Stories of Families in Love and Crisis, Featuring Puddles, the Rescue Puppy: “ Puddles – The Rescue Puppy ” By Brenda Hill With a failing marriage, a preteen son, and a mother with Alzheimer’s, Karen struggles with anger and helplessness. Then a stray dog enters her life. While fictionalized, this is based on a true story of how I 'met' Puddles, a puppy at the shelter that captured my heart. How I happened to be at the shelter, how dirty he was, and my experience at the shelter is all true. Puddles lived to be nearly twenty years old, and I still love him dearly. “ Song of Life ” By Millie Hinkle One woman’s search for abundant living as resources and abilities decline with age. “ Beauty for Ashes ” By M. Jean Pike After a bitter divorce, a woman discovers that it sometimes takes an act of ugliness to help one see the beauty in life. “ A Southerner Moves to Minnesota ” By Brenda Hill How does a Southerner cope with the frigid north woods life? “ The Christmas Wish ” By Judi Ring A lonely spinster yearns to fill the emptiness in her life. “Am I Wife or Daughter?” By Brenda Hill Carol agonizes over the dilemma of choosing between her mother and her husband. Then, when a life most precious is endangered, she must make a heart-rending decision. “ Thoughts of Yesterday ” By Brenda Hill Looking back at my new motherhood mistakes. “ Rescuing Leo ” By M. Jean Pike A grieving widow finds comfort and purpose when she visits a local animal shelter “ My Hapless Husband ” By Brenda Hill When your husband retires after twenty-four years of marriage, you expect a chance to renew your romance. Instead, his early-morning cheerfulness was too much to bear. The solution? Murder. “ Too Late? ” By Brenda Hill They had been in love fifty years ago, but circumstances forced them apart. She waits to see him again. Will he remember her? And how will he respond to the news she’s finally ready to tell him? “ Death of a Lifetime ” By Brenda Hill A memoir about a dark time in my life.

Near the end of Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert makes an honest admission: "[A]nd it struck me…that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind." That line sums up the isolate game of memorializing a deceased loved one, which is the basic tension in Nina's Memento Mori, an elegy to Mathias Freese's lost wife. The profound responsibility of answering the question "Who was Nina?" is left to the lone memoirist: I can say or write anything I want about her…There is much writerly power in that. I am the executor of her probate in all things now. She is mine now in ways she could not be when alive. I am the steward of her memory. Freese ends up analyzing himself, putting the "me" in "memento" and the "i" in "mori," thanks to ever-giving Nina posthumously providing a therapeutic mirror or "Rosebud," which Freese appropriates from Citizen Kane. But Freese mourns more over the burden of existence than over its loss. Appropriately, for Kane is not about the symbolic sled as much as it's about the cumulative snow that buries it.

Legal Suspense Murder Mystery Attorney Sabre Brown is charged with saving Conner, a fifteen-year-old who’s accused of murdering his grandma's abusive boyfriend. All eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence point directly to the boy. To make matters worse, this time it's personal. Conner is the nephew of JP Torn, Sabre's boyfriend. Undaunted, Sabre and JP investigate, turning up sordid details and a long list of suspects. Soon, tempers flare, confidences are broken, and secrets of the past surface as they try to untangle the web of lies created by JP's family.

Gaspar, the lactose-intolerant ghost, goes to the park with his friend Hayden to fly kites. They see a sad, young girl named Amelia, who can't get her kite airborne. After several failed attempts by Hayden to help her, Gaspar, with the aid of some cheese sticks, devises a clever way to lift up and sail the kite through the air.

Gaspar, the lactose intolerant ghost, goes to school with his new friend, Hayden, and CJ, Hayden's big brother. When CJ is picked on by a bully, he doesn’t tell for fear of being known as a “tattler.” Hayden tells their mother that CJ is being bullied, and she reports it to the principal. But when the bullying still doesn’t stop, Gaspar finds an imaginative way to help CJ.

This is a collection of Rebecca's best poetry, fiction and nonfiction short pieces, including thought-provoking inspirational fiction and nonfiction featuring the history of Temecula and Southern California.

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Legal Suspense Murder Mystery Attorney Sabre O. Brown takes on three disconcerting new cases, each with its own illusion: a woman claiming she's been impregnated by a ghost, a threatening parent prone to violence, and a child bride with a heart-breaking First Amendment issue. At the same time, Sabre tries to protect her mother who is dating a suspicious widower she met on online. In Sabre’s search for justice, she is found near death after a magician’s illusion deviously goes wrong.

Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this book by New York Times bestselling author Stacia Deustch is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code! Sophia and her coding club BFFs have the best time together. Sure, they work on coding projects, but mostly they gossip about crushes, eat cookies, and do totally silly impersonations. Now they’re about to participate in their first hackathon--a full day of coding and meeting other coders—so it’s time to step up their game! Just when Sophia and her friends think their hackathon project is ready for the big time, a change of plans threatens to tear their group apart. Will they have each other’s backs, or are they destined for an epic fail? They know that coding is all about teamwork and problem-solving—maybe friendship is, too!

Tuper is helping find five-year-old Mason, who was presumably taken by his father, but when Mason's father is found unconscious, Mason has disappeared again. In an impossible search during a bitterly cold Montana blizzard, old cowboy Tuper and his hacker friend Lana's quest blurs into one of insanity and murder. As wounded Tuper fights to stay alive in the bitter cold, Lana searches cyberspace and finds someone is working hard to ensure certain secrets remain secret--especially Mason's true identity.

And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau tells the story of a New York City man who becomes an Alabama man. Despite his radical migration to simpler living and a late-life marriage to a saint of sorts, his persistent pet anxieties and unanswerable questions follow him. Mathias Freese wants his retreat from the societal "it" to be a brave safari for the self rather than cowardly avoidance, so who better to guide him but Henry David Thoreau, the self-aware philosopher who retreated to Walden Pond "to live deliberately" and cease "the hurry and waste of life"? In this memoir, Freese wishes to share how and why he came to Harvest, Alabama (both literally and figuratively), to impart his existential impressions and concerns, and to leave his mark before he is gone.

A New York Times bestseller! Perfect for fans of The Babysitters Club and anyone interested in computer science, this series is published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code. Loops, variables, input/output – Lucy can’t wait to get started with the new coding club at school. Finally, an after school activity that she’s really interested in. But Lucy’s excitement turns to disappointment when she’s put into a work group with girls she barely knows. All she wanted to do was make an app that she believes will help someone very special to her. Suddenly, Lucy begins to get cryptic coding messages and needs some help translating them. She soon discovers that coding – and friendship – takes time, dedication, and some laughs!