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|  | | Fat Girls From Outer Space
This contemporary fiction book for older 'tweens, deals with childhood obesity, entering puberty, bullying, changing relationships and using your talent and friendships to make it through seventh grade.
Frederica (Freddy) Gold is stuck at a miserable age approaching adolescence when kids hate to look in mirror, friendships fall by the wayside and new ones form, and some kids fall prey to bullies at school. With help from her new friends, her musical talent and a fat angel, Freddy comes into her own. | |  | | Gaia's Gift
Contemporary romance with paranormal overtones, dealing with the many faces of love, loss, guilt, choices, and redemption
Rachel Wells, loses everything she loves in a sudden boating accident off Florida SW coast. Filled with grief, anger, and survivors guilt she retreats from the world to live out her days alone with her cat. Fate intervenes and sends her a gift from the sea. Rachel makes a choice and finds that some gifts may require payment, sometimes with your own life. Is love of a child and a man something Rachel is never to know in this lifetime? Watch with the gods as her life plays out in an almost unbelievable climax. | |  | | Reflections
Follow a woman's life from childhood through early elder years in poetry.
More than one hundred poems and some narrative take the reader on a journey with everywoman from the childhood years to early elder years. Everyone will find a connecton with this wide variety of poems in different forms. | |  | | The Book of Mysteries
A YA trilogy of fantasy adventures in one book for ages 12 and older.
Tyler Trent and Zack Vander find a disappearing bookstore in New York City, a weird bookseller and a mysterious book that has no stories that can be read, but... The bookseller transports them to fantasy worlds where they must fulfill a quest or they cannot return home. | |  | | The Calling of The Flute
Life as a Jew in Lithuania in 1898 is difficult enough, but Hannah flaunts the traditions of her religion bringing shame on herself and her family
Living in a small town in Lithiania, Hannah has loved Gershon, the Rabbi's son all her life. When their marriage is arranged, instead of happiness she fears becoming the wife of the future Rabbi and refused to cut her beautiful, long, dark curls. The engagement is broken to the shame of her family. Under the oppression of the Russian Czar, Jews live in danger every minute in the face of ever-changing laws, attacks from the Cossacks, and conscription of young boys into the Russian army. Living in shame and fear propels Hannah into agreeing to leave Lithuania to save her two young brother from | |  | | The Mystery of the Green Goblin
The weird boy Huby is back in another adventure, this time to prove that Alex Cooper age 11 did not murder his math teacher the night before Halloween.
Join Alex Cooper, Huby and Alex's friends as they solve the Halloween murder of their math teacher and prove Alex's innocence before he is arrested by the police. Are Alex's sometimes friends Trash and Mungo, the town bad-boys to blame? Or is there a nasty green goblin lurking in the town causing misery and death?
What about Alex's soldier father, missing in action in the middle east for six years? Will Alex ever see his father again, or is he gone forever? Huby, the mysterious boy who appears and disappears, knows things he can't possibly know, and predicts the future is back in town, thi | |  | | The Mystery Under Third Base
Willie, the smartest, but loneliest kid in town meets Huby, a strange new boy and together they solve the ghostly mystery under third base. But, who or what is Huby and how does he help Willie become a hero?
The Mystery Under Third Base is a'tween novel,for kids 9-14, and anyone who loves mystery, adventure, a good, ghost story and features a very strange,character who leaves the reader guessing who or what he might be. Readers who like baseball will enjoy this book, as Willie learns the game in a very wierd way. |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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