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Corallai

by Michelle Path

When Andi is engulfed by a wave, she finds herself transported to an underwater world called Corallai. There she meets Aquanna, a creature who is part fish and part human. Aquanna tells Andi that it is her destiny to help preserve the oceans and all the life within. Andi learns all about the work the various inhabitants do to ensure the survival of the ocean’s ecosystem, and explores this new, spectacular world.

Winifred

by Charles Souby

The world teaches us all one thing: life is nothing if not unpredictable. For better or worse, what come … comes. In his book Winifred, Charles R. Souby uses this truth to introduce us to a new fiction genre: recovery fiction. Like the name implies, recovery fiction follows character through a process that is familiar to many of us. Whether drug or alcohol addiction, grief recovery, food or gambling, the number of Americans experiencing recovery is growing steadily. Souby skillfully and sympath... more

Love and Hate: In Nazi Germany

by Ryan Armstrong

My name is Hans Beck.

I hate Nazis.

I am a Nazi.

I hate myself.
This book is violent and graphic. To talk about what happened differently would not be fair to Lilo.

World War II: A young Nazi guard stationed in a ghetto in Regensburg, Germany finds himself in a time and place that he hates. He has never directly participated in the bloodletting but has done nothing to stop it. He wonders if his soul can be saved. He saves a Jewish girl’s life... more

The Last Elephant in New York City

by Elizabeth Kelly

How far would you go to save a freind?

And what if that freind were an animal in captivity?

The Last Elephant in New York City is the story of Maxwell, a Ghanian wildlife ranger, Jessie, an American researcher, and the elephant that united them. On a decades-long mission of compassion, this is a journey of heartbreak, hope, and redemption, laid out in snapshots, like memory itself.

The Lost Years of Billy Battles

by Ronald Yates

Where in the world is Billy Battles? As Book Three of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy begins we know where Billy is. He is in Chicago with his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber living a sedate and comfortable life after years of adventure and tragedy. That changes with a single telephone call that yanks Billy and Katharina back into a life of turmoil and peril. Persuaded by a powerful old friend to go undercover for the U.S. government the two find themselves in Mexico durin... more

Stoop

by Angel Rodrigues

Stoop, is the story of Abby, a teenager growing up with her single mother Maggie, whose struggles with an addiction to alcohol, men, Jesus, and mental illness cut a wedge between the two. Abby tells her story while asking herself, how do I survive all of this? Stoop, takes readers on a journey across state lines, taboos, and tragedies, while reminding readers that we all aren't trees and can move on when the environment we live in becomes inhabitable.

The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles

by Ronald Yates

Billy Battles is not in Kansas anymore. As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens, Billy is far from his Kansas roots—and his improbable journeys are just beginning. He is aboard an ocean liner sailing to the Mysterious East (Japan, Hong Kong, French Indochina, and the Philippines), among other places. The year is 1894 and aboard the S S China Billy meets a mysterious, dazzling, and possibly dangerous German Baroness, locks horns with malevolent agents of the German governm... more

Finding Billy Battles

by Ronald E. Yates

A link to the past no one could ever imagine. When a great-grandson inherits two aging trunks and a stack of meticulously detailed journals penned by his great-grandfather, he sets out to fulfill his great-grandfather's last request: to tell the story of an incredible life replete with adventure, violence, and tragedy. The great-grandfather's name is Billy Battles--a man often trapped and overwhelmed by circumstances beyond his control. For much of his 100-year-long life Billy is a man missi... more

The Madison Cafe

by John McClurken

Katherine Baker is a reformed drunk and vagabond short-order cook when she returns to Cedar Mills, Washington, the hometown she fled in shame a decade earlier. By happenstance, Horace Greeley Martin is interviewing for help at his new Madison Cafe. Confessing he doesn't know much about running a restaurant, he hires Katherine on the spot. Here, a defensive Katherine comes to learn that family is not always defined by blood and "home" can mean many things. With a cast of finely drawn characters, ... more

The Fix-It Fairies

by Samantha Gray

When accidents happen, it is always good to have small friends with tiny hands nearby. Even the biggest cuts, scrapes and bruises are no match for the Fix-It Fairies. Their hard work and dedication make everything feel a little bit better. It just takes a little time, sweet treats, and the darkness of night.

Pirats: a Tale of Mutiny on the High Seas

by Rhian Waller

Rip and her two sisters, Lu and Preen, survived storms and conflict on the voyage to Jamaica. But trouble is on the horizon when they meet a crew who are not what they seem... Stranded on a strange vessel, can Rip adapt to life on a pirate ship, escape the shadow of the slave trade, save the rats on board and find a way back to her family? To do so, she will have to become a Pirat!

Fateful Decisions

by Trevor D'Silva

It’s 1915 in the heat of WWI. Two friends heading to England aboard the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, meet and fall in love with a charismatic woman. After battling for her affection, Rachel Williams makes her decision, beginning a journey that no one can predict or soon forget. For the next thirty years, Rachel is forced to live with the choice she made, as the dominoes fall around her, sequentially. Set in America and Europe, history and fiction intertwine, commencing with the sinking... more

The Singer at Penn Station: A Script Based on a True Story

by Josephine deBois

Back in New York, Sergeant Samuel is demoted to work in the traffic police. He is teamed up with Huang, an experienced and deeply religious police officer. At Penn Station in New York, Samuel comes across Olis, a brilliant but illegally performing street singer with no memory of his past. As the goodhearted Samuel--against the advice of Huang--decides to help Olis, he gradually becomes embedded in a complex case with its roots in the Vatican. With the help of Melera, a top gang leader deeply con... more

Winds Across Beringia

by Benjamin Barnette

Nearly 15,000 years ago a daring young Mammoth Hunter named Harjo sets out on a life-changing journey across the now inundated ancient land bridge that once interconnected Alaska and Siberia called Beringia to the land of the Sea Mammal Hunting people on the coast of the Bering Sea. There he encounters a beautiful, exotic, servant girl named Onna, the likes that no one had ever seen before or imagined existed. Together they began an incredible adventure to return to Harjo’s people and his rive... more

My River Sanctuary

by Robin Bower

Chinese Australian, Kim Chen, is a descendant of one of the first Chinese immigrants to come to Western Australia in the 1880s. On the banks of the Swan River in South Perth she continues her father’s legacy of operating a Chinese urban farm. She has a son born to her first love, Jack, the boy next door who has left her to work as a war photographer in Afghanistan. Kim struggles to keep her farm profitable. With the assistance of the Immigration Department, she enlists the help of Ara, an Afghan... more

0805099891

by Derek Taylor Kent

Pepe is a homeless dog with no family until a lucky sombrero lands on his head and turns his life around.

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