Rob Sanderson and his friends knew that they weren’t part of the “popular” kids; but that didn’t stop them from accepting each other and facing life’s challenges―even when those challenges involved intrigue and espionage! See how this group of misfits combines forces to find a way to outwit dangerous spies and save their new classmate and her family from imminent danger.
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This book is a great example of how children are bullied in school and how after they grow up, the person who was the bully realizes that what they did was wrong. This book also showed how a group of teenagers didn’t know a new classmate, but they came to her rescue when she and her family were in danger. The story was very captivating and loved how we are human, and when danger calls, we gather in groups and defend for freedom, peace, and love.
When celebrity chef Ted Monroe is found dead on his yacht, throat slashed with his own knife, Violet Rhinehammer’s sizzling interview turns stone-cold. With suspects piling up faster than ribs on the grill—including Ted’s bitter ex-wife, his scorned fiancée, and a town full of secrets. Violet must turn up the heat to catch a killer.
As tempers flare and family feuds ignite, can Violet smoke out the truth before the killer strikes again?
Get ready for a finger-lickin’ mystery packed with Southern charm, small-town secrets, and a killer who won’t stop until they’ve burned all the evidence!
My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars
A Father’s Day BBQ contest turns to a murder mystery right before you get a chance to try the BBQ. A celebrity chef, Ted Monroe, is found murdered in his yacht by Violet Rhinehammer. Can Violet decipher the murder mystery before she herself walks right into the murderer?
Ted Monroe was disliked by many people. The list of suspects continues adding up as Violet tries to solve this murder. I was impressed that Violet will test any lead she gets, even if that means swimming to a boat in the middle of the night. The twisted ending will smoke you unexpectedly. You won’t smell or taste that murderer until you are caught red-handed. Great character creation and different plot setting, and unforseen murderer.
Author Biography
A Camper and Criminals Mystery is in development for a Hallmark Channel televsion show.
Tonya Kappes has written more than 180 southern cozy mysteries, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists, including USA Today . Best known for stories charged with southern charm, emotion and humor and filled with flawed characters, her novels have garnered reader praise and glowing critical reviews. She lives with her husband in northern Kentucky. Now that her four boys have flown out of the nest, Tonya writes full-time in her camper!
You can find her all over social media and at Tonyakappes.com .
In Store Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6:00 PM ET Shelby Van Pelt discusses and signs REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
About this Event Please join us in welcoming author Shelby Van Pelt as she celebrates the release of Remarkably Bright Creatures in paperback! She will be in conversation with Lynda Cohen Loigman.
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in the Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors – until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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Her father’s suicide shatters the last threads of her old world—but in the wreckage, she discovers a new path. One filled with horses, healing, and hard-bodied ranchers who make her heart race. Emily has always believed her ability to hear horses was a sign of madness, but what if it’s a gift? A gift that might just help her reclaim the horse she lost—and heal herself in the process.
Gadrienne Jemmerson has already lost it all.
Six years ago, a tragic accident stole his wife and left his heart closed off for good. Women? Too complicated. Love? Too painful. He’s kept his promise to never go there again. Until Emily walks into his life—a beautiful, broken woman with a strange connection to the most dangerous stallion in his barn.
Neither of them planned on falling.
But maybe love shows up when you stop looking.
Maybe healing comes when two broken souls finally find each other.
Will Emily and Gadrienne take a chance on love, or will the weight of their pasts keep them apart?
USAToday Best Selling author, Isabella White, lives with her family in South Africa where she writes full time. Her debut novel is Imperfect Love, a contemporary romance in the 4Ever series, with the third, called Endless Love due in 2018.
More contemporary romance novels will follow in the near feature. The what if novels that will go together with the 4Ever series, and a brand new title called From a Jack to a King will be available in 2018.
She reached USAToday Best Selling list on September 12 with her title From a Jack 2 A King Exclusive in the Royal and Reckless Romance Boxed set
🔍Mystery, BBQ, and a small-town festival with a killer twist? Yep, Father’s Day Fugitive is bringing it all! Think you know who did it? Think again. Holiday Junction is about to get a whole lot hotter! 🔥
Father’s Day in Holiday Junction is smokin’—and not just at the BBQ contest!
When celebrity chef Ted Monroe is found dead on his yacht, throat slashed with his own knife, Violet Rhinehammer’s sizzling interview turns stone-cold. With suspects piling up faster than ribs on the grill—including Ted’s bitter ex-wife, his scorned fiancée, and a town full of secrets. Violet must turn up the heat to catch a killer.
As tempers flare and family feuds ignite, can Violet smoke out the truth before the killer strikes again?
Get ready for a finger-lickin’ mystery packed with Southern charm, small-town secrets, and a killer who won’t stop until they’ve burned all the evidence!
The Glorkian Warrior isn’t the brightest bulb in the box, so it’s good he’s got his trusty talking backpack to advise him as they set out on a perilous journey to deliver a pizza. The pizza’s got clams and peanut butter on it, so it’s not clear who’s going to want it, but deliver it they will. With bright, lively illustrations and classic pratfalls, this graphic novel for kids is 112 pages of super icky gross-out humor and ludicrously bad decisions― in other words, The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza is a winner.
My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Funny book to read to children. Love that it is a comic book, and it had me laughing. It was entertaining and loved the illustrations. They picked great colors that made the cartoons very fun. Pizza is also my favorite, especially with pepperoni. Left me hungry after reading it.
