In present day New York Juno Lambert decides to buy a 1931 Underwood Typewriter that had belonged to the late celebrated journalist Cordeila Capel. The owner of the shop tries to convince her to buy another model, but Juno feels something is special about this one. Inside it‘s case is an unfinished novel that tells of a transatlantic journey to fill in the secrets that lie between Cordelia and her sister.

Twelve year old Sara has Marafan syndrome, and when she was ten and started getting tired all the time her Mother decided it would be best to homeschool her, but she tells her Mom it would be more fun if her younger brother Hawk was homeschooled as well.

Konisola and her Mother step off a plane and into Canada on a freezing cold winter night, having fled Nigeria. They were running for their lives as at home they were under the threat of a family member who wanted to harm them.

This book is geared towards Hi/Lo Middle Grader Readers who may struggle a little bit with reading, but the book is fun and is sure to draw the interest of Middle Grade Readers:

In this beautifully written and illustrated Picture book, Almaz get's embarrassed by the mistakes she makes in school, and the way that others don't understand her Ethiopian Culture, so she comes up with the idea to have a Big Buna Bash, in a Buna ceremony the coffee is boiled, poured into another vessel and back into the decorative pot, boiled and poured again, and over and over again. Three cups are served to each guest, each representing...

Edyth‘s Uncle has her committed to the Asylum so he can have control over her fortune, but will she be able to show them that she isn‘t insane, that her Uncle only wants her fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on her inheritance. so he uses her indulgence in egocentric hobbies like Cycling and Fencing to have her committed.

In this book we learn of Sojourner‘s Truth‘s commitment. Despite not being able to read Sojourner Truth dictate The Narrative of Sojourner Truth to a friend allowing others to know how she had been freed from slavery determined to use her story to help others, she also realized that not only slaves needed liberation though, but women did as well. Sojourner Truth joined the movement in the late 1840‘s. At first the Abolitionist and Women‘s.

She laughs in the face of poverty, brokenness, grief, despair Disaster. Hopeless Situations. Life‘s Struggles. And this book reminds us that we can laugh in the face of these things too!

Jill Gardner, is the owner of Coffee, Books and More. And they are almost out of Mother‘s Day Cards. She only has a few in stall, but she has put them aside so Jeff can help her pick out a card for his Mother. She will be meeting Jeff‘s Mother for the first time, and she is rightfully nervous.

Emily as well as her husband Colin Hargreaves have accompanied Emily‘s friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii when they discover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring

Jacques Lusseyran was an unlikely hero of the the French Resistance during World War 2. Blinded at the age of eight by a freak accident. After completing his schooling he was determined to take part in the world around him. When he was seventeen in 1941 that world was Nazi occupied France.

Ella Matthews seemingly has everything. She has a loving husband, a beautiful house, a daughter she adores. Her life has turned out just as she planned, or has it?

After her Mother unexpectedly dies, Ellen‘s perfect life starts to crack. She learns she had an older sister, named Colleen.

Lieutenant Carson is a detective in rural Nevada. He finds a woman‘s lifeless body while at the shooting range with his team. The woman is covered in blood despite no evidence of gun shot wounds.

For Hasina and her little brother Araf, the constant threat of the Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, it had in fact become a way of life in the Rakhine province. Just the mention of the Sit Tat sends chills down their spines. They know that the only thing to do when the sound of the helicopters, they run and not stop. When soldiers invade their village one night, and Hasina awakes to her aunt's fearful voice, followed by smoke, and then a scream...

In this book we are reminded that loving a prodigal is a long desperate journey, one that is filled with fear, worry and self -recrimination. You find yourself waiting for the call will it be for the jail or from the hospital? You find yourself pleading with your loved one, while you are looking for help for them. You feel the shame, you cry out why Lord?

Can you use your imagination to turn a single picture into a plot line, if you can this book is just the ticket for you.

Before you begin with your short story, novel or other piece of writing ask yourself if this is a genre you would read? Is your story idea one you could find yourself reading, that will help you in the telling of the story. It is important too decide who is going to narrate your story, will it be the main character..

This book reminds us that one of the most amazing things about walking with God is that intimate and personal relationship he builds with us. Jesus wants us to know him so well that we are able to turn to him for everything. Sadly though there are times when we become disconnected and insecure. We want to grow in prayer, but we do not know where to begin, or even how to begin, and listen for his voice.

Twenty five of the thirty four members were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who in order to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight right under the eyes of the Gestapo. Hans experienced things so unspeakable that even when he built his industrial empire in Venezuela he was unable to bring himself to talk about what he had witnessed. The only thing his daughter Ariana knew was...

