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  • It's Come to This: A Pandemic Diary

    As New York becomes the world's hardest-hit city by the coronavirus, best-selling author and former New York Times columnist Laura Pedersen reports on how the populace is turned upside-down. Practically overnight millions of people went from living according to facts and figures to being at the mercy of fever and fate. It's Come to This chronicles the pandemic year as it unfolded, with every week ... Read more

    $7.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buffalo Unbound

    A Celebration

    Writing about the economic collapse and social unrest of her 1970s childhood in Buffalo, New York, Laura Pedersen was struck by how things were finally improving in her beloved hometown. As 2008 began, Buffalo was poised to become the thriving metropolis it had been a hundred years earlier—only instead of grain and steel, the booming industries now included healthcare and banking, education and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in New York

    How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters, and Subway Sharks

    Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller Play Money and award-winning Buffalo Gal, serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, NY, friends thought the seventeen year old was suffering from blizzard delirious when she left Buffalo for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences her adopted city in the best and worst of times while becoming the youngest person to have a ... Read more

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  • Wanda's Better Way

    Illustrated by Penny Weber ...
    Follow the journey of one thoughtful and creative girl as she learns to pursue her passions Young Wanda is a girl on a mission; she wants to decide what to do when she grows up. Will she be a dancer? A landscape designer? Maybe a pastry chef? Her teachers and parents all make suggestions, but Wanda sets out to explore each option on her own. Along the way she invents a clever pulley system, a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beginner's Luck

    A Novel

    Series Book 1 - Hallie Palmer
    “Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can’t help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen.”—The Hartford Courant“There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song.”The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Theory of Everything Else

    Essays

    That elusive Holy Grail of modern physics, A Theory of Everything (ToE), would explain the universe in a single set of equations. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking tackled the problem during their lifetimes and the quest continues today in laboratories around the world. Leaving string theory, galaxy clusters, and supersymmetry to the Quantum Computer and Hadron Collider crowd, Pedersen has taken ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Last Call

    A Novel

    Having descended from a long line of indomitable, good-humored Scots, Hayden MacBride sees no reason to take his own death lying down. In fact, he now spends his days crashing funerals for the free food and insight into the Great Beyond. Then he meets Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders. Hayden is smitten the instant her heavy silver cross smacks him in the face when she leaps up to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Best Bet

    A Novel

    Since Hallie's father died and left behind ten children, money at the Palmer household is tighter than ever. And just when Hallie thought she was graduating from college, it turns out she's four credits short. A professor needs one more student for a project that will take her around the world, only longtime boyfriend Craig has another proposition for Hallie.Thus begins Hallie's great odyssey, for ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ava's Adventure

    Informed by her parents that they can’t afford to send her on a weekend snowboarding trip with her friend, Ava escapes to her room.There she begins using her imagination for creative play, and in the end has a better time than her snowboarding friend while making some important discoveries about herself.Addresses the issue of economic diversity sensitively. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Heart's Desire

    A Novel

    Series Book 2 - Hallie Palmer
    Card sharp and former wild child Hallie Palmer is in college now–and Bernard Stockton, her legal guardian, has suddenly appeared during final exams. He’s hysterical about his recent breakup with his longtime boyfriend, Gil, and wants to enlist Hallie in a scheme to win Gil back. So Hallie returns to Cosgrove County, Ohio, for the summer, to her job as live-in yard person for Bernard and his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Big Shuffle

    A Novel

    Series Book 3 - Hallie Palmer
    “We’re approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one’s even had breakfast yet.”When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie’s eight younger siblings. Hallie’s older brother has a scholarship and a sensible major–which translates to free tuition and desperately needed future income for the family. So ... Read more

    $9.99 USD