Sandra: 4367 books

Being teased at school, Chloe was awkward socially, finding it hard to relate to her peers. As an only child of a single mother, she had her share of loneliness. But when her mother buys a fixer upper on a large lot just outside of town, Chloe feels the she is on the cusp of change. Dreaming of another...

Short Story. A hungry, young dragon hunts prey in the woods and runs off three humans hunting a woman and her child. Too late to save the woman he rescues the child and waits for his father's return to decide what to do with a human infant. Much to his dismay he discovers the infant is his half sister....

Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 strange, surprising and harrowing micro-stories from The Shortest Story, a photo-fiction project from award-winning author Peter Chiykowski. Each page reads like a postcard sent from a life you never lived or a world that never existed. On one page, the...

For 18 years... a lone chimpanzee lives an isolated life, bringing on fits of insanity, neurosis and self-mutilation. Then one day the cage door opens and in runs another chimpanzee. It’s the first ape Reuben has ever seen. Intelligent, strong, gentle and caring – Reuben and Jimmy Joe are soon joined...

Things are proceeding normally during the annual Spring Break in the town of Wellington (major industries: donuts, grapes and toy boats). Chunks of ice as big as bulldozers flow down the river and Madame Galosh, owner of the Galosh Boot Manufacturing Company, prepares to sell a boatload of new rubber...

In Sandra Chastain’s deliciously spirited western romance, a headstrong Tennessee belle has her sights aimed at capturing the heart of a rugged Texas rancher. Lily Towns is determined to marry Matt Logan, even if she has to use her shotgun to get him to the altar. She’d been a skinny little...

Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and the scars to prove it. She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out....

Lady Camilla Summerton despised the Earl of Ennismount because she blamed him for her husband’s death. But he had entered her life once more, owing to his chaperonage of Mlle Arenburg. Mlle Arenburg loved William, Lord de Marne, future Earl of Highnam, but both betrothed were to others. And Lady Camilla,...

Ettie Ruiz is the History and Science Officer for her spaceship, but she never imagined she'd get stranded in 19th century China with famous adventurer Isabella Bird. Now she's sailing down the Yangtze River, visiting the fabled city of Shanghai, and trying to save the planet from a rogue...

Annie Wu loves science, hates history and has a fear of flying. Surely it's a joke when Aunt Zan announces Annie's the only hope of stopping intergalactic war, along with an unhappy crew and broken time machine. It's going to take 6 teenagers, a computer named Watchdog and famous female scientists from history to save the future - if they survive the past and present first.

Amanda loves her job, and hasn't time to meet a man, and she's not sure she even wants one. Past experience has proven she has a faulty pocker.Claire believes her niece, Amanda needs help if she's going to find love. She asks her husband, Mason, to find a suitable husband for...

Some people believe there is a fine line between reality and fiction. Some have found that line…and have crossed it. When Melody Dawson, 24, learns that she can read while sitting in a specific chair and actually go into the story on a dream trip, she’s excited, but also frightened. When she enlists...

Major Colby Jones is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, but he’s tired of being overseas and missing holidays with his family. He’s at a crossroad in life, trying to decide if he wants to remain in the military where he can fly jets or if it’s time to move on to another career. Recently divorced...

Jessica Templeton-Harris lost her husband and unborn child in a wreck years earlier on a rain-slick highway near Atlanta. Now she gives her love to babies in need, providing emergency care, but for no more than a day or two at a time. The babies each take a tiny piece of her heart when they move on...