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Title:

THE CADENCE OF GYPSIES

ISBN #s:

978-0-9820812-8-0

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Three high-spirited 17 year olds, with intelligence quotients in the genius range, accompany their teacher and mentor, Carolina Lovel, to Frascati, Italy, a few weeks before they are to graduate from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women.

Category:

Young Adult Novel

Retail Price:

$16.95

Publisher:

Gauthier Publications

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Title:

JUST LIKE FAMILY

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1933300744  ||  ISBN-13: 978-193330740

Description and Reviews:


All in one day, thirty-five-year-old Hallie Marsh learns that the man she loves, works for, and is living with has found someone else—and that she no longer has a job, a place to live, or a car since she crashed it into a hedge.  Her feelings of rage and desire for revenge are soon replaced by a fascination with her new neighbors—four peculiar, elderly people who decide to buy an old run-down estate, fix it up, and live in it “just like family.”

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Love and romance, yes. But much more. Just Like Family reflects with sensitivity the intensity, the warmth, the need, the possibilities of friendship. We meet people of different races, backgrounds and ages who all find themselves somehow tied together in a time and place. Hardships, relationships, tragedies challenge the characters. The reader joins and emotionally shares with them the voyage of discovery that ensues. Ultimately we learn the goal and, trust me, we are enhanced as much as the characters we have come to know and love.  This is a book to treasure. For today's readers, subjected to troubling news from around the world, Just Like Family comes as a panacea. Thank you Barbara Casey.

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PATRICIA DALY-LIPE, Author, Forbidden Loves: Paris between the Wars.
Past President, National League of American Pen Women, Washington, DC
Historian, National Society Daughters of American Colonists, Washington, DC

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Just Like Family is a fun story with unforgettable characters. Taking on the challenges of working in a highly competitive or difficult environment, it offers a deliciously naughty concept for those of us “a certain age” facing the perils of living alone.  Just like in her novels The Coach’s Wife and Shyla’s Initiative, Barbara Casey gives us a perceptive, multi-dimensional glimpse into the world around us.

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KAREN DOVE BARR, Author, Running through Menopause
Attorney at Law

Category:

Adult Novel

Retail Price:

$20.00

Publisher:

Wandering Sage Publishing Group

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Title:

THE HOUSE OF KANE

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1595071369  ||  978-1595071361

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Considered for a 2007 Pulitzer Award Nomination.

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Enter the world of bestselling publishing, filled with intrigue, power, betrayal, ambition and greed. Yet for Aislinn Marchánt it represents the attainment of a life’s dream, a point of destiny, as she is caught up in the storm that is the House of Kane.

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"Simultaneously wise and poignant, exotic and suspenseful, The House of Kane is a fascinating story of loyalty, treachery and the power of destiny. With an insider’s view into the world of high stakes publishing, Barbara Casey weaves a masterful story that haunts the reader long after the final page."

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NANCY STEINBECK
Author of The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck.

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"Barbara Casey’s The House of Kane is a touchingly tender love story, set in an intrigue-riddled publishing industry. Her characters are interesting and varied. Her story is refreshing and engagingly told. Aspiring writers will want to read The House of Kane to tap her wisdom about getting into print."

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JOHN DEDAKIS
CNN Senior Copy Editor
Author of Fast Track

Category:

Adult Novel

Retail Price:

$28.00

Publisher:

ArcheBooks Publishing

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Title:

THE COACH'S WIFE

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1595070427  ||  978-1595070425

Description and Reviews:

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2004 Dana Award for Outstanding Novel, Semifinalist.

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Another deafening roar exploded from the coliseum, and when it did Marla threw down her partially-smoked cigarette and ground it into the polished tile floor with the toe of her shoe.  Quickly she reached for another cigarette from the opened pack in her small red handbag.  She lit it, sucked the smoke into her mouth, held her breath, coughed, and then slowly released it.  Marla didn't smoke, but when she paced up and down the hallways of basketball coliseums, puffing on cigarettes seemed appropriate.  It gave her something to do with her hands, and it helped keep her sane.

Category:

Adult Novel

Retail Price:

$28.00

Publisher:

ArcheBooks Publishing

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Title:

SHYLA'S INITIATIVE

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1890109045  ||  978-1890109783

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2003 Independent Publisher Book Award.

Special Recognition for Literary Merit Palm Beach County Cultural Council.

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Shyla tries to cheerfully accept the responsibilities that come with a new marriage and the inevitable adjustments, but the stress from it is leaving her with constant migraines, a lack of energy, and, worst of all, an inability to write. While she is in Naples, Florida, teaching a creative writing course, Shyla becomes intrigued with a student’s manuscript, THE IMMIGRANT, about Cuban refugees who bring the ancient beliefs of Regla de Ocha to America. Then the ideas in the manuscript start influencing her life. Will Shyla need to lose her life to regain her self?

Category:

Adult Novel

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$15.00

Publisher:

Crossquarter Publishing Group

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Title:

GRANDMA JOCK AND CHRISTABELLE

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1555234062  ||  978-1555234065

Description and Reviews:

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SCBWI Golden Kite Award Nominee.

National Association of University Women Literary Award Nominee.

Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Young Adult Fiction Award Nominee.

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Bowls had been emptied, boxes poured out, everything had been taken out of the refrigerator and dumped on the floor.
I felt cereal crunch beneath my feet. All the cabinet doors were open and cans of food were everywhere. In the middle of it all was Grandma.
"I was looking for the jello," she said cheerfully. I opened the refrigerator door. One dish remained. It was the jello.

Category:

Middle Grade Novel

Retail Price:

$12.00

Publisher:

James C Winston Publishing Co.

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Title:

LEILANI ZAN

ISBN #s:

ISBN-10: 1555234054  ||  978-1555234058

Description and Reviews:

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SCBWI Golden Kite Award Nominee.

National Association of University Women Literary Award Nominee.

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Sweet Leilani, heavenly flower...I forget about being nervous. I forget about having the only blue eyes in the eighth grade. And I forget about Court's father

Category:

Middle Grade Novel

Retail Price:

$15.00

Publisher:

James C Winston Publishing Co.

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