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Wouldn’t it be nice to have your very own genie? But wait, there are rules now. You get more wishes, but the wishes can’t involve magic and have to be completed in one day and humanly possible.

When Lacey “accidentally” gets her own genie named Grant, he is hers to provide wishes for an entire month. Between her totally depressed mother, her eight-year-old brother, her job and their lack of finances, Lacey has more than she can handle and would prefer a good old-fashioned miracle. Besides, how do you explain the hunky guy suddenly hanging around your house?

Lacey and her family have quite an adventure over the month of wishes that Grant provides. There are surprises and scares and both Lacey and Grant learn a thing or two.

I liked the way the story was written with each chapter alternating with a short report from Grant to his boss about the activity of the day from his perspective. This allows the reader to get a bit of a view of both Lacey’s and Grant’s view of things.

I liked how Lacey grew as a person through the novel and became able to accept help from others, learning that it is okay to accept help sometimes. But the biggest growth was what happened in Lacey and Grant’s relationship. That took a great deal of maturity.

I Wish was a fun fantasy, clean romance novel to read. It was rapidly paced and enjoyed reading it. I am looking forward to reading the sequel, Wishing For You. If you would like a light, easy book to read, I would recommend I Wish, for all ages. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publishers via NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion is not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Boo’s Beard is about a boy named Tom with a social disability (such as autism) who does not understand facial expressions. When his dog Boo gets her beard tangled up so it looks like a big smile, a girl named Lydia explains to Tom that Boo is smiling and it means she is happy.

Lydia shows Tom other expressions using Boo’s beard and explains those to him as well and by the end of the book, Tom understands that his smile shows he is happy.

I liked this book because it is a good jumping off point to help children understand others who do not have the ability to make the same connection to facial expressions that the rest of us do. At the same time we can use the book to help autistic children understand facial expressions by making them and looking at them in a mirror as we read the book

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I particularly liked that despite Tom’s social difficulties, he was invited to play with the other children. The story gives the message that we should accept the differences in others.

The illustrations in Boo’s Beard are bright, colourful and fun to look at. I thought both the author and illustrator did an excellent job in putting together a book that can be used to help children understand and develop empathy towards others with social disabilities. I have given this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publishers for the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Wishing for You was a touching book that had me tearful a time or two. After a brain injury leaves her with a short term memory loss, Kimberley learns to rely on her iPad to help her remember a lot of things. She has always relied on her parents instead of learning the important life skills necessary for independent living.

Gifted to Kimberley by Lacey, Grant (a Benevolent Supernatural Being, otherwise known as a genie) arrives to provide 30 wishes, she learns both the skills to live independently and how blessed she is that she is to be able to forget.

Wishing for You must have been a difficult book to write due to the tough subject matter. I thought the author dealt with it in a thoughtful, sensitive manner. I loved the friendship that developed between Kimberley and Sean and how Kimberley’s short term memory disability worked in her favour with Sean because he needed to spend time with someone who could just forget what he was going through and treat him normally. Sean was a gift to Kimberley because he believed in her and what she could accomplish in spite of her short term memory loss.

I also liked the interaction between Grant and Camarin, both Benevolent Supernatural Beings, who didn’t seem to quite get along too well. Grant’s growth in understanding of Camarin’s role in Sean’s life and its effect on her teaches him a lot.

The twists and turns in the story are a bit of a roller coaster ride as they bring victory, sorrow, friendship and love. But that’s just like life isn’t it? The characters feel realistic, 3-dimensional. Kimberley and Sean, the main characters will stick with you long after you turn the final page of the book.

I thoroughly enjoyed Wishing for You, the second book in this series. The book may be written for young adults but I think it will be enjoyed by readers of any age. I gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

Thank you to the publishers for providing a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Alice is a 12-year-old girl who moves from Seattle to a small mill town that everyone calls Stinkville because of the smell from the mill. For the first time in her life, she feels at a disadvantage. Back in her neighborhood in Seattle everyone knew she had albinism and was legally blind. Here in Stinkville, she has to explain her impairment to everyone and why despite being blind she can still read regular books, albeit with a magnifier. Alice doesn’t know her way around here and feels rather helpless until her parents start looking into schools for the blind.

