Books published by publisher WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING

The Education of Queenie McBride is an LGBT young adult/teen novel about two friends, both still trying to find their places in the gay and lesbian world during their freshman year at college. The book is absent sexual content and profanity—but filled with evolving relationships and life changes—making it ideal for teen readers, especially LGBT high school kids who are confused or still exploring new relationships. The Education of Queenie McBride once again brings together best friends JJ and Queenie, now as college freshmen. Continuing from their private high school days as platonic roommates in author Lyndsey D’Arcangelo’s first novel, The Trouble with Emily Dickinson, JJ remains the girl of reason and responsibility, looking for a long-term love relationship. Queenie, on the other hand, initially continues with her high school ways of short, non-committal relationships and blowing off school while partying and spending her rich parents’ money. When Queenie meets Pudge, a homeless teen girl forced to live on the streets by parents who can’t accept that she is gay, her carefree attitude toward life begins to change. Queenie is determined to help Pudge, who initially is untrusting and confused—with her parents as well as with much of the world around her. Queenie finally is taking responsibility for something, an action that will change her life for the better.While Queenie is growing up, JJ, too, is changing. She has decided that Boston University isn’t the school for her. What she believed was to be a lasting relationship with her high school (cheerleader) partner has not worked out as she dreamed. Now JJ is contemplating changing schools and leaving behind her long-time friend and confidant, Queenie.

"All hands. This is the Captain speaking. Our destination for this trip is Portland, England, via the North Pole . . . " From the dark waters of Puget Sound, Nautilus headed north toward the achievement of two historic goals - piercing the Pole and the completion of the first transpolar voyage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Intricate preparations carried out under strictest secrecy behind them, the crew learned for the first time that the previously announced trip to Panama was a snare and a delusion. The response was superb. Cracked Robert E. Simonini: "I knew there was some reason I saved those two British pounds." Skipper of the Nautilus, Commander Anderson re-creates vividly life aboard the submarine, the suspense of Top Secret orders, the human and humorous incidents that passed the time of the crew, and the unparalleled adventure of the first probe when Nautilus came within 180 miles of the North Pole and fulfilled the Jules Verne dream in steaming its 20,000th league under the sea. He shares with the reader the excitement and tension of preparations, mishaps and repairs, omens good and bad, that filled the days before the dramatic announcement of destination NORTH POLE was made. Commander Anderson relates, with the immediacy of his on-the-scene participation in each moment, the narrow escapes, the special problems of navigation that had to be overcome, how special instruments were installed in secrecy, the "cover plan" that kept the whole Navy mum, and finally the incredible adventure itself. At 11:15 P.M. on Sunday, August 3, 1958, the first crossing under the North Pole was successfully completed, and Commander Anderson informed the world with the history-making code message "Nautilus 90 North." It all adds up to a rousing true story in which danger, excitement, and suspense will leave readers gasping. And more than that, readers will know that they have, in the pages of this book, lived through history in the making.