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Idris, the Invisible Imp

by Gloria Eveleigh

When the invisible imp, Idris, feels ill, she burps loudly. Idris decides to travel the world to look for a cure, but because she is invisible, people who hear her blame each other. Idris eventually gives up and returns home to Ireland, but does she find a cure for her burping?

Titan the Time Traveling Tiger

by Gloria Eveleigh

Titan, a handsome adult tiger, lives in a country called Tibet. Titan can time travel backwards or forwards to any period of his life. He just touches his toes and twitches his tail, and he is there.

A PEACH FOR BIG JIM

by Lisa Belmont

In 1947 racially charged Mills Hollow, South Carolina, Chloe Mason knows not to go near the Negroes who live in the river shacks, especially sixteen-year-old Big Jim. He’s something of a myth, a big black boy known for eating opossums and howling at the moon. At least that’s what Chloe’s brother Caleb and her Pa, a fiddle playing Southerner who waves a Confederate flag, tell her. Yet when Chloe slips into Foxhole Swamp, it’s Big Jim who saves her from an alli... more

Fog Coast Runaway

by Linda B. Myers

To escape her dangerous family, a young girl vanishes on the 1890s Oregon coast Adelia Wright never knew her mother. Her father, a lighthouse keeper far out to sea, is distant, literally and figuratively. After her brother terrorizes her once too often, Adelia decides there must be a better home elsewhere, one with less pain, more affection, and enough to eat. She is armed only with survival skills learned from a Clatsop native and immigrant Finnish settlers. Her perilous journey takes he... more

Two Like Me and You

by Chad Alan Gibbs

Edwin Green's ex-girlfriend is famous. We're talking cover-of-every-tabloid-in-the-grocery-store-line famous. She dumped Edwin one year ago on what he refers to as Black Saturday, and in hopes of winning her back, he's spent the last twelve months trying to become famous himself. It hasn't gone well.

But when a history class assignment pairs Edwin with Parker Haddaway, the mysterious new girl at school, she introduces him to Garland Lenox, a nursing-home-bound World... more

The Lost Song of Goliath

by Ronald A. Lindsay

The bitter struggle between the ancient Israelites and Philistines, the legendary combat between David and Goliath—it’s one of the most famous stories in the world. But no matter how many times the story has been told, we have heard only one side of the story—until now. The Lost Song of Goliath dramatically transforms this epic by retelling it from the viewpoint of Goliath and the Philistines. Goliath's tale has not yet been told, although he is a literary character who is begging for an auth... more

Matching Configurations: Quantum Roots III

by Kyle Keyes

Olan Chapman returns in this third edition of Quantum Roots, as Calvin Cannonball Cooper, a vigilante from yesteryear who uses powder guns, throwing knives and cannonballs to neutralize the bad guys of today's society.

History books fail to mention Calvin Cooper, but this defender of the weak and helpless, went down with Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and William B.Travis in that 1836 slaughter we remember as The Alamo.

Acknowledged or not, Cooper lives again each time Olan Chapman don... more

I Never Stopped

by Elizabeth Mitchell

Francesca’s partner–her everything–is dead. After eleven months of listless grief, Francesca leaves Sloane’s memory in San Francisco to visit Italy and her mother. Surrounded by fresh pasta, never-ending wine, and laughter, she finds moments of solace. When Francesca meets Cecelia–a complex love interest, she begins to picture a future without Sloane. Unbeknownst to Francesca, Sloane can’t let go. Trapped in the mysterious afterlife of The Gray, she’s desperate to contact her love, but limite... more

Kate's First Face Paint-A Day At The Fair

by VERONICA PICONE

When Kate's parents take her to the fair, she has no idea what adventure she has in store when she spots the Face Painting booth for the first time! Come on a journey with Kate as she experiences her first face paint! It's a day at the fair she will never forget.

Angel of Mercy

by Melina Druga

She had her entire life planned until the Great War began and everything changed.

April 1914. Barrie, Ontario. Hettie Steward is feisty, educated, ambitious and stubborn. Her fiancé, Geoffrey Bartlette, the love of her life since childhood, has been a patient man. He waited while she attended nursing school and worked a year, but now it is time to wed. While Hettie is thrilled to be starting her life with Geoffrey, she l... more

Aruka-Shoo

by Bintou Dibba

Aruka-Shoo is kind, but he often seems to upset his family with his impulsive behavior. The young boy soon gets a taste of his own medicine (understands his own actions) when he meets the mischievous monkey, Abubu. An encounter that shows Aruka-Shoo the power of his actions and teaches him to be considerate of other people's feelings.

Good Buddy

by Dori Ann Dupre

Jonathan “Buddy” Cordova is a small time criminal defense lawyer living paycheck to paycheck and practicing law out of his house in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He likes to think of himself as a modern day Atticus Finch, the kind of attorney who represents the poor, the indigent, the “probably guilty,” the kinds of clients who usually end up in jail. Shy, painfully awkward around pretty women, and carrying his own dark secret, Buddy falls for the daily jogger - Julie ... more

The Soulful Adventure of Spencer, the Soft-hearted Seal

by Margaret Lepera

Author explores mindfulness, positive thinking, and wildlife protection in new children’s story “The Soulful Adventure of Spencer, the Soft-hearted Seal” chapter book, designed for children 6-9, is a sweet, heartfelt story of an 8-day old baby seal pup who tumbles down the side of a big hill in a gust of icy wind, and becomes lost after being separated from his brother. A mini hero’s journey, the pup struggles to find his way home, even though he feels small and unsure of himself as a baby... more

Scout's Honor

by Dori Ann Dupre

2016 Readers Favorite International Book Award Bronze Medalist - Southern Fiction, 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Awards - Finalist.

In Haddleboro, North Carolina, Scout Webb is a 14 year old kind and spirited small town southern girl and a tomboy much like her namesake, the young narrator from her mother’s favorite book. With both her name and her Christian faith deeply woven into the fabric of her identity, Scout always felt like she had a lot to live up to and was the ... more

Lift Off!

by Vivian Zems

Lift Off! is a poetry chapbook of uplifting poems that savour the fruits of life, allowing you to revel in those small victories. Life is too short not to celebrate triumphs..... and this collection doesn’t hesitate to examine our challenges while at the same time providing a balm to the spirit and a calm to the soul. There are strong echoes of victory, whispers of magic spells and murmurs of prayer. However these poems impact you, they will cause you to lift your head, see the sky, dare to drea... more

9780578438146

by Milly J

Have you been spending your time chasing after relationships that end up not working out? Have you been left alone, and hurt? Ever wonder whe... more

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