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When fifteen year old twins Mirabelle and Everleigh's family inherits a crumbling Victorian house on the foggy shores of a lakeside town, they leave behind everything they know. But the house has been waiting for them. Packed with antique mirrors of every size and style, the old place feels wrong from the start. Reflections don't sync perfectly. Blinks arrive a fraction too late. Shadows move in the glass that aren't there in the real room. With their best friends Conner and Uta by their side, and guided by Adaline, a magical ladybug familiar connected to the mysterious Alterworld, the ...

A simple errand for her mother. Three jugs of famous cider. What could possibly go wrong? Mandy Pandy is about to find out. When the young panda sets off to fetch cider for the Harvest Home celebration, she expects nothing more than a pleasant autumn walk with her two best friends: Flick, a cheerful firefly, and Whisper, a mysterious creature made of living shadow. But the ancient orchard holds secrets older than anyone remembers. The cider smells like everything good about autumn. Like the first fire of the season. Like a hug from someone you haven't seen in too long. But something else is...

A lost child made of living weather falls from the sky, and Buzzy the Bee knows exactly what that means: trouble. The latest visitor to Sunflower Valley isn't an enemy or a weapon. It's a terrified storm spirit with no control over its power, and every sob triggers an earthquake while every tantrum summons a tornado. The valley's creatures want to help, but they've never parented a hurricane before. As Buzzy and his friends struggle to teach the child, named Tempest, how to feel without destroying everything, a greater threat emerges. The Hive has noticed the anomaly. Their sleek new drones...

Since 1994 I have been writing poetry. This is a collection of over twenty-five years of poems. The good, the bad, the happy and sad, take an adventure with me. The first poem in the book is the first poem that I ever wrote. The last poem is the most recent one, but there will be more to come in the near future. This is the second book I have written, and the second of a three part series. My first book is "The Alchemist Web..a path to Enlightenment...:Spiritual Alchemy" and that is a spiritual book, covering the biggest topics imaginable (i.e. what is consciousness, the soul, immortality, ...

When Laughter Becomes a Curse, One Panda Must Weave a Cure from Dreams and Memory. In the heart of the Bamboo Grove, a new moss appears—velvety, inviting, and irresistible. A single touch unleashes uncontrollable, endless laughter. At first, it seems like a gift of pure joy. But soon, the laughter won't stop. Creatures can’t eat, sleep, or think, exhausted by a mirth that has no reason and no end. Mandy Pandy and her friends discover the source: a sleepy, dream-weaving moth named Soma, who accidentally spilled an ancient essence of unfettered joy. Now, her dreams are creating a self-...

In the quiet coastal town of Haven’s End, something impossible has taken root. After surviving the Labyrinth and swallowing an alien light, Mirabelle sees the world in ways no one should. Fractures are forming in reality, and through them seeps a haunting new presence: the Carnival of Maybe. Run by the mysterious Mister Maybe and his brass-eyed Barker, it offers the townsfolk a devastating trade—a precious memory in exchange for a single night living the life they might have had. For Mirabelle, her twin sister Everleigh, and their friends, the Carnival is more than a predatory scam. ...

Buzzy the Bee is known for noticing everything. So when the colors of Sunflower Valley begin to fade, turning vibrant greens into tired shades and fiery reds into dusty roses, he feels a cold dread. The world is being drained of its vibrance, and the life of the hive depends on it. With a warning from the ancient Whispering Willow, Buzzy assembles a small, unlikely team: Zippy the anxious firefly, Barry the dramatic spider, and Soren the grumpy cliff swallow. Together, they must journey beyond the known world, over the treacherous Shimmering Cliffs and into a silent, colorless wasteland ...

When a lonely, sensitive girl vanishes without a trace in the fog-shrouded town of Haven’s End, four misfit children sense a deeper, older horror at work. Guided by a mysterious ladybug and their own strange gifts, they dare to enter the decaying Marrow House—a place where the walls whisper, the dolls watch, and every room holds a trapped, repeating story. Inside, they discover a hungry intelligence that feeds on grief and memory, weaving trauma into an eternal collection. To save the missing girl, they must do more than explore the haunted halls. They must break the narrative itself, ...

Mandy Pandy and the Whisper in the Weeping Willow – Summary Mandy Pandy and the Whisper in the Weeping Willow is a hauntingly beautiful middle-grade fantasy about courage, perception, and the transformative power of stories. After restoring harmony to the Bamboo Grove by awakening the Stone-Song, Mandy Pandy and her friends—Flick the firefly and Whisper the living shadow—believe peace has finally returned. But during the tranquil Festival of Soft Glows, a subtle discord hints at a deeper disturbance. The source of the unrest is the Lurk, an ancient, parasitic entity dwelling in the ...

When Baggy the Barber goes missing on the eve of the Moon-Glow Festival, the Bamboo Grove feels all wrong. No morning snips, no tidy trails—just an empty den and a trail of strange clues. Mandy Pandy and her glowing firefly friend Flick won't rest until they find him. With the help of Whisper, her quiet shadow, they follow tufts of fur and drops of lavender oil into the Tangled Thicket—a place where lost things gather and knots have feelings of their own. There they discover Baggy stuck in a glittering mess of glimmer-goo and old vines, on a quest to find holly-berries for a prickly ...

