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Sarah and the Enchanted Animals

by Maisie Smikle

Sarah lives with her uncle in a huge palace. She has everything that she could ever want, except for one thing; Her Uncle Mandrake forbids her to play with other children. This causes Sarah to become so sad that she cries a river of tears! Freddie the friendly goldfish comes to Sarah's rescue and helps her escape to the Enchanted Valley. Sarah meets a lot of friends including Lionel the lion. She brings all her animal friends back home to live with her and her Uncle Mandrake, where they all live... more

Christmastime 1939: Prequel to the Christmastime Series

by Linda Mahkovec

CHRISTMASTIME 1939 introduces the reader to the world of Christmastime. Set in Brooklyn, we meet the young widow Lillian Hapsey and her two sons, Tommy and Gabriel. Even though the Christmas season is just around the corner, Lillian has no Christmas spirit. Alone, unhappy with her job, and plagued by financial concerns, Christmas has become a burden to her. Overshadowing everything is the war in Europe. Despite the setbacks, Lillian is determined to give her sons a happy Christmas. Can she r... more

Meet the Squirbles: The Adventures of Percy & Pip

by Kate and Christoph Teves

Percy is an A+ squirble! His mom and dad are A+ squirbles too! But then there is his brother Pip. According to Percy, Pip is an A+ pest! In this heartwarming picture book, Percy introduces us to his family and begins to see why Pip might not be so bad after all.

The Yukon Wolf

by Brett Roehr

As a family of wolves struggle for survival in the mountains of northwestern Canada, a young female wolf is banished from her family for disobeying her father. She falls in love with a lone wolf and together, they struggle for survival against starvation, enemy wolves, and the threat of humans.

Stalkings

by Alex Dandino

During WWII, the Allied Forces were hard at work developing new techniques for espionage, defending against double agents and the general onslaught of the Axis Powers. At the behest of Colonel William “Wild Bill” Donovan, the man in charge of the OSS (the organization that would eventually become the CIA), plans were made to recruit female spies for the more clandestine aspects of OSS work. Under the guise of “Foreign Correspondence Desk” recruitment, 50 women were brought in for OSS training i... more

Ahmed's Journey: A Story of Self-Discovery

by Jill Apperson Manly

Ahmed's Journey: A Story of Self-Discovery unfolds through the eyes of a young boy named Ahmed. The book tells of the Camel Races, a tradition in Ahmed's country and in much of the Middle East. While traveling to the Camel Races with his family and favorite camel, Jamal, Ahmed faces his fear of riding in the upcoming race. Watching Jamal calmly breathe, Ahmed finds his own breath, and in doing so he discovers he has a colorful array of emotions and feelings. By the end of the book, the reader... more

Primary Paintsville

by stacey waldman

A new color named Gary Green comes to a primary town of colors that consist of only red, yellow and blue. Gary green is not accepted and is bullied by his classmates. Discover what he needs to do to fit into this pint sized, peculiar, paints town .

Miss Someday: A Young Adult Novel

by R.J. Ryker

It's funny how one stupid little mistake can change your life forever. Okay, maybe what I did was slightly more serious than your average slip-up. But still... As far back as I can remember I've had one goal in life: get into the vocal performance program at the Vanderbilt Conservatory of Music in New York City. It's the crème de la crème of music schools. Guess what. They accepted me, a practically anonymous girl from the other side of the continent. And they even offered me a p... more

Short Term Memory

by Ahlia Demas

A collection of short stories that tie into the life of the person recounting her life. Some are an autobiography and some are total fiction; thus the short-term memory,

Fifth Street Bridge

by William Wendell Walters

For most people on the Eastern seaboard, the words ‘Fifth Street Bridge’ have become a metonymy for disaster, pain, sorrow, greed, cruelty, and murder, but, for those people who lived it, the Fifth Street Bridge has become so much more. All Richard Mitchell wanted from life was to teach, until he was too old to do so, and then retire to a spot down by a slow stream that he and his wife, Fancy, loved. It was his dream, one that was obliterated by a drunk driver going the wrong way, wrenching his... more

A Nest for the Savior: An Interactive Christmas Tradition

by Didi Zayas

A Nest for the Savior is more than a children’s book – it’s an interactive Christmas tradition that teaches children about the best adventure of all – following Jesus. The story follows Sadie, a sparrow who builds a nest for Jesus after finding the manger empty, while the Advent Activity Guide (on the opposite side of the book) provides instructions for kids to make their own nest for the Savior using 12 symbolic elements. A Nest for the Savior is really two books in one – with a picture b... more

Splat! A Quirky Cat Audio Book

by Adele Park

Skitters the Cat seems to have it all, but when his twitchy teen handlers get tangled up with a polygamist cult in Utah, the fur begins to fly. For Brandon Spinkle, the son of the lead singer for a band called the Rectal Surgeons, dating a polygamist girl is hardly a pleasure cruise through the love canal. Especially after Brandon's mother becomes a contestant on a reality TV show called Celebrity Cougars. Narrated by a full cast of characters, this outrageous comedy is highlighted with sna... more

Touched By Evil

by D'Ann Turner

TOUCHED BY EVIL, set in current day New England, is a tale of spectral horror: the lives of three associates of a Realty Office become entangled by physical and psychological terror inflicted on each of them by a vengeful spirit who occupies a historic home which they are trying to sell. What follows, is a young woman left fighting for her life, conflict between local law enforcement, medical professionals and the clergy - each drawing their own conclusions, desperately trying to stop the perpe... more

Emma & Friends - Izzy the Bully

by Nipa Shah

One day a bear cub named Izzy, moves in to the forest where Emma and her friends live. Izzy is not a very nice cub. When the fed up neighborhood cubs ask Emma's help in handling Izzy the Bully, Emma comes up with a compassionate solution.

Bocage

by Charles Birmingham

Charley Montgomery is still reeling from the mysterious death of his wife near their country home in the French countryside steps from the WWII invasion beaches of Normandy. A strange midnight visit draws him into a fight for his life with ruthless Nazis in an adventure that pivots between the 21st century and the Summer of 1944 during the vicious hedgerow fighting of the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II. In this richly detailed historical novel, Charley discovers the terrible se... more

Blue Valentine

by Thomas Cummings

Nicki Valentine's life is wearing thin under the drag of her unchosen role as the bad girl, the slut, and the endless psychodrama of a small Oregon town. Then at an after-hours party in a house on the rich side of town, an old acquaintance has walked out of the darkness, dragging the past with him. The meeting is no chance affair, and it can only mean that someone is gunning for Nicki, someone who's used to getting what he wants and who has the means to take it, whatever the cost. In a town whe... more

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