Lisa Smith

A guide to the stars for children (and their parents) around the world.

Ava is a friendly girl, loving warm and kind. She is surrounded by good friends and a supportive family, but like everyone else, she has difficult days. Days when life seems hard. Follow Ava's journey of self-discovery in this enchanting book of poems that all children should read. From learning about where happiness truly comes from to embracing your differences, these empowering messages teach us that anything is possible. Let's encourage a...

RAINBOW CHASERS is a story of childlike wonder. After a storm, a marvelous rainbow appears in the morning sky. Curious beyond measure, five children set off on an adventure to find "treasure" at the end of the rainbow. Dreaming of the riches to be found, the characters discover the richness of wonder in the simplest of Earth's treasures.

Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Bedtime transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Explore our solar system from the comfort of your cosy bedroom. Find out why the sky is blue. Fly around a black hole and peer inside! Learn why Jupiter has stripes. When astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith isn't looking skyward, she is answering the smart questions of school kids. Her engaging storytelling brings the...

Dangerous Lies follows the lives of Jake Stern and Tina Davis. After losing his parents and sister in a fire, Jake is raised by his grandparents. As he transforms from a traumatized boy to an exceptional student athlete and finally to an ambitious assistant DA, he learns to hide a crippling fear behind a stony mask. Until she turns thirteen, Bettina (Tina) Berenson is a shy, bookish girl rejected by both parents. But her life radically changes when...

The title for The Second Best Time comes from a Chinese proverb: "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now." And it suits a story of three people at a crossroads in their lives: Jack Caine (a.k.a. Jack Morgan), former lothario and sometimes con man, now the owner of a successful gallery in the UK; his daughter Charlie (Charlotte) Morgan Francesco, thirty-two and an art consultant; and new to the series, Kat (Kathleen...

When Wendy finds a monkey in her treehouse, she tries a number of ways to rid of him.

In this scandal-filled new series, Cydney Rax delivers a sexy tale of a doubting wife, a seductive challenge, and explosive consequences no one will ever see coming… Something's wrong with her perfect marriage, but Kiara Eason isn't sure what. Her ambitious husband, Rashad, is the last person who'd ever cheat-and she never imagined she'd stray. Still, why is she confiding so much in her handsome co-worker, Eddison? And why is she wondering what...

The Gibbons women of Chesterton, Virginia, have built their reputation as a family of shameless--but refined--gold diggers. They even have a strict set of rules by which they operate. But the rebellious, youngest Gibbons is about to break them all... Lauren Gibbons is committing the ultimate family betrayal: abandoning the tradition of seducing men for money. Nothing is worth the abuse she's endured from her sugar daddy. Now a sous chef, Lauren is...

The road to romance can be filled with second thoughts and second guesses, and in Essence® bestselling author Grace Octavia's captivating novel, one woman can't quite make peace with her choices... Atlanta celebrity wedding planner Rachel Winslow has it all-except what she wants most: true love. Her friends are convinced that her college ex-turned-best friend, Ian, is her Mr. Right-even though he's in a relationship. And when Ian confides to Rachel...