Upcoming Titles

Riding on Duke's Train by Mick Carlon ( January 2012) -- 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest winner, children's fiction

Nine-year-old Danny stows away on a Georgia train—the train of Duke Ellington. Through Danny's eyes, we meet some of America's finest musicians as he accompanies them on their 1939 European tour, when the train was briefly held in Nazi Germany. Says Nat Hentoff, "I knew Duke Ellington for 25 years. The Ellington in this book is the man I knew."

"Duke used to say that the individual sound of a musician revealed his soul. Mick Carlon is a 'soul' storyteller." --Nat Hentoff

"A ripping good yarn that plunges the reader into the world of Duke Ellington and the Europe and America of 1939." --Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz

Paradise Walk by Mary Malloy (November 2011)

Sequel to "The Wandering Heart"

Following the path of a medieval pilgrimage, historian Lizzie Manning finds unexpected danger. Chaucer may have based his "Wife of Bath" on a real woman, whose descendant holds certain artifacts. But can the investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket hidden in Canterbury Cathedral, and is someone willing to kill to protect the secret?