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Ten Weeks Plus

by Larry Northway The Sequel to Ten Weeks at the Dairy Swirl. Follow the characters for four years as they discover the men they really are. For a window into the world of teenage boys this book is a must read. They learn that becoming a man is hard.

It Must Have Been Moonglow

by Shirley Spires Baechtold WW II is over, and Parker's Mill High School is back to normal, with football games, dances, and teenage romances. Sixteen-year-old Maggie is attracted to Phil, a basketball star, but worldly Eric introduces her to poetry and literature. She learns more about anti-Semitism, speaks out about censorship, and deals with a [...]

Ten Weeks at the Dairy Swirl

by Larry Northway Ten weeks at the Dairy Swirl, that was what his father sentenced Jack to. No one knew what a difference those ten weeks would make in Jack's life, in fact his whole family's lives. Watch a spoiled teenager become a man, and a real son.. Jack's journey is a bit rough, often funny, [...]

The Company She Keeps

by Diana R. Chambers A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as "E"-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of espionage, with its intrigue, glamour, and danger. That world will mark her-and she [...]

Serenity Bay

by Larry Northway Follow three generations of the Martin Family as it copes with its day to day crises. This is a modern family dealing with some highly unusual challenges in ways that are uniquely theirs. The first of a trilogy to include Marti and Cluster 629.

Bridge to the Future

by Amos Merritt This story takes the reader back to the early 1,800's, settlers thriving in Florida's vast wilderness. Settlers raised families, braving the surroundings, bad guys and Indians as they grew up and watched Florida develop into the state that it is today. The story prompts the reader to wonder what adventure the next [...]

The Journey Through Illusion

by Glenn Willoughby Jamison Everett is an ex-cop struggling to put his life back together after a series of tragic events cost him his career. Drifting through life, he is hired by his late grandfather's distribution company to locate Michael Reyes, a corporate analyst who has missed a crucial research deadline. At first, every lead [...]

Voices of the Wright Brothers

by James T. Tecu For thousands of years man watched with envy as the birds soared effortlessly in the skies above. He was confined to the ground, unable to unlock nature's secrets to the mystery of flight. Then in 1903, after four years of systematic scientific research, two unknown brothers from Dayton, Ohio had found [...]

The Beauty of Listening

by Linda Eve Diamond "The Beauty of Listening" explores and honors the ever-challenging art and skill of listening. Inside these pages, you'll meet paper dolls and monsters, writers at work and words at play, and you'll find many open questions of perspective. While each poem tells its own story, the collection also tells a larger listening [...]

Diddlywick

by Marmaduke Balzac An ancient, haunted mansion perched high on a cliff above the Hudson. A centuries-old curse. A family of whacky eccentrics. Three ghosts with a problem. A tribe of dispossessed Indians with a grudge. An evil oil baron who wants the family's land. Into this menage steps a naive young governess determined to [...]

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