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Precocious Charlemagne Crosse had an idyllic childhood until the night her parents Sir Archibald and Lady Lavinia vanished in the aftermath of a solar eclipse. Shipped off to disreputable boarding schools, Charlemagne's life is bleak. However, on her sixteenth birthday, Charlemagne unexpectedly regains her wealth and freedom. Upon her return to the ancestral Crosse mansion, she's reunited with black sheep Uncle Alistair and his new family: his...

When her parents accept summer teaching jobs in Rome, talented, troublemaking, twelve-year-old Mia Moretti tags along. Eager to learn more about her surroundings, she drags her new friend, buttoned-up and straight-laced Grace, out to explore the Italian cityscape. But when they stumble upon a strange street carnival, Mia wins a mysterious prize: a fragment of a bone from an ancient conjuror, secured in a velvet pouch and strung on a necklace. ...

Pocky is an octopus who loves giving hugs. Everyone MUST get a hug. But when a new fish comes to the reef who doesn't want to be hugged, Pocky must learn how to make friends without touching. And he learns about this new thing called consent. Can Pocky keep his tentacles to himself and still make friends?

Grief is a devastating emotion, leaving its mark on each of us. We struggle with loneliness and exhaustion, unable to cope with our daily lives. Reflecting on the changes to our lives, we discover the courage and strength to move forward, often with the help of others. We develop methods to continue with our unique journeys through life. Along the Shore is a collection of personal and touching strategies by thirty-eight people dealing with t...

Hangabout, a puppy who has just grown into his long teardrop ears, believes. ¿He believes everything is good. He believes what people tell him. He believes his keeper loves him. But when he is thrown into the outside world, Hangabout collides with a gang of hungry rats, a wily fox, a farmer with a BB gun, a kidnapper, and a lie. Everything he knows crumbles. Then, when Hangabout learns the truth about his keeper, he stops believing in anyt...

Accepting a promise ring doesn't feel like freedom.But there it is, in front of Dawn's face on the eve of high school graduation. While Dawn freaks out on the inside, she goes through the motions on the outside. She and Chris have been together almost three years. Her family-Mama, Daddy and all five of her brothers and sisters-expect them to be together forever, and Dawn's never gone against expectations.Mama picked her college, and her boyfri...

In Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry, Nylda Dieppa sketches the formative and transformative experiences of her lifetime-from childhood on the island of Puerto Rico through maturity in the continental United States-as paralleled by the sun's passage through the times of the day. This enhanced, newly retitled edition of Dieppa's award-winning Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures adds fourteen new and ten revised poems to i...

Sweetwood Secret When her younger brother goes missing, New York City journalist Holly Blake is beckoned back to the small Georgia town of her youth. After losing both her parents the previous year, she is desperate to find Lucas-the only family she has left. But searching for her brother means two things Holly had not bargained for: reuniting with her ex-fiancé Max, the local sheriff, and following a trail that leads straight into the t...

Pocky is an octopus who loves giving hugs. Everyone MUST get a hug. But when a new fish comes to the reef who doesn't want to be hugged, Pocky must learn how to make friends without touching. And he learns about this new thing called consent. Can Pocky keep his tentacles to himself and still make friends?

¿After getting dragged out of her school's winter formal, seventeen-year-old Percy Bloom needs to escape her controlling mother. Fleeing into the cold night, she's lost, alone, and freezing. Ditched by his date and attacked by bullies, Hayden Addams, wants nothing more than to be done with high school forever. He finds Percy shivering in the woods and brings her back to the first place he can think of: his family's funeral parlor. Percy is...

Growing up in the Kitchen Witch Diner, twelve-year-old Millie Radford is close to the farmers, growers, and producers of Coal Hollow, Virginia that help supply her family's diner with ingredients. They are life-long friends and cherished neighbors. But, when a big peanut company starts industrializing the area and monopolizing peanut processing, small farmers can't compete and begin going out of business. The entire region experiences the ne...

In the near distant future, Emma's life revolves around the company's Mars terraforming fasttrack program. Stuck between her parents' never-ending Mars shuttle supply runs and her own coursework in the program, Emma dreams of adventure outside of the company's plan for her. Anything to get away from the constant bullying and boring coursework. She finds that adventure accidentally when she stumbles into a portal to a new world. On Merah, sh...

The Stone Angel Society is a collection of five short stories about ghosts and the living who believe in them. Delightfully spooky, these middle grade stories provide just the right amount of chills for young readers. Throughout the book, pages are filled with detailed black and white illustrations to spark young imaginations and make it an even more spooktacular read! The Stone Angel Society Journal One, the first book in the series, is f...

Eugene O'Neill's only daughter. Café Society's only shining star. Charlie Chaplin's only true love. Abandoned by her father as a young child and left to her own devices as a teenager in Manhattan, Oona O'Neill made her own luck. Days spent at an Upper East Side all-girls school were followed by nights on the town with friends Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, and Truman Capote. She became an inspiration for Capote's character Holly Golightly...

¿It's 1999, and twelve-year-old Dani Collier is preparing for Y2K or, in her view, the end of the world. She spends most of her time poring over a survivalist blog written by the mysterious Professor Prepared and obsessively counting and straightening her emergency supplies. Despite Dani's repeated warnings, her classmates and family members don't seem worried about the new millennium. Dani ignores their skepticism and ridicule, vowing to do...

Love is a song played on repeat... A cryptic blog post leads cold case podcasters Melody and Dorian on a twisty journey back in time to uncover the mysterious story of a forgotten missing woman. In 1969 near the Florida/Georgia Line, idealistic young Betty Langdon and fast-rising R&B, singer Dominicus Owens begin an irresistible but dangerous interracial romance that ends under mysterious, heartbreaking circumstances. Betty is forced to re...

Learn about all the twists, turns, and fun of falling in love with this unforgettable true story anthology. People find the warmth of love in Antarctica. An obsession with blondes lands the big one. Squashing a guitar case leads to a blanket fort date. A soldier works to snag a sassy WWII nurse. A revenge date gets serious. Spaghetti reels someone in and they never go home again. And much, much more! Love can come at the most surprising times ...

Love is a song played on repeat... A cryptic blog post leads cold case podcasters Melody and Dorian on a twisty journey back in time to uncover the mysterious story of a forgotten missing woman. In 1969 near the Florida/Georgia Line, idealistic young Betty Langdon and fast-rising R&B, singer Dominicus Owens begin an irresistible but dangerous interracial romance that ends under mysterious, heartbreaking circumstances. Betty is forced to re...

Helene Denny worries about everything, even the prospect of leaving home to attend college. It doesn't help that she's fascinated with serial killers. In her final semester of high school there's a string of missing girls. Helene immediately thinks a serial killer is loose. When Fred Thompkins arrives in town to become mayor he becomes her primary suspect. No one takes her seriously. Helene steps into the dark web to search for the culprit...