Title: The Route Author: Gale Sears Publisher: Walnut Springs Press (Leatherwood Press) Release Date: May 18, 2009 ISBN: 978-1935217244 Size: 182 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: General Carol, a middle-aged wife and mother, is pondering the meaning of life. On a trip to the grocery store to find some energizing dark chocolate, she sees a sign asking for volunteers to deliver meals to the elderly. When […]
Title: Shelter from the Storm Author: Anita Stansfield Publisher: Covenant Release Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-59811-835-3 Size: 240 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: General Series: The Sound of Rain, A Distant Thunder, Winds of Hope Jason rushed out of the bishop’s office, then moved even faster to get out of the building before he burst into tears. The moments in his life when he’d felt this way […]
Title: Pursued: A Maggie McKenzie Mystery Author: Lynn Gardner Publisher: Covenant Release Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-59811-550-5 Size: 336 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Mystery Series: Vanished In an attempt to discover the truth about what really happened to her two brothers who were declared dead at birth, newspaper editor Maggie McKenzie has signed on for more of an adventure than she bargained for. What begins as […]
Title: How to Stuff a Wild Zucchini Author: Heather Horrocks Publisher: Deseret Book Release Date: May 13, 2009 ISBN: 978-1606410943 Size: 224 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Romance Sophisticated New York playwright Lori Scott feels like a failure when her producer boyfriend calls it quits on both their relationship and her first play. On a dare, she throws a dart at a map and ends up […]
Title: The Light Above Author: Jean Holbrook Mathews Publisher: Covenant Release Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-59811-726-4 Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Historical When the Hogge family, exhausted and covered with coal dust, made the trek up the hill to the cottage, they found the Kenny family and a few other friends from the pit gathered around the small, whitefaced form of Sandy, which lay on […]
Title: Bone Warriors Author: Bron Bahlmann Publisher: Sweetwater Book Release Date: May 15, 2009 ISBN: 978-1599553221 Size: 278 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: YA Fantasy READ THE REVIEW Craving power and lusting for human souls, the wicked necromancer sweeps the land, leaving behind nothing but death and devastation. Returning home, fifteen-year-old Derrik and his friend Tweaks find their homes burning and families missing. They immediately embark […]
Title: Pickup Games Author: Marcia MickelsonPublisher: Bonneville Books Release Date: May 15, 2009 ISBN: 978-1599552521 Size: 224 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Romance When Mick Webber gets a new job hosting a college basketball show, he is less than thrilled to learn he will be co-hosting with Cara Jones, a pretty brunette trying to get over her failed engagement. From the start it is clear the […]
Title: Dragon Spear Author: Jessica Day George Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books Release Date: May 12, 2009 ISBN: 978-1599903699 Size: 256 pages, hardcover Genre: YA Fantasy As far as Creel is concerned, all is finally right with the world. The dragon king, Shardas, and his queen, Velika, have made a home for themselves on the Far Islands, and for the first time in centuries it […]
Title: The Hourglass Door Author: Lisa Mangum Publisher: Shadow Mountain Release Date: May 13, 2009 ISBN: 978-1606410936 Size: 432 pages, hardcover Genre: YA Romance Abby Edmunds’s senior year of high school is going according to plan: good friends, cute boyfriend, and college applications in the mail. But when Dante Alexander, foreign-exchange student from Italy, arrives, he turns her life upside down and Abby finds herself […]
Title: The Chosen One Author: Carol Lynch Williams Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Release Date: May 12, 2009 ISBN: 978-0312555115 Size: 224 pages, hardcover Genre: YA Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father’s three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters. Or at least without questioning them much—if you don’t count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on […]