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All Kinds Of Families
David ZM Allison
Spaghetti tacos. Hallway broomstick rock concerts. Snort-laughs at the airport. All Kinds of Families is a warm, tender celebration of everyday life in families of all shapes and stories—adoptive, foster, blended, chosen, and everything in between. Through meaningful moments and real-life details, this picture book gently reminds us that a loving family comes in endless combinations. Each one is unique—and all are rooted in the same joy. Perfect for classrooms, bedtime, or simply reading together.
Finding A Sport For Hector
David ZM Allison
Hector has tried every sport— basketball, soccer, baseball, even swimming —and let’s just say… he’s still looking. But when he stumbles onto the track, something finally clicks. A story of persistence, awkwardness, and finding your “thing,” Finding a Sport for Hector celebrates the kids who take the long way around… and still end up exactly where they belong.
Lurlene Hurlbutt And The Goo Goo Cluster
Dan Baldwin
Lurlene Hurlbutt, the aging owner of the Winslow Arizona weekly newspaper, sends her only reporter east along Route 66 to find big stories in small towns. Her unstated goal is for him to locate a longforgotten and missing country-western singer/songwriter with a distinct presentation and style—“Whisperin’ Peter Pitiful.” The reporter discovers comic situations, tragic events, psychic investigators, oddly interesting people and places only found on “the Mother Road.” He also discovers the story behind the singer’s disappearance and Hurlbutt’s startling connection to him.
Aria
Michael Ballard
Michael Ballard’s collection offers a sharp, tender, and often humorous look at everyday life. With reflections on aging, love, loss, and the absurdities of modern existence, these poems find meaning in both the mundane and the profound. Balancing wit and vulnerability, Aria is a meditation on what it means to be alive — and to keep looking for beauty, even in the mess.
In The Face Of Fear
Michelle D. Bates
Marie thought she’d finally found stability, but secrets don’t stay buried for long. Just as she begins to feel safe, new threats surface that could expose the past she’s fought to hide. When she confides in her supervisor, Sara, an unexpected ally emerges—but close calls and unsettling encounters push Marie to the edge. As the past closes in, she must choose: keep running or stand her ground to protect the life she’s built.
Critters Aren't For Cuddles
Meaghan Cavanaugh
Critters Aren’t for Cuddles is a playful yet powerful children’s book that uses catchy rhymes and vivid illustrations to remind readers—young and old—that wild animals deserve space, respect, and a little peace and quiet. With each page, readers meet a new critter in its natural habitat and learn why even the cutest creatures aren’t meant for hugs. Lighthearted in tone but grounded in an important message, this book encourages a love for wildlife that honors boundaries.
The Butterfly's Secret
Josephine De Falco
Can you ever really go home again? Leandra is a young woman when she returns to her beloved Appalachian hills, finally recognizing her deep-rooted love for her land and people. Her life starts over, revealing many new roles, some of which she chooses and some which are thrust upon her. As time passes, more and more secrets are revealed to her and then buried, all the time redefining who she has become. At some point, she must share these secrets or die with them.
The Superstition Kid
Rory L. Foresman
After losing his parents and their ranch to violence, Jacob Long sets out for revenge—but finds himself caught between justice and retribution. As he travels the rugged Arizona frontier, where lawlessness reigns and morality blurs, Jacob’s path shifts when he meets Alisa McDuncan, challenging everything he thought he wanted. The Superstition Kid: The Long Road Home is a classic Western set in the 1870s Arizona boomtowns, where the search for justice is as treacherous as the land itself.
The Risk of Sorrow
Valerie Foster
At just fifteen, Helen Handler survived Auschwitz alone—an experience that shaped her life in unimaginable ways. After rebuilding her life in America, she shares her powerful story with high school students and forms a surprising bond with their teacher, Valerie Foster. Through weekly visits, Helen entrusts Valerie with her memories, sparking a journey of reflection and unexpected transformation. The Risk of Sorrow is more than a Holocaust memoir—it's a deeply personal story of survival, faith, and friendship between two women from vastly different backgrounds.
Crown of Spears
Anthony Garcia
When the Spanish galleon San Felipe y Santiago wrecks on unknown shores, Father Ignacio is stranded in a harsh wilderness with a fractured group of survivors. He must lead with faith while navigating rising tensions and dwindling hope. Salvation arrives in the form of don Juan de Yllescas, a Spanish-African noble leading a remote, thriving settlement. But as Ignacio is drawn into this new world, he faces a deeper conflict—between his loyalty to Spain and the unexpected bonds he forms in Santa María del Oro.
