As Jayce goes through life, learning, and seeing the world in a different
light, he will warm your heart. He does it all his way.

This loving and caring boy, along with his brother and sister, captures
love and happiness as life takes them through Jayce’s Journey.

Each of the children’s stories has its own individual adventure and life lesson. They are packed with trials, mayhem, suspense, mystery, action, and adventure.

With everyday situations that kids must face in the real world. Now throw in a little fantasy. Now you have charming tales that will enthrall young audiences. The perfect Storytime book series for both boys and girls ages 3-7 Grades: K-2.

Parents, teachers, librarians, and kids will appreciate the familiar situations and appropriate language for Ages 3-7 Grades: K-2.

When Wilmington falls in February of 1865, Cissy LaRoque no longer needs to spy. That will not stop her from finding a new career where she can prove her worth beyond societal expectations of a woman. With the war drawing to an end and Wilmington occupied, she is faced with desperate circumstances. Ryan Madison, a Union officer from the past, and Brandon McLean, a new one, attempt to help her. While attracted to them both, she is aware of family and community hostility toward the enemy and dares not act on the attraction. Her fiancé, Logan who is fighting for the southern cause, does not arouse her ardor like the two Union men. When the Confederacy falls, she convinces her father to allow her to run his shipping office in New Berne while he maintains the main office in Wilmington. There she discovers Ryan has married and Logan has jilted her. Provoked and titillated by a man she cannot have but craves, she puts aside romance and concentrates on business. Despite her father’s initial objections, much to his surprise she succeeds far beyond any expectation. Although she is happy in what she has achieved, she is frustrated by what she has lost.

Ayden connects with some uniquely talented forest creatures, uses an ample dose of Disney Magic and relies on his own ingenuity to solve his community’s water-logged problem.
Parents, teachers, librarians, and kids will appreciate the familiar situations and appropriate language for Ages 8-12 Grades: 3-6.
Mouse Gate Adventure Series Books by Rosanna Gartley
This series of children’s novels are the perfect story time reads for boys and girls ages 8-12. For the younger child, they make excellent ‘read to’ books that often deal with everyday situations faced by children in the real world.
Each novel’s tale contains action and adventure spurred by an issue or dilemma. Fantasy is sprinkled into the mix with the help of Disney magic aiding the main character in solving the problem at hand. Rosanna’s books not only entertain but educate as she weaves factual information throughout the entertaining chapters.

Sponsored by “Happy Root Beer,” root beer; Total Recall Press, “Oil Cup,” oil, and brought to you by “Mr. Ketchup,” ketchup, Fast Truck has traveled all the way to the great land of Nihon, and they’re soon kicking off one of the, if not the toughest races in all Motorsports! The Mount Fuji 40! Whew! Can’t you feel the excitement? This season’s event has been the highest anticipated one to date! With Japan native; Kimi Honson; the number 2071 running the fastest qualifying lap and snatching the pole! To, the number 22; Hale Danhard taking the 2nd place position, to Beverly Joe rolling in 3rd, and David Eugene bagging 4th! Let me tell you! Those four really ran an impressive run! Out of all the entries: Kimi; Hale, Beverly and David put down the fastest laps ever made in the history of the event; setting themselves far apart from the rest of the competitors times and pasting their names in the record books as the ones to beat!

Mayhem, mystery and adventure ensue following an enchanted experience that begins during a family vacation to the Magic Kingdom. Disney magic enables Emily to visit the past and the future allowing her to choose a path altering the lives of her loved ones.
The perfect Storytime book for both boys and girls ages 8-12 Grades: 3-6.

With a love they are certain will transcend all else, southern belle Penny Kennedy marries Union Officer and attorney, Ryan Madison, despite the condemnation of those around them. The initial days of wedded bliss end abruptly when Marcus, the man who courted Penny for years in anticipation that she would marry him, is arrested for murder, and Ryan is assigned to prosecute him. As hard as this development is to tolerate for Penny, she will discover worse things await her before Ryan and she can attain the life they desire.

