After family tragedy forces southern teenager "Plain" Jane Thomas to live in the company of strangers, she finds that her new life is anything but ordinary. No sooner than she begins to uncover the truth behind her godfather's bizarre curse, she becomes afflicted herself. Amidst her struggle for answers, Jane discovers friendships and supernatural gifts that promise to help her along her journey.What if you had to choose between a life of fame and luxury or finding your truest love while restoring a house overflowing with magic and enchantment in the Blue Ridge Mountains?Reagan Hart is the DeLuca Girl, hers is the world famous face of a generation. Her husband has directed five of the highest grossing movies of all time, and her ex is a hunky detective who can’t get her out of his heart. She has all that glitters, but it isn't at all what she bargained for. Beguiled by the story of a mystical old house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, she walks out on her past and into her future.In the village of Seven Devils, North Carolina she is drawn to and enchanted by “The Mary’s House” and comes face to face and heart to heart with breathtakingly handsome and reclusive Fletcher Green. Fletcher steals Reagan’s heart in an instant but there are secrets to be told and he hasn't uttered a single word in twenty years. His brother Teddy knows everything he’s thinking and the brothers will rebuild The Mary’s House for Reagan and along with a town full of eccentric’s she just might find her place among the charms and enchantments and lucky bits of magic as she lets fate, destiny, passion and desire work their magic as she settles in on Temptation Road and takes her place as the new and last Mary. This novella is part one of a series."A truly original and magical tale filled with romance, suspense and enchantment..."This novella is part one of an all new series by Amazon Best Selling Romance Author, Kimball Lee.Also... Check out Kimball's best selling romance series LEGAL ACTION...

Ever Harding, an average teenager with a passion for swimming is about to turn eighteen. Little does she know that on that fated eighteenth birthday, she will have to make a choice that will change her life as she knows it, forever.Ever Harding, an average teenager with a passion for swimming is about to turn eighteen. Out of the blue she has been dumped by her long time boyfriend, which is the ultimate of tragedies in her life. Little does she know that on that fated eighteenth birthday, she will have to make a choice that will change her life as she knows it, forever.A month before her birthday, Ever meets Jack, a mysterious new boy with mesmerizing eyes. He affects her like no one else. This meeting sets things into a whirlwind she never would have dreamed. With Jack's guidance she discovers a family line that leads her to the sea. She must make the ultimate choice, stay on land where life as she knows it, won't change, or go and live in the sea as a mermaid with Jack. Her grandmother with ties to the sea of her own, as well as her brooding, moody, teenage brother create obstacles in her decision making process. Ultimately her choice sets into motion an even bigger decision, in which she has the fate of a race of people, in her hands. The people in the sea are in a feud, she will tip the balance. She must battle the ageless moral delimma of prejudice and race. Once she comes to terms with her life changing choices, she must ask herself, did I make the right decisions? And is Jack really who I think he is?

Kimberly has given up hope of having anything more in her life than her grandmother, until crazy old Mr. Jeffries asks, "Have you seen Tarum?"Nikki's painful past and Ahmad's irresponsible behavior has led them down a road that takes many tragic turns. On the outside looking in, they seem to have it all together. Happiness, innocence, love, and a connection many envy. But just beneath the surface are deep rooted secrets that lead to adultery, lies, deception, and murder. Nikki's past is exposed and it takes a toll on her relationship with Ahmad who seems to have fallen into the evil plans of Shannon, Nikki's sister. They fight for their love, but will they win against a game of lies and lust? You won't believe the twists and turns they go through as Nikki fights for what she soon discovers may be indeed Mr. Wrong

Brian Nolan gave up his corporate job and moved home to Southingly, VT. He enjoys his job: plowing in winter and landscaping in summer. It doesn’t pay much, but he has no interest in high-pressure work that comes with an ulcer and a broken relationship. Lately, He feels something lacking in his life, an unfulfilled need. Little does he know he’ll find his reason for living stranded in a snowstorm.Brian Nolan gave up his high-pressure job in the big city and moved back to his childhood home in Southingly, Vermont. He enjoys his job with the town roads department, plowing in winter and landscaping in summer. It doesn’t pay much, but he’s done the “Corporate America thing” and has no interest in wealth that comes with an ulcer and a broken relationship.The only problem is, lately Brian feels something is lacking in his life, some need is going unfulfilled. And he knows he’ll never be completely happy until he discovers what it is.Little does Brian know he’ll find his reason for living stranded in a snowstorm...

