Books published by publisher Light Spring Publishing

Have you ever wondered why there are ornaments on your tree? Or why there is a star on top of your tree?Now those questions have answers!Set in a world where a Christmas tree's star is actually a secret transmitter used by Santa Claus to identify all the active Christmas homes throughout the world, Off the Hook follows two groups of ornaments from opposite sides of their tree who must learn to work together to find their missing star before Santa passes their family's house by! Written in the style of Disney storytelling (think "Toy Story on a tree"), Off the Hook is an exciting holiday adventure for the entire family to enjoy! Rejoice in this original Christmas tale as you dash through the thirty-five full page illustrations, unwrap the delightful cast of characters, and feast on the playful humor! Off the Hook will leave your stockings stuffed with a lesson on teamwork and your hearts filled with the spirit of Christmas!Add a little adventure to your holiday book collection this year with the multi-award winning, Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure!Grand Prize Winner, Holiday Book Festival, 2017Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards, 2017Winner, Book Excellence Awards, 2019Winner, Independent Press Award, 2018Winner, Top Shelf Indie Book Awards, 2018Winner, LuckyCinda Book Contest, 2017Silver Medal Winner, Readers' Favorite International Book Contest, 2017Honorable Mention, Foreword INDIES Book Of The Year, 2016Honorable Mention, New Apple Book Awards, 2018Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival, 2017Honorable Mention, Hollywood Book Festival, 2017NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, 20175 Stars, Readers' Favorite, 2016If you like this book, be sure to check out John's other award-winning picture books called, The Good Mood Book and Neat Freaks! Learn more about the book, the screenplay, and the play @ offthehookbook.net!

A stubborn young woman. A rugged wagon master. Will the trail into the Western territory tame their wild hearts? Susan Farr would travel any distance for a chance at a new beginning. After losing her parents and her home in a tragic twist of fate, she’s determined to hitch a ride on the next wagon train to the Oregon coast—even if it means marrying her way in. But when she’s swept off her feet by the handsome wagon master, her marriage of convenience to someone else turns into a conundrum of the heart. Mike Todd keeps his passengers on a tight reign. In his role as wagon master, he’s fended off too many native raiders and kidnappers to allow pretty young maidens to travel alone. But when his code of conduct saddles the alluring Susan to a deadbeat drunk, his own budding feelings may just inspire a change of course…In the uncharted expanses of the American West, can Susan and Mike find their way to a romantic new beginning or will their love get lost in the wild? We’ve Only Just Begun is the first sweet romance in the Oregon Trail Dreamin’ Historical Western series. If you like heartwarming love stories, accurate details, and death-defying twists and turns, then you’ll love Kathleen Ball’s action-packed tale of life on the trail. Buy We’ve Only Just Begun to embark on a perilous journey into the heart today!

The Immortal Chronicles, books 1-4. DescentSix hundred years after The Outbreak, the human population stand side by side with the Fae & the Vampyrs to stop the Demon King from starting a second Dark War.Seventeen year old Adelaide Tate is in her last year of the Academy, with her eyes set on becoming part of the Red Guard.Who cares that no female has ever joined?When a dark force develops an unhealthy liking for her, Adelaide needs to fight for her life and figure out what makes her so different from the others. Betrayal. Fear. Anger. She must overcome it all in order to turn her world the right way around again. Adelaide has one choice. Accept the help offered to her by Xander Bane, or face the Demon Hoard alone. One thing is for sure. The descent will be bloody.CrashAddie In that one moment everything changed. Everything I thought I knew shattered with just a few words.Who knew the truth could be so devastating. I need to decide which side to take. But can I even trust myself?Xander She's gone, but I'll scorch the earth to find her if that's what it takes. I'll call upon friend and foe for the battle that is to come. The fires of hell couldn't keep me from her and whoever thinks they can take what is mine, is going to regret it for all time.One thing is for sure. The Crash could ruin us all.SoarThere is only so much one person can endure before they break. There was nothing I ever wanted less than to be Princess at the Royal Court. After devastation rocked my whole world, the return of my mother doesn't seem like the dream it was supposed to be. I know how to be a warrior. I have no idea how to be a princess...With her whole world turned upside down, and her heart still broken, who will Addie be at the end of it all?Hearts can break, faith can plummet, but souls can Soar.RaptureI never wanted to lie to her, but I knew I couldn’t keep her safe if she knew. I hurt her, more than I ever wanted to and I have to live with that each day that I’m away from her. But one day she’ll know, that every day spent away from her was hell. Watching her move on. Watching her change. But it will all be worth it once she’s safe.Even if she doesn’t know it, she is my Rapture.

