HBE Publishing Imprints
Barn Owl Media
Children’s Books
King Arthur’s Heart (Hardback)
King Arthur’s legend is known far and wide. Brave, bold and majestic, he rules his people with a gentle hand. But there is a part no one has been told…King Arthur was a horrible artist. Frustrated with his numerous failed attempts, he bans art all throughout his kingdom. Havoc washes over the land. How can he bring back the joy and color that have now been stripped away?
King Arthur’s Heart (Paperback)
King Arthur’s legend is known far and wide. Brave, bold and majestic, he rules his people with a gentle hand. But there is a part no one has been told…King Arthur was a horrible artist. Frustrated with his numerous failed attempts, he bans art all throughout his kingdom. Havoc washes over the land. How can he bring back the joy and color that have now been stripped away?
Drots the Dragobotosaurus (Hardback)
Gavin McCracken’s science teacher announced a competition.
Every member of the robotics club had to design and build a robot for their end-of-the-year project.
The grand prize promised a week at Robot Camp. Gavin wanted to win more than anything.
So he drew and he thought and he thought and he drew. After measuring, clanging, banging, and coding...
screwing, crunching, taping, and gluing...
He finally had something he was sure that would win.
However...
Drots had ideas of its own.
Drots The Dragobotosaurus (paperback)
Gavin McCracken’s science teacher announced a competition.
Every member of the robotics club had to design and build a robot for their end-of-the-year project.
The grand prize promised a week at Robot Camp. Gavin wanted to win more than anything.
So he drew and he thought and he thought and he drew. After measuring, clanging, banging, and coding...
screwing, crunching, taping, and gluing...
He finally had something he was sure that would win.
However...
Drots had ideas of its own
A Story for CleoCatra (harback)
Curiosity gnaws away at twin cats, Cleo and Catrina, as they watch each other’s lives from afar. They ponder the mysteries lying just beyond, feeling left out. Thinking that the grass is greener on the other side, they switch places. Enduring both joy and catastrophe, the twins realize they made a mistake.
Twisty Green Monster (hardback)
Timothy Thomas Taylor was afraid of only one thing. The Twisty Green Monster tormenting the school yard. With the help of special rock, Timmy battles the monster that puts fear in the hearts of his classmates and taunts him daily.
Wild and Curious Atticus James at The Gnu Petting Zoo (hardback)
Atticus James, curious and wild, discovers that school is, well — school. Finding the classroom much too tame, he delivers a daily dose of wild through his antics. Teacher, desperate to bring calm to her classroom enlists the help of his parents, and together they find the best solution — a trip to the Gnu Petting Zoo. Once there, Atticus James discovers the animals are not quite as wild as he thought. He petitions his teacher for a much wilder place to be. Does she deliver? You bet!
Wild and Curious Atticus James at The Gnu Petting Zoo (paperback)
Atticus James, curious and wild, discovers that school is, well — school. Finding the classroom much too tame, he delivers a daily dose of wild through his antics. Teacher, desperate to bring calm to her classroom enlists the help of his parents, and together they find the best solution — a trip to the Gnu Petting Zoo. Once there, Atticus James discovers the animals are not quite as wild as he thought. He petitions his teacher for a much wilder place to be. Does she deliver? You bet!
Twisty Green Monster (paperback)
Timothy Thomas Taylor is taunted every day by his greatest fear…something so horrendous even his classmates go running in fear. Join him on his journey of self-discovery as he conquers the foes of his imagination. Wrapped in friendship and courage, it is a story for children of all ages.
A Story for CleoCatra (paperback)
Curiosity gnaws away at twin cats, Cleo and Catrina, as they watch each other’s lives from afar. They ponder the mysteries lying just beyond, feeling left out. Thinking that the grass is greener on the other side, they switch places. Enduring both joy and catastrophe, the twins realize they made a mistake.
