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by Michael and Danny D'Agostino

This is a contemporary fiction comedy: Vladimir Ruska, a shiftless Russian corner-cutting immigrant, gets kicked out of the US for violating his visa, and for piling up hundreds of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. Using his knowledge of America, he returns to his impoverished, rural town in Russia and starts a successful knockoff of McDonalds, called McRuskies. His entire Russian clan joins the venture. Ultimately, all of them emigrate to the US... more

Molly Bell and the Wishing Well

by Bridget Geraghty

An 11-year old girl, MOLLY, suffers through the wedding of her father to a new woman that Molly won’t accept. Molly used to be a whimsical, sporty girl with a zest for life. All that has been turned upside down by the devastating loss of her mother to cancer years ago, and the subsequent arrival of her stepmother and annoying younger stepbrother, HENRY. Molly and Henry are sent to Molly’s grandparents’ farm to stay the week after the wedding. It is a completely different world from the subur... more

Margaret's War

by Bill Stokes

If the Fish is a Trout

by Bill Stokes

A man can love a woman. There's no trick to that. And a man can love a dog, especially if it is a good dog with worship in its eyes. But can a man love a fish? An experienced trout fisherman reminisces about the love of opening day in various location in Wisconsin.

The Long Lasting Lesson of Rupert Tea Rex

by Kaptain Seeg

Cowlicks & Freckles

by Robin S. Garland

Jelly Douglas is a self-starter who likes to help others; but, she has an awkward way of showing it when self-awareness always seems to get her into new predicaments.

Asking questions, no one appears to be able to answer, when Jelly starts a new business to earn money; her jealous friends and nagging sisters try to block her progress every time.

Meeting Madison Winterbaum who is smarter and more intuitive than her, Jelly learns Sign Language to communicate with Madison, and Madiso... more

Jack and the Case of the Missing Sandwich

by D J Romeo

Jack is a furry detective on a mission. After being falsely accused of stealing, Jack solves the mystery and makes a new friend in the process.

Arise Pendragon

by Leon Mintz

Arise Pendragon continues down the treacherous path that laid open at the end of Ambrosius Aureliani. Young Artorius and Merlinus flee from their home near Aureliani in war-torn Gaul. Soon though, a patrol from the federated army of King Theodoric I intercepts them. Their struggle to reach Britain leads them through many episodes of legendary status over the span of several years.

Animal Homes ZXA: an Out of Order Alphabet Book

by Barbara Gibbon

Children often depend on ABC order to name letters. If the letters were mixed up, would your child still recognize them? Filled with rich illustrations of animals and their habitats, this book teaches letters by shape and beginning letter sound, rather than alphabetical order.

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This book is great for teaching early literacy skills such as letter knowledge, beginning letter sounds, and vocabulary. The ABCs are mixed up to encourage teaching letters by shape and beginning letter sound rather than rote memorization. The animals are arranged according to their habitat.

"Maxwell, the Raindrop: Am I Still Me?"

by Joseph Moore

Yesterday Maxwell fell to save a thirsty flower. Now he experiences the water cycle as he turns into vapor, then a snowflake and eventually back into water. At each change he asks himself “how can I change and still be me?” At the end of the story, he becomes friends with a dandelion who goes through changes of her own and asks the same question. “Am I Still Me?” is a story that celebrates growth and change.

Maxwell, the Raindrop Who Wouldn't Fall

by Joseph Moore

Maxwell does not want to simply fall like the other raindrops. He feels that, as a raindrop, he has little importance. He wants to be a bird, a rainbow or a flower. Throughout the story, the grandfatherly cloud tries to gently assure Maxwell that rain is a part of everything that he wants to be, so it is important for him to simply be himself. At the end of the story, all of the other raindrops have fallen and Maxwell sees a thirsty flower that was missed by the other raindrops. The flower w... more

Drinking the Knock Water: A New Age Pilgrimage

by Emily Kemme

Another cruel outburst from her sister-in-law on what was supposed to be a day to celebrate began a downward spiral of events that would leave Holly questioning every choice she'd ever made and every belief she held as truth. Had she done the right thing by her unborn child? Had she given enough, or too much, freedom of choice to her son? Did she truly, deeply know her husband and clinic partner, Roger? And what right had she to counsel infertile couples after her own pregnancies? With the Fer... more

Muriel Avenue Sluts

by Maggie Hasbrouck

Complete with duct tape, wasp spray, and a healthy dose of sexual tension, MURIEL AVENUE SLUTS is a decidedly feminist coming-of-age story about a seventeen-year-old girl whose mother is a prostitute. #stopslutshaming Julia Turnbow’s mother gets paid to have sex; that’s just how it is. When Jules turns eighteen she‘ll follow in her mother’s footsteps and begin training to join the exclusive world of Philadelphia’s infamous Muriel Avenue Sluts. Anyway, that’s the plan. But when Jules’s bes... more

Awash

by Bill Reed

up. Nodding, yes. We can leave the Watch now. He was so good at Serious Matters, but the trouble was people kept dying around him. It didn’t help that the precocious teenager who claimed she was the rightful owner of his body kept nagging him even while they floated, locked in each other, along the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean. Shissakes, he couldn’t even gag on life without someone complaining! He shouldn’t have shouted ‘Left!’ instead of that wrong ‘Right!’ to send his Humvee into a... more

Roam

by Erik Therme

When Kevin finds Sarah stranded by the side of the road, he’s more than willing to give her a ride. Young, beautiful and distraught—she’s everything a single guy could ask for in a girl. What he doesn’t know is that she already has a guy: an abusive, drunken boyfriend who left her there in a fit of rage. And when that boyfriend comes back and finds Sarah missing, a simple ride will turn deadly.

Like Josh Gaylord and Daniel Kraus before him, author Erik Therme explores the angst of disco... more

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