While Nancy and George visit Ned at college, they become embroiled in the Clues Challenge, an athletic treasure hunt, and Nancy must investigate after several accidents indicate that someone is desperate to win at any cost.

In the final Lost Tale, prince Edmund suspects a plot against his father's life. He turns to his siblings, Aydith and Aethelstan, for help, but King Ethelred heeds none of them. Will they ever find someone they can trust? “The Lost Tales of Mercia” are ten short stories set in Viking Age England. They introduce the characters of the novel, "Eadric the Grasper," but each story stands alone.Without the power of the world's five elemental crystals, the world of Vida will fall into darkness. Only the prophecy of the Light Bringer can restore peace to Vida.In this first novelette of a five part series, Regina Lepue finds herself taken hostage by a nameless vandal, who claims the world's Crystals of Balance are in peril. Can she believe this ruthless killer, or is there something deeper to his story?

Melaina Roberts is not a lesbian. She doesn't like girls. Okay there was that one but that was a phase. She was just confused and lost. She's over that. She's strictly straight and if she tells herself that enough, it'll be true. Eventually this pain in her chest and distaste in her mouth will disappear, right?If I like the idea of being a girl that had to mean that I was disgusting and desiring a disgusting lifestyle. Maybe Beth was right about it being a phase. If it’s just a phase then I’ll move past it and be okay. I like boys anyway. I’ve always liked boys. So I can’t like girls too. It had to be either one or the other because otherwise it’s just confusing. Maybe I was confused. I had a beautiful, close friend and confused my appreciation of friendship for attraction. That had to be it, right? I hadn’t liked a girl before Beth and even if I liked girls it had to be just a phase. But what if it wasn’t? What if I really did like girls? Who else would see me as revolting and turn away from me? How many sleepovers will I automatically not be invited to? How many people would treat me differently? How many girls will inch away from me or take my kindness as flirting and reject me? How many guys will try to talk me out of being myself because they knew how to fix my confusion? How will my family treat me once I tell them?

A beautiful day turns nasty when a storm brews, bringing severly strong winds along with it. Lester is knocked unconscous and rushed to the hospital when he gets struck in the head by a flying concrete block. The only thing that saves his life is the power of prayer.Strange Fruit: Prologue is five shorts that set the stage for a story about fallen angels, malicious demons, and the humans stuck in the middle.The Fates know the world is more than what it seems; the supernatural: vampires, witches, werewolves, and the things that lurk in the dark, have for centuries woven themselves into the fabric of all that is Normal. But that is changing. Three teenagers, who can see the future, know something is coming, that a power is gathering in their quiet city of Starfield, and not even they can predict what that means.When Ephraim, a young man who is violently protective of his twin brother, and just a little bit crazy, finds an angel missing a wing collapsed in an alleyway, his act of kindness sets off a chain of events that endangers everything he loves, and may bring about the Apocalypse.

The Quest for Tanelorn is the third novel in the The Chronicles of Castle Brass series by Michael Moorcock and features Duke Dorian Hawkmoon. It is a sequel to The Champion of Garathorm and also serves as one of three simultaneous conclusions to the overall Eternal Champion series.

Weekly summary of soap opera's hottest news, stories, humour, gossip, blind items, top stars/stories/couples/characters to watch, snark galore, review, and analysis.INSIDE NEW YEAR’S SPECIAL ISSUE — “Exclusive” Exit Interview with The Iron Douche, Brian Frons: On Dismantling, Cancelling ABC Daytime! Plus: My Real 2007 Interview With Frons Himself Reprinted — “The Soap-Opera Form Will Be Around For A Long Time!” Exclusive: The Future of Soap Opera Weekly! Is It Folding? Find out! 2012 Fearless Predictions and Previews — Including All My Children! Victoria Rowell back on Y&R! Trevor St. John’s One Life Surprise! AMC’s ABC Special! DAYS Cancelled? Sean Kanan to B&B! Genie Francis re-joins GH! Crystal Chappell joins GH! 2012 Star to Watch: Exclusive Molly Burnett Interview! Burnett Sounds Off On DAYS’s Reboot, Venice, A Chill Triangle, Shawn Christian’s departure, and Losing Crystal Chappell! Also: Is She Leaving DAYS? Which Superstar is Retiring? Find out! Next Week’s Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Unbelievable Blind Items!