I loved this book! I probably should say at the outset that I am probably rather biased as I am a teacher for visually impaired children and a mobility instructor so this book was right up my alley. I could totally relate to Alice as I have worked with students with albinism and understand their frustrations with having to explain not only what they can and cannot see, but why their skin and hair are so fair.

A Blind Guide to Stinkville was filled with humour including some of the classic blunders that sighted people consistently make with people who are visually impaired, such as speaking very loudly and slowly to them. This can be very offensive the blind person, but I thought that the author made the situation very funny. I also was in stitches over how the librarian kept telling her “seeing eye dog” how to take Alice to where Alice wanted to go instead of telling Alice. Sometimes we sighted people are so dumb!

I appreciated how Alice grew in her ability to become much more independent and grew in character through the book as she interviewed various people of the town for her “Sinkville Success Stories” essay contest entry. I liked the choices she made very for her stories of successful people for her essay and actually liked her choices better than some of the more obvious ones that the other entrants made.

As a mobility instructor, I was especially pleased to see that Alice started using her cane as that provided some protection for her and helped drivers and others know that she couldn’t see them very well. It also helped her parents recognize that Alice was becoming more independent and accepting of her vision impairment.

The best thing about A Blind Guide to Stinkville is that it showed blind people for who they truly can be: successful, independent, hard-working, caring individuals who just happen to see the world differently.

There is so much more to this book than I could possibly cover in this review, so many more themes running through it and all of them are important. Friendship, mental health, bullying, civil rights are just a few of them.

This book may have been written for a middle-grade audience, but really, it’s a book that everyone should read. I recommend it to everyone as a must-read! I gave it a rating of 5 stars out of 5!

Thank you to the publishers for providing this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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This audio story is for children around the ages of 2-3 years of age. It teaches them about a centipede and his three friends, a slug, a spider, a snail. The listener learns things like how many legs they have and that we need to be careful not to step on them when we are walking. They sing a cute little song about this.

This particular little audio story uses non-traditional instruments for its orchestral music, so it has a rather different flavour. It is one of the more subdued stories that they have written.

Weird and Wonderful is one of Music Audio Stories shorter stories at under 4 minutes. Its length is great for the shorter attention span of toddlers. It’s a story about friendship, differences and being careful not to hurt small creatures.

The creatures in this story are those that are perhaps less popular, such as the slug. We don’t mind talking about the beautiful creatures such as the butterfly, so the author decided to give the less popular ones some air time in this cute story.

I really liked the music in this audio story. I thought the use of non-traditional instruments was an inspirational addition to this story. The bugs after all are not the common, ordinary ones everyone loves and sings about, so the use of uncommon, non-traditional orchestral instruments fit perfectly and made beautiful music.

Unless you listen to their stories on a daily basis you’ll probably have to listen to one of the other eight stories produced by Music Audio Stories after you hear Weird and Wonderful to see just how different the music actually is on this new soundtrack. I’ve reviewed a number of their stories and I had to compare this new story with an older one before I realized just how much different it really was. I thought the change was delightful.

I was quite enamored with this latest offering by Anna-Christina and Adie Hardy. They continue to produce quality audio stories for children in the age range of 2 to 5 years. I rated this story 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publishers for providing a copy of this audio story in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Things start off rapidly when Gwen Marcey’s dog brings home a human skull. The pace doesn’t slow down all through the book so you’ll need to be prepared for a fast and furious ride through this suspenseful thriller.

There is someone on the loose who is killing victims that look a lot like Gwen’s daughter. But he doesn’t just kill them – first he tortures them.

It’s obvious from reading the author’s bio that she writes what she knows as a lot of her own background is in the book. That’s a good thing because it helps to make the book more realistic. Her characters felt lifelike; their conversations were smooth and natural.

There is much more to this case than just a simple serial killer. Some of the bones that have been recovered have been gnawed on. Did the killer murder these women or did the wolves they’ve been hearing at night get the women before the killer got to them?

Through a variety of twists and turns, Gwen discovers the killer is connected to a previous case Gwen dealt with, and the killer is out for revenge. The plots twists and turns will have you guessing throughout the book and still surprise you at the end.