Another comedy tale of adventure and friendship for the trio of loveable mice and their friend Froggy as Louise goes on a motorcycle road trip.“Mouse on a Motorcycle” is a comedy in a similar vain to Ratatouille - so if you are a PARENT PLEASE READ THROUGH BEFORE GIVING TO A CHILD.If you appreciated this work please, if you are able, make a small donation to a charity of your choice.Another comedy tale of adventure and friendship for the trio of loveable mice and their friend Froggy as Louise goes on a motorcycle road trip.“Mouse on a Motorcycle” is a comedy in a similar vain to Ratatouille - so if you are a PARENT PLEASE READ THROUGH BEFORE GIVING TO A CHILD.For an introduction to the characters in “Mouse on a Motorcycle” it is suggested that you read “Mice Movie”, the first short story in the series. If you appreciated this work please, if you are able, make a small donation to a charity of your choice.The idea for this story came out of a discussion on 30th June 2012 and it was published on the 18th July 2012.

A Filipina tattooer escapes the slum of her past for a new life with her uncle in Eugene, OR. One night, the Moon beckons her artistic soul to a park by the river. What happens there changes her art, tattoos and life forever."I AM NOT A TOY!" Huggins states. Well, he is. He just dosen't like it. He was given to this girl named "Ashlynn". No one knows he is a talking stuffed dog exept him. Well, until he freaks Ashlynn out at Thanksgiving dinner! Sooner or later, everyone in the neighborhood knows. Some kids may know, but they don't approve, espesically her brother AND her best friend. Join Ashlynn, Huggins, Andre', and Carly on this wild tale of fantasy, screaming girls, laughs, and of course, talking dogs!

In the village of Child Okeford a ‘Bull’ or 'Ooser' used to show up uninvited at Christmas festivities, causing mayhem. One guest at his manor's annual ball sees an opportunity to make a good match for his daughter. He pays the Ooser to carry her off. Rescued by her otherwise timid suitor, the girl's future is assured. *The Plain Text version cannot display the photo of the Ooser in this tale.Nineteen-year old CeCe Mackenzie leaves Virginia for Nashville with not much more to her name than a guitar, a Walker Hound named Hank Junior and an old car she'd inherited from her grandma called Gertrude.But Gertrude ends up on the side of I-40 in flames, and Nashville has never seemed farther away.Help arrives in the form of two Georgia football players headed for the Nashville dream as well. When Holden Ashford and Thomas Franklin stop to offer CeCe and Hank Junior a ride, fate may just give a nod to serendipity and meant to be.

Kate is a mother who has made all the right decisions and personal sacrifices required to raise a family and maintain a healthy relationship with her husband. However, it is her ability to inspire and endure after giving up so much that is her true gift.The Root of the Trouble is Our Will. The struggle to surrender our will to God—to fight against self, selfishness, and self-preservation—is the fiercest battle that we will ever fight. The human will of Jesus was no different. It shrunk from God’s will as decidedly as ours. Without total submission to His Father, the fallen nature He inherited from Adam would have overcome Him as surely as it overcomes us. This book portrays the battle Jesus fought each day on earth. It paints a picture of his tortured steps, a blueprint of the journey that each one of us must take back to God’s will. How do we win this war against our souls? Only a closer look at Jesus can show us how, a closer look explored within these pages.

At the Citadel of the Almighty, the course of history is set. Wars have started there, and will again.A washerwoman, unbeliever in the holiest place in the world. A soldier, rising through the ranks of the Church Guard. A troubadour, free spirit in a world of dogma. One of these is the voice that will write a new chapter in history.Introduction to the series.The Citadel of the Almighty is, for all intents and purposes, the center of the world. Not only does it lie in the borderlands between the realms of the Skanda and the Arganian people, an oasis in an unhospitable river basin, it is also the holiest of holies, the sacred home of the United Church. Once already, war started here. If the world is to change again, here is where that change will begin.A washerwoman, unbeliever in the holiest place in the world. A soldier, rising through the ranks of the Church Guard. A troubadour, free spirit in a world of dogma. One of these is the voice that will write a new chapter in history.Introduction to the series.

