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Tortoise finds a best friend

by Simons Acquah

Tortoise has two birds and a butterfly in his life. Which one will he choose to be his best friend and why? You are invited to join him in a delightful adventure to find a best friend. This is a beautiful Folktale for children to help kids understand healthy friendships.

The Speeding Tortoise

by Simons Acquah

This is the first of "The Tortoise adventure series"

A cute story about a tortoise who hated being slow and finally got his wish granted to be the fastest animal. We all join in this amazing journey to self-love and self-appreciation.

Hammy's New Home

by Melanie Lopata

Hammy is a young pig who lives on a farm and loves to have fun and get into mischief. Find out what kind of mischief Hammy gets into in "Hammy's New Home"!

Leah's Garden

by C L May

Bradley Cox comes home after eight years in prison for killing his father. To one sister, he's a kind of hero, to the other, an awkward stranger, and to his mother, a son she no longer knows or understands. After years of domestic abuse, this family attempts to find normalcy, even as their violent past keeps trying to crush them. Old hurts cannot be mended until Leah finally truly examines her past.

The John J. Hunt Reader

by John J. Hunt

Cordelia and the Whale

by Michelle Nelson-Schmidt

Cordelia is an 11-year-old girl and a bit of a loner. She finds comfort in facts, knowledge, and consistency. She prefers her world not to change.

Things do change however, when Cordelia meets a magical blue whale named Beatrice. Nothing is ever the same for Cordelia as she befriends the ancient whale and finds out secrets of the universe from Beatrice that she must learn and master.

Cordelia and the Whale is a timeless story filled with magical realism ... more

Hopper's Numbers

by Natashia Carter

Follow a young girl who hates math as Rear Admiral Grace Hopper takes her on a time travelling journey through her past. Hopper shows the girl, Sally, how she was always curious and fascinated by numbers. She teaches Sally that the math she hates so deeply is actually the heart and soul of all the technology she loves to use everyday and that without it the world would be very different.

Time Will Tell

by Trevy A. McDonald

What has time told you about the power of friendship?

Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope share laughs and heartaches, hopes and dreams over the years, but only Time Will Tell if their friendship can survive the drama.

Accountant Hope Jones-McCoy goes through life masquerading self-righteousness for saintliness until the world she spent ten years building comes crashing down around her at once. Although she has a sunny disposition, Rachel Curtis-Brown faces dark days as her es... more

Round 'bout Midnight

by Trevy A. McDonald

A new chapter begins in the lives of childhood friends, Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope. Their friendship has stood the test of time, but more adventures are in store for them…Round ‘Bout Midnight. In this sequel to Time Will Tell, the unresolved issues and hurts Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope experienced during their youth don’t just vanish into thin air.

The world Hope spent ten years building with her high school sweetheart, Jason McCoy, comes crashing down around he... more

Sky-bound Misfit

by Jane Powell

Frankie’s life began in an Irish pub in Montreal’s French east end. As she listened to her dad’s band jam to the beats of life, the most unfortunate of coincidences happened that changed her life forever.

Being a girl in the 80s isn’t easy. Frankie soon comes to see it as an impromptu jam session filled with unexpected beats. The beats she experiences in high school are filled with laughter, tears, love, anger and hope. Dealing with bullies becomes a daily nightm... more

Count to a Thousand

by Caroline Goldberg Igra

After two decades in Israel, American born and bred Victoria still struggles to make peace with her relocation to Israel. She constructs a purposefully insular life in a coastal community analogous to the one she’d expected to live back in the United States, replete with conventional activities associated with American suburbia and expat friends that share the same acerbic, oftentimes critical, attitude toward their surroundings. Cracks in this bubble-like existence begin to emerge with her elde... more

Lemonade

by Robin Maguire

Lemonade A plucky eleven-year-old boy, love child of a Hollywood mega star and his uptight manager mother, is murdered in his Los Angeles swimming pool. He is pissed and back from the dead to find out why. Through his mother Alice’s efforts, the killer is revealed, and his death avenged. The boy, satisfied with the outcome and the knowledge his mom is on the upswing, can now rest in peace. Forever changed by his death, Alice has channeled her son’s moxie, reformed her high-strung ways to become... more

Mazahl's Ascent

by S.V. Atla

Mazahl's Ascent, explores the injustice that women experience in Saudi Arabia, where they are forced to birth misogyny and unable to stop the perpetuation of a culture which devalues them.

In Saudi Arabia, where women's bodies are deemed the inferior possessions of men, where female sexuality is regulated for the continuation of a sexist regime, an erotic and formidable woman arises from the ashes of patriarchal horror. Mazahl inhabits the miserable cage ... more

Monsters For Tea

by Nancy Terrell

A bedtime party like no other... After suffering a terrible nightmare, Luna awakes frightened by the thought of monsters. What follows is a grand tea party at midnight where Luna learns her monster guests are not scary at all but offer courage, comfort and laughter to put her at ease and make sweet dreams come true. The rhythmic text is charming to read aloud and enjoyed by children and grown-ups alike.

THE WAY: A Girl Who Dared to Rise

by Kristen Wolf

In Kristen Wolf’s audacious and timely fiction debut, an unusual girl in the heart of ancient Palestine escapes her life of oppression—undertakes an epic and dangerous journey—and struggles to accept her remarkable calling as a great spiritual leader. Deeply emotional, provocative and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful, THE WAY transports readers to an exotic world brimming with mystery, betrayal, passion, unforgettable characters and jaw-dropping plot twists. Anna is a striking and spirited y... more

Waiting at Hayden's

by Riley Costello

From a fresh new voice in women's fiction comes a page-turning, relatable love story about the complicated nature of timing in modern-day relationships. Childhood best friends Charli Anderson and Jack Logan fall madly in love during college and can't imagine a life apart. But when they land dream opportunities on opposite ends of the country following graduation, they are forced to make a heart-wrenching pact. In the hope of one day restarting their love story, they set a date to reunite in ... more

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