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Ellen's Song

by Ben Kalland

This novel was originally published in Finnish in 2017 and was shortlisted for a literary award. The English translation was published in May 2018. There are three intertwined storylines: The narrator, Markus Douglas, a middle-aged man living in New York, receives a letter from a woman who claims to be his daughter. A young, incredibly talented girl, Ellen, is pursuing a career as a violinist in Finland. And a young man drowns in a horrible accident. The reader soon begins to understand how t... more

A Phantasmagoria

by Melanie Rose Huff

Phantasmagoria noun A sequence of real or imagined images like that seen in a dream. –The Oxford English Dictionary This book is a compendium of moments, a gallery of dreams, a collection of snapshots from reality and fairyland and the misty lands between. Welcome to the Phantasmagoria.

ADIEU CHIMERAS

by Manuel J. Aguirre

When Gerardo Arrieta graduated from a military academy, he came out believing in the ideals of honor, duty, loyalty, God, and country. But all of that began to change when Second Lieutenant Arrieta was confronted with the harsh reality of military life in the Andean Plateau. After completing his first assignment in FOB Ninantaya where he spent six months—with only a bare minimum of food and supplies—defending the border with Bolivia against drug trafficking/gun running smugglers whose leader i... more

Wild Mountain

by Nancy Hayes Kilgore

In Wild Mountain, Mona Duval has concocted a tidy life for herself in the rural town of Wild Mountain, Vermont. Escaped (mostly) from a bad marriage, she runs a general store next to an historic covered bridge—a bridge she loves so much, she literally wrote the book on its history. When an ice storm collapses the century-old bridge, Mona’s life begins to unravel with it. Wild Mountain tells a tale of small-town politics and mountain... more

Curtis: The Crab Who Wished He Were a Fish

by Susan Chad

Curtis is a young crab who so envies the beautiful way his fish friends could swim, he wished he could do the same. But no matter how hard he tried, his heavy crab shell just wouldn't let him. Then one day he saves one of his fish friends from danger because of his hard crab shell and it makes him very glad to be a crab!

Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena

by J.A. Marzán

A picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard Lawyer Eddie Loperena's Newyorican life in "the country I was offered."

Somerville - Inheritance

by CGC Daniel

When her father dies of a fever in the Gulf of Guinea, Rebecca Miller is left orphaned heiress to the bankrupt Somerville estate. Which proves a magnet - for no discernible reason - to the notorious, ageing rake, the Earl of Marshwood, who after the briefest and most arid courtship, acquires her as his betrothed. Alone and friendless, the penniless eighteen-year-old must battle with all the wit, wiles and courage she possesses to wrest control of her destiny back into her own hands, in a world ... more

One Century Friendship

by Little Bean Seeds

The story is about 4 children, Helen, Mark, Yasmin, and Shelly, go to a summer camp and meet a boy who lives more than one century. It seems the children join the summer camp coincidently, but what if the meeting is designated to happen. A wooden brass box is a key to answer what will happen to the 4 children.

To Pieces

by Kati Rocky

Jane (aka Plain Jane) has always known she was different inside, and not in a good way. This has driven her to her construct her life as a solid B, for average, person and to carefully follow the rules of her high school hierarchy. But, when she undergoes her first bipolar episode and becomes acutely manic, she thumbs her nose at that hierarchy and begins a campaign to revolutionize her high school and rise up against its stifling social norms – and shake up the school she does. She becomes the ... more

Chicago Pits (2018)

by Bill Walker

Chris Parker, a very young, tall, and thin Alabaman arrives in Chicago hoping to make a fortune in its famed commodities business as a floor trader. Indeed, his great height and freakish ability to make numerical calculations earns him quick promotion to broker for a Wall Street company. But quickly he realizes he is in a struggle the likes of which he could never have fathomed, including outright violence. Complicating matters, he becomes enthralled with a tiny girl trading on the far end of th... more

Fortune's Son

by Jennifer Scoullar

Can one man’s revenge become his redemption? Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands. Luke escapes, finding sanctuary with a local philanthropist, Daniel Campbell, and starting a forbidden love affair with Daniel’s daughter, Belle. But when Luke is betrayed... more

The Girl With the Journal

by Tenika Jennings

I Learned valuable lessons from Depression. That God is Healer and Lesson teacher in a lot of those situations. I learned that life is about learning from mistakes no matter how many times you fall and this book reflects the positivity that came from all that.

Lord Computesalot's Quintessential Quest to Banish Bullies: A Creative Fun Activity Book

by Regina Davis and Carolyn Royer Spencer

Composed by two experienced elementary educators, this fun activity book with reproducible pages uses poetry, puzzles, games and cheers to teach children about bullying in a creative way. Order our colorful corresponding children's book, "Lord Computesalot, ruler of Aurora Bullyalis, and His Secret Quest to End Bullying".

The Fortune Teller and Other Short Works

by Nanette L. Avery

In a style of her own, Nanette L. Avery weaves together an imaginative and wide-ranging collection of short works from a woman's point of view. Created with the same skillfully crafted techniques that have defined her writing, Avery offers readers wry humor, surprise endings, strange encounters, and "oh, that's cool" in her latest book, The Fortune Teller and Other Short Works. Here destitute women follow behind Civil War troops, a fortune teller reveals an outlandish prediction, unidentified ph... more

Lost Lake a Jippsy Russ Adventure

by Brian Wolfe

"We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin." Jippsy and his mom stopped what they were doing to listen to the report. " The notorious gangster Dutch Shultz, and his associate Otto Berman, escaped the custody of Federal agents in upstate New York while en route to their hearing for tax evasion." They are said to be armed and dangerous and were last seen headed toward the Canadian border in a black 1931 Lincoln K. Local authorities request that you contact them immediately should you h... more

The Besieged

by Christopher W. Morin

In the deep, remote, regions of the untamed wilderness, in a time when man’s dominance over the land is unclear, the ultimate challenge to all creatures is survival. In the struggle between man, beast, and nature, the outcome is never certain, and the victor never constant. Who will claim victory in the latest bout? Will man’s cunningness and ingenuity outmaneuver the savagery of the beast, or will both succumb to the unrelenting ferocity brought forth by nature? All three entities clash in The ... more

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