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Browse all authors List your book | Tim Cratchit's Christmas CarolJim Piecuch Tiny Tim is all grown up in this continuation of Charles Dickens’s beloved holiday classic A Christmas Carol, and this time, a certain ghost shows him the true meaning of Christmas cheer! In A Christmas Carol, evil Scrooge was shown the error of his ways by three helpful... |
 | CyclesRita Kinsky Lonely and disillusioned after the collapse of her happy marriage with Alex, Victoria Lansky, a Soviet native, meets Zachary, who brings sunshine back into her bleak existence. Though not ready for a new relationship, she is swept off her feet. Unexpectedly, she finds herself admired and... |
 | This Changes Everything The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political... |
 | Bittersweet ManorTory McCagg After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property—her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck... |
 | Last WordsRich Zahradnik In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the... |
 | Beyond a Mother's Worst NightmareKaren Chaston Losing a loved one is never easy. When it is your child, it’s all the more difficult. Parents are not supposed to outlive their children, so most are unprepared when it happens. A little part of you dies, along with your child. You’ll never really "get over" their passing, but you... |
 | ProgenyAnita Bihovsky Sitting beside her mother's deathbed, twenty-year-old Selene Mannon learns that the woman she's about to lose isn't her biological parent. Grieving and confused, Selene sets out to discover the identity of her real mother. Little does she know, the question isn't as simple as it seems... |
 | A Sentimental Education Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frédéric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. First published in 1869, it offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a... |
 | Stupid by ChoiceLeighton Summers A novel about the adventures and regrets of a Texas Oil Princess's quest for finding love. Melanie St. John is a beautiful, smart, rich Texan daddy's girl born to a bold, high-powered lawyer in the oil business who helps Melanie grow into someone who is both worldly and capable. But once she... |
 | The Journey of Mary / Ma LiJ. A. Graffagnino From early childhood Mary Petrovich has had visions of a girl named Ma Li Chin living in ancient China. As time passes, the images became clearer until it seemed that Ma Li was physically present, and as Mary grew, their bond became stronger. Mary's parents, a Sioux... |
 | #hashtaggedKimberly Hix Trant Following on the heels of his first book, From Boys 2 Men, the author takes us on another magical mystery tour beginning with a terrorist attack on a foreign Embassy in London, to a HALO skydiving course in Florida, and then a journey around the world. We jump with the elite British SAS and... |
 | A Very Good LifeLynn Steward Although A Very Good Life, takes place in 1970s New York City, the emotional story transcends any period. Dana McGarry is an "it" girl, living a privileged lifestyle of a well-heeled junior executive at B. Altman, a high end department store. With a storybook husband and a fairytale life, change... |
 | Soul on the RunRobin Korth Soul on the Run is the gut-wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s search for herself, and her refusal to continue playing the game of let's pretend everything is okay. What's more, it reminds us-when we are honest with ourselves-that we can start life over at any age. Korth's words are... |
 | The 3 PromisesDavid J. Pollay In his blockbuster book The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay showed how to deflect the negativity that derails our goals and leaves us stressed and miserable. Now, in this inspiring follow-up, Pollay explains how making three simple promises to yourself—“to find joy every day, do... |
 | A Stirring of the Air, A Shifting of the LightWayne Luckmann Wayne Luckmann looks back on growing up in Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s, sharing hard-fought lessons from his childhood and beyond in this touching memoir. Luckmann celebrates his family, childhood friends, and many others who have played... |
 | Cliff WalkingStephen Russell Payne Set on the rocky and at times unforgiving coast of Maine, Stephen Russell Payne's emotionally powerful debut novel, Cliff Walking, shares a poignant tale of loss and love that weaves together the lives of three desperate people who struggle mightily to find a way to save... |
