Books published by publisher Brew City Press

A new heart, a new life, a new love...and a mystery she can't explain. Can she unite her divided heart?Mishca Richardson’s life is at an all-time high after her heart transplant. With new boyfriend, Ryder, she has the perfect summer romance. Even the nightmares plaguing her sleep since her operation can’t dull her new dream world.Yet, life starts to unravel when Mishca develops superhuman abilities. She does her best to hide them so as not to end up a laboratory experiment, but she can’t ignore the strange instant attraction she experiences when she meets her university professor, Colin Read.Torn between love and obsession, Mishca must unite her divided heart and decide between the two men. But when the truth about her weird powers comes to light, she’ll have a lot more to worry about than romance."Authors like Sharon M. Johnston keep the genre from getting stale by taking a creative bent and exploring overlapping elements." - LIBRARY JOURNAL AUTHOR INTERVIEWQ: Tell us about your writing style.A: My writing is inspired by the “What if” scenario. What if there were people who delivered Karma? This is a novel in progress expanding on a short story I wrote that was runner up in the Australian Literary Review’s YA short story competition. What if my dad had been diagnosed with terminal cancer when I was at high school? A story I’m currently writing. What if males went extinct? A story I’m currently querying. What if Puck was in love with Titania? A short story Shakespeare retelling I wrote for an anthology coming out in June.I love daydreaming and letting my mind take me to these weird and wonderful places and when the idea sticks, I write it. Q: What do you write?A: I write a lot of weird stuff that would fall under the Speculative Fiction umbrella and often mash two genres together. Science Fiction plays a strong role in my stories, probably because I like making stuff up and creating new things. I do also write contemporaries, but they usually come from something very difficult I have faced in my life.OPEN HEARTDIVIDED (book 1)SHATTERED (book 2)Q: Why should readers pick up your books?A: Divided is a story that proves great Young Adult or New Adult stories don’t have to be straight contemporary. Mischa’s story takes you on a journey of mystery and intrigue, with a twist at the end that you just won’t see coming. It’s perfect for readers who want to love Sci Fi with more Fi than Sci, especially when it has a healthy dose of romance. And Divided has one of the best book boyfriends ever with Ryder.Be sure to scroll up and hit that BUY NOW button to enter a world of intrigue, mystery, forbidden love, and of course, a divided heart.

The Cat That Purred is written in a charming rhyming style and features brightly-colored illustrations that tell the story of a cat that loved to purr and purr and purr all day. Season after season he was invited to play outside, but the cat always found a reason for not going. Finally, his friend the bird found a way for the cat to play with the others in the park. The cat understands that his friends need him. So, he finally goes out and joins the others and they all have a wonderful time together.

Travelling storyteller Joel ben Izzy recounts an international mix of creepy tales that will take you from the back seat of a taxi in Hong Kong to a graveyard in Israel, and from the frozen Yukon to the suburbs of Los Angeles. You'll end up in a cave in the hills outside of Rome where Joel found the title story - or rather, it found him. As he recounts it you'll hear the story of Joel's first job as a storyteller - which was very nearly his last. You'll hear the following: Creepy Car Tales (California, Hawaii, Hong Kong) How I Got Bill the Chicken (California) The Cremation of Sam McGee (Canada) King Solomon & Death/The Graveyard in Safed (Israel) The Green Hand (Italy) This collection of stories, all told with music to match, is as funny as it is scary. It received an Award of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board

Little Kite is Polly's beautifully colorful friend. When strong winds snap Little Kites string, the cross becomes his sole support. Brian Maunder has been telling young children the story of Polly's Little Kite for years, providing a rich landscape of images and words for discussing the profound paradox of the cross as a source of strength, the importance of sustaining one another in community, and the cycles of loss and resurrection that define the life of a Christian. Finally available as a book, Polly's Little Kite should be in the hands of every parent and teacher who wants to share the true meaning of love with children.

A third Victoria has ascended the throne of a steam-driven country where enormous clockwork giants walk the streets and airships carry news of the Ottoman threat in the East. In the wake of a calamity that engulfed all of Europe, Inspector Vanessa Hargreaves of Scotland Yard is given the dubious task of policing steamcraft crime. Along with flamboyant detective Arturo C. Adler, she stumbles upon a conspiracy to use a horrific plague in an effort to prevent war. But even as dastardly forces converge upon her, our high-heeled detective struggles with her devotion to Queen and Country, and the shadows under the Union Flag grow ever deeper. Can she put a stop to this new disaster before her country is devoured by a Spectre of War? SPECTRE OF WAR is at once detective story, political intrigue and giant robot fantasy in a fabulous, international, and multicultural steampunk riot!

Travelling storyteller Joel ben Izzy takes us for a wild ride in this collection of tales about his liver lovin' days, train hopping hobos, moose turd pie and more. As with Joel ben Izzy's other award winning CDs and tapes, this one is a mix of classic tales along with his own adaptations. The title story tells of his disgust when he found, as a kid, that he would have to eat liver (yuck!), and how he went from there to liking liver, loving it in fact, finally leading to an obsession with liver that led him to his life of crime... You'll also hear the famous watermelon stories as well as the tale of Paula Bunyan. (That was her real name.) The bouncy carnival story fits these stories perfectly, making this tape one that you, your family and friends will listen to again and again - and that's the truth! This recording received Parents' Choice Honors.