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Within My Spokes: A Tapestry of Pain, Growth & Freedom

August 21, 2023 By

Life is always beautiful no matter what it looks like because of the tapestry of relationships and people.

Make it colorful and unique.

Within My Spokes is a collection of Jenna Udenberg’s life stories and the relationships that create her tapestry. From her childhood diagnosis of Juvenile Arthritis at age 7, Jenna fought through long journeys of medical battles, broken systems, discrimination & ignorance. Jenna is a 2020 Bush Fellow and is now a disability advocate, activist, and accessibility educator. Readers have laughed and cried as they dug deeper into her shared life stories. This is a coming of age book about finding oneself, one’s purpose and worth sometimes through the most unlikely of relationships and circumstances.

Within these stories, you will be taken on a journey of:

Persevering & thriving through life’s unexpected adventures
Timely friendships creating safe, inclusive, and healthy spaces
Healing (physical, spiritual, emotional) through the hurt of one’s past
Faith
Though our stories may be different, you may relate to experiences in this book of pain, growth & freedom that could help you on your journey.

Jenna Udenberg grew up on the beautiful North Shore of Lake Superior. She is a disability advocate and accessibility educator. Jenna’s newspaper column, Local View from 4’ 2”, can be found in the Lake County Press and she loves working with others including her non-profit, Above & Beyond With U. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Self-Help Tagged With: coming of age, friendships, healing, Self-Help

The Landlord of Hummingbird House

March 7, 2022 By

Winner: Eyelands International Book Awards, Published Novel (2021).

April needs somewhere to live, and peace and quiet to heal her wounds. The tenants of Hummingbird House have other ideas.

The Landlord of Hummingbird House is a contemporary novel exploring unlikely friendships, unexpected love interests, and family relationships. Here, everyone is in need of a second chance – and appearances can be deceptive. $2.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Women's Fiction Tagged With: family, friendships, Relationships, women's fiction

Free: Parrot Adventures: A Day At The Races

December 3, 2021 By

When a spunky parrot visits the dog track, he isn’t expecting his friend to win- or to discover a rival bird inside the trophy! Can he put the intruder in his place?

Being part of the winning team is wonderful- but who is the cheeky parrot who is trying to muscle in on the action?

This simple, humorous story teaches children about unlikely friendships, dealing with jealousy, and comes with a colouring book download. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Children's Books, Featured Tagged With: childrens book, dealing with jealousy, friendships, kindle books

Cupcakes & Crumb

November 21, 2020 By

Afterlife takes five women on different paths, a death brings them home. But friendship might not be enough to keep them together.

When Bria Landon and her estranged father each inherit fifty percent of a small-town cupcake shop, her dad hires her worst enemy, and first love, to turn the place into a soulless franchise…or sell it.

To save her aunt’s legacy, Bria needs the help of people who love the bakery as much as she does—her old friends who worked there fifteen years ago. They want to believe their friendship can overcome anything. But as the Berry Lake Cupcake Posse reunite to save their beloved cupcake shop, they soon discover the undertaking will bring more trouble than they expected. $2.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Women's Fiction Tagged With: friendships, kindle books, womensfiction

Birdie & Jude

February 25, 2020 By eReader Nation

A chance meeting, as a hurricane barrels toward Galveston Island, melts two lives together in the present. However, something from the past is responsible for their undeniable connection. Their histories in a recognizable sphere couldn’t be any different, but Birdie’s never moved in recognizable spheres. Her past is all contained on the island and everyone knows her, an eccentric woman from a prominent family, but do they really know her? And, Jude has lived in foster homes all over Texas. Recently graduated with her Master’s Degree, she intended to leave for a backpacking trip in Europe. Until she sprawled on the beach in Galveston she was anonymous, but Birdie recognizes her for who she truly is. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight Tagged With: friendships, kindle books, spiritual, suspensefulnovel, womensfiction

My Big Greek Family

July 4, 2014 By eReader Nation

A heart-warming, humorous, family saga set in London where Greek traditions are challenged as three sisters embark on a journey of self-discovery in the quest for happiness and love.

As the family descend to celebrate Georgina’s thirtieth birthday she finds it a struggle to wear the cloak of I’m-doing-just-fine. The time has come for Georgina to make some serious changes, if she is to lead the life she wants to lead as opposed to the life she is expected to lead. An encounter with Jake O’Sullivan finds her ready to take a chance on romance, but will she stumble at the first obstacle?

Georgina is not the only sibling in the Andreou household having to take stock of her life; Katherina is forced to face a secret she has kept buried for many years as feelings emerge for a new colleague, despite her resolve to make a go of a relationship with a suitor introduced by the family. Meanwhile, Sophia, the youngest of the sisters, and the most rebellious, discovers a new spiritual direction in her life.

A last-minute holiday to Greece challenges the sisters’ bond as secrets unravel and hidden emotions finally surface on the veranda of their holiday retreat …