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Who is the "bad" guy? A delightfully deceptive story about two individuals, Lamb and Donde, and their rise to the top, but there's an unknown shadow bent on bringing them down. Can they discover them before it's too late? Can you? Including romance, adventure, and self-discovery, it seems like a simple, predictable story, but you're being led. Lamb, with his love interest Liv, discovers many vital skills with their shifting, an ability to shift reality....
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This book is a middle school literary fiction novella (that welcomes all ages) about a young girl and her grandfather who happens to be a Vietnam Vet. The young girl is in seventh grade and shares a special relationship with her grandfather. However, the little girl goes through the trials and tribulations of the modern world and experiences cyberbullying. Her grandfather overcomes his ghosts and coaches his granddaughter on the path to forgiveness,...
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Dr. Martin Sanders is a young doctor who just landed his first job. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and the job is in Franklin, Tennessee. The new job is in a small town at a clinic that for some reason cannot keep a doctor on staff, as every doctor leaves abruptly and goes missing. Sanders is determined to make the most out of his position there and to be the doctor ongoing for the clinic; however, on his travels to the town, he has a run of bad...
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In this short science fiction story, the character Ralph travels to the far reaches of space and the solar system through his imagination. Not long after, however, he wakes up and looks around, surprised to remember that he is in the dentist's room. Then he realizes that he is not really in orbit flying through space as he truly believed but rather is on Earth, in a place called Galactic Dental, and for his own benefit he understands that everything...
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Well, now Baxter the Broad-Back Bear was no ordinary bear from the day he was born. He was just the littlest-bittiest baby bear anyone in Enchanted Forest had ever seen before. Then after a serious tragedy that kept him really, really hungry all night long, he started eating (big time!) and started growing (big time!).
Wow, he started growing so fast that he got growing pains--ached all over, couldn't sleep for beans, and started dancing at night...
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Join Queen Astoria on a journey through her life. Meet her offspring and their saplings. Ride and race magical creatures. Dive into the creation of pass times. Discover the special gifts the young saplings possess. Experience exquisite weddings and joyous births. Explore the family unit as they celebrate love, mourn loss, and learn that life can go on with happiness.
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Do you enjoy reading short stories? Well, this book is right up your alley!
"I Will Always Love You": This goes into the life of a young girl that finds her true love, and then tragedy hits. Her life is changed forever and not what she had planned. While dealing with her new life, love finds its way into her heart again.
"Free": Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you were a prisoner? That is just how Lexie Marie feels. She...
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The Airship of Winters
Captain Wren Erin Winters has always had a passion for airships. At age ten, he begins to work on one, and by age eighteen he is captaining his own ship. After a quiet two years on his own ship, he is attacked by pirated and abducted by the cruel pirate captain, Scotch Riddler.
After months of fighting and torturing, Captain Riddler and Wren begin to form a romance. It started as nothing but sex and teasing but soon...
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My name is Lauralei McCalaster. Or is it? I've lived my entire life in Alexia only to find out just before my eighteenth birthday that it's all been a lie. Now I'm on a quest for the truth and learning how to live with everything that I've learned and the consequences of those truths. Will anybody ever tell me the full truth? Can I handle the weight of the truth? Will I ever be able to live in peace, or will the truth of who and what I am threaten...
10) Aeaea. Book One
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An isolated island cut off from the rest of the world holds many mysteries that fearless Oaklynn is determined to reveal. With the pain of losing her parents at a young age and being responsible for looking after her younger brother, she is forced to grow up faster than the rest of her peers.
When yet another earthquake strikes the island, Oaklynn finds herself in deeper trouble than she has ever been in before. A new foe arises, and she is shocked...
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Mr. Hornsby's back, and American civil rights are in jeopardy!
After traveling back through time with his students to the White House in 1891, seeing Babe Ruth play baseball in 1919, diving away from bullets on the frontier in 1844, and even rescuing the Roaring Twenties, he'd thought he'd seen it all. Yet nothing could have prepared him for what's about to come next!
In this thrilling follow-up to Secrets of the Pierce Journal, the evil group...
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When the Chicago Police Department tasks one of their most dedicated and hard-working police detectives, Alexander Anderson, with a new case, he doesn't know that solving it will require him to go to alternate dimensions and beyond.
Alexander has a knack for solving complex cases; he's partially a genius. The case itself is hard enough: someone is murdering citizens all over Chicago, and no one knows who's doing it. But what makes this case...
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Her life was just beginning after graduation when he came back into her life. She never realized he was the one she compared all the other men to since that kiss they shared so long ago. Her love for him is now unconditional, and she knows they were brought back together for a reason. He had turmoil in his life, and she made him see he didn't have to continue that lifestyle. Near-death experiences made them both realize what future they wanted, and...
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Attention, boys, girls, and nonbinary sorcerers,
The enclosed chapters depict our harrowing journey to safeguard humanity from a vindictive, jealous sorcerer and his plot to resurrect the world's most deadly sorceress. Yes, really.
We bet you are wondering why this jealous man decided to raise a woman from the dead. For that answer, we suggest you start reading. This explanation is going to take a while.
Before you start, however, we do want...
15) Reno's Way
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Meet Reno, a young hustler who is street savvy and has experienced the pitfalls that come with the street life. A page-turner that will have you on the edge of your seat, Reno's Way is as real as it gets. It's a powerful and captivating story.
16) Her Cross
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Michelle Johnson moved to the island of Hawaii, where she would attend college. On the day of the school's orientation, she is approached by the man of her dreams, or so she thought, when he introduces himself as Anthony Moore then turns to the other new students telling them that he would be conducting the tour. The following weeks came when Michelle begins her classes, and soon she gets involved with Anthony, and the more involved she gets with...
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Trapped on the streets of Manchester, Hiram Martin accepts Edmund Scarborough's indenture contract hoping to improve his station in life. After a frightening sea voyage to Virginia in 1637, Martin enters a foreign world driven by personal ambition and tobacco profits. Vowing to survive, he slowly makes his way despite hostile Native Americans and rivalries.
Martin witnesses the planters' shift toward the Africans as a possible answer to their ever-present...
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All her life, Wildflower has loathed the existence of white men. They've killed her people, robbed them of their lands, and disrupted their peace. She has high hopes for a better future, for herself and the rest of her people. After an unexpected attack interrupts Wildflower's and her friends' shenanigans, they are forced to flee for their lives. Alone in the wilderness, they attempt to travel to safety, in Canada, where all the other tribes have...
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