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Mary is a gas-station attendant with an epileptic son who can barely make ends meet, when she makes them meet at all. She has dreams of a forbidden love but can't focus on those dreams when she can't even buy her son's medicine. She has a real knack for staying calm under pressure and steadfastly does what she needs to, in order to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads.
One day, she has an encounter with a woman who claims she can...
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Liam grew up thinking he wanted to be a zookeeper. He practically lived in the zoo as a child, and his brother is wild enough to be an animal, so it seems perfect. But no one told him he had to go through so much higher education. No one told him he needed practical experience. As an unhappy volunteer who works at the zoo after high school each day, he's beginning to wonder if it's worth it. Suddenly, he's faced with a mysterious visitor, a girl who...
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"Canadian Family Adventures" follows the tale of 10 Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life, and she arranges for them to sail to Canada.
The ten siblings arrive in Canada by ship, and each one settles in a different area of Canada and pursues a different career.
Sean, 28 years old, settles in Halifax, Nova...
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"Kidnapped Writer" is about our melting pot here in America. The main character is Viola, and she's having a horrible day. In fact, it was absolutely the worst day of her life. After years in her newspaper job as a writer, they've cut back on everything and put her into the advertising department. On her way out of town for the weekend, she gets kidnapped by a strange family needing her help. Outraged, Viola finds herself held captive by a very old...
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"Anacrusis" is a unique work of fiction exploring the topics of musicality, anarchic hand, and the supernatural. This work allows the listener to take a seat behind the wheel of a professional musician as his burgeoning career swirls disastrously and inexplicably off course.
The characters will engage, thrill, and challenge the listener's previously held conceptions of reality and the realm slightly beyond it.
The house is open, the lights are up,...
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Ten years ago, Ellie Stephenson married her husband, George, because if she hadn't, her father would have disowned her and taken away her $18 million trust fund, along with excommunicating her from her father. George knew Ellie did not love him and never would but gave her the best life he could. The stipulations regarding the money expire on Ellie and George's 10th wedding anniversary.
Due to her father's manipulation, Ellie has a deep-seated hatred...
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Anyone who has ever moved to a new city to start a new life knows the obstacles, both mental and physical, that such a move creates. No only does it often involve leaving perhaps the only life you might ever have known, but it means starting a new life in an entirely new location, a location that has its own traditions, customs, and style. For writer Ken Green, that transition meant leaving the big city of Chicago for the not-so-big city of Denver....
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One of the most miserable and lonely places in the world is in a prison cell. The reason not being because you are locked away in a space the size of closet, away from society, but because you have so much time to think. In the outside world, you have resources to help make decisions and can move around to see for yourself when making choices. Being locked away physically also has the utmost mental effect on even a stable mind.
One of the hardest...
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Kingdom Come is the most successful amusement park in the country, and every Halloween, the park turns into a haunted event with hundreds of actors to scare guests silly.
It's more than just costumes and makeup and playing make-believe for eight hours a night.
Follow Jocelyn and Johnny, the king and queen of Kingdom Come, through a typical night performing at Fright Nights.
The scariest thing in the park could be some of the guests they encounter:...
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This story teaches that a state of despair is no manner in which to live.
Often, when someone has been in a coma, they come out with memories (more likely hallucinations), that seem so real they really appear to have happened. Coma patients frequently remember things so vividly, they appear to be real memories.
This story imparts the healing power of a person who is simply "willing to care" for someone, even if it can cause them pain.
When we lose...
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"True Wind" is a fantasy adventure story set in a secondary world where magic exists and so do merfolk (although not in the form traditionally depicted in similar stories). Moonheart, a young merman of the Calm Winds tribe, is sent on a mission to rescue a human (or "drylander") woman from the clutches of another drylander country's enemy nation. He must also take his young, vulnerable sister, True Wind, so that she may discover her destiny. The story...
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An old castle, a courageous knight, a beautiful princess, a sacred icon, an evil wizard, and two little sparrows: these are some of the exciting things in store for you in Edward Kurtz's latest magical story, entitled Knight Adventure.
The fast-paced story is set in medieval times and recounts the quest of the Silver Knight as he attempts to recover the icon that has been stolen from the castle.
You'll be taken on a wild ride and learn:
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Incorporating real-time happenings, "Bedeviled Nightingale" works to explain tragic times for even those people to whom we don't think it could happen. Brianna is an author, hunkered in her cabin for relaxation and work. She uses the cabin as her office and her home, away from the hustle from the city.
Divorced and focused, Brianna wants nothing to do but to take care of her world. She enjoys the nature around her and what it provides, until her...
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Katherine Crenshaw, whose real name was Fenton, was raised by foster parents. Although she knew she was adopted she accepted the fact that her true family would not return for her. As the days went by Katherine lived a tranquil life until one phone call changed everything.
When her uncle came to retrieve her at her foster parent's home, and invited her to Fenton Manor, Katherine found more that she bargained for in the way of a family who resented...
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Tyler and Caroline lived an almost perfect life of love and marriage after buying a farm and taking on the many challenges that farm life provides. Everything was going well for more than 10 years, until one night, at the end of another terrible harvest brought on by drought, when the entire foundation of Tyler and Caroline's relationship was tested after a sudden accident in the field. Their prized and most beloved horse, Marquis de Sade, collapsed...
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Do you know a super shy guy? Some guy who appears to have it all together except for one thing-he can't talk to women. That's the problem, Jim, the protagonist of "Super Shy Guy" by Mark Laughlin, has. He joins a local book club to try to meet people and come out of his shell a bit and gets a serious crush on Nancy, a stunning brunette. What happens next?
Nancy likes Jim but wants a man who isn't quite so shy.
Jim confides in his work friend Debbie,...
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This story follows Sandy, a 19-year-old woman, as she makes the difficult transition from living in an insular religious community to "outside" life in a college town. Sandy struggles with:
Living alone when she has always been surrounded by a close family
Meeting different types of people when she has always been in a small community
Making her way with new people who don't think or act like those at home - she has to figure out how they think and...
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Her father left them when she was just five. Now in her early 20's Lucy knew better than to concentrate on her academics alone. She did every menial job she could lay her hands upon so as to support herself and (hopefully) relieve the burden on her mother...she did this despite the fact that her mum was against her being a student-worker.
The problem, however, was not her mum, rather, the jobs were taking much of her time and weren't bringing much...
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"Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again...oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can't just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin, the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can't go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it....
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A grungy, edgy rock star famous since he was 12 and a young model, innocent in her ways and just coming into her own. They didn't have much in common, except for fame...and the inability to properly breathe.
While Olympia's father does everything to keep her cystic fibrosis under control, his healthy ways won't give her immortality. Meanwhile, Michael has chosen to live life like a fast-burning torch, since he'll be dead soon either way.
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