AN ALMOST TOLERABLE PERSON is AVAILABLE NOW for only 99 cents!
Does it stink, getting older?
(Spoiler Alert: It does not.)
We all have questions.
-How do we deal with life when it invades the pristine shoreline of our plans?
-How will I move on from loss?
-Am I spending too much time looking back?
-Is it OK that I’m not OK?
(Spoiler Alert: Yes, it is.)
You are not alone. Robert Kugler has been there.
In AN ALMOST TOLERABLE PERSON: UNCOMMON THOUGHTS ON LIFE, LOSS, AND LOOKING BACK, Robert looks at those questions, looks back on how a global pandemic might have impacted his life in the late 1980’s and takes a look at personal loss and what he’s learned about it, over and over again.
This is a book for people with questions about moving on from loss, reconciling the past in an increasingly challenging world, and for those readers ready for all the feels of this heartwarming and occasionally hysterical book.
Does it stink, getting older?
(Spoiler Alert: It does not.)
We all have questions.
-How do we deal with life when it invades the pristine shoreline of our plans?
-How will I move on from loss?
-Am I spending too much time looking back?
-Is it OK that I’m not OK?
(Spoiler Alert: Yes, it is.)
You are not alone. Robert Kugler has been there.
In AN ALMOST TOLERABLE PERSON: UNCOMMON THOUGHTS ON LIFE, LOSS, AND LOOKING BACK, Robert looks at those questions, looks back on how a global pandemic might have impacted his life in the late 1980’s and takes a look at personal loss and what he’s learned about it, over and over again.
This is a book for people with questions about moving on from loss, reconciling the past in an increasingly challenging world, and for those readers ready for all the feels of this heartwarming and occasionally hysterical book.
"The Day Before" is a FREE prequel/bonus chapter to the award-winning novel THE LAST GOOD DAY and the Avery & Angela series.
The night before that "last good day" Avery can't sleep and shares his thoughts and concerns about the day to come with his best friend, Angela, before he leaves New Jersey for the Boston Conservatory of Music.
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The night before that "last good day" Avery can't sleep and shares his thoughts and concerns about the day to come with his best friend, Angela, before he leaves New Jersey for the Boston Conservatory of Music.
Get a FREE copy of the eBook on AMAZON and at BARNES & NOBLE
Join best friends Avery & Angela in the 2020 Virginia Author Project YA Book of the Year, The Last Good Day.
Two best friends. One last day. One huge secret that changes everything.
Avery Young is having a moment. How he handles it will determine his future.
A talented musician, Avery is leaving home in New Jersey to study at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Before he boards the 8 AM Northeast Connector out of Princeton Junction, he has one last day at the Jersey Shore with his best friend of four years, Angela, who's been unusually distant all summer. When Angela finally reveals the reasons behind that distance, it changes everything,
How can he pursue his dreams when it could mean losing Angela, the only stable thing in his life, forever?
The eBook of THE LAST GOOD DAY is now PERMAFREE and available WIDE at: AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, BARNES & NOBLE, GOOGLE PLAY and wherever books are sold!
Two best friends. One last day. One huge secret that changes everything.
Avery Young is having a moment. How he handles it will determine his future.
A talented musician, Avery is leaving home in New Jersey to study at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Before he boards the 8 AM Northeast Connector out of Princeton Junction, he has one last day at the Jersey Shore with his best friend of four years, Angela, who's been unusually distant all summer. When Angela finally reveals the reasons behind that distance, it changes everything,
How can he pursue his dreams when it could mean losing Angela, the only stable thing in his life, forever?
The eBook of THE LAST GOOD DAY is now PERMAFREE and available WIDE at: AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, BARNES & NOBLE, GOOGLE PLAY and wherever books are sold!
Book #2 in the award-winning Avery & Angela series finds Avery after his first semester and her four months of chemotherapy have completed and Avery is anxious to finally spend time with Angela.
But her doctors and her family have other ideas.
Being a normal couple was always going to be a challenge, but things only get harder and weirder as they navigate their first time alone together since summer, their exhausting parents and her drunk uncle. Add in a series of unexpected medical tests and the world’s strangest audition and Avery & Angela find themselves hurtling towards uncertainty.
Can they overcome her cancer, family drama, and the great unknowns ahead of them? Will their newfound love for one another survive Winter Break?
For that matter, will they? Avery & Angela face far more than one bump ON THE ROAD TO HERE
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
But her doctors and her family have other ideas.
Being a normal couple was always going to be a challenge, but things only get harder and weirder as they navigate their first time alone together since summer, their exhausting parents and her drunk uncle. Add in a series of unexpected medical tests and the world’s strangest audition and Avery & Angela find themselves hurtling towards uncertainty.
