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Manipulation

by T. R. Robinson

her usual caution, if only just to have a look. But she will come to regret it. The people and circumstance were hardly what she had expected as neither were the consequences.

Tru is anything but. A midyear transfer into a suburban high school, he’s the mysterious new guy from the ‘hood who has quickly become the class clown and discovered all his teacher’s peeves. Nell, the reticent isolationist who sits nearby, ignores the daily spectacle of Tru’s antics as she writes and sketches in a moleskin and relishes in her seeming-invisibility. They share no connection and have never said a word to one another.

Then Ms... more

Zube and the GIANT storm

by Tom Hooke

Zube and the GIANT storm is a fully illustrated story about a special zebra, who, being restless and bored one day decides to seek an adventure. An adventure comes when Zube's world is threatened by a giant storm. Zube has to quickly make new friends and form a plan to avert tragedy.

Down the Line

by Michelle Argyle

Now that he’s graduated high school, Alex Winzelberg can finally move to New York to start his acting career. Problem is, his parents need his help in their shipping warehouse, and between his dad’s mental illness and his mom’s endless to-do lists, he’s convinced he’ll never travel farther than the movie theater on the weedy outskirts of his Idaho hometown. It isn’t until Alex receives an email from an old pen pal that he sees a spark of the future he’s always dreamed about. What ensues is a ... more

Emma the MEDEVAC Pilot

by M.C. Wingate

One of the biggest challenges of being away for work is missing the milestones in your children's lives while helping them understand there is nowhere else we'd rather be than together. Saying goodbye to loved ones is never easy. This is a challenge many Service members and working class face when separated from their children. Emma the MEDEVAC Pilot shows the love between a deployed father and his daughter and however wide the physical distance, our imagination and love always keep us close. Da... more

The Quad Squad

by Don Freeborn

A coming-of-age story about friendship, baseball, and the secrets kids keep, The Quad Squad follows the lives of four life-long friends in their final days of Elementary School as they struggle to win their first baseball championship and keep their friendship intact amidst the struggles each faces at school and at home.

The Door to the Moon

by Malisa Santigul

Taye wakes up to the sound of BOOM and a flash of light! What on earth could it be? Curious as ever, he decides that he must, must, must go and see for himself. Sure enough, he discovers what turns out to be a door. But it’s not just any door. It’s the door to the moon. Yes, the moon! Could there be aliens, astronauts, spaceships and stars awaiting him on the other side? Oh, the adventures you go on when you follow your curiosity!

Alexandria: World Class Life Story

by Author BDL

Her biggest victory came at the finish line, but her greatest triumph was the End Game. Ruth is a legendary runner of the late twenty-first century whose biography inspires a dynamic political rebellion in a dystopic Judeo-Christophobic America. Her incredible World Class Life Story is paralleled by a quest to salvage her beloved nation from annihilation. But, she must first find a way to embolden a new generation of patriots to make a stand.

Alexandria ambitiously explores what happens... more

Assignment Gurus

by Charlotte Smith

Troublemakers

by Gregg Maxwell Parker

"We hate school, but trust me, it doesn’t like us either" - Carlos in "Troublemakers" There's the athletes, the straight-A students, the computer club... and then there's these kids. Meet Carlos, Tina, and Byron, three sixth graders who have two objectives in life: to avoid homework at all costs and to make lots of money so they can buy a sweet car and learn to drive it. Their knack for get-rich-quick schemes and clever methods of cheating are only surpassed by their failure to notice how b... more

Into a Dream

by Atlas Hill

After bouncing from state to state, Cathy Reed finds herself in New York City, reunited with childhood friend and now billionaire prodigy Reuben Granger. Together they work with Dreamscape, a revolutionary device that allows traumatized clients to live out their deepest desires—to rewrite their history, from a certain point of view. All is well, until Reuben gets a visitor—a visitor who seems to think Dreamscape isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Cathy’s hero worship of Reuben is shattered w... more

Finding Tranquility

by Laura Heffernan

Jess Cooper lost her husband on 9/11. Just not in the way she thought. On September 11, 2001, Brett Cooper checks into a flight to go on an interview for a job he doesn't want, in a city where he doesn't want to live. All to make his wife happy. He loves her, but he's not happy in his marriage. Or in his body, really. As boarding begins, Brett panics and gives his ticket away. When his plane strikes the World Trade Center, he realizes that he's been given a second chance to live the life he ... more

Noodle loses Dad

by Sarah Corbett Lynch

“Noodle Loses Dad” is just launched and was presented on the Late Late Toy Show in Ireland going out to 1.7million people recently. Through her character “Noodle” Young Author Sarah (13) transforms her own life story into something that can be understood by other children coping with loss, grief, blended families or being re-homed through her characters The Bear and Fox Family. Sarah lost her mother at 12 weeks old to an asthma attack. She moved to North Carolina with her brother Jack an... more

The Darkness at Dawn

by Pamela Roberts Lee

The year is 1600, and the place is a wild new land--at least it is for Pamela Roberts Lee's latest protagonist, a young Puritan convert. As he is adapting to the so-called New World, he must understand his new religion. All the while, he struggles to overcome his guilt for swearing to hide a thief's crime, thereby allowing him to exist undetected and unpunished in his community. The Darkness at Dawn is a story of how moral character is tested in a turbulent setting. As a former US Air Force Col... more

Number Eight Crispy Chicken: A Hilarious and Powerful Literary Satire

by Sarah Neofield

The immigration minister has been detained. Minister for Asylum Deterrence and Foreign Investment, Peter Ruddick, is en route to the remote Pulcherrima Island, the site of his latest privately-run, fast food chain-inspired detention centre. But chaos ensues when Peter misses his connecting flight and finds himself confined to the visa-free zone of the Turgrael airport, without a business lounge in sight. Stranded in a foreign territory with nothing but McKing's Crispy Chicken burgers to eat ... more

Gouster Girl

by David E. Gumpert

Maybe because they are young and innocent, cute black Valerie Davis and nerdy white Jeffrey Stark are late to realize that falling in love on Chicago’s South Side in 1963 is a highly risky business for an interracial couple. Racial tensions are intense and white flight is in full force. At first, they help each other out of tough racial fixes—he saves her from attack at an all-white amusement park and she saves him from injury in a racial brawl at school. But as their romance becomes more seriou... more

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