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Wise dragons, evil dragons, elemental dragons, oh my! A new twist on fairytales with a fresh element: dragons. Each fairytale has been reimagined with these beasts based on the author’s preference. These classic characters will never see this coming. Retellings include Swan Princess, Hansel and Gretel, Elves and the Shoemaker, Frog Prince, and many more. Featuring stories from Ashley L. Hunt, R.L. Davennor, Anstice Brown, Denise Ruttan, Lydia Anne Stevens, Andrea J. Hargrove, S.O. Green, Kay Humble, Damien Mckeating, and Nathan Slemp.

In 1920, as art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, W. E. B. Du Bois published The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun—the first periodical for African American youth, collecting original art, stories, letters, and activities to celebrate their identities and inspire their imaginations and ambitions. Building upon Du Bois’s mission, esteemed professor and scholar Karida L. Brown and celebrated artist Charly Palmer reimagine the groundbreaking publication with The New Brownies’ Book, gathering the work of more than 50 contemporary Black writers.

Meet Mary McScary. Mary likes to be scary. She scares her mom, her dad, her pets, and even a balloon! But there's just one person Mary can't scare - her cousin, Harry McScary. He's not afraid of the usual things, like spiders, snakes, and other creepy crawlies. But Mary doesn't give up that easily, and one way or another she'll find a way to give Harry the scare of his life....

Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his "inner conservative" to win re-election.

Why did the monster cross the road? To BITE someone on the other side! Turn scary to silly with this laugh-out-loud joke book. Hunny and Funny are monster best friends. When Hunny is feeling sad, Funny knows exactly how to cheer up his friend... with laughter!

Box Set AMI Series 1. Lottie Loser It’s been twelve years since Lottie Luce ran away to Indiana, three weeks before her classes were to begin at IU, to avoid a confrontation with her best friend, and secret love, Nick Greyson. On the night she’d believed he was going to tell her he wanted her for more than a friend, Lottie caught Nick in a compromising position with her long-time nemesis, Ashley Marshall. The hurt and humiliation were more than she could bear. Now a product of personal reinvention, Charlotte Luce is the youngest, and first female market president of Olde Florida Bank, ...

America is at a tipping point, and never has this been more apparent than right now. We are in danger of losing our spiritual and moral heritage, making many believe that we have fallen beyond the point of recovery. This book is here to say that yes, we have fallen. In fact fallen much further than we realize, but our country's best days are ahead - with the help of a radical, moral, and cultural revolution, beginning with the church. This book is a manual for the revolution.

Rowan Walker - young college student and coffee house barista - believes that her twin sister, Eden, has been taken against her will. The Seattle Police - based on evidence to the contrary; as well as Rowan's sister’s free-wheeling, off-the-rails past lifestyle - believe otherwise. Rowan, however, refuses to let the case (or, for that matter, the SPD) rest and after a solid year of relentless badgering by the young woman a weary, and sympathetic detective gives Rowan an alternative solution. Enter Fallon Wylde, 17th Century pirate turned vampire turned soldier-for-hire.

In Superstition Mountain Dreams the tantalizing legends of lost gold mines and buried treasures, which haunt these intriguing and formidable mountains, come alive for a whiskered old prospector, for Peggy Cahill, her family, and a soft-spoken stranger, who comes into the valley as the Cahill family work desperately to hold onto their ranch when a crooked banker is determined to foreclose on their property. Superstition Mountain Dreams is crowded with a variety of characters and events, which brings drama, suspense, and a warm understanding of human nature to the reader.

Bing. Bang. Boom. That’s how Charlotte’s life is going. First, her summer romance lands on the rocks, because reality is, she has bills to pay - and that’s hard to do when you're an archaeologist living in rural East Texas. Bing. Then an opportunity drops in on her she can’t say no to, because she signed a contract. But, in a weird way, this is her passion - digging up bones and researching ancient history - even if it’s not exactly her field of expertise. So she takes the job. Bang. And now the BOOM. Her old colleague is back from the dead, working with a past nemesis. She’s ...

