Joseph Monninger

In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.

Whippoorwill

Cobb, a devoted teacher and nature-lover, takes a sabbatical from his New England boys prep school seeking to experience what Henry David Thoreau and the transcendentalists did in the early nineteenth century. Kayaking to the last known spot where the American writer and philosopher camped four years before he died, he encounters the beautiful free-spirited Mary. Also a teacher, avid bird-watcher, and deft adventurist, Mary is flirtatious and beguiling, and the two soon become inseparable. Mary is like no one Cobb has ever met before, but he gets the feeling that she is harboring a secret. Eventually she shares her fears with Cobb—that she may be carrying the gene for a devastating, incurable illness that runs in her family. Finding strength in their commitment to one another, the two embark on a journey that is filled with joy, anguish, hope, and most importantly, unending love. Set against the sweeping natural backdrops of Maine’s rugged backcountry, the exotic islands of Indonesia, scenic Yellowstone National Park, and rural New England, Tender River is a timeless and poignant love story that will captivate readers everywhere.

Eternal on the Water

One town, one game, one chance... 17-year-old Zeb Holloway is an ordinary kid living in an ordinary town in rural New Hampshire. Sure, he's a quarterback on his high school's undefeated football team, but he's second-string and he never plays. Why would the coach play Zeb when T.T. Munroe's around? T.T.'s a walking, talking highlight reel. That is, until he's injured one week before the state championship game. Now, Zeb's tapped to start and it feels like the entire town is watching his every move. Girls want to talk to him, adults want to shake his hand, and a college recruiter says that Zeb may have a future beyond his small New Hampshire town. Set over the course of seven fateful days, Game Change is an unblinking look at life in rural America and an uplifting portrait of a boy on the brink of adulthood.

Game Change

El mapa que me lleva a ti

Baby

Luanne Rice

A series of letters reveals the emotional odyssey and evolution of one couple's relationship as they fall in love, confront the loss of an adult child, and struggle to rediscover who they each are and what they mean to each other in the wake of the tragedy.

The Letters

Margaret Kennedy, a wounded veteran's wife, travels to Washington, D.C., where she unexpectedly falls in love with handsome Foreign Service officer Charlie King and struggles to stay true to her marriage vows.

A Novel

Margaret from Maine

Forging a deep bond after a dramatic rescue in their youths, Allard, his brother Ed and their friend Sarah successfully pursue their careers until a shared tragedy on the eve of a wedding forces Allard and Sarah to explore separate paths in order to heal. By the author of Eternal on the Water. Original.

The World As We Know It

While trying to help her eleven-year-old brother who suffers from cystic fibrosis get his greatest wish, fifteen-year-old Bee discovers that she has some special wishes of her own.

Wish

Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncle’s auto repair shop and cruise through school without much effort. He’s a quarterback on his high school’s undefeated football team, but he never plays. Why would he when T.T. Munroe—a walking, talking highlight reel—is around? That is, until T.T’s injured a week before the state championships. Now Zeb is starting. As he assumes the role of QB and team leader, the entire town is watching him. And when a college recruiter says Zeb could have a future beyond his small New Hampshire town, he realizes there’s a bigger life out there for him . . . if he can play his heart out.

Brought together by war, separated by duty, a love story for the ages Margaret Kennedy lives on a dairy farm in rural Maine. Her husband Thomas—injured in a war overseas—will never be the man he was. When the President signs a bill in support of wounded veterans, Margaret is invited to the nation’s capital. Charlie King, a handsome Foreign Service officer, volunteers to escort her. As the rhododendron blossoms along the Blue Ridge Highway, the unlikely pair fall in love—but Margaret cannot ignore the tug of her marriage vows. Joseph Monninger’s Margaret from Maine is a page-turning romance that poignantly explores the dilemmas faced by those who serve our country—and the men and women who love them.

A lifetime of friendship begins the day brothers Ed and Allard save Sarah from drowning in an icy river near their rural New Hampshire home. Though their paths diverge through the years, the connection between the three endures until a heartbreaking tragedy in the remote mountains of Wyoming forces Sarah and Allard to confront the unthinkable. In their grief, they find themselves on separate journeys that test the enduring bonds of their relationship and time’s unremitting power to heal. Poignant and transformative, The World as We Know It is subtle and heartrending—a love story of friendship, nature, and the surprising twists that can alter our destinies forever.

Retired amateur wrestler Mather Edson, now a detective, takes the case of socialite Peggy Ramsey, whose daughter has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom

Mather

Joe Monninger's work has appeared in American Heritage, Scientific American, Reader's Digest, Glamour, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and Ellery Queen, among other publications. Over his 30 year writing journey through multiple genres in fiction, nonfiction, and young adult novels, Monninger has attracted significant praise: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Richard Eder, reviewing Monninger's 1991 novel The Viper Tree, compared him to renowned author Graham Greene; in 2007, NPR's Bill Littlefield said Monninger's historical boxing book, Two Ton, deserves a spot among that sport's classic literature.

A Cup of Stars

A young American in modern Africa becomes involved in the death and the continued mystic powers of a German soldier who had fled World War II for Africa where he was tormented and tested by nomads and branded a super-human witch

The Viper Tree

Sixteen-year-old Hattie and eighteen-year-old Delores set off on a road trip that takes unexpected turns as they discover the healing power of friendship and learn to deal with their personal issues from home.

Finding Somewhere

An action-packed story perfect for fans of shark attack novels, with a touch of STEM, that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. DANGER FROM THE DEPTHS! In beautiful Cape Cod, a fatal Great White attack rocks the popular tourist destination. As the beaches are closed and locals grow angry, a recently arrived Barn Whimbril heads straight into the action. But he quickly gets caught up with a group of local teens who are determined to surf no matter what gets in the way. Can Barn safely investigate the attack or will he come face-to-face with the ocean's most feared apex predator?

The Great White Shark (Dragged from Under #2)

When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.

Stay Alive #1: Crash

Stranded in the middle of nowhere, you have to fight to survive! When the members of Junior Action News Team crash land in the Alaskan backwoods, one thing is clear: not everyone is going to survive. No cell phones. No internet. Their supplies are limited, as is their knowledge of the wilderness. Part of the group wants to wait it out. Other wants to search for help. But above all they must stay alive!

Beetle-browed, nearly bald, with a head that rode his collarbones like a bowling ball returning on rails, his waist size more than half his five-foot, eight-inch height, Two Ton Tony Galento resembled, according to Collier magazine writer Jack Miley, “a taxi driving away with its top down.” By all measures he stood no chance when he stepped into the ring against the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, the finest heavyweight of his generation. But in Yankee Stadium on a June night in 1939 he entered the record books as one of the few men to put the great Louis down. For two splendid seconds he stood on the mat as the Joe Louis lay before him, champ of the world, the toughest man alive, the mythical hero of a nation little more than a year away from war. “I’ll moida da bum,” he had predicted. And though Louis was no bum, Galento was almost as good as his word.

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