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Crazy Daisy
What does an ordinary person usually do when they wake up in the morning? Daisy’s routine is far from ordinary. She wakes to the devastating news that her mother is missing, and her pleas for help are met with silence, as everyone she asks is struck down by arrows. Strange and perilous places await her, filled with daunting tasks and unknown outcomes.Throughout her journey, Daisy encounters many creatures. Her kindness and sympathy allow her to communicate and help them without expecting anything in return. It’s Daisy’s determination and courage that drive her forward, refusing to let her give up. She relies on a steadfast inner (or perhaps outer?) voice to keep her head up.However, one crucial rule must always stay with her heart and mind: as she strives to solve her problems and reach her goals, she must never forget the people around her. Above all, Daisy must hold on to her humanity.
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Gray's Crossing
On a chilly, peaceful morning in 1964, Brady and Truman set out on a casual fishing trip at Old Man Gray’s pond, unaware that the day would take a life-altering turn. In the small Southern town of Alabama, where harmony is a façade, the boys find themselves grappling with the murky waters of injustice and the evil that lurks beneath the surface.As they navigate the treacherous path of defying the status quo, Brady and Truman seek unexpected allies to