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Sunny Pines

promoted by Kevin Lucia

Submitted: February 28, 2023

Book Type: Print & Digital

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After an absence of twenty-two years, childhood friends Connor, Miguel, and Jelica agree to meet at Sunny Pines, the mobile home park where they grew up. Sunny Pines had always been a violent place, where drugs and crime were prevalent and visits from the police commonplace. Some say it had been built on bad ground, a spoiled, cursed land. Nothing positive ever came from Sunny Pines, and those who managed to escape it carried the traumas from that environment wherever they wound up. For...

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In the Scrape

promoted by Kevin Lucia

Submitted: January 12, 2023

Book Type: Print & Digital

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Most kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone’s raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more than to escape from their abusive father. As soon as possible, they plan to run away to California, where they will reunite with their mother and live happily ever after. It won’t be easy, though. After a scuffle with a local bully puts Jake’s...

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Jedi Summer

promoted by Kevin Lucia

Submitted: October 27, 2022

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Paperback: $10.99

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A BOY AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER WANDER THROUGH THE LOOSELY STITCHED SUMMER OF 1983. It was a magical one. Full of sun and surrealism, of lessons and loss, and of growing up and figuring it out. Nestled in the mountains of Pennsylvania is a small town unlike any other. Things are strange here, always have been. People die but hang around, pets too. Everyone knows your name, and sometimes, a thing as simple as a movie coming to the local theatre is all it takes to keep you going. “Jedi...

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Theo and Sprout: A Journey of Growth

by Joseph Gergen

Submitted: October 17, 2022

eBook: $7.99

Paperback: $9.99

Hardcover: $14.99

Audiobook: $17.46

Book Type: Print & Digital

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While Theo longs for some guidance through the perils of adolescence, the guidance he knew his family wouldn’t give him, he isn’t prepared for Sprout to present herself and offer it to him. In fact, he doesn’t appear to have a choice since Sprout, sassy and confident about her presence, won’t go away. Thus begin the adventures of Theo and Sprout. Sprout comes and goes as she pleases, forcing Theo to come to grips with her existence, the fear of being caught, the...

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Just One Look

by Joanne Easley

Submitted: October 6, 2022

eBook: $4.99

Paperback: $14.99

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In 1965 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Dani Marek declares she’s in love, and you best believe it. This is no crush, and for six blissful years she fills her hope chest with linens, dinnerware, and dreams of an idyllic future with John. When he is killed in action in Viet Nam, Dani’s world shatters. She launches a one-woman vendetta against the men she seeks out in Rush Street’s singles bars. Her goal: break as many hearts as she can. Dani’s ill-conceived vengeance leads her...

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Sweet Jane

by Joanne Easley

Submitted: October 6, 2022

eBook: $4.99

Paperback: $14.99

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A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Jane runs away at sixteen, determined to leave her fraught upbringing in the rearview. Vowing never to return, she hitchhikes to California, right on time for the Summer of Love. Seventeen years later, she looks good on paper: married, grad school, sober, but her carefully constructed life is crumbling. When Mama dies, Jane returns for the funeral, leaving her husband in the dark about her history. Seeing her childhood home and significant people from her...

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SELO

by Douglas Setter

Submitted: April 23, 2022

eBook: $4.05

Paperback: $4.05

Reg: $11.25

Save: $7.20 (64%)

Book Type: Print & Digital

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Les Kingsley is sixteen, skinny and scared. He spends his days dodging bullies at school, work and home. When he befriends a hospital patient, he is guided into new found strength, confidence wealth that he never knew before. But his mentor is wanted on both sides of the law. Soon, Les has to make hard choices about right, wrong and loyalty. Winner of 2012 Global eBook award for youth literature. "Brings back what it was like growing up dealing with bullies in the 70s and 80s. Great...

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Mystery Road

Submitted: November 27, 2021

eBook: $2.99

Hardcover: $30.00

Book Type: Print & Digital

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Choices are like roads, taking us to destinations both planned and unexpected, but lofty thoughts like that are of no concern to young Kevin Ellison, who only cares about his dreams of basketball glory. One day, however, while riding his bicycle to shoot baskets with his best friend, he comes across a side-road he doesn't recognize, curving away into the woods. Intrigued, he rides down this unmarked road and encounters something both wonderful and quietly terrible, something that forever...

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A Night at Old Webb

Submitted: November 27, 2021

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Paperback: $7.99

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Old Webb, an abandoned grammar school just outside Clifton Heights, is the place to be late summer nights in Webb County. A gathering place for friends to be themselves, away from grownups who have forgotten what it means to be young and free. The summer of 1992, Kevin Ellison spent his Saturday nights there like everyone else. Everything was running according to plan: a college basketball scholarship, school, all the things everyone expected of him. Then he met a girl named Michelle...

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Twisted Saga Origins

by Jason Blayne

Submitted: June 30, 2021

Book Type: Print & Digital

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In the foothills of southern West Virginia, things are not always slow and laid back. You have to look through the mist of the night and discover an entirely different world filled with chaos. Every day is a struggle. Torn between these decisions is a young man with the will of iron and nerves of steel. It feels natural for this rowdy bunch as they go to extreme measures to reach that next level of crazy. Justin Adamson, Josh Bradshaw, & James Cline are the notorious Troublesome Trio who...

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A SONG APART

by Jeffrey Baer

Submitted: November 25, 2020

Book Type: Print & Digital

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A rising young pop star and her unlikeliest fan develop a mutual fondness while defying an unforgiving public that frowns on their blossoming identities.

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The Girl

by Mikayla Mock

Submitted: September 3, 2020

Book Type: Print & Digital

The first book of the Bay City Girls series!

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