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How would you like to go home, Sylva?" I asked."Where's home?" she replied, ever so faintly."I don't know, " I said, cracking each of the acorns and retrieving the nuts. "Shall we find out?"Okay."I helped her to put her backpack on, and carefully stashed her sapling inside it. Then we each ate a nut.They tasted like freedom. Fifteen-year-old Wynd and her ailing younger sister, Sylva, escape from their foster home and find their way to an unusu...

The Velvet Sky is a creative nonfiction biography by Cherie Battista who combines field research, family history, and fiction to piece together her Great Uncle Stephen Duckhouse's life. He shares his story with his sister in spirit, Annie, who guides him throughout the story. Stephen Duckhouse was born in 1897 in Birmingham, England and in 1910, Stephen and his brother Albert immigrated to Canada as Home Children--poor and orphaned children se...

Pop quiz: Is Bugs Bunny bipolar? Was Winston Churchill? How about Margot Kidder, Henry VIII, and Frank Sinatra?*What about you?If you're one of the roughly 4 percent of the population with diagnosed bipolar disorder-or the even smaller percentage with bipolar II-join the club.Bipolar disorder is mental illness. It's manic depression. It's serious. If you've just been diagnosed, however, take heart: You haven't joined a secret society. We manic...

Cate stepped out of the gym to the parking lot and moaned. Her back tire sat flat against the ground. "Oh, sheets!" She tossed her gym bag across the asphalt. "Now what?" A tear welled in her eye. It was times like this that she missed her dad more than usual."Looks like you've got a bit of a problem. Let me give you a hand."Cate turned to find Dylan-of-the-gym right behind her. He'd crept upon her without making a sound. Oh God, did he see me...

It's 20??-a changed yet still complacent America-and Lorraine Mulderon is mad. She's mad that dying fish litter the shores of her small Connecticut coastal town. She's mad other birds seem to be dying, possibly indirectly related to fish deaths. She's still mad about a wave of crow deaths over a decade ago. Oh, and Lorraine is also mad about small local irritants-four-way stop signs, rude "flocks" of bikers clogging up roadways, water wasted o...

Monk and her friends are back, battling the forces of evil in this sequel to Let Us Prey.Kilkenny Sharp is doing well in her final year of school and looking forward to going to university. That is, until a murderous shapeshifter enters her dreams one night with a terrifying request. Kilkenny refuses and is forced into a violent dreamscape.Kilkenny and her friends struggle to avoid the lethal traps left for them in the dreamscape while they se...

It's 1962. Betty Ann Johnson is an African American military spouse on an Air Force base outside Washington, DC. Sisters Lola, Chita, and Rosita are the proud keepers of the Montero name in Matanzas, Cuba. Betty Ann gets wind that military preparations are ramping up for something more than just practice drills. Fearing that the Soviet presence in Cuba has become a tangible threat, she and a small band of military spouses, without telling thei...

It's a strange thing-when I travel, I seem to leave fatigue behind. There always seems to be a surge of energy for adventures. When at home, all my energy seems to go into existing, but traveling brings me a kind of freedom I can't find doing anything else."Ruth Simkin proves you don't have to be a young, strong, back-packer nor a wealthy luxury-seeker to have exciting and interesting travel experiences. She shares her adventures to China, Jap...

Few people know of Nina Allender, but they should. One of only a handful of female political cartoonists in the early twentieth century, she played a vital role in the women's suffrage movement. Unafraid to criticize powerful men and challenge the status quo, Allender was recruited by the famous activist Alice Paul to be the "official cartoonist" of The Suffragist, the weekly newspaper of the National Woman's Party. Between 1914 and 1927, Alle...

Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has lived her whole life under the mythic bluff called Maiden Leap in a scenic river town. Her contented life is turned inside out when her former high school girlfriend Lucy returns to town as a graduate of a gay conversion therapy program. Now Kate must cope with her guilt and anger over how she and Lucy parted. As Kate struggles to balance her marriage to her reliable husband and her friendship with mercuria...

Ladonis Washington, a bold, smart, and ambitious Black woman, dreams of becoming the first female vice president of the Floating Palace Steamboat Company in New Orleans where she works as the director of public relations.The charter sales coordinator and Ladonis's workplace nemesis, Bunnie Sinclair, is accused of killing the richest man in town. Now, Ladonis has to protect her company from the tarnish of a high-profile murder case. She asks an...

There are many notable women from the nineteenth and early twentieth century who could be considered feminists for their activities outside of what was considered the norm for women at the time. This collection of short biographies highlights just a few of these strong and brave women, some remembered today and others forgotten to time. These are the activists, feminists, and suffragettes whose dedication and sacrifice paved the way for our on...

It begins with a bus crash. Maggie is a funeral director from Indiana who lives a double life. Bug is a ten-year-old boy in the Pennsylvania foster care system who is sent to live with an aunt he doesn't know. Jimmy is a former paramedic and prescription drug addict on his way to meet a woman he met online who thinks he's a successful doctor. Helen is a Chicago insurance investigator who is leaving her marriage in search of the woman she wants...

Helena "Dray" Draybeck is a cocky military brat, and Jordan Bowers is the daughter of a high ranking ambassador. Both want to be top pilots when they finish fighter pilot training at a Terran military space station. Both live under the shadow of very different family legacies.Just when it looks like smooth sailing for their success as cadets and their growing attraction to each other, the Novans declare war. Dray and Jordan now have to survive...

Kay has no official family, no official name, just a gene line designation and a crappy future thanks to the Nassien Research Division. As the sole Terran genetic experiment in a Novan Marine outfit, her life is a never-ending conflict. When her Novan ship comes under attack from unknown assailants, she becomes a part of the dreaded Black March and an aide to the enigmatic Lieutenant Colonel Nassien. As the only world she's ever known crumbles...

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Tilda's initiation is barely over and she's already taking her first powermaging lessons and learning the legends of Issraya. She secretly practices making illuminorbs in her room until she drains her energy to a level she knows Silviu will notice. She sneaks to the Ringroom to get a power boost. To her horror, she discovers the silviron in the Ringstone had been tainted in the battle with Luisa and the conduit to the Power is fading. Tilda's ...

Based on more than three decades as a volunteer in the world of animal welfare and founder of one of the earliest high-volume, low-cost neuter spay facilities in the nation, Delluomo puts into words her passion for the plight of unwanted animals, and her frustration with the fact that euthanasia has been the standard approach to the century-old tragedy of pet overpopulation in America. Upon her decision to tackle pet overpopulation and euthana...

Amelia has a special talent. She knows what you have eaten by detecting your farts! Join in the fun as Amelia describes what she smells. If your farts smell like candy, she'll follow you around.

Till now, Stephanie has done her best to play by the rules-which seem to be stacked against girls like her. It doesn't help that she wants to play football, dress like a boy, and fight apartheid in South Africa-despite living in rural middle England-as she struggles to find her voice in a world where everything is different for girls.Then she hears them on the radio. Greenham women-an irreverent group of lesbians, punk rockers, mothers, and ac...