This slim volume is a tie in to the Grishaverse. It's what the characters would read to learn about the saints. It includes the traitorous Sankta Lizabeta, the heroic Sankt Juris, and even Sankta Alina and The Starless One. In the Starless One's story tells a small little tidbit of Yuri's history. I always thought…
This book is not a story, but teaches collective nouns of animals. Apparently, a group of wombats is a Wisdom. A group of rattlesnakes a Rumba, and a Clash of rhinoceroses. Some of these make sense, like a Constellation of Sea Stars, while the Rumba of rattlesnakes has me scratching my head. I really liked…
Vivy Cohen is a 12 year old Jewish Autistic girl who wants nothing more than to pitch her knuckleball in baseball. But her mom is reluctant to let her. For an assignment for her Social Skills class she writes a letter to her favorite pitcher VJ Capello, a fellow knuckleballer. To her surprise, he writes…
*I received this as an eARC from NetGalley The Lady Janies are back, this time with a Mary story. This one ties into their first novel My Lady Jane and is about Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland at the tender age of six days old. Spirited off to France at…
Alma and her family moved to the small town of Four Points three months ago. Ever since then, Alma has had panic attacks. She doesn't like her new home and misses her old town. But when she visits the the shop at the center of town and meets the mysterious Shopkeeper, who give her a…
Charlie and his loyal cat Diesel are enjoying the quite life in Athena when Charlie's daughter, Laura comes home. She's in town to teach theater for a semester at the college. The only problem is her ex-boyfriend, volatile playwright Conner Lawton, is in town as the Writer in Residence. When Conner turns up dead, and…
Ellie is a twelve-year-old with Cerebral Palsy who uses a wheelchair to get around. She loves baking and dreams of being a professional baker, but feels her mom can treat her like a baby at times by insisting she needs an aide at school. When her grandpa's dementia starts to get bad, she and her…
Teen ballerina Caeson is hoping to go to New York to train as part of an elite ballet program. But that changes when an injury is revealed to be much more severe than she realized. Caeson has bone cancer and the tumor has shattered the bones in her leg. Davis is a survivor of childhood…
It's the end of third grade for Bat. It's almost time to release Thor back into the wild. His best friend, Israel, is spending part of the Summer with his cousin. And his father has a friend that might be a girlfriend. Will Bat be able to handle all this change in just a short…
Bat is happily raising his skunk kit, Thor. He's got a best friend in Israel and everything is going well. But everyone wants him to wait. Wait to feed the class rabbit the carrot he brought to school, wait for the garden of food for Thor to grow, wait to see Thor after school, wait…
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