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The Legend of Wild Horse Beach : Bronwen Webb
What is the legend that Millie, Kate and Tom discover at Wild Horse Beach?
Millie’s older sister, Lucinda, who is seen as a pest by the younger children, disappears from Wild Horse Beach in mysterious circumstances which reveal the true identity of the wild horses that give the beach its name.
After learning that another child, Adam, disappeared from Wild Horse Beach in similar circumstances three years before, Millie, Kate and Tom decide to try to save Lucinda and Adam and travel through a magic gateway into a world where unicorns and dragons battle terrifying enemies.
The children soon discover there is no way back to the human world without permission from the unicorn king, but that permission has a price that must be paid. The dragon, Zebedia, grieving and unpredictable, joins the desperate children in their quest but has his own agenda which adds to the danger. Will the children overcome their differences in order to survive in a hostile world and return home?
The Legend of Wild Horse Beach is a coming-of-age fantasy adventure for middle grade readers.
What readers say:
“If you love the Percy Jackson books and the beloved Narnia series you’ll want to read this book. I bought this book with high hopes. I definitely was not disappointed.This is a mesmerizing read that quickly drew me in.The details are rich throughout this story. For example, I could smell and feel the moisture on the trees by the waterfall.The author paused us at the end with a nice snippet of the next book – which is already on my must read list.”
“I like this type of story as it encourages young readers to become engrossed in a quality read.The author takes typical fantasy reads up a notch as she adds in children with integrity and a sense of doing what is right. The unicorns and dragons are nicely created and the story springs to life quickly. While this book is written for children, it is also a book that adults will enjoy reading.”
“This is definitely a quirky fantasy tale, very different from the tale of elves, ogres and goblins. Yes, it’s a very traditional tale, with dragons, witches, and unicorns, but magic flows very differently here.”
” The book has unicorn & dragons in a way I have never read about them before. I would recommend it for young readers.”
“Mystery, magic, unicorns, everything needed to pull a youngster into the story. I will pass it on to my grandchildren.”
“Mystery, action and suspense. Mix that with adventurous kids who have great values, brave unicorns, the dragons’ beautiful love story and a dangerous quest and this exciting and different adventure fantasy is terrific for kids 8+. I highly recommend it.”
Achieve Anything In Just One Year : Jason Harvey
Achieve Anything In Just One Year
Achieve Anything In Just One Year will show you that the key to a successful life is contained in the dreams you already have. You will learn that your aspirations can create new opportunities, a fresh direction for your life’s path and you will find out how to unlock them.
You will learn how to:
-Set goals and stick with them
-Take daily action that creates a ripple effect
-Stay motivated, focused and balanced
-Feel happier everyday!!!
-Define, pursue and celebrate personal success
Staying motivated and focused is a must. Achieve Anything in Just One Year provides you with motivation for an entire year. Each day there is an inspirational quote, which is explained and reinforced with an exercise for the day. Essentially, the daily entries will keep you positive and remind you that what you are trying to achieve is worth the effort.
Success does not happen randomly. It is a result of a series of actions. You have the power to make conditions right for success. You can choose success today by setting a goal that will command your thoughts, liberate your energy, and inspire your hopes.
What do you want to achieve?
Buy Achieve Anything in Just One Year today to get started on the road to your dream life!
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Come Hell or High Water : Stephen Morris
Come Hell or High Water : The Complete Trilogy
A historically rich page-turner set in medieval Eastern Europe….
Dark deeds of the past echo down through the years creating a monstrous memory that only an intrepid band of scholars can dispel. This gripping historic-fantasy trilogy erupts in 1356 as a witch’s curse rings out over Prague’s Old Town Square.
As the old crone is bound to a stake and consumed by flames, her vengeful words set in motion a series of dark events that unfold across the centuries.
Academics who have studied, but not previously practiced, magic struggle to return an Irish vampire-woman (summoned to Prague by the witch’s unwitting modern accomplice) to her grave and stop the unfolding of the curse before the city is destroyed.
