Early Readers will love reading about Dex the dog and his search for a friend to play with on the farm. Real photos of Dex and his friends, along with repeated text and simple sentences...will assist your child to read this interesting book about a very lovable dog. Suitable for kindergarten, preschool and year 1 children as a read-a-long book or a learn to read book. Bonus Section at the end.Early Readers will love reading about Dex the dog and his search for a friend to play with on the farm. Real photos of Dex and his friends, along with repeated text and simple sentences...will assist your child to read this interesting book about a very lovable dog. Suitable for kindergarten, preschool and year 1 children as a read-a-long book or a learn to read book. Written by Katrina Kahler, a highly experienced and award winning teacher with 30 years of successful experience with teaching children to read. An added bonus section at the end of the book gives parents information on how best to read with their children. Learning to read at a young age will give your child a huge head start to their learning and develop a life long love of reading.

This is Sixth in a series of short stories based in the same world as the book series A Life in After World. Instead of telling the life story of one character, these stories tell the story of one day in the life of a person in After World.Farsid is on his way to the top and he does not care if he leaves brainless bodies trailed behind him as he goes. Farsid is a witch and uses his mental powers to exert his influence on people and sometimes even to scrape their brains for knowledge which generally leaves the victim with something akin to scrambled eggs afterward. His only problem is that he cannot concentrate to his full potential without a crutch. And his crutch has just been stolen.

The Emerald Thief holds your gaze, turning your thoughts into her own. There's no stopping the string of robberies that follow her. Until she meets Rebecca, a detective, someone with the same emerald green eyes as her. She can't understand why Rebecca's trying to help her and not just arresting her like she should. What are Rebecca's plans for Emerald Thief ? Will she survive them?For nearly three decades Rick Sanders has been trapped in the church where he died at the hands of his best friends brother. Everyday he is forced to relive the events that lead to his death, reliving the pain, and constantly questioning if things could have been different had he not gone on a ghost hunt.

Mike is a young man who looks back over his life growing up with his three best friends. To tell a tale of love, deception, and redemption as he and his friends go through the trials of life from children into adolescence and beyond. Learning to deal with life no matter what it decides to throw at them.A Ride With Friends is a tale of the unbreakable bond of friendship. Following four friends who experience life in the small town of New Bern, North Carolina. From their early days of elementary school. To their rocky time in high school , and into college. While trying to stay friends among disagreements, feelings of love, betrayal, and bad life decisions. This story shows that despite any situation. Our true friends will never leave our side no matter where we go or what life throws our way.

A Treasure of Bone & Promises is the first novella in a fantasy series, The Winter King. Each story forms together into a plot arc but can be read as stand-alone books.A Treasure of Bone & Promises is the first novella in a fantasy series, The Winter King. Each story forms together into a plot arc but can be read as stand-alone books.A dark fairytale fantasy following the young heroine Caewen on a journey through wild mountains and dark forests, finally to meet the charmed and eerie Wisht Folk, where she will find that what seemed to be a straightforward quest is not quite as simple as those around her may want her believe...

Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio in Newtown, Sydney Australia. It's a strange place with vampires, jugglers, faerie psychologists and ghosts. But this story is not about Daisi, it's about her love birds. Meep and Moop lived a quiet life until they became embroiled in a situation beyond their control. Can they solve their dilemma with the help of Daisi or will they be forever lost?Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio in Newtown, Sydney Australia. It's a strange place with vampires, jugglers, faerie psychologists and ghosts. But this story is not about Daisi, it's about her love birds. Meep and Moop lived a quiet life until they became embroiled in a situation beyond their control. Can they solve their dilemma with the help of Daisi or will they be forever lost?

Centuries after the collapse of his former paradise, Leon Godwin lived on through his immortality, a parting gift from a dead era. Leon was as killable as any ordinary man, but decades of living amongst ruthless wasteland survivors made him a planner. His years had done him more than that, though. With each passing season, as the dying world around him aged, Leon remained the same.This is a (68.000 words long) paranormal romance. A Bloodeater, Uriel of the Dumes, is on a mission to hunt and destroy the Shadows, creatures that pose a bigger threat to Bloodeater society than vampires. On one of the hunts he and his two friends stumble across a group of human vampire hunters. When one of them, Jen, is hurt, he takes care of the girl, never imagining that he would fall for her. But Jen hates vampires, and even though Uriel is not one of them, he is a member of the immortal race who is responsible for the vampires' creation.

Time-travelling ravens Muninn and Huginn visit a dying boy to grant him his final wish. August desperately wants to be a scientist, and the ravens take him on a journey through history to see science... the science that happened in the month he was named after. But although August doesn't know it, Muninn has her own reason for helping him...August is nine years old, and dreams of becoming a scientist. This is a dream that will never come true, because August is dying. The only dream that's left to him now is that of reaching his tenth birthday, on the last day of the month he was named after. Yet on the eve of that month, August gets two surprise visitors: time-travelling ravens Muninn and Huginn, come out of Norse mythology to bring him the science that he loves. On each of the final days of August, the birds take him back through time to an event in science that happened on that day - the writing of the Einstein-Szilard letter; the discovery of the first Neanderthal grave; helium and Hiroshima and hot air balloons... August comes to understand that these trips into science aren't simple kindnesses. They're ways for him to come to terms with his own death, to make peace with his mortality. And, if Muninn has her way, they'll give him a chance to cheat death after all...