Pen the Tale, Oogie (Paperback)
The greatest Storyteller in the forest is about to go into hibernation. What will all the animals do without their nightly stories? Karen Moore has given us a wonderful tale of what it takes to create something original. With Doug Hansen's art to bring the characters to life, Oogie and Mr. Fox challenge the bounds of creativity and, in the process, perfectly illustrate the writer's most common dilemma. Being original. With touches of Goldilocks, Winnie-the-Pooh and Paddington, Oogie's journey leads him to the place where stories are born.
Pen the Tale, Oogie (Hardback)
The greatest Storyteller in the forest is about to go into hibernation. What will all the animals do without their nightly stories? Karen Moore has given us a wonderful tale of what it takes to create something original. With Doug Hansen's art to bring the characters to life, Oogie and Mr. Fox challenge the bounds of creativity and, in the process, perfectly illustrate the writer's most common dilemma. Being original. With touches of Goldilocks, Winnie-the-Pooh and Paddington, Oogie's journey leads him to the place where stories are born.
Worlds of Wonder
Juvenile Historical Fiction
Elsie Jones and The Captain’s Guard
Elsie Jones and the Captain’s Guard is the third installment in the enchanting series of a young girl who loves books. Using them as portals to past decades, she teams up with prominent historical figures. In this exciting tale, she joins the Three Musketeers as they embark on a mission to rescue King Phillipe from the Bastille. His twin brother has claimed the throne and sided with Dark Cloak. Taking up arms, Elsie helps fight off the evil entities threatening Paris, making new friends along the way.
Elsie Jones and The Revolutionary Rebels
Elsie Jones and The Revolutionary Rebels is the second installment in the enchanting series of a young girl who loves books. Using them as portals to past decades, she teams up with prominent historical figures. Join her on her adventure during the revolutionary era. Fighting side by side with the Sons of Liberty, Elsie protects the Library of Solitude from the evil clutches of the Dark Hats.
Elsie Jones and The Book Pirates
Adventuress Extraordinaire
Meet Elsie Jones, a young girl who loves to read. On one of her trips to the library, she discovers something unexpected. A book whose words and images twist on the page, a portal to another world.
Elsie finds herself sailing through the pages aboard the Adventure Galley with her crew of pirates. All seems well until she learns of a dangerous threat… The Dark Hats.
Can a rag-tag group of pirates and a reader keep the Dark hats from their dastardly goal?
Flip Books
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Brass Leaf Press
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lands of Mother: 18 by Jon Latham
The Earth is no longer. The Apocalypse is not what was expected and all life is transferred to a new existence, a new world. Mother. A living, feeling land, very much involved in the day to day lives of her citizens. The King hung his head as he watched his Queen’s head tumble and roll. He felt suddenly filthy. His blade was covered with blood. He tried to think of the means to clean it in an attempt to get his stomach not to heave. “May Mother have mercy on us.” Pamela was dead. The new Queen has landed. In his debut novel, Latham creates a world filled with all the expected human characteristics, but adds the element of an active, caring and passionate ecology. ISBN: 978-1-943050-43-7 Release date: February 1, 2017
Horizon Bound Press
Young Adult
The Golden Lantern (Paperback)
The second installment in the Relics Adventure Series has Ivan
returning to the mystical forest, when his brother, Peter, doesn’t
come home.
Between the ratlings, the vaguers and the trolls, his troubles are
just beginning. Sebastian, the spirit in the Long Dark Cloak, has his
healing powers working overtime, just to keep up.
Ivan has his hands full, struggling with sarcastic cats, flying
horses, and a goddess that has his heart all aflutter. Throw in a
dejected dragon and a witch accused of murder, and his journey is
fraught with danger, mystery, and the knowledge that someone is
hell-bent to destroy him.
Morning Star Horse by Margarita Engle (English Hardback)
Award winning author Margarita Engle brings a tale of history mixed with a touch of fantasy.
“When Mamacita chose to call me Estrellita, / it was her way of imagining a little bit / of starlight, deep down in that cavern / where only rare streaks of day or night / could reach—now, Lucero and I will be / Morning Star and Little Star, / a lit-from-within racing team!”
El caballo Lucero by Margarita Engle (Spanish Hardback)
Una chica joven lisiado con ricketts y su madre enfrentan
las secuelas de la Guerra Hispano-Americana, los desafíos
de un nuevo siglo y profesores innovadores.
