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Brian Shepard

Sixth Hour With Kensington is an inspirational tale about the relationship between a teacher and one of his former students. Throughout the book, many events help the relationship grow and develop over a three-year span into a deep and committed friendship. Frankie Kensington is a middle school student who arrives in Brian Shepard’s sixth grade mathematics on the first day of school. Frankie is confined to a wheelchair and is stricken with a rare disease called Ataxia – Telangiectasia (a-tak-see-uh tee-lawn-jek-tay-zee-uh) or “A – T.” Over time the disease starts to take its toll on Frankie and wears him down, but it cannot touch the incredible bond formed between both the teacher and his student. The book contains many funny stories and touching events that help Brian grow not only as a teacher, but also as a human being.

Carrie Kabak

Kate Cadogan has spent her life trying to please her husband, her son, her mother and her father without a moment's thought to her own needs. Until one day when a series of events causes her to slip back in time… Buoyant and deeply moving, Cover the Butter proves that starting over has nothing to do with age and everything to do with spirit.

Charbonee Huddleston

At five years clean, Tessa Parker is arrested and forced to relive and examine the desperation and horror of her drug-filled past. Through all of Tessa's memories, her disease talks to her as a voice inside her head: A voice named KaDee. Surviving KaDee is a story that lets the reader into the world and head of a drug addict. It is a story of tragedy and triumph that shows the depravity and strength of the human spirit.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

The Moth to the Flame is the story of the meeting of two human beings -- Sufi poet Rumi and his beloved teacher -- that, like the conjunction of two planets, realigned the fates. Although it happened long ago in the 13th century, during another time of war between Islam and the West, this tale of an individual life fully lived is the tale of every life: Rumi's yearning for God is our yearning, his anguish, our anguish, his victory, our victory. In the tradition of Siddhartha or The Last Temptation of Christ, his story is the mythic story of the human soul. In this first novel about him, based on original sources in Farsi and English, we discover the key moments that shaped his poetic genius. We watch his faith tested, and we witness his meeting with the beloved, which overturned his world and led, eventually, to his union with God. While he has been called the Shakespeare of the Muslim world, today in the West he is a bestselling poet, an inspiration for us all.

Deb Curwen

Harleigh Boston designs women's lingerie, but her creations of late leave a lot to be desired. She feels one reason is her lack of a sex life. Meeting a tall, dark, and handsome stranger named Mitch Brannigan is a step in the right direction, and she falls hard and fast for the wealthy entrepreneur. Mitch finds the lovely Harleigh sexy, spontaneous, and worth the chase when mixed signals about a lucrative design opportunity send her flying across country. But is she interested in him as a man or is he merely an ATM machine to fund her line of lingerie?

Greg Bauder

A naive, sensitive man is lovestruck when he meets a streetwise, free-spirited woman, Ariel, in a psychiatric boarding home. They both have schizophrenic illnesses and their love affair is offbeat, moody and desperate. Despite their attraction and care for each other, their relationship is haunted by past romances, and hindered by Ariel's meddling grandmother and psychiatric staff.

I. D. Smith

The novel centers around - Ivy, Russell and Urvin. Due to three separate accidents their existence is in limbo. Upon introduction, each one is in a transition state awaiting the decision of whether they will be permitted to return to earth as a living human or to remain in wherever people go when they die. While they are in between earth and what comes next, they are asked to verbally relive specific events of their lives. The cards read deceit, betrayal and immorality. Listening to confessions and justifications will make you cry, laugh and reflect upon your present existence.

Jerry Amernic

Gift of the Bambino is a story about baseball in the days of Babe Ruth and how the game and Ruth himself bind a young boy to his grandfatheras ti goes back back and forth between past and present.

Joy Lee Rutter

Joleen Cumberland questions her motives for staying with her job at a neuro-rehabilitation facility. She loses her focus, which often endangers her and her peers. She has reached the limits of her endurance. Her work centers around Alex Williams and Mitch Stevens. Mitch, unable to communicate due to his own brain injury becomes intrigued by the spirited Alex. What is behind the rage Alex often displays? How will Mitch be able to communicate what he eventually learns? Only A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams holds the answer.

T. L. Cooper

When Victoria, who is white, meets Daryn, who is African American, she has no idea the effect he and his family will have on her life. As she struggles for the success she’s certain will make her parents proud, Daryn’s family introduces her to a new definition of love, family, acceptance, and success. Victoria and Daryn struggle to keep their friendship intact as they are faced with the prejudices of family, friends, and lovers. The empty place in Victoria’s heart forces her to face all she’s sacrificed in her quest for success including friendship, love, family, and grief.

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