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Liv and Skye have been best friends since pre-school. At sixteen, they are trying to make the leap from “Hello Kitty” to lace thong underwear. Skye is incredibly talented and beautiful and into everything she can find in her Mom’s medicine cabinet.

Her parents don’t seem to care what she does. Her mother is an ex-model who parties all the time and her dad still travels with his punk-rock band, leaving Skye to look after her two little sisters – when she’s not hanging around with her homeless junkie boyfriend. Liv’s parents are feeling their way through a recent divorce, but everyone seems to be OK with it.

Then one day, all Liv has left is Skye’s journal – her thoughts, frustrations, hopes and fears, her colorful drawings – and a lot of anger. She decides to join her mom – an award-winning documentary filmmaker – on a trek across The Himalaya as she films the charity work of a Tibetan monk. It is a long and harrowing journey for Liv who takes Skye’s journal with her to read when no one else is around. Liv has so many questions. Will Skye’s journal give her the answers she needs to be able to let go? (watch promotional video)

Veteran actress Diane Sherry Case (whose favorite role was Lana Lang in Superman, The Movie) is now a writer and filmmaker living in Santa Monica, California. Her short stories have been widely published and her first novel “Elephant Milk” won a best novel award in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and has been adapted for screen. As an alumni of the American Film Institute’s Directors Workshop for Women, she wrote and directed two short films, “Spa-tel” and “Valentine’s Day,” and more recently the 2016 television series “House Poor.” She also teaches a therapeutic writing program that she developed.

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Hail to the Chiefs

by Stephen James Poppoon

“American Graffiti” meets “Victory” ... Hail to the Chiefs is funny, nostalgic... gut wrenching... best of all, it’s a wellwritten and very entertaining read.” – amazon reader review

The year is 1969, long before soccer has become popular in the United States...

Five players from a powerhouse high school soccer program enroll at Bainbridge University, where football is everything and soccer has only just become a varsity sport. Bainbridge has only won two games in the past year and their new coach has never even played the game...

Juggling their personal lives and relationships around academic courses and a demanding schedule of practice and games is tough enough - but life is about to become challenging for these college freshmen...

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THE FIRST IMMORTAL: Book II

Angel Blood

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This new novel picks up at the same frenetic pace established in “Dark Angel,” the first book in the series, as a startling discovery plunges the reader headlong into a new adventure. The Nephilim “triplets,” Hades, Poseidon and Zeus, have become seemingly unstoppable in their bid to overthrow the powers that be with their tyrannical expansionism and horrific biological experiments.

Temptation and lust, power and greed – all come into play as the shifting relationships between the characters soar to the highest highs and then plummet into despair. Amazing escapes and magnificent battles are waged between the amber-casting forces of Adam, Enoch and Angela versus Cain with his allies the Dark Lords. A full cast of giants, saber-tooths, battle-unicorns, golems and prehistoric beasts – creatures the like of which have never before been seen – all contribute to the action-packed battle scenes that the reader has become accustomed to in Palatin’s unique story-telling.

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Dark Angel

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The darkest and most mysterious times in the history of the world are brought to breathtaking life in this action-packed, epic fantasy, set in the time before the great flood.

Magnificent and powerful beasts roamed the earth and the seas, along with giants, fallen angels and their offspring. Myth, legend and theology intertwine in a tale of love, betrayal, redemption as good and evil struggle in the quest for eternal life.

In this first adventure of the Trilogy, the reader is transported to a majestic civilization built by Adam, the first man, Cain, his son and antagonist – and their deadly foes, the Dark Lords, led by a powerful ruler, Lucifer.

A story as old as time itself, Dark Angel is a fast paced novel about the struggle between good and evil that combines spellbinding adventure like Lord of the Rings with the creatures from Jurassic Park and features the characters from the Old Testament.

