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The Tooth Fairy Trap

by Maureen Straka

Gavin lost his tooth, but he's not ready to let the Tooth Fairy have it just yet! He wants to get a good look at her first. It's awfully hard to catch the Tooth Fairy, but with help from his best friend, Gavin will try to build the perfect Tooth Fairy trap. Will he be able to outsmart the Tooth Fairy?

The New Kid: Surviving Middle School Is Tough...Being the New Kid Is Worse

by Maureen Straka

Middle school can be tough! Especially when Alex's best friend moves away and his dad loses his job. Then a new boy moves in next door and a bully starts picking on the new kid. Alex feels caught in the middle. If he defends the new kid, he may become the bully's next target. Alex soon finds out that the bully is hiding a secret that could change everything. Will Alex find the courage to do the right thing and stand up for the new kid? And can he survive middle school on his own? He'll soon l... more

Debris

by L.M Brown

Andre blames himself for his mother’s death-and believes his father does too. After months of difficulty, Andre flees his family home to live with his aunt where he meets troubled-teen Erin McEvoy. Erin’s mother disappeared a year ago, and she is certain that her abusive father is to blame. But when Andre starts to investigate, nothing is as it seems. Erin’s story doesn’t match up to the facts he’s uncovered, and Andre begins to understand he is not the only one with a secret.

The Shopkeeper's Journal

by Troy Rasmussen

The Other Side of Silence

by Jamie Klinger-Krebs

When she felt the cold, hard metal barrel against her head, Grace closed her eyes tight and heard a fast ‘click’. She wasn’t surprised when the sharp, hot wind rushed across her face. She felt herself float above the street and saw the children. But they were too far away and hadn’t heard the shot. Alfred was below, shaking as he stood over her lifeless body with a gun in one hand and a bottle in the other. His thin, sickly frame was trembling and hot, angry tears streamed down his leathered fac... more

Long Walk Home

by John L. Lansdale

Ten-year-old Trenton O’Rourke’s life was changed forever during the summer of 1944. He and his family lived on a fading farm like many others in the small town of Angel Point, Mississippi. With family, friends and neighbors fighting overseas in World War II, and rising racial tensions back home, what was normally a routine summer turned into a nightmare of murder and loss, trying to cope with hard times to survive and the surprise learning experiences of growing up. Trenton’... more

On Burning Mirrors

by Jamie Klinger-Krebs

On the outside forty-year-old Jules Kanter seems to have the perfect life—a beautiful daughter, a loving husband, and a successful career as the arts and entertainment editor for an award-winning newspaper. But, Jules also has well-hidden secrets. While celebrating the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s recent Pulitzer Prize win, Jules meets Erin, a thirty-four-year-old musician/bartender who instantly catches her attention. As a talented performer who rose to stardom in Nashville, Erin’s career fa... more

A Pirate Born (Pirate's Life)

by Fount Adams

1688 . . . Nick Pearson, his sweetheart Sarah, and his best friend Harry live in the English village of Naunton, but a new law called “inclosure” divides them by driving Nick and his family from home to the dirty port city of Bristol. There, desperate for money, Nick uses his sword-fighting skills to try to save his family from poverty and move back to Naunton to claim Sarah’s hand. However, as he delves ever deeper into Bristol’s underworld its promise of freedom, gain, and adventure begin to o... more

House Under the Hill

by Rachel V Knox

The year is 1954. Eight-year-old Alis loves her life in the decaying mansion, Gwylfa Hiraethog, but it is sold and the family must move on. During a snowstorm, while playing hide-and-seek with her older brother and sister, Alis goes missing. Her siblings know more than they are letting on and try to keep their sister’s disappearance secret. They must search for Alis in the ‘other-house’, the dark and empty part of the mansion, and it is here that they will find mysterious remnants of the origi... more

The Best of All Netherworlds

by paul buchheit

This book is a medley of reality and fantasy, taking readers on a adventurous journey into current social issues (e.g., job loss due to robots; economic inequality), new and old computer technology, and the workings of the human brain.

kerala nightingale

by Frank Martin

Guideline is one of noteworthy bit of our life so all society doing no short of what one degree. Preparing is getting the hang of, understanding the earth, acquisition of learning, capacities and characteristics similarly speakers of educators. In any case, this isn't authentic strategy for guideline. The best securing of learning is quick research and making own locations. Preparing is done by formal way, for instance, schools and colleges. Preparing is required in some country so every individ... more

The Infield Fly Rule

by Randall Wilbert

This richly tuned novel follows a baseball team comprised of 16-18 year olds led by a quixotic coach through a summer of baseball they will never forget. The games are played on long lost ballfields of New Hampshire amid the backroads and by-ways. The youthful team along with the the team's adult coaches experience the joys and sorrows of life as the team bus meanders through New England spreading the love for a game and the lessons it teaches.

Look for Me Under the Rainbow: A Novella

by Bernard Jan

Danny, a curious harp seal pup, has soft white fur and black innocent eyes. Helen is an environmentalist and member of a young activist crew of the Rainbow Warriors. Their mission is to save animals.

As winter turns into spring, a new generation of seal pups comes to life. A few weeks later, the killing begins. Against a spectacular backdrop of ice and snow, Helen prepares to look horrific human cruelty in the face.

I do not doubt I have a big heart and burning desire, but is ... more

Sovereignty: He Lied For Your Sins

by Rhys Hagan

A self-gratifying Roman banker is desperate to make a name for himself in the volatile world of imperial finance. When he's offered a lucrative contract he can't fulfil, he considers the dying religion in his city of Jerusalem. It soon becomes clear that faith is profitable if only he can find a man to spearhead his campaign and revive the churches. His idea comes to fruition when he meets a respected local wiseman—Jesus Christ.

A Glimpse of Peace on the Journey to Armageddon

by Walter Schenck

Walter’s newest novel presents a strong sense of personal, familial, and historic pasts interacting with each other, affecting the narrative in the present moment of remembering and reflecting. Memories of combat in Vietnam, growing up in the house of a grandmother filled with her own conflicts, the love and devotion of a caring aunt, dealing with a wayward sister, leaving home, and learning about his grandparents killed in a genocide by the Turks. A powerful linkage binds the memories through f... more

The World's Stupidity Is Set Against the Light of Truth