I enjoyed Carrie Stuart Parks writing style. She was descriptive enough that you could definitely feel the pain and fear along with the victims, but not so graphic as to be considered gory or X-rated by any means. I felt like I was right there alongside the characters.

There was no profanity or erotic content within this book. It was a very clean read. This also made the book more enjoyable in my view.

If you enjoy suspense novels, then I would recommend The Bones Will Speak for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

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Tyler Thompson can’t stop thinking about the day he saw his father get killed right in front of him. If he hadn’t thrown that ball, his dad would still be alive. Since then, he’s constantly getting in trouble.

But the worst of his trouble started the day his babysitter made him walk to the store to buy her a Dr. Burple. On the way to the store he sees two men dumping some green liquid into the town cesspool and he accidentally falls in. When his old dog Maxx starts barking, the men start chasing them and Tyler has to swim through the green goop to get away.

After that Tyler starts to notice differences in both himself and Maxx. Tyler doesn’t feel winded as easily and Maxx seems younger. Tyler is able to do things he couldn’t do before! He’s actually coordinated! Still getting in trouble, his mom’s fiancé Sean takes him and Lukas his friend to work with him when they both get suspended.

That’s where a series of twists and turns in the story begin and have Tyler dealing with a bully, a message from a grandfather that may still be alive, and a sinister plot to overtake the world. It’s up to Tyler to figure out what to do.

I think there were lots of lessons that could be learned by youth reading this novel. Two of them that stuck out for me were 1) if you want to be treated as a responsible person, you have to behave responsibly. (Tyler didn’t want a babysitter but kept getting into trouble). 2) Be honest all the time if you want to be believed. (Tyler didn’t like it when his mother believed Rebekka instead of him.)

The rapid pace of this novel will keep the attention of almost any middle-grader. This book is full of action and fun. Tyler embodies the typical pre-teen and the issues they face growing up.

Although the target audience for Metatron: The Angel Has Risen is middle-grade, I have to say that I enjoyed it thoroughly. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an easy read in the fantasy/sci-fi genre. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Mary didn’t think well enough of herself to marry someone who treated her with respect. Edward was abusive, controlling and manipulative. She knew it but she was willing to marry him because she thought no one else would marry someone with the Caracus name.

Fortunately for her, Lisa her sister made contact and reconnected with her ultimately causing her to cross paths with Ian, a man who liked her for who she was and didn’t care what her last name was.

Through a variety of hair-raising twists and turns, Mary worked through the issues of her past relationship with her father and how that all connected to her reasons for marrying Edward.

Regretting Redemption moves along at a good clip, making the book a relatively short book to read, but the story is obviously not over at the end. There is one more book to the series in which the story will be concluded. There is enough of a conclusion at the end of this book however for the reader to feel satisfaction.

One of the themes of this story was abuse – physical and emotional, which may be difficult for some people to read about. What I liked about it was that the message was that it is not to be tolerated and that help should be sought so that the abused person can get out of that situation.

I think the author touched on an important point in this topic and that is that sometimes the abused person doesn’t try to get out of the situation they are in because they don’t think they deserve any better. Mary knew Edward was an abuser but she was going to marry him because she didn’t think anyone else would and she really wanted to be married. We need to help loved ones around us in potential situations like that to see that they are worth more than putting themselves in those kinds of situations.

I always enjoy a Bonnie Paulson book because I know it will be free from offensive language and the romance will be clean. Here again she doesn’t disappoint. Thank you so much Bonnie for providing books suitable for all audiences!

I very much enjoyed Regretting Redemption and I look forward to the next book in the series. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publishers for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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All he wanted to do was make them happy. He took such care in how he left them, carefully doing their make-up and putting a smile on their faces, dressing them in their wedding gowns, putting on their wedding rings, arranging their hair, carefully positioning them in the bathtub and cutting off their ring finger. He never left a trace of his presence.

This is one of the strangest cases that FBI agent Brandon Fisher and his team have been on. Two murders exactly one year apart and the killer has left no evidence of his presence. They can’t even find anything to connect the two women.

As the frequency of the murders escalates the hunt for the killer intensifies. This fast-paced novel will have you up late into the night as you try to work out who could be the killer. Just as you think you have it solved, another twist is thrown into the mix and you have to re-evaluate everything all over again. The author will have you guessing right until the end of the book.

