After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
“I would like to thank myself for the miracle of my being here today.” These are the words Dawn spoke before members of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee Hearing in 2006 before she described her prescription drug-related experience—an ordeal that began five years earlier… With a successful and coveted career in the concert tour arena, a blossoming new relationship, and her beloved dog Simon at her side, Dawn sets off for a sunny vacation in Florida between tours. But when she is prescribed an anti-anxiety medication for a minor problem, her charmed life quickly spirals into mania, insomnia, religious preoccupations, impulsive actions, grandiose behaviors, suicidal ideation, and psychosis. The world-altering events of September 11 further propel a delusional Dawn into a full-blown paranoid, psychotic war—and she is brutally taken into custody, involuntarily committed to a mental crisis institution, and drugged even more. In riveting detail, Dawn takes the reader on a wild and terrifying ride of insanity. As the drugs are flushed from her system, she begins to regain control over her life and eventually flourish, and now she shares her harrowing story to shed light on the dark epidemic of pharmaceutical drug-generated violence, suicide, homicide, and terrorism.
Twelve-year-old Emma Mae and her 10-year-old brother Edward live with their family on a farm in rural West Kentucky in 1914. Most of the time, they live ordinary lives. Once in a while, though, exciting adventures come their way. This time the adventure begins on Halloween night on the railroad tracks near their home. They, along with their 14-year-old brother Clarence and their three-legged dog Jiggs, . . and two hobos . . . are swept up by a mysterious, almost-invisible train that carries them, screeching through the night, to a far away place, where they may "never again see light." It doesn't take the children long to learn that their lives are in danger. Then they make another unbelievable discovery. Some of their own family members live near the circus camp/prison where they have been taken, The many adventures they experience at the hands of the man in the brown suit with the black derby hat and his sidekick, the ringmaster at the circus, will leave the reader wondering if they'll ever be able to escape and return to their home. If so, what would they tell their family about the adventure? And would another adventure ever come their way?
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Call Me Stranger is a fantasy for adults which retains our childish love of the magickally impossible. Yes. Magick, not Magic is what counts in this romp where Evil takes on Good. The war between Darline and the Cat didn’t really get going for a thousand years after Darline was burned at the stake for Witchcraft. Cat did all a faithful Familiar could, but Time Rules tied his paws as he fought to prevent the newly Evil Darline wreaking havoc. The shy accountant, Norman Boosbeck, didn’t even know he was a Warlock because Magick died off centuries Cat’s team of Witches all carried their own weaknesses – dipsomaniac Erin, kleptomaniac Lydia, or pipe-smoking smelly tramp, Ramona. They were joined by the brattish child-medium Melanie (who was also the lovely adult Alice, sent to inspire Norman) and the dapper Warlock hypnotist, Darren. Irving, a dwarf from an unknown planet, met Cat in Limbo after getting lost in Time. However, Cat appointed him unofficial leader of the eccentric gang intent upon bringing Norman back within the Magickal fold. It was difficult! Today’s world couldn’t even spell ‘magick’, let alone use it. Everything went wrong when the man in Darline’s life, Lord of the Manor, Sir James Hawkney became a pawn in the ambitious schemes of the King’s Prosecutor, Hubert, and Cedricke, the Executioner. Marching sheep, talking rabbits, four-foot frogs, twelve-inch crickets and three very worried Spirits didn’t help much, either. At the centre of it all, though was the vain, enigmatic and unpredictable Cat. Whose side is he really on...?
LITTLE JACK RABBITS BIG BLUE BOOK by DAVID CORY is a delightful collection of stories for children, featuring the adventures of Little Jack Rabbit. Whimsical and entertaining, these tales are sure to enchant young readers.
Dune Hunters: A Hollywood actress is taken to the desert to audition for a big Hollywood producer. The actress escapes from the producer, only to be captured by three Aliens who use her scent to lure the giant Goop Worms the Aliens harvest for Black Gold to fuel their Alien Spaceships. Meanwhile, a German student film director who's also a Falconer is selected by a Sheik to come to his Desert Kingdom to help launch an indigenous Film Studio. When the two Falconers go into the desert to shoot their first Feature Film, they have to decide whether to stick to the Script, or risk everything to rescue the Hollywood actress from her Alien Abductors. Space Club: Free Love is banned in Hollywood. The only refuge is Space Club. In the weightlessness of space, the Club Members are free to perform their wildest dreams. But the Club Members can't leave their Earthly flaws behind. With Love comes Jealously. A shocking crime is committed on Space Club. A Hollywood Detective launches an investigation to recover a Stolen Android Body Part from a Thief who flees on an Alien Spaceship. New Fears: Is Jane really obsessed with Austen? Or is it really the Pink Pearl that Jane is after? Or is Jane just doing what the girl in the mirror - Digital Jane - DJ - wants Jane to do? Of course Jane knew what she wanted from Austen and why she had to kill him. Even if he wouldn't stay dead. Or stop making her so obsessed with the whole thing. Space Girls: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, the key to a fortune in Crypto is stolen from the Rightful Heir. One of three Russian Beauties -- a Ballerina, an Ice Skater, and a Moscow Librarian -- holds the Crypto Key. Before you can find out which, you have to catch them. The three Russian Beauties have flown to three Distant Planets. In this Bonus download, you catch the first one. These are the Voyages of Shearling Coats into Alien Worlds beyond Hollywood. (Note: this anthology includes stories first released in the Hollywood Movie Nights series.)