The Green Valley Middle School‘s theater students knew their production of Pirates and Lost Boys was cursed. Despite enduring months of the flu, rivalries that were flaring and snow days they finally made it to opening day. Just hours before showtime when the lights go out and costumes get wrecked both cast and crew suspect sabotage.

Everyone in England believes that Phillip Camden is a monster, a man who deliberately caused the death of his squadron. Nurse Arabelle Denter watches the man who was dubbed as “Black Heart” every day, she sees a far different side of him, a man who is hurting and desperate for Mercy. When their paths twist together and he declares himself her new protector, she realizes she has her own role to play in his healing.

Cubbyhole Kid is the story of a four year old boy as he recounts his early childhood days being raised in a strict Irish Catholic family in Los Angeles while expressing his gratitude and love for two incredible women that saved his life — his protective fourteen-year-old sister, his godmother, and his beautiful, faithful mother. Together he and his other siblings had to figure out how to navigate childhood around an abusive alcoholic Father...

Maddox Kinkade has become an expert at managing the impossible and now she has been tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. She finds that recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, however Maddox

There is a story, novelist Josephine Bourdillon avoided telling that is her own story, the story of the awful year. Now she may never have the chance, as she lies in a coma.

Former soldier Henry Hughes is the one who is the reason Josephine is in the hospital, he had failed to kill her. Because he never killed her he never received full payment–funds that would ensure surgery for his son.

Rowena feels as if her family is a frayed string of lights that someone needs to fix with electrical tape. She and her sister Arianna drifted into their own corners of the world, each figuring out in their own separate ways how to exist in a world in which their mother is no longer alive.

Nate Beckett decides to spend his life fighting wildfires instead of the rumors and the lies that drove him from his Colorado Hometown. After his Father is pardoned by the governor and released from prison his Mother begs him to come home, but it isn‘t until he is sidelined by an injury that he is forced to make the trip home and return to the past.

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In the first Novella, Lethal Homecoming, Nolan Tanner was never able to get over Kallie Ainsworth‘s Sudden departure. Now that he finds himself coming to her rescue, after someone attempted to kill her, he finds himself fighting those old feelings once more.

Brooke Adams is a former Military Psychiatrist from the army after she is nearly killed by an explosion. Brooke Adams set up shot to help others but her days of helping those in the military are over. She‘s got to fight her own battles from her time she served overseas, and she is not equipped to take on more. Former Army Special Ops Sergeant First Class Asher James could handle anything
that war sent his way–terrorists, bombs, bullets.

Carrie Stuart Parks is a FBI Certified Forensic Artist! She infuses her real life expertise into her suspense novels.

After the Suicide of her fiancé Evelyn McTavish‘s world comes crashing down around her. Just as she is struggling to Put her life back in order she ends up getting a call telling her, her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. The problem is she doesn‘t own a dog.

Librarian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries old East Suffolk manor. She hopes that this will be the thing that puts her life and career back on track. The problem is that from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she‘s left with far more questions than answers. Is it possible that this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original....

The Number of Love will transport you three years into the Great War taking you on a journey back to 1917 where we meet England‘s greatest assets, their intelligence workers, threes field agents risk their lives to gather information, and the code breakers are able to crack every German Telegram. One that thrives in the secret environment of Room 40 is Margot De Wilde, she spends her time in that room...

It‘s Summer vacation and Emily is ready to enjoy long, relaxing days relaxing by the pool, until she finds out that her weird cousins are going to stay with them, including there cousin Stacey who is critical, snobby and obsessed with art and music and even more obsessed with God. Emily can‘t understand how she can put her trust in a God that allowed her to be in a wheelchair.

After the murder of some elite members of the military are murdered on the streets of Washington D.C, F.B.I Special Agent Bailey Ryan and N.C.I.S Special Agent Marco Agostini must work together in order to bring the killer, or killers to justice. The only problem is all evidence points to the guilt of a Navy Seal Sniper that Bailey refuses to believe is guilty.

In this book the imaginative Dutch Author Toon Tellegen matched 31 Imaginative prose poems with the Statement I Wish, and uses famous, luminous, old fashioned face paintings by Ingrid Gordon.

This book is as impressive for what it isn‘t, as for what it is, it is not a celebrity tell all, or a behind the scenes expose, what it is is a very real, and open account of life, life with a Mental Illness that often leaves her with Crippling Anxiety, as well as depression, but it is also a story of hope & help and a reminder that we need to loose the stigmas associated with mental illness...

All the Flowers in Paris is a Story of crushing heartbreak, of abject depravity but it is also a story of healing and hoped, as Celine comes to learn of Celine and Crissy‘s story and comes to realize fate had brought her into Crissy‘s path, before she knew who she was.

