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Trouble begins for a coven of New Orleans witches when a stranger moves next door to Charlotte Le Noir, the youngest and business savviest member of her coven. Gifted at making potions and spells, Charlotte desperately tries to bring her aunties and great-great-great-great-great grandmother Sally into the modern age with their family metaphysics shop, but the old guard is committed to its ways. As a murderer stalks the city, Charlotte finds he...

Winner of the 1989 Nebula Award Award for Best Novel of 1988. "A brutal and beautiful book" that follows the surreal, fantastical journey of a Vietnam War nurse (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). A literary departure for acclaimed fantasy author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War draws on her personal experience as an army nurse in Da Nang to create a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty Mc...

Cindy Ellis knows about fairy godmothers. Her almost-stepdaughter is studying to be one and she is a close personal friend of Felicity Fortune, an Irish godmother. But she didn't suspect when she picks up Grandma Webster that the elderly, seemingly lost American Indian woman in traditional dress was a magical godmother too. When a self-serving skinwalker/witch inflames tensions between neighbors and pits sisters against each other in the best ...

Dear Rosie, Being an apprentice fairy godmother is complicated. Not only do I have to go out and find good deeds to do, but for a sidekick I have that hit man that Felicity changed into a toad. I wanted to take the cat but she seems to have had a big funeral to attend. Felicity isn't around much. She keeps disappearing through a door in the guestroom that opens on the side of a hill. The swimming pool is weird too, and I could have sworn I saw...

Leanna is a widow who just wants to start over. She moves out into the country, where she feels an instant connection to the land with the little cobblestone cottage. She hopes the change of scenery and time by herself will help her take some much needed time to herself and find a way to heal.One evening, deciding to explore a little, she crosses the cobblestone bridge that crosses the creek running across the property. One minute, she is cros...

Piñata Belly And Other Tales of Later Love is a collection of five stories in the I'm Here Series, stories of later love.I'm Here is a fast-moving tale about the slow-down of aging and the freedom of choosing where to sleep and with whom.After 25, 000 Masses: A 72-year old priest decides to leave more than his parish when he retires. A woman who admired him as her high school chaplain opens him to loving one person after a lifetime of loving e...

Billy Magnusson, a twelve year-old boy, has been the target of The Mandela Effect, an energy wave that attacks him, erasing pieces of his past and adding new details to his life script. Billy would describe the attacks as like riding a surf board atop waves he can't see coming, and he never knows when the next energy wave might hit him.*These waves isolate Billy, they're growing stronger, changing bigger chunks of his past, and they're driving...

Planet Zoron:While sitting at his bedroom window staring at the moon, a burst of green light whisks Mark Foy away to Planet Zoron, where Prince Zincor and Princess Zayla need Mark's help to regain the prince's throne from Blaylock and Fentar, two evil councilors to his late father.Rescue from Zoron:Mark Foy has returned home from his surprising trip to Planet Zoron. Prince Zincor's throne is safe. But is it? Who shows up but Zincor's Uncle Bla...

At stake-the deed to The Clifton Heights Home for Children. Emmaline Gremlin wants to close the orphanage. Her runaway husband wants to turn the deed over to Mr. Bloober, Superintendent of the Home, to ensure its continuation.Mickey Allston, age nine, and his friend Warren Towers, who is visiting from the Clifton Heights Home for Children, join forces with Mr. Camden Chatsworth, owner of a marvelous collection of old toys, and the runaway Mr. ...

The Golden Mushroom:Soon-to-be fifth graders, Paul Drummond and Billy Sparks' summer vacation at the beach with Lige Drummond, Paul's grandfather, is interrupted when Lige's best friend Jess Hubbard disappears, and the boys are off to find him in Shumbus, a strange land deep within the Earth.The Revenge of the Critches:Things did not stay peaceful long in Shumbus after Paul and Billy's summer adventure there. The Critches are out for revenge. ...

Frank Clayton's life has fallen apart in the wake of his son's death. His wife has left him, he has been blacklisted from employment and his citizen-consumer status had been taken away, leaving him no choice but to enlist in a murderous reality show. When an opportunity comes up to escape his predicament, he finds out that he still has something to live for: revenge.Armed with wealth and influence, Frank decides to bring the war to the studio,...

Judge Joan Cardwell is back. As an assistant prosecutor many years ago, she prosecuted a black man for rape. After seventeen years in prison, Larry Jenkins contacts the Innocence Project proclaiming his innocence and seeking a DNA test. At the insistence of Cardwell, Karen Braxton, the elected prosecutor, resists the DNA test. Her resistance leads to an evidentiary hearing. As the evidence develops in the Jenkins case, the prior murder prosecu...

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's The Godmother puts a new twist on contemporary fantasy with the assertion that fairy godmothers exist here and now, and they have magical power that allows them to intervene in real-world problems.What if someone wished a fairy godmother would help the entire city of Seattle? An overworked, overstressed social worker named Rose Samson does just that when she makes an idle wish on a mustard seed. Felicity Fortune of ...

Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award-winning The Healer's War and many other novels. In "Final Vows, " Mu Mao the Magnificent, the feline bodhisattva from Scarborough's novel Last Refuge, helps guide a reincarnated cat in solving the mystery of his own betrayal and murder. "Whirlwinds" takes place on the Diné Trail of Tears, when the US military force-marched ninety-five hundred Navajo people ...

A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award-winning author of The Healer's War. Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely revenge. The witch's granddaughter rescues him from the dire threat of being eaten alive by the cat. She hears the song, which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she t...

This book contains four of the adventures of Philip Felton and Emery Wyatt. The boys have a rollicking and fun trip through their youth, one mishap at a time. You're gonna love Philip and Emery. John Paulits takes you on one rip-roaring escapade after another.Philip and the Sneaky Trashmen When clumsy Leon helps Philip clean his room, it begins a wild adventure for Philip and Emery complete with missing jewelry, stolen pants, a crazy Aunt, and...

Philip and the Haunted House When circumstances force Philip and Emery to sneak into a haunted house, they discover something that gives them the shock of their lives!Philip and the Monsters Philip and his best friend Emery are certain the new family on the block consists of the Fran-kenstein monster, the Wolfman, and Dracula. And now that family's been invited to dinner! Help!Philip and the Fortune Teller Philip and Emery race the clock to av...

Can Dougie and Gwen find out who pushed Curly to his death from a second floor porch? With Curly's ghostly help, they plan to try.Dougie's best friend Curly dies in an accident. Yet, Dougie keeps hearing Curly's voice coming from the strangest places. When Dougie's mom sees him talking to… nothing, she gets very worried. When Curly's voice tells Dougie it wasn't an accident that sent him off the second floor porch, Dougie promises to do what h...

Philip and the Superstition Kid: Philip and Emery don't know what to do about Emery's monumentally clumsy cousin Leon, who is visiting for a week and who brings bad luck with him wherever he goes. Can they convince Leon to go home before his bad luck brings total disaster to their lives?Philip and the Loser: Can Philip and Emery keep their promise to raise money at a neighbor's charity fair, or will Emery's monumentally unlucky cousin Leon pro...

Most countries on Earth seem to be involved in a revolutionary space project. Roy Blain, reporter for Worldwide Newsgroup and his friend, Professor William 'Wild Bill' Taylor, suspect the low earth ion powered orbiter tagged 'VIP' is much more than advertised. Their investigation leads to more questions than answers. Could an Earth at last united in cause be looking for an enhanced pathway to the stars? Or is the entire Project VIP a fraud for...