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Tatiana and the Russian Wolves

by https://www.tatianaswolves.com/

Alexander adored his mother, Tatiana, an exotic and magical woman. Tatiana’s imagination kept her past at bay until insanity—the Russian wolves— took her and unleashed Alexander’s mental breakdown. Although Alexander inherited many of Tatiana’s gifts, he wonders if Tatiana’s bequest includes insanity. Alexander sees himself as fragile; confronting Tatiana’s past is a daunting task. Ignoring Tatiana’s gifts, Alexander has become an international banker and leads a comfortable life in San Francisc... more

The Unlounging: From a Belly Full of Beer to a Craw Full of Time

by Selraybob

Not yet thirty, and already Selraybob is beaten down and washed up. He spends his days on his lounger, drinking quarts of beer and talking to his buddy Herm on the phone. Until, during his wife’s long-overdue kiss-off speech, Selraybob notices two clocks. They’re seven minutes off. And he has an epiphany. Time, he decides, is a count. It’s only a count. Einstein was wrong. And life on the lounger will never be the same.

Tongue Twisting ABCs

by Joshua Savage

Try your best not to get tongue twisted while the animals for each letter of the alphabet come to life. Silly fun for the whole family, no matter what age!

Here Casts No Shadow

by Bronwen Griffiths

Before we went down into the cellar I looked across the road. The bombed house stared back at me like a toothless beggar-woman. There would be women like that soon enough. Children too. But we would be gone by then, dragging our guilt and sadness with us like heavy suitcases. Fifteen-year old Mira has grown up in the small town of Zazour. Her country of Lyrian has been under the grip of a ruthless dictator for decades. Mira and her family have always lived a quiet life but everything changes ... more

Vann the Artist Paints A Necklace

by Becky Palmer

An adorable children's book about a child artist who makes a necklace for her friend. An educational, rhyming story line keeps the book fun and engaging!

Rolling Home

by Austin Charters

When Tucker Frost ventures out into the wilderness on a hunting expedition with his Grandpa Angus and his older brother Jordan, the main things on his mind are socializing and graduating from high school.

But when Grandpa Angus accidentally drops his gun, releasing a bullet into Tucker's neck, Tucker's whole world tumbles into upheaval.

When he wakes, he receives the overwhelming news: his spinal cord has been severed. He'll never walk again. He maintains the use of hi... more

Capa de Colores: Spanish with English Pronunciation Guide

by Karl Beckstrand

(Colors, careers – Spanish) “Ésta es una capa de colores mágica.” Un libro sobre careras, culturas, y colores. Este libro para niños de 3 a 7 años contiene actividades de búsqueda, superhéroes hispanos y africanos, y vívidas imágenes para ayudar con la comprensión del vocabulario. ¡A ponerse los disfraces! 100 palabras escrito por Karl Beckstrand, ilustrado por John Collado. “Perfecto para niños de Pre-escolar y fácil lectura para primaria.…excelente para los profesores”. – Maritza Mejia, autora... more

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

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