but can be purchased through other independent booksellers
GENERAL FICTION:
Passport Baby
Yu-Han Chao
Available from www.yuhanchao.com/button.swf
Product Description:
"Passport Baby" depicts the lives of denizens of Taipei from different social backgrounds and their interactions. The characters are schoolgirls, mail order brides, foreign workers, trash collectors, professors, betel nut girls, and many more. These stories work together to create poignant vignettes of a cross section of Taipei people and their struggles, interspersed with moments of epiphany and happiness.
MYSTERY, THRILLER & SUSPENSE
Medusa's
Daughter
by Michael Boyd
Available from www.lulu.com/content/690706
Product Description:
When Honolulu airline pilot and single mom Holly MacLaren starts having panic attacks, she's at a loss to know why, or how to make them stop. Regressive hypnosis reveals several past lives, each ending in tragedy. In her last incarnation she was Navy ensign Robert Strawn, the victim of an unsolved murder aboard the USS Arizona. The crime happened December 6, 1941. Soon after this revelation, Holly's therapist vanishes, and signs point to another homicide. Then she and her six-year-old daughter Skye find themselves stalked by a man with ties to both the Pearl Harbor victim and his killer.
ROMANCE BOOKS:
Devil's
Ridge
by Margaret Tanner
Available from www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Harriet (Harry) Martin masquerades as a boy to obtain work at Ross Calvert's isolated cattle station, Devil's Ridge. By the time Ross discovers her true identity Harry has fallen in love with him. She puts a desperate proposition to him. Marry her and she will give him an heir. On their honeymoone Ross meets up with his former fiancee Virginia. With the black clouds of war hovering over his head he faces a terrible dilemma. Taste Virginia's passion before he heads to the trenches of France or keep his marriage vows to Harry. The turmoil of war finds Harry imprisoned, defending spying charges, and Ross struggling to survive the carnage on the Western Front.
Savage
Utopia
by Margaret Tanner
Available from www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Product Description:
On board the convict ship taking them to the penal colony of Australia, Maryanne Watson and Jake Smith meet and fall in love. Jake hides a terrible secret that will take him to the gallows if it ever comes out. On arrival in Sydney, the lovers are separated. Maryanne is forced to work for the lecherous Captain Fitzhugh who attacks her. Fleeing into the wilderness she meets up with Jake who has escaped from a chain gang. They set up home in a hidden valley. When Maryanne falls pregnant Jake risks everything to come out of hiding to protect his fledgling family.
Can love triumph over such crushing odds?
Passport Baby
Yu-Han Chao
Available from www.yuhanchao.com/button.swf
Product Description:
"Passport Baby" depicts the lives of denizens of Taipei from different social backgrounds and their interactions. The characters are schoolgirls, mail order brides, foreign workers, trash collectors, professors, betel nut girls, and many more. These stories work together to create poignant vignettes of a cross section of Taipei people and their struggles, interspersed with moments of epiphany and happiness.
MYSTERY, THRILLER & SUSPENSE
Medusa's
Daughter
by Michael Boyd
Available from www.lulu.com/content/690706
Product Description:
When Honolulu airline pilot and single mom Holly MacLaren starts having panic attacks, she's at a loss to know why, or how to make them stop. Regressive hypnosis reveals several past lives, each ending in tragedy. In her last incarnation she was Navy ensign Robert Strawn, the victim of an unsolved murder aboard the USS Arizona. The crime happened December 6, 1941. Soon after this revelation, Holly's therapist vanishes, and signs point to another homicide. Then she and her six-year-old daughter Skye find themselves stalked by a man with ties to both the Pearl Harbor victim and his killer.
ROMANCE BOOKS:
Devil's
Ridge
by Margaret Tanner
Available from www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Harriet (Harry) Martin masquerades as a boy to obtain work at Ross Calvert's isolated cattle station, Devil's Ridge. By the time Ross discovers her true identity Harry has fallen in love with him. She puts a desperate proposition to him. Marry her and she will give him an heir. On their honeymoone Ross meets up with his former fiancee Virginia. With the black clouds of war hovering over his head he faces a terrible dilemma. Taste Virginia's passion before he heads to the trenches of France or keep his marriage vows to Harry. The turmoil of war finds Harry imprisoned, defending spying charges, and Ross struggling to survive the carnage on the Western Front.
Savage
Utopia
by Margaret Tanner
Available from www.whiskeycreekpress.com
Product Description:
On board the convict ship taking them to the penal colony of Australia, Maryanne Watson and Jake Smith meet and fall in love. Jake hides a terrible secret that will take him to the gallows if it ever comes out. On arrival in Sydney, the lovers are separated. Maryanne is forced to work for the lecherous Captain Fitzhugh who attacks her. Fleeing into the wilderness she meets up with Jake who has escaped from a chain gang. They set up home in a hidden valley. When Maryanne falls pregnant Jake risks everything to come out of hiding to protect his fledgling family.
Can love triumph over such crushing odds?