Originally published in 1954, Fisherman’s Winter is Roderick Haig-Brown’s final installment in his well-known “seasons” cycle. With a unique blend of experience and observation, Haig-Brown brings readers through the exotic rivers of South America in the winter months, showing rather than explaining the many things he encounters. Rather than writing about typical winter fishing, Haig-Brown departs from British Columbia, where the other titles in his seasons cycle take place, and heads to unknown rivers in South America, where he learns as much as his readers will.

This audiobook tells the story of the Brown family of Caswell County, NC, and their journey over four generations, captured in short stories, vignettes, and whimsical narrative glimpses. The Brown family’s journey began two generations earlier with my grandmother’s grandmother, Queen Evans, who was kidnapped in Africa and brought to North Carolina as a slave on a plantation of a White slave owner. One of the many duties of Queen, the seven-year-old enslaved girl, was to serve as a “foot-warmer”.

Seventeen years after Emily Swift’s father died, a door is opened to a new world, an Empire led by peculiar men and women called Salesmen–transporters of magical items. These Salesmen have the unique ability to travel from place to place, and even world to world, simply by stepping through the “right” door. Now that Emily is 30, it turns out that she can “door travel” too, stumbling unplanned into kitchens, bathrooms, and alleyways as her connection to the Salesman Empire is revealed.

I don’t care how nice your pants are. They never look as good on you as a dress. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Ladies, have you been trying your hand at ridiculous role reversals when it comes to dating? Do you find yourself second-guessing whether you should pick up the tab at dinner just to appear "independent"? Tired of being bombarded by bogus advice that encourages you to "woman up" by "manning up"? Listen up. Don't be misled by the breast - and uterus-less, or guilted into using ineffective love tactics that won't get you what you want.

Kristen Brown is the author of the International #1 Best Selling book, "The Recovering People Pleaser - A Spiritual Guide to Reclaim Your True Worth and Attract the Love You Deserve." Kristen is a spiritual and intuitive energy healer who focuses primarly on helping others build a solid relationship with self through healing unconscious blocks and limiting beliefs. Kristen's motto is: Heal your inner world, and your outer world will change with it!

The year 2008 was the worst of Ouida Brown’s life. Her beloved mother, the heart of her life, died of breast cancer. Ouida found herself in a dark place - lost, depressed, and angry. She didn’t know who she was anymore. What had happened to her optimism, her energy, her bubbly personality? In her unhappiness, she turned to comfort food, abandoned her healthy eating habits, and gained weight. Her journey back to wholeness came when a trusted friend gently confronted her and told her she needed help.

There is trouble in the beautiful South Park Valley of Colorado and Dan Walker's father has written to his drifting son to "come home" to help his aging parents deal with the intimidation and turmoil. Walker rides from Wyoming and into a hornets-nest of intrigue, scheming, kidnapping, and to the rescue of a beautiful, and lonely, mountain girl, who is caught up in the violence gripping the valley. THE MAN FROM WYOMING is a tender love story that will warm the heart of the reader as it unfolds in the shadows of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Tasha was right. I couldn't forget about him. Not until we were even. Sex. Betrayal. Revenge. Friendship. Love. Family. It's all here in this hard-to-put-down novel. Back Cover: Wedding bells follow the loss of Sidney Shane's virginity to the handsome Damon Campbell. Only she's not invited to the wedding. After losing her virginity to one of the worst guys on the planet, 22-year-old Sidney Shane packs up her wounded heart - and her blood money boots - and takes her high hopes of a fresh start at finding love to sandy beaches Florida.

A selection of magical stories to entertain your children whilst you are waiting at the airport and are flying to your holiday.

Eloise has just embarked on a journey. A journey that would take her into the world of the Crazy Cat Lady. Starting with a cute little black kitten, she finds laughter, frustration, love and sorrow are all rolled up in a ball of fur.