“Brush your teeth” has long been the instruction for people of all ages on how best to take care of the mouth, but millions still have cavities and other oral-health problems every year. Australian dentist Garth Pettit wondered why... Read More

In present-day Boston, social worker Jennifer Barrett and her best friend, nurse Lana Fitzpatrick, struggle to cope with grief. While her dad deteriorates at Brentwood, the nursing home where Lana works, Jennifer grieves the deaths of... Read More

"Pirate Treasure" is the first book of a series that features two brothers, Ethan and Dallin. The youngsters, ages eight and eleven, live in an apartment in which their room is decorated like a jungle. Their father, a businessman who... Read More

This reissue of Book Nine of the Diadem Worlds of Magic series takes four characters from the Diadem series—Pixel, Jenna, Score, and Herlaine—to Pixel’s home of Calomir, on the outer rim of the Diadem. All Pixel wants to do is... Read More

If successfully navigating the financial minefield were as simple as just earning more, perhaps money issues would not be the leading cause of discord and divorce in today’s relationships. According to the first of the author’s ten... Read More

Bethany Salem will stop at nothing to find the murderer of her boyfriend Joe. Her father, a New York City police detective, can’t stop her. Certainly her father’s power-mad lawyer girlfriend, the “Bitch from the East,” can’t... Read More

Kakade launches her young adult mystery series with the traditional “let’s get to know everyone” plot. Almost fourteen year-old Bethany can’t believe her mother has hired a babysitter for her in the guise of a math tutor. Okay,... Read More

When I found myself arguing with Caroline Smithfield at the Garden Club one day over the right formula to feed hydroponic tomatoes, I looked around and realized I was leading the life of a 70-year-old and decided that I’d be better... Read More