Sarténe is a land of culture and beauty. It is also about to be invaded, its people accused of heresy and awful crimes. Defending it are four friends, famous for their exploits in war in the desert far away. Behind them stands the Hidden House, and the ancient powers it is said to command. But against them comes a vast army, larger than any they can raise, and the cruel general who leads it.Calesh Saissan is a captain of the Hand of the Lord, a military Order fighting in Tura d’Madai. But he has no faith in the God he seems to serve. The purpose of the Hand is to distract attention, so the All-Church will not notice the heresy growing in its homeland of Sarténe.Now word has reached Calesh that the charade has failed. The heresy has been revealed, and the All-Church will turn its next Crusade west, into Sarténe. So Calesh comes home, back to the land he left eleven years ago to escape the sorrows of his youth. Back to another war, this one for survival. With him come the soldiers of the Hand, ready to defend their homes.With him too comes his mixed-race wife, the half-Madai Farajalla. Waiting are his old friends, three men with whom he made legends once, and also the Lady of the Hidden House behind her veils of mystery. Together they must stand against the All-Church, or see their country burn.

JMD's latest and last book of poems provides once more beautiful gems aplenty, this time imbued with a new strength and warmer comfort in spite of it all. In this collection of poems the poet's greatest achievement is realized; conveyed within via mood well coined the very personal and individual joy of fascination.This is a set of poems I have been writing from sometime now. These poems are basically short poems some are in free verse some lyrical. They try to exhibit various emotions of love beauty and chaos . My poems try to touch various parts of our lives which are joyous as well as sad .I hope to entertain my readers and take them to a world which is zealous beautiful striving and struggling and above all teeming with life . The description the imagery the metaphors used bring to life the words. It is the simple the ordinary and the every day humdrum which are the main theme of my poetry.

Li Bai's poems have been spread out thru the ages; even today they are highly praiseworthy. But only some know about his style of fencing called Li Bai's Drunken Sword. In terms of his famous works, the reader will discover how the poet's swordplay and wine drinking under the moon affected his poetic legacy. The author's 60 newest moonlit verses are also exposed herein for immediate contemplation.These collected poems has been inspired by the works that the Tang-period poet Li Bai (701-762 CE) left after him as a great cultural heritage, and of whom I will have more to say on the pages below. It was with him that this book began; without him, none of what follows after the short essay would have been written.Fortunately or not, but I am not alone in this regard, as there are so many famously known creative figures in the West who have also been inspired by the poetry of Li Bai who lived and created on the other side of the world around twelve hundred years ago, but whose influence in some inexplicable way continued to grow in China and abroad.The following three poems of Li Bai translated and represented herein as preface to my collection of verses are unfolded around the common subject of the Chinese literature -- the moon and its imagery. Together with the reader, we are going to unveil some unnoticed (if not to say 'misunderstood' or even 'wrong interpreted') moments of the poet's legendary life.It sounds obvious but, again, we learn more about the world literature by studying the evolution of poetry through the centuries; as a result, we find out more of the world's history, evoke our interest and understanding of the ancient writers and of humanity in general.Poetry analysis and its translation from the language like archaic Chinese, which is the foreign language for the contemporary Chinese as well, is not scientifically exact, it is somewhat subjective to how it affects the translator's academic knowledge and daily experience. Yet, I find it very difficult to put a lot of credit on those representatives of the Old School (most of them are the famously known scholars of academic elite) who do not try to dig deeper about the poets of antiquity, and to reveal their motivations and find out those who affected them.Everything Li Bai did was tuned to the passage of time and the joys of Nature with brilliance and great freshness of imagination. The subjects that he studied in his poetry were swordplay, friendship and solitude constructed around the everlasting image of the moon's disc reflected in the pool with its multiple tints and mythological riddles. His imagination and humorous characteristics of a freethinker are apparent in his poetry in full to be a powerful incentive for many others throughout the ages, and your humble author is not the exception.