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Naturally, She’s Dreaming, Inspirational Art & Essays : Susan Lukas
Naturally, She’s Dreaming, Inspirational Art & Essays
From where does creativity come? With images and essays, Susan Lukas explores this question and prompts readers to reach for the stars and never give up in Naturally, She’s Dreaming, Inspirational Art & Essays Celebrate Nature and Art as the Spiritual Connection we all Have.
Combining 32 of her dreamy digital collages with inspirational essays, she created a book that is somewhere between heaven and earth, and prompts readers to live their best life creatively and spiritually. It is for those searching for something more in life.
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Disposable Lives : Leslie Kohler
Disposable Lives
COCKTAILS, CON MEN, CONSPIRACY!
Maggie Leman leads a fairy tale life in California’s Newport Beach. When she finds an $899 environmental Miu Mo satchel stuffed into her husband’s golf bag, with a sexalacious note to My Bridget, Maggie’s so mad she wants to kill her husband.
Instead, she scrawls I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG onto the over-priced tote. Maggie, with her alabaster skin and sable locks, not only looks like Snow White, but now feels like in the fairy tale, she’s bitten into the poison apple seeping venom into her life.
When cheating golfer husbands start getting knocked off in sleazy motels with Miu Mo’s next to their bodies, Maggie’s childish scrawl makes her murder suspect Number One. And the former debutante, now Homicide Detective, Nicole Harrington, is determined to see Maggie cuffed.
Fearing being slapped into a jailhouse cell, Maggie mounts her own investigation. She uses her research skills from her days as a marketing executive, before she became a Country Club Mom, to find out who’s really behind this sordid tale.
Maggie’s investigation takes her into the steamy Newport Beach nightlife, to the posh San Marino Racetrack, and, to the precipice of the Newport Hills cliff-lined golf course.
Along the way she buddies with her best friend, the gorgeous Regina, a shark-like divorce attorney with flaming red hair that makes men feel they’re on fire. And she has thermal run-ins with the goldenrod specimen of manly hunk, Todd Williams, who was Maggie’s first love.
Maggie’s life normally ran like a smooth swing off a golf tee. But now she feels it’s taken a sharp hook and she needs to straighten her course. Newport Beach is no longer the safe haven she always felt it to be. Seems Newport blue blood is tinged with red. And this crimson tide may bleed from the Travellers–modern day gypsies who will stop at nothing to win their deadly con games.
Can Maggie stop this poisonous flow? Or will she become the next victim?
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Awakening : Raymond Bolton
Awakening
How does a world armed with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power has only begun to replace horses and sailing ships, avert conquest from beyond the stars?
In this epic fantasy set on another world, Regilius, the Prince of Ydron, awakens, his head filled with visions of murder and the uncanny awareness of creatures trying to kill him. He learns these would-be killers belong to a predatory alien species, the Dalthin, who enslave worlds telepathically and that he has been engineered to perceive these invaders in order to direct the world against them. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Struggling to accept what he has learned, Regilius flees Ydron, hoping to devise a strategy.
Reluctant to slay the one who gave him life in order to assume the throne, but convinced his mother must fall, the young prince enlists allies against her. As armies collide, he realizes only a fundamental change can remedy the troubles plaguing the land—ills his family has caused—and he struggles with his hereditary destiny.
Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.
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Saint Nellie : Odal Madsen
Saint Nellie
Saint Nellie is a suspense novel that takes place in a small Southern town, where an undercurrent of chaotic violence lingers behind paranoid sneers and angry church sermons, bleeding into the lives of its residents as effortlessly as an afternoon iced tea.
Mia Taylor is a fifteen year-old spending a stifling Summer in Blackwell, Tennessee, trying her best to avoid standing out in a place where old ideas still have deep roots. However, what gnaws at the heart of Blackwell isn’t just a community struggling to escape a history of racial violence, but something equally destructive, otherworldly, and older than time immemorial. Something the residents speak of in hushed tones and with furtive glances. Tales of the town’s one-eyed “witch”, Nellie McGruder, bubble at the pit of the town’s consciousness, and rumors of the dark power wielded by the reclusive woman run rampant.
