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The Dumb Class by Mike Hatch is a dark-humored, irreverent look at the bygone days of the fifties-sixties era. It is funny, poignant and a page-turner from start to finish. Be sure to download it now while it’s free on Amazon.

The Dumb Class: Boomer Junior High by Mike Hatch

If Grease was a rather lighthearted view of the local hoody kids in the nineteen fifties-sixties era, The Dumb Class is a dark-humored, irreverent look at those bygone days. It is funny, poignant and a page-turner from start to finish. The Dumb Class tells about the desires, fears and joys of baby boomer teenagers finding their way along as they deal with the world of parents, siblings, neighbors, teachers, businessmen, doctors, and, of course, the police.

They create their own milieu which is somewhat impervious to the society around them as they experiment, and in fact gain some expertise, with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll years before the hit recording by Ian Dury popularized the phrase. Hoods, elites, nerds, weirdos and freaks make up the characters in this sardonic junior high school baby boomer tale set in 1960. We were just a bunch of greasers trying to have a good time and, well, sometimes, we did. An entertaining and fun read that will be much enjoyed by the boomer set and other kids, too.

About the author, Mike Hatch:

Mike Hatch has been a farmhand, migrant fruit picker, auto mechanic, race car driver, machinist, engineer, business executive and university professor. He has lived and worked in Wisconsin, Illinois, New York State and in Europe. He has traveled throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. He holds bachelors and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He currently lives in Wisconsin with his family. The Dumb Class is his third novel, following Horseshoes & Nuclear Weapons and Take It To The Limit.

Visit the Mike Hatch website at: http://www.mikehatchauthor.com/

A hilarious Christmas story by Ashley Robert that sheds light on how children of divorced households feel.

Two Days of Christmas by Ashley Robert

Like most children his age, Asher’s favorite day of the year was Christmas. Sure he liked to get presents and eat all the fabulous food just like everyone else, but mostly he loved being with both his parents. You see Asher’s father, Alec Banks, had run off on his mother, Judith, almost three years to the date and the ten year old boy longed for his family to be whole again.

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen because Alec’s girlfriend, Trish, unexpectedly showed up for the holiday weekend unannounced, even after Asher’s father promised that she wouldn’t. The young boy was so upset that he manages to sabotage the entire day of Christmas. Not until the day is completely lost, does Asher finally realize what an awful person he was for ruining Christmas, especially for his younger sister and cousins.

Then the most magical thing happens. Henry, who is the Spirit of Christmas, mysteriously shows up and grants Asher one wish. He tells the young boy that he will be able to relive Christmas day and fix all the things that he did wrong. Asher does exactly that, and along the way he rediscovers his faith in Santa and the Spirit of Christmas.

About the author, Ashley Robert:

Ashley Robert was born and raised in south Florida in the 80’s. He spent his summers in North Carolina where he learned about southern culture. He went on to study at the University of Mississippi where he earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Throughout his life he has always had an appreciation for literature & film. Ashley writes every book as if it were a movie. Perhaps one day they will be.

This visionary science fiction tale begins with Paul James’s new YA Dystopian novel which launches two new heroes into the world’s oceans and the cosmos.

The Modest Proposal Institute: A YA Dystopian Novel by Paul James

Like many young men, Alexis dreams of adventure and being an adventurer, a Viking or a Pirate, or maybe just your movie-style heroic action man saving the Western world. He knows that he’s going to do it by leading his new school, an offshore boarding school and university built by his grandfather and a retired engineer, to ever greater success. The only barrier he sees standing in his way is a kid called Shane.

Shane is only at the school because he somehow upsets people whenever he speaks, which isn’t too surprising because while they’re very ordinary, he’s very extra-ordinarily clever. It turns out this strange island school is full of misfits like him and he quickly sees that his destiny is to lead it to worlds away from the people who rejected him. His only real rival for head of the Institute is a kid called Alexis.

Each of them believes that only by besting the other, and by clever detective work to stop the other’s rise, will they achieve their true place and that only under their leadership will the future of the world be safe. It’s a coming-of-age, do-or-die struggle, him or me story – or is it? Could they both achieve their destinies?

This visionary science fiction tale begins with Paul James’s new YA Dystopian novel, The Modest Proposal Institute: An Old Path to a New Future, which launches two new heroes into the world’s oceans and the cosmos.

About the author of this YA dystopian novel, Paul James:

Paul James is an engineer with a life-long interest in books and writing. Originally from England, he’s lived with his family near Toronto, Canada, for many years and where he walks, runs and takes wildlife photos whenever the weather will let him. In his writing, he likes to capture the humorous side of life even when sometimes the world doesn’t seem to warrant it — as we saw in his earlier book, Diary of a Canadian Nobody.