CHILDREN'S
BOOKS:
A Letter From
Heaven
by Steve Butler
Available from www.authorhouse.com
Product Description:
Jamie has seen the ceramic jar on his mother's living room shelf for as long as he can remember. But today he will learn that behind the jar is a very special letter from a sister he has never met. He'll also learn that the roses that his mother and grandmother sometimes place around the jar have a unique meaning.
Searching For
Cassady
by Anne Moore & Lucy Knisley
Available from lulu.com
Product Description:
Eight-year-old Alex wants one thing: a puppy. The youngest of three, everyone else in the family has strong opinions about getting a new dog. Their last dog barked a lot, rolled himself in dead fish and ate weird things like lipstick and Play-Doh. But Alex's uncle says a house isn't a home without a dog, so the family agrees to start looking...after a ski trip...after Paris...after Tucson. Alex is resolute: her house isn't a home. She wants a dog. She doesn't care if it barks.
They look for a puppy at adoption fairs, at the pound, on the Internet, and in the newspaper, even though her teenage brother doesn't want a dog at all. They find all-ready sold puppies, totally asleep puppies, barking puppies, shedding hairball puppies, out-of-state puppies. After two years. the family finds a nearby breeder. They love his puppies! Eight, and none of them barking! But the breeder asks Alex to wait a week: does she really want a dog?
Garbie
Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted To Fly
by Veena Nagpal
Available from environedu.promoters@rediffmail.com
Product Description:
Listening to his best friend Cathy Butterfly chatter about the wonderful world that lies beyond the garbage heap where he lives, Garbie Garbyhog is extremely unhappy. All he longs for is to be able to fly. He sets out on an arduous journey to get himself wings. Garbie meets a young boy who is as unhappy â he is sick of the way people leave their garbage littered everywhere. They form a unique partnership. Garbie realizes that God has created him with a unique mission to hog garbage and turn it into valuable vermi-compost. The book includes a booklet on Vermi-composting.
Printing Rights Available.
Rights for Garbie Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted to Fly(except in India) are still available.
YOUNG ADULT:
1965 - Journey
to a Rich Land
by Timothy M. Shannon
Available from web.mac.com/timshannon1
Product Description:
Coming of age in a small town is confusing and difficult. Join Kevin, Deedee, Mary, Possum and others as they find their way. The novel deals sensitively with awakening sexual appetites, peer pressure, bullying, drinking and driving, and tragic deaths. The novel employs humor, realism and the problems teens face every day as foils to develop the characters and traditional values.
A Letter From
Heaven
by Steve Butler
Available from www.authorhouse.com
Product Description:
Jamie has seen the ceramic jar on his mother's living room shelf for as long as he can remember. But today he will learn that behind the jar is a very special letter from a sister he has never met. He'll also learn that the roses that his mother and grandmother sometimes place around the jar have a unique meaning.
Searching For
Cassady
by Anne Moore & Lucy Knisley
Available from lulu.com
Product Description:
Eight-year-old Alex wants one thing: a puppy. The youngest of three, everyone else in the family has strong opinions about getting a new dog. Their last dog barked a lot, rolled himself in dead fish and ate weird things like lipstick and Play-Doh. But Alex's uncle says a house isn't a home without a dog, so the family agrees to start looking...after a ski trip...after Paris...after Tucson. Alex is resolute: her house isn't a home. She wants a dog. She doesn't care if it barks.
They look for a puppy at adoption fairs, at the pound, on the Internet, and in the newspaper, even though her teenage brother doesn't want a dog at all. They find all-ready sold puppies, totally asleep puppies, barking puppies, shedding hairball puppies, out-of-state puppies. After two years. the family finds a nearby breeder. They love his puppies! Eight, and none of them barking! But the breeder asks Alex to wait a week: does she really want a dog?
Garbie
Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted To Fly
by Veena Nagpal
Available from environedu.promoters@rediffmail.com
Product Description:
Listening to his best friend Cathy Butterfly chatter about the wonderful world that lies beyond the garbage heap where he lives, Garbie Garbyhog is extremely unhappy. All he longs for is to be able to fly. He sets out on an arduous journey to get himself wings. Garbie meets a young boy who is as unhappy â he is sick of the way people leave their garbage littered everywhere. They form a unique partnership. Garbie realizes that God has created him with a unique mission to hog garbage and turn it into valuable vermi-compost. The book includes a booklet on Vermi-composting.
Printing Rights Available.
Rights for Garbie Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted to Fly(except in India) are still available.
YOUNG ADULT:
1965 - Journey
to a Rich Land
by Timothy M. Shannon
Available from web.mac.com/timshannon1
Product Description:
Coming of age in a small town is confusing and difficult. Join Kevin, Deedee, Mary, Possum and others as they find their way. The novel deals sensitively with awakening sexual appetites, peer pressure, bullying, drinking and driving, and tragic deaths. The novel employs humor, realism and the problems teens face every day as foils to develop the characters and traditional values.