My Super Sweet 16th Century, by Rachel Harris is available for pre-order on: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Be sure to add it to your TBR pile on Goodreads!
Read below for an exclusive excerpt…
Alessandra jerks back like I just suggested she prance around the square naked or something. “No! I believe I understand your meaning, and Lorenzo is certainly not my suitor. He is like a brother to me—the three of us grew up together.”
She resumes walking and I fall in step beside her, understanding there has to be …

Where Ideas Come From
Chrysoula Tzavelas
I haven’t yet been asked: Where Do You Get Your Ideas, but I’m prepared for when I do!
I get my ideas from all over the place. From dreams. From people I know. From myself, and stray thoughts.
Take Marley, the protagonist of Matchbox Girls. Marley has a problem with anxiety. Sometimes, so do I. I’ve found, sometimes when you’re worrying about something, and the worry is really random and out of nowhere, it’s easy to wonder if something psychic is going on. Am I worrying because I should …

As we celebrate African American History Month, I have a set of 3 great books supplied by Peachtree Publishers.

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson: We ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded where adults had failed in desegregating one of …

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Images: I must admit when I read the title before opening the book my first thought was “Decorating in black and white????” I was quickly eating crow. Judging solely on the images in this book, there are countless things you can do decorating in black and white. And other colours are incorporated in the rooms. But the main focus is in black and white. The images and beautiful! I really didn’t know how warm a home can look by simply using those two colours.
Text: Ms. Kemble does an incredible job …