Can they overcome her cancer, family drama, and the great unknowns ahead of them? Will their newfound love for one another survive Winter Break?
For that matter, will they? Avery & Angela face far more than one bump ON THE ROAD TO HERE
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
Book #3 in the Award-Winning Avery & Angela series is here!
Something inside him snapped.
Instead of enjoying a break from school with his girlfriend Angela, Avery is suddenly reeling.
Avery doesn’t know what to do, but that won’t stop him from pretending that he does as every truth he clings to falls away and he grasps for the shattered pieces of the life he’s always known.
Secrets, lies, sleepwalking - this isn’t how life was supposed to be.
And then, there is Angela.
Can her love help him find a way through his loss, his growing anger, and his family's lies? Can he learn to accept what he cannot change?
Or will it consume him?
Find out in the third book of the Avery & Angela series, WHEN ONLY LOVE REMAINS, recently named one of the top 50 Books of the year by ReadFree.ly.com
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
Something inside him snapped.
Instead of enjoying a break from school with his girlfriend Angela, Avery is suddenly reeling.
Avery doesn’t know what to do, but that won’t stop him from pretending that he does as every truth he clings to falls away and he grasps for the shattered pieces of the life he’s always known.
Secrets, lies, sleepwalking - this isn’t how life was supposed to be.
And then, there is Angela.
Can her love help him find a way through his loss, his growing anger, and his family's lies? Can he learn to accept what he cannot change?
Or will it consume him?
Find out in the third book of the Avery & Angela series, WHEN ONLY LOVE REMAINS, recently named one of the top 50 Books of the year by ReadFree.ly.com
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
Robert Kugler, winner of the 2020 Virginia Author Project YA Book of the Year Award concludes the Avery & Angela series, with LOVE WILL COME TO YOU!
Two best friends. One true love. One obstacle after another standing in their way.
Being young is hard
Being young and in love as your world is falling apart is even harder.
Still reeling from his mother’s death, Avery seeks out the father he’s never known, in hopes he can give him the answers he desperately seeks as he tries to move forward. With Angela facing down her own challenges, Avery pulls away from everyone as he continues to hide from his pain and grief.
Join Avery & Angela as they try and move towards their future together while navigating her treatment, his inability to cope, and yes, even a global pandemic.
Will their love survive? For that matter, will they?
Find out now in LOVE WILL COME TO YOU, the final book in the Avery & Angela series.
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
Two best friends. One true love. One obstacle after another standing in their way.
Being young is hard
Being young and in love as your world is falling apart is even harder.
Still reeling from his mother’s death, Avery seeks out the father he’s never known, in hopes he can give him the answers he desperately seeks as he tries to move forward. With Angela facing down her own challenges, Avery pulls away from everyone as he continues to hide from his pain and grief.
Join Avery & Angela as they try and move towards their future together while navigating her treatment, his inability to cope, and yes, even a global pandemic.
Will their love survive? For that matter, will they?
Find out now in LOVE WILL COME TO YOU, the final book in the Avery & Angela series.
Available in paperback at AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE
Available in eBook form wherever eBooks are sold, including AMAZON, APPLE BOOKS, KOBO, GOOGLE PLAY and BARNES & NOBLE
Robert Kugler, winner of the Virginia Author Project YA Book of the year invites you to come along (again) on a journey through over a decade of work as "Aloha Kugs."
Robert Kugler, author of the award-winning novel THE LAST GOOD DAY revisits some of his favorite topics including, being a stay-at-home parent, an independent author, life, love, loss, and of course, a 1961 Sears Silvertone Cabinet Stereo system and turntable.
Laugh along through stories of engagement, Saint Patrick's Day, and an intense Black Belt Test. Prepare all your feels for reflections on losing a parent, saying goodbye, and missing the chance to say goodbye as well.
Prepare yourself for an intense visit to the surgical wing of Children's National Hospital and be ready to answer the question: "Are you now or have you ever been a grownup?!"
Another fifteen of Kug's best columns await you here in Volume II!
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Robert Kugler, winner of the Virginia Author Project YA Book of the year invites you to come along on a journey through over a decade of work as "Aloha Kugs." The author of the award-winning novel THE LAST GOOD DAY and the Avery & Angela Series revisits some of his favorite topics including, being a stay-at-home-dad, learning new things in adulthood, embracing the awesome power of toys, childhood and moving on, life, love, and loss. Along the way you'll meet dinosaurs, barely avoid a fistfight in the Honolulu Library, fend off a bully, destroy several layers of comfort zones, say farewell to a few magical people and one amazing dog, and, discover the sheer joy and promise inherent in a 1970 Plymouth Duster. Fifteen of Kugs best columns await you here in Volume I! |
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