Fiction, Coming Of Age
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Leave the Little Light On, Book One: Windsor
by Sonia Palleck
Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Born into a blue collar family in 1968, young Athena and her sisters are sent away when their mother is hospitalized and their father is unable to care for them. The beginnings of trauma, separation, denial ...
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Among the Okapi
by John S. Taylor
When a young, financially challenged lab demonstrator named Fred is approached by a mysterious professor, Dr. Smith, to help write up his notes from research he did on the okapi in the Congo, Fred is delighted. Not only will it give him a chance to ...
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Manhattan Mayhem
The Adventures of Rachel Newman by Madison Crawford
Mad Men meets Nancy Drew in this delightful romp through the scandalous and sometimes criminal world of 1960s New York advertising! Rachel Newman has left her small town in Iowa to seek out a different life, one elevated by the glitz and glamour of ...
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Paper Sun
Sequel To Sunshine Girls by Sheila Horne
If every life is a tapestry, there are bound to be a few dropped stitches along the way. So it is for Ella, Raynie, Jessie and Meg. Friends since the 1970s, they are in pursuit of lost threads in need of mending. But before they can find them, the ...
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Sunshine Girls
by Sheila Horne
I’d grown up thinking life was like one of the dressmaking patterns Mother bought to sew my clothes. If I followed it, my life would turn out as perfect as my dresses. I’d meet someone and fall in love with him. He would love me and take care of me. ...
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Journey to Ibiza
by Fire
Rita is a young and outgoing tomboy who is looking for a 'new sound' DJ. She's well known in her city's nightclub scene, with a reputation for one night stands. Then she meets Maggie - a shy want-to-be DJ who's happiest when she's spinning. The ...
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Breaking Point
by James Alan Anderson
How much abuse can the human spirit take before it either breaks free or simply breaks? Breaking Point, the fourth book in the Threefold Cord series, continues to explore this question and tells the story of the damage done to children raised in ...
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The Call
To Major League Baseball by Doug Ernest
Young baseball players dream of one thing: to get the call up to the Majors. When, as a fan, five year old Hunter Austin experiences his first professional baseball game, he proclaims to the folks in the bleachers that, one day, he’ll get The Call, ...
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A Light on the Magdalena
by Junelle M. Preston
It started on the Magdalena River, the 1960s when life had been simple and reassuring. A river and pueblos ready to absorb the gospel message her Christian missionary family would bring. A river where Ellie suddenly changed, that birthday when two ...
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Hunter
by Nazar Onishchuk
Born the runt in a litter of hardy sled dogs, and abandoned in a nearby mining town, young Hunter had no way of knowing if he would survive his first cold night all alone, let alone the many hazardous paths down which his life’s journey would take ...