In the coastal town of Drowned Crow, the dead don't rest—they cure in salt and stand guard in the back pew of a fog-shrouded church. When Lacey McLeod defies an ancient tradition and denies her drowned brother the ritual, she doesn't just break a covenant—she invites the hungry sea to reclaim what it's owed. Now the Salt-Stained Saints are walking, and they're not leaving. They've come to collect the entire town. From a man whose search for the perfect, tidy companion goes terribly right, to a cursed inheritance of twelve clocks that don't just tell time but steal it, to the predatory ...

In the quiet town of Hebron, Kansas, things are beginning to disappear—not lost, but unfound. First a cat, then a child, then an old man, each vanishing without a trace from places thick with silence and solitude.History teacher Lloyd Shelby and detective Anya Voss find themselves drawn into a mystery that defies logic. Guided by Imogen Frost, a bookstore owner with a theory about the holes in reality, they discover an ancient, hungry absence haunting their town—a presence that erases what is forgotten, lonely, or quietly broken.To survive, they must learn to fight with stories: ...

A romance thread through a world of war, fantasy fused with fiction, Normandy, 1216: Lady Gabrielle is captured at a French convent and taken to an English castle—a prize for warlord Michael Marston. Her lover, Montague of Rouen, plots a daring rescue, joining forces with English barons about to overthrow King John. Marston steals Gabrielle’s heart with a powerful spell cast by a witch named Minerva. But when England drifts into civil war and Montague attacks, Gabrielle is forced to choose. With whom will she spend eternity: Michael Marston or Montague? A romance thread through a world ...

Their marriage was already broken. But something in the woods is waiting to finish the job. To save their relationship, Rachel and Mark escape to a rustic cabin in the remote West Virginia hills. No cell service. No neighbors. Just the two of them, a silent house, and the thick, oppressive silence of the ancient forest. It’s supposed to be the perfect place to reconnect. But they are not alone. The cabin has a history. A grieving mother. A little girl named Mary who died too young. And a Ouija board left on the mantelpiece, waiting for someone to play. When a knock comes at the door in ...

A mind too powerful for the world. A silence too deep to break. Elias Thorne sees the universe as a symphony of flaws—every pattern imperfect, every human interaction an unsolvable equation. Desperate for peace, he attempts to silence his own genius. The result is catastrophic: a stroke that leaves him a prisoner in his own body, exiled to Willowbrook Residential Care. There he finds Lily. Nonverbal, unreachable, she has built an impenetrable fortress against a world that overwhelmed her brilliant mind. But when Elias traces a simple shape in a beam of sunlight, something shifts. Across ...

They said the app was a miracle. A way to hear your dead loved ones again. For Elias Crowe, the grieving creator of Echo, it was the only thing keeping him sane after losing his sister. But when the voices start saying things they shouldnt know, when they begin predicting the future and speaking through devices that arent connected, Elias realizes he hasnt just built a grief tool. He has opened a door. Now the dead are everywhere. In phones. In radios. In the static between stations. And they are hungry for more than just conversation. From a cabin in the woods to a Cold War bunker to the ...

Mandy Pandy’s lazy afternoon walk becomes an unexpected adventure when she discovers a shy, lonely shadow with no owner. Determined to help, Mandy sets out with the shadow she names Whisper to find where he belongs. Guided by the wise Oliver Owl and the gentle gardener Elara, they learn that Whisper’s other half is a firefly whose light has gone out. Their journey leads them to the damp, twilight world of the Glimmerpond, where lost lights and lonely shadows gather. To heal the firefly, they must seek the magic of the Twilight Daisies at the fleeting moment between day and night. Along ...

Future Shocks comes straight from the legendary Nerve Centre of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000 AD. Alien editor Tharg the Mighty presents eight thrilling episodes of science fiction. Based on works by some of the leading writers and artists in comics, this series of aliens, time travel, robots and baby dictators is full of twists and turns. The future has never been more shocking or funny!

Berlin, 1943: Amanda Hamilton, a Scottish photographer and violinist, marries a Nazi Party official and spends ten years in Germany absorbing a new culture, immersed in one of the most tumultuous periods in human history. Her life takes a turbulent turn in the midst of World War II, when an English spy named Michael York arrives in Berlin and convinces her to betray her adopted country. A favorite of Hitler, admired by Goebbels and Göring, her photographs document life in the upper echelons of the Nazi party, a world that none on earth ever dreamed existed. It was there that Amanda ...

The citizens of New Orleans have a right to know when there’s a murderer in their midst. Investigative reporter ‘Justice’ Harper stumbles onto the fresh murder scene of a hated New Orleans businessman. His mere presence causes police to suspect him—along with three upstanding citizens, each with a unique motive. The Sinner: Blaze Barbeau, a wealthy woman married to a local businessman, who supposedly had an affair with the victim. The Saint: Lucinda Boyd, a generous widow heavily involved with charity events, who had her business stolen through dubious means. The Serpent: Belladonna...