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Billionaires Make Bad Lovers

by Andi Bryce

Four slightly spoiled but lovable women blaze a path of destruction through Aspen until an unlikely teacher shows them the way to inner happiness. Lucy has a penchant for stealing things from her ex and drinking too many martinis. Dallas likes to treat her wealthy dates to bathroom sex in Aspen's finest restaurants. Mary Beth picks locks, Cheyenne may be implicated in her boyfriend's Ponzi scheme, and Glacier Jones tries to transform them all. Before the dust settles, the women will be in da... more

Brailling For Wile

by James Zerndt

BRAILLING: Feeling the surface of a tile while your hand is in the bag in order to draw a blank or other specific letter. This is strictly forbidden. -from SCRABBLE's Official Glossary Brailling was something twelve-year-old Mattias Long learned to master during the games of Scrabble he used to play with his mother while they waited for his father, Wile, to close up the family restaurant. But now, one year after his father's suicide, it's Mattias who feels cheated. He hates his father. He hat... more

If... Second Chance

by Jackie Mae

A thought provoking tale that examines how events can change life decisions in a heartbeat, Shona Forrester is determined to make her business a success. However, her carefully planned future will be turned upside down by events so bizarre, events she never could have imagined. Rick seems to be part of the equation for a happy life, but is he? Psychic Two Moons, Medium will radically alter all her carefully laid plans. What ifs will unfold and blossom into reality; a reality where the possibilit... more

Breaking The Silence

by Diamante Lavendar

Based on a true story, a new novel from Diamante Lavendar. Joan Eastman was born like any other girl. However her life would prove to be a life of great pain… Growing up, she was treated differently by family members, powerless to defend herself against their sexual and psychological abuse. Feeling she had been dealt a wicked hand by the “powers that be”, she spiraled into substance abuse and troubled relationships. She became a victim of addiction and self-hatred. Not giving up, she becomes awa... more

Seefus Learns to Obey

by Laurel MacQuarrie

Seefus, the golden slug, is a curious and adventurous bug. He knows the rules he should obey. Rules one through three keep danger away. Rule four however, seems to be a mistake. A little cement glide can't be too unsafe. He makes a choice to break rule four. Read his adventure to find out more! The reasons for rules are not always known, but... best not to test them all out on your own!

Hardscrabble Way

by Tina J. Gordon

All Delia Williams wants is to be named scholar athlete when she graduates from eighth grade at the end of the year. Her life is crowded with cheerleading, keeping up her A average, shopping, and parties. To the outside world, she is the girl who appears to have it all. Yet Delia is missing the one thing she longs for; her family’s approval. When her father dies, Delia’s life shatters. Her pampered mother Emily spirals into a debilitating depression as the family plummets into poverty. Before ... more

Thrown for a Curve

by Kit Sergeant

Pleiade (Addy) Enders has her place among the glittering stars of Chicago… in name only. Despite the fact that she has always dreamt of marrying a baseball player, it seems she’s not really cut out for it. She’d much rather be home watching Shark Week than out hobnobbing with the local celebrities alongside her quasi-famous husband Matt. No one ever told her what her Baseball Wife dream would really entail while Matt worked his way out of the minors: Addy was too busy coupon clipping and ke... more

Doley the Guatemalan Street Dog:The Sounds of San Marcos (English and Spanish Edition)

by Jill Brazier

Doley invites you to spend a day exploring her colorful world through each of the senses. In her first adventure, she learns the importance of listening. Written in English and Spanish, Doley the Guatemalan Street Dog: The Sounds of San Marcos is a marvelous way for children to enjoy and appreciate both languages!

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by Cathy Raymond

In this engaging and emotional novel, two women's stories become intertwined in unexpected ways. Composer Anna Katz hides encrypted messages of hope and protest in the music she secretly writes when she is held prisoner in Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp. Modern day music professor Emily Thurgood studies the music created and performed in Nazi camps during the Holocaust. Despite being separated by seventy years and unbelievably different circumstances, the two women both understand the timele... more

Provenance: A Novel

by Donna Drew Sawyer

PROVENANCE is a thrilling and emotional tale about the redemptive power of love, the healing influence of the arts and the ultimate aspiration—freedom. In an expansive saga that weaves historical fact with fiction across five decades and three generations, PROVENANCE is about an American family determined to escape the barriers of race, class and gender.

By challenging a privileged society designed to make it impossible to achieve anything, PROVENANCE’s flawed and captivatin... more

Following Amur

by Elayne Griffith

Have you ever wanted to make a difference in the world, but you feel so small, so insignificant?

Does your life feel out of your control, and you have no idea how to find yourself again?

This is exactly how Bia, a young woman living in Los Angeles, feels about her life that has been spiraling into an oblivion she refuses to face.

If you liked The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Celestine Prophecy, or any "slice of life" changing st... more

Pinnacle Lust

by Michelle Dim-St. Pierre

In a Tel-Aviv hospital during Operation Desert Storm, Sharon Lapidot, a beautiful young nurse, is having an affair with a married doctor. Sharon's colorful and exciting life is ultimately destroyed by powerful and eroding mistakes. But her courage and wisdom lead her to an unregretful commitment. Vividly told, this compelling journey of love and lust, honor and betrayal, loss and redemption, will move you--and perhaps even change you.

Flash 40: Life's Moments

by Janelle Jalbert

MOMENTS… Beginnings, Middles & Endings Make up Everyday Life. What happens when those moments intersect with what Is Beyond? You’re invited to experience life’s moments. Share in flashes that propel lives forward through a variety of beginnings. Experience the in-between times where lessons are learned and life is sustained through the daily grind. Enjoy moments in the middle that are gifts of synchronicity, serendipity, and downright comedy. Find out how endings may be nei... more

The Great Carp Escape

by Irish Beth Maddock

Tadpoles, clams, and minnows–WOW! For siblings Beth and Paul, growing up on a lake and exploring the wonders of aquatic life is fun, until the children encounter a startling, “fishy” find along the shoreline. When the kids discover the moustached, scaly blue carp they found lives in the marsh near their home, they become afraid. Seasons pass and Beth and Paul avoid the swampy reeds at all costs–until a natural occurrence brings about a life-or-death situation for the creepy looking carp, righ... more

ILLUSIONS

by Rodger Christopherson

Illusions is an unusual tale of love, adventure, intrigue and mystery as Reed meets enigmatic Kyara who has come back from the future to renew their connections from past life reincarnations. Not only does he fall in love with her all over again, he also re learns how to disappear and reappear at will as well as to be able to time travel and visit alternate realities where he meets Kyara and himself living out other life choices they have made. Some are probable worlds where there were totally d... more

The Mystery of Rascal Pratt

by Robbie Scott

Set on the shores of San Francisco Bay in 1866, this adventure tale tells the story of twelve year old Emma Green who finds her world turned upside down when her father takes an assignment as a lighthouse keeper at Point Bonita, a remote rock on the California coast. At first isolated, Emma manages to make friends with the son of a powerful rancher and with the granddaughter of a Native American Indian. But when a mysterious shipwreck survivor washes into their cove - a feverish boy ridiculously... more

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