In this fast-paced coming-of-age novel we meet Fiona, an art student at a New Jersey college who is brilliant, beautiful, and struggling to find herself. Through her eyes we relive the turbulent culture of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, the first draft lottery since World War II, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, the Kent State University shootings, and the harsh realities of war for Americans in their early twenties. Fiona’s best friend, Melissa, is in a dead-end relationship, pregnant, and going nowhere fast.

Beyond Carrots closes with a step-by-step plan for reversing eye disease that follows the steps that I followed when I reversed my own disease in 30 days. If I can reverse my eye disease, then my reader can too.

When pianist Max Silento is found dead in his hotel room, suspicion falls on the Rosewood family. Working as a live-in carer for grandmother Ada, Scarlet knows there must be a connection. Using her homegrown investigative skills, she pits herself against DI Ronnie Twist in a race to uncover the Rosewoods' secrets before the police can destroy the family she has made her own.

A young man named Perseus is cast out of his home of privilege and sets out on a journey seeking adventure and a new life. He heads west with no particular destination in mind until he runs out of money in a backwater town he considers to be in the middle of nowhere. He isn't sure what he should do, but the Fates cast a bit of timely good fortune his way. Two strangers notice him sitting at the counter in an old diner at the edge of town; a young cowgirl and a young Indian from the Choctaw reservation. Before he knows it, he's working at a local cattle ranch.

A story of grief and revenge, Green Shoots by Ben Westwood finds protagonist John Adamson desperate to find out how his wife really died, but unwittingly drawn into a deadly conspiracy. Businessmen with interests in the Amazon rainforest are being killed by the raw materials they exploit – oil, timber, and beef. While struggling through his grief, John must undertake two investigations that are somehow connected to get to the truth. OUT OF THEIR ASHES, GREEN SHOOTS WILL GROW Green Shoots is a story of grief and revenge, a gripping crime thriller with an ecological heart.

A delicious, illustrated natural history/travel novel, Sally Mills retells her twenty-month adventure with honesty and detail that reminds us that even paradise has its own set of challenges. In an environment that tested her 25 years of conservation management experience (predominantly working with the RSPB) to its limits, this debut author tells of the wonderment of living amongst a million seabirds and some of the planet’s rarest wildlife, juxtaposed against the challenges of living without electricity or running water and with only six other humans for company.

Ada Baker is a gifted psychic who shares her home with three bored ghosts. They tempt her into investigating the mysterious death of Mary Watts, who is found naked and strangled in her bathtub. This begins a series of exciting adventures for Ada as she draws on her unique skill of channelling the abilities of the dead to help solve the crime. She must convince a sceptical detective of her abilities, avoid the unwanted attentions of a sinister stalker, and try to enlist the help of a squadron of ghostly spitfire pilots to save her life.

Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine is a literary horror novel, a dark, surreal, contemporary supernatural fantasy that offers scares and suspense but seeks to terrify more on the level of concept, filling your head with thoughts and images that don’t fit right and perhaps shouldn’t even be. Bright, independent Lily Henshaw rides home with her friends Kris, Eric, and Mia after an evening of celebration and ends up in a nightmare. Two men in a pickup truck stalk them on the road.

A young girl finds herself living in two different worlds – the present and a dangerous Victorian past. When Susan’s dad wants to marry again, she is thrown into a whole new family where she feels excluded. Playing with her much loved old button box for comfort, she discovers a passage to a different time – the busy turmoil of 1850s London. Here, she lives with Baxter, a canny orphan boy who has adopted her as his sister. With Baxter, Susan is never lonely, but children like them must work and do almost anything to get by.

What if we didn’t have to fall down into that dark pit called depression? What if you could see it coming and step away from it? You Aren’t Depression’s Victim chronicles author Debra Atlas’s life and her struggles with depression. Written in workbook format, this book not only tells Atlas’s story, it also offers life-changing insights for those living with this often debilitating illness. In this empowering book, Ms.