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We All Have a God Light

by Christine Banker

In my book I use the unexpected instance of a night light burning out and my children being afraid of the dark to introduce to them the concept of our divine light within. I explain in this simple bedtime story how we are all more alike than different and define the happy feeling we get when we do something nice for someone else as a connection to God.

Slipper

by Hester Velmans

Her life is the inspiration for the world’s most famous story. Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIV’s army, and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the world’s most famous fairy tale, Char... more

Unbreakable: A Birthday Girl. A Brutal Father. (Samantha Brooks Thrillers Book 0)

by Rowan Waters

In this prequel novella, Samantha Brooks suffers through one of the events that shape her character. On the night before her seventeenth birthday, she is crushed to learn her mother has gone to stay with friends for a few days. Despite a brutal father laying the blame for her errant mother at her feet, Sam is determined to keep her life simple and not let her demons haunt her day.

The Silver Shoes

by Jill Hall

San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with sexy Sergio and has veered from her creative path. While visiting him in New York, she buys a pair of rhinestone shoes in an antique shop that spark her imagination and lead her on a quest to learn more about the shoes’ original owner. \t Almost ninety years earlier, Clair Deveraux, a sheltered 1929 New York debutante, tries to reside within the bounds of polite society and please her father. But when she ... more

A Journey of Heart and Mind

by Kurt Robinson

After the high school football season ends in a loss, Joshua Rodgers, a kind and rare breed of teenage boy in the modern world, walks through the crowd and notices all his fellow players being comforted by their girlfriends. As he walks he feels alone and wants what his friends have. Josh is then invited to a party at the quarterback's house. While at the party he tries his first beer and attempts to ask a girl, Brittany, who he has liked since elementary school to dance, but fails. After anothe... more

The Ghost, The Winds of Revolution, A Friend of the Family, The Easter Lamb, The Raapyure, The Death of Sherlock Holmes & Other

by Mark Conte

The Ghost. A decaying body of a child is found on the Navarre-Pensacola Beach road. The police discover it is the second victim of this killer and the terror begins in Northwest Florida as the killings continue. The sheriff departments of four counties, the FDLE, the FBI seem powerless to stop it. There is terror in the schools, the playgrounds and the streets are almost deserted, still the killings continue.

Without Warning

by Thomas Sanger

Athenia’s Chief Officer Barnet Copland leaves Glasgow under uncertain circumstances in late summer 1939. Among the ship’s passengers are six people from disparate backgrounds hoping to escape the threat of war. In Germany, Fritz-Julius Lemp, a brash young submarine captain heads to sea eager to prove himself. Lemp torpedoes Athenia a few hours after England enters the war. Thrust into a conflict they believed they had escaped, passengers and crew face life-and-death decisions, and Copland become... more

Catfish Alley

by Kurt Robinson

In Frankfort, Kentucky, there once stood a small community that was known as Crawfish Bottom, also called The Craw. It was known for its filthiness, drinking, prostitution, and violence; and one man controlled it all. John Fallis moved to Frankfort when he was young and after a troubling childhood of loss and being bullied, he became the most prominent figure in Frankfort. By the 1920s he was a political boss, bootlegger, gambling guru, womanizer, and ran a prostitution business. He was the most... more

A Night In Jail

by Heidi Anderson-Swan

Busted for smoking pot, suburbanite college-bound Danny is incredulous when forced to spend the night in jail. He's repulsed by his cellmate, a homeless and mentally ill drug addict who keeps him awake all night with his delusional rants. By morning, Canny's world is completely upended.

Hope Dies Last: An Alaskan Adventure

by Megan Webb

When introverted Mekana reluctantly agrees to a spontaneous trip to Alaska, she ends up out of her comfort zone...way out. Mekana’s life, humor, and faith are shaken when her sightseeing plane crash-lands in the wilderness. Trapped and afraid, her sheltered existence is shattered, and the people who survived the initial incident are like nothing she’s dealt with before. Finding herself entangled in a desperate plot gone awry, battered by the elements and memories from a painful past, will Mekana... more

Shoemaker Mack

by Barbara Avon

Shoemaker Mack is a unique way to spark your child’s imagination. The child draws the illustrations. In a world where hi-tech devices have overtaken even the youngest mind, this children’s book offers the best of the old-school worlds: reading and drawing.

The story itself takes place in a Kingdom of yesteryear and the moral at the end of the story stays with the child for a lifetime. The book is also an excellent addition to birthday or party loot bags, great for dentist of... more

Matt Is a Normal Cat

by Paula Massadas Pereira

Matt is a Normal Cat describes the relationship between Lola, and extroverted Cuban immigrant, and her cat. Matt likes coloring his surroundings while his owner watches his every move. This picture book aims to motivate people of all ages to find fulfillment in their lives, despite inevitable challenges. Vocabulary and study questions are available to encourage discussion about the themes of the book: immigration, aging, loneliness, hobbies, and the role of pets in our lives. Audience: Children ... more

Snowman vs. You (Volume 1)

by Michael Wayne

Snowman is a snowball-dodging expert. There's no way the reader will hit him with an imaginary snowball. Boof! Wow, the reader is better than Snowman expected. He'll have to try his best, ninja tricks. Boof! Boof! Boof! How is the reader hitting him? Snowman's frustrations flare. He's had enough. It's time for a SNOWBALL FIGHT!

Just a Shelter Dog

by Sally Cronk

Fans of W. Bruce Cameron wil love this novel. Singer is a hound dog who tells the story of his life from his own funny, heartwarming perspective. He's born in a shelter, gets adopted after a long wait, and eventually discovers he is seeing mental pictures streaming from a small autistic boy who plays near his favorite dog park. This intuitive hound becomes an unlikely service dog who helps his beloved boy learn how to speak and to break down the walls of autism. In the process, his o... more

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by Mark Hollock

We are all fated to die and the earth will continue to circle the sun. Of this we can be sure. When four people sharing an apartment happen upon a device that transports them three weeks into the future, they care less about the grand scheme and more for the proximity of their approaching futures. During their brief futuristic episodes they are cast as key players in a crime. Alan, a down-on-his-luck middle aged man fires two bullets into the chest of an attorney he doesn’t know, growing to l... more

Asunder, A Novel of the Civil War

by Curt Locklear

I’M TRAPPED!” Sara Reeder, a headstrong, beguiling, Southern sympathizer is caught between charging armies! “AWAKEN, SPIRITS”… “Tell me where my husband, Joseph, fell in battle.” Cyntha Favor, an ardent abolitionist and believer in Spiritualism, seeks to free her dead husband’s tormented soul. EXCEPT… Joseph, a Union soldier, is not dead! Knocked unconscious in battle, he has lost all memory. Nursed to health by Sara and her father, Lucas, a disabled veteran, Joseph feels drawn to Sara, yet co... more

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