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Emily is embarking on a new adventure - she's in middle school. Unfortunately, the challenges remain the same. Nobody can pronounce her Cornish last name, Treworgy. Her mother is working all the time and her stepfather barely knows she exists. Her only escape is to lose herself in her favorite tales of King Arthur at the Whitinsville Social Library.
But when she happens across a leather-bound book of Cornish poetry, her life changes forever ...*...
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Massachusetts was first settled over 7,000 years ago. It has a long and storied history. From the Salem Witch Trials to the birthplace of Dr. Seuss, from Louisa May Alcott to Edgar Allen Poe, Massachusetts offers a range of fascinating, evocative, and historically important moments to explore and understand.
Enjoy the works of these fifteen local authors as they celebrate the rich history, legacy, and beauty of Massachusetts.
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Verne's Momma had one rule which could never be broken. He could not reveal to any outsider what went on within their house. Verne knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that to violate that rule was to bring unholy tortures down onto his head.And so not a word passed his lips. Not during the twenty-five years he lived in the dank basement, curled up on the thin mattress.Not during the ten long years of his prison sentence.Until he made the mistake ...*...
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44 pages / 6800 wordsSimon's world is finally turning around. He's at last gotten his very first real job, working at a local pet store in Grafton, Massachusetts. He's out of the reach of his overbearing older brother who somehow manages to do everything perfectly. Captain of the football team. Captain of the baseball team. In comparison, Simon is a failure. Nothing in his life ever seems to be right.
Even when Cindy starts hanging out at the pet...
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Phuong Nguyen grew up a foster child; she knew the true meaning of Hell on Earth. In her teens, she'd desperately sought refuge in the online virtual world. Within those computer-based communities she could be anyone. Do anything. She became known around the world as Ratridevi, co-founder of the Hive Collective. With the Hive's assistance she'd taken down dictators. Brought child pornographers to justice.She'd at long last found love.But now her research...
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Animals have been entwined with our lives since the earliest days of civilization. Many of the first cave drawings are of animals and how they interact with humans. Dogs were loyal companions and protectors. Cats kept the home safe from mice and curled up on a lap after a long day of work. Both were worshipped as gods and goddesses.
As our society grew, so did our appreciation of our animal neighbors on our Earth. Many of us now care for more unusual...
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105 pages - Updated for 2020! Freshly revised! You have a book finished. You're all ready to start marketing it. But if your book has zero reviews, or just a handful of reviews, your marketing efforts will be climbing up a steep hill.
Readers just DO NOT TRUST a book with only a few reviews. Readers assume that the first 10 or 15 reviews are probably made by family and friends of the author. It's only when a book gains a critical mass of reviews,...
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It was cosmic fate that I was a thought-after grandniece, for it meant when Tobias passed away from his delirium that his run-down apartment in Providence, Rhode Island became available to me. Fate, too, that the abhorrent discovery of my girlfriend cheating on me with a nautical blonde drove me back to a city I swore I would never live in again. But the fates had an even more horrific plan in store for me. For in the dusty back room of my granduncle’s...
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The wintry month of December has been a time of celebration since the earliest days of caves and campfires. As soon as humans could make sense of the phases of the moon and the wheeling of the stars, we treasured the Winter Solstice - the darkest day of the year. Many counted this period as the turning point for the entire cycle.
Yule sprang from this date, as did the Chinese celebrations. When the Syrians attacked Jerusalem in 167BC, and the locals...
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The Colony of Connecticut in 1773. Christina O'Donovan's beloved older brother was dead. Her father, a veteran of the French and Indian War, was injured and unable to keep up with the family farm. And so she'd reluctantly agreed to a marriage with a miner who worked at the local Simsbury copper mines. His courtship was a business transaction - nothing more. But when Seth somehow slipped and fell, descending a ladder he'd traversed a thousand times...
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I have owned parakeets (also called budgies or keets) since I was a tiny toddler. I have photos of my pregnant-with-me-mom's parakeet (named Gandalf), so she owned parakeets even before I was born. Sometimes I've had four parakeets, sometimes just one, but in one way or another parakeets manage to wiggle their fluffy ways into my heart. This book is a compilation of my years of experience, not only with my own parakeets, but also with helping the...
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How would you like to be able to control your dreams? To turn your dream into a virtual holodeck, like on Star Trek, where you can be anyone and go anywhere? You can fly, you can breathe underwater, you can visit distant planets and live the life you've always wanted.This is what lucid dreaming is all about.In a lucid dream, you become aware that you're dreaming - and you can now control it. You can cause a white stallion to appear on your tropical...
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Lisa Shea would love to not have written this book on Poison Ivy. She'd love to not know anything at all about poison ivy. Unfortunately, life had other plans for her. So she figured, if she had to endure year after year of poison ivy rashes, at least she could do some good with that knowledge. All of her trial-and-error experiments on her own body will now help you zip through your poison ivy experience as quickly as humanly possible.
Learn what...
15) Wyoming Vision
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A Wyoming blizzard. A crashed car. Haloke's only six years old, but there's no one else. Her father's dead. Her mother's clinging to life. She draws deep within her, to her Arapaho and Navajo roots, to set out to find help.
Twenty years later, it's Haloke's younger half-sister, Johona, who desperately needs help. She'd been knocked unconscious and then brutally raped. Johona desperately holds onto the hope that Deputy Logan can find those who are...
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Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.
Shash Hayou had been lost in action along with his best friend, Charlie Atene.
But Charlie...
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Mermaids, fish-people, and merfolk have been celebrated in nearly every culture and era of history! With lakes, rivers, and oceans being so critical to our lives, it's no wonder we imagine a world where creatures similar to us live, laugh, and play just beneath the water's surface. This inspirational companion book is designed to encourage you to create thirty-one days of drawings, illustrations, and interpretations of mermaids. Whether your style...