Now, tasked with reaching out to Nellie McGruder, Mia and her mother are forced to look deeply into the soul of Blackwell, and what they find will utterly terrify them.
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The Best Gift : Wendy Markham
The Best Gift (Signet Eclipse)
Sometimes the best present is the future…
USA Today bestselling author Wendy Markham’s heartwarming time-travel romance If Only in My Dreams was hailed as “a delight” (Booklist). Now the heroine of that unforgettable book returns in a holiday story of a love that once again transcends time…
When Clara wakes up on Christmas morning next to her husband Drew, she’s filled with joy because she has the perfect present: she’s seven weeks pregnant with their first child. It’s the fairy-tale beginning that the couple has been wishing for.
But no sooner does Clara tell Drew the wonderful news than an earthquake strikes in nearby San Francisco. The next thing Clara knows she’s waking up in bed—alone—and discovers she’s three years in the future. Where is her husband and what has happened to the child she was expecting? Clara is no stranger to unusual occurrences, but the last thing on her Christmas list was to time travel…again.
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The Inn of Fallen Leaves : Mitch Davies
The Inn of Fallen Leaves
The conflicted worlds of two samurai of different status, Chobei and Akiyama, collide in a battle of wits, egos, and pursuit. In the middle is a beautiful woman, Miyo, attached to one, coveted by the other.
Chobei, is a disillusioned samurai who’s clan forced him to perform atrocities and abandoned his clan. Akiyama, is a samurai loyal to a clan that no longer wants him. Miyo, finally believing she has the life she wants has it all turned awry when the two samurai clash.
As the Shogun’s government watches the power it has held for over 250 years seep through it’s fingers, is there still a place for loyalty to a clan, or do the lives of the individuals become the priority of a nation. Cho, now the yojimbo and handy man of a second tier inn along the Nakasendo Highway, confronts Akiyama, as he tries to assist his clan while wandering the highways.
Akiyama’s Daimyo Lord is forced to stay at the inn but before he does, improvements must be made. The condescending Akiyama, used to getting his way, demands that the inn make changes according to the Mito Leader’s requirements. Cho, willing and curious, can’t pin the man to an exact date on which the visit will take place.
When the country is thrown into chaos after the assassination of the Regent, Ii Naosuke, Akiyama makes a move that throws Cho’s world into one of confusion and loss.
The ways of Akiyama and the clan must be exposed. The love of a woman must be regained.
A conflict of honor between a samurai working to benefit his beloved clan and a man trying to protect the woman he loves. Different goals and different struggles but the same code of honor.
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Out of the Darkness : Sabine Christodoulou
Out of the Darkness
OUT OF THE DARKNESS tells the story of an ordinary German girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Beginning with Else Winter’s birth on January 8, 1921, it follows her through 35 years of her life, ranging from the 1920’s and her idyllic childhood in rural Germany to her teenage years coinciding with the rise of Hitler and the heart-rending tragedy of the war years when she is a young adult. The post-war struggle for survival is followed by better times, new perspectives and a way out of the darkness.
Based on authentic letters my mum wrote down for me as memories from her life, OUT OF THE DARKNESS is one individual’s account of what was it like to be born at that time in history, without excuses, accusations or clichés.
As the eldest daughter of pharmacist Ferdinand Winter in the rural town of Gerolstein, Else is expected to take over the family business and, in order to take her A-levels, has to leave home to attend a boys’ grammar school in the nearby town of Mayen as the only girl there. Her A-levels in 1939 coincide with the beginning of the war; labour service and later war service take precedence over her career. When she is offered a place at Prague University, she gets first-hand experience of being a German student in occupied territory; war assignment between terms leads her back home to work in her dad’s pharmacy. As a railway junction and garrison town and therefore a military target, Gerolstein is devastated by bombing raids that change Else’s life changes for ever.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS is not a political book; it is the voice of one individual telling her story.
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