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Hagen's Curse

by James Emmi

Anika Everhart is a born and raised beekeeper who's always dreamed of becoming a baker. There is just one problem: Her home-city of Hagen owes its grandiose stature to the renowned bakery Heckler Delights. So when Anika has the audacity to introduce her own extraordinary recipe at this year's Easter Feast, she flips Hagen upside down and infuriates the washed up heir Hans Heckler II. What follows is a conspiracy of revenge, as Anika's secret love affair is unearthed and used against her in... more

FAB (Friends Against Bullying) Club

by Alex Hallatt

When Ravi, Toby and Jake get bullied at school, they start the FAB (Friends Against Bullying) Club. Their lives improve dramatically, as they support each other to stop the bullies picking on them. They reach out to help other kids like Ruth, who joins the club and helps them build an amazing treehouse to meet in. FAB Club becomes a popular meme at school, which infuriates the bullies. When they destroy the treehouse, it looks like FAB Club might be lost. But their friendship is strong enough to... more

10/10ths A Young Adult Novel of La Carrera Panamericana

by Suzy Witten

14-year-old Andi Gazek, a lifelong car nut, mini-MacGyver, and expert strategizer (i.e., fibber) from Montana hits the road one abandoned summer in search of the racer father she never knew. Finding him is not enough. Now she wants him to drive a world famous 2,000-mile vintage car rally race--La Carrera Panamericana--with her in Mexico... and she expects him to teach her. What she learns, and what he learns, in their wills-clashing, car-crashing process is miles beyond any road map.... more

The Flames of Time

by Peter Knyte

A vintage style adventure story which spans some of the great sites of antiquity in search for an ancient secret. After being drawn into an unusual shamanic ceremony while travelling around Africa, a group of friends experience strange visions which lead them in pursuit of an ancient and long lost secret. However, there are those for whom keeping such secrets buried is not only a responsibility, it's also a solemn duty. Powerful individuals who will apparently stop at nothing to protect th... more

In The Land of Broken Time: The Incredible Journey

by Max Evan

This book is about the adventures of a boy named Christopher, a girl named Sophia and a retriever named Duke. By chance, they find themselves in a balloon that takes them to a fairyland where mysterious events happen. The children want to find the way home, but first they have to solve a lot of mysteries. This is a story about the different ways of measuring time and about friendship. In this book there are many facts about the animals that never get old and about how to construct different cloc... more

A Golden Heart: Journey to Equilibrium

by Mike Will Downey

Years after searching, 17 year-old Brooke Ashton receives a devastating letter regarding the biological father she’s never met. Losing hope, she journeys into the forest where she enters the realms of darkness, light, body, mind, and spirit. Trained by a wise old fighter named Esiw, Brooke is led toward a final confrontation that will save or destroy her.

Lady Ruth Bromfield

by Gordon Smith

Saved from Nazi Holocaust, she grew in spirit to be a world leader. In 1935, Ruth was in born to an unmarried Jewish mother in Germany. Fearing the Nazi persecution, Ruth was sent to England on the "kinder transport“ to be raised by a Church of England priest. He raised in the Christian faith, and with help, he also raised her in the Jewish faith. Her faith guided her life and enabled her to build bridges between different groups, even at an early age. Follow her story as she grows up and... more

A Medicine Dream and Warrior Ghosts

by Nona Burroughs Babcock

The novel introduces mystical Native American lore; demonstrates the devastating effect of bullying; friendship and loyalty, with both humans and animals; develops and matures the characters; intrigue, near-death experiences, and paranormal events lead the reader in a fast-paced adventure.

A Medicine Dream and Warrior Ghosts Synopsis

Foureen-year-old Blackfeet Native American Johnny Bear Child is bullied by Larry, Skinny, and Chub. Johnny runs away to a mountain hideaway to pursue... more

Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories

by Nancy Christie

TRAVELING LEFT OF CENTER AND OTHER STORIES details the experiences of characters in life situations for which they are emotionally or mentally unprepared. Their methods of coping range from the passive (“The Healer”) and the aggressive (“The Clock”) to the humorous (“Traveling Left of Center”) and hopeful (“Skating on Thin Ice”). In each of these eighteen stories, the characters’ choices—or non-choices—are their own. But the ou... more

Wallflower Blooming

by Amy Rivers

Val Shakely is a list-maker. Daily routine. Check. Calm, quiet (but successful) business. Check. No drama. No excitement. Some might call it boring, but it’s precisely the way Val likes it. She loves her hometown of Cambria, nestled in the mountains of Colorado, and runs a fruitful PR firm. It's more than enough for Val. So what if she doesn’t have a social life? Then, her cousin Gwen decides to take on the local political bully, Mayor Roger Barton, in head-to-head combat for his poisition, and ... more

The Irish Tempest

by Elizabeth J. Sparrow

Ireland, 1911: After seven centuries of unyielding oppression, there is a tempest rising, a national yearning for Irish independence. It threatens to sweep away all that is precious to the very privileged O’Rourke and de la Roche families. Seismic changes are but a whisper away. What will this mean for the wastrel Courtland O’Rourke and the defiant, mischief-making Lacey de la Roche, as their squabbling relationship matures into a love fraught with sins of omission and secrets of lethal conseque... more

B0184SEI8O

by Joseph Ferguson

A short story collection about Basement Man; moody drunk, sometime rock climber, absurdist philosopher, raconteur of the ridiculous, rogue, and not-so-merry prankster from the North End of Yonkers (aka Junkies Paradise). An everyman for nobodies, he is ever adrift between the carrot of sobriety and the reality of carpe diem. Bowing only to the laws of Murphy, he can never decide whether the lucky ones are the survivors or those who died years ago. The stories are all told from different perspec... more

Amina: The Silent One

by Fiza Pathan

Amina: The Silent One brings vividly to life the grim realities facing women in India today, the grinding, filthy poverty, and debasement with which most Indian women must contend in their daily lives. This book will shock you and rip your eyes open. Through the magic of fiction, it tells an awful truth in human terms that cannot be told in any other way. The degradation of women in India is nearly universal, and ranges from their second-class status in society, often excluding them from educa... more

Miro

by A.E. Nasr

Since the age of 12, Miro has been a prisoner of war—a fate he shares with his brother, Markus, and the four cellmates that raised him from childhood in the dark. When a brutal murder becomes the key to their escape, the fugitives must forge their way across an occupied land to reach the city, and the refuge of the Resistance. Over the course of 13 days, their survival in the face of great odds will stir the hopes of a nation, unravel the cycles of history and spark the fires of uprising.

Aurora, Spirit Bear of the North

by Erik Shein and L.M Reker

A Spirit Bear named Aurora, along with her best friend, Kaghi the Raven, become stewards of the land, and go on a quest to save there animal friends from the injustices of poachers and bring back the harmony and wisdom of the emerald forest they call home.

Darwin

by Erik Shein and L. M. Reker

Darwin has made a powerful wish; the mysterious heavens say it’s so. Desire is so strong a wish cloud appears. It says, “Hope and love will defeat all fears.” I can feel it shake me in my ancient shell; this is a story our island animals must tell. Darwin, the Giant tortoise wants to fall in love and asks the wish cloud in the sky to make his dream come true. Darwin, the tortoise is the last surviving member of his family of tortoises, and he has a driving passion is to continue his endangered... more

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