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The Gift trilogy

Read in order: The Tsar's Gift, then The Russian Count's Gift to New York, then The Mayan Gift to the World.

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Book 1 · Saint Petersburg, 1881 · 384 pages

The Tsar's Gift

Historical fiction (1881-2011). The gifts witness the intrigue and political turmoil of a dying 19th century Imperial Empire. Themes of revolution, love, unexpected deaths, passing of a wealthy family legacy, collecting antiquities, Impressionist paintings and books with a taste of ballet feed the narrative flow.

Hardcover
$28.00
Clothbound, ribbon marker
Paperback
$18.00
Trade paperback
Ebook
$9.99
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Book 2 · Lower Manhattan/Costa Rica, 2011 · 352 pages

The Russian Count's Gift to New York

Adventure/mystery love story of the last heir to the Ivanovich family fortune. Nicholas Andreyev, a Bitcoin-era Asperger savant, and Dr. Mercedes Conroy, a Mayan archeology professor, race from New York to Costa Rica and Palenque to break a childless curse and claim a Swiss vault of Imperial Russian wealth.

Hardcover
$28.00
Clothbound, ribbon marker
Paperback
$18.00
Trade paperback
Ebook
$9.99
Kindle, Nook & Kobo
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Book 3 · The Yucatán and the Talamanca Mountains, 2030s' · 368 pages

The Mayan Gift to the World

In a pyramid that waited two thousand years for discovery, a Mayan gift of knowledge sets the pace for Earth’s new world order.

Hardcover
$28.00
Clothbound, ribbon marker
Paperback
$18.00
Trade paperback
Ebook
$9.99
Kindle, Nook & Kobo

Young adult stories

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The Mouse Who Saves the World

by Luisa Penrose

A chubby, grain-fed field mouse goes to the city. Skinny from hunger, she saves the world from a nuclear disaster.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 18 pages

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The Horse With Beautiful Feet

by Luisa Penrose

A filly born into a family horse farm is nothing special to look at until she begins to dance.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 29 pages

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The Buses Who Fell in Love

by Luisa Penrose

Guadalupe/Lupe Linda is a new bus who feels her passengers' moods. She finds their low feelings hard to bear. An older bus, Eduardo, with dents, missing paint, shares his secret to happiness and gives her reason to keep on beeping and busing.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 10 pages

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A Familiar Sound

by Luisa Penrose

A man who’s forgotten almost everything is saved from the street’s destitution by a tiny, rough furred dog.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 10 pages

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La Zaguata

by Luisa Penrose

No one wants the runt of the litter until she starts digging...

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 15 pages

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Hilda, Queen of the Monkeys

by Luisa Penrose

Born albino/white into a dark, howler monkey family she saves her troop from starvation and brings a new species into the primitive world of monkeys.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 15 pages

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The Cow who Wanted to be a Queen

by Luisa Penrose

Mountain-bred milk cows seldom become queens. Maria challenged this reality and finally got her wish.

$12.00

Paperback · ebook $6.99 · 7 pages

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