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Carey Wallace
Learn where inspiration comes from and how to harness it in your life and work.
We all know the sensation of inspiration. It's what tells a painter what to paint…
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Based on the true story of a 19th-century inventor and his innovative contraption, The Blind Contessa’s New Machine is an enchanting confection of love and the triumph of the imagination.
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In a seaside New England town in the 1920s, twelve-year-old Clare discovers a mysterious glass house and falls in love with Jack, the ghost of a boy who can’t remember…
As exciting as any Greek myth, as inspiring as any story about knights of the round table, these stories of the Christian saints are filled with history, adventure, and inspiration…
For readers of all ages, these inviting poems and gorgeous illustrations inspired by the book of Psalms echo all its wonder and courage, comfort and joy, protection and love.
Carey Anderson
MirrorsThis is the background story of two of our main characters in Volume I of The Wallace Family Affairs, Tracy and Steve. In this story you can see a lot…
Pamela Latour is liar and thief. Listening to her mother has always landed her in harms way. Her final mistake happened when she decided to listen to her mother one…
Olivia and Ahjani (Ah-Jah-Nee) find each other when they’re both looking for more. Olivia moved across the country to be around the one person she felt loved her and had…
Yussef has always lived an invisible life, moving from place to place; and never really feeling like he fits in anywhere he goes. With a self-centered and ridiculous mother, eventually…
Chantel and her brother Cyrus’ childhood was less than ideal. Their parents left them to provide for, and raise their selves.Innocent Chantel never believed in herself, or that anyone besides…
Annette grew up in an unloving environment. Her feisty spirit was her only survival tactic. When her family moves from Kansas to California, Annette meets The Wallace’s. The Wallace’s are…
I Knew You When is a story about R. Novian Murphy and Torrie Rowe. They know that they individually have what it takes to become Stars. They knew each other…
Tracy hasn’t always made the right choices in her life. It seems like she always has to learn things the hard way. Her parents raised her to be a good…
Ethan Wallace has always lived in the shadows of his family. He dimmed his light so that his brothers could shine. When Ethan met Jenise he was convinced that she…
Look Beyond Your Eyes is a coming of age story about Sasha Wallace, who is a seemingly confident and self-assured young lady. Sasha is used to being appreciated and sought…
This is the conclusion to the Wallace Family Affairs Volume II.This book picks up where Part 1 leaves off. Sometimes Love Isn’t Enough, but shouldn’t it be? Amber loves Malcolm…
The girl of many names is mostly known as Nellie. Nellie traumatically goes from Riches to Rags. Her mother instills in her the idea that unless a man has money…
Amber Wallace is a angry little girl who struggles to understand herself and the world around her. She doesn’t understand why her father being white and her mother being black…
David Hajdu,John Carey
A Revolution in Three Acts explores how three vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to…
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