Books published by publisher Cedar Grove Publishing

Thirteen-year-old Glory Eleanor Loomis of Sackatucket, Long Island makes a shocking discovery in a secondhand bookstore when she picks up a book that reads like a horror story version of her own life. Things take an even weirder and more worrisome turn when she's suddenly beset by a flurry of eerie flu-like symptoms, collapses onto her bedroom floor, and awakens twelve hours later, bewildered and terrified, in a hospital bathroom. Unaware that she is caught in the grip of biological forces that no one sees or understands, she begins to change in secret, subtle, and stupefying ways until her transformation is complete. Be careful what you wish for, someone once said . . . but in the end, Glory could not have wished for more.

BONDED BY BLOOD, BIRACIAL BY BIRTH AND HEROINES BY CHOICE…THE DAUGHTERS OF HALF BREED HAVEN It’s Mexican mayhem as sinister sex traffickers, banditos and a murderous, masked madman are only the beginning when beauties, bad hombres and plenty of bullets mix it up in the part one of the Danger Down Mexico Way trilogy as the Wildes foray south of the border proves fraught with danger, intrigue and a healthy dose of sexual adventuring.As Lijuan and Honor Elizabeth face their own battles Catalina and Cassandra work together to end the terror of The Reaper of the Rio Sangre and before all is said and done the Wildes will live or die as a shocking secret of Cedar Ledge will be revealed! ***With sharp wits and guns blazing, the fair-skinned Cassandra, Asian Lijuan, mulatto Honor Elizabeth, and Mexican Catalina were a force to be reckoned with as they fought and loved their way from the deserts and streets to the bedrooms of 1870’s Arizona and beyond.The Reaper of the Rio Sangre is the latest installment of a female lead novel series, Half Breed Haven where action, sibling suspense and bawdy romance combine in this female adventure novel forming a tale worthy of the wicked Wild West. PLEASE BE ADVISEDThe Sister’s escapades, be it braving the sometimes-violent west or their romantic escapades are recommended for readers, who like the Wildes, are 18+ years of age and above.If you are ready to “Get Wilde” return to the top and join the sisters in this special edition of Half Breed Haven #10

Seventeen-year-old African American, Teresa Jayne "TJ" Zanotti was born to play baseball. TJ's brother, Bobby, is a San Francisco Giants starting shortstop. Her father, Sal, a retired team trainer, and her mother, Esther, never miss a Giants game. TJ is also the starting shortstop on the Menlo Park Tigers junior varsity baseball team and a shoe-in to make varsity. That is until transfer player Brice Thompson snags the position and she is forced to try out for the school softball team. TJ is an excellent player and Coach Lisa Myers can't help but include her on the roster. Yet when it comes to teamwork, TJ is far from perfect. She locks horns with several players, including team pitcher Amazon Amy. The team's curmudgeonly assistant coach, Marty Alvarez, befriends TJ and her dislike for softball slowly begins to soften. As the season rolls on she discovers that fast pitch softball isn't only about teamwork, it's about friendship as well.

Ashlyn:A lonely society princess living in NewYork City.Daddy hired you to be my bodyguard.Colin: Childhood enemy, now her protector.Daddy thought I’d be safe. He thought I’d never fall in love. He thought he could keep me forever.Charles: obsessed with keeping her safe, keeping her his, he hires the one person he knows she could never fall in love with: Colin.Daddy was wrong.A kidnapping leaves a father fanatical about his only child's safety. A story of obsessive love and the quest for independence.

The Let’s Get Ready series from Cedar Valley Publishing is taking the nation by storm, helping parents and kids prepare for Kindergarten! Teachers at home and schools love it! It’s not a storybook or a workbook; it’s a book that covers the curriculum: the alphabet in and out of sequence, numbers in and out of sequence, left and right, shapes, colors, high frequency words, positional words, opposites, rhyming, let’s read a story and so much more. It’s all in one engaging book illustrated with Mrs. Good, the teacher and six adorable Cedar Valley Kids that you simply read to children to learn.

In 2015, diversity has become the buzzword in the comic book industry with companies like DC and Marvel claiming to lead the charge, but merely scratching the surface of the complexity and intersection of race, culture and gender. The 4 Pages | 16 Bars: A Visual Mixtape presents Sequential Graffiti is a sampler for potential fans to enjoy our intellectual properties, a showcase for existing and upcoming talent as well as a source guide for those fans to purchase our books. The scene is more diverse than Image or Dark Horse. This is visual Jazz, Rock, Funk, Hip Hop and electronic music. This is art for the people.

He's my teacher. I shouldn't be alone with him. But I can't help that he's irresistible. I let the door silently close at my back. He stared at me, and a taut quiet stretched between us. "I like hearing you play," I said, moving toward him. He turned, in sync with my slow approach. He looked up at me but didn't say anything. I rested my clammy hand on the cold, slick body of the baby grand. "May I?" The muscles in his throat shifted, then he swallowed. "Eden." My knees weakened, like a soft tickling kiss had just been blown against the backs of them. "Is it okay?" I asked. His gaze held mine like two hands joined. He understood what I was really asking. "Let me stay," I said. "Please." "You're going to get me in trouble," he said.