In 1921 Francoise Frenkel a Jewish woman from Poland opens the La Maison Livre, the first French bookshop in Berlin. In doing so she fulfills a childhood dream. A passionate lover of books Francoise‘s bookshop attracts artists, diplomats, poets and celebrities and everything in between. The La Maison Livre becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as the world outside is become more poisoned by Nazi ideology..,

Nina‘s (Ludviga Pukas) story is a remarkable true story of how one young woman risked her own life to save the lives of three Children that were not her own, she died in 1984 at at the age of eighty two. In September.1994 ten years after her death she was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel, the highest honor that can be bestowed on a non-Jewish person who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Just as things begin to look up Christiana‘s father makes a surprise visit to the market, he is upset to find that Jeffrey uses the building‘s electricity to personalize his items. He tells Christiana that Jeffrey is too modern , and she‘s forbidden from dating him or even being friends with him. Christiana is heartbroken, but she knows going against her Fathers wishes could lead to something horrible.

In Everyday Brave Janet Thompson points out that describing the true nature of bravery can be a difficult task, but bravery can be found in great and small tasks.
We are reminded too that we are all braver than we think.

There are times when we are going to be faced with a decision that is going to require us to be brave.

This book reminds us too that although we may not be consider yourself a leader, but we all lead in some areas of our lives.

If you are looking for the perfect gift to give an eight to twelve year old boy or girl who loves to tell jokes then an Arkful of Animal Jokes is just the ticket.

Included in this book are a collection of over 500 Jokes, Riddles, and One Liners sure to tickle funny bones, and to get even the toughest critic to laugh.

There are chapters on over thirty types of animals, along with a chapter on the keeper of the world‘s first floating Zoo, Noah.

In the first tale 12 Days at Bleakly Manor Clara and Ben are brought together under mysterious circumstances where they learn what they have were striving for was not what truly mattered, but that in fact Christmas is about love.

Meg Pero has been her Father‘s assistant since she was only eight and was able to carry the photographers equipment so after he dies she is determined to take over his profession she starts by fulfilling the contract he signed to serve as a photographer on the Army Survey of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1871. What she didn‘t know until she was face to face with him was that the head of this expedition was none other than the man

Micah Bradley left doctoring after he had been unable to save his beloved wife and daughter from the Small Pox outbreak in another area years back, but when he comes across the gruesome accident scene that left everyone but Ingrid dead, he knew he had to do what he could to help her, she suffered from a broken leg, damaged ribs and a head injury, so he carries her back to his shelter where he does his best to help her...

Charolette‘s boss DI Malcolm Halloran is not in a position to help so Evie Bowes takes it upon herself to help Charolette regain her good name and get her career back. It takes some convincing but she is able to convince Kitt to help as well.
They go from the tight knit community of York‘s bestsellers, to the most gossipy bus route in the county. Kitt and Evie are not going to leave anything to chance.

She always thought it would be someone else‘s kids, not their‘s until Katherine James and her husband found out that their son was using heroin.

This is such an important book for anyone who has been affected by the Opioid Crisis in anyway. Their responses ran from anger to guilt, disbelief and helplessness.

When she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the Cemetery, Mystery seems to follow her. She ends up having to work with the cemetery‘s puzzling but attractive archaeologist and she ends up exhuming secrets from the past and accidentally ends up uncovering a crime that some will stop at nothing to keep hidden, even if it means silencing Aggie for good.

When she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the Cemetery, Mystery seems to follow her. She ends up having to work with the cemetery‘s puzzling but attractive archaeologist and she ends up exhuming secrets from the past and accidentally ends up uncovering a crime that some will stop at nothing to keep hidden, even if it means silencing Aggie for good.

Journalist Vivian DeMarco is a tenacious and independent journalist, she is back in Walton, Georgia for one reason only that is to do her job and get out.

After her boss unexpectedly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian‘s only hope for getting to the truth and to the next big story is Deputy Ryan Frost, the Small Town law enforcements lanky poster boy.

Since 1990, our generation and our nation has led the world in halving the number of people who live in extreme poverty around the world. We did this in spite of the population growth during this period of time. Cutting extreme poverty in half has alai cut extreme hunger in half. This is not only historic it is also epic.

When she starts looking into his phone the trouble starts. Strange, phone calls with someone whispering from numbers she doesn‘t recognize. Unexplainable Scratch marks on the walls. And the sinking feeling that she‘s being watched.
Kate refuses to leave the apartment – she‘s not going anywhere until she‘s discovered what happened to Scott. But the deeper she dives into Scott‘s digital...