A sequence of poems tells of a Toronto woman's search for her aboriginal and Métis roots.When she turns forty-five, and Lollie becomes a divorced casualty of the modern age, she takes a trip to northern Ontario and Manitoba to search for her aboriginal and Métis heritage. This set of poems is based on her trip and her vision of an imaginary ancestor, Heron Feathers, She knows a bit of the history of the Cree, their migration to the prairies from the forest of Ontario, the coming of the French, and the attempt to found a Métis nation.

A child is stolen in a twisted city A broken SEAL chases redemption, one step ahead of darkness. Can you keep up? From the shadows of the French Quarter, Forte must track down the killer of an abortion doctor and find the doctor's kidnapped child. The trail takes Forte from the Big Easy to a tropical paradise and threatens to derail him once again. MISCUE is the first of the Forte trilogy.An abortion doctor has been murdered in the Garden District. To be honest, that news ordinarily wouldn't bother Al Forte, a former SEAL. He has has hands full just staying clean and sober. But when the doctor's young daughter is kidnapped by the killer, it gets Forte's attention. The trail leads Forte from the Big Easy to the Belize island of Ambergris Cay with more twists than a swamp moccasin. In the end, what he discovers threatens to crash his day-by-day stability once again.MISCUE is a “a quick, easy and fun escape that's tightly paced, told with authority and authenticity” that “puts you right on a French Quarter balcony with a black cat named Boo and its well-worn owner, Al Forte.” The Midwest Book Review calls MISCUE “a straight-ahead, entertaining whodunit with enough twists and turns to confuse the most astute student of detective novels.” The Review says “Allison doesn't hesitate to comment on his own version of social justice, which lends grit and realism to a character the reader can't help cheering for. Al Forte is a flawed but resilient personality who exudes strength even in the midst of his own self-doubt, which lends credibility and a sense of justice fulfilled when he finally cracks the case. His dialogue is stunning.”Glen C. Allison rescues readers from boredom daily through the exploits of Forte, an addict and ex-SEAL in New Orleans who recovers stolen children. Forte rises from the darkness of his self-inflicted misery to protect endangered innocents in his safe house hidden in the shadows of the French Quarter. A simpler justice guides him through the hard-edged backdrop of the Big Easy to give suspense readers a harrowing taste of this city's secret evils. Forte finds purpose in the protecting the small ones and realizes redemption in the most unlikely places.MISCUE is book one of the Forte Suspense Trilogy, followed by NETBLUE, and the soon-to-be-releaaed SNAFU.

Poetry is for the young, the foolish – the idealistic among each generation. Poetry is for the old, the wise – the realist of past generations. Poetry is the songs of our souls.John Elderberry thought he knew who he was and where he came from... until he found himself lost in a town that should not be. Monsters may snarl or smile, but all of them seek whom they may devour. John fights for his life but is losing his mind and soul. He realizes that dying within would be a fate worse than death. He must survive... even if he must perish.

Abby Grace Wilson finds herself lying in a hospital bed facing her parents as they kick her out of her home for disgracing the family name. With no where to go and no one to turn to, Abby Grace is grateful for the offer from Ruth Love, a Christian woman who gives Abby Grace a place to live and a job. Will Ruth help Abby Grace trust in the love of Christ and allow God to change her life?IllustratedSanta Claus has changed a lot through the years; in some pictures he looks very old and in others he appears to be younger. This lovely picture book introduces children age 2-8 to learning more about Santa and the Christmas symbols that make up the holiday season. The book is written in short sentences, asks simple questions and also instructs reader to point out special features.This is a preview book to the series.

