Look, There's a Helicopter!


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Bold board book series with a peekaboo die-cut on every page!




The Alaskan Way


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When Lori Wilson agreed to leave the Lower Forty and teach at a remote Alaskan logging camp, she did not realize that it would mean leaving behind televison, telephones, and grocery stores. Monk Island is surrouded by miles and miles of raw nature-including bears! Its people come from a variety of backgrounds but they have all adjusted well to the primitive living conditions. Lori, though, is clueless about wilderness survival and food preservation. She is not sure if she will last the summer, let alone the winter to come. But Alaskan people work together. And soon Lori has good friends who offer valuable tips and who welcome her loving way with their children. The only thing that bothers her now is her neighbor: cold, unfriendly Greg Jensen and his aloof cat, Marmalade. Lori may be able to tame the beast, but will she break the ice surrounding Greg's frigid heart? The challenge could cost both of their lives.




Familiar Stranger


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Will finding their lost love be the hardest battle he's fought so far? Find out in this thrilling military romance from New York Times bestselling author, Sharon Sala. Cara Justice lives a very content and happy life with her grown daughter and grandchildren. Until David Wilson, the soldier she believed dead, comes back to disrupt the calm in her life. David is the only man Cara has ever loved—he is also the father of her child. This time, tired of working secret missions for the U.S. military and wanting more in life, David comes to reconnect with his first and only love. And, although the passion drives them back together, his duty gets in the way… again. He chose his passion for military service forty years ago, but now he must fight a final mission for the happily ever after that both him and Cara deserve. Previously published.




All I Have Is Me


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All I Have Is Me is a fictional novel that tells the story of how the Logan family grieves and suffers after their lives are broken and shattered by the loss of their teenaged daughter in an automobile accident. The parents blame the death on their younger daughter, Theresa, who is driving the car. The story is told from Theresa’s viewpoint. Life as Theresa has known it changes forever in a matter of seconds. With the death of her older sister, there is no longer any warmth, happiness, or love in the family’s life. Theresa is heavily burdened watching her parents’ endless grief. She becomes tired of being the recipient of the accusatory looks of disappointment and hurt from her parents. She feels that no one cares if she lives or dies. After a failed suicide attempt, Theresa decides to do her best to stay out of her parents’ way and bide her time until she can graduate from high school and leave home. Upon high school graduation, she joins the army because she has nowhere else to go. The army provides all her basic needs for survival. The army becomes her life for twenty years. Theresa learns to exist and function without allowing herself to get emotionally involved in life. After retirement from the military, Theresa feels a need to put down roots. She stumbles upon an old dilapidated farm cottage in a small community. She feels a connection to the empty cottage that no one cares for or loves. Theresa finds that as she repairs the flaws and cracks in the old cottage and brings it back to life, she is also repairing the flaws and cracks in her own life. She renews her faith in God. By accepting love from others, the story tells how Theresa is able to find joy and beauty in living as she allows herself to love, forgive herself, and learn to live again.




Golden Guardian


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On September 20, 2012 at about 3 a.m. in the morning, a golden glowing ball appeared over Southern California. Then it formed a consciousness, and then became self-aware. Not understanding what he was seeing around him, he comes up behind a man and bonds with him, copying his DNA, thoughts, and memories. In five days, he will be a clone of the man. But at least he starts to understand what is going on around him. He finds he can heal someone with a touch and do just about anything with his mind or a wave of his hand. He finds some friends on his first day who give him a name and start to help him sort out all those memories. He will soon be a superhero. After the news gets around about him, he meets a bad guy, a CIA agent who wants to take control of him and use his powers for his own needs. One thing you do not do is make Guardian angry. He will not kill, but does have a bad habit of throwing bad guys through windows. The CIA agent finds Guardian's only weakness: He has feelings and a big heart, so you can hurt him this way. The CIA agent screws up everything that Guardian’s friends tried to do for him. Even a superhero needs help once in a while, so his friends come to his aid to put him back to being the superhero he should be. All Guardian wants is to fit in, and at the end he gets his wish.




El Manto


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Eden Walker's life has been in danger since the moment she was born. Only she has no clue. Her life seems full enough dealing with a new school, a missing mother, violent nightmares, and a new addition to her family. The only way to save her life is to find a way to break a curse put on her family eighteen hundred years before. The diary of a martyred girl, a mother's journey to a temple in ruin, and a family's love are all that stand in the way of her inheriting death. Can her loved ones keep the truth from her long enough to save her? It is a tale of true friendship, faith, and love that will stay with you long after the last chapter is read.







BUSHED!


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Lost? Confused? Exhausted Alfonso and Ronnie Kettle certainly were! And where is their friend, Daniel Burrumbuttock? Has he really been kidnapped by the evil Farmer Cuticle? And if so, why? All these questions......! With their time-travelling rescue dog, the brothers search for the answers. Good luck to them!




Winter Storm


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One season down. Five to go. Only a matter of Time before Death comes knockin’ at your door. Fall shifts into winter and Harper Storm is nowhere closer to seeking out the mysterious girl who predicted her death, which—according to the messenger’s timeline—is just five short seasons away. Harper’s attention is diverted from her impending demise when she uncovers a thumb drive buried inside the sofa she’s begrudgingly taken possession of and moved into her studio apartment. With the help of new computer genius friend, Phil Collins, Harper delves into the contents of the drive, curious what would provoke someone to go to such extremes. Soon, they realize the couch’s former owner—the ex-wife of the man so eager to dispose of it—has tapped into something more sinister at the woman’s interior furnishings firm than a showroom filled with last season’s rejects. It’s a trail of breadcrumbs, one that leads her company right into the underbelly of a world that preys on innocence and rips at the soul of humanity. Harper and Phil hit a dead-end in their search for answers when they learn the woman's not only vacated the country—she’s allegedly done so with her business partner on her arm and a sizable amount of the company’s money in her pocket—leaving them to wonder: did she hide the information in her attempt to uncover the truth? Or to conceal her own crimes—ones that could be worth killing for? Once again, Harper places herself in the heart of danger—but will the price be worth the sacrifice this time around as she dangles her life and the lives of her friends in the crosshairs of a ruthless adversary with ties to an underworld that affords no mercy? Winter Storm is the second installment in the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat Six Seasons series by Harley Christensen, author of the Mischievous Malamute Mysteries. Grab a copy of Winter Storm today and continue Harper’s hunt for the truth!




The Urban Picnic


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“The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic.”—Le Monde “An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded.”—The Economist “The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced claret under trees, amid the grass and the flowers.”—Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, 1869 Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from The Economist to Le Monde, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselves—without having to head off into the hinterland. The Urban Picnic is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, original illustrations and over 200 recipes—many contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Mark Bittman, Regan Daley and Bob Blumer—it’s the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty little morsel to eat under that tree that grows in Brooklyn. Two-color throughout. Recipes include: Barbecued Lemon Chicken (Anne Lindsay) Banana-Strawberry Layer Cake (Regan Daley) Mint Julep Peaches (Nigella Lawson) Chicken Liver Crostini (Umberto Menghi) Ahi Tuna Salad with Green Papaya (Rob Feenie)