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Donald Capone

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"Fun spin on a classic tale... Thoughtful reflections pepper the narrative, bringing a welcome depth to the story's lighter supernatural elements."
—Publisher's Weekly

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Piper Van Winkle, A Sleepy Hollow Novel
by Donald Capone

17 year-old Piper is a modern-day Rip Van Winkle—except when she awakens in 2021 she hasn’t aged a day. Can she adjust to a strange new world? Will a desperate Russian spy get his hands on her blood, which he believes is the Fountain of Youth? Can the ghost of author Washington Irving return her to 1996 before it's too late?

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Into the Sunset

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The Chambliss Tapes

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Stories From Sunset Hill

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Just Follow Me

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Elizabeth Belated Happy new year to you Don!


Books Ring Mah Bell You must enjoy the work... designing kids books. There's a few on your list my son would love! You creative people... I can't draw a stick person and can hardly write a coherent grocery list.


Alicia Don has a lot of great books. If only he'd lend me some...


Jeremy Hi Donald!

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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message 1: by Susan (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:23AM)

Susan Henderson Don, you have a great bookshelf!


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