Zombies Don't Carve: A YA Christmas Story

      Rusty Fischer
     Zombies Don't Carve: A YA Christmas Story

Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner? ZOMBIES!!!! Find out who, and how many, in this YA holiday short story perfect for any time of the year!The 7 Poems of Justin Bieber: Fan Edition is part of a collection of books created by Amanda Song. The young mind will be able to learn about poetry while reading about their favorite people or topics. Teachers can grab their young ones attention by using examples of poetry that involve their interests. Students can impress their teachers by already knowing different styles of poetry. There are many styles in the collection, including Acrostic, Haiku, Cinquain, Sonnet, and even Sestina! Once students become acquainted with the different style of poetry, they will be able to identify where the author went outside the lines every now and then.

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    Swapping

      Hiranya Borah
     Swapping

In this story, I am going to tell you about swapping of souls between two individuals,a male and a female, having diametrically opposite feelings for each other. Ultimately whose feelings prevails to be seen!The word swapping now-a-days means exchange of spouses among the friends. Traditional people look this phenomenon as degradation of social and moral value. But in this story, I am not going to say anything on exchanging of spouses among friends. I am going to tell you a story where swapping of souls between two individuals having diametrically opposite feelings for each other. Ultimately whose feelings prevails to be seen!

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    Animal Moments

      Joshua Cerberus
     Animal Moments

Collection of 100 haiku centered around various critters with a fair share of insects mixed in.There's danger in the beauty...Two years, six months, and twenty-five days. That's how long it had been since I'd seen my winged hero— not that I'd been counting. I'd suffered through years of counseling just to convince my friends and family that I wasn't crazy and knew he didn't exist.But he did. And I was done waiting.Days after college graduation I headed back down to New Orleans to retrace my steps and find Owen again only to find my life was about to get even crazier... thanks to the most beautiful and dangerous of all paranormal creatures, the Allures.*New Adult Paranormal Romance*

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    The Last Three

      Almon Chu
     The Last Three

"'Just three more stops,' I thought to myself. I gripped my knife, the handle digging into my flesh. I closed my eyes and tried to think of Eris."A descent down the path of self-destruction, does salvation lie around the corner or is it merely an illusion? The Last Three is a captivating story of a lost soul on the streets of a modern dystopia.“Imagine things and make them real.”When Oliver Bell meets a beautiful young woman one night in his dreams, he literally can’t get her out of his mind. Unfortunately, he also can’t tell if she’s anything more than just a wonderful figment of his imagination. It’s only when she starts leaving him clues for how to find her in the real world that Oliver’s sense of fantasy and reality begin to blur into something strange and new. The journey that follows takes Oliver everywhere he can imagine and beyond; across the country to a city he doesn’t know, to things from his terrible past he would rather forget; over concrete and bluebells and snow and ice; all leading him to the truth that love can exist in dreams.

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    Milky Whey's Dream

      Marian Hailey-Moss
     Milky Whey's Dream

Mia, while walking her dog, Bubbles, comes upon a teenager, Angelina who has sculpted a papier-mâché life-size cow. The cow's name is Milky Whey and she needs a home. Mia and Bubbles take her in unaware she is a magic cow. One night Mia learns about Milky Whey's life when she was a real cow. Mia's and Bubble's lives have been touched with a bit of magic and a bit of truth.When facing the most difficult challenge that life can throw at us, can we come together as a family or will we fall apart? It is an everyday battle that Savya and her family, ever since that fateful day when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. It didn't seem fair or reasonable that her mother had to suffer when everybody else just went about their lives unhindered. But, it is what it is and it is time to understand the true meaning of family.

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    One For You One For Me

      Gerald Kithinji
     One For You One For Me

Two businessmen from Tanzania start a business that at first does not do as well as they would like. That is where Prof Moto Moto comes in. When he fails Prof Pima Moto takes over. But as they say when the hand gets tired, the shoulder takes over. The shoulder appears in the shape of Prof Zima Moto. So where does the albino child come into all this?Albinism is a genetic condition that results in the lack of pigment in a person's skin, eyes and hair. Some witchdoctors in Africa claim that organs and body parts from albinos have magical powers. And their greedy clients get trapped in schemes to secure these items to be used in rituals. This short story takes a peek on how the ‘professors’ hatch and execute the dirty get-rich-quick or healing schemes for those who believe in their magical powers. And that takes a toll on People living with albinism and humanity.

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    Odds Are Good

      Bruce Coville
     Odds Are Good

Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. These two collections, in one volume for the first time, feature eighteen tales of unusual breadth and emotional depth. This omnibus is a perfect introduction to Bruce Coville's magic for the uninitiated. Includes an introduction by Jane Yolen.

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    Chester Cricket's New Home

      George Selden
     Chester Cricket's New Home

"Readers of this favorite series will delight in the chance to share another experience with Chester and the inhabitants of the Old Meadow." —Booklist "Selden's new story, graced again by Williams's lovely pictures, won't sit on any shelves long." —Publishers Weekly

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    The Dovekeepers

      Alice Hoffman
     The Dovekeepers

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and an expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets - about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.

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