland
I don’t read a lot of inspiration/relationship/self-help books - I prefer fiction, biography, and history.  But I love Shamu, so I opened this to take a look. And it is fun.  There is nothing esoteric about Amy Sutherland’s book.  Just lots of fun facts, fascinating […]

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MONKEY GIRL
by Edward Humes
Subtitled Evolution, education, religion, and the battle for America’s Soul, this book takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town’s school board decision to confront the controversy head-on thrust its students, and then the entire community, onto the front lines of America’s culture […]

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ABSOLUTE FEAR
by Lisa Jackson
Lisa Jackson’s books evoke fear.  They take normal people and place them in terrifying, abnormal circumstances.  And her newest novel, Absolute Fear, the sequel to her NY Times bestseller, Shiver, is no different!
Eve may have lost her memory, but she retained just enough to remember a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole […]

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LILY DALE - AWAKENING
by Wendy Corsi Staub
Calla’s mother’s death in a freak accident tears the high-school junior’s world apart.  Suddenly her father is off to California on sabbatical and she is spending the end of the summer with the grandmother she barely knows in her mother’s home town of Lily Dale - a town full […]

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TURNING HOME
by Paul Eno
An award-winning New England journalist, Paul F. Eno is also considered one of the foremost authorities on the paranormal in the country.  Want to know why you experience déjà vu; or why your dream of a friend or loved one who passed over seems so real; or why you sometimes sense things […]

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THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL
by Steve Berry
The lost tomb of Alexander the Great, a modern-day dictator on the brink of world conquest, and a perilous geo-political chess game across continents converge in this suspense-thriller page-turner by NY Times bestselling author Steve Berry. Known for his attention to historical detail, and yet able to write with compelling tautness, […]

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