A sweet Christmas novella to warm your heart!When concert pianist June Westberry inherits her late grandfather's music shop, she returns to her small hometown in New York to renovate and manage it. But she never expects to clash with the town's ornery old music teacher, Nettie Jones who demands she find a lost, fifty-year-old holiday musical score.Single parent and contractor, Leo Ciaffonni, enjoys restoring old buildings, and the A# Music Shop with its pretty new ...

InBefore They Left Us, Rosemary Davis explores all the twists and turns of San Francisco’s streets on a mission to find her identity, both as a woman and as an artist. The Midwesterner finds herself in the warm embrace of a diverse community. She and her cronies experience not only the exhilarating final days of disco and the changing political scene, but also the jolting tremors of earthquakes and assassinations. Her sensuality and political activism blossom with...

Authors Caroline Davis and Bert Dunkerly explore a significant turning point of the Civil War—a battle that had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides. All of Middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863. One day earlier on December 31, Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee faced off against William Rosecrans's Federal Army of the Cumberland just outside Murfreesboro along Stones River. The commanders, who led armies nearly equal in size, had prepar...

What happens when Mistaken Identity clashes with Secret Identity?From orphaned foster kid to biz wiz, Jacob has come a long way. Along with a dream job and a great mentor, he has finally fallen in love. Granted, she mistook him for a stalker when they met, but every relationship has its little problems. Unfortunately, for the past few years, as the object of his affection pops in and out of his life, she has refused to share any personal info, like where she's from…or her real name....

What worries you most about your relationship withyour tween/teenage daughter?Are you finding it harder and harder to communicate with her?Is she getting advice from her friends instead of you?Do you find yourself constantly in reaction mode instead of anticipation mode?***Your relationship with your tween/teen daughter is the most important female bond in her life. She needs you to help her through these hectic, stormy, and exciting years of ...

Dearest Reader,The most difficult part of life these days has been the ongoing battles between family and friends, once united on so many fronts, now unable to speak civilly to one another. Perhaps you've had a similar experience with your loved ones and have been left speechless. The hope is that you can find some answers within this book about why your relationships have changed.During the past few years, it has been hard to hear the spread of untruths, and wonder if name...

What if you could harness your happinessand use it topositively affect your family?Award-winning author, educator and coach Deborah Ann Davis takes everything you need to increase your happiness, and condenses it into this powerful little book. Discover 10 simple ways to increase your happiness. Reorient your outlook towards the positive. Expand your happiness by reframing your inner environment. Modify your outer environment to keep n...

Fairly Certain is the unlikely adventure of Petir Capota, a nineteen year old computer geek who finds himself back in the days of Robin Hood after falling out of a tree. He awakens in the forest surrounded by a band of British boys, clothed as if in Old England. Unable to resolve the incongruity of their presence in the Connecticut woods, Petir decides he's experiencing a dream, which revs up when Maid Rianne appears, a girl with a penchant for the bow and arrow. In his college world, fair...

A joyful novella to brighten your day!Adelene Almanza, an accomplished violinist and Spanish teacher, has only one Christmas wish—to buy an old decrepit schoolhouse and create a teen and literacy center in her small hometown of Bluestone Bluff, New York.When she tries to attend the sale of the building, she is injured and must rely on her old boyfriend and owner of a construction company, Clay Ciaffonni, to help purchase the building and help with the renovations. But money...

A merry novella for the holiday season!Lucy Ciaffonni wants nothing more than to start her own public relations firm, but she's stuck at the local bank performing dreary communications and advertising duties. When her best friend and computer guru, Andre Almanza, buys an area farm to create a barn theater, Lucy is pulled into the mystery of discovering where a rare, German, H.F. Kayser clarinet was hidden on the property during Prohibition.Andre Almanza has always adored Lu...

An inspiring assortment of new and "best of" works by South Carolina's poet laureateNew and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth's previous three collections, Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, plus twenty-eight new poems. This collection serves as a capstone to Wentworth's tenure as South Carolina poet laureate, a title she has held since 2003.Thematically Wen...

When Julien Franklin returns home for Christmas after retiring from the military, his first mission is to taste his home town's maple cookies and find office space for his civilian website business. He's delighted to find the apartment above The Book Bin bookstore is for rent and owned by his old high school sweetheart. Natalie Pinkett, widow and single parent, has some tragic secrets gnawing at her soul, but she needs to rent the empty rooms to help with her many expenses. To complicate m...