Teen Reads

It was supposed to be a lazy summer vacation filled with sunshine and slow afternoons. But when a group of best friends find themselves face to face with the ghost of a young girl that went missing twelve years prior, it quickly becomes clear that it is going to be anything but. Before long, five friends are plunged headlong into the most remarkable adventure of their lives as they race to piece together the clues behind the disappearance and murder of young Maggie Lorris and find out why she can't move on.

Marcie Benson is in her early twenties, works at a daycare, and is ready to find a husband. She lives in Evanston, Wyoming where the winters are extremely cold and would love to relocate to a warmer climate. Sadie, her landlady finds an ad for a mail order bride from a man who lives in Kingman, Arizona where the climate is much milder! He states he has two daughters, 11 and 9, has a beautiful home, and does have a nanny and a cook to help. He's looking for a woman that can bring love and kindness into his home and be a mother figure to his girls. He's extremely busy and that's why he has ...

***Sweet Young Adult Romance*** ***The Lakeland Boys Book 1*** All Amber Johnson wanted was to be normal. Go to a normal school. Maybe meet a nice boy. The Last thing she expected was to be the pretend girlfriend of Jason Turner. Jason needs a pretend girlfriend to keep the high school drama as far away as possible. Amber Johnson needs the social acceptance being Jason’s girlfriend would give her. It’s only for a few weeks. Just long enough to get everyone to back off. Amber quickly learns though. There is nothing worse than pretending to be in love with someone you already love.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: THE AX: A warlock has sworn to return on the anniversary of his burning at the stake three hundred years ago. WORLD DOMINATION: Barry believes a young man in the window seat is orchestrating Armageddon on his laptop computer game. RED HATS MASQUERADE BALL: A retired psychopath's favorite past time is wreaking havoc on people she doesn't know. She can't wait to blind and disfigure a group of ladies with an exploding gag gift at their upcoming Halloween party. THE ...

Megan Bartley was in her middle 20's with pretty strawberry-blonde hair, gorgeous blue eyes, a pretty smile, and was a medium height of around five feet five inches. It had been a year since her friend Jenn had left Sadie's boarding house to get married. She wasn't envious of her friend getting married; however now that a year had gone by, she was wishing she would be able to find her special guy. It was going to be challenging since she worked at Evanston Telecommunications as a telephone operator and spent the majority of her life in an office at a switchboard transferring and connecting ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: BLOOD: Dan receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his half-sister from their father's illicit affair while married to his stepmother. He's not interested in meeting her, but reluctantly agrees. THE SPIDER WOMAN: Evelyn is homeless when she inherits her mother's house, which has been abandoned for years. Her mother was an entomologist whose obsession with spiders ruined her life. DEAD PEOPLE: Jesse's father wants him to go with him to a wake to see his first ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The terrors include: JUMPER: A patrol officer discovers a lovesick young man on a bridge contemplating suicide. DEAD: A young man killed in an automobile accident ten years ago visits his parents. STRANGER IN THE RAIN: A stranger asks a man in the deserted pool area of a large resort hotel if he will have dinner with him. SURVIVOR: A woman contemplating suicide saves a young girl from committing suicide before all hell breaks loose. MOTHER: After the death of his mother, Roger's alcoholism...

Love is in the air and Joy has always had a crush on Billy from her first days of attending school. They have both matured and grown into responsible and wonderful adults and hope now to make their romance official by getting married. Darla has also fallen in love with her beau, John, and would like to get married too. Since Joy and Darla have become sisters when Darla came to live with them, the Woodmans agree to have a double wedding...and both Joy and Darla are thrilled! With all the wedding plans going on, they forget that Hester Newson's release date from jail is fast approaching. The ...

Pamela Bentley is a pretty young woman in her mid-twenties that works in the Walker home as a server in the kitchen. Bessie, the cook, has taken her under her wing and is teaching her the secrets of how to be a good cook. One November morning she's on her way to the dining room to make sure everything is ready for breakfast and is startled by a handsome man sitting in the dark when she turns on the light. They introduce themselves...and without the other knowing, they are attracted to each other. Bessie warns Pamela that there are other fish in the sea and Ronald Walker knows his family ...

A certified Agile Coach shares his breakthrough method for increasing productivity quickly and easily. With Microproductivity in 15 Minutes you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. “There are many great books on the topic [of productivity], but this offers the most simple, practical, and compassionate method I've ever come across.” —Roger Ebert, Goodreads user Ivan is here to change your life—and revolutionize how we think about human productivity. Based on ten years of experience coaching production teams, ...

