Being a kid growing up in Camden, New Jersey, sometimes it was like a roller coaster. I had my good days, and I had my bad days. I play with my friends happily, and then one day, I fight with them. As a child, we didnt know what the reasons were. It just happened.
"Welcome to Barrie, Ontario, the city of a new breed of wizards. My daddy can walk through doors that aren't there! Through doors, we walked through enchanted doors for our eyes only." Shelby is the main character. She did not have a clue that she was a wizard, a shape-shifter. A wizard with attitude; go, girl, go! A crown of flowers, an enchanted dress, a Grim Stone around her neck, and gifts from the Say-Waze. They were on a mission to save the Umbrella people, cursed by an evil witch. A five-hundred-year-old curse, as We-walker. She was taking Lucas's hand, a half-mouse and half-man, like a creator, falling in love as a true love story. The enchanted castle, hearing Tear-Mina's cries, entombed in a crystal ball with a witch. Shelby found the power, the strength, and the courage deep inside her heart. Becoming the queen of time. Riding a Lamar-Light across the waves of fire and ash of time. On a magical quest, finding the Gleamer child to which it started. Entombing that witch with the power of children's happy thoughts. Breaking the curse. Through an enchanted door as Bits. Into the realm of the Luckiest House as the ghost of time. Gifted children, a witch, an epic battle for power. Grimsson fire consuming them all. Imprisoning that witch in a fifty-year loop, Through a third enchanted door into a battle between the Tappets, Umbrella people, Shelby, We-Walker, Bits, O-Miss. Imprisoning her mother's three evil sisters, revealing the true story--Daddy!
Cassie is a highly gifted and telepathic child. With her imaginary dog friend Patrik, she continues her quest to create connections between worlds with their crystals of transmutation. On this critical journey, they must reach Akaleia and Lemuria. Traveling within the portals of the magic tree and using the alchemy of time, they reach Lemuria and discover their secret lives and true mission. With the help of Patrik, Cassie translates the Book of Light. Together, they must protect its contents and release the captive spirits within the potting shed. Behind the Open Door: The Alchemy of Time is the second work in a five part series unveiling the life of eight-year-old Cassie Murphy, so her adventure doesn’t stop here!
The tragic death of his boss thrusts Brandon into leading the most ambitious project ever undertaken by a country. Even this Harvard MBA and highly sought-after project manager hardly considers himself worthy of supporting the President of the United States on such a monumental endeavor. Forced to overcome his weakness and self-doubt, Brandon must rise to a new calling. Outraged and exhausted by political corruption, the citizens are demanding that the nation’s capital be stripped of the lawless powerbrokers who control it. Brandon puts those closest to him in harm’s way when he shares the president’s unshaken commitment to build a new city across twenty square miles in the middle of nowhere. “Think...Dubai.” He must trust his team completely to avoid the largest project failure in human history. But can he? For those who enjoy the fast-paced excitement, intrigue, and mysterious twists of John Grisham or Tom Clancy novels, will love Kéntro, the first installment in Terry Stafford’s suspenseful Brandon McStocker series.
"Tryell it's time to go inside it's getting dark,"call Yasmine. "But Yasmine just a few more minutes please?"Ask Tryell."I'm having to much fun." "Okay just for a few minutes,you know momma doesn't like us out after dark." Yasmine and Tryell run back under the firehydrant.Everyone is having so much fun that noone notices a car circling the block.Yasmine watches the car turn the corner,she has an uneasy feeling in her gut.She tells herself it's probably nothing to worry about.She runs back under the coolwater.Yasmine is standing under the water when the tan car comes back around the corner.Yasmine starts screaming seeing the shiny gun hanging out the passenger's window. "Get down everyone"The shots ring out.The screams come from everywhere.The gunfire last for what feels like ten minutes.Then there was the squeaking of the tires,dead silence follows.The children slowly gets up all except one."Tryell!!Screams Yasmine.Yasmine cradles Tryell's head in her lap.Tryell has four gunshot wounds to his chest."Please someone call for help." "Tryell hang on help is on the way."Oh God help him please!!""Yasmine,whispered Tryell,I had fun today.I love you.Tell momma I love her."
Lindsay Hunter tells the stories no one else will in ways no one else can. In this down and dirty debut she draws vivid portraits of bad people in worse places. A woman struggles to survive her boyfriend's terror preparations. A wife finds that the key to her sex life lies in her dog’s electric collar. Two teenagers violently tip the scales of their friendship. A rising star of the new fast fiction, Hunter bares all before you can blink in her bold, beautiful stories. In this collection of slim southern gothics, she offers an exploration not of the human heart but of the spine; mixing sex, violence and love into a harrowing, head-spinning read.
What if everything you believed to be true turned out to be a lie? And everything you thought to be legend and myth was entirely real? Anna's life continues to worsen. The lives of her new acquaintances fall into deadly peril. Her parents battle each other from behind walls of bitterness and sorrow yet seek each other from within their desperate loneliness. Terrorists have attacked and blown up Jeremie's bus. David and Hannah fight to rescue him from a fiery, smoky death. News of the attack unnerves daddy such as she has never seen. Only Miriam knows why he is so disconcerted at the news, yet she battles her own mortality as her deteriorating illness becomes evident to the other team members. While the others study the Book of Shem and the Shofar of Abel, and no one is watching, Evie colors a picture that changes the direction of the entire mission-a vision from her Father. They venture into the ancient wilderness of Midian in search of the stick Yahweh gave to Adam. The Staff passed down through the Patriarchs. The Staff by which Moshe led the Israelites from captivity in Egypt. The Staff that parted the Red Sea. The Staff that brought water from the rock. The Staff that, according to legend, contains the information the team requires to complete their mission: save Karen, Anna's best friend. Anna and Evie are pushed to their limits in the continuing adventure to discover the true power, glory, and majesty of the Father and how a simple Staff of wood could change the entire world.
PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.
A shape-shifting plague. A group of supernatural teens. Can they control their untested gifts to prevent annihilation? Shaun wishes he could go back in time to fix the past. A decade after his father unlocked a mysterious tomb and unleashed a mind-controlling virus, humanity continues to fight a losing battle. But the cynical teen's last spark of hope flares when he sees two incredible boys step through a portal to another world. According to her religious guardian, Sophia has been blessed with a mission from God. But the orphaned girl would rather go dancing with friends than witness prophecies about the coming apocalypse. When she discovers six other teens struggling to harness their superhuman gifts, she knows she has no choice but to unite the group against a swarm of evil. Despite awe-inspiring mental powers and inter-dimensional travel at their fingertips, Sophia fears their abilities won't be enough to preserve millions of innocent lives. Can the teens unite their strengths to save the world? The Emerald Tablet: Shadows of Doubt is the first episode in the action-packed supernatural fantasy series. If you like daring teens, page-turning adventures, and otherworldly powers, then you’ll love JM Hart’s thrilling story. Buy The Emerald Tablet to fight an apocalyptic curse today.