The Frog's Song depicts the light-hearted journey of three adults, one seven-month-old child, two dogs, and two cats who left home and hearth to sail away to a tropical island to live off the grid. Purchasing a picturesque cottage on a secluded macadamia nut orchard, surrounded by lush foliage and fragrant flowers, with the glittering Pacific just a stone's throw away, Joyce and her intrepid family settle in to live out their dream. Hawaiian life, however, is not quite what they e...

Wouldn’t it be something if mother, a small voice from the past, a farm-woman sitting at her kitchen table pouring out her heart on paper in thankfulness and gratitude for the children she adopted could in some manner impact the world? The time was 1956. Mother wrote to Grandma Holt of the Holt agency off and on until 1967 when the letters stopped. The agency kept her letters all those years and then sent them to my step-dad. I typed them, placed them here between the covers of this book, ...

Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories.

"An incredible beginning to a series that will pull at your heart strings! A true joy to read." ~ 5 starsMeet the Maverick Billionaires―sexy, self-made men from the wrong side of town who survived hell together and now have everything they ever wanted. But when each Maverick falls head-over-heels for an incredible woman he never saw coming, he will soon find that true love is the only thing he ever really needed... An exciting and emotional contemporary ro...

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and Greg is desperate for a date.Book seven of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series delivers a hilarious mix of love, friendship, and an awkward school dance that leads to one unforgettable night.Ideal for readers age 8-12 and fans of laugh-out-loud comedy and middle school romance gone wrong.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of...

The trick-or-treaters have gone home and now it's time for the adults to celebrate All Hallows Eve. When Maggie suggests they consult an Ouija board, Jeff Resnick thinks it'll be anything but fun. And when they conjure up a ghost from Jeff's past, the game turns dangerous for the most vulnerable person in his life. (This short story directly follows Dark Waters.)

Middle school is a survival game. Greg Heffley’s just trying not to lose. In the hilarious first installment of #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney’s global hit series, we’re introduced to Greg Heffley—a regular kid with big dreams and even bigger problems.Navigating the wild world of middle school, Greg just wants to survive the bullies, embarrassing moments, and his mom’s over-the-top family bonding ideas. Spoiler: it’s not going smoothly....

Why had she rented her upstairs apartment to another doctor?Single mum Jill Beck knew the type, especially one as handsome as Adam Stone. The MD would stick it out in Montana…until the first snowstorm. And then he’d leave everyone behind. But this time Jill vowed she wasn’t getting involved…

Blue-blooded lawyer James is working on the case of his life.This trial will set him up for life; then he meets his witness, Maggie Eagle Heart. She makes him question everything – his family, goals, future. Now the one woman he wants is completely off limits. But he can’t deny their attraction. James has always done what is expected of him…until now.

Carly Barnett’s lifelong dream was to be a journalist— tracking down leads, interviewing important people, making a difference.A job offer at Portland’s Oregonian Times seemed like an ideal place to start, until she learned exactly what she’d be doing. Writing an advice column for lonely hearts wasn’t quite what she’d envisioned, but it was a beginning. Mark Holbrook did nothing to disguise his disdain for the new staff reporter—if you could call Carly’s column “re...

For a rare book, a desperate buyer turns to violenceSix days a week, Joel Beer hunts for books in Denver. He stalks them in bookstores and thrift stores, at yard sales and estate sales, his eyes scanning spines quickly and ruthlessly, searching for the $0.25 gem that he can resell for $250. If he were the only scout in town, he might be able to make a living, but there are close to a dozen full-timers now—including his archrival, Popeye Lamonica—and Joel is having ...

Alongside its golden wheat fields and shimmering northern laskes, Saskatchewan holds a rich folkloric collection of ghost stories; until now, no one has paid much atention to these tales.Geographically, they range from Kenosee Lake, where the resident ghost of a local dance hall had strong objections to renovations, to Shell Lake, where the identity of a mass-murderer was revealed to a group of teenagers through a Ouija board.In nature, they vary from charming spirits haunt...