The Goodlands
Christine Haese
When four endangered Mexican gray wolves are found dead near the Continental Divide Trail, federal investigators uncover more than they bargained for—and become targets in a deadly ambush. U.S. Forest Service officer Sam Rios returns to his Arizona ranch to recover, only to learn of his father’s sudden death. As Sam grapples with family loss, mysterious activity on the ranch, and a friend in danger, he must piece together his father’s final words and protect what matters most.
Sun City 85373
Savannah Hendricks
Welcome to Palms Place, a small complex of nine 70s-style apartments located in the vibrant 55+ community of Sun City. As a resident, you’ll enjoy a resort-style pool and an outdoor entertainment area where you can join in the FNF (Friday Night Fun) year round. Kelly, a burned-out social worker living in Flagstaff, visits her Aunt Paula at Palms Place. She expects a nice, relaxing and quiet time. What she gets is anything but. Will these lively residents add to Kelly's issues or help her fix them?
Caw (10-Book Series)
Clay Hurtubise
CAW is two books in one, a captivating story and a bilingual book meant to help folks strengthen their reading skills. One page is in English, while the opposite page has the same content in one of nine other languages. An evil farmer takes over an organic farm in Maine and uses chemicals and poisons. This results in the death of a congress of ravens, except for the deformed CAW. Shunned by others, he ventures into the world and learns life lessons and the true meaning of family.
If Only
Clay Hurtubise
Who hasn't thought, if only? If only I played my original lottery numbers, if only I had approached the hottie at the bar, if only I didn't have that “one for the road.” Follow Clay through his myriad of if-only moments in this collection of short stories.
The Last Pass In El Paso
J. Michael King
When 22-year-old Mike Holmes loses his mother, he leaves Wyoming for El Paso, hoping for a fresh start and a degree. Immersed in the U.S.–Mexico border culture, Mike finds friendship, opportunity, and romance with Carmen, a young woman from Juárez. As he navigates university life, tackles Spanish classes, and lands a surprise shot at joining the college football team, Mike must decide what kind of future he wants—and whether he’s ready to cross the borders between past and present, language and love.
Holding The Line
Barbara Kingsolver
In the summer of 1983, Barbara Kingsolver was assigned to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike in Arizona. What began as a freelance journalism project quickly became a year-long immersion into the lives of striking miners and the brave women who stood beside them. Holding the Line tells the true story of those families—especially the wives, sisters, and daughters—who risked everything to protect their homes and livelihoods. With compassion and urgency, Kingsolver captures a powerful portrait of resistance, resilience, and unexpected self-discovery.
War and Preservation
Karen Lynne Klink
A riveting journey through sacrifice, resilience, and love in the heart of the Civil War, readers follow Adrien Villere as he fights for love and honor with Terry’s Texas Rangers, while his family copes with hardship and tragedy at home. An epic tale of forbidden love and courage that transcends societal boundaries. Book 2 in the Southern Civil War literature series has, as the Historical Novel Society North America says, “the potential to be an important part of the canon of LGBTQ+ literature.”
Vanished Voices
Cynthia Lang
When actor Elle Tuckerman loses her voice and her role off-Broadway, she flees to Tucson to help her ailing, enigmatic mother. Adjusting to her new reality, as well as the unfamiliar Southwestern landscape, she works with asylum seekers, their pasts treacherous, their futures uncertain. Elle grows curious about her own families’ stories. Do past voices reverberate in the air? Can they help her find her way forward? Across the centuries, in Maine, Ohio, and Tucson, families’ lives intertwine in scenes of relocation, transportation, and change.
Sojourn To War
Bill Lynam
Sojourn to War follows Edouard Lynn, a French-Irish Canadian grieving the loss of his wife, as he journeys to antebellum Natchez, Mississippi in search of a new life. Drawn by tales of Southern wealth, he braves river dangers and marries a wealthy widow just as the Civil War erupts. As war tears the South apart, Lynn is called to arms, leaving his family to face violence, occupation, and economic collapse. This is the story of one man’s resilience through personal loss, love, and the turmoil of war.
A Cowboy In Pune
AnnElise Makin
Cowboy Carlos "Slim" Sandoval is a down-on-his-luck former Marine chasing fortune—and his lost lucky bandana—in India. Instead, he’s roped into chaos by three bold women, a mad cow, and a fashion import scheme that makes him money but costs him more than he expects. When the business falters and danger mounts, Slim returns to India to find answers —and the vanished Sunita. Beaten and betrayed, Slim must fight to recover what's his—before he loses it all, including his fiancée Catalina.
