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The festive 1920s in Santa Fe are the setting for this comic romance. After a slip with the scissors has refashioned her bob, the novel’s twenty-year-old heroine, Amanda Williams, embraces the mistake, deciding to check into La Fonda to attend the next day’s Fiesta disguised as a boy. Soon she is entangled in a net of mistaken identities.

The global population is ageing rapidly yet there is a shortage of skilled professionals able to support the wellbeing of older people in care. Older people can be more vulnerable to mental health issues such as loneliness, anxiety, grief, loss, and cognitive changes, and need therapeutic support...

Andion Kepman is considering suicide, but his plans are briefly derailed when he meets an old childhood friend of his sister’s, Elly. He falls for her and decides not to go through with his suicide plans, but that all changes when Elly dies in an unfortunate automobile accident. She was reading...

WOW Facts! are specifically written for struggling readers. 1915. German Zeppelin airships were bombing London and nothing could be done about it. They flew too high up for the British biplanes to shoot them down. But they did have one major weakness.They were filled with explosive gas.

James Spillaney, part spy, part detective, passing life in a world where he doesnt fit in. It was the 1950s, heralded in by the Roswell crash in 1947. In a world where science had suddenly exploded onto the scene with so many technological advancements, it was hard to keep up. Its a world of controversy,...

Rocky is a brindle Staffordshire terrier with a big heart. His idyllic life in a Botswana wildlife reserve takes a drastic turn for the worse while on safari with Sean Clayton, a game ranger. Thinking Rocky dead, Sean leaves the reserve heartbroken. Unbeknownst to him, Rocky is still alive but injured,...

Fred is taking a post-graduate course at the school when the subject of Marathon running came up. A race is arranged, and Fred shows both his friends and his enemies what he can do.

This is the third book in the mystery series of Hanna Rae O’Brien. Hanna Rae is thirteen and lives with her Mother and two brothers Samuel and JC. The story starts off with a swarming. It’s the hospital calling about her older brother, JC. It’s bad, real bad.  What would...

This is the story of my great-grandfather, Joseph Whitney. He was the third son of parents who moved to Florida from Maine in 1845, the year it became a state. He was born in Picolata on the St. Johns river eighteen miles west of St. Augustine in 1848. His mother died when he was only nine-years-old....

This compelling novel follows Mims Meissen, a German Catholic girl raised in Depression-era rural Texas, as she comes to terms with her church, her father’s religious fanaticism, as well as her mother’s battle with mounting scruples and pills. When the parish priest asks the Meissen family to take...

William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional...

It is 2050, twenty years after The Collapse and cross-border courier Trent is returning to his hometown for the first time in decades. He wants to wrap up a few details before he makes a big deal and finds somewhere safe to retire, somewhere away from the neo-reivers and bandits that infest...