Author Archives: EHL
A Trail Through Time: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Four – Jodi Taylor
It looks like Max and Leon are really dead. (Well, Leon is alive in another universe.) Without the primary protagonists a fourth book doesn’t look all that interesting. I’m just not in the mood to really care about some other … Continue reading
Faithful – Alice Hoffman
Shelby can’t forgive herself. After all, she was driving. She was the one who slid on the ice and wrecked the car. She was the one who should be in a coma instead of her best friend. Shelby was in … Continue reading
Blood for Blood – Ryan Graudin
Yael’s story continues in this alternate history with Germany and Japan the victors of WWII. Yael was the subject of medical experiments as a young girl in the Nazi concentration camps. As a result, she can skin-shift, physically change her … Continue reading
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales – Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Editors)
The little match girl goes pyrotechnic, while the princess on the glass hill has a female companion, and don’t even ask about the big, bad, wolf. This is another out-of-the-box collection of reimagined fairy tales written by multiple award winning … Continue reading
StarChaser: TodHunter Moon #3 – Angie Sage
This third adventure in the TodHunter Moon series opens with the reveal of a huge problem because the world’s magic source is drying, turning to powder, and poof – gone. Magyk comes from lapis lazuli beneath the wizard tower and … Continue reading
Nemesis – Anna Banks
Imprisoned by her father, the King of Serubel, Sepora escapes with the intention of hiding among the laborers in the nearby kingdom of Theoria. She is the last of the Forgers and has a skill sometimes inherited through the royal … Continue reading
Napolean’s Last Island – Thomas Keneally
One day when Betsy Balcombe was thirteen, her accustomed life changed forever. That was the day she learned that the Great Ogre of Europe, England’s enemy, Napoleon himself, would be residing on their island, St. Helena, forever. And in the … Continue reading
Enter a Glossy Web – McKenna Ruebush
George, short for Georgina, is left hurriedly with relatives when her parents must resume the search for her missing brother. Her uncle, Constantine, tells her a curious bedtime story about a catastrophic meteor shower and The Council of Seven that … Continue reading
Three Dark Crowns -Kendare Blake
A strange, mystical island is torn by three rival factions: Elementalists, Naturalists, Poisoners. For generations, the queen gives birth to triplets. Each child has the abilities of one of the three factions. The queen mother leaves the island and her … Continue reading
A Shadow Bright and Burning – Jessica Cluess
Set in an alternate Victorian England ravaged by Ancients, Henrietta is now a teacher at a charity boarding school where she was abandoned years before. Around the time she was born, witches opened the portals to allow the Ancients to … Continue reading
The Reader – Traci Chee
Books are no longer used or even known about by most folks. At a very early age, Sefia’s mother secretly plays alphabet blocks with Sefia, attempting to teach her the dangerous skill of reading. Her mother is killed and she … Continue reading
Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto -Tilar J. Mazzeo
There were false identity papers for all of the children, but some of them needed more. They needed to be more Polish, less Jewish, needed golden curls, needed to stop speaking Yiddish, needed to forget their real families. Only Irena … Continue reading
The Forgetting – Sharon Cameron
Every twelve years, the citizens of the walled-in city of Canaan lose their memories. Parents have no memory of their children. Relatives and friends forget they ever knew each other. After the first Forgetting, the citizens were required to keep … Continue reading
Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure – Ann M. Martin and Annie Parnell
Betty MacDonald wrote a series of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books in the 1940s. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helped children overcome bad habits and correct misbehaviors employing ingenious cures. She lived in a crazy upside-down house full of animals and charm. The series … Continue reading
Poppy – Mary Hooper
Poppy Pearson is a young maid in service to the aristocratic de Vere family during the outbreak of World War I. Poppy is urged by a former teacher to take advantage of the expanding opportunities to women due to the … Continue reading
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