When Matilda Made Time Stand Still
By: Cindy Ladage Cindy Ladage has written a delightful children’s picture book, “When Matilda Made Time Stand Still.” When Matilda wants to continue to play and her mother tries to get her to go for a nap, Matilda inadvertently breaks her mother’s watch and time stands still. The little girl is happy to continue with […]
Wai-nani: A Voice from Old Hawai’i
By: Linda Ballou Through Wai-nani’s eyes, experience the Hawaiian society as it existed when Captain James Cook arrived at Kealakekua Bay in 1779; ride the billowing seas with Eku, the wild dolphin she befriends; learn why she loved the savage, conflicted ruler, Makaha; walk with her as she defies ancient laws and harsh taboos of […]
The Cowgirl Jumped Over the Moon
By: Linda Ballou Gemcie and her Irish Hunter, Marshal, are about to capture the World Cup when a nasty fall dashes their chances. While she is mending, her arch rival seizes this opportunity to catch a ride on Marshal, and to seduce her young husband. Confused and dazed by her new circumstances, Gemcie heads for […]
My Name is Huber
By: Cindy Ladage My Name is Huber, A Tractor’s Story -This is the story told through the eyes of a tractor named Huber who rolled off the factory room floor in 1927. My Name is Huber follows the tractor through his working life on the farm. Huber runs a threshing machine and works hard for […]
Love-Forward
By: Cindy Ladage Joey Angelo loves his neighbor flight attendant Charlotte Perry, but Charlotte thinks she loves the freewheeling pilot Jimmy Cogburn. When Joey decides to share with Charlotte how he feels via a love-filled email, he sets a series of events in motion that are out of his control. Only Mary Sindt, the web […]
Love Bird Cafe
By: Linda Ballou A Hawaiian holiday turns mysterious when a long-time friend leads the narrator on a downhill slide into Rainbow Valley. The secret hidden there is revealed in this mini twisty-turner set in modern day Hawaii on the sleepy isle of Kauai. With a derelict parrot named Barfly on his shoulder, Sky says it’s […]
Fairy Tales Are Fragile
By: Cindy Ladage In 1939, when the threat of war drifts over Vienna, young Ilyana Verner sails across the Atlantic Ocean to emigrate to the United States. She and her mother intend to join relatives in Chicago, but a shipboard romance changes their plans. As her mother and new step-father marry, Ilyana finds herself torn […]
Wild About Florida: South Florida
Geography has dealt Florida a lavish hand when it comes to natural gifts. The Sunshine State is filled with unusual flora and fauna. South Florida is home to the endangered Florida panthers and the only North America crocodiles. The Everglades swarm with wildlife from birds such as wood storks, ibises, flamingos, roseate spoonbills and dozens […]
Wild About Florida: North Florida
By: Kathleen Walls Come explore caves, hills, whitewater falls and lots of things you didn’t expect to find in Florida. North Florida still lets you enjoy the sun and sand of Gulf and ocean beaches you expect in the Sunshine State but there is so much more. The northern counties are different from their southern […]
Wild About Florida: Central Florida
By: Kathleen Walls Central Florida has the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf beaches much like other parts of Florida, but in other ways it is distinct and unique. The Florida scrub jay, a bird many Floridians believe should be our state bird, is found nowhere else in the world. Central Florida is bisected by one of […]
