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Chris Kringle and The Jingle Squade -eBook

Chris Kringle and the Jingle Squad​brings to life the playful world of Chris Kringle, a boy with big dreams and an even bigger destiny. Born into a legacy of Santa Claus legends, Chris balances the weight of tradition with the carefree joy of childhood mischief. Alongside his spirited friends, the Jingle Squad, he turns every snowy day into a merry adventure filled with laughter, surprises, and a sprinkle of holiday magic.More than just a story about becoming Santa, this book is a celebration of friendship, kindness, and the magic that can be found in everyday moments. It reminds readers young and old that the heart of Christmas isn’t in the presents, but in the love and joy we share. Pe...
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Chris Kringle and The Jingle Squad - Audio Book

Chris Kringle and the Jingle Squad​brings to life the playful world of Chris Kringle, a boy with big dreams and an even bigger destiny. Born into a legacy of Santa Claus legends, Chris balances the weight of tradition with the carefree joy of childhood mischief. Alongside his spirited friends, the Jingle Squad, he turns every snowy day into a merry adventure filled with laughter, surprises, and a sprinkle of holiday magic.More than just a story about becoming Santa, this book is a celebration of friendship, kindness, and the magic that can be found in everyday moments. It reminds readers young and old that the heart of Christmas isn’t in the presents, but in the love and joy we share. Pe...
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Chris Kringle and The Jingle Squad - Paperback

Chris Kringle and the Jingle Squad​brings to life the playful world of Chris Kringle, a boy with big dreams and an even bigger destiny. Born into a legacy of Santa Claus legends, Chris balances the weight of tradition with the carefree joy of childhood mischief. Alongside his spirited friends, the Jingle Squad, he turns every snowy day into a merry adventure filled with laughter, surprises, and a sprinkle of holiday magic.More than just a story about becoming Santa, this book is a celebration of friendship, kindness, and the magic that can be found in everyday moments. It reminds readers young and old that the heart of Christmas isn’t in the presents, but in the love and joy we share. Pe...
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The In-House Politician

It is 1992 and banks are merging at an astonishing rate, but none of them are being held accountable. Teddy DeMarco, a banker with a conscience, strives to hold his financial institution to a higher standard. Indeed, First Northeastern Bank (1NEB) must atone for years of redlining and racial bias in its mortgage lending. Thus Teddy negotiates agreements with two activist groups that champion fair mortgage lending practices for African Americans. But sinister forces, both internal and external, arise to block Teddy's efforts and make his life miserable as the bank’s in-house politician.This novel—both funny and keenly serious—is filled with characters who are true believers. It delves u...
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The In-House Politician

It is 1992 and banks are merging at an astonishing rate, but none of them are being held accountable. Teddy DeMarco, a banker with a conscience, strives to hold his financial institution to a higher standard. Indeed, First Northeastern Bank (1NEB) must atone for years of redlining and racial bias in its mortgage lending. Thus Teddy negotiates agreements with two activist groups that champion fair mortgage lending practices for African Americans. But sinister forces, both internal and external, arise to block Teddy's efforts and make his life miserable as the bank’s in-house politician.This novel—both funny and keenly serious—is filled with characters who are true believers. It delves u...
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FETAL ATTRACTION

The brutal murder of an 18-year-old Hispanic girl shocks her community, but the case takes an even darker turn when it's discovered that her baby boy has been stolen.

Los Angeles Homicide Detectives Reggie Hough and Anne Collier are thrust into a chilling race against time to track down the killer—and find the baby, who may still be alive. The trail leads them across state lines to Texas where they uncover a possible connection to another stolen child. 

As the clues narrow on a seemingly caring nurse, the detectives push the boundaries of the law to bring the truth to light and justice to the victims.

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Chasing Tales (Adventures in Learning)

Three different stories, one intention; encourage laughing while learning important morals. Holy Fruit Toots Rosie helps children understand our pets can get allergies too. What Should Hootie Do? teaches children how important owls are in our ecosystem (and to always be yourself) and Because You Care For Beany Bear reminds us how being accepting and kind to others can lead to lasting relationships.

Bright and colourful pages; fun for the whole family.

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K47

K47 is a robot who is becoming human against his wishes. Unable to complete his programming due to the metamorphosis, the robot finds himself in a battle with an untested emotion chip, the law, and the very people who stand to profit from his mission.

He’ll have his day in court to fight for legal rights for androids, in an epic battle between AI and humans. But surviving the challenge may be too much for his system to bear.

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Hot Pizza, Cold Shoulder

Madeline Kloppleman and Kim-Jack Donaldson are a couple in their mid-twenties. She’s white, Jewish, privileged, and ready to marry, but only if the ceremony is in Antarctica on New Year’s Eve. He’s a black, inner city, high school science teacher, trying to keep his students alive until graduation. Madeline is singing her way toward a recording contract. Kim-Jack is about to invent the perfect pizza box. When one of his students is arrested on Christmas Eve, hours before they’re scheduled to depart for the frigid nuptials, he’s assigned the task of legal guardian, but the student has to be with him around the clock...even at a wedding at the South Pole.

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One More Jamaican Sunset Please

“You’ve really been married to him for forty years?” Kelly sighed. “That’s true love.” “No, that’s called persistence. True love is when it’s raining and the umbrella is too small for both of you and your husband holds it over your head to keep you dry. True love happens when there’s only one toilet available and you both have to go, but he lets you go first even if it means peeing in his pants. True love is him taking the middle seat on an airplane even though there’s an obese person sitting next to the window whose flab is overflowing into his space.” Margie shook her head. “Forty years together has nothing to do with true love. A forty-year prison sente...
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Men Overboard

When online dating fails, is a singles cruise the best answer or the last resort?

Sixty-year-old accountant, Yancy Dellacort would rather lose a battle with the IRS than take another cruise. Yet when his wife of thirty-five years passes away and his attempts at online dating fail, his only recourse to find a life partner is to sign up for a Caribbean singles cruise on the Wind Seeker. Putting his best effort into the onboard search, Yancy discovers that romance at sea is worse than a ship without a rudder and that love and sex are often inseparable, even for senior citizens.

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Boulong's Cheese

The introduction of a successful vaccine against Covid has produced the unintended side effect of rendering all gunpowder in the world inert. Every weapon from a six-shooter to an atom bomb is now useless. However, on a fifty-seven-acre island in the middle of the Doubs River that divides France and Switzerland, a dairy farmer's prized cheese spread has gone into short supply and the world is about to go to war over its loss. “Boulong's Cheese” is 70,000 words of spitfire humor, biting satire, and just what the world needs now that the end of the pandemic is in sight. It pits the Queen of England against the new, bald President of the United States, and gives the Pope a way out of a...
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