Allison: 1539 books

Life on the Fringe is the tale of a woman plagued by the effects of manic depression and seasonal affective disorder whose condition is greatly aggravated by the birth of her sixth child, which leads to poor living conditions and isolation for the family. The woman resents the child from her birth,...

Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War...

Get ready to be inspired as you journey through some real-life experiences, as well as heartfelt and intense emotions. This book will challenge you to have the kind of faith to move mountains in your life through stories brought to life through the power of the imagination. It has been said that some...

1504, Brunnendorf, Germany Eight year-old Therese longs for a home. Fatherless and living in one, small room with her mother, Therese is sent to visit her grandparents in the next town when men come to visit. She’s hoping this man will be the one who marries her mother and gives them a home. But...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. We have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to Little Brown in the UK. TV producer Meryl Poster optioned the entire 4-book series for TV. The...

Luke Adams, a Colorado rancher, doesn’t trust women, but when he finds injured Gina Walker on his mountain, pleading for her life, he takes her home. At first, Gina can’t remember her past, and Luke knows he has a guest he doesn’t want. When her memory returns she says nothing, afraid...

THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY Wyoming rancher Nick Reynolds was Dacy Fallon's first love, the man she could never forget. They'd been just seventeen when life had taken them on separate paths. Now, fate had brought Dacy back to town-and she was determined to reclaim her man. But Nick Reynolds...

She’s stolen gold… will she steal his heart? Lena Mae has been turning down the advances of men and potential suitors for marriage. She has not met a man worthy of her attention or her hand. Looking for adventure and learning of the route between England and Paris where gold is hauled and transported,...

Middle school retrieval specialist Jeremy Wilderson must team up with preteen private detective Becca Mills once again to solve his most mind-boggling case yet in this action-packed MAX novel. Ahh, summer vacation! Jeremy Wilderson, Scottsville Middle School’s first (and only) retrieval specialist,...

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Og the giant is so big that no bed is large enough or strong enough to hold him. He never gets a good night's sleep—but all the animals know he has a gentle heart under his groggy grumpiness. Then a man named Noah asks for Og's help, and Og's life changes forever.

Lake Superior—its people and places—feature in this anthology of short stories by nine writers from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The power of stories lures an aging man on a road trip back home, north on Highway 61. Through her painting of a river, an Ojibway woman teaches a historian about...

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Katy's favorite holiday is Rosh Hashanah, when she gets to pick apples and make applesauce with her mother. But what happens when the tradition is interrupted by the early arrival of her baby cousin?

Visit a bee farm, and follow the bees as they carry “kisses” from flower to flower and return to their hives with their tummies full of nectar. Learn how the honey is extracted from the combs and makes its way from the hive to the table, to be enjoyed with slices of apples for a Rosh Hashanah treat.