SWEET Historical RomanceLily Lewis was captured by the Sioux two long years ago and all hope of her rescue had faded. Suddenly she finds herself traded to two old trappers and is terrified as to what life will bring her next.Jed Todd has been looking for Lily since the day she was abducted along the Oregon Trail. This time he is the wagon master. Word comes that his trapper friends have found and bought Lily for him. He rides fast and fierce to get to her and is relieved to find her in one piece.The way he felt about her before she'd been stolen wasn't a figment of his imagination. From the moment he saw her again he knew his love was real.Lily isn't well received by the others on the wagon train and realizes that having a relationship with Jed would only hinder him in life. He'd never be accepted in polite society. Once in Oregon she plans to leave for Washington territory to live alone.Attempts on her life and the life of a young girl make Lily realize that she and Jed share a love worth searching for. These are other Historical Western Romance / Mail Order Bride Authors you might enjoy:Etta Foster,Carol ColyerChloe CarleyAurora HansonEvelyn BoyettCassidy HantonAva WintersFlorence LinningtonElliee Atkinson

Beloved "Town of Chelm" returns in world's first definitive encyclopedia of Chelm stories. After enjoying decades of acclaim in the pages of the acclaimed weekly newspaper The Jewish Press, the lovable, side-splitting tales from the legendary town of Chelm have been collected in the world's first encyclopedia of Chelm stories. This new treasury of Jewish wit and whimsy brims with more than 150 stories straight out of the fabled town of Chelm - the place where solving life's practical problems was never a straightforward affair, but rather a rollicking journey into the inane. The world's first definitive encyclopedia of Chelm stories reacquaints listeners with the unforgettable characters everyone's come to know and love, including "The Wise Sage of Chelm" and fumbling "Shepsil". The simple-minded "Mottel the Tailor" and riotous "Berel the Terrible". In all, original writer and creator Arnold Fine's recipe for simple and clean Jewish humor still delivers, and with so many stories gathered together in one audiobook, The Silly World of Chelm is guaranteed to provide hours of fun and enjoyment for the whole family. You'll hear about the "Green-Eyed Monster" and "The Adventures of Kunkle and Munkle". You'll enjoy the hilarious tale of "The Mayor's Shoes" and learn about the formation of the "Worriers of Chelm", plus dozens and dozens of more popular tales. "The brilliantly conceived, eccentric scenarios have, for decades, left readers of all ages in stitches with helpless laughter, all the while leaving them scratching their heads in wonderment," explains Zalman Goldstein, author of other children's titles such as The Sultan's Trap and the popular Uncle Yossi's Big Book of Stories series. "Being able to provide good, kosher humor for everyone is a privilege that is difficult to pass up. In this regard, The Silly World of Chelm really delivers!"

If all the world’s a stage and each of us plays a part, then Camille Wright is the high school wallflower that nobody remembers and only the bullies ever knew was there. However, her headlong dash to Princeton’s Aerospace Engineering program crashes to a heart-jarring halt when in order to “round out all those math classes,” she is unwillingly signed up for drama class. Awkward, shy, and quiet, Camille struggles to stay part of the wall even under the bright lights. But sometimes where you want to be isn’t where you were destined to be at all… Jaylon Patrick Quinn has been the star so long, not even he remembers when he wasn’t. Confident to the point of obnoxious, smooth to the point of disgusting, Jaylon has his high school peers enthralled. However, the fool’s gold of stardom and the glare of being one-half of the school’s star couple have made Jaylon begin to question if this is really how life is best lived. Now he must decide which direction his future is headed and more importantly, if he really wants to go there at all. DREAMS BY STARLIGHT contains a strong message of looking past the outside to what’s in the heart. A teen romance, it deals with peer pressure and shows how snide comments can deeply wound another. It also shows how true friendship can help encourage and lift up someone in spite of the difficulties of life. -- Vickie McDonough, Award-winning Barbour/Heartsong author While reading DREAMS BY STARLIGHT, a mantle of hope wrapped itself around me, filling me with the desire to be myself, and to pursue my own hidden dreams. The whole time, I kept wishing it would have been mandatory reading when I was in high school. It would have saved me a whole lot of aggravation knowing it was okay to be me—the me God created me to be. – Deb Ullrick, Heartsong authorThis high school romance is an encouraging story of one girl’s coming of age journey to find herself in the rough-and-tumble teen world. A young adult romance, it is intertwined with messages about becoming who you were really meant to be and learning to ward off the destructive words of naysayers.As the book says, “All that you can do is all that you must.”*~* EXCERPT *~*“Okay,” Jaylon said and paused a beat. “Umm, you have to look at me, remember?”“Oh, y-yeah.” Camille stumbled over the words as she forced her gaze back to his.Looking back at her was sincere interest. “So, what’s your favorite class?”She smiled as her entire body instantly relaxed. “Math.”“Math?” he asked in surprise.“Yeah. Why? Is that so hard to believe?”“Well, no. I guess not, but I hate math.” He ran his fingers through his hair to push it back out of his face. “I’m just surprised anybody likes it.”“You hate it?” she asked, forgetting this was supposed to be hard. “But it’s so fascinating.”“Fascinating? I can think of another word for it,” he said, wrinkling his nose.“Oh, yeah? What’s that?”“Torture.”She laughed and shook her head. “No, now you’re talking about drama.”“Huh?” he asked, and her gaze dropped from his to her shoestrings.With a shove she forced her gaze back up although this time it didn’t lock on his. Instead it wandered around the stage and the auditorium and over to the other partners.“How can you not like drama?” he asked in genuine confusion. “Drama is awesome.”Her eyebrows raised as she looked back at him in open-eyed mortification. “Not when you’re me. It isn’t.”

