New Releases by Christine Keleny

Learn the lives of the 3 creators of the Nancy mysteries and how the plucky, intelligent, and famous girl sleuth came to life, along with the controversy that still rages about who really created the Nancy that readers across the globe love.

I turn to see where Grandma and Reggie are and run right into a brick wall. Well, it's not exactly a brick wall but it feels like it. It's a really big man in a dark suit and tie, who kind of reminds me of Officer Miller, the CIA officer that saved us from Georg and Inger when we were in Norway. "Oh! I'm sorry." I step to my right to move around the man, but he does something really strange; he steps back in front of me as if to block my way. I look up at the big man with broad shoulders, and then it dawns on me: Officer Miller has sent a man to find us and make us finally go home! Has Grandma Agee gone off the deep end with her new plan? Is there any chance Grandma and Agnes can meet with Russian's supreme leader, Nikita Khrushchev? Is CIA Officer Miller or Mr. Borge of EI4 (the Norwegian Intelligence Service) going to catch up to them and force them to go home? Book III in the Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure Series is full of even more surprises, takes you on another exciting ride (this time through the heart of Russia), and Reveals All! - including some things you would never expect!

The 7 chakra fairies teach young children about the basics of the 7 main chakras in a fun and entertaining way. They will learn that energy centers in the body have been talked about within many cultures, what color is associated with each chakra, what the energy in each chakra can affect, multiple ways to help balance their own chakras.

The laughs, thrills, and hijinks continue for young and old alike in Book II of the Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure Series, the much-anticipated follow-up to the Award-Winning Intrigue in Istanbul. But there is more! Grandma and Agnes get in over their heads and end up putting their very lives at risk.

A story of Willie Lee Triplett, a recovering addict and alcoholic. Tells of Willie's life in the suburbs a Chicago's poorer neighborhood, his chance trip to Wisconsin, and his struggle for sobriety. It's a no-holds-barred account of Willie's life on the street, in prison, and the roller coaster ride of recovery that many addicts know well.

Rose is a nurse in WWII. She is trying to follow her dream but society and those she loves are telling her she wants the wrong thing. Who will be right in the end? It's a surprise for Rose as well as the reader. A Burnished Rose is the much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning Rosebloom.

Rose - a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin - runs away from home to avoid going onto high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. ---------- Rose is thrown into the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi while working on river boats, going to a prep school in St. Louis where she lives with a black family in the Ville, and working in a bordello in New Orleans (not as a call girl, of course. She is a Catholic girl from the Midwest after all). What she doesn't anticipate are the close relationships that develop with many of the women she encounters. She also discovers the harshness of the world far away from the security of home. Ultimately, Rose realizes what is most important in her life: her family and her friends. ---------- Rosebloom takes place at a time in history that buffets Rose between the great depression and the coming wave of World War II. She gets herself into situations through her naiveté and also just by chance that test her resolve and teach her not only about herself but about the world of others which she would have never know if she hadn't left her small farm in Southwest Wisconsin.

A twelve year old girl (Agnes Kelly) goes to Istanbul with her grandmother after her father's funeral. There Agnes finds out that there is something suspicious about her father's death and that her father was a spy in the CIA. The story takes place in 1961,