Author Biography
James Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka’s cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he will be declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of two years.
A spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead.
1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike.
Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. But as the women team up with the powerful men of London’s exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves…
My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars
The London Séance Society was composed solely of men who would stop at nothing to exploit poor widows. Many people long to see the supernatural world firsthand and hope for a chance to reconnect with their loved ones. This story invites you to London to experience a séance. Readers will be just as captivated by Vaudeline as Evie and Lenna were. She is the spiritualist who promises an authentic experience of meeting your loved one, free from deceit. Will you take a seat and join the séance?
The story centers around Lenna, who has lost her sister Evie, and her friend Eloise. The author leads readers on a wild goose chase as Lenna searches for the real reasons behind her sister’s and friend’s deaths. What she uncovers is troubling: Evie knew the schemes within their society and was even complicit in them. It turns out that Evie was trying to learn everything she could about the horrific secrets the society was hiding. In a surprising twist, it becomes apparent that Evie was actively participating in the scheme to expose the terrible things the society was doing for profit.
Maintaining a high social status was especially important to Mr. Volckman, the president of the society. This meant he kept a “kill list” of wealthy families to arrange marriages between society members and their widows. Not only did they plot through deceptive séances, but they also resorted to underhanded tactics, taking advantage of women during their mourning. What you experience during a séance might not be real after all. People are vulnerable after the death of a loved one. The book mentioned the steps needed to conduct a séance and we learned what the Victorian’s mourning customs were.
The story started off slowly, which took me a long time to continue going through the story. There were some great twists to the story and provided a good context on conducting a séance for someone who had never been to one.
Author Biography
Sarah Penner is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary and The London Séance Society. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and her debut, The Lost Apothecary, has sold over one million copies worldwide.
A graduate of the University of Kansas, Sarah spent thirteen years in corporate finance and now writes full-time. In her free time, Sarah enjoys hiking, yoga, and cooking. She also sits on the Board of Directors at her local animal shelter, Friends of Strays. Sarah and her husband, Marc, live in Florida.
In the spirit if Tony Abbott’s UNDERWORLD books, comes the new kid on the block – Barkari Katari Johnson!
Shy fourth-grader Bakari Katari Johnson is having a bad day. He’s always coming up against Tariq Thomas, the most popular kid in their class, and today is no different. On top of that, Bakari has found a strange ring that appears to have magical powers–and the people from the ring’s fantastical other world want it back! Can Bakari and his best friend Wardell stave off the intruders’ attempts, keep the ring safe, and stand up to Tariq and his pal Keisha, all before the school bell rings? Media celebrity and Essence Magazine entertainment producer, Patrik Henry Bass delivers adventure, fun, fantasy and friendship in this illustrated action-packed adventure starring an African American boy hero and his classmates.
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This was an interesting story. I loved the ice zombies, a very creative idea. It was a great book to teach kids to not be bullies and be friends. Even though Bakari was getting bullied by Keisha and Tarik, they were able to team up and save the world from being invaded by ice zombies. Loved that in the end, they were able to work together and become friends. This is a great book for teenagers. Has adventure, teamwork, and determination.
Consigned to a magical prison, Sir Keeshan has suffered torment after torment for thousands of years. The curse of a powerful Djinn entombed him in the lamp, damning him to an eternity of pleasing the women the lamp brings him, but never knowing true love. Every hundred years or so, a new woman appears and they are both are ensnared in an enchanted web of dark desire. And then, just as he grows to care for her, she is spirited away, back to the world.
Such is the nature of his curse.
But when Aimalee arrives, Keeshan knows something is different. She is different. And his feelings for her are undeniable. He has no idea how long they will have together and, desperate to not waste a second of his time with her, Keeshan cannot help but indulge his every craving…and hers.
When the clever minx helps him solve a mystery that has been haunting him for ages, he can’t help but hope she may be the one to help him break the curse.
Hope is a dangerous thing in Keeshan’s world, especially because he knows her departure, when it comes, will destroy him.
This magical, fantasy romance with a twist from Sabrina York was previously published as Lust Eternal and has been re-edited and re-covered.
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Bravo to Sabrina. This was a captivating story that brought the genie in the bottle back to our modern world. This is the first book I have read from Sabrina, and I couldn’t put it down. I was so sad that Sir Keeshan had suffered so much torment. Aimalee and Keeshan were both the perfect characters for this story. We all grew to love the interaction between the characters. I loved the plot and mystery of this story and recommend that you all get your wishes from Keeshan.
Author Biography
New York Times and USA Today bestselling Romance Author
A friend from Ireland sent me this thriller. My review will be posted in several weeks.
Goodreads Blurb
Who is the other woman? That’s for you to decide.
Ann devoted years to her mother’s care – and now she’s gone, Ann feels lost.
Justin is also grieving, but his wife is still alive. Deborah is in a coma and she doesn’t have long left.
When the two meet, they are instantly drawn to one another and, before long, they’ve fallen deeply in love.
Ann quickly moves in with Justin and his little girl, making them the perfect family. But just as Ann settles into her new life, Justin’s is turned upside down. Unexpectedly, his wife has survived. Deborah is coming home.
Neither knows what to do. But one thing is Ann has earned the life Deborah left behind, and she plans to keep it . . .
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