Poor Charles! He's going to be late for school again. Charles just can't keep his mind on what he's supposed to be doing. When he is having breakfast, he is thinking about Niagara Falls. When he is in math class, he is thinking about aeronautics. When he walks down a breezy street collecting seed pods, he is thinking about a new nose. Charles is always thinking about something else. When his teacher, Miss Crocky, sends him to the principal's office for disrupting the class again, kind Mr. Mickle suggests that Charles be less absent-minded and more present-minded. Charles sits down and thinks about it. It is not that Charles is naughty. But no matter how hard he tries, his thoughts wander. Nothing seems to help. That is, until his hero, Great Uncle Crocódila, pays the family a surprise visit. This is a new book about Charles, written and illustrated by Aliki — the third in a delightful series that follows the award-winning Keep Your Mouth Closed, Dear and Use Your Head, Dear.

Suffering from emotional trauma after her divorce, Kate Bradshaw is about to lose her on-line romantic advice column. To revitalise it, Kate needs to rekindle romance in her life, and Michael Cameron wants to be the man to help her.

Veteran Salesman Peter Waldmann is on a Routine Sales Call When he is Surprised to find that the new purchasing agent he is calling on is none other than John Stemple, his very best friend from high school, forty years earlier. When John invites him to come on a deer hunt with him in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place Peter hasn’t returned to in forty years, he embarks on a journey to the past that will have a lasting effect on his future. In The Deer/Dear Hunt, Author Alan M. Oberdeck explores the threads of life that affect everyone. See life through the Eyes of a man who committed a stupid, youthful act that left him maimed and cost him the love of his life, Linda Leigh Swensen. When Peter and Linda meet in the first book of The Deer/Dear Hunt trilogy, he is forced to ask the question, can you ever go back again? In the second book of the trilogy The Vancouver Rendezvous, vacation with Peter and Linda in the great scenic northwest as they learn more and more about each other and try to work out their relationship and answer two important questions: What is this space that separates them? And, more importantly, can they bridge the gulf? In the third book of the trilogy Peter and Linda have each returned home from their two-week vacation. The plan is to meet again prior to this year’s deer hunt. Peter is now trying to do things in the right and proper manner to become part of Linda’s life. But then disaster strikes! Will Linda lose Peter again?