I enjoyed this novel because the twists and turns felt realistic and not conveniently coincidental. The plotline was well thought out. The characters felt three dimensional. This is the fourth book in this series and I started with this book so I missed all the character building from the other three books but I felt comfortable with Brandon and his team and could sense the underlying currents of past interactions affecting their present behaviour. Now I want to go back and read the other three books to see what I missed.

The author seems to use the book as a way to examine the mind of the killer. Why is he doing this to women? Why does he think this is helping them? Why does he think they will be happier if they are dead? Obviously these are questions related to the murderer’s motivation but as we are led through the thought process that’s how we come to discover who the killer is.

I have read several of Carolyn Arnold’s cozy mystery series books, but this is the first serious crime novel of hers that I have read and I must say that I found it an outstanding read! I look forward to spending many more happy hours reading her crime novels. I give Blue Baby a rating of 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Evelyn liked Dan but every time he got too close Evelyn would back away. Being friends with him was great. That wasn’t the problem. The problem was that she didn’t think anyone would ever want her if they knew about her past. So she just never told them about it. No one. Ever. Except Kate.

Unfortunately, the past that Evelyn thought she had left behind for good, returned. Her friends noticed that her behaviour had changed, but she never said anything. Kate, who always answered Evelyn’s phone when Evelyn wasn’t close enough to grab it, was no longer welcome to do so. Stymied by such odd behaviour, Kate determined to figure out what was going on.

What Kate and her friends discovered was more than one person should have to deal with on her own. Convincing Evelyn of that was something else. The twists and turns in the story connected to other events which had affected Evelyn’s friends in the past.

Discovering what happened to Evelyn when she was a child was utterly horrific and speaks to some of the awful things that can happen to children in foster care.

Fortunately there are good foster homes out there where things like that do not happen. Perhaps it will even encourage some people who care about the welfare of children to consider becoming foster parents.

I loved the themes of friendship, trust and loyalty in Closing the Books. Does Evelyn allow Dan to become anything more than just a friend? You’ll have to read the book to find out if she can get over the barrier of her past to develop a relationship with him.

I thought this sequel to Moving On was excellent. Not only were the themes and plot current but the story was well written and engaging. I gave this story a rating 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Most of the books that we study about the history of World War II are about the various campaigns that took place across Europe. War in My Town is the true, historical account of one family’s experience of World War II.

The author is the daughter of Bruna, the main character in the story. The tale is told through her eyes. The family lives in a small town in Italy and the story begins just before the war breaks out.

The author does an excellent job of describing the effects of the war not only on the family, but also on the small town that they live in as the family goes through famine, Nazi occupation, Allied bombing and missing children. This book brings home the personal story of what war is truly like, the nitty gritty day to day difficulties that the civilians lived through in those difficult years.

I thought the author did a good job of showing what a scary time it was in those days, watching for the Nazi’s to come so you would have time to warn the men of your town to hide in order for them not to be conscripted to serve in the Nazi army. Or the fear of occupation when they were forced to work for the Nazi’s building bunkers and feeding them while they themselves went hungry. The most fearful time for Bruna was when the pastor of the town put his own life on the line for several of the men, including her brother.

I think this book is a valuable record as a personal account of life during that period. I believe it was well written and I found it very interesting. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in stories of that era, and people interested in true stories. I gave War in My Town 4 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Do you make your own cards but get stuck when it comes to write something for the interior? Well, then you might just want to check out The Big Book of Cards and Toasts for All Occasions.

With hundreds of rhymes written for almost any occasion you could think of and suggestions for how to adjust them to make them your own, this book will get you going on filling up all those cards you spend so much time creating and then have such a hard time writing a meaningful poem for the interior.

Long poems, short poems, even twitter messages are included in this clever rhyming greeting card and toast book.

What I liked was that the author made suggestions on how to modify some of the greetings to make them either more personal or adjust them in other ways to suit the recipient. Eventually, you’ll even get the hang of choosing a couple of lines from one poem and a few lines from another to create your own.

