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When fourteen-year-old Phoenix learns of her parent, Eagle’s cancer diagnosis, her shoulder blades start to itch. It’s the end of summer vacation, eighth grade starts next week, and Phoenix’s world collapses. Every hall she runs down, every room she hides in, Phoenix feels herself changing, growing wings while Eagle may be dying. She builds a new nest from the comfort of grandparent Duck, counselor Hen, and sweetheart Ing. But cancer is like a coyote howling…

Deborah M. Foster’s What’s So Bad About Being Poor? is not a polite memoir—it’s a razor-edged confrontation with American myths about family, faith, and survival. While the title foregrounds poverty, the book bristles with taboo subjects that make it far more unsettling than a sociological case study. Foster documents the early onset of severe mental illness in her family, including suicide attempts and untreated psychosis, challenging the cultural script that poverty alone defines hardship. Chapters…

The more we know, the less we understand ... Adir Nathar craved more than what he was born into. And existence obliged. A mysterious death … an act of revenge! Adir flees Marafel, abandoning friends and family for safety and a fresh start. But, unbeknownst to him, he is pursued by the Khasmia Shadow, a secret society charged with a sole divine purpose—eliminate the destructive venna with the sacred Staff of Beckoning. The world of…

Facing mortality for the first time in its life, a two-hundred-year-old house vividly recalls, in its own words, two of its beloved families. In the 1950's, Magnus Quinn, a reclusive sea captain, whose heart has been marred by a horrific tragedy, hesitantly agrees to marry Audrey, a pregnant woman with whom he shares a volatile past. As they forge a tentative bond, their relationship is hampered by secrets—one, long-buried, one, still raw—which threaten to tear…

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a world-class Hot Rod! Come Along for a Ride Filled with Twists and Turns in a Middle-Grade Read. Brandon Woodberry is caught in a daydream as he nods off in his sixth-grade English class. As he struggles to listen to his teacher, all he wants to do is go on a pigeon hunt with his best friends. But Holy Ravioli! There’s one last English assignment to complete, or…

What if fairies gave the cat magical gifts meant for you? When the fairies give Princess Jane's magical birth gifts to the family cat by mistake, the royal family is horrified. Now Lady Caterina can sing a perfect middle C, and has read every book in the royal library, but Jane remains an ordinary little girl. There's no turning back this magical mistake, and if news of the mix-up gets out, Jane and her family…

"...a moving, deeply human story about standing firm against tyranny without lifting a weapon, and about what it means to win peace, not just survive the war.” Book Trib Review With the Airlift gaining momentum, the Russians turn to more devious tactics to thwart the forces of democracy. Key players — or their loved ones — are targeted in unscrupulous attacks. Simultaneously, the policy of “collective guilt” has been replaced by “collective amnesty,” enabling former…

In a busy outdoor market, an ordinary woman is assassinated in broad daylight. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target—and a mysteriously sinister employer… Sophie Allard, a jet pilot cadet, finds her world shattered when she’s summoned to the Commander’s office with devastating news—her estranged father has died in a mysterious lab explosion. But what begins as a routine investigation soon plunges Sophie into a deadly web of secrets. As she…

When Reese and Dean return to the magical Erutuf National Park, they encounter their coldest challenge so far—in the park's Arctic. Here they meet Ty, an entertaining, talking polar bear with a crucial mission. Ty reveals a secret map that must be found and hidden before a group of determined pirates can seize it. Can the siblings navigate this icy region and outsmart the cunning pirates? Find out in this thrilling third book in the…

“Oh, Fairy, I have had enough! Being a bunny is frightfully tough! I’d love to change just for one day, To see the world in a different way.” Uplifting, humorous, and full of surprise, “The Grass May Not Be Greener” is a charming tale about a rabbit who learns to accept himself as he is and enjoy it. Award-winning author Hilary Lawrence teaches the important life lesson that even if other people’s circumstances seem better…