Everything We Thought We Knew
Carolyn Niethammer
In 1970, Ellie escapes to a rural Arizona commune seeking self-discovery while her rock star husband tours Europe. What begins as a summer retreat becomes a 16-month journey through birth, death, sexual freedom, anti-war protests, and spiritual awakening. Years later, a crisis forces Ellie to reconnect with her former lover and confront the secret of the child they once had— challenging them to decide if their past still has a place in the present.
Ancient Voices: Poems About Ancient Egypt
Dawn Pisturino
The Ancient Egyptians loved life and celebrated it with joy. Their deepest desire was to live an honorable life and achieve immortality in the afterlife, where they could exist in perfect harmony with the cosmic order and never experience pain, suffering, and hardship again. These original poems by Dawn Pisturino reflect the hopes and dreams of people who were not much different from us. Take a journey back in time to explore the minds and hearts of the Ancient Egyptians.
Dear Grandma and Grandpa/Queridos abuelos
Vicki Riske and Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto
Dear Grandpa and Grandma / Queridos abuelos is a dual language book about Jackie Rabbit who lives in the southwest desert. Vicki Riske and Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto co-authored the book. Jackie's friends are too busy to play with her, so she asks her mother. Mother Rabbit is too busy writing a letter to her sister and suggests that Jackie write a letter to her grandparents. Jackie learns how to write letters and experiences the joy of sending and receiving them.
Retreat From The Precipice
Duke Southard
Retreat from the Precipice unfolds during the tense two weeks of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, using the looming threat of nuclear war as the backdrop for the lives of three suburban families in New Jersey. As global tensions rise, the Johnsons, Dodges, and Greenwalts face their own personal and familial struggles, revealing how ordinary lives can fracture—or strengthen—under extraordinary pressure.
Mirror In The Sand
Fawzia Mai Tung
Amman, Jordan in the 1970s was mushrooming from a laidback sleepy city into a modern metropolis. In Fawzia's eleven years there, she too evolved from an accidental Chinese teenage immigrant into a journalist and a psychiatrist, mesmerized by its rose gold dust at sundown, its archaeological treasures, the generous hospitality of its people, as well as some of its harsher cultural baggage: male chauvinism, honor killings, and more. Fired with youthful ardor for reform Fawzia threw herself into her work, only to be burned once too often.
Awaken
Shelley Watters
When seventeen-year-old Tori survives a plane crash, she wakes in a stunning but sinister fairytale world—one where her evil stepmother rules as queen and children are sold as slaves. To escape, Tori must slay a dragon, rescue a prince, and survive the Queen’s deadly game. Awaken is a dark, romantic reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, full of treacherous magic, fierce heroines, and sizzling love interests. Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses, this twisted tale proves that happily ever after isn’t what it seems.
Burn Me
Shelley Watters
After losing her twin brother in a fire, Katrina is determined to prove she belongs on the front lines—no help, no hero, just grit and hard work. But her tough exterior cracks when she’s drawn to fellow firefighter Greyson Neal—her boyfriend’s brother. Greyson is a by-the-book firefighter who thought he’d given up on love—until Kat joined his shift. As sparks fly and danger escalates, their forbidden connection threatens to ignite more than just desire.
A Handbook on Being a Local Tour Guide
Dorothy N. Yanez
This book is written to provide a brief overview of the requirements for a career as a local Tour Guide and Concierge. I have included personal stories, some of the situations that one may encounter, and the attributes on what it takes to be successful. Those attributes include: research, endurance, problem solving, being a team player, computer literacy, creativity, diplomacy, good oral communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, attention to detail, customer service orientation, the ability to lift heavy luggage, and flexibility with shifts, including nights and weekends.
Operation Tollbooth
Kip Cassino
There were plans for using nuclear weapons in Vietnam, and soldiers were actually trained for the mission. “Operation Tollbooth” depicts a nuclear strike on the Ho Chi Minh Trail that might have taken place, through the eyes of a young Army lieutenant caught up in the event.
Spider's Wyrd
Adrienne Miles
Shot down in the backcountry of the planet she was deployed to protect, starfighter Ulla Thorsdaughter wants only to get back to civilization so she can get back in the sky.
The Fates have other plans. Thrown into an unfamiliar culture, Ulla struggles to control her newly emergent psi powers and come to terms with the secrets that fuel her recurring nightmares. Not to mention fitting into her new-found community. One that thinks she is their greatest hope.
Ulla begs to differ.
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