Soft Cover $17.99 ISBN 978-1-943492-09-1

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AND THEN THEY RUINED EVERYTHING Book 2 in The Death of Rock’n’Roll series

by Duncan Milne

This is a story about time travel. This is a story about rock ’n’ roll. This is a story about life and art. Literature is like life, music, art or time travel – it doesn’t really matter where you start, just so long as you do. Welcome.

Two friends have discovered a means of traveling through time utilizing the video game Guitar Hero, coupled with a mixing table affectionately called Louie Louie, a reference to the Kingsmen classic and Satan, the latter to whom DJs have often been compared. ​ Starting as a lark to attend gigs throughout time and space, the device allows the friends to enjoy a richer rock ’n’ roll experience. However, before long they discover that certain situations need a nudge to return to the correct path.

Sometimes more than a nudge is required... ​ Although typically painfully awkward around women, both the boys find themselves infatuated by different women at the end of the first novel. The real trouble begins there, which is where the story resumes.

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Pilot of Fortune

by Ted Beaudoin

From barnstormer to bush flyer to airline pilot, wartime ferry pilot and airborne firefighter, no job was too big, too small or too hazardous for William Floyd Sheldon Luck. He ferried Gold Rush miners to distant claims in the Yukon, then carried hookers to visit the miners, often in outrageous weather conditions and to locations so remote that they have never been mapped or even named. He delivered unarmed aircraft across the Atlantic in World War II and carried top secret messages across occupied France for Winston Churchill. He blazed a trail of routes over Northwest Canada and later helped establish a chain of early warning radar stations across the Arctic Circle. He walked away from several crashes but throughout his adventures – and misadventures – good luck never ran out for this “Pilot of Fortune.”

Pilot of Fortune is poignant, exciting and often hilarious – a mustread for anyone with an interest in aviation history and a fondness for its larger-than-life heroes.

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WHY AMERICA

by Ferdinand Otto Von Galen

Why America tells the story of a young, modern day European immigrant and his quest to discover “Why America” is still as attractive as ever to European settlers and why, 240 years after the Declaration of Independence and 62 years after Ellis Island officially closed as the exclusive port of entry for immigrants from the old world, Europeans still flock to become full-time residents and citizens of this United States. Poignant, funny, thought provoking, laced with delightful anecdotes and illustrated with more than one hundred beautiful, undoctored photographs, “Why America” offers a completely fresh look at America and is a must read for anyone – native or foreign – who has yearned to experience this unique and wonderful country.

6” x 9”. 256 pages. Over 100 color photographs.

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BEHIND ENEMY LINES Evasion and Escape Aids of WWII

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In 2013, well known scholar and leading authority on escape and evasion equipment and tactics Bob Baldwin, author of Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story (Schiffer Publishing, 1997), was invited to guest curate an important exhibit of Second World War escape and evasion artifacts at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The exhibit showcased hundreds of rare items which are seldom seen and had never previously been displayed together in one place.

To accompany the exhibit, a full colour catalog Behind Enemy Lines featuring photographs and descriptions of all of the artifacts on display was produced. The illustrated catalog proved to be extremely popular as a reference source for students, historians and collectors, and, long after the exhibit ended, copies of this book are still highly sought after. It is now offered as a reprinted second edition, featuring a new foreword and introduction by Mr. Baldwin.

Approximately 400 items featured. 100 pages in full colour, 8.5” x 11”.

Soft Cover $29.99 ISBN: 978-1-943492-07-7

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MILITARY AVIATION REVIEW (2015 EDITION)

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Flying Headgear Flying Clothing Life Jackets / Parachutes Escape / Evasion / Survival Uniforms Wings / Badges / Insignia Log Books / Documents Aircraft Parts / Relics Aviation Ephemera

Compiled and Edited by Mick J. Prodger

Trending Collectibles 2015 Military Aviation Review gathers the most up-to-date sales information available from established and reputable professionals so that collectors and dealers in this increasingly popular hobby can get a good sense of values, and how they fluctuate year by year. MILITARY AVIATION REVIEW 2015 is the first in a series of MARKET REVIEWS for collectors of military aviation artifacts.