Sueños Realidad y sueños aplastados explorando las
libertades sólo pueAden ofrecer un caballo mágico.
Morning Star Horse / El caballo Lucero by Margarita Engle (Bilingual Hardback)
A young girl stricken with rickets and her mother face the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the challenges of a new century and innovative teachers. Dreams realized and dreams crushed exploring the freedoms only a magical horse can offer. Award winning author Margarita Engle brings a tale of history mixed with a touch of fantasy.
Relics: The Long Dark Cloak by Vicki Thomas
Thirteen-year-old Ivan Kimble travels to an ancient forest in Southern England, searching for Peter, his older brother. Ivan’s quest is interrupted when he half-heartedly agrees to help save the life of Zephyrus, a huge Kingwood oak tree, who was severely wounded with the revered Silver Axe. The lad is guided by a wise and honorable spirit, imbued in the Long Dark Cloak, to help find a healing sap to save Zephyrus’s life—or the forest will be lost forever. The journey is filled with a myriad of strange and mythical creatures that hinder his search to save Zephyrus. When war is declared, Ivan finds himself fighting to save his own life and the many friends he has made. He becomes a hero of the forest. When at last he finds his brother, he must ask himself if Peter is the same person he remembered.
ISBN: 978-1-943050-53-6
Released: February 1, 2017
Morning Star Horse / El caballo Lucero (Bilingual) by Margarita Engle
Award winning author Margarita Engle brings a tale of history mixed with a touch of fantasy. “When Mamacita chose to call me Estrellita, it was her way of imagining a little bit of starlight, deep down in that cavern where only rare streaks of day or night could reach—now, Lucero and I will be Morning Star and Little Star, a lit-from-within racing team!” A young girl stricken with rickets and her mother face the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the challenges of a new century and innovative teachers. Dreams realized and dreams crushed exploring the freedoms only a magical horse can offer. “Cuando Mamacita decidió nombrarme Estrellita fue su modo de imaginar un poco la luz de las estrellas, en el fondo de esa cueva a la que solo llegaban escasas luces del día o de la noche. Ahora Lucero y yo seremos el caballo del alba y la pequeña estrella: ¡un equipo de carreras iluminado por dentro!” Una chica joven lisiado con ricketts y su madre enfrentan las secuelas de la Guerra Hispano-Americana, los desafíos de un nuevo siglo y profesores innovadores. Sueños Realidad y sueños aplastados explorando las libertades sólo pueAden ofrecer un caballo mágico. Autor galardonado Margarita Engle trae un cuento de historia mezclada con un toque de fantasía. ISBN: 978-1-943050-26-0 Release date: January 25, 2017
El caballo Lucero (Spanish) by Margarita Engle
“Cuando Mamacita decidió nombrarme Estrellita fue su modo de imaginar un poco la luz de las estrellas, en el fondo de esa cueva a la que solo llegaban escasas luces del día o de la noche. Ahora Lucero y yo seremos el caballo del alba y la pequeña estrella: ¡un equipo de carreras iluminado por dentro!” Una chica joven lisiado con ricketts y su madre enfrentan las secuelas de la Guerra Hispano-Americana, los desafíos de un nuevo siglo y profesores innovadores. Sueños Realidad y sueños aplastados explorando las libertades sólo pueAden ofrecer un caballo mágico. Autor galardonado Margarita Engle trae un cuento de historia mezclada con un toque de fantasía. ISBN: 978-1-943050-28-4 Release date: January 25, 2017
Morning Star Horse by Margarita Engle
Award winning author Margarita Engle brings a tale of history mixed with a touch of fantasy. “When Mamacita chose to call me Estrellita, / it was her way of imagining a little bit / of starlight, deep down in that cavern / where only rare streaks of day or night / could reach—now, Lucero and I will be / Morning Star and Little Star, / a lit-from-within racing team!” A young girl stricken with rickets and her mother face the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the challenges of a new century and innovative teachers. Dreams realized and dreams crushed exploring the freedoms only a magical horse can offer. ISBN: 978-1-943050-24-6 Release date: January 25, 2017
Finding Pony (Signed & Limited First Edition hardback)
FINDING PONY is a true to life and genuine telling of the difficulties that youth in the foster family & adoption system experience. It is a gritty story told from the point of view of those most affected by other’s actions, those with the most to lose. Disillusioned by the institutions designed to help, Jesse is forced to become an adult, and does his best to protect his sister and their way of family, sometimes without much success. Jesse is a villain. Jesse is a hero. Jesse is a survivor. Chance encounters teach him not everyone is who they appear, there are reasons and there are consequences for everything.
