Bellastoria Press: 11 books

"Innisfree binds us.” A new generation attempts to define where home is. Book Three in Linda Cardillo’s award-winning First Light series Young widow Elizabeth Innocenti journeys from her home in Italy with her fourteen-year-old son to seek solace and peace at Innisfree,...

Sent away for their own protection when they were very young, Azemar and Azalais become separated when they flee from the band of outlaws who served as their supposed protectors. Armed only with fleeting memories, their names, and the wits and intelligence that have helped them survive brutal...

Women's Contemporary Commercial Fiction Liz Burgess wakes up one morning to realize she is about to lose everything--and it's all her fault. Her husband's love and trust; her daughter's innocence; her family's cherished home; and her own sense of safety and control are spinning with alarming...

Suzy is a good dog, but her curious beagle nose gets her into big trouble with Grandma when a brand new smell sends Suzy on a chase through Grandma's garden. With Granpa's help, Grandma soon understands that Suzy is "just being a beagle."

Winner of the 2016 Vinnie Ream Award from the National League of American Pen Women.Lola is a lonely ladybug in need of a friend but afraid to leave her safe little nook in the big green tree.One day, encouraged by a lively party of ants, Lola decides she must be brave and venture out beyond...

A little lamp with a big imagination discovers who and how it wants to be—from sparkling to silly and everything in between. A book in rhyme about the joyful power of our own thoughts.

Papa says "No Christmas tree this year," because the family is going to be away from home visiting grandparents. Mama is frazzled because the family has just moved into a new house in a foreign country and she needs to find the dishes, not the Christmas ornaments. But ten-year-old Jack...

When dirty bombs go off in New York City, a group of strangers in the midst of turning points in their own lives find themselves trapped. Can they work together to survive, or will they sink into chaos and lawlessness? Will New York City be abandoned as a ghost town, or will it rise again?

Above a crumbling sea wall at the isolated northern tip of Chappaquiddick Island sits a weathered cottage that gives shelter to Mae Keaney, who returns to the island at the beginning of World War II determined to distance herself from a past filled with pain and regret. Fiercely independent, she defies...

Innisfree—the wild and isolated land on Chappaquiddick Island where Josiah Monroe grew up—was the only place where he felt he belonged.  And now it was gone.   When his parents make the painful decision to sell the land—the symbol of his mixed Wampanoag and Irish heritage—Josiah...