144 pages / 474 color photos featuring up-to-date prices for • Flying Headgear • Flying Clothing • Uniforms • Life Jackets / Parachutes • Escape / Evasion / Survival • Wings / Badges / Insignia • Aircraft Parts / Relics • Aviation Ephemera “Excellent book, a must read if you collect aviation military...”

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California Condors A Day at Pinnacles National Park

by Shirlaine and Bob Baldwin

The California Condor is the largest North American land bird. In 1982 there were just 22 remaining in the world, and in 1987 the last California Condor was removed from the wild to preserve the species. The birds were reintroduced to the wild in 1997. Pinnacles National Park in Central California is the only National Park Service unit serving as a release site for California Condors hatched in captivity. Still critically endangered, the Park population today stands at around 70 Condors.

Authors Shirlaine and Bob Baldwin were treated to a rare and magnificent display by several birds which they were able to capture in the glorious photographs featured in this book.

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Epilepsy: A Woman’s Point of View

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Epilepsy: A Woman’s Point of View

A must read for anyone who has suffered – or knows anyone who suffers – from epilepsy and its stigmas, especially as they relate to women.

The author offers a unique perspective, not just as a lifelong sufferer of the disease since she was two years old, but also from the additional challenges of being a woman. ​ The author’s motive is to be honest about her own struggles with epilepsy in order to help others face the challenges of the disease with hope and faith. It is an open discussion; a truly unfiltered story which covers the terrain and scope of living with epilepsy on a daily basis from a woman’s point of view.

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Epilepsy: A Woman’s Point of View

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“This is an intense, personal story of a woman’s lifelong struggle to overcome the obstacles resulting from epilepsy beginning in childhood; her accomplishments in the face of adversity are uplifting.

As physicians we do not often get to see illness from the patient’s perspective; this book provides that opportunity.” – Dr. Norman Abramson

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Postcards to Shirlaine Excerpts from a Love Story R.E.B.

An intensely private collection of love poems and prose written over a time span of more than half a century, through the courtship, marriage and ultimately grief at the loss of one man’s lifetime love and soul mate. Enchanting, powerful and evocative, Postcards to Shirlaine will make you smile and it will make you cry. Anyone who has experienced the joy of true love and the grief of losing someone will find empathy and solace in this very personal tribute. “...this lovely book is a good example of the kind of writing that is deeply helpful to mourners. I am struck by how closely (the author) and I view loss...”

– Patrick O’Malley, Ph.D Psychotherapist in Grief Counseling, Fort Worth, Texas

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children’s books q Remember the way children’s books used to be? Grandparents and other family members reading bedtime stories and looking at the pictures together?

Now you can revisit those magical days with your youngsters, through Elm Grove Publishing’s special imprint “Children’s Books for Grandparents.”

Brand new stories, traditionally told in classically styled books that will capture the imagination and the heart, specially designed and printed for grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, even big brothers and sisters, to read to small children.

The Adventures of

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Illustrated by Nadine Redfield and Macaeli J. Pickens

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Based on the true life adventures of Clarissa Nadine Townsend and her brother Paul Gregory Townsend, from 1929 until 1931, when Clarissa was between three and five years old.

It was a different world back then – no cell phones or computers or television. Children got up to all kinds of mischief! They still talk about their adventures and now they would like to share their stories with you. Some of their adventures are very funny. And some of them are very scary!

This first collection of stories begins with the family living in the village of Clayton, Michigan. Later they will move to the country where they will build a new home – and the adventures will continue...

Beautifully illustrated with watercolors by the author and pen-and-ink sketches by Macaeli J. Pickens.

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J.T. Chapin Illustrated by Clyde Peterson

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“...the illustrations are beautiful works of art... it is a sweet story and a parable about how to value yourself and others. I think those lessons are timeless and a tradition worth maintaining.”