Finding Pony (paperback)
FINDING PONY is a true to life and genuine telling of the difficulties that youth in the foster family & adoption system experience. It is a gritty story told from the point of view of those most affected by other’s actions, those with the most to lose. Disillusioned by the institutions designed to help, Jesse is forced to become an adult, and does his best to protect his sister and their way of family, sometimes without much success. Jesse is a villain. Jesse is a hero. Jesse is a survivor. Chance encounters teach him not everyone is who they appear, there are reasons and there are consequences for everything.
Paradigm Hall Press
Fiction
Shared Gardens (Paperback)
Shared Gardens brings the Garden Trilogy full circle. Claire's journey in search of her birth-mother is chronicled in this intense fictionaliztion of the authors own story of abandonment and adoption.
Alice's story of The Swan Garden and that of her daughters in Garden of Nails, are brought together from Finn's perspective, the child deprived of family by antiquated views of morality.
It is heart-breaking. It is maddening.
Garden of Nails (Hardback) Limited Edition
Ireland holds the keys ... to love and to life.
A late-night phone call, pulls her back to Dublin. A fall in the park; lost memories … a mother’s long buried fears.
Catherine is going home.
Things become complicated, as she re-discovers family dynamics overlooked as a teen. The middle of three sisters, she navigates between control and jealousy; an abusive husband, and the chance meeting of a past love.
Dublin also holds secrets, long hidden, that can heal or destroy
In her much anticipated sequel to The Swan Garden, Anne Biggs brings Alice’s girls to the forefront. Rose, Catherine, and Francie, each with families of their own. Each with their own secrets.
Garden of Nails (Paperback)
Ireland holds the keys ... to love and to life.
A late-night phone call, pulls her back to Dublin. A fall in the park; lost memories … a mother’s long buried fears.
Catherine is going home.
Things become complicated, as she re-discovers family dynamics overlooked as a teen. The middle of three sisters, she navigates between control and jealousy; an abusive husband, and the chance meeting of a past love.
Dublin also holds secrets, long hidden, that can heal or destroy
In her much anticipated sequel to The Swan Garden, Anne Biggs brings Alice’s girls to the forefront. Rose, Catherine, and Francie, each with families of their own. Each with their own secrets.
Swan Garden (paperback)
The Swan Garden tells the story of a young woman who survives a brutal assault and rape, gives birth in a mother baby home, and the abuse she receives in the Magdalene Laundry. After finding a way to get away, she attempts to create a life for herself, but never forgets who was taken from her and why. As the years pass, she learns truths once denied to her.
Independent Publishing Imprints
Creative Alternatives Press
Fiction – Chlidrens
Calico
Vallie Moore lives in a ghost town.
Calico, once a thriving mining community, has dwindled to only five inhabitants, and eleven
year-old Vallie would have it no other way. Where else could you have adventures with skunks,
mines and mail dogs?
Learning the history of her hometown, Vallie soon realizes the past is alive and well in Calico.
Crazy for Chickens by LeeAnna Guyett
Crazy for Chickens is a picture book intended for preschool and elementary school-aged children. It is a humorous story of a family, where the Mom becomes obsessed with owning chickens, which continue to multiply in various ways, much to the chagrin of Dad. Dad tries to stop the multiplication of chickens, but before he can stop it, he becomes a victim to the pleas of his family, and also to the allure of the chickens.