Candace Thompson looked over at the clock on the classroom wall of her fifth-grade class and wasn't sure who was more anxious for the school day to end her or her students. Summer vacation was right around the corner, and she couldn't wait to spend time with her high school friends in sunny California! She and her friend Loraine were driving to their exciting California vacation when they find themselves stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire...and neither one is prepared to change it. After fretting for an hour or so, two good-looking guys pull up to see what the trouble is. ...

An innocent photo outing, a very stiff dead body, and more surprises than the words in a song. Wouldn’t you know it? The one time my cousin, Glinda, and her fiancé, decide to go camping (I know right), I stumble upon a dead body in some abandon farm house. Turns out the guy was some famous singer who quit the music business ten years ago. I would have let the sheriff handle the investigation, except that the body was in a rather strange condition, which implied magic was involved. That’s where I come in. Okay, the sheriff really wanted my cousin to help since she is a sleuth and a ...

Lacey Barton is a beautiful 20-year-old young woman who lives in a stunning small town surrounded by pine trees, a gorgeous river and mountains; however, there aren't any eligible bachelors! She's feeling down in the dumps about her situation until she meets her childhood friend, Judy, who gives her a tidbit of encouraging news. Apparently one of her older brothers has a handsome friend who is looking for a bride and has resorted to advertising for a mail order bride. Well, stop the presses because Lacey Barton has arrived and Matthew's mail order bride is ready for an Easter wedding! ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: DEAD PEOPLE: Jesse's father wants him to go to a wake to see his first dead person. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU: Bernard is the richest person in the world but learns he has only six months to live. TERMINATOR: Why is this dog kept in a cage in a four-car garage? Could he be responsible for the recent animal attacks? THE DEMON DOLL: Could this Voodoo Doll bought at a flea market really grant a wish when the moon is full? THE SANTA KILLER: A psycho killed his father ...

A parent's day is full of tasks to be accomplished and chores to be done. Dealing with anger - from temper tantrums to irrational lash-outs - just adds one more thing to that lengthy list of stresses. The Busy Parent's Guide to Managing Anger provides a quick listen when you need quick answers.

After healing her wounds, our shapeshifting dolphin, Misty, has no feet or a tail. She must rely on her daughter's father, Chris, to help her. Chris is a billionaire who owns a company specializing in prosthetic limbs. While creating new feet and a tail for Misty helps heal Misty physically, it also allows Chris and Misty's estranged relationship to heal.

What started out as fun just turned dangerous. When 14-year-old Jeffrey's high school teacher hires him to find the driver responsible for a hit-and-run car accident, he thinks it's an easy case—until his investigation leads to a harrowing encounter with a ruthless criminal and the clues to an ancient treasure. Now he and his friends Pablo, Marisol, and Susie are in a race against time with a trio of sinister treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. Exciting Mystery Books for Kids, Teens, and Everyone in Be-Tween! If you like action-packed stories of ...

Since elementary school Desiree and Ethan have shared a passion for programming. During their senior year in high school, they team up to create a compatibility app for their community project. However, as they work on the app, they start to realize that their friendship might be evolving into something more. Complicating matters, Ethan is in a long-term relationship with Roxanne, his girlfriend of four years. When an earth-shattering event occurs, Ethan is profoundly affected, and his feelings for both girls become even more confused. On Valentine's Day, the HEART app is set to reveal the ...

Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in January of 1848 and the news began spreading like wildfire in California! Martha was 47 years old and ran the orphanage in Sacramento, California. She was confident that she was clever enough to come up with a way of introducing her girls to some of the lonely men, and for a small fee, she would match them according to their age and common interests. Afterall, didn't she deserve to get rich quick too? Claudine Milner recently turned 17 and had grown into a lovely young woman. She becomes suspicious of Martha's motives when suddenly she wants to know ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: THE BLIZZARD: Helen’s Christmas holiday with her husband at her parents’ secluded estate is disrupted by the worst blizzard in over thirty years on the very night a maniac has escaped from the local asylum. RESURRECTION Joseph Hyde is a medical miracle. He's still alive after being pronounced dead, undergoing an autopsy, an embalming, and being buried for forty-eight hours. HANGMAN’S OVERLOOK: A scam artist wagers $800 he will spend the night on Hangman’s ...