– amazon reader review Soft Cover $8.99 ISBN: 978-1-943492-04-6 Case bound hardback $15.99 ISBN: 978-1-943492-03-9

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Chuff Chuff the engine is as old and outdated as his engineer Mike, but when an engine is needed for a daring rescue mission and not one of the modern diesels is willing to risk its shiny new paint, brave Chuff Chuff volunteers...

This is the kind of book we all loved as children. Now, thanks to the classic style of J.T. Chapin and delightful illustrations by Clyde Peterson (better known as C.P. Houston, cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle for over 20 years) we can share it with our children and grandchildren.

The story behind the story is every bit as magical as Chuff Chuff himself. In the words of the author...

“On March 29, 1968 Laura Katherine Chapin, my daughter, turned three years old. I was a young writer not long out of college, working the trade as a hired hand and short on cash.

So, for her birthday I wrote for her a book. The illustrations were done by a young artist, Clyde Peterson, who had joined the Houston Chronicle as their editorial cartoonist. He did that for 41 years, under the pen name CP Houston. I met Clyde through a friend and former co-worker at Houston Lighting & Power Co. who left also for the Chronicle. She gave Clyde a copy of the manuscript, and he did the rest. His illustrations are priceless.

The book was never sold. Never published. I put the manuscript away and let it lie still. Until now.”

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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currently in production q Survival & Rescue Equipment of World War II. AAF and USN VOLUME I: Life Rafts, Life Preservers, Signaling Devices

A comprehensive and detailed reference guide for military historians and collectors, well-researched and illustrated with hundreds of period and current photographs, many never before published.

by Dustin Clingenpeel

THE FIRST IMMORTAL: Book III

Angel Fire

by Stone Palatin

The long awaited conclusion to the First Immortal trilogy brings all the characters readers have grown to love and hate together for one last titanic battle. Who will triumph? Who will perish? Find out when Angel Fire is released later in the year.

CELLINI FREEDOM FIGHTER

by Tutuc Cellini and J. Michael Hand

The true life story of the man who invented the Cellini muzzle brake and weapons systems used by US Special Forces and Law Enforcement. New York born but raised in Italy, Cellini was drafted into Mussolini’s Fascist army in WWII. He escaped to join the Yugoslavian Partisans under Marshal Tito where he learned guerilla warfare fighting the Germans in the mountains. After the liberation of Italy he returned and worked with the American OSS hunting down trouble-makers. Soldier, resistance fighter, secret agent, he has served as an advisor to military and world leaders in the art of guerrilla warfare and is the holder of 19 patents for his remarkable inventions.

Author J. Michael Hand spent has more than two years interviewing Cellini, traveling with him across the US and Europe revisiting the scenes of his many adventures.

The Scouts of St. Michael OPERATION ARCHANGEL

1940, southern England, and six boy scouts are willing to risk all for King and Country...

The Scouts of St. Michael

OPERATION ARCHANGEL

by Dan Morales

1940, southern England, and six boy scouts are willing to risk all for King and Country.

A selfless act of courage attracts the attention of no less a person than His Majesty King George VI. From that moment on, Reggie, Freddy, Henry, Dougie, Willy and Jack’s lives will never be the same, as they find themselves preparing for a mission they would never have dreamed possible... (watch promotional video) A novel by

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working titles q The Fall of the Japanese Empire: The Pacific Air War 1943-45

by Ron Werneth

Before Pearl Harbor – FDR’s Secret Plan to Bomb Japan

by Michael Lemish

Transition to Duty

A Combat Medic’s Tour in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles

by Leo Flory

Unsung Heroes of WWII: RAF Ferry Commanders

by Ted Beaudoin ​

The Whole Enchilada! Healthy Mexican Cooking

by The Berrones Sisters

And many, many more...!

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