ISBN: 978-1-943050-38-3
Author: LeeAnna Guyett
Illustrator: Diego Cadena
Heliograph Publishing
Non-Fiction
Walking with Alzheimers: A Thirty Year Journey by Shelly Kruse
“Only a physician could write this book. Dr. Kruse understands first-hand the heartbreaking disease of Alzheimer's. This book is a combination of a memoir as Dr. Kruse relates her mother's difficult journey into the disease, and a guide book for patients and their families. She combines the roles of daughter and physician as she navigates the treacherous roads of financial and legal issues and explains the difficult choices families must decide such as placement, hospice, medications, diet, and diet claims. The most current diagnostic procedures are reviewed, as well as a survey of current clinical trials for potential cures. She uses plain English to explain the medical jargon and provides explanations about how medications work"
ISBN: 978-1-943050-36-9
Breaking Bread with William Saroyan by Janice Stevens and Pat Hunter
In Breaking Bread with William Saroyan, Janice Stevens captures the essence of William Saroyan's love for his Armenian culture through excerpts of his written word and carefully selected authentic Armenian recipes. From George Mardikian's recipe book, Dinner at Omar Khayyam's, to the First Armenian Presbyterian Church cookbook, A Hundred Years and Still Cooking, Breaking Bread with William Saroyan offers not only a usable Armenian recipe book, but is a collector book of Armenian history, fine art and Saroyan literary quotes. The book is filled with more than forty Pat Hunter watercolors of fruits and vegetables. as well as landscapes of Armenia and Fresno, California, Saroyan's birthplace. Friends and acquaintances recall breaking bread with Saroyan, and a portrait of Saroyan holding a pomegranate, seems to suggest his approval. This book is a delightful and intimate portrayal of Armenian foods and culture, celebrating the literary great, William Saroyan. Sure to become a classic.
ISBN: 978-1-943050-40-6
Author: Janice Stevens
Illustrator: Pat Hunter
Betrayal: Never Waste a Soldier (paperback)
The author presents his tale within the context of what is now known to history – things we could not know in the period between 1965 and 1973 during which the levels of American ground combat forces in Vietnam exceeded half a million troops. The war is now widely seen as a ghastly mistake claiming 60,000 of America’s best. He includes many historical references in the book to give the reader context for a war most don’t understand.
Public House Press
Poetry
More than Soil, Less than Sand
The poet Medina is wishing his brown skin to become one sentence filled with
opportunity and promise; to be the best line in a stanza of unforgettable ideas.
A first page stunner perhaps… Maybe, a meaty question? Sweating on the
edge of being special.
Shoofly Books
Fiction – Mystery
Vengeance Unbound by Gary Wayne Walker
Bear Republic clients were dying . . . Every forty-five days.
The only common denominator was the agent who sold them their life insurance policies. Arnold Taylor. Though not a suspect, Arnie felt responsible.
Would the LAPD solve the case, or would the solution be in the gise of an old friend, with a past as dark as sin?
In his second novel, Walker takes us back to what should be, the unexciting life of a 1970’s life insurance agent. With a cheating wife, friends of dubious character, and his clients being murdered every forty-five days, Arnie’s life is anything but. The twists and turns keep him in a constant state of uncertainty, culminating with the murder of three innocent victims who know too much.
ISBN: 978-1-943050-44-4
On the Couch: A Dog’s Tale by David Johnson
Nagi’s story describes his journey from pound imprisonment to life with an extremely dysfunctional, yet animal-loving, couple. Forced to become a mental health co-therapist, Nagi seeks solace in his relationships with two neighbor dogs, Tina Weiner and Sugar Bear, and an overly chatty beetle of questionable lineage, Rex. He becomes Nagi’s mentor, quick to offer up unsolicited advice, along with far-fetched life experiences, so far-fetched, in fact, that the reader will question whether Rex is a compulsive liar or a sage from ancient times.
Somehow, Nagi learns to make the best of his new life, living with two delusional parents whose love turns sour and a cast of characters who will leave you wondering who is crazier than who and which one needs to spend the most time “on the couch.” The reader soon discovers that the “couch” is where truths and innermost thoughts are revealed.
ISBN: 978-1-943050-47-5
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