Isobel has unintentionally just started a war. Captured and imprinted as a traitor, she finds herself rescued by a mysterious woman, through whom Isobel learns that she must leave Landgraevan to territories East of the vast Pythean mountains. Traveling by ways of the ancient and abandoned underground railways she encounters more than dragons; She faces the peculiar nature of her own being.Isobel Phaelan has unintentionally just started a war and manages to lose her best friend to the draft in the process. Captured by a brain probing orbital and imprinted as a traitor, she finds herself rescued by a mysterious woman, through whom Isobel discovers that she is no longer safe in Landgraevan, an empire contained within a holographic, mind controlling bubble. Now Isobel must return to her place of birth, the territories east of the vast, ice capped Pythean mountain range, Moredea. It is a land very different than Landgraevan, a land of brilliant sun drenched fields and cobalt seas and a not so apparent ancient mystic ruling elite as dark as the darkest, starless Landgraevan hologram night. Traveling by ways of the ancient and abandoned underground railway tunnels, Isobel encounters more than mythical beasts and cursing dragons; she faces the peculiar nature of her own being. Along the way, she'll befriend a boy and his dog, striking up a friendship that will endure unimaginable revelations, a friendship that, in time, will prove that most cliché of sentiments to be true: Love indeed conquers all. Set in a world devastated by violent meteor storms centuries earlier, Book One of the Emergent series is the story of Isobel and her journey home.

Growing up in the small Midwestern town of Stow, Ohio during the 60s and 70s meant eating a lot of mystery meat sandwiches, made from such dubious cold cuts as Dutch loaf, pickle loaf and the dreaded olive loaf. We also has the privilege to enjoy a kind of lunch meat that was literally glued together from better cuts of ham and unceremoniously "chipped chopped" by a special meat slicer.Conceptual poetry book which tells the story of a poet who can't find his inspiration and hasn't the same determination to continue writing. He has created a world that has come to an end. A metaphorical satire of how an artist has lost himself over vanity and infidelity. The poems represent an allegorical story line of a person who tries to break through the traps of life and to return home. However, the poet realizes that he has reached the end; he has lost all of it and can't find his way back.

Hope Winter had just entered high school when she meets the Royals of Nova Hill High School. When these 3 girls adopt her into the Nova Hill Royals, Hope's life turns upside down. Hope's story is one full of emotion. Told from the perspective of her Happiness and Depression, The (Almost) True Story of Hope Winter is a wild ride.Hope Winter is a freshman in high school, new to the entire ordeal she is invited to join Bree, Liz, and Ally, the most popular and feared girls in school. Once she gets in, she slowly realizes her mental health is taking a sudden decline. Told through her Happiness and more prominent Depression, Hope's journey is a long and hard one. Filled with love, hate and friendship, Hope Winter's life is in for a crazy journey.

Jason Jacobs has an autistic daughter who identifies with lizards better than people. Jason finds it unusual when their pediatrician suggests that she take lizard hormones to feel comfortable in her not-yet-scaly skin. But why would Jason's wife be in favor of such a radical procedure in the first place? And what does her past as an activist have to do with her unorthodox choice?Jason Jacobs has a daughter named Liz. An autistic child, she identifies with lizards better than people. Jason finds it unusual when Liz's pediatrician tells Jason's wife Carrie that she had 'species identity disorder' and suggests that she take lizard hormones to feel comfortable in her not-yet-scaly skin. But why would Carrie be in favor of such a radical procedure in the first place? And what does her past as an activist have to do with her unorthodox choice?

Is this just a child's nightmare? There is a darkness that hides in the night, like all monstrous things just out of sight. Its just a nightmare you start to shake, still it comes for you asleep or awake. Nowhere to run or hide, from the night monster always at your side.What William wants, William takes. He doesn't need to ask for permission. He wasn't raised to accept rejection. And yet, his promised fiancee dares to turn him down and betray him. But William's obsession with her has turned unhealthy at best, and he's not about to let her go so easily.

A wife. A mother. A rebel. And now their savior... When a crazed-woman wants to take control of the universe, destroying all that defies her, it's up to Melissa Alexander to retrieve her memories and save those she loves the most. As the bonds of love tighten and the danger increases, Melissa must find the strength to fight in a world that threatens to take everything she's ever loved or needed away from her. With so much on the line, can the Rebel Princess be the savior they all need?

Bonus novella included: Crossing the Line. Acclaimed author Katie McGarry returns with the knockout new story of two high school seniors who are about to learn what winning really means. Champion kickboxer Haley swore she'd never set foot in the ring again after one tragic night. But then the guy she can't stop thinking about accepts a mixed martial arts fight in her honor. Suddenly, Haley has to train West Young. All attitude, West is everything Haley promised herself she'd stay away from. Yet he won't last five seconds in the ring without her help. West is keeping a big secret from Haley. About who he really is. But helping her-fighting for her-is a shot at redemption. Especially since it's his fault his family is falling apart. He can't change the past, but maybe he can change Haley's future. Hayley and West have agreed to keep their relationship strictly in the ring. But as an unexpected bond forms between them and attraction mocks their best intentions, they'll face their darkest fears and discover love is worth fighting for.

In the sixth and final book of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein series, Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!

World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations. But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan—a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity's salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances. A major new novel from the unparalleled imagination of Robert McCammon, this dark epic of survival will both thrill readers and make them fall in love with his work all over again.

When life as Alex Morales had known it changed forever, he was working behind the counter at Joey's Pizza. He was worried about getting elected as senior class president and making the grades to land him in a good college. He never expected that an asteroid would hit the moon, knocking it closer in orbit to the earth and catastrophically altering the earth's climate. He never expected to be fighting just to stay alive. Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event from a small-town perspective. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican New Yorker. When Alex's parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland. With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities.

When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together. As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. Sharon M. Draper has interwoven characters and events from her previous novel, Tears of a...

Grievously wounded, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other . . . Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows . . .

For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, dating him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely among patients and staff. And now David finds himself asking the same questions Kate is desperate to have answered. Who is next? And why?