A Girl Named Charlie Lester by Carissa HalstonKirkus Reviews: "Halston lets the characters' actions speak for them and, as a result, well-rounded personalities emerge. Charlie is a gem...a lovely piece of female confessional."
Full review here.
ISBN 978-0-6151-6546-2 (trade) $14.95
Honorable Mention - New York Book Festival 2008Charlie Lester is a waitress. She's a girl whose boyfriend pushes her so far past her breaking point that she decides to kill his pets. Charlie Lester is a bookseller. She falls in love with a girl who makes her doubt everything she knew about life and herself. Charlie Lester is a shopkeeper. At 26, she hires her two best friends to help run a store that will make or break her. Told over the course of eight years, this is the story of a girl named Charlie Lester.
Cleavage by Carissa Halston
ISBN someday (trade paperback) $12.99Five plays. Four actors. One playwright. Now the script can be yours. A collection of short plays and one-acts involving people separating or coming together, Cleavage will make you wish you'd been there for the naked girl. But we're getting ahead of ourselves...
Sequentially Yours
Words: Carissa Halston, Pictures: Thomas Karten
ISBN forthcoming (50 page graphic novel, full color) $8.00Meet Kent Williams, Anti-Environmentalist. Scared? You should be. Worry not. Our Hero will save you as soon as he's done thwarting evildoers and purse snatchers. If that doesn't strike your fancy, we also have a retrospective slice-of-life tale sure to make you leave that party saying, "I have some things I need to think about." Sequentially Yours...something for everyone.

Mentally Unstable Three Book Bargain!
$30.00 (Why, that price is mentally unstable!)For all you kids who haven't purchased any of the books listed above, now you can have them all! You may be wondering why there's no cover image. It's because you get three books! No cover image necessary! How mentally unstable of us!

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