Psychic Arlette Xylander's life changes when her mysterious Aunt Lucie, whom she has never met, dies, and bequeaths two things to Arlette--her country home on the banks of Bayou LeGue, and an ancient spell book.Arlette Xylander suffers a difficult and dysfunctional childhood, which is further complicated when she discovers, in a terrifying manner, that she is psychic. Arlette's life changes dramatically when her mysterious Aunt Lucie, whom she has never met, dies, and bequeaths two things to Arlette--her country home on the banks of Bayou LeGue, and an ancient spell book. Then, on the same day she meets hunky Andre Rossouw, her doctor tells her she's suffering from a terminal disease. She displays all the character traits of her star sign, Aquarius, being feisty, eccentric, freedom-loving, flirtatious, rebellious and unpredictable, and she determines two things; to beat the odds of the disease, and to have wild and passionate sex with Andre.

Valerie enjoys being a normal teenager. But when changes begin occurring and she discovers what is really going on with her, nothing can prepare her for the mortification. And to make matters worse, the only one who can help her is her dad...but he's no longer in the picture.¿Era la mejor manera de organizar la sociedad? Todos soñamos con un mundo perfecto, pacífico y ordenado. Pero lograr esta utopía puede tener un costo muy elevado. Sin embargo, ¿qué pasaría si la humanidad, voluntariamente, decidiera pagar ese costo?

Jeffrey Hunter is a scientist who builds a transport that can take anyone across alternate universes. However, the mob boss Nathaniel Karns steals it and kills Jeff's wife in the process. This is the anthology of Jeff's journey across the multiverse to find Karns, where he will help solve mysteries and fight to save lives.My name is Jeffrey Hunter. I was once a scientist. The project I worked on allowed me to travel into alternate universes; worlds full of new people and inventions. More importantly was my wife, Kara. She was the only one who was able to show me how to live.Then came that fateful day that one man took it all from me.The mob boss, Nathaniel Karns, stole my project. He also tried to kill me, instead took my wife away.Now I chase him across the multiverse. Along the way I will help those who share my tragedy. But I found that getting Karns is more important than anything else. If only to prevent a tragedy of unknown and possible infinite measure....

Current events, politics and economics point toward dangerous instability for our Republic. We need to look forward in the world's new conditions, rather than hold on to failed ideas and policies.The existing finance/tax code rule set is wrecking our long-term real wealth in favor of evanescent paper profits, and worse yet, stripping the poor to profit the rich. In parallel, a calamitous policy that repeats the error of failed alcohol prohibition, our War on Drugs is a hundred billion dollar subsidy for the terrorists, and debases our society with a criminal money culture. These economic structures...the finance/tax/corporate globalizations, and unregulated dope billions...combine to make heartless greed ascendant. Legal or not, inhuman values permeate too much.Any democracy is far more vulnerable than most of us realize, and carries within the seeds of its own destruction. Even the original Greek version of 2500 years ago was felled by excesses of demagoguery and populism. People are easily manipulated to vote against their own interests, something Hitler proved so notoriously, but the mechanisms are active in American politics. Psychopaths, PACs, media, fanaticism, fears, ignorance and more can combine in new ways to grasp power for its own sake. Today,America's population is triple the whole world's in 500BC, a fact that should give us perspective on the accelerating complexities. But this is a country that can turn on a dime, throw off outdated habits and remake itself in a shining new image. We must change direction or fall.

A man stuggles to deal with severe nightmares. A new medical trial is his last chance at a normal life.Mitch, Danielle, and Ethan are thrown into a world of magic. It is not by happenstance that this is so it is nothing more than games of the powerful. Pawns in the game of life and death where empires rise and empires fall their roles play a pivotal part in deciding the fate of others. Thrust from a world of science into a world of magic they must learn to adapt to a new and wondrous environment filled with immense good and equally evil inhabitants. They find inner strength in each other and new friends they never in their wildest dreams ever thought of meeting. They find tragedy and death perpetuated by an ancient evil that threatens not only their very existence but also life on two worlds. It is they and their new friends that must find a way to stop this ever-encroaching evil bent on the bringing darkness were light reigns.

