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Wiggles, Stomps, and Squeezes Calm My Jitters Down

by Lindsey Rowe Parker

A Picture Book about Sensory Differences. The vibration in her feet when she runs, the tap-tap-tap of her fork on the table at mealtime, the trickle of cool water running over her hands--these are the things that calm her jitters down. This book is for anyone who has ever felt the need for a wiggle, stomp, or squeeze!

Eternal Promise: The Soul of Mary Stuart

by Holly-Eloise Walters

Eternal Promise, The Soul of Mary Stuart is an intimate version of the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, told with fresh eyes and an open heart. Journey with this Queen as she lives through a breathtakingly pure love, heartbreak, and relentless betrayal. Author Holly-Eloise Walters infuses this telling with warmth, compassion, and love.

The Devil's Kiss

by JOHN B GEERER

Israel Hands grows up amidst the tumult of the Salem Witch Trials. At the age of twelve he slays a local innkeeper who has accused his father of being in league with the devil. To evade capture Israel absconds to the sea and becomes a preeminent sailor and a ruthless killer. Feared and betrayed by his friend Edward Teach, Israel is crippled for life and driven from the only world he’s ever known. Three hundred years later, retired naval officer Tom Stone buys an old tavern in the seaside tow... more

Jenny on the Street

by David Haldane

"Dark and twisted a bit like Stephen King," is how one reader recently described "Jenny on the Street: And Other Tales of Reverence and Revolution by a Very Young Man."

A desperate young woman lost on the drug-infested streets of London, an insane revolutionary holding the devil in a jar, an indifferent truck driver forced to run over cats and a reverent grandmother looking for God in a rock. All of them are among the unforgettable characters inhabiting these 13 shor... more

Magical Mia

by Julie Cassetta

It is time children learned that MAGIC IS REAL and lives within each one of them. This magical soon-to-be series inspires and empowers children to change the world. With one simple action, Mia changes the course of someone’s day, and that magic spreads far beyond just one person. Meet Mia, a girl who knows her own power to create change. The ability to change how someone feels and to pay kindness forward is true magic. Mia overcomes her own insecurity and her magic spreads throughout he... more

Cruel Summer

by Bernard Jan

All he wants to do is skate. But they have other plans for him.

Michael Daniels is seventeen and dreams to enter professional skateboarding contests. But beneath New Manhattan, a city under the oppressive shadow of climate change, exists another world altogether—secret laboratories which threaten society as he knows it.

Those with power will get what they want. No price is too high, even if it means making someone special or robbing them of... more

Circles

by Ewa Podleś

In this book you will find more than 200 round objects - spheres and circles. If you have children between 3 and 7, you can all dive into the fantastic world of this perfect shape.

Migrations

by Tim Pompey

Life is transitory. People move from one point to the next. What happens in that transition? And what choices do we have in the process? In these eight brand-new stories, we follow men and women in transition, sometimes by choice, sometimes imposed by unforeseen circumstances. A young man who graduates from college. An African-American soldier returned home from WWII. A chance meeting with a man in a nursing care facility. A family whose Christmas is affected by Covid-19. Three women who through... more

Still Breathing

by E. A. Fournier

A sixty-nine-year-old widow from the Midwest travels alone to Kampala, Uganda to help secure a library for a middle school. She learns that nothing in Africa is as it appears and it is only her life experiences as a wife, mother, grandmother and caregiver that give her even a chance to succeed.

Treasure Hunt: The quest, echos from the past and the encounter.

by Johanna Rapin

Treasure are meant to be found! That’s what Bob will try to discover after his granduncle while laying on his dying bed, revealed to him that he hid a treasure map in his barn. Treasure Hunt is a novel that will lead readers back to where we all belong, where love is perfect. Where we are truly expected and welcome... Where heaven touches earth, to finally bring us back to where we were meant to be.

The Poison Of Money

by Joe Torrence

The Poison Of Money book addresses a struggle that virtually anyone can identify with: Our obsession with and awe of the rich and powerful vs. spiritual teachings that warn against the Seven Deadly Sins including Greed and the Pleasures of the Flesh. This book exposes the far-reaching repercussions of money and its deadly venom. Money. Society's barometer for success. Your ticket to a life of luxury, power and the pleasures of the flesh. How could money possibly have a poisonous side? T... more

Lighting the Stars

by Gabriele Wills

Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka’s majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe’s peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee’s formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined... more

Mama’s Boy

by Camai Franklin

Synopsis Life was tough growing up with no mama or daddy to teach you the right or wrongs of life. Raised by his maternal grandmother Lizzie Hamlet, Nicky was a good, shy, and quiet kid who always had his nose in a book. He use to often daydream of meeting his parents some day although he knew once he learned that his mother died after giving birth to him and that his father was never in the picture it was just that......a dream. Nicky’s grandmother loved and cared for him just as if she were h... more

There Was a Cool Cat Who Swallowed a Hat

by Randy L. Schmidt

There was a Cool Cat who swallowed a hat. I don't know why he swallowed the hat. HEY, dig that cat! A sax, a trumpet, a trombone, and more... Join Cool Cat and the Meow-Meow Band for this jazzy take on the popular children's rhyme, "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly."

Bizzy Bzzz the Bee and Grandpa's Tea

by Travis Peagler

Bizzy Bzzz the Bee and Grandpa's Tea is reading made fun. Told through the eyes of a child, this is an entertaining story about a boy who gets a good laugh watching Grandpa's encounter with a bee every morning while trying to enjoy his cup of tea. Teetering on the edge of frustration, Grandpa has a heightened escalation with Bizzy. This story has playful rhyme, problem solving, and is sure to put a smile on faces of children every time.

The Mckinnens

by Melvin C. Johnson

In this intense family tragedy set in an alternative history, the McKinnen family live in a United States where the Jim Crow laws are actual laws and each race is strictly segregated into different colonies. The McKinnens have been treated horribly for decades, Molly Mcknnen the only daughter, has had enough, and she decides to get to the bottom of why they are treated with such indignity and cruelty. The more she uncovers about the unfair laws, the more oppressive things get for her and the fam... more

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