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When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream. But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or longer. She never worried about how she looked before—how will she ever face the hard times ahead?

Sometimes family can be the death of you...Tara Godfrey comes face to face with death threats, the supernatural, and family secrets. Her only ally? The hottest, most mysterious werewolf she'll ever meet. And he doesn't like her already.I killed a girl last night. I did it with my bare hands and an old piece of pipe I found lying next to the dumpster. But that’s not the part that got me. The part that scared me, the part I can’t seem to wrap my head around and still has me reeling, was that when she charged me, her body shifted–and then she was a wolf. All snapping teeth and extended claws. But by the time I stood over her lifeless body, she was a girl again. That’s about the time I went into shock. And that was the moment he showed up. Now, all I can do is accept the truths that are staring me in the face. One, Werewolves do exist. And two, I was born to kill them.

The world has been devastated by a chemical war; humanity survives only in isolated pockets of civilisation. With a poisonous atmosphere closing in on one such pocket the community must decide what to do. The problem is that there is nowhere else on Earth they can go.Their destination must be somewhere that is not on the planet and they think they've found it.Maybe, just maybe, they have.After a global chemical war most of humanity has perished. Those who remain exist in isolated communities, not knowing if any other such communities survive. But the situation is getting worse: in one community its leaders know that if they don't leave they'll all be dead in a few years.There is a planet eleven light years away that might support life. If they can build a ship to get there, and if it is sufficiently Earth-like, and if there isn't a hostile civilisation living there already, they might just have a chance of a future.The decision is made to go. But the consequences of that decision are so much more dramatic than any of the travellers could ever have dreamt.This is the first novel in the author's 'First Contact' science fiction series. All are very different but have that common theme; man's first contact with alien life.

The Count of Samerand is the final authority on crime, so much so that inspector James Wright of Scotland Yard has felt it necessary to bring eccentric count in on many a case. It is through these dealings and their unique meeting that the good inspector has to rely and even admire the count. In his later years he picks up his pen to defend this unique man, when the count is no longer able to.It is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy landowner from the states who has been found murdered by the house staff. The case should be a simple one for one so versed in crime, but circumstances are not what they seem to be, and the murderer has disappeared from a room that is barred from all sides. Will the count with all his worldly knowledge find the killer or has he met his match?

Baritone Juicebox is a jaded young man who decides to commit suicide by jumping from the earth to the moon, but doubt causes him to fail, and so reality fractures, leading to a myriad of shenanigans and hijinks, as well as the obligatory valuable moral lessons.Baritone Juicebox is a jaded young man, who decides to kill himself, by means of shooting himself on a rocket into space, but fails. In doing so, he lands on the moon, and decides to drown himself in the ocean's of the Earth. However, when he hits the Earth's atmosphere, his inner doubts causes the realities of his life to fragment. In one, he becomes a basketball, falling to the earth's surface to score the winning point for the local team, leading him on an adventure of self discovery for him and his newfound friend, the one who scored that point, Arthur Crouton. In the second, he falls to the surface of the Earth, and dies, but is resurrected by a sardonic magician, and is thusly deified by the inhabitants of a primitive island. In the last one, he is rocketed out into space, wherein he encounters the four sided triangles of the grilled cheese nebula, and must aid them to save their species. Eventually, all the realities collide, in an unforgettable basketball game, in which the future of all of our protagonists is decided.

The financial collapse of 2008 has claimed both lives and fortunes as the collateral damage of unscrupulous manipulation. This play explores how the evil of those unpunished crimes becomes the downfall of all involved: the criminals, the ambivalent, and the innocent. A tragedy written in the Shakespearean tradition.The play follows the downfall of Chadwick, a prominent New York banker right before the fury of the financial collapse. Based on actual events surrounding the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, it gives voice to the individuals and emotions that surrounded this existential threat to our financial system. It explores the moral dynamics of the evil perpetrated in the quest for absolute power, and how it causes the end of the guilty and the innocent.

A Mage and a Shapeshifter may fall in love, but where would they live?Forced to bring his human fiancee to pack territory, Greg tries to keep her safe by hiding her away. Melissa, a Mage, has plans of her own that might win her the acceptance of the pack-- at a price.A Mage and a Shapeshifter may fall in love, but where would they live?Forced to bring his fiancee to pack territory, Greg tries to keep her safe by hiding her away. Melissa, a Mage, has plans of her own that might win her the acceptance of the pack-- at a price.

Escaping from one prison only to find themselves inside another, where machines run wild, the sun doesn't know how to set, and time itself is running out, the chosen ones find themselves without a clue. All they have is an old battered book that re-writes itself daily and advises them to "follow the path", but what they find at the end of the line is both more and less than they ever expected.Epic Fail. The anti-hero, anti-fantasy, anti-quest adventure continues. Escaping from one prison only to find themselves inside another, where machines run wild, the sun doesn't know how to set, and time itself is running out, the chosen ones find themselves without a clue. All they have is an old battered book that re-writes itself daily and advises them to "follow the path", but what they find at the end of the line is both more and less than they ever expected.

Karen enjoys a fun-filled, action-packed trip to the ski slopes where she makes friends, overcomes her fear, and learns how to ski.

Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.

CHAPTER 1 W hen Dawn Rochelle was thirteen years old, they told her she had cancer. She sat in her doctor's office, clutching her mother's hand, ...

When fourteen year old Diana Daniels settled in to watch the boys while her dad was out, she didn't expect much trouble. Next thing she knows, there's a psycho werewolf on the loose and a mysterious woman who claims to have known her mother is her only chance for making it through the night unscathed.A mermaid named Lily goes on an adventure with her dolphin friend, Cory. They see many sea creatures on their travels. Then, they go to the above ground world.

When a wealthy industrialist offers a prize of one million francs to the first person “to circle the Eiffel Tower in a flying machine,” it sparks an internationalcompetition that pits European powers France and Germany against each other, and in turn against the young colossus across the Atlantic, America. One woman, driven by love and the need to redeem the tarnished legacy of her father.France during the Belle Époque. When determined dreamers conquer the skies in the first flying machines, a daring new breed of adventurers capture the imagination of the world as they reach for the stars -- and awaken a new instrument of destruction. This is the historical backdrop of award-winning journalist Ed Leefeldt’s stunning literary debut, The Woman Who Rode the Wind, a romantic and richly authentic story that celebrates the indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of the clouds like Amelia Earhart and Harriet Quimby. When a wealthy industrialist offers a prize of one million francs to the first person “to circle the Eiffel Tower in a flying machine,” it sparks an international competition that pits European powers France and Germany against each other, and in turn against the young colossus across the Atlantic, America. One woman, driven by love and the need to redeem the tarnished legacy of her father, becomes the unlikely heroine who discovers that her destiny is entwined with this new world of flight waiting to be born.

Rolly is an aberdeen buttery and together with his best friend Floury the morning roll, they go to a football match and a wedding.Time is running out for the abducted Monica/Frida. She's about to be forced into an even more horrible nightmare. Every day is a challenge to stay alive, but now the challenge has escalated into trying to find a way out of her most feared fate. All she has are her wits to light the path to survival--that and her special friendship with a boy. Will time be her friend or her enemy?

Kellen Monello, a straight-laced FBI agent with a dark past, is stuck hunting a prolific serial killer with no evidence to go on. Then, after receiving a suspicious tip, she is thrown into the field to hunt the killer with a peculiar ally: another serial killer.Book two in the Monello/Grazer series, "The Sunshine Spree" now available!Kellen Monello, a mentally troubled and overworked FBI Agent will do anything to catch the serial killers of America. But, when the state of Texas is ravaged by a traveling kidnapper and murderer, Kellen doesn't have a single lead to go on as bodies continue to pile up. That is, until an imprisoned killer, Ezra Grazer, sends her a mysterious tip and breaks the case open. After another victim disappears and the death clock begins to tick, Kellen has no choice but to work with this oddly helpful murderer in hopes of finding the next victim before it's too late. But, is Ezra Grazer truly there to help, or is he just waiting for something more sinister?

Ivy and Hyacinth are faced with a problem when they find out what they really are.Hot lead flew, and blood flowed freely in 1859. The Cheyenne were raiding. When outlaws gunned down two sleepy cowpokes, and rode off with a thousand Texas longhorns, their main problem was what to do with the slow-moving cattle. Johnnie Bell’s problem lay in getting them back. The army couldn’t help — they had the marauding Indians to deal with. Texas Rangers had no jurisdiction once the cattle were over the border, and other settlers had their own homes and herds to guard. Luckily for Johnnie, he had two Comanche friends with points to prove, and along the way he met up with a feisty widow woman, who had lost both husband and herd to the self-same rustlers.

Jeff has been locked up in solitary confinement for nearly five years when the warden offers him an opportunity to reduce his sentence by joining crews that are repairing the country's energy grid, which has been rupturing and blowing up buildings and people, the unexpected and unfortunate result of changing the nation's fuel. He is added to a crew loaded with the nation's most notorious killers.Malver turns to his father."You must stay hidden son. For if she sees you, she will be frightened off," his father says as both of them divert their eyes back to the young female sitting by the river.His heart sings out to hers. A longing he has never felt before. He feels the need to touch her. It builds as her face turns more his way. His father lightly taps his shoulder. He turns and notices the leader guards walking towards them. The one stops beside Malvar.Did you mate her yet?He drifts his eyes back to the young beauty. His sigh tells the guards his answer.You have been coming here for four months now, yet you have not sedduced her to mate you.

Welcome to Elephant Small Vol 4. This is the fourth in a series of five ebooks that cover five years of original verse previously published on my weblog 'Elephant Small'. Vol 4 covers edited highlights mainly from the year 2010.Jez and Jammer are brother and sister and find themselves in the middle of an adventure they will never forget, if they survive. Carried from their home by one of the large Jumper beasts, their world suddenly becomes unfamiliar and hostile. The House of the Gods is near and the Gods are stirring. It is life or death for Jez and Jammer, unless they can find their way home.The Giant Gods are not far away though and the dangers of the land are full of gargantuan creatures and hungry insects and beasts hiding in the forests. The darkness of night soon descends upon them and hope is all but lost.Join the two on their adventure to find out what happens.