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When Detective Cal Sheehan learns no one’s heard from his childhood friend Mike “Hawk” Hawkinson in days, he begins an unofficial investigation. Cal follows a lead from Minnesota to Las Vegas, and back again. When Hawk’s car is later found abandoned north of Prairie Falls, Birch County officially...

Imagine if the king of evil genies was searching for you with deadly intent. Only through the tragic chance of becoming an orphan have you been saved . . . so far. For teenager Wendy Adair, this is reality: no home, no parents, and no idea why a gang of genies is willing to kill her. Without...

Sometimes life seems like a madhouse. And sometimes it’s worse . . . Psychiatrist Grace Rendeau struggles to make sense of her husband’s untimely death. Left a widow with two children, Grace forges a new life for her family, abandoning her private practice and moving to Minnesota to take on a...

The rain was pounding hard against the roof of our Westfield Jr. High School the day Sammy had had enough.So states Stelar Randall, who is having to deal with two groups of bullies at his school, the Mulligan Sisters and the Meatball Crew. Together, these two groups of Apopular@ kids are making the lives...

Waterland is a fairytale to explain  to young children what water is in chemical terms and how water circulates. It personifies each chemical element to allow the child to understand quickly and easily. Two young children are trapped inside a  rain drop. They are introduced to the elements that make...

This is the long-awaited collection of Lewis Turco's poems, comprising a dozen books in one. Rhina P. Espaillat, poet, concludes her Foreword to the book with these words: "And how fortunate the reading public is to have this wealth of writing by one of the country¿s most interesting poets now in one...

"Buddy is a young Kitten who gets to go outside for the first time. But with rules from his mother not to climb tree's or fences. While walking to the back of the house, he is sad that he can't climb. Little does he know that there is a surprise for him in the backyard."

Rattling skeletons or real blood-and-flesh beings...the reader is asked to choose, form a judgment. Eight stories of misfits-four male, four female-driven to the edge by loneliness. The stories court the horror genre, but are much more. They are existential in that the characters ask, like Hamlet, "To...

Steeped in the history of the French-Canadian voyageur journeys in the early 1800s in North America, Waters Like the Sky is a story of a well-educated teen boy who despises his fancy schooling and longs for a more adventurous life. André’s fate changes when a letter with a royal seal arrives. He...

Take the cattle on across the sprit before the tide changes and drowns the herd! Medgar Orr, ordered the men as they were ready to drive the herd from the two hundred two acres of island, the largest in the ten thousand islands along the southwest coast of Florida. Medgar Orr a very rich, refined man...

Grace is a shy, lonely fourth-grader. She watches the other girls from a distance and secretly wishes she were a part of their lives. Struggling with never knowing what to say or do when she is around the other neighborhood girls, Grace feels the sting of loneliness with each attempt she makes. Tillie...

Don’t miss this urban fantasy short story featuring Abby Sinclair in the spellbinding Carniepunk anthology collection, from bestselling author Allison Pang! Having just quit Julliard, disillusioned fiddler Melanie St. James finds herself as part of a group of traveling musicians en route...

From the award-winning author who tweets @BettyDraper comes a debut eBook original about contemporary advertising world shenanigans as experienced by a high-powered, bread-winning mom in the vein of Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. Successful, feisty, and approaching a Certain...

The Ghosted Bridge is a ghost story set against the backdrop of mystical Sedona, Arizona, and the real life disaster of Minnesota’s I-35W bridge collapse on August 1, 2007. Katherine Simon is fed up with her life. The economic downturn of the past few years cost her husband his job and is chipping...