Bud and Wanda's grandmother's anniversary is tomorrow, and Grandma keeps insisting that Grandpa will be coming to take her to their seventieth-anniversary dinner.The thing is, Grandpa's been dead and buried for almost a year now, but Grandma just keeps insisting he'll keep their date.Will they be able to convince Grandma that isn't going to happen?Or will they have to convince her at all?

Jordan Parker is clumsy. Scatterbrained. A walking disaster. Or maybe... cursed.She's also a dreamer with one very unlikely goal: becoming a chef.When she wins an international contest to intern at the restaurant of Adam Black — the country's most famous (and most feared) chef — she believes this is finally her big break.But in Adam's world, one misstep can be a recipe for disaster… or a culinary death sentence.Between shattered plates, awkward misunderstandin...

Five-year-old Jesse thought he was going to have a wonderful adventure when the new neighbor boy, teenaged Paul, invited him along to play.A fun day was spent riding pillion on Paul's bike, and Jesse was joyous.Then things went horribly wrong, and Jesse became horribly and terribly lost.

Professor Hector Rhoades thinks he knows the truth about the mysterious businesswoman Luci Inferi. Deciding to confront her with this "truth", he proceeds to confront her.Shortly thereafter, Hector discovers that all of his life-long preconceptions about life, the universe, friendship, and more aren't anything like he thought they were.NOTE: Contains LGBTQIA+ content, religion, violence, free thought, and more.

Step into the sun-dappled world of Barefoot Days, where childhood runs free through fields of wildflowers, barefoot and full of wonder. Set in the heart of rural America, this charming memoir-style tale follows young Anna Rose as she explores the joys of country life—chasing fireflies at dusk, wading in creek beds, and learning timeless lessons from the land and the loving family around her.With gentle humor, tender memories, and a keen eye for the simple beauty of everyda...

Sparhawk Point, Michigan may be a small town in 1943, but it's home. For the Swedish Ahlstrom girls, it's the only place they've ever known—a place they may have to leave if their father's church can't find more parishioners. The Ojibwe Robicheaux boys are struggling, too: their mother has had to take a job packing fish to make ends meet, and the family's two little rental cottages sit empty. If things don't change, the Ahlstroms and the Robicheauxes both will have to leave. They can't bea...

Annarose F. Steinke offers a look into the nuanced treatments of religion in modernism and modernist poetry by pairing T.S. Eliot with Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Basil Bunting, and Thom Gunn.Steinke explores how these five poets, who subscribe to a range of personal beliefs from atheism to orthodox Christianity, display a fascination with religious iconography, ritual, and liturgy. Each places religious and poetic forms into dialogue in order to test the limits of t...

What is going on inside the spooky old Greely mansion? Peering into the deserted house, Kay Tracey sees a mysterious figure prying open the seventh step of the spiral staircase. Startled, the intruder flees through the dark halls and gets away. Kay, sixteen-year-old girl detective, has for the moment lost the prowler, but she finds herself head over heels in another baffling mystery. The chase is on! What is hidden in the seventh step? The question sets Kay's sleuthing brain into high gear...

Rose Anna Crawford was born and raised in Dundee, Scotland, where she graduated from Dundee Technical College and the Dundee College of Commerce. She later completed her B.A at York University in Toronto, Canada. A true storyteller, Rose Anna offers readers a glimpse of what life was like for her growing up in Scotland during and after World War II. Compiling these stories has been an enjoyable part of her retirement. Journeying with Rose Anna you hear about her amazing family adventures a...

1906Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. Now, after stumbling across an old collection of letters and a map buried on her family's property, she's found more adventure than she ever anticipated in the hunt for pirate treasure. But in order to discover where the clues lead, she must search alongside Lord Sheridan, a man she finds insufferable.Sheridan has spent yea...

A Riveting Edwardian Series Set among Britain's High SocietyLady Rowena Kinnaird may be the heiress to a Highland earldom, but she has never felt good enough--not for her father, not for the man she thought she'd marry, not for God. But after a shocking attack, she's willing to be forever an outcast if it means escaping Loch Morar.Brice Myerston, the Duke of Nottingham, has found himself in possession of a rare treasure his enemies are prepared to kill for....

In Edwardian London, not all that glitters is gold as a lady and an intelligence officer's secret mission take them from the city's dazzling ballrooms to its covert intelligence offices.Sir Merritt Livingstone has spent a decade serving the monarch in the field, but when pneumonia lands him behind a desk in the War Office Intelligence Division just as they're creating a new secret intelligence branch, he's intent on showing his worth. He suspects an aristocrat of l...