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A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s. In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what's labeled "righteous" and what she knows to be right. When her family ...

Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again." When her papá doesn't return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yucatan, resolves to leave home and make her way across the treacherous border into the United States to find him. Chel relies on an inexperienced smuggler and faces unknown dangers in a border tunnel. Frightened, but resourceful, she is driven by hope, love for her father, and her dream of going to s...

A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s. In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what's labeled "righteous" and what she knows to be right. When her family ...

Lonely misfits face foes, beasts, and their own inner demons in search of a mythical land of music ... and end up finding themselves instead. ... a woman in the chorus of a musical finds herself caught up in a love triangle with a ghost and helpless to stop the star's obsession. ... the wife of a famous rock star realizes that the manager intends to kill the entire band and that she can only save herself - and maybe one small boy. ... a musici...

Lonely misfits face foes, beasts, and their own inner demons in search of a mythical land of music ... and end up finding themselves instead. ... a woman in the chorus of a musical finds herself caught up in a love triangle with a ghost and helpless to stop the star's obsession. ... the wife of a famous rock star realizes that the manager intends to kill the entire band and that she can only save herself - and maybe one small boy. ... a musici...

Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm ... even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it's more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issue...

Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm ... even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it's more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issue...

Thirty-nine interpretations of one word: detachment Every two years, Fault Zone editors challenge writers to stretch their imaginations in response to a single-word spark. This year, "detachment" has drawn forth a fascinating array of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. You'll find intriguing science fiction, laugh-out-loud humor, and thought-provoking stories drawn from real life ... alongside strike-to-the-heart poetry, lyrical story...

Introverted backpacker Jeremy wanders off trail and discovers an eccentric, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin. The people he finds there are pleasant, but a little bit peculiar. He befriends a reticent doctor and his wife, who is struggling with dementia, and Margery, who regularly leaps from a cliff in death-defying bungee jumps. Why, he wonders, do the otherwise healthy and upbeat townspeople seem to be disappearing?

Introverted backpacker Jeremy wanders off trail and discovers an eccentric, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin. The people he finds there are pleasant, but a little bit peculiar. He befriends a reticent doctor and his wife, who is struggling with dementia, and Margery, who regularly leaps from a cliff in death-defying bungee jumps. Why, he wonders, do the otherwise healthy and upbeat townspeople seem to be disappearing?

Saxon knows something. People are desperate to know what he knows. But Saxon doesn't know what he knows. Only Kafka can help. In Prague, a man finds himself in possession of way too many memories. Which are true? Who are all these people claiming to know him? Why has he attracted so much attention? Will he ever learn who he really is, what he has done, and why it matters so much to so many people? Also, he has this book he has never read, The ...

Saxon knows something. People are desperate to know what he knows. But Saxon doesn't know what he knows. Only Kafka can help. In Prague, a man finds himself in possession of way too many memories. Which are true? Who are all these people claiming to know him? Why has he attracted so much attention? Will he ever learn who he really is, what he has done, and why it matters so much to so many people? Also, he has this book he has never read, The ...

A boy is in danger when he stumbles upon a crime committed by two prominent men of his town, but finds an unusual ally in the form of a castle ghost. Twelve-year-old Haycorn may know all about ghosts of Ohio, but even he is stunned when he and his friend Budge encounter a ghost in a castle. The boys witness a clandestine meeting there between two men involving a kick-back scheme, putting their lives, and that of Haycorn's mother, in jeopardy. ...

Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini's perceptions. But can it help him find the killer? Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric - and possibly violent - creative people come together at an elite artists' colony ...

Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini's perceptions. But can it help him find the killer? Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric - and possibly violent - creative people come together at an elite artists' colony ...

When his wife, Edie, dies, Will Moran abandons all he used to be, and do, to paint still life canvases of rocks and driftwood on the walls of his house. He's never painted before, recognizes that his paintings are awkward and ugly, but returns each day to his struggles with light and shadow, color and object, boundary and perspective. He eavesdrops on neighbors, dips into garbage cans, and fills his home with rocks he collects from local beach...

¿¿¿¿¿ "A beautifully touching story of a tenacious woman!" - Reader Review ___ "It's not what you get in life, it's what you give back that truly defines you." Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her story firsthand. She reveals the real-life struggle of being a deaf woman who refuses to allow adversity to stop her from reaching her dreams of living a normal and fulfilling life. In ...

After her partner dies suddenly, Lisa Hardrock realizes how little she knows about the life she's been living - and starts exploring her questions in a blog that unexpectedly goes viral. Following the sudden death of her domineering partner, Lisa Hardrock begins to discover how little she really knows about the life she's been living for the last seven years - and the man she was living it with. As she confronts the secrets and unpaid debts he...

¿¿¿¿¿ "A beautifully touching story of a tenacious woman!" - Reader Review ___ "It's not what you get in life, it's what you give back that truly defines you." Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her story firsthand. She reveals the real-life struggle of being a deaf woman who refuses to allow adversity to stop her from reaching her dreams of living a normal and fulfilling life. In ...

When his wife, Edie, dies, Will Moran abandons all he used to be, and do, to paint still life canvases of rocks and driftwood on the walls of his house. He's never painted before, recognizes that his paintings are awkward and ugly, but returns each day to his struggles with light and shadow, color and object, boundary and perspective. He eavesdrops on neighbors, dips into garbage cans, and fills his home with rocks he collects from local beach...