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A story for when life isn't always as obvious as it should.
When her seemingly-happy parents suddenly divorce, Griet's world turns upside down. Forced into a new house, a new school, and having to make new friends, she learns life isn't as easy, or obvious, as she thought. But just because life is filled with absurdity doesn't mean she won't dive into it, learning more about herself, and the world, that she ever thought possible.
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The story of one girl's plan to take over the world, one fan at a time.
When Celine finds her father's guitar in the basement, she has a vague notion of learning to play, but no conviction. Her mother's doubts, though, prod her to action and once she gets a taste of the power of a girl and her guitar, just playing it won't do. Start a band and take over the world? Well, anything's possible. A young-adult novel that be enjoyed by all ages. Come for the humor, stay for the comedy.
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An acerbic comedy about the boss from hell.
Flora Lichtman had it all – the boyfriend, a job with the storied law firm of Bart, Grabek & Morse and upward mobility. But when hard times threaten to shutter the firmfirm, everything turns upside-down.br />
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Salvation comes in the form Jack Jarvis, the notorious schmoozer and rainmaker, who promises to turn it all right-side-up. But Jarvis is also a prima donna and when Flora finds herself assigned to ‘mind’ him, she sees firsthand the fool’s errand this stroke of genius can be. br />
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Goliath might not be fit for polite socie | |  | | it's not a chick flick
Sometimes you gotta be what you wanna be.
Penny is an average teenager, living with her divorced, over-bearing Mother. Though she has vague notions of life beyond going to movies and hanging out with friends, it isn't until she stumbles on a used video camera in a junk shop that she realizes what she really wants to do in life is make a movie. With a little help from her brother and best friend - and a whole lot of nerve - she seizes the opportunity to live her life her own way.
| |  | | Peck: A Book
The story of one woman's life and the search for herself.
Peck: A Book, is the sometimes funny, sometimes tragic story of Cecilia Peck, the only child of a woman with little regard for commitment or the durability of marriage. Determined to set her own path in life, Peck finds out too late that many times it’s harder to avoid the mistakes of earlier generations than she thought. Told in nine overlapping stories, from her first sexual experience as a teen, to college, marriage, motherhood, and finally, middle age, Peck: A Book, is the story of one woman’s lifetime struggle to come to grips with who she is and who she wants to be and r | |  | | Skinny On The Inside
The epic battle between a mother and daughter on the scale.
Jenna had a comfortable life. At 16, she was intelligent, quick-witted and just popular enough in school she didn’t loathe it the way other kids did. But Jenna was also overweight and the day her mother decided to ‘fix’ that was the day her comfortable existence came to an end. Skinny On The Inside is the titanic, comedic struggle between a mother and daughter over health, body image, and the meaning of true friendship.
| |  | | Special Editions: And Other Stories
Special Editions is the new short story collection from writer J.L. Hohler III
i>span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt">Special Editions/span>/i>span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt"> is a quartet of short stories from J.L. Hohler III, touching on life, business, murder and the apocalypse:/span>
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div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt">The first, i>Sole Survivor At The End Of The World/i>, explores oneunforeseen consequence of good luck. i>You Want Fries With That?/i> takes a behind-the-scenes look at the first drive-thru funeral parlor | |  | | The Caretaker
All he needed was a job for the winter, someplace to get things together again. This was not it.
It sounded simple enough -- just watch the house. Enjoy the food, enjoy the pay and enjoy the vacation. The only rule? Just watch the house.br />
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"That's it?" Max said. "You want me to live here all winter, do nothing and that's it?"br />
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"Not nothing," Mr. Greenberg said. "You have to watch the house."br />
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"Yes, but...but that's it?"br />
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"Understand -- to me, doing this job well means the most boring winter in the history of the western world for you, Max. Where not | |  | | The Lake House
When a couple goes away to fight for their marriage, they little expected it’d mean fighting for their lives.
A potboiler of sex, violence, marital strife, and a couple under siege.
Note: This is a novella of 25,000 words, or approx. 100 printed pages .
When a couple goes away to fight for their marriage, they little expected it’d mean fighting for their lives. br />
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A potboiler of sex, violence, marital strife, and a couple under siege. br />
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Note: This is a novella of 25,000 words, or approx. 100 printed pages . | |  | | While You Were Here
The story of how one death can change everything.
In an already floundering marriage, Michael and Emily find divorce inevitable when their only child dies. Alone, each deals with grief in their own way. For one, it means years of shame and guilt and personal and private sabotage, all in an effort to understand the death. For the other it means embracing the fragility of life and using it as inspiration for a life of substance, the only way to give death meaning. But even though they face the loss in their own way, and react to it in the only way they know how, they are each as haunted by it as the other, and even after twenty-five years of |
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Bristlecone Magic by Dennis De Rose
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 Bristlecone Magic is a YA Christian fantasy about family, friends, neighborliness, love, magic and yes, even tragedy. The story takes place in Clinton County in upstate New York.
There is more than one kind of Magic! Contact me if you'd like an au |
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 Ash wishes he has a tough big brother to fight his battles for him, until his wish comes true.
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