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Everyday Angel #2: Second Chances

Scholastic Paperbacks
208 pages
$6.99


“This time, Aria comes to Caroline Mason. At her all-girls’ prep school, Caroline is being bullied. She eats lunch alone and is picked on by her classmates every day. The ringleader of the mean girls is Lily Pierce. But Lily isn’t an ordinary bully: she used to be Caroline’s best friend”

–From the Publisher

Everyday Angel #2: Second Chances

Prosperity

Livingston Pr
212 pages
$18.95


“Police Lieutenant Robert O’Brian takes early retirement after being shot in a drug raid. His plans–to return to his home town Prosperity in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee to work on a second novel–are disrupted when he becomes involved in the investigation of the death of a high school friend.”

–From the Publisher

Prosperity

Scout’s Honor

Second Wind Publishing, LLC
228 pages
$12.95


“Sam and Eddie must rely on their scouting skills to protect themselves and the younger boys as they try to make their way back to civilization and warn authorities about the planned terrorist attack. They get encouragement along the way from a strange hermit who claims to live in the woods. But the terrorists have an ally, too—an American sleeper agent who knows the bombing is only the first phase of a much deadlier attack…”

–From the Publisher

Scout’s Honor

All My Days Are Saturdays

University of Missouri
200 pages
$19.95


“Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering’s style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life.”

–From the Publisher

All My Days Are Saturdays

Isabella’s Libretto

Excalibur Press
258 pages
$14.95


“Isabella’s Libretto is the tale of one orphan seeking her dream in Venice, Italy, in 1715-a time when music permeated the canals and lanes of the floating city. Abandoned as a baby at the Ospedale della Pietà, Isabella dal Cello has spent her entire life wondering why her mother deserted her. Now she is an ambitious teen who has worked hard to earn a place playing her cello in the orphanage’s prestigious orchestra.”

–From the Publisher

Isabella’s Libretto

Life With My Father Glen Campbell

Overlook Hardcover
176 pages
$26.95


“During his fifty years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums selling more than 45 million copies. For the last twenty-four years, Debby has been by her father’s side, as a part of his concert touring act, as well as a supportive part of his family. She has been with her dad through his four wives, through drug and alcohol addiction, and now through the shattering beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease. In her frank memoir, Campbell tells the story of her father straight from the heart.”

–From the Publisher

Life With My Father Glen Campbell

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