From author Patricia Crumpler...

 Are bedtimes dread-times for your child? Does your child worry about monsters lurking under the bed, in closets, or dark places? If your child fears going to bed, reading this book can help overcome those fears by the images of outrageous, charming monsters hiding in dark places. The creatures and the kids in the story with their comical expressions will amuse your child and help diffuse their fears of scary places. The depiction of unknown beings under the bed and in other places will give your child a laugh and help them understand that a lot of children have the same fears. Let the fun monsters in this book replace the scary ones in your child’s imagination. Give them a chuckle before bedtime.

If  We Got to Choose: Picky eaters? Sweets and treats as meals? In  delicious rhyme, see what happens when kids select their own food  groups. Soup-to-nuts becomes goop-to-guts in this fun, sing-song book  that leads your child away from a diet of confections to healthy,  nutritious, food choices.

In a fun and easy to read  story, your child will learn the dangers of over-eating snack food,  candy, ice cream, desserts, chocolate treats and worse. The story leads  them to understand the value of nutrition by making healthy food choices  to attain balanced diets. Let the beneficial banquet begin!

This entertaining story features the ocean, weather, and  environmental events including whales, moray eels, dolphins, manta rays,  sun fish, giant clams, mermaids, starfish, coral, plankton  luminescence, and Atlantis, giving children a science lesson in a fun  story. A young mer-boy named Regus complains about the weather and how  King Triton should do a better job. When King Triton gets word that  Regus thinks he can run the ocean realm better, the king sends for the  mer-boy to take over so the king can have a day off. Regus learns how  hard it is to keep the ocean under control and how difficult it becomes  to please the creatures who live there.

This entertaining story features the ocean, weather, and  environmental events including whales, moray eels, dolphins, manta rays,  sun fish, giant clams, mermaids, starfish, coral, plankton  luminescence, and Atlantis, giving children a science lesson in a fun  story. A young mer-boy named Regus complains about the weather and how  King Triton should do a better job. When King Triton gets word that  Regus thinks he can run the ocean realm better, the king sends for the  mer-boy to take over so the king can have a day off. Regus learns how  hard it is to keep the ocean under control and how difficult it becomes  to please the creatures who live there.

•  Features the plight of abandoned dogs in the United States. The book  describes what dangers lurk in the woods for a vulnerable young dog. The  puppy encounters bears, birds, coyotes, and a large mountain dog who  introduces the puppy to other dangers like cars and poison. 

Ace of Hearts: This book was written to educate children and their parents  about the importance of pet adoption and the problems that stray animals  incur. Inside you will find an adorable puppy with no name. He finds  himself in a place that is frightening and dangerous. By a stroke of  luck he meets a mountain dog who is strong and understands the way of  the forest for survival. The large dog teaches the puppy the ways to  overcome the disadvantages of living outdoors. With the big dog, the  puppy has adventures and learns valuable lessons like how to avoid  poisonous foods and staying away from roads and cars. With each turn of  the page, your children's eyes will light up with the colorful  illustrations, as the puppy’s quest to survive teaches readers about the  plight of unwanted pets.

Your child will learn about  some of the animals that live in the woods and the way they survive.  The personalities of predators come out when the puppy faces the  dangers. He moves through the forest, avoiding dangers in his quest to  finding his forever home.

• There are 22 colorful original illustrations that show the puppy’s unique journey.

•  Characters in the book: The mother dog, the mean farmer, the puppy’s  brother, a mother bear and her cub, Cane the mountain dog, the two  coyotes, a biker at a mountain fair, the couple who adopt the puppy, and  the two female dogs who help the puppy adjust to his new life as a  wanted, loved and named pet.

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 Beautiful and reckless, Princess Aril-Ess is exploring a wild and unknown region of her planet, Cronanta, when her airship is attacked. Her life changes dangerously when she is captured and sold as a slave to the handsome and fun-loving Tim-Ell, Crown Prince of a distant nation. Aril-Ess has never bowed to anyone and doesn't intend to start now, but slowly she is drawn into the intrigues that now surround her. What changes can she make in Tim-Ell's life and what will change in her own life?

 Teacher Emma Whitstone, reserved and quiet, works with deaf children while yearning for a family of her own. Charles Strong Manning is an outgoing, self-assured attorney. They couldn’t be more different, but their incredible chemistry leads to love, marriage, and a family.

There is more to Strong than meets the eye. In addition to his successful consulting law practice, he also has a dangerous and clandestine second job—one that could jeopardize his family. To protect Emma from worry, Strong does not tell her that he is the leader of a four-person undercover rescue operation. When one of those missions goes terribly wrong, and lives are lost, Emma suspects her husband is involved in something mysterious and violent.

One of Strong’s team-members wants Strong for herself and will do anything to get him.  Finding Emma in a vulnerable state, the woman feeds Emma horrifying information about Strong. Emma takes her children to a place she believes is safe from her husband and the double life he leads. But is any place safe? Is Strong the monster she’s told he is, or the man she fell in love with? Or something entirely different?