Judith Plaus is sixteen years old. She lives in on of the poorest sectors of Iceland when a terrible disease breaks loose.Her Sister gets the plague and Judith has to fight to save her only sister.Judith Plaus' parents are split. Her mom lives on the streets and her dad lives in a castle with a blonde bimbo for a wife. Judith is all alone in her world taking care of her younger siblings. There is a very dangerous sickness going around. Her family takes the biggest procotions to stay alive and stay clean. One day Judith takes her sister to a quarantined sector to find food. The make it out alright but days later symptoms of the terrible plague started to show. Judith had ran to save her sister. Going through her past to save her family.

Warning: experimental translation (hybrid)A famous Detective, been born by the pen of an as many famous Italian writer, fears to be killed really from "He who has created him" and he asks help to another writer for…This is the first issue of my sporadically slowly released indie comics series, Cupcake Dreamy. With this one-shot story entitled 'Shopping Spree.' Angie and Kent are two lost souls wandering the streets of Hollywood. Witness some familiar sights, renamed and reimagined, through the eyes of these kids. Somebody is having a night like there's no tomorrow, someone is taking the adage too literally: that this is where dreams go to die, someone wants to go on a spree of sorts...My style here inspired by such greats as Dan Clowes and Adrian Tomine.

Alfie Foggle is looking forward to spending his summer holidays doing absolutely nothing. A world away, Braddle and every other inhabitant of Carporoo are building a new city, a new home, but people are disappearing and no one knows why. On a quiet summer’s morning, Alfie’s plans for doing nothing are turned upside down as he discovers Carporoo. Braddle needs help and only Alfie can give it.The summer holidays have started. Alfie Foggle, happy that school has now finished, is looking forward to spending his holidays doing absolutely nothing. A world away, Braddle and every other inhabitant of Carporoo are building a new city, a new home, but people are disappearing and no one knows why. Braddle sets out to solve the mystery and puts himself and everyone he loves in danger. On a quiet summer’s morning, Alfie’s plans for doing nothing are turned upside down as he discovers Carporoo. Braddle needs help and only Alfie can give it.

The first Storyteller Tale about the Dreamwalkers of Larreta follows Valerie as she drives through New Mexico looking for adventure, and Leo, a cynical dreamwalker who believes his chance for love has come and gone. When Valerie and Leo are thrown together, they must forge their own destiny in a new world that looks like Earth but has astonishing differences.A romantic fantasy of finding love on interpenetrating worldsIf Larreta is your destiny, you will find your way to a portal.Valerie finds herself on Larreta, but it looks so much like California, she doesn’t believe a word anyone says. Leo knows his chance for love has come and gone, but when he meets Valerie, the beautiful newcomer makes him wonder if there are second chances. As the Storyteller begins her tales of the dreamwalkers of Larreta, Valerie and Leo are thrown together to forge their destinies on what looks like a perfect world. But as Valerie learns about Larreta, she discovers not everything is as it seems. That Day in the Desert is the first tale of the dreamwalkers of Larreta, a romantic fantasy that spans worlds and time, an adventure of eternal beings who must overcome the legacy of their journey into the human world so they can reclaim their heritage.

Eldon finds another companion in his search for the Source. Salena is from a planet where the inhabitants are similar to the Hearthites of Eldon's Earth. However, Salena is unique in her most intriguing qualities. Inspired by my wife Sally.Dani's family is unusual. She's the youngest--and only girl--of seven. Being the lone female, her family would like her to be all girly and sweet like her best friend Allie. But Dani is a tomboy born and bred, and on her fourteenth birthday she discovers why.Life is about to get decidedly strange!*~*~*About Deb LoganDeb Logan specializes in fantasy tales for the young at heart. She loves mythology and is especially fond of Celtic and Native American lore. She writes about faeries, dragons, and other fantasy creatures for the younger set as herself, and for adults as Debbie Mumford. Visit Deb at Deb Logan Writes (deblogan.wordpress.com) to learn more about her currently available work.