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Overboard
Subgenre: Humor
Pages: Softcover: 265 / Hardcover: 255
Published: November 11, 2023
Dimensions: Softcover: 5 x 0.71 x 8 inches /
Hardcover: 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.5 inches
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When Markham's rescued from sea, he finds himself aboard a bizarre cruise ship populated by gang lords, sentient crocodiles, and, yeah, maybe a human or two. He can't remember life before. But life now sure seems scary.
Nina tells him only the Captain can make things right. But the Captain's gone missing-and Markham? Some believe he had something to do with it.
To clear his name and avoid trial-by-crocodile, Markham agrees to help Nina locate the missing legend at the helm . . . and the fact that Nina makes Markham's blood jump around like waves under the deck may have added to that decision.
But soon the most vicious gang lord threatens to corrupt everything on the vessel, from its dizzying neon casinos to its boiler-room volcano. As shadow and panic overtake the ship, Markham must find the Captain-or something in himself-to stop it before the cruise becomes a nightmare. He starts to wonder not only if this godlike Captain can save them-but if he was ever really there to begin with.
This is Not a Love Scene
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Subgenre: Romance
Pages: 320
Published: May 7, 2019
Dimensions : 5.82 x 1.07 x 7.94 inches
"This Is Not A Love Scene rings brilliantly true from the first page to the last." ―David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Funny, emotional, and refreshingly honest, S.C. Megale’s This is Not a Love Scene is for anyone who can relate to feeling different while navigating the terrifying and thrilling waters of first love.
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Lights, camera―all Maeve needs is action. But at eighteen, a rare form of muscular dystrophy usually stands in the way of romance. She's got her friends, her humor, and a passion for filmmaking to keep her focus off consistent rejection...and the hot older guy starring in her senior film project.
Tall, bearded, and always swaying, Cole Stone is everything Maeve can't be. And she likes it. Between takes, their chemistry is shockingly electric.
Suddenly, Maeve gets a taste of typical teenage dating life, but girls in wheelchairs don’t get the hot guy―right? Cole’s attention challenges everything she once believed about her self-image and hopes for love. But figuring this out, both emotionally and physically, won't be easy for either of them. Maeve must choose between what she needs and what she wants, while Cole has a tendency to avoid decisions altogether. And the future might not wait for either.
Hockey's Hidden Gods
Genre: True Events
Subgenre: Inspirational, Sports, History
Pages: 280
Published: December 14, 2022
Dimensions: 6.34 x 0.9 x 9.01 inches
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A Library Journal Best Arts & Humanities Book 2022
The extraordinary true story of the U.S. sled hockey team that overcame physical adversity and internal strife to win Paralympic gold.
When former NHL star Rick Middleton accepted the position of head coach for the United States sled hockey team, he wasn’t sure what to expect. The program had never medaled—had never even come close, in fact. But where Middleton might have found despair, he instead found an incredible group of men who had battled their way back from hell to play the sport they love.
In Hockey’s Hidden Gods: The Untold Story of a Paralympic Miracle on Ice, S.C. Megale uncovers the remarkable tale of a team that shocked the world by taking U.S. sled hockey from worst to first in the 2002 Paralympics. Odds of winning were dismal. The road to victory seemed unfathomable. But this cast of fifteen athletes with disabilities, athletes who had helped build a groundbreaking U.S. sled hockey program with almost no outside support, ultimately persevered on the global stage.
Featuring a fascinating history of sled hockey, exclusive interviews with players and coaches, action-packed game coverage, and intimate profiles sharing the players’ personal journeys, Hockey’s Hidden Gods is the uplifting story of how once-shattered dreams can be reborn and rebuilt through tenacity, grit, and an indomitable spirit.
American Boy
Genre: True Events
Subgenre: Addiction, Sibling Love
Pages: 178
Published: October 18, 2019
Dimensions: Softcover: 5 x 0.44 x 8 inches / Hardcover 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
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1st Place IPPY Award
1st Place Reader Views Award
American Boy is the poignant story of a brother’s fall through the eyes of a little sibling. Matthew went from clashing lightsabers with Shea and scaring away bullies, to driving off into night and stumbling up to federal court podiums. Megale chronicles Matt’s journey through opioid addiction with brutal truth and unimaginable love, revealing raw and shocking insight into this national and deadly epidemic. This firsthand biography seeks to help others by sharing what worked for Matthew and what didn’t, and looking back on mistakes made in the heat of survival. Megale challenges families to talk without shame about their loved one’s addiction, and what communities can do to change the course of this historic crisis in front of them.
Written with haunting intimacy and surprising hope, Megale’s account is a must-read for anyone touched by substance abuse or grief. It is the portrait of Matt—his spirit and his warmth—but the story of Shea, too, who fights to return to him with both urgency and ideas of forever.
