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: They should have noticed her red hair .... How can an independent young lady, who is accustomed to the freedom of the middle class, bend to the will of 1812 Society? After growing up in an orphanage as Louise Tracy, Louise resides in London with her best friend, Rebecca Black, and their companion, Mrs. Amelia Peters. An accomplished pianist, Louise earns money teaching piano to merchants' daughters and enjoys life within the middle class, wi...

Did you know that flying fish sometimes fly with seagulls? That Moon Dogs sometimes hunt on Earth? That grasshoppers have been on the planet for 350 million years? That assassin bugs carry switchblades? That clumps of jellyfish can fly? That demons live among us? That the Flash and his wife zip through the area? Do you know how to tell fact from exaggeration from falsehood? This book contains some of Calvin Hight Allen's favorite photographs ...

The sprite wants the spy. Will she get him? Marie Louise Rebecca Haverford is the pampered only child of Sir Julian and Lady Becca, with whom she has a loving, fun-filled relationship. Although she presents the expected frivolous demeanor to society, she is, in fact, quite intelligent as her father learns when she interferes with his work at Whitehall. Soon after their arrival in London for her second Season, Marie meets John, Viscount Bea...

Jeanette Reid's main characters are mostly youth trying to see and understand the outer world and find deeper meaning within their own lives. Sixteen-year-old Norma Jean Taylor desperately seeks answers to the questions that have plagued her since she discovered a miniature quilt under a false bottom of an old chest in the attic of the family farm. Ninety-year-old Avis relives her early years with the rediscovery of a delicate Japanese fan in ...

You Don't Look Seedy Enough to Be a Folk Singer is a composite of the life of Betty Nance Smith, written in her fine hand about the world into which she was born. The first half of her book portrays a simple world of buttermilk biscuits on a wood stove, soft feather beds and dimity quilts, a frosty wet ice box in summer, and household chores on her grandparents' farm. She writes of her parents' life of law enforcement, gardening, singing, and ...

Brothers, Jack and Zane, 11 and 13, along with their eccentric grandparents, a shape-shifting alien, a beast the size of a Sasquatch with a heart of gold and the right hook of a war god, and a kick-ass girl who takes nothing-from-nobody join together as The Keepers in a prophesied war against an army of Anthro-bots. Before their battle, they travel through a wormhole to Planet Ceejix where each engages in a personal quest to ready him/her/them...

Six stories, all of which start within a five-mile radius of 350 5th Avenue, the address of the Empire State Building, the original "Ground Zero." With this first book of five short stories and one novella, Russell Bittner believes that worlds can be discovered and described in a dewdrop, in a teardrop, in a leaky faucet-and that all that's required is a good magnifying glass, keen powers of observation, and a feel for how language might be ma...