Books published by publisher Archway Press

On a business trip, a high-powered fifty-six-year-old American entrepreneur visits his partners in China. After their meeting, his Asian mentor invites him to an orphanage, a trip that will change the course of his family's life forever. Without hesitation, he and his wife fall in love with Anglo/Asian twin girls and become their adoptive parents. The children grow up in a world of twists and turns with multiple coincidences and synchronicity. Their journey takes them from China to Europe to America and back to China where their unusual birth mother enters their lives. This powerful story is filled with drama at every turn as the daughters face internal and external challenges. The Birth Mother is a story filled with love, pathos, tragedy, and triumph. Read, laugh, cry, and learn. It's a tale you will never forget.

On a business trip, a high-powered fifty-six-year-old American entrepreneur visits his partners in China. After their meeting, his Asian mentor invites him to an orphanage, a trip that will change the course of his family's life forever. Without hesitation, he and his wife fall in love with Anglo/Asian twin girls and become their adoptive parents. The children grow up in a world of twists and turns with multiple coincidences and synchronicity. Their journey takes them from China to Europe to America and back to China where their unusual birth mother enters their lives. This powerful story is filled with drama at every turn as the daughters face internal and external challenges. The Birth Mother is a story filled with love, pathos, tragedy, and triumph. Read, laugh, cry, and learn. It's a tale you will never forget.

Lucy is splashing home from school on a rainy day when she notices a book in the gutter. When she picks it up, she discovers that it's a library book. Lucy loves the library. She decides to take the book back to the library, but it's too cold and rainy to do it now. Lucy will have to get some dry clothes and wait until the rain stops to take the book back to its home. At home, Lucy's curiosity takes hold. She decides to see what's inside this book that she rescued. Called Discovering Australia, it's full of amazing facts and beautiful images. Using her imagination, Lucy's transported on an amazing adventure through the mysterious Land Down Under. Through her adventure, Lucy reminds young readers that they can explore all the wonders of the world, right in the comfort of their favorite chairs. Join Lucy, and show your children how fun reading can be.

Sammy is always on the go! This story offers a real life scenario whereas Sammy is hungry and needs a snack before practice. Although her choice wasn't helpful, the experience was. The journey of learning about her food options brings friends together and finishes with a big win! The Sammy Series is a means to connect with children in a fun and easy way; tackling and addressing such issues as nutritional needs, bullying, kids with sensitivities and differences, and identifying and integrating emotions.

From Alexi the alligator to Zander the zebra and all of the animals in between, LetZooLunch presents twenty-six rhyming stories about clever characters, what they eat, and how they live within a global landscape. Kids are introduced to Edme the elephant, Fitzi the flamingo, Kalpana the kangaroo, Lily the lion, and a host of other interesting creatures. Written by Kim Festa-Gelnaw, this picture book for preschoolers and early readers narrates a whimsical romp through the alphabet as it fosters children's curiosities about other cultures and ignites the imaginations of their young minds.

Prayers that God Will Hear, by author Mary A. Laser, offers an eclectic collection of stories, advice, and tidbits culled from her life. She chronicles her life, sharing the true events that have happened to her and how the Lord helped her during her journey. This rendering includes a selection of miracles as she experienced them. In addition, Laser provides instructions on how to pray appropriately based on her personal experiences with Jesus. With heartwarming, fictional stories included, Prayers that God Will Hear delivers an inspirational message, letting people know God hears them and answers their prayers.

Boogie, Boog for short, is a sweet-faced, yellow-haired, Golden Doodle dog who spends his days outside in the garden as often as possible. He loves smelling the smells and greeting everyone who passes by the house in the quiet, suburban neighborhood. One day Boog ventures out to the garden and spies a fresh set of puddley paw prints wandering in every direction. The paw prints are too small to be his, so Boog sets out to discover who has been traipsing around the garden. Following the garden path, he meets a variety of animals while trying to solve the mystery of the puddley paw prints.

Living as a military child can often be challenging. Have you wondered what a military deployment is like from the eyes of these children? Have you thought about what they might be feeling, and do you question how to help them get through it? In Daddy Left with Mr. Army, author Chandelle Walker offers insight from a child's perspective to help you understand the emotions your child may be feeling as a separation occurs. Based on Walker's personal experiences in a military family dealing with deployments, Daddy Left with Mr. Army helps both children and parents open a conversation about the time away. Through rhyme and illustrations, this picture book shares the challenges of deployment but also the joys of serving the United States in the military.

D. Brewster was the youngest member of his medical school class and one of the few accepted into the dual-training MD/PhD program. Sadly, his promising career went permanently off the rails when he became a lightning rod for a series of tragic and dehumanizing events which caused Brewster to spiral downward into an ever-deepening quagmire of moral decay that also enveloped everyone around him. Years later when Brewster finally becomes the last man standing in a previously orchestrated act of vigilante justice, he reflects on whether or not what he had done was truly a righteous and justifiable act. That judgment would have to be surrendered for others to decide as Brewster is compelled to take up pen and paper to record in shocking detail the evil darkness that overwhelmed him and his colleagues so many years ago. This is the first novel in the DNR Trilogy.

In many ways, Walter is just like the other young whales. But in one way—the way that seems to matter most—he is different. Walter was born without a tail. All the other young whales have tails, but since Walter does not, he is seen as different. And according to the other whales, different is not good. Different means Walter is not included when the other whales played tug-of-war. Different means he doesn’t get to race. His friends call him a tadpole or turtle, saying his tail is weak and Walter is slow. Walter knows better, of course. His tail does all sorts of amazing things, but the other whales never give him a chance to show them. One day, the ocean feels strangely quiet. Walter is the first to realize all his friends have been caught in a fisherman’s net. They desperately need his help, and for the first time, they see Walter for the amazing whale he is. Walter is a hero, even without his tail. It turns out it’s okay to be different because different can also mean special.

Ernest is a young aardvark who lives in the burrows of the Old North Village and who always wears a big purple top hat. Every aardvark in the village can see Ernest from miles away thanks to his special, useful hat. It can be an umbrella in the rain, a stool at the bus stop, and a table to eat at when he's hungry. Then one day, a big gust of wind comes and takes his hat right off his head. Ernest jumps and tries to catch it, but the hat is gone. After school, he looks everywhere and still can't find his hat. What can he do? Ernest's father takes him to see Mr. Wilson at the local hat shop-maybe he can help Ernest find a new hat that will be as special and as useful as his purple top hat. In this children's story, a young aardvark loses his unique hat and must find a way to regain what he has lost.