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The story girl of the title is the 14-year-old Sara Stanley who weaves spellbinding tales that enchant her audience that comes from near and far. These 32 stories range from the humorous and satirical to exotic romances, Scottish folk tales, retellings of Greek myths and poems by Tennyson, to ghost stories. They include the scary "Tale of the Family Ghost", and the bittersweet "The Blue Chest of Rachel Ward".

Christmas surprise for Dragon’s Gap Edith told Sage. “Dragon’s Gap does not celebrate Christmas.” So Sage told Edith. “Christmas at Dragon’s Gap is officially on!” Edith murmured. “You know Reighn will say that dragons don’t celebrate Christmas!” Sage growled. “And I am saying they do. Now!” Well it looks as though Christmas is coming to Dragon’s Gap whether dragons celebrate it or not. So how much fun can happen with dragons who have no idea what is involved in Christmas. Join the Dragon Lord and his family and friends and find out how much love, laughter and ...

Explosions rock the city. She didn’t believe in aliens. But that didn’t prevent them from attacking Earth. Her city is destroyed, her sister missing. Brooke Carter is determined to reclaim what the aliens have taken from her. Leading a small group of humans, she stumbles upon a crashed ship. Subsequently, she learns that there isn’t one group of aliens invading her world, but two.

Before they were the hottest, and most at-risk air-crash investigation team for the NTSB and the US military, the six members of Miranda Chase's team had each started along very unique paths. Six exciting stories filled with challenges, disasters, and triumphs. Five stories with fans as guest characters. A fun and wild flight.

Breanna Perry has met some interesting people in her time as a psychiatrist for San Quentin. There was the guy who ate his mother for Christmas or the postal carrier who claimed Jesus told him to put ricin in the fashion magazines he delivered. However, nothing prepared her for Cassius Teran. Named for one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, Cassius believes he’s no longer human.

This fascinating book shares the real-life success stories of men of all ages who suffered from low testosterone for years before they finally consulted Dr. Joe Swartz. Dr. Joe asked the right questions, listened, and got the right tests before arriving at a treatment plan that worked to address the different causes of each man’s low testosterone.

Get ready to experience a new level of terror with Paramnesia, the first of four horror anthologies from Grendel Press. Featuring a collection of original short stories from a diverse range of talented writers, this book will take you on a journey through the depths of the human psyche, exploring the darkest corners of the mind and the horrors that lurk within. Each tale is expertly crafted to keep you on the edge of your seat, with twists and turns that will leave you gasping for breath.

Some abuse is dangerously obvious, while other types of abuse creep into our family DNA in covert ways. Keeping family secrets, intimidation, the “silent treatment” and “cyberbullying” are just a few examples of many forms of abuse with troubling outcomes. Often victims ask, “Why did this happen to me?" Or “What can I do?”. While abusers will excuse their behavior asking, “Why do you make me do this"? Victims and abusers can rewrite their stories, improve their relationships, and break the cycle for their future generations.

When rock star Joshua Ravensong is accused of murder, Peyton must pit her professional reputation against a growing attraction for the legend. Although the evidence is solid against him, Peyton can't deny this is one bad boy she wants to save.

Tim Harada, a lead smokejumper at MHA in Oregon, visits home - the quirky little town of Larch Creek, Alaska. The streets are named for Jack London books; the pickup trucks are all blue; and the residents are all too familiar, specifically Macy Tyler, helicopter pilot. Tim still sees her as his best friend’s kid sister. Before he leaves again, she must convince the guy she’s loved all her life that during his absence she transformed herself into a beautiful, competent woman.

Tommy Belanger had been born into a dysfunctional family - fed by alcohol abuse, abject poverty, and the trials and tribulations associated with living in isolation. His was a life filled with child abuse, incest, bestiality, and zoophilia. Tommy hated how those things affected him and his siblings. And he detested his father.

美しいプリンス・エドワード島で愛されて成長していく少女アン。幸福感あふれる名作の日本初の全文訳。訳文は、お茶会のラズベリー水とカシス酒、アンの民族衣裳、スコットランドから来たマシューの母など、

Two kinds of people inhabit my world: Those with loads of magic and those with little or none. The Haves - usually warlords and their henchmen - use their arcane abilities to keep the Have Nots firmly squashed beneath their enchanted thumbs. Unfortunately, I fall into the second category. The only thing worse in this lawless and brutal world than being magically stunted? Being a woman. On my own since age 11, I stayed alive by posing as a boy, stealing to keep my belly full, and never lingering in one place for long. Until I picked the wrong gang to filch a loaf of bread from.

In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmother are away (presumably in Cornwall). Two women have rented the house for the summer and ask three children to stay. Ida is the niece of one of the women; Ping and Oskar are refugees. The children are turned loose on the river, where they have many fine and imaginative adventures.

Zion has settled into her new routine in Sequoia. She runs her coffee shop, spends her evenings on dinner dates with her lawyer boyfriend, and enjoys the calm, quiet of her little cottage. However, summer tourist season begins, and the Sequoia Chamber of Commerce decides to hold Redwood Stock. When a young woman drops dead after the concert, once again, Zion teams up with ex-cop Tate Mercer to find the murderer before anyone else is killed....

When one of their own is threatened, the nation’s number-one air-crash investigation team enters a race to survive. An airliner downed on a Pacific atoll. A CIA covert strike team sent in to “clean it up.” An old enemy seeks revenge. This time, the NTSB’s autistic air-crash investigator Miranda Chase and her team are in the crosshairs. The action races around the globe as US military airbases become shooting galleries and their lives are placed on the line.

The young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, Ginevra longs to share her poetry and participate in the artistic ferment of Renaissance Florence but is trapped in an arranged marriage in a society dictated by men. The arrival of the charismatic Venetian ambassador, Bernardo Bembo, introduces Ginevra to a dazzling circle of patrons, artists, and philosophers.

While wasting her talents in a backwater bar, Lim dreams of having her own restaurant, where mystery meat is never on the menu and the customers won't sneer at the glowing blue cuffs that keep her cut off from her power. A place where she might finally find the love she sees between her two best friends. But an accidental discovery gives Lim a daunting choice: unleash the magic that once allowed her people to enslave and oppress or keep quiet and preserve her society's fragile peace.

The colored lights on the snow gave it a holiday appearance, but the dead woman's body in the yard added a grisly touch. How did Ina Bell Patrick die? Who killed her? And why? The dead woman had no direct heirs, so two nephews and a niece stood to inherit. Dr. Laura Morris was left to make all the arrangements, attorney Roger Morris could certainly use the money, and Zack Morris had disappeared two years earlier.

Get ready to embark on a hilarious and enlightening journey with The Art of Awkward Mindfulness: Embrace the Chaos and Laugh Your Way to Inner Peace. In this audiobook, we'll explore the wild world of mindfulness and meditation, but with a twist of comedy and a sprinkle of awkwardness.