Another race in the Fast Truck Series is about to take place! Can you feel the excitement in your bones? On this occasion we’re taking you all the way across the galaxy to a star system in the Orion constellation for the running of The “Happy Root Beer” 20! That’s right! Fast Truck has headed to a moon in orbit around the planet Wood Barrel! Filled entirely with an ocean of tasty, creamy, bubbly root beer, and surrounded by a wide; 15-mile around, flat, metallic ring system, the satellite host one of the wildest events to ever be held in truck racing! Once every season: popular, new teams, and general competitors put on magnetic tires and add pressure relief valves to their exhaust pipes. Crews strap oxygen tanks tight into their beds and they run a line from the tank to the trucks air intake, and they let it rip! For 20 laps around the moon! On the rings the trucks charge for 300 miles! Without pit stops; with only one large tank of gas, and another filled with air to make their engines fire, the trucks strongly roar and race in the cold hot vacuum of space! While having just one set of metal magnetic wheels to hold them firmly down to the track, they give it their all, run it hard, and charge to the front to be the one at the end to win the purse! I assure you it’s going to be an exciting event! So, come on! What are you waiting for? Climb in and see which truck takes home the trophy this year for The “Happy Root Beer” 20! You surely won’t be disappointed! I guarantee you that!”

Once a year the Fast Truck Series heads to the most popular beach on the planet for the running of the world-famous spectacle. Known throughout the land as the “2-mile Sand Slinger,” the track and event never fails at entertaining fans all over, of all ages, and it always delivers in producing some of the wildest racing in Motorsports! Veteran teams and newcomers alike, arrive, qualify, and compete in a grueling 150-lap chase to the checkered flag! Each season, crews set the slicks aside and roll out the boggers for the spectacle, trucks put on their goggles, dig in their paddles, and the rooster tails fly high! Throughout the history of the sport, the 300 has made champions of some, defeated others, and it has given inspiration to those who felt the odds were against them. Not too long ago, Hale Danhard had a race mishap and nearly gave up; Daisy May was told she was too young, and a sharp and highly confident El Camino with a bright future ahead of him, fell short of his goals. While all the trucks and teams give it their best, only one is ever the victor. Who’ll take home the trophy this time? Will it be, the points leader, Beverly Joe Breece, Daisy May, a.k.a. “The Kid,” Mike Brian, Stinger Martin, “The Newcomer,” or the recent winner of The “Oil Cup” 400, Al Hartman? I guarantee whoever it is, the excitement will have you pinned in your seats as soon as the green flag falls! So, what are you waiting for? Hop in and hold on tight! Mash the throttle down and blast through those gears! Snug in close to the wall and read along with your family and friends! Clutch that wheel until the very end, and see who brings home the bacon at one of the toughest and lively competitions around! Be sure to fill your tanks, and let’s go dune racing by the sea!

The War Between the States comes to eastern North Carolina bringing hardships, pillaging, and fear to the local residents. For those left at home the struggle to procure the needs of daily life is all-consuming. For those serving in the armies of both North and South death is a daily companion. Against this backdrop an unlikely and forbidden love affair between a local woman and a Union officer leads to difficult choices—choices that will tear them apart and force them to deal with the abandonment of their dream of a life together. Despite broken hearts, misunderstandings and missed chances, Penny and Ryan strive to survive the dangers and ravages of war and make the best of their separate futures. With the surrender of the South at Appomattox, Penny realizes she has one last chance to either find the man she loves or settle for life without him.

Man in the Chimney
(originally Titled
Muddy Waters
) is the 2011 Award winner for historical fiction from the North Carolina Society of Historians. Both of Betty’s other published novels in the series:
Turbulent Waters
(originally Titled
Blue Waters
2012) and
Run, Cissy, Run
2013 are Fiction Award NC Society of Historians winners.

When the President’s daughter is kidnapped, the Cords move into the White House to assist in locating her. Quint, intuitive and trained in counterterrorism, and Lila, a leading expert in computer hacking, have both earned the President’s trust through their commitment and expertise in solving other cases. Despite increased security, threats against the President and his family escalate. It takes a few lucky breaks and a lot of investigation to learn who is behind the carnage. The issue becomes how to stop the perpetrators of the attacks without creating an international incident.