Life is unfair for twelve-year-old Alyssa McCarthy. She lost her parents at age seven and her aunt at nine. She has known nothing but her uncle’s harsh rules enforced on her and her cousin, Hailey, for three years. But everything changes when Alyssa discovers something shocking—magic. Strange incidents occur, hinting at a sorcerer about to kidnap Alyssa. And that warlock takes her away from her New Jersey home. Alyssa is trapped on the enchanted Fiji island of Yanowic. Unless she can defeat the … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: From Frights to Flaws, 2nd Edition by Sunayna Prasad
Interview with Author – J Richard Knapp
About J Richard Knapp: J Richard Knapp is an internationally recognized American author and speaker from the Pacific Northwest. His education includes degrees from the University of Oregon and Boise State university. Knapp is internationally recognized as a leader in education, bully prevention, and an author of many tween and young adult fiction books. J Richard Knapp is the Founder and CEO of Stop-Bullies.com, Magpye Publishing, and KnappStory.com. What inspires you to write? As a child, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J Richard Knapp
Bargain Book: Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women by Kelly Tonelli
This book is bargain priced until 06/15/2015 Check book price before you buy, as prices can change due to expiration of the sale or other technical issues. Being a teenage girl is hard. Admit it-frequently it's downright terrible. They are constantly bombarded with suggestions about how to best live their lives from everyone they know. It becomes a challenge just to know whose suggestions to follow and whom to ignore. Their parents and teachers are "too old" to understand them, and friends … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women by Kelly Tonelli
Interview with Author – Kelly Tonelli
About Kelly Tonelli: Kelly Tonelli is a clinical psychologist working in private practice with patients who are experiencing life transitions, many of whom are teenage girls. She happily relocated from Michigan to Southern California to attend Pepperdine University and fell in love with the sunshine (snow is cold). She’s been fortunate to have spent time working and learning at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) before going into private practice. She divides her time between her … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kelly Tonelli
The Stable House by Laura Smith
This book is bargain priced from 11/07/2013 until 11/07/2014 Set in 1995, The Stable House follows an 11-year-old girl’s first three months of junior high school. Besides learning to adjust to a new school and a new set of social rules, Heidi Williams must cope with growing apart from her adopted older brother and becoming temporarily homeless after her home is destroyed by a fire, separating her from her close friendship with her elderly neighbor, Violet, and Violet’s young niece, Jenny. … [Read more...] about The Stable House by Laura Smith
Interview with Author – Van Holt
Author Bio: What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt’s writing: “I had a feeling that Van Holt…might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.” --Stern0 “Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western…” --Rarebird1 Van Holt wrote his first western when he was in high school and sent it to a literary agent, who soon returned it, saying it was too long but he would try to sell it if Holt would cut out 16,000 words. Young … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Van Holt
Dynamite Riders: 9/11 in the Old West by Van Holt
In the small isolated town of Richman there were no tall buildings or gas-filled planes to crash into them. When Alf Gant and his men rode through town tossing sticks of dynamite on that fateful day in the fall of 1875, they only destroyed a few buildings and killed a few people. A harmless old preacher. A young couple and their baby boy, who had come to town in a buckboard to do a little shopping. The problem was that the young woman in the buckboard was Sam Good's sister and her husband was … [Read more...] about Dynamite Riders: 9/11 in the Old West by Van Holt
Six-Gun Solution by Van Holt
As young Jim buries his father, a burning revenge rages in him. But what could a young teen in the old west really expect to do against hired gunhands? They called him a nester and after they killed his pa, he started calling himself Jim Nester. But what he needed was a six-gun solution. A tough, mysterious bounty hunter with a score of his own to settle helped him hunt the killers down. But Jim Nester knew that someday he would have to come back and fight the ruthless cattleman who had … [Read more...] about Six-Gun Solution by Van Holt
Shiloh Stark by Van Holt
In one of the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, he became known as Shiloh Stark by outshooting everyone else in his outfit. After the war he roamed the world in search of a peace he did not find. Ten years after the war ended, a tall man wearing dark clothes and two tied-down guns appeared in No Man’s Land, where there was no law and no peace. But Shiloh Stark was no longer looking for peace. He came prepared for war. Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to … [Read more...] about Shiloh Stark by Van Holt
Wild Country by Van Holt
Jeff Pickett didn’t even have enough money to buy himself a good warm winter coat when the dying gambler rode up to his campfire with an offer he couldn’t afford to refuse. The $10,000 in the wounded man’s saddlebags was his. And all he had to do to keep it was make sure the killers on the gambler’s trail didn’t get their hands on it. So Jeff Pickett rode off alone into wild country—Apache country—with $10,000 in his saddlebags and a dozen greedy outlaws on his trail. Warning: Reading a Van … [Read more...] about Wild Country by Van Holt
The Bushwhackers by Van Holt
Heck Martin’s motto was simple. If they left him alone, he would leave them alone. Heck Martin was not pro-Union, like his father and brother. He had joined up with Quantrill to harass the bluebellies and other Union feds that thought they could tell others what they should be doing. But after the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, he wanted nothing to do with Quantrill and his gang. Thirteen other hard-bitten veterans had followed him, had joined with him, but soon grew to hate him even more … [Read more...] about The Bushwhackers by Van Holt
Hunt the Kllers Down by Van Holt
The War Between the States had just ended. But the war between Jeff Braden and the killers who had murdered his folks was just beginning. What he didn’t know was that the worst killer of them all was a likable young man that no one suspected. Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western. Van Holt writes westerns the … [Read more...] about Hunt the Kllers Down by Van Holt