This is a pencil-and-paper role-playing-game. These ninjas are not mercenary assassins. They are athletes on a television show, who compete in obstacle courses with extreme obstacles that resemble challenges traditional ninjas would face in the execution of their duties. Simple, fast-paced and exciting. Anybody who can add up three dice can play.A man of great melancholies prone to bury his woes in a pint or a shot glass, Ansen drifts from job to job, typically taking on details for which no one else is suited.When a movie director approaches him in a dingy bar in Zimbabwe, offering him a job as leading man in a film to be shot in a remote location, down-on-his-luck Ansen Grost decides he has nothing to lose.A globetrotter, he’d often found himself in circumstances where he must offer his expertise in mercenary forms to eke out a living. So being paid high wages just to look good for the cameras was an enticing opportunity. Not to mention, the blonde playing the lead role was rather easy on the eyes...After days a-sea they make land only to march inland through a steamy tropical forest to their campsite where they soon suspect they are not alone. The native porters, ever superstitious, sense eyes upon them...Having faithfully borne the talisman for years, the ancient weapon seems ever destined to draw him into confrontation with supernatural evil in bizarre, mind-blasting forms. But even Ansen is unprepared for what he finds atop the cliffs of this unknown island.This introductory short story in the series Tales of the Tomahawk will be followed shortly by Volume 2: The Banshee of the Atacama.

Mirror, mirror in my hand… Beauty is the key to everything. At least, that’s how it seems to Violet—ugly, bullied, and lonely. To be beautiful, in her eyes, is to have power and love. And when Kendra, the witch, teaches Violet how to use magic, she may finally get what she wants. For Celine, beautiful since birth, her looks have been a hindrance. She discovers that beauty is also a threat—especially to her stepmother, Violet, who doesn’t want anyone sharing the attention she worked so hard to get and who will do anything to be the fairest of them all. But beauty isn’t only skin deep and love isn’t based on looks alone. And though Violet and Celine may seem to be completely opposite, their lives are almost… mirrored.

*From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the thrilling continuation of a powerful series about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences. * The unexpected fourth novel of the Consequences series, REVEALED: The Missing Years is... "The captivating missing piece that continues one of the most intricate, enthralling, and suspenseful stories I've ever read." - Vilma's Book Blog * Readers saw what happened on that fateful afternoon at the Rawlings Estate and heard about the aftermath. This fourth novel of the series is told through the men in Claire Nichols’ life and fills in the gap of time that was only previously mentioned. Like dominoes falling in a line, Revealed allows readers to experience the shocking repercussions one by one, and witness their effect on everyone in the game. "REVEALED: The Missing Years fills in more blanks than you could have imagined."- Schmexy Girl Book Blog * Share the struggle as Anthony Rawlings fights for what is his as the crashing consequences of his past threatens to change his world forever. Join Harrison Baldwin as he discovers the truth that threatens his beliefs, and John Vandersol as he come to terms with his revelations. Witness as Phillip Roach decides with whom his loyalties lie, and Brent Simmons demonstrates the meaning of friendship—no matter the cost. Readers of this series survived the Consequences, learned the Truth, and know who was Convicted, but that is not all. Do not assume that Tony and Claire’s story is complete, because beyond the conclusion of Convicted there is more to be REVEALED! "Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." – James Allen (Previously titled Behind His Eyes Convicted: The Missing Years)

Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense – with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original, an extra character, and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader, it could easily be considered a different work altogether. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience: it will provoke poetry readers, classical scholars, theatre people and comic-book aficionados.

In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomas Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid fire. Having left the battlefield a shattered man, he comes home to find yet more tragedy for in his absence, his wife has died of the flu. Haunted by memories of the woman he loved and the atrocities he perpetrated, Tomas dreams of fire and finds himself setting match to flame when awake. . . . Alice Dartle is a talented clairvoyant living among others who share her gifts in the community of Cassadaga, Florida. She too dreams of fire, knowing her nightmares are connected to the shell-shocked war veteran and widower. And she believes she can bring peace to him and his wife s spirit. But the inferno that threatens to consume Tomas and Alice was set ablaze centuries ago by someone whose hatred transcended death itself. . . .

I’ve known fear.I’ve known pain.I’ve known horror.I’ve known all of it.I’ve guarded myself as best I can.I’ve hidden myself from him.I’ve changed my name.I’ve moved.But he still haunts me.One day, I’m sure he’ll find me again.I don’t trust anybody.I don’t believe in anybody.I just want to be free.Until I meet Jack.I’m not looking for him, but that’s the thing about heroes.You’re never looking for them.He won’t take no for an answer.He’ll battle past my fear, my pain, and my horror.He’ll sweep into my life like a hurricane, and it won’t matter how hard I fight.He’ll break past my walls.And he’ll change me.Maybe, he’ll even save me.

L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents, and some are ending up dead. And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.

Heart is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Henry Slesar is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Henry Slesar then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.