L L Press: 24 books

After her mother abandons her for a third time, soft-spoken Janey Preston, who just started third grade two weeks before, decides she will not wait around to be taken to the awful Children’s Home again. She loads up a grocery cart with canned food, water, and her loyal Raggedy-Andy and heads...

Nine-year-old Ryan Strand disappears one winter day in Minnesota in the mid-’80s. Det. Tom Losnedahl is called in to investigate. He finds a number of plausible suspects, including Ryan’s parents, aunt, uncle, and his best friend’s parents. But then Tom learns of a South Dakota church that professed...

Emiel Lane is an explorer and is used to pushing his limits. But watching his wife’s brutal murder in front of him sends him over the edge. While locked away in a mental institution, Emiel’s exploration partners, Simon and Rainy, suffer a rough patch in their marriage and struggle to fix...

Milo Keller is a struggling artist in Dublin. He knows he has a gift for portraying the macabre, but the museums and galleries are too ignorant and squeamish to appreciate his talent. Ian Marks was an acquaintance of Milo's in art school. Milo has been keeping up with Ian's skyrocketing career....

Since burning down under mysterious circumstances in 1971, the Hotel New Mexico is reputed to be one of the most haunted hotels in the world. Which is what attracts horror junkie Abby and her friend, Georgia, to it one late snowy night. The hotel is under the ownership of cult-horror-movie...

What would happen if people had super powers but there were no super villains to fight? Enter the world of stuporheroes, where people born with special abilities have to either get a day job or struggle through the Hollywood cesspool to try to find fame, money, and fulfillment. But for...

From the Progress City Archives comes this collection of tall tales and true from the annals of the Walt Disney Company. From Walt’s on-set antics to the creations of modern-day Imagineers, we’ve put together a sampling of stories from throughout Disney history. SEE how Walt Disney befriended...

Joe Davis, Twin Cities humor blogger and low-grade celebrity, is looking forward to a night on the town. He’s accompanying his friend Carol to the grand opening of a store catering to craft beer enthusiasts like Joe. It’s the kind of event guaranteed to warm a snowy night in January. At least that...

All that Joe Davis, humor blogger and Twin Cities’ D-List celebrity, wants is a little peace and quiet…oh, and the All-City Touch Football Championship. But murder can get in the way of these things. A feud between Joe’s best friend Mike and Mike’s neighbor across the hall goes nuclear when the...

Have you heard the legend of the Water Ghost? Harbor Talbot is in the eighth grade when he receives a mysterious box from Alcatraz. Inside, is his great grandfather’s diary, mysterious letters from a beautiful and reclusive poet, and evidence that his Grandpa Shep could be the infamous Water...

Ashley Nirran is thirteen when her parents announce they are moving from Boston, Massachusetts to Tulsa, Oklahoma. When her mother sets up her storefront down the street from her Aunt Patricia’s strange curiosity shop, things start to go from bad to weird. Ashley finds that she can perform new tricks....

Can you create the future of your dreams? Are paranormal abilities like seeing into the future or affecting objects with your mind really possible? And how do energetic systems of healing actually work? In this exciting and far-ranging book, former NASA computer scientist Amy Lansky, the author of...

Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy provides an in-depth and exciting account of the history, philosophy, and experience of homeopathic medicine. At the core of Impossible Cure is the amazing story of how the author's son was cured of autism with homeopathy. It also includes dozens of other...

Joe Davis’s comfortable life as a humor blogger and low-level Twin Cities celebrity gets shaken up by his ex-girlfriend, Tess, and her problems at the office. Tess asks Joe for a simple favor: escort her to a swanky corporate party and make sure a jealous co-worker doesn’t fold, spindle or mutilate...