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|  | | Basic Sentence Add-ons: Phrases
If you are confident in your ability to write basic sentences and are ready to add some color and complexity to your writing but are receiving comments like "misplaced modifier" or "dangling modifier," then this is the book for you.
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span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">various kinds of phrases to your writing. /span>/span>
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This book is a guide for anyone who has trouble writing simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
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In Kansas Territory, 1855, runaway Cordelia Pierce, age 13, travels 150 miles down the Kansas River to Westport, Missouri, seeking help for her dying mother.
A brutal stepfather . . . A dying mother. . . A loving daughter who tries to save her Kansas Territory, 1855 In this coming-of-age story, thirteen-year-old Cordelia endures her stepfather's abuse until she learns her ailing mother is pregnant again. Fearing her mother will die in childbirth, she runs away, heading for Westport and her aunt, the only person who might be able to save her mother. She disguises herself as a boy and sets out on foot to make the 150-mile trip. Following the Kansas River, she hitches rides with a variety of travelers going east, facing setbacks along the way w | |  | | Dark Side of the Rainbow
This collection of short fiction by B.J. Myrick and Hazel Hart contains stories of women in conflict with mummies, vampires, giant spiders, and other dark adversaries.
An anthology of dark fiction where--br />
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--A woman on the brink of madness plots evil revenge against local bully boys who kiiled her cats and finds, instead, the "Dark Side of the Rainbow."br />
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--A woman inherits an Egyptian mummy with instructions for activating its powers and making her every wish come true. Then she learns the mummy has wishes of its own in "Kiss Mummy Goodnight." (This story is also available as a separate e-book.)br />
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--A woman seeks eternal love and is buried alive by her lover in "The Seduction."br />
| |  | | Edge of Nowhere
A collection of short fiction from the murderous to the supernatural features human frailties, including exasperation, jealousy, and revenge.
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A locked house and a strangled woman.
Town gossips say the sister did it. Can she prove her innocence without exposing family secrets?
Crystal Sands Marshall is furious. The local historical society has chosen another family as the subject for a book on the town's beginnings. Crystal hires her own writer and then sets off to collect the necessary family records from her eccentric sister, Iris.br />
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When Iris, who has not left the house since their mother's death five years ago, fails to answer the door, Crystal breaks in. She finds Iris unconscious on the kitchen floor. Fearing her sister has attempted suicide, Crystal delays the sheriff's investigation until she can search the house and dispose of anything that | |  | | Possessing Sara
Sara Kramer, who doubts everything, is pursued by two men of opposite but equally strong faiths: Garth Drummund,a New Age psychic healer and Junior Lawson, a fundamentalist preacher. When Sara refuses the preacher's proposal, he blames the psychic healer, believing the man has put a curse on Sara and she is now possessed by demons.
At thirteen, Sara (Serenity) Kramer is abandoned by her father, a carnival roustabout, after her mother commits suicide. She is raised by grandparents who belong to a fundamentalist Christian faith. Seeing that the preacher's son is interested in her, the grandparents promise she will marry him even though Sara objects. Once Sara is grown and the grandparents die, she breaks her "engagement," but the preacher's son is obsessed with her and will not take "no" for an answer.
| |  | | The Nancy Nolan Show
A collection of short stories in which Nancy Nolan, a fictional talk show host, focuses on reuniting families who have lost touch with each other.
Love them or hate them, talk shows seep into our lives, playing in the background of our thoughts and affecting our opinions and actions. In her ten years as a talk show host, Nancy Nolan has influenced the lives of thousands of guests, would-be guests, and viewers. Here are some of their stories. br />
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A teenager tries desperately to be chosen as a guest in "Dear Nancy Nolan. br />
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An unwilling guest faces dredged-up emotions abut her runaway mother in "The Green Room." br />
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A promiscuous mother is confronted with her lies in "My Baby's Da | |  | | The Night before Christmas
If you've ever wondered why a woman stays with an abusive husband or why a father would kill the child he loves most, then read this story of Wes and Betty and what happened on the night before Christmas.
It's Christmastime and Wes Myers seeks to save his three small daughters from the pagan beliefs of a sinful world. He prays to Jesus, asking for help in reconciling with his wife, Betty, so he can keep her from teaching their children pagan beliefs. br />
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His prayers are answered when Betty takes him back. The couple has a few good days. Then Wes loses his job. He reaches for a bottle of vodka first and the Bible second. On Christmas Eve, Jesus speaks to Wes again. br />
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The message is chilling. br />
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Can anyone save Wes's daughters from a f | |  | | The Survivalist's Daughter
When her family's mountain cabin is raided by ATF and FBI agents, a teenage girl learns her father kidnapped her when she was a toddler, that the woman she has called Mom isn't her real mother. When her real mother comes to take her home, she wonders if the relationship is real or if this a government ploy to get evidence against her father.
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