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Young adult fiction, set in New Zealand.
Can anyone be "better than perfect"? That's the question lonely teenager Elizabeth Haddon struggles to answer when she is sent from England to live with relatives in Auckland, New Zealand. Arriving in the dead of winter, Elizabeth soon falls under the spell of her beautiful, but enigmatic cousin Ravenna who insists the most important thing in life is to "fit in." Elizabeth, who wants only to be accepted by her new family and their affuent social circle does her best to comply until she starts to see the cracks;cracks that turn into virtual canyons when | |  | | Overtaken
When a new bride's husband disappears, she is forced to confront her worst fears about herself. A modern literary gothic.
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div>i>"Marry in haste, repent at leisure."/i> Portrait painter Sara Elliott has never been afraid of risk. Moving to London, pawning her jewelry, taking difficult commissions, Sara lives life on the edge. But when she agrees to marry a stranger days before he is scheduled to leave the country, even Sara wonders if she has gone too far. Over the coming months, alone and uncertain of her future, Sara drifts into an uneasy routine wait | |  | | The Essential Guide for New Writers, From Idea to Finished Manuscript
A writer's workshop in just one book! Written to give the beginning writer confidence, inspiration, and solid how-to advice.
This book is a streamlined how-to manual designed to establish and maintain everyday writing habits. It cuts right to the essence of what makes a good story by listing the main building blocks all publishable writing, both fiction and nonfiction, should include. Chapters cover: capturing ideas; what editors are looking for; plot; character; narrative hooks; setting; dialogue; writing the perfect query and book proposal. | |  | | The Great Scarab Scam
Eleven-year-old Lydia Hartley has always dreamed of following in the footsteps of her archaeologist father. When he is called to Egypt to help track down the culprits responsible for the so-called "scarab scam," Lydia gets the chance of a lifetime to travel along with him. However, once she's in Egypt, Lydia learns there is much more at stake for both her father and her Egyptian hosts than mere scarabs, especially for twelve-year-old Sima Malik--and only Lydia knows what to do.
| |  | | Unleashed, of Poltergeists and Murder, the Curious Story of Tina Resch
One scientist's account of the poltergeist case that made headlines across the country--and the riveting examination of a child's mysterious murder.
When she was just fourteen years old, Tina Resch became the center of the best-documented case of poltergeist activity of the twentieth century. During the spring of 1984, Tina's home in Ohio was thrown into chaos: appliances turned themselves on without electric current, objects flew through the air, furniture scooted across the floor. Censured endlessly by her adoptive family and thrust into the eye of a media twister thanks to one reporter's photographic evidence of a flying phone, Tina was propelled into a downward spiral that led to an abusive marriage, a divorce, and |
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He Was Weird
by Michael LeFevre
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 My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting. |
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