(Short Story.) Finnegan o'Flannagan (Finn) is an out-of-luck musician in the tiny town of Kilkee. The last thing he knows is how to race a horse; but this is exactly what he is requested to do, by his pretty and forceful young friend, the Lady Millen. Who can deny her?A bit of slapstick to entertain you on a rainy day...On the Friday after Thanksgiving Day in 1963 a young man finds a wallet containing over three hundred dollars laying on the ground in front of a drug store. The drug store is giving away a beautiful toy train set as a Christmas promotion. The boy could buy several of the trains with the money in this wallet but he decides to try to return the wallet to its owner. The events that ensue will have major affects on the lives of many.

16 year-old Caryn Clay is a Phoenix, AZ girl who would be perfectly happy if you never mentioned (or even noticed) the fact that she’s half-Navajo. So she’s more than a little surprised when her Navajo grandmother wills a genuine Thunderbird feather to her - especially when she finds out that the feather grants her limited control over the weather and the ability to fly.Author Russ Anderson, Jr. takes flight with the newest Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series-Fly Girl! 16 year-old Caryn Clay is a Phoenix, AZ girl who would be perfectly happy if you never mentioned (or even noticed) the fact that she’s half-Navajo. She’s never been comfortable with that culture, and she’s never made any bones about that... so she’s more than a little surprised when her Navajo grandmother wills a genuine Thunderbird feather to her - especially when she finds out that the feather grants her limited control over the weather and the ability to fly. Before she can adjust to all of this, a maniac with seemingly unlimited magical power named the Trickster takes her friends hostage, and she must use her own powers—powers she barely understands—to save them.

When Paean, a teen musician, boards the 'Solar Wind' with her brothers, all she wants is to escape from those monstrous forces hunting for them. But she is out of luck, because the Solar Wind is a pirate ship. Suddenly all the rules have changed, and she must find her way in this quicksand to figure out whom to trust, what to keep secret, and how to help the high-tech ship evade the law.Three orphaned siblings board a ship in the year 2116, hoping to escape from the deadly forces hunting for them. Their luck fails them, as they discover: The 'Solar Wind' is a pirate. As Paean and her brothers do a tightrope dance between keeping their own secret and helping the Solar Wind's crew evade the military that is ceaselessly combing for them all, their magic begins to weave its own tune into the hearts of the pirates. Danger threatens from all sides, and it soon becomes clear that they have to throw their lot in with the Solar Wind and her crew, or perish with the ship. Review by Nikki Mason, BestChickLit:.... The Donegal siblings are thrown into the world of piracy while trying to escape a corrupt and dictating world government. They are charming, easy to like teens who tackle every new shock with courage and loyalty. But the real stand out character is the eccentric gypsy Federi, the ship’s chef and jester. But behind those laughing smiling eyes lies a dark past and a backbone of steel.The imaginative book explores different levels of loyalty and friendship and how far people will go to protect the ones they love, even if it means ignoring their own values and the results are fascinating.

On his meanderings, photojournalist Tom meets a little girl who plays alone in the park. First intrigued by her strange character, then worried for her safety, he accompanies her home, though she never allows him to follow the very last bit to her house. Then one day he misses their appointment...Dignity and Reason have suffered much stress and misery because of their cousin Guiles, his daughter Prevarica, and the rest of the Leasing family. Now Guiles leaves Dignity the responsibility for bankrupt and neglected Founders Grove park, and it will take miracles—and a really good lawyer—to get him out of this. As for the Leasings, when they land in terrible trouble, old Ambassador Grace advises Dignity and Reason to try to save them, and he offers the prospect of help from Heavenite secret agent Patience Orchard. The question is, would the cousins rather just be rid of the Leasings?

A glossary of foreign expressions to supplement the Solar Wind and Shooting Star series.This is a glossary of foreign expressions to supplement the Solar Wind and Shooting Star series.

Mary Adams has married into money. At first this is amazing and she is overwhelmed with thankfulness; but as time goes by she begins to realize that all is not well in the wealthy family. She comes upon a creepy volume of genealogy in the library of the house that was given to her and her husband John to live in, and from there, her curiosity turns into an obsession to get to the bottom of it.Mary Adams has married into money. At first this is amazing and she is overwhelmed with thankfulness; but as time goes by she begins to realize that all is not well in the wealthy family. She comes upon a creepy volume of genealogy in the library of the house that was given to her and her husband John to live in, and from there, her curiosity turns into an obsession to get to the bottom of it all. She has to do this without John realizing it, because he is part of The System...