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Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France

A seagull, a goat, and a teenage boy enter into a bizarre love triangle that leaves one of them dead and the other two changed forever. A grief-stricken astronaut quits NASA to paint pictures of the moon. A lonely scientist creates stars in his basement and becomes enraged when he discovers that one of his stars harbors life. An eighteenth-century British aristocrat adopts two teenage girls and absconds with them to France, determined to raise one of them to become his perfect wife. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, this debut collection offers weird and wonderful stories that illuminate the hidden truths of life.
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Sweeten the Swindler

To swindle a swindler is Jake's idea of the ultimate revenge. His nemesis conned away his brother's miner hat blueprints. In turn, Jake plans to woo his enemy's bookish niece and then convince her to buy enough shares in Jake's railroad ponzi scheme to bankrupt the miner hat business. Jake's Trojan horse is a four-pound carnival trick dog.Maxine Sweeten is a math whiz at keeping her uncle’s accounts on Pasley Miner's Hats and dabbling in the stock market. She loves all God's creatures.When Jake brings Maxine the supposedly lame-legged terrier, she can't help but soften toward the rugged stranger with his own emotional wounds that shadow his eyes. Once she realizes Jake is out to ruin both her and her uncle, she's determined to discover why. His reasons open up a whole new bundle of trouble. What's more, she must find a way to heal not only creatures from the forest, but Jake's wild heart. 
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Lake Success

Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration of the 0.1 Percent, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to what really makes America great.
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Frozen: a ParaNormal mystery

Apparently, life doesn’t end when you get married. When a couple freezes to death on a fifty degree day, Cassie is called in to investigate. The couple ran a daycare out of their home, making preschoolers the key witnesses and even the prime suspects. Two of those preschoolers are Cassie's youngest siblings, suggesting conditions at home are worse than she feared. As Cassie struggles to care for her family, she must face the truth about her mother's slide into depression, which seems to be taking the entire town with it. Then Cassie, too, is attacked by the supernatural cold. She has to think fast to survive, and her actions cause a rift between her and her husband. No, life doesn’t end after marriage. All hell can break loose at any time.
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