On a dark night in February of 1864, the H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat, torpedoed the Union blockade ship USS Housatonic, a feat that would not be repeated for another 50 years. But fate was not kind to the Hunley that night as it sank with all of its crew on board before it could return to shore. Considered by many to be the Civil War’s greatest mystery, the Hunley’s demise and its resting place have been a topic of discussion for historians and Civil War buffs alike for more than a hundred years.Adding still more to the intrigue, the vessel was discovered in 1995 by a dive team led by famed novelist and shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler, sparking an underwater investigation that resulted in the raising of the Hunley on August 8, 2000. Since that time, the extensive research and restorative efforts underway have unraveled the incredible secrets that were locked within the submarine at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.Join Civil War expert Brian Hicks as Sea of Darkness recounts the most historically accurate narrative of the sinking and eventual recovery ever written. Hicks has been given unprecedented access to all the main characters involved in the discovery, raising, and restoration of the Hunley. Complete with a foreword and additional commentary by Clive Cussler, Sea of Darkness offers new, never-before-published evidence on the cause of the Hunley’s sinking, providing readers a tantalizing behind-the-scenes look inside the historic submarine.

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

Based on the diaries Susan has kept since she was in her 20s, THE FAIRY TALE GIRL is book one of a three-part series. Together the three books are an illustrated memoir, charmingly designed in Susan's style with her whimsical watercolors and personal photographs. It's an enchanting story of love and loss, mystery and magic that begins in a geranium-colored house in California, and ends up, like any good fairy tale, on the right side of the rabbit hole, in a small cottage in the woods on the New England Island of Martha's Vineyard. THE FAIRY TALE GIRL humorously explores Susan's journey as an artist and as a girl/woman, from the 1950s through the 1980s. In the first book of the series we get a revealing look at Susan's early life as the oldest of eight children and at the marriage she imagined would last forever. It's filled with inspiration, romance and discovery, a little bit of heartbreak, and a leap into the unknown. Journey back to the olden days with Susan, to the land of happily-ever-after, where men were men and girls just wanted to have fun. Bring a hankie, we think you might need it. Coming Mother's Day, 2016, book two in the series: MARTHA'S VINEYARD, ISLE of DREAMS Both books are prequels to Susan's 2013 bestselling book, A FINE ROMANCE, Falling in Love with the English Countryside, and both are proudly printed in the USA. More expensive? Yes ~ but hey, we're worth it.

Empowered with the magic of luck, the Master has no equal. At her command the Dark has devoured half the globe. Entire nations have been erased, continents have vanished, and billions are dead. The desperate survivors have joined a worldwide evacuation to the Americas. Their hope died when the Oracle fell. Yet they do not yield.Inspired by the Oracle's defiance, mankind has chosen to fight. For them to triumph they require a weapon, one which now walks the Dark, forgotten and lost. Battling hordes of fiends, he seeks to escape the cloud. Instead he finds a young woman, one who has fallen from the sky. Both are believed to be dead, and when they return one thing is certain.The whole of the Earth will feel the impact . . .

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She was nowhere. It was just where she wanted to be.Escaping her past, Alice Trent is searching for someplace off the grid where she has no history, and the future is hers to make. The community of Coldford, Nebraska welcomes her into their small corner of the world, and Coldford, her Nowhere Land, begins to feel like home.When events trap those she cares about, charging them with a murder they did not commit, Alice Trent is forced to take matters into her own hands. Along the way she is hunted down by the demons of her past, and the story takes a twist that will leave you stunned.>>>From Bestselling author, Glenn Trust, Book 4 in the The Journey Series is sure to put you on the edge of your seat wanting more .Scroll up and grab your copy of Nowhere Land Today!