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They Will Ask: A Story About Embracing Our Differences

by Lexa Duno-Andreu

Written by a mother to her daughter, They Will Ask is a powerful and vibrant story about taking pride in our culture, language, origins, and all that makes us unique. The story's vivid illustrations will captivate young readers, while its message will remain with children and their parents, teachers, and caregivers for a lifetime. A perfect gift, bedtime story, or classroom read aloud for children between the ages of 3-7 years old, the lyrical tale pays homage to the beauty in diversity and m... more

Squeeze Plays

by Jeffrey Marshall

A contemporary tale about money and power and its corrupting influences. Set principally in New York and London, it finds a bank chief executive and a tabloid publisher at odds over a loan the bank has given the publisher. Enter a cunning Russian oligarch eager to expand his influence in New York; he makes the publisher an offer he can't refuse. An investigative reporter, acting on a tip, then probes this financing and delivers a front-page expose that puts the main characters in a negative ligh... more

The Nobodies

by Alanna Schubach

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and confidences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies. In Jess’s assertive persona, self-conscious Nina turns bolder, free to say what she’s frightened to voice on her own. Inhabiting Nina, Jess becomes part of the loving, stable family she craves. Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered N... more

Burning The Witches: (Introducing the Underworld Series)

by Penn Fawn

Burning The Witches is the prelude to the Underworld series of books, a spin off from author Penn Fawn's Necropolis dark fantasy novels.

It is a semi-biographical account of the witch Hespatia and her peers in a world of enduring apprehension and terror for those who dared to try practicing their pagan faith.

Witches, wizards, wicca, nature worshipers and paganists of all kinds are invited to read about its protagonist and central figures whose interest lay in exploring subjec... more

Incident 395

by John Riha

The Devil is loose in southern Oregon. A monster wildfire explodes and begins to devour everything in its path. Miles from any roads, a father and his blind 11-year-old daughter are trapped while backpacking in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Smoke, flames, and tornadic winds thwart efforts to save them. The only way into the violent firestorm may be a dangerous, off-the-books rescue attempt proposed by a pair of rappelling firefighters. But there’s no way out.

Pigsquealia And The Biggest Cabbage

by Elisa Fleener

Pigsquealia lives on Fine Friendly Farm in Palmer, Alaska, where the sun shines almost 24 hours a day and vegetables grow to enormous proportions! Pigsquealia was born with only a squeal and not an oink. He is proud of his squeal until he shares it with the other farm animals, and they bully him away. Ashamed Pigsquealia hides in the cabbage patch and promises himself to never squeal again. But thieves show up that night to steal the biggest cabbage (that Farmer Fine was planning to enter into t... more

Simon's Rocket to the Moon

by Stephen G. Bowling

The solar system is full of mystery. Can one curious feathered friend build a way to explore space?

Simon loves gazing up at the night sky. As he stares at the brightly shining moon, the little bird wonders what kind of friends he might make up there… and if they have ice cream. So he comes up with the brilliant idea to construct a mighty homemade spaceship and blast off into the atmosphere.

Sharing his grand plan with his barnyard buddies, Simon is thrille... more

Fantah

by Hadiza Bagudu

"Fantah is a simple Bororo girl from a small nomadic village in West Africa. All she ever wanted was to meet the man of her dreams, fall in love, and live happily ever after. But what she got was a blue blood with an incredible ambition and an ironclad will. He took her on a roller-coaster ride of romance, action, danger, and adventure beyond her imagination.

This story takes you on a journey from the open grasslands of Fombina Empire through the Trans-Saharan trading routes o... more

Finding Chaz

by Anisa Ashabi

“If my life were a TV show, Chaz Humbert would be the bad guy.”

Roxie Nazari’s had it. She’s been subjected to Chaz Humbert’s creepy come-ons and inappropriate antics for three years—and she’s not his only victim. With teachers, guidance counselors, and school administration unwilling to end the harassment, Roxie exacts revenge on an anger-fueled impulse. What she doesn’t realize is how her actions will completely change her life--and her ... more

Sister Liberty

by Gregory Hill

Their American Dream was simply to survive. It wasn’t simple. Set in 1885, and spanning from France to Indiana, Sister Liberty’s wry absurdism centers on Annie, Euphémie, & young Auguste, three French nationals drawn across the Atlantic by a combination of murderous circumstances and a chance encounter with a group of beneficent religious cultists. Things go about as well as one would expect. With its cast of obedient romantics, mystical nutbags, and adorable cynics, Sister Liberty... more

The Anstruther Lass

by Vivien Carmichael

A historical romance set in the Dundee Jute Mills in 1865. Lana, a young widow from Anstruther, works at a mill and falls in love with a Dutch sailor Stefan, the son of a rich jute trader and shipping magnate. But then, a love triangle arises that pursued wrongdoings just to acquire Lana’s love. Will Stefan be alive and safe? What happens to Lana later on? Will a pregnant Lana survive in the uncertainties of the world? Follow through the answers to these questions in “The Anstruther Lass” by... more

Princess Maybe and Huggybear

by Christopher Dubs

Princess Maybe and her best friend Huggybear live in the magical kingdom of Mandap. Huggy loves the Princess very much, but is sometimes a naughty little bear, and get his friend into trouble. Like suggesting the play Hide and Seek in places they're not supposed to go!

Life's Rollercoaster

by ASIA HARRIS

Daunted by a web of dark secrets, Michael Johnson Jr. is faced with numerous obstacles that may cost him his life. Raised in the rural streets of the Chi, where dreams become nightmares has pushed him into a life of uncertainty. As a college basketball star, he is forced to choose between his love for the court and his love for the streets.

Looking for Africa in America

by Ike Okwuonu

This book is about an African American male frustrated as a result of difficulties he encountered growing up. He found his problem common to majority of peer members of his ethnic group compared to other ethnic peer group members' experience. Johnson attributed his failure to the stripping away of the African American culture by the slave masters. He resolved to recover the "Africa" that was missing in him. Johnson traveled to his origin in Africa and embraced originality after ritualistically d... more

The Quadrant Conspiracy

by James H Lewis

As Anglo-American leaders gather to plan the defeat of Nazi Germany, Hitler orders the death of President Franklin Roosevelt to derail the conference. Brandon Armitage, a Canadian veteran of the Great War, has joined Canada’s Volunteer Guard to oversee German prisoners; it’s a role he’s undertaken to seek revenge for the death of his son during a raid on the French Coast. When one of his prisoners escapes. Armitage pursues him to a remote island above Lake Huron, where FDR is on a pre-conference... more

Masked Man in Dollarado

by Bruce Miller

With a nod to Zane Grey and L. Frank Baum, the Masked Rider and his nephew enter the Dollarado Territories, where hate fuels the reign of Gov. Hump Powers. Part western adventure, part commentary on current politics and culture, this page turner will keep you enthralled and make you laugh while the plot grows darker and darker. Filled with action and familiar characters from the history of westerns, this novel will surprise the reader over and over again.

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