Category: Spotlight

Wings by Aprilynne Pike

Wings by Aprilynne Pike

Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. Laurel’s life is the very definition of normal… until the morning when she wakes up to discover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing […]

May 5, 2009 / 1 Comment
Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull

Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull

The magical preserve Fablehaven provides refuge to numerous mystical species: centaurs, trolls, satyrs, ogres, fairies, minotaurs, brownies, imps, nymphs, and many others. But some beings are too large and powerful to be confined to regular enchanted refuges. These mightiest of creatures dwell inside the dragon sanctuaries. With their leader revealed, the Society of the Evening Star is now racing to acquire the five keys to […]

March 24, 2009 / 1 Comment
Owen Family: Trail of Storms by Marsha Ward

Owen Family: Trail of Storms by Marsha Ward

Jessie Bingham put heartbreak away to tend to her sister’s needs, but when she settled for second best in love, she didn’t foresee that James Owen would come back into her life. The aftermath of the Civil War creates cruel circumstances for the Bingham family. A brutal attack on Jessie’s sister, Hannah Fletcher, drives the extended family to flee to the West. They are soon […]

March 23, 2009 / 6 Comments
Saint Squad: Lockdown by Traci Hunter Abramson

Saint Squad: Lockdown by Traci Hunter Abramson

Only twice had she set foot inside the building since the massacre. The first time had been just a month after the tragedy… The second time she had returned to the scene of the crime had been two days ago when she forced herself to enter the building to check on the temporary office for the SEAL team. The counselor she had seen in the […]

March 4, 2009 / 8 Comments
Lemon Tart by Josi S. Kilpack

Lemon Tart by Josi S. Kilpack

A Recipe for Murder: 5 families living on Peregrine Circle, 1 flowered curtain tieback, 1 missing child, 1 body in the field. Mix with a long list of suspects and top with two very different detectives. Increase heat until only the truth remains. Cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of Anne Lemmon, her beautiful young neighbor–a single mother who […]

January 29, 2009 / 5 Comments
Time Stone: The Reluctant Warrior by Kathi Oram Peterson

Time Stone: The Reluctant Warrior by Kathi Oram Peterson

Sydney Morgan, a sixteen-year-old girl with a black belt in karate, thinks her world has fallen apart. A close friend offends her, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, and her father—who abandoned them years ago—comes back into her life. Just when Syd thinks this nightmare will never end, a time stone takes her to Captain Helaman and his stripling warriors of the Book of Mormon. […]

January 15, 2009 / 3 Comments
The Stranger She Married by Donna Hatch

The Stranger She Married by Donna Hatch

When her parents and only brother die within weeks of each other, Alicia and her younger sister are left in the hands of an uncle who has brought them all to financial and social ruin. Desperate to save her family from debtor’s prison, Alicia vows to marry the first wealthy man to propose. She meets the dashing Lord Amesbury, and her heart whispers that this […]

December 22, 2008 / 2 Comments
Pretty Like Us by Carol Lynch Williams

Pretty Like Us by Carol Lynch Williams

Title: Pretty Like Us Author: Carol Lynch Williams Publisher: Peachtree Publishers Release Date: October 1, 2008 ISBN: 978-1561454440 Size: 224 pages, hardcover Genre: Middle Grade For Beauty McElwrath, the first day of sixth grade in small-town Green River, Florida, proves to be exactly the catastrophe she expected. Beauty is acutely shy, and she s sure she s doomed to be a social outcast for yet […]

December 2, 2008 / 0 Comments
Abinadi by H.B. Moore

Abinadi by H.B. Moore

Raquel has a secret. As the daughter of one of King Noah’s priests, she enjoys a luxurious life and the admiration of powerful men. But her heart belongs to a commoner, a man with no earthly wealth but rich heavenly gifts. When King Noah demands that Raquel join his harem, she flees the only life she has known and marries her secret love. His name […]

November 13, 2008 / 2 Comments
Alcatraz: The Scrivener’s Bones by Brandon Sanderson

Alcatraz: The Scrivener’s Bones by Brandon Sanderson

In his second skirmish against the Evil Librarians who rule the world, Alcatraz and his ragtag crew of freedom fighters track Grandpa Smedry to the ancient and mysterious Library of Alexandria. Hushlanders―people who live in the Librarian-controlled lands of Canada, Europe, and the Americas―believe the Library was destroyed long ago. Free Kingdomers know the truth: the Library of Alexandria is still around, and it’s one […]

November 5, 2008 / 4 Comments