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Publisher:
Masque Books
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Laine, a twenty-something grad student, knows her wayward brother Innis must be up to no good in Britain. She's the big sister, the sensible one, but when she tracks him down, she finds more than she bargained for. Innis has found their biological father Jaird-a shape-shifting stallion with a taste for human flesh-and has fallen under the creature's spell. Then Laine meets Arren, a Cabyll Ushtey in denial. He's irresistible, but is he just as bad...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
As the stepchild of a State Department employee, she should have led a charmed life in exotic locations in Europe and Asia, as well as the United States. But her family hid a dark secret -- one that would affect the lovely, talented young woman's ability to form meaningful relationships long after she entered adulthood. This beautifully written novel is loosely based on author Nancy Roberts' life, and explores the effects of abuse on her as a child,...
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Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
David French's award-winning plays Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon are available for the first time in a special one-volume edition, with an introduction by Albert Schultz. Set in the 1950s, Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family who have emigrated to the mainland and lost all sense of their place in the world. In Of the Fields, Lately, the emotionally charged sequel to Leaving Home, young Ben Mercer...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.
6. Moon Water
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Publisher:
She Writes Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the summer of 1969, Moon Water follows Nettie, a gritty sixteen-year-old who is reeling from sucker punches coming from all directions. Her boyfriend since grade school wants to break up just as they were beginning to figure out the sex thing, her life-long nemesis is jabbing her with perfectly polished nails, and her hell's fire and brimstone preacher refuses to baptize her. In the middle of this turmoil, an...
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Publisher:
She Writes Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
After her Greenwich, Connecticut farmhouse is destroyed, Lidia Raven is shaken, but also thankful that her teenage twins, Carly and Clarisse, are unharmed and that her friend Polly has been kind enough to take them in. Lidia's already experienced a string of bad luck: her husband left her and the girls for another man, she lost her job in the financial crisis, and now she's lost her home. She fears more bad news is on its way-and when she discovers...
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Language:
English
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"Lorraine Dancy has just discovered that everything she believes about her father is a lie--starting with the fact that Thomas supposedly died years ago. Now she's learned that not only is he not dead, he's living in a small town south of the border. In the process of tracking him down, she manages to get framed for theft and pursued by the real thief, the police and a local crime boss. Her father's friend Jack Keller agrees to help her escape, although...
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Publisher:
Pariyatti
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Culled from the Buddha's teaching, contemporary literature, and the author's own life lessons, this book is a gently humorous, powerful yet sweet gathering of story-poems, offered as a help when read or recalled at the time when they are most needed. Those practicing meditation may find refreshment, joy and a challenge to apply their practice in daily life, others may find an observant and empathetic voice in these lines.
15. Caramel moon
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Publisher:
Aladdin
Pub. Date:
2010
Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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Melli and the other Candy Fairies must figure out who is destroying the candy corn crop before the Caramel Moon Festival.
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Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 510L
Language:
English
Description:
"Meet Drop. She's water! And she's seen a thing or two--even dinosaurs. Everywhere Drop flows--and she flows everywhere--she makes life on Earth possible, and has a great time doing it. Have you ever plummeted from a rain cloud? Or taken a thousand-year nap in a glacier? Drop has! She'll tell you all about it." -- Amazon.com.
"Drop the water droplet leads young readers on an adventure through the hydrologic cycle"--
18. Blood Moon Rider
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Publisher:
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Accelerated Reader Quiz #109073. Level 6.6 "I tried to block the legend of the blood moon-that it signaled the death of someone close to you-from my mind." Harley Wallace has suffered through an incredible run of bad luck. His father died fighting in the Pacific during World War II, and his stepmother abandoned him. The Marines refused to take him, and now he is kicked off a bus in the middle of Nowhere, Florida, where he celebrates his fourteenth...