I thought The Big Book of Cards and Toasts for All Occasions was a good reference book for those who create their own cards or who need to give a toast. I gave it a rating of 4 stars for creativity.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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This is a most amazing picture book. The narrator sends his enemy gifts for Christmas according to the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” but the gifts are not nice at all. They are broken and discarded things, basically what we would consider garbage.

Once those gifts have been received, however, the narrator’s enemy does something astonishing. He returns those same gifts, but he has done something magical with them. He has taken the broken and discarded items and transformed them into items that make up a Christmas nativity scene.

The illustrations that go with the story are real photographs of the objects that show the beauty of the transformation from pieces of junk to the beautiful nativity scene.

I thought the author and photographers showed great creativity in putting this book together. The book is indeed aptly named A Rare Nativity.

This is a book you will want to read each Christmas to remind you of what Christ has done for us. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5. I absolutely loved it! I highly recommend it to everyone for their Christmas library.

Thank you to the publishers for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Having known each other from grade school and having their first kiss barely in their teens, Lorraine and Isaiah were in love even before high school. But life intervened and pulled them away from each other. Years later when Isaiah returns to his hometown after graduating from university he runs into Lorraine and they explore what could have been.

Isaiah’s life had been torn apart by the breakup of his family and that disrupted his relationship with his best buddy and his bud’s sister Lorraine. Something also happened in Lorraine’s life that we as the reader are not aware of until later in the book. It has disrupted her life as well besides the loss of Isaiah, and she has not fully recovered from it.

I loved how their romance once again unfolded as adults the misunderstandings of the past that led to all the hurts that came between them were revealed. Love can conquer many things and theirs was a love that bridged time and memory.

This was a short, sweet, clean romance that was not sappy in any way. I would recommend it to those who enjoy romance novels. I gave Love Unfeigned 4 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the author for providing a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Sydney Richland and Crew Naylor were in their final year of high school make a mistake and find that Sydney is pregnant. They were deeply in love and committed to each other, but could their love weather this error and the storm it would cause in Sydney’s family?

Sydney chatted with her grandmother’s ghost who she’d been able to see since her death whenever she needed support. Figuring out what to do about the baby and telling her parents was the perfect time for a visit with Grandma.

Reality Ever After is a light romantic fantasy that’s also a bit of a wake-up call to young adults who plan on waiting until marriage before that ultimate act of intimacy. Sydney and Crew opened themselves up to a lot of difficulties and problems that they wouldn’t have had to go through if they had been more careful.

What they did about it afterward though was make some hard choices and grow up perhaps more quickly than they otherwise would have. The twists and turns in the story will bring tears of sorrow and joy, but most off all will remind you that a forever-kind-of-love does exist.

This is a wonderful novella. Cami Checketts handles this kind of sensitive issue so well. I gave this book a rating of 5 stars out of 5. Reality Ever After is also included in the boxed set of Love and Magic.

I received this book from the publishers in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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Fractured Not Broken is a story that will stick with you long after you finish reading it. It will put into perspective the setbacks that we incur in life. Rarely will one of us have one that changes the entire way we live.

All it took was one bad decision from one drunk driver to forever change the lives of a group of youth. This is the story of the trials, setbacks, defeats and above all triumphs of one young woman forever changed by the incident.

Kelly Craig’s faith in God is evident as she strives to sort out why He would allow such a terrible thing to happen to her, finally coming to see the blessings Jesus has given her because of the accident. I thought the writing of the story was well-handled, moving back and forth in time from before and after the accident.

I found her story inspiring to my own life as I suffer from debilitating constant chronic migraine headaches and reading about the blessings in her life that she never would have received had she not had the accident (ie. meeting her husband) helped me to look at the blessings in my life since my headaches became chronic. Thank you Kelly!

I marveled at the way it was possible to see God’s hand at work (when looking back) in bringing Kelly and Shawn together. What a beautiful God-ordained romance and relationship! Not that all was perfect; I am glad that Kelly wrote about their first fight. Not only was it humorous after the fact, it showed that they were a couple just like any other married couple.

Fractured Not Broken was difficult to put down once I picked it up for several reasons. The first reason was that this is a true story and I always find true stories to be particularly inspiring. Secondly, the writing done by the authors as well as the editing of this book was excellent. That made it a pleasure to read. I rated this memoir 5 stars out of 5.

Thank you to the publishers for providing this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.

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