Bookstore
Looking for a good read? There’s something for everyone in the Between the Cracks Bookstore. Click on the cover or title to find out where to buy, or the author’s name to be taken to his/her website.
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Twist of Fate, Edited by Lisa Logan and Britany Kingston. Thirteen stories of twisted fates. Fantasy, sci-fi and mayhem from some of the best minds in fiction today. Includes Divine Sympathies by Kim McDougall.
The Stone Beach, by Kim Chatel
When Caroline begins her last year of middle school, she barely recognizes her best friend. Brenda dresses differently. She blows off classes, homework and friends. But has Brenda really changed, or is Caroline just seeing her with new eyes?
Caroline has worries that Brenda doesn’t even understand. Her fifteen-year-old cat, Casey, is sick and the vet has been hinting that it’s time to put him to sleep. How can Caroline lose her two best friends at once? In the next few months, Caroline learns that some friendships are not worth keeping, others are worth fighting for and still others will endure into the afterlife.
Read more about Casey and Caroline at www.kimchatel.com.
Beyond Dancing by Anita Bloom Ornoff
The true story of a girl at the age of 21 becoming paralyzed from the waist down just after completing basic training in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC). The story covers Nita's courage and inner strength to overcome her disability and live a full life.
The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success by Carolyn Howard Johnson
Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will help you present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or your entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay." It is the winner of USA Book News Best Writing/Publishing Book, 2007.
Soul Mate Connections, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Relationships, Love, Romance and Soul Mates by Myrna Lou Goldbaum
First Section:
Questions to Ask,
15 Qualitites to Look for in a Mate,
Mistakes Not to Make this Time,
How Do You Recognize a Soul Mate?
What Does Each Need from the Other?
Second Section:
46 love stories from my palm reading sessions. The first is Erma Bombeck's palm. A must read for those seeking their soul mate, those married having difficulties, divorced and widowed people too.
Camille Claudel, a Novel, by Alma H. Bond
A close look into the heart of a superbly talented woman who was rejected by her lover, Rodin, and the art world. Dr. Alma Bond, a psychoanalyst, is highly qualified to portray the development of Claudel's genius and mental illness.
Witches, wizards and magic! Saylym Winslow regains forgotten magical powers, but is determined to ignore them. No way is she a witch; magic brings nothing but trouble. But when Talon, Waken Prince and assassin of witches is assigned to terminate Saylym by stealing her soul, she discovers being a real, spell-casting witch is only the beginning of her problems. Talon is enchanted by Saylym’s beauty and charm and refuses to do his duty. He is given a choice by the powerful Waken Guild: Handfast with the trouble making witch to keep her in line or they will send Drayke, the most ruthless waken assassin, to hunt her down.
Sparks fly in this bewitching, sexy battle of the sexes—witch-style.
Four explicit, erotic tales :
BONDED: Chariz imprisons a young man with shocking power.
TRICKERY: two loyal servants are dragged into a magically sexy mess.
POSSESSION: Lucas struggles to resist the charismatic Gideon Arnaud.
THREADBARE: Edward is drawn into a web of beauty and mystery by a mill worker.
Open your Heart with Reading By Jeannette Cezanne
Reading allows you to be somewhere else, become someone else ... it enables you to fly away from your own life and worries. In this book, Cézanne shares her own perspective on the magic of reading, along with that of other authors and readers, to encourage people to discover -- or rediscover -- the magic of reading for themselves, and ends with a plea for participation in local literacy efforts.
His destiny was set in place over two thousand years ago; he only needs to discover what who he is first. Follow Storm as he changes the lives of society's forgotten people--and in the end, the entire world is changed.
Moon Over Chicago, by J.D. Webb
Amateur sleuth and cobbler Fulton Moon (yes, his nickname is Full Moon) encounters beautiful and sinister Lucinda Mathews, who wants to escape an abusive husband and Moon only wants to help. It isn’t that simple. Helping results in muggings, kidnapping, blackmail and, oh yes, even murder.
Who, Me? Paranoid? by Erica Stux
A collection of humor pieces about ordinary situations and daunting experiences that have funny aspects. Have strange items materialized in your refrigerator, while others simply disappeared? Does your new car have an excess of buttons with no discernible function? Does your loved one have quirks that drive you crazy?
Apologies Forthcoming, by Xujun Eberlein
Winner of the 2007 Tartts Fiction Award, is an illuminating collection of stories centered around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today. Xujun Eberlein lived in China during that tumoil and now makes her home in America. This, her first story collection, is both disturbing and enthralling.
A Prescription for Love, by Leeanne Marie Stephenson
A hot new romance novel that takes the reader through a pulse quickening, purely sensual experience. Emotions run rampant in this raw passionate journey amidst a world of wealth, prestige, and privilege, interlaced with breath taking life and death hospital scenarios. Love consumes the characters in hungry desire, leading to moments of uncontrolled passion. This hard to put down read is an escape into a world of steamy, enticing, sensual romance.