Strong leaves no stone unturned and finds his wife and children. Can he convince Emma to trust him again? Will love be enough to heal their wounds? He has never failed a mission. Can he rescue his relationship?

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In Victorian England Teacher Alexina Poole resigns herself to spinsterhood until a  long-forgotten marriage contract comes to light. Peyton Woodleigh is a  high society recluse who is content to work his land until he too learns  of the marriage contract. Starry-eyed Alexina seeks a loving home and  family, but Peyton must marry her or forfeit his property and assets.

Alexina  falls in love instantly, but Peyton resists the charms of his new wife.  When a thief endangers the valley’s future, Alexina offers a solution.  She and Peyton bring their unique apple brandy to London. Despite its  resounding success, their relationship becomes more distant and  strained.

Then Nature hurls another blow to their  beloved valley. When their marriage and lives lay in shambles, help  comes from an unexpected quarter, providing answers to long-standing  mysteries. Together, Peyton and Alexina overcome the obstacles to find  love together in Fate’s Sweet Passion.

Vivian Wexler investigates a recent rash of suicides on the planet Sorasol, so peaceful it doesn’t have a word for suicide.

As she uncovers an evil alien scheme behind the puzzling deaths, Vivian gets more than she bargains for. Dodging death from an alien underworld, mafia-like aliens want control, addicting her with a mind-body enhancement substance delivered by a small slug-like creature. Their plan backfires. Now smarter and stronger, the improvements offered by the slug opens the door to solving crimes in the galaxy. In Vivian’s quest for justice, is there anyone to help her? Torn between the good she gains from the addiction, and the fact she is addicted, she has to make some life changing choices.

Award-winning author Patricia Crumpler offers a dangerous romp through the galaxy dodging death and weaving through amazingly weird elements. Irresistible and compelling.

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Dana Blake, a tough trial lawyer, is accustomed to winning. But she has lost at love and the heartbreak is ruining her life. In desperation, she consults a fortune teller, the mysterious Char-Mer, who has the reputation of mending damages from a shattered heart. Dana heeds Char-Mer’s advice and recovers happily.

But that isn’t enough for Dana. Being the driven seeker of facts that she is, Dana coerces Char-Mer to divulge the secret of the cure. This leads Dana on a worldwide hunt, brushes with myths and curses, and a one-night stand with a very sexy merman.

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During the Cold War, two spies find themselves locked in a familiar story, with equally familiar consequences.

A detective must decide how far he's willing to go to stop a monster, even if it includes unleashing another.

A heartbreaker gets his comeuppance when the worm turns, Have you ever heard of people eating zombies, and grey men bemoan the fallout from children's stories.

This is but a taste of the tales within; tales of individuals who live just outside the margins of real life, folk whose lives, by choice or by chance, occupy erratic orbits and doomed trajectories. Follow their paths in this anthology of 12 stories packed with action, humor and the bizarre."

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Set in East Tennessee, this anthology contains works from members of the Etowah Writers' Guild. Nonfiction, fiction, sci-fi, humor, and horror provide something for everyone. Cannibalistic grannies may have you second guessing those missing neighbors while the deep European roots of the Appalachian folk hide an ancient danger on isolated hiking trails.

Hauntings, which range from humorous to downright dangerous, cast an eye towards local graveyards and unsolved murders as mischievous ghosts and ghastly bank robbers wreak havoc. Bewitched nursing homes, summer camps with nefarious secrets, and a mysterious hotel from the past will set a chill down your spine. Black cats and Halloween outings provide humor, while local encounters with devil dogs and the legendary Wampus Cat make for apprehensive walks in the dark. Strange lights in the sky, aliens, and an invasive force seeking a place of its own rounds out this wonderful collection.

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If you were sentenced to death, wouldn't you jump at a chance for life? Even if that reprieve meant leaving Earth to live on a  spaceship full of freaks, the hideous survivors of a DNA altering  plague?

Arlen Rowell took that chance and found the freaks were a finer stock of folks than the ones who shunned them from  their home planet.

On the ship Benevolence, Arlen  found integrity, courage, danger, and...love. Then he found a way to  contact the other nine Freak Ships with the idea that 50,000 freaks  could seek a planet to call home.

SHARKS. HUMANS. FISHERMEN. BETRAYAL… All is not well in the Merfolk world. Skipping lessons at Mer-School could mean the difference between survival and death! Only the most virtuous, intelligent, and bold will succeed in these dangerous waters. Join Mother Mermaid as she relates these cautionary Merfolk tales to her children at bedtime.

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TRUE LOVE. DISGUISES. REVENGE… Courtship has never been so tricky. Neighbors collide over differing standards of beauty. Princesses from all over the realm must figure out what’s real and what’s only fin-deep. How can anyone find a soulmate in these circumstances? Join Mother Mermaid as she relates these romantic Merfolk tales to her children at bedtime.

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FIND A MERMAID, GET A WISH. MAYBE. Some humans fall in love. Others are cursed forever. Some will risk everything to discover where golden treasure lies, deep on the ocean floor. What happens when humans interact with Merfolk culture? Join Mother Mermaid as she relates these Merfolk tales to her children at bedtime.

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