For years, Italian-American Vito Cellini kept his mouth shut to protect himself and his family. Now in his 90s, he wants tell his story. Born in New York, raised in Italy, Vito “Tutuc” Cellini was forced to join the fascist Italian army in WW2, then deserted to fight with communist Partisans in Yugoslavia. Later he became an undercover agent for Allied Intelligence. Trusted friend to a Mafia consiglieri and respected by the New York mob… he was hired to negotiate with deadly organized crime bosses in Naples… was embroiled in an assassination that led to the Sandanista uprising in Nicaragua… acted as bodyguard to a merciless Mexican drug lord. A self-taught mechanic and gunsmith with 19 patents, one of his inventions was financed by a high-profile Texas billionaire and adopted by US Special Forces.“Cellini Freedom Fighter” earned a Starred Review and was named a “Best Indie Book of 2018” by Kirkus Reviews.

He's my teacher. I shouldn't be alone with him. But I can't help that he's irresistible. I let the door silently close at my back. He stared at me, and a taut quiet stretched between us. "I like hearing you play," I said, moving toward him. He turned, in sync with my slow approach. He looked up at me but didn't say anything. I rested my clammy hand on the cold, slick body of the baby grand. "May I?" The muscles in his throat shifted, then he swallowed. "Eden." My knees weakened, like a soft tickling kiss had just been blown against the backs of them. "Is it okay?" I asked. His gaze held mine like two hands joined. He understood what I was really asking. "Let me stay," I said. "Please." "You're going to get me in trouble," he said.

One girl. Two guys. Who says three's a crowd? When Mandy takes an unusual summer job-in construction-she has to prove she's just one of the guys. But she gets more than she bargains for being the only girl on the job. The mixture of hot guys, sunscreen, raw wood and testosterone proves to be an elixir she can't protect her heart from. Brooding Boston and flirty AJ find themselves looking at Mandy as more than just a girl who holds a hammer. Mandy soon finds herself not only lost in a whirlwind of a male-dominated world, but also the center of an inadvertently "constructed" love triangle. Mandy must choose between two guys who want her heart. But what's a girl to do when she wants them both?

Griffin just wanted to make it through the eighth grade, preferably unnoticed. He soon discovers he isn’t a regular boy and his abilities are not natural, probably not human.His eyes are opened to a whole new magical world that he never knew existed. His adventures take him from the bottom of the ocean floor to the top of Mount Olympus and several dimensions in between.Word Count: 101,736

Over a half- century ago, Ashok, a shy 18-year old Indian student from Tanzania, a third world country in East Africa, goes to England with the grand ambition to become a medical doctor. His travails are compounded by his poor command of British English and study difficulties at the Woolwich College in London, where he enrolls to study for his prerequisites for medical school admission. During his first year, his problems are compounded by the backdrop of hostility arising from a tumultuous period in the British history triggered by an apocalyptic-sounding rhetorical speech dubbed “The Rivers of Blood,” delivered on April 20, 1968, by Enoch Powell, a prominent British politician. In his speech, Powell, a powerful orator and an intellectual, demands an immediate halt to immigration into Great Britain of non-white people from the new Commonwealth countries which were Great Britain’s ex-colonies, and wants those already immigrated and settled in the country voluntarily repatriated with generous stipends. His support ratings among the native British population topped over 70 percent, including massive demonstrations in his support by dock workers; traditionally the back-bone supporters of the then ruling left-leaning labor party. This was in spite of Powell being a right-wing politician belonging to the opposition conservative Tory party, whose chief, Edward Heath had fired him as the shadow defense minister, calling his speech “racialist in tone and likely to exacerbate racial tensions.” At the Woolwich College, the impressionable Ashok inadvertently befriend Norbert Eliumelu, a sly, smooth-talking, immaculately dressed Nigerian in his thirties, who is also studying for his prerequisites for medical school admission. Norbert, a social-butterfly with tremendous communication skills, has already enamored himself to the students and the staff at the college. Ashok starts to feel confident and supported by his burgeoning friendship with Norbert and feels some of his stardust sprinkling on him. The bonhomie takes an ominous turn when Norbert suddenly disappears from the college at the end of the first year. He reappears at the end of the second and final college year at Ashok’s rented place to cajole, threaten and bribe him into a carefully crafted highly nefarious, illegal, unethical and risky quid pro quo plan that would guarantee both of them placements at medical schools--a very onerous task for a foreign student in Great Britain 50 years ago. Out of the Third World is a chronicle of the travails, tenacity and grit against overwhelming odds and adversity faced by Ashok to succeed. If you think you have read and heard everything, then you may not have, until you have read this book!