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Oscar the Orange Octopus

by RT Errill

What is the name of the nerdy octopus living in the Great Big Blue Sea? Who will be with you when you need him? Who wants to be your very special friend? Oscar, that’s who!

She considers telling him the truth—that she isn’t the person he thinks she is—but in the end she doesn’t. To say something is to potentially say everything. And it is simply too late... The emotionally fractured casualty of a hideous childhood tragedy, Catherine has at last found her happy-ever-after in the person of Grayson Barnett, and it is the promise of a freshly polished future that compels her to bury the poisonous trail of her past beneath the purposeful lies and omissions she offers he... more

Asleep Without Dreaming

by Barbara Forte Abate

Fourteen year old Willa Burkett has been waiting her whole life to leave Hoosick Falls, a nowhere place that fails to hold even a single good memory. But, when a series of vengeful incidents stir Willa's mother Stella to impulsively pack-up and go, it is only to find themselves stranded in yet another ugly, near extinct town, only now, with a broken down car and no ready way out. Unable to move on until an alternate plan shows itself, they accept a job working for Omega Pearl Bodie, proprietr... more

The Secret of Lies

by Barbara Forte Abate

Propelled by an insurmountable sense of desperation, Stevie Burke is recklessly abandoning home, husband, and outwardly contented life under cover of night; at last resigned to defeat in her long battle against the tortured memories of the past. Days later, lost and floundering in a dreary motel room without plan or destination, it is a long ago song playing on the radio that gently tugs Stevie back through the dust of remembrance. 1957 - The last summer spent at the ancient house overlooking th... more

Sean Goes To Barcelona

by Tanya Preminger

Sean, an 8-year-old aspiring soccer player, goes on the trip of a lifetime! He travels to Barcelona, Spain, to watch a FC Barcelona soccer game and get an autograph from his hero, the celebrated forward Lionel Messi. The resourceful and determined kid that he is, Sean comes up with various creative ways to track down his hero and make his dream come true. But sometimes, as he will discover, life doesn’t go quite according to plan… Beautiful illustrations by Elettra Cudignotto.

Sean wants to be Messi

by Tanya Preminger

Sean, an imaginative, soccer-loving second grader, wants to be the great Leo Messi, and he’s working hard to accomplish his goal. He battles fears, bullies, nagging parents, and tiresome teachers in pursuit of his dream to become the best soccer player in the world. An engaging, relatable children’s book about soccer, practice, and inspiration. Beautiful illustrations by Elettra Cudignotto.

The Surgeon's Wife

by William H. Coles

Clayton Otherson is aging and becomes impaired in judgment and technical skills in his career as a world-famous, New Orleans surgeon. Mike Bordeaux, chief of service at hospital, must discipline Clayton who has been his mentor and teacher. Attempts as rehabilitation by Mike are resisted by Clayton, and Mike involves the family in recovery, falling in love with Clayton's much younger wife, Catherine. Clayton angers, threatens, and seeks revenge, and his career crumbles injuring more patients. Mik... more

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by katherina Martine

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Unplanned Destination

by Elie Jerome

When Leito meets his beautiful new neighbor, Miriam, he is determined to make her his. To conquer Miriam’s heart, Leito, a young, ambitious Haitian with a complicated past, has to face Miriam’s possessive boyfriend as well as her protective mother. Miriam’s mother, Mona, deems Leito unworthy of her only child, based on Leito’s lifestyle and obviously limited financial means. During a random vehicle stop, Jean-Baptiste, a young cop and Leito’s best friend, makes an important arrest, which not... more

Finnigan and the Lost Circus Wagon

by Mary T. Wagner

FINNIGAN, his best “circus mice” pals Maximillian and Leroy, and Boomer—the strangely silent family dog—return in this sequel to the award-winning FINNIGAN THE CIRCUS CAT. Rescued as a tiny kitten by eight-year-old Lucy Farnsworth and smuggled in secret to the family circus museum, Finnigan is now all grown up with a natural flair for the flying trapeze. However he’s still flying “under the radar” in the barn which doubles as... more

The Spirit of Want

by William H. Coles

Lucy, a talented young lawyer from a privileged background wrecks her car and there is a question if a dead woman, the wife of a prominent judge, found near the accident was a victim. A surgeon was in the car and when Lucy is facing charges for homicide, she schemes to marry the surgeon to prevent his testimony. They have a child, but Lucy falls in love with a client, a dynamic wealthy TV evangelist accused of abusing a child. Lucy loses the case and the evangelist escapes to Africa to delay sen... more

Krakow

by Sean Akerman

Sean Akerman’s crisp, evocative voice lays bare vulnerabilities, wonder, and mystery. With deep attention to his characters’ psychologies, he creates men and women who linger in your mind long after you finish reading. His novella, Krakow, does just that. A man moves into a Brooklyn apartment and finds the journals left behind by the previous tenants. As he reads the journals, he discovers two people wrestling with why and how their love disappeared. Krakow is set in the present day, amid the... more

Providence: God's Care for the Lost Sheep

by Magda Woods

James, a seven-year-old orphan boy living in the city of Bramka, decides that life outside the orphanage where he lives is better, even if he's on his own. When things don't turn out as planned, and he has to live on handouts from whoever gives him food or money, a visit to a restaurant changes his life in two major ways.

The Fish Tank: And Other Short Stories

by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra

An unexpected treasure handed over from an ex-spouse via the divorce lawyer; a classic mother-son bonding experience on a roller coaster ride; tragic tales of survival of ordinary Cuban citizens in the 1960s; a paranormal happening in the Museum of the Weird, the Sad, and the Wretched; and a complex murder mystery – all of these short stories in one volume. The Fish Tank: And Other Short Stories by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra reveals life stories in the raw with a compassion for reality and the fa... more

Last Things

by E. J. Myers

Father Francisco ("Frank") Ochoa, a 57-year-old campus champlain, has grown weary of his work ministering to entitled students at a second-rate party school. In response to his late-midlife crisis, he joins a local EMT squad as a volunteer. This decision gets the priest back into the world but leads to far greater risk, uncertainty, and danger than he ever imagined possible back when viewing the world from the safety of his ivory tower. Set amid the hazards and tensions of emergency medical serv... more

Abruptions: 3 Minute Stories to Awaken the Mind

by Jack Matthews

During the last decade of his life, author Jack Matthews wrote a series of 1-2 page prose pieces (which he dubbed "Abruptions" or "very short stories that end abruptly"). Matthews had already published over 20 books of fiction with an astonishing variety of characters and plots. This last volume hints at a lot of characters and plots without trying to resolve them. Each abruption — which rarely takes more than 5 minutes to read — sheds light on something unexpected, whether it be a character's v... more

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