These are the actual thoughts that were going through my head while I was trying my neighbors stilts for the first time. “This isn’t so hard. OH MY GOSH..I am doing it! I am good at this…look at me go. This could have been my talent. I am flying now. I should have been in the circus (for some reason the whole clown issue didn’t occur to me at the time). I am on a roooooooooollll (FLOP! CRASH) OUCH!! Now since I like to keep it clean here, I won’t tell you the words I used as I was rubbing my ankle. Seriously… I just never learn. I don’t have that little voice in my head that tells me things are not a good idea.
Make Me a Real Girl (Witches of The Demon Isle Book 1)
Rachel Humphrey – D’aigle
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Horror | Fantasy
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A vampire mentors three sibling Witches as they struggle to balance life, with duty, as protectors of The Demon Isle.
Melinda Howard is the Demon Isle’s weird girl… the one that’s been holed up in the Howard Mansion for the last four years. Why? No one knows the truth except for her family… a long line of witches charged with protecting the Demon Isle, currently led by four hundred year old vampire, William Wakefield. Another reason Melinda doesn’t mind her self-inflicted imprisonment. She gets to spend more time with William, her crush for nearly all her life who’s too hot for words. And now, so are her dreams.
Dreams that have a tendency to come true. Although typically, they don’t include the handsome vampire she’s crushing on but rather horrifying visions of people about to die.
But she cannot stay under self-inflicted house arrest forever! And if her brothers or William get their choice in the matter, Melinda will be out of the house partying with her friends on the beach, giving her affections to a human, not a vampire, and getting into her role as a witch.
A role her eldest brother Charlie lives for, and a role her second brother Michael would rather live without. But when duty calls, usually from the local sheriff needing help with some tourist who’s gotten themselves into trouble, life, fun and choice get set aside and duty takes over.
Such is the case when the sheriff needs help solving a murder; one she fears is supernatural in nature. To assist her in the case, she calls upon the skills of Charlie, who’s a little more than just a Howard Witch, and Michael, an empath and death reader.
What Michael discovers from the reading however, could be more than any of them can deal with or accept. Worse yet, they fear what this discovery will do to Melinda, as it returns them all to the core of her self-imprisonment.
Back to the lives she could not save…
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Forgetting Tabitha the Story of an Orphan Train Rider
Julie Dewey
Genre: Historical Fiction | Romance
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Raised on a farm outside of Westchester County, Tabitha Salt, the daughter of Irish immigrants, leads a sheltered existence.When tragedy strikes the family, the ten year old and her mother are forced to move to the notorious Five Points District in New York City.Known for its brothels, gangs, gambling halls, corrupt politicians, and thieves, the Five Points is a chaotic slum.The women find work as laundresses, struggling every day to survive in their squalid living conditions.
When tragedy strikes again, Tabitha finds herself on the streets of New York City, alone.Summoning her courage and willing her legs that are numb with fear and grief to move, she takes to a life on the streets.Stealing food and running from the law, Tabitha dreams of the future.On the streets she meets Scotty, a ruffian who had been on his own for some time, even though he was still a young boy.Together, they team up and learn to adapt.
During this time the Sisters of Charity were plucking orphans off the streets with promises of a new life.Children were told to forget their pasts, including their religious beliefs, families, and names.They were to become Christian and were given new identities, only then could they board the orphan trains.The orphan trains carried the destitute children out west in search of new homes. Siblings were often ripped apart and many didn’t find homes but became indentured workers in exchange for room and board.
The looming decision would alter her life course; boarding the train meant leaving everything and everyone she knew behind, even Scotty.Vulnerable and afraid she made her decision.
The story is a true to life chronicle reflecting the saga of hundreds of thousands of homeless or neglected children who were placed on orphan trains from 1854 to 1929.The orphan train movement led to numerous reforms having to do with welfare and child labor laws.Many people believe it is the origin of modern foster care.Unfortunately, as you will see in the book, not all children had fairy tale endings, some resorted to prostitution for survival, proving that the will to live is stronger than the just about anything.
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In Her Shadow
August McLaughlin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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One woman locked in a basement, nearing death and longing for escape. Another baffled by the inexplicable symptoms wreaking havoc on her life. Both are lost and alone, yet somehow connected. And time is running out…
Near the tenth anniversary of her parents’ unexpected death, Claire Fiksen, a lovely young Harvard-grad and gifted psychologist in Minnesota, develops bizarre symptoms of an eating disorder that threaten her fledgling career, her relationship with a handsome young medical student, her grasp on reality and, soon, her life.
When her beloved grandfather reveals that there may be more to her parents’ death than she’s realized, Claire’s pursuit of healing becomes a desperate search for answers as she delves into her family’s sordid past. Meanwhile, someone is watching her every move, plotting to draw her into her own twisted web of misery.
Claire has something he needs, and he’ll stop at nothing to obtain it. Every step Claire takes brings her closer to the truth and danger. And her life, she discovers, isn’t the only one at stake.
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worthless people
Skeeter Wilson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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Dave was born in Africa. He is an inconvenience to his American parents, who are foreign aid workers. While Dave’s parents labor to rescue Africa from itself, Africans rescue Dave from his parents. Like most children of expatriates, in Africa, Dave grows up knowing that one day he will have to leave the only home he knows and go to the America that his birth-parents call home.
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Voyage with the Vikings (AIO Imagination Station Books Book 1)
Paul McCusker
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit’s Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn’t found. Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson—and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America. But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker’s workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet.
Join Patrick and Beth as they continue their travel to various lands and time in the Imagination Station book series.
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