Books published by publisher NSW Publications, LLC

In this exciting sequel to Phoenix Awakens, Nolan whisks her readers off to Istanbul where the Legend of the Phoenix is the centerpiece in a centuries old battle for power.It’s been three months since Julia Long discovered she’s a magical being called The Phoenix, and she still hasn’t mastered her ancestral powers. But when a mysterious visitor provides evidence that Julia’s birth mother has been kidnapped in Istanbul, Julia must try to save her.Meeting her mother's family for the first time is wonderful, but discovering there are other kids her age with magic is better, even if one of them is infuriatingly dark and handsome.But not everyone is happy letting kids be kids. Some seek to use these gifted youth as pawns in a game of power and intrigue. And just by the nature of who she is, Julia's now the most powerful piece on the board. But if she doesn’t play her part perfectly, she could lose everything, including her mother.

MANTIS: No one ever believed that the mantises spoke to little Sophia Miller--but they did, ever since she could remember, whispering messages and eerie warnings about the future of planet Earth. Things didn't start to get really weird until she turned 14 and moved into a new house, with a strange but charismatic new neighbor, Lady Tazmin. With the help of her brother Josh, her best friend Alex, and her mysterious stepmom Gina, Sophia will uncover a sinister plot of missing scientists, morphing mantises, and an alien world whose fate is tied directly to Earth's. "Planet Earth is our host, we owe her respect." Laura Lance.

I would like to dedicate this book to the hearing-impaired children of the world, but particularly to those children I have had the pleasure of working with in Canada, Vietnam, Kuwait, England and most recently Saudi Arabia. I have had an extremely rewarding career as an audiologist and it has been both challenging and fulfilling to work with these children and their families as they discover sound and learn to communicate with their residual hearing. I would like to acknowledge a very special little girl, Divya, who was just three years old when I taught sign language to her and her mother in Kuwait. She has touched my heart and I will never forget her determination to learn. The sounds of life are truly a blessing that all should be able to enjoy.

Julia Long has finally come to terms with her Phoenix powers. Now, all she has to do is perform the final binding ritual and she’ll not only be safe, she’ll be immortal.To make that happen, Julia and her friends travel to Charleston to find the Ankatala, an ancient book of magic the ritual requires. But the Priest at the Phoenix temple wants Julia's powers, and he's plucking them from her one by one, a process that will ultimately kill her.Now Julia must learn the most valuable lesson of all: Sometimes the fire within us is all we have.

This action-packed true story details the adventures of six teenage boys who, for 16 days and nights in the summer of 1957, drifted 385 miles down the Alabama River from Montgomery to Mobile on a 10 x 12 foot raft they built from scrap lumber and discarded oil drums. Using little more than push poles and crude rudder, the teenagers found themselves at the mercy of the sometimes treacherous, sometimes gentle river. Buddy Estes, the author, was one of those teenagers.