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Wiggins is a happy mailbox. He has a wonderful family who gets lots of cards, letters and packages. When the mailman puts the red flag up, Wiggins loves watching Suzy run out to see what mail he has brought her. As the years pass, Suzy grows up and moves away. Eventually no one is left to decorate his mailbox through the holidays or make repairs when his paint begins to chip. No mail is delivered, and Wiggins grows sad. He longs for the day wh...

John Aarons is a college student from Wright University (Dayton, Ohio) and is majoring in Asian Studies, with a minor in Japanese Feudal History. This term, he's studying the Edo Period and is going on a field trip to Kagoshima, Japan to visit some old monuments and monasteries. While at one of the monasteries, he stumbles upon a very old scroll. When he gets it back to his hotel room and opens it, he's shocked to find himself reading about a ...

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The Lantz family has to leave Austria: the new Chancellor, Adolph Hitler, and his Nazi soldiers, have an intense hatred for Jews. The family has to wait a long time to get the money for passports and boarding passes for passage to America, and are forced to leave Grandma behind, later discovering she was taken to a concentration camp.During the dreadful journey in steerage, Maxine befriends a lady travelling on one of the upper decks and finds...

The other children don't want to play with Gimli, because he looks different. Then one day, Gimli meets Curtis at the playground. Curtis is being picked on because he's different. Curtis is blind. Gimli comes to Curtis' rescue and the two boys become friends.This story gives tangible examples to children on how they can make accommodations to enable differently-abled children to join them at play. It also subtly addresses the cultural hurdles ...

I AM NEMEIN. I AM EMOTIONALLY DETACHED FROM MY KILLINGS. I AM NOT, THEREFORE, A MURDERER. I AM AN INSTRUMENT OF NEMESIS, A PUNISHER. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders. However, he describes the killings in lurid detail, and with such gloating relish, that he utterly negates his delusio...

A group of strangers awaken in an old abandoned landfill hidden deep in the woods without recollection of how they arrived in the filthy soup of trash. They must uncover their connection to one another and find a way out of the purposely deepened landfill, before the environment -and the mastermind behind their abductions - destroys them all.

A group of strangers awaken in an old abandoned landfill hidden deep in the woods without recollection of how they arrived in the filthy soup of trash. They must uncover their connection to one another and find a way out of the purposely deepened landfill, before the environment -and the mastermind behind their abductions - destroys them all.

Written by Rosita Bird and illustrated by Doriano Strologo, this is a lighthearted story demonstrating the perils of overeating, which could help mitigate against childhood obesity without fat shaming, and ought to be on most children's reading lists.Winston the mouse eats so much that he outgrows his home - and several others in turn. Deciding to do something about it, he manages to lose weight and return to his old healthy size, whereupon he...

Montana is Grandpa's princess. They loved spending time together going for walks in the park or quietly sitting on the porch reading her favorite book. When grandpa becomes sick, and doesn't come home from the hospital, Montana's mom tries to help her understand why. A sweet and gentle way to look at death, for children ten and under. If your family has had to make this hard journey, this book could help.

Adrienne Davies visits Loftus House, home of her old friend Margaret and her difficult husband Edward. There's no love lost between him and his other houseguests, or indeed his own family. After a tension-packed evening, in the middle of the night someone screams ... A Country House. A Murder. Five suspects. Detective Chief Inspector Sheehan investigates. Will you guess who dunnit?

It's an ordinary day at Sam's roadside diner, with the usual mix of customers. But when the lights fail a gunshot rings out - and one of them lies dead. Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan must unravel a string of coincidences to determine who is the murderer.

Mississippi vigilantes conspire to administer justice to a pedophile, but things go horribly wrong.

A disastrous fire in the local lumber yard threatens to engulf the entire town of Bright one fateful Christmas Eve. Will the townsfolk manage to save Christmas?

If you decide to brave this Crimson Cloak Quest you will find yourself on a pirate ship bound for Bone Island in search of Evil Eye Bart's treasure. By chance you find a map to guide you, but it gives you no real idea of the danger and death defying perils that await you on your journey and on the island itself. You begin your quest with little to help you, but if you make your choices with care you might be lucky. You will face many strong ad...

A very colorful cat decides to leave her comfy castle life to see the world she's only read about.Her dreams swirl with these things, and she always sleeps with a smile. Someday, thinks she, someday I will see it all!

Poor little Billy is being picked on again. All she wants is to play with the other chickens, but they won't let her join in. She watches from a distance, feeling sad, until the farmer appears. When the other chickens cannot see, the farmer gives Billy lots of cuddles. Billy feels really special and doesn't feel sad anymore.

Poor Billy chicken is still getting picked on and pecked at as the other chickens laugh at her attempts to lay an egg, but they soon change their tune when Billy lays the biggest and best egg that has ever been seen on the farm. At last Billy is treated as one of the flock, and needless to say she is VERY pleased with herself.

Hurrying out of the supermarket with a typical shopping bag of items, Vincent is mown down by a passing car. Symbolised by the items in his shopping basket, each embarrassing episode in his downtrodden life passes before his eyes as he struggles to survive. A life-changing near-death experience related with compelling satirical humor, guaranteed to make you smile.Vincent fidgeted as he waited in the ten-items-or-less lane, for he clearly had m...

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