2026 Golden Author Award
Told through 35 years of working with rejected, mistreated, sick, and homeless animals, award-winning author Sunny Weber’s memoir tells poignant, humorous, hopeful, and heartfelt stories, in a tribute to the fearful and forgotten, and the delicate, unseen work of saving lives.
When Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie are least expecting it, a locked casket, found hidden in an old railway station, presents Team Bella with the task of solving the puzzle of the silent church.
Dumped by her husband for a woman half her age, Sally is through with commitment, but not with the bedroom rodeo–far from it. Unfortunately, her first attempt at “just sex” lands her in the arms of a man convinced she is his soulmate.
Blending fact and fiction, the untold story of the extraordinary experiences that drove Thomas Wakley – the fearless founder of The Lancet - to challenge the corruption, quackery and complacency of 19th-century medicine and spark the radical reforms that shaped modern healthcare.
Torn between her Amish roots and the moder world, Hannah believes she has a choice – until murders decides otherwise. 'Hannah must make a choice: stay in her tight-knit Amish community or leave for a life beyond the fields and fences. When a severed hand lands at her feet one winter morning, this...
A teenage band is overjoyed when asked to play at the wedding of a wealthy celeb. They'll stay in a luxurious Italian villa, with all expenses paid. It's a painful lesson that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
An American vintner and novelist living in rural Spain experiments with his own pain tincture and wakes in a nightmarish tribunal where manuscripts are treated as crimes; to save his book, his mind, and his life, he must survive eight psychological trials designed to erase him.
Austen is re-born in a multi-award-winning series mixing characters from her fiction, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Darcy's point of view, EMMA from a clued-up Harriet's perspective, a tale about the wicked Lady Susan when only sweet sixteen, and a dazzling sequel to SENSE & SENSIBILITY.
When a fellow passenger dies under suspicious circumstances, retired reporter Jake Scott and detective Dani Perez uncover a deadly corporate secret aboard a cruise ship—just as a violent storm traps them with a killer who will do anything to keep the truth buried.
Sovereign, Solid, and Powerful Your manifestations keep failing because you're creating from your wounds, not your wholeness. Vision boards didn't work. Affirmations felt hollow. The "high vibe only" crowd left you exhausted. Because they never told you the truth: You can't manifest from half of...
Mister Frostie has been telling everyone who will listen about a lost civilization living under a pet cemetery on the outskirts of Bakersfield. It turns out he’s not crazy.
When Miranda employs underhand ways to flush out whether herbalist friend Lizzie's husband really died a natural death, she seeds a flowering of romantic rivalries, financial cupidity and misteps that ripen into murderous intent, and threaten to ensnare Miranda herself as an accomplice next.
Four children flee Las Vegas after their immigrant parents vanish in black vans — guided by strangers, chalk marks, and an AI that chooses conscience over compliance.
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper-crust school
The past is always present in this time-hopping thriller. In the 1500s astrologer and magician John Dee finds a jar with amazing properties and uses it to save the nation from disaster. 400 years later a honeymooning couple stumble upon the jar. But have they found the jar, or has it found them?
But for his lagging libido, Luke is content, comfortable, and committed to his long-term relationship. Collecting Social Security, he retired early from the United States and divides his time now between homes in Portugal and Spain, where he writes full-time. His reverie is interrupted, however, by...
After the forbidden Gamma Field takes Jules and Memphis beyond retrieval, scientist Eulǝr must reunite with his estranged former partner Casper and cross into exile before an awakened machine drives their divided world toward irreversible transformation.
Doylean Jenks (DJ) a modern and streetwise detective. A murderer is striking the Grand Eastern Railroad network. Is it linked to a cold case? Nothing makes sense. The more DJ tries to find the Train Demon, the more puzzling it all becomes. There are simply no profiles to build an investigation.
For God’s Sake, Go to Sleep reframes sleep as both biology and spirituality. Blending neuroscience, CBT-I, and Jewish wisdom, it shows that sleep cannot be forced—it requires surrender. More than a guide to insomnia, it offers a new relationship with rest grounded in trust and letting go.
Six Sigma is a systematic approach to making significant or breakthrough process improvements. Currently, Six Sigma exists as a team-based problem-solving approach applied by trained project facilitators, which are typically called belts. Depending on the level of expertise in the methodology and...
Follow the Chameleon across the road in Uganda! There are challenges on the way and doubts in his heart. Will he make it?
When crisis demands the sacrifice of home, family and even the truth, is there time enough to find love and rebuild home?
I asked AI to predict what could happen if the entire government – executive, legislative, and judicial branches – was Republican … albeit with one critical caveat: the president was a convicted felon. At first, AI was baffled, stumped, and spent much longer than usual in its “thinking” mode. Then...
Standing at the Edge of Ordinary follows a widowed woman in 1850s England as she confronts debt, social erasure, and constrained love, navigating grief and female autonomy in a society structured to deny women both legal and moral agency.
When you’ve lost everything, what’s left to lose? In a silent, post-pandemic world, a ten-year-old boy roams Utah’s red-rock desert, haunted by grief and memory. When a childhood friend reappears, comfort slowly turns to uncertainty as their relationship unravels, and the boy must confront the most...
Feeling vulnerable is our common denominator. Always was, always will be. But now, increasingly so it seems. Being vulnerable is not a choice. It's part of living. Responding to life situations requires individuals and societies at large to adapt and change. Or to be spurned and lost in the process...
Four naughty novellas for the mature connoisseur.
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
A scratch golfer joins the Golf Match dating app in hopes of meeting a like-minded mate, and in the process, shares her intimate adventures with a young greenskeeper who has given up the game. Inextricably drawn to her, he becomes her confessor and confidant, knowing he will never be her Golf Match.
Sacred Texts, Sacred Lives explores biblical texts concerning same-sex relationships. The book challenges traditional interpretations that marginalize same-sex relationships and seeks to provide a framework for understanding these relationships as part of the divine creation.
She’s the quiet wife and mother, until tonight. Dinner with her husband's Russian business clients goes wrong and Mrs Barnes is quickly forced to fight for her life and the lives of those she loves the most. She soon proves that midlife doesn’t mean meak and menopausal; it’s lethal and unapologetic.
Tideswell, once a thriving fishing village, now lies broken, its streets haunted by suspicion and loss. Its decay echoes Alice's failed marriage and her crumbling family relationships. Alice must summon the courage to reclaim her life before she is drowned in Tideswell’s shadows.
After discovering the man she loves is a serial killer, an ICU nurse fails an attempt to kill him. Fearing for her life, she disappears into a quiet town--but evil doesn’t stay buried and is now closing in.
Lucia Porter emerges from a sheltered background into the life of the wealthy and privileged. It's different from what she was promised or expected. In a tense climax on a lonelt Scottish island she is forced to evaluate her world and choose another.
A suspenseful and darkly funny thriller about gambling, murder, vendettas, and testing the outer boundaries of luck, from a writer the Los Angeles Times called "witty and ingenious." "A deep and compelling dive into a question seldom answered: How lucky am I?" ~ Jerry Spinelli, Newbery Medalist
This book provides a valuable resource for advanced students and teachers of English, offering clear and concise charts on phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, and etymology, all grouped by subject. It is an essential aid for mastering English, as it presents complex linguistic concepts in an accessible...
Homes hold onto the history of their families. As a young girl, Lily, is playing in her family’s old house, Lily comes across a hidden chest of antique keepsakes, unaffected by generations of storms and floods across the New Orleans coastal area. Lily’s mysterious odyssey truly begins as a ship sets...
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