Bookshelf Comforts
Whether you’re holding hands with a little one, or holding onto something heavy—find a story that embraces you. This collection brings all of Tiffany Higgins’s books together in one place, from eerie mysteries to honest reflections to warm stories for children and families. Each title offers its own kind of comfort, meeting readers of every age right where they are.
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Once a Year—Twelve Celebrations that Stitch the Year Together
Once a Year gathers twelve quiet, deeply human stories—one for each month—that explore how celebrations, rituals, and returning moments shape the lives around them. These pieces move through unspoken tensions, shifting relationships, and memories that surface when the calendar turns, offering emotional weight without spectacle. Written with clean precision and a trust in the reader, this collection reflects on how meaning accumulates in the small, recurring moments that stitch a year—and a life—together.
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What Happened to the Oranges?—Whispers Before the Scream
This collection gathers fifteen stories that move between humor, horror, tenderness, absurdity, and quiet revelation. From campground epiphanies to city‑maze panic, from vampires on cleanup duty to writers trapped in their own nightmares, from mischievous lab echoes to stuffies navigating heartbreak, each tale explores the strange, human, and often unexpected ways we collide with compassion, consequence, and the choices that shape us. What Happened to the Oranges? is a journey through the offbeat edges of everyday life — where mercy, mystery, and meaning roll in from directions you never saw coming.
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Love Sick—Stories from the Edge of Healing
Sixteen stories trace the fault lines of memory, grief, magic, and transformation as ordinary people confront the moments that break them open and the quiet, stubborn hope that pulls them forward. Moving through realism, fantasy, horror, and the surreal, Love Sick explores what we carry, what we release, and who we become at the edge of healing.
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Bully Troubles
When Bear B’s family moves to the country, nothing feels familiar—not the woods, not the neighbors, not the trouble waiting just beyond the yard. Exploring with Stone helps, until two local dogs, Bossy and Butch, decide Stone doesn’t belong. Their bullying turns dangerous fast, forcing Bear B to figure out who he is in a place that doesn’t feel like home yet.
With the help of new friends Penny, Cupcake, and Danger, Bear B learns that courage isn’t about size or strength—it’s about choosing what’s right, even when you’re scared. And when Butch’s life suddenly hangs in the balance, Bear B faces the hardest choice of all: walk away, or help the dog who never showed him kindness.
A story about loyalty, bravery, and the unexpected strength that comes from standing up for others.
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Monster Beneath My Bed
Monster Beneath My Bed follows one little girl through several nights of strange sounds coming from under her bed. Her parents insist there’s no such thing as monsters, but she knows what she hears. With simple, child‑friendly illustrations and a warm narrative voice, this story explores nighttime fears in a way young readers can understand. The surprise ending offers comfort and relief, helping children feel braver about the noises they hear after the lights go out.
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We’ve Seen Santa
On Christmas Eve, falling asleep is impossible when magic might be just downstairs. Told from a little girl’s perspective, this cozy rhyming story follows her and her brother as they tiptoe out of bed, sneak down the stairs, and discover Santa in the middle of his midnight visit.
With bright, child‑friendly illustrations and a gentle sense of wonder, this picture book captures the excitement, curiosity, and joy of catching Santa in the act. A perfect read‑aloud for lap sitters and early readers during the holiday season.
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I Love the Changing Seasons
I Love the Changing Seasons follows a child’s joyful journey through spring, summer, fall, and winter. With gentle rhyming text and soft watercolor illustrations, this picture book introduces young readers to the beauty and wonder of each season. From blooming flowers to snowy days, children explore how the world transforms throughout the year in ways that are easy to understand and fun to share aloud. A warm, simple celebration of nature’s rhythms for lap sitters and early readers.
2013 Kart Kids Book List Award Winner
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Child Eater
Private investigator Tabitha Jordan arrives in a secluded town to find a missing girl — and instead uncovers a decades‑old pattern of vanished children, a decayed house with impossible secrets, and a creature born from bloodline and legend. As she and contractor David Matherson dig deeper, they’re pulled into a brutal confrontation with the demon stalking the town’s children — forcing Tabitha to face the wound she’s carried since her own father disappeared.
Tiffany Higgins | Shldbwriting Publishing Company 