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After he is carefully crafted by the team at Santa Claus' workshop, the Nodding Donkey gets his wish: he's delivered to a beautiful, bustling toy store just in time for the holiday season. Will he get the chance to make a little girl or boy happy on Christmas morning?

It is becoming more and more difficult for Shelby Reed to ignore the mounting restlessness brewing inside. Caught in the throes of a midlife crisis, disenchanted with her marriage and bored to death with the superficial junk that fills up her life, an unhappy Shelby hides behind the picket fence of...

This novel, Love and Grief, narrates the effect that the harsh and oppressive social and economic conditions of the 1920s and 1930s had on the working class in Barbados. It details the events which led the workers to riot to show how aggrieved they had become by the conditions they had to endure....

Faith Meyers packs a bag and heads to her sisters house in San Diego looking to put some distance between her and her possessive ex in hopes that hell move on and forget about her. Faith looks forward to meeting her brother-in-laws SEAL team, but not in her wildest dreams could she have known the...

Sub Tweet A Crazy Ink Anthology Because someone needs to ask… What's the truth behind the tweets?  "Grrrrr."           "Some people shouldn't use up oxygen." "So done." We've all seen the vague posts and tweets. We've all...

The Nodding Donkey dated his birth from the day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole. Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not glued on, however, but was fastened in such a manner that with the least motion the Donkey could nod it up and down, and also sidewise.

Marked for murder Smoky Mountain Investigation A mysterious caller taunts journalist Kylie Harper with details about a decade-old death. Who is he…and what does he want from her? Ex—Delta Force captain and Kylie’s former love Nick Bentley agrees to help solve the crime, bringing...

The Hon. Gerald Neston, the on of Lord Tottlebuiy, agrees with his noble father, that the dignity of the title as well as his own comfort, make a rich marriage incumbent upon him. So he seeks out Mr. Witt's widow, a lady of great wealth and no family, and is accepted by her. But at the dinner given...

This 1897 novel is framed as a collection of tales told by “Ambrose, the Fransiscan,” a medieval monk.  The titular Count Antonio is a nobleman forced into outlawry when his love for the ward of Duke Valentine is spurned.  “The charm of the book lies in the simplicity and gravity of the narrator's manner,” wrote the New York Times.

For this story there can be nothing but praise. It is true that it can scarcely be called literature, as doubtless no one knows better than the author. A writer who leaves off such work as Half a Hero and takes a royal road to fortune, if not to fame, with The Prisoner of Zenda, must be conscious...

This 1895 collection, when published in America was strongly, if uselessly, repudiated by the author for copyright reasons. It consists of eight stories:  "Reluctance," "Why Men Don't Marry," "A Change of Heart," "A Repentant Sinner," "'Twixt Will and Will Not," "Which Shall it Be?" "Marriage by Compulsion" and "All's Well that Ends Well."

This classic 1894 adventure novel was so popular that a subgenre of fiction was named after Ruritania, the fictitious European country in which the story is set. It features Rudolf Rassendyll, an English nobleman whose remarkable resemblance to Prince Rudolph of Ruritania results in his becoming the prince's stand-in when Rudolph is abducted on the eve of his coronation.