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On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity's deepest fears: dragons.
Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she's breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she'd rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When the dragon Artegal unexpectedly saves her life, the rules are abruptly shattered, and a secret friendship
...Gran is gone and now I'm bound to the will of this spellbook, the legacy of my family passed to me. My first calling after her loss brought me here, to another world.
The man who summoned me here says we are promised to each other, that our families agreed to our union. I don't remember that.
Vague memories of our childhood friendship are all my mind can conjure. There's much I don't remember about the time he says I spent here, with him,
Under a persistent rain, which seems destined to never subside, Stavros lives and moves through the streets of a dark and gloomy nameless city. He has a job and a fiancée; his life is normal. Yet several, different voices talk to him – sometimes whispering, sometimes whining or yelling – whenever he hears the water running. One day, as Stavros wanders the city under a heavy rain, voices become insistent, revealing his deepest, unspeakable
...<p>Young <b>Enoch Perley</b> grows to manhood at a pivotal time in the nation's history. He listens by the fireside to stories of war and adventure told by his swashbuckling uncle, General Israel Putnam. As he comes of age, the British regulars clash with local militia at Lexington and Concord. Enoch realizes that change is in the air. And that change brings opportunities for a young man not afraid of hard work
...<p><em>"He sat at his own table that night, a lonely old man, missing the spirit and the laughter that once filled his house—a house he'd built with his own hands all those long years ago. The quiet got to him at night when the wind came blowing strong down from the mountain above. He could hear the beating of his heart, a steady thump, thump, thump. The parlor clock with the family name etched upon its face ticked and tocked,
...Mathilde
Mathilde runs from the cruelty of slavery and makes her way North, helped along the way by Quakers and abolitionists. She encounters danger with every step, never sure who is a helper and who is an enemy.
The Abolitionists
When Joseph and Phebe Fessenden came to the peaceful village of South Bridgton, Maine to serve the newly founded Congregational church in 1829, they
"I wish some great catastrophe would happen to somebody (not me, of course) so that I might have something of importance to set down in my journal. But, I suppose everyone's journal (who is foolish enough to keep one) is made up of everyday incidents, mixed up with a startling love adventure now and then." Phebe F. Beach July 1, 1857
In 1857, Phebe Beach, a young woman from Bridgton, Maine was coming of age, beset by the constraints
...10) The Promise
After years of friendship, Marjorie and Lazlo begin to realize their affection for each other runs deeper.
As the son of a landed Lord, Lazlo is expected to marry within his rank, and Marjorie, as a girl in a potions shop doesn't fit the bill.
If they don't come up with a plan to bond themselves to each other, then Lazlo will be forced to marry a woman of his mother's choosing.
The Promise is a short story that is a prequel to The Ring
New from Voices of the Tea Party. Deeply upset at the way the Republican Party abandoned its conservative base in the elections of 2008, Larry Naritelli had taken to yelling at his television, prompting his 13-year-old son to ask if there would be a revolution in the country. Naritelli responded by taking his son to a Tea Party protest, to teach him about the freedoms granted by our Constitution. Naritelli began speaking publicly about the government-imposed
...Award-winning author Amra Pajalić showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this
...15) Like A Pale Moon
There's no handbook for being a Voice of the Dead, but one rule of existing behind the Veil is keeping a low profile. Jo Wiley is really bad at keeping quiet.
Her mother is dying—for real this time—and even though there's no love lost between them, Jo feels duty bound to go home and see her mother off to the next world. She would much rather be in Ljubljana where she can keep an eye on her son and a certain former priest.
...16) Who By Water
Jo Wiley runs a punk rock teahouse in the heart of the Slovenian capital and keeps her string of friends with benefits on a tight schedule. The one thing she hasn't made time for on her calendar is saving the world.
When the body of one of Jo's lovers is discovered among ancient Roman ruins, a curtain is drawn back on a hidden world of ghosts, demons, and forgotten gods where Jo is the link between the living and the dead.
Archeologists
...If Jo Wiley has learned one thing, it's to never trust a god, especially if he's her ex.
Stranded in the underworld and wanted by the Board tasked with keeping the supernatural secret, Jo Wiley is desperate to return to her life in Ljubljana—or what's left of it after her friends and family were forced to scatter to protect her and themselves.
Črnobog, the dark god of Slavic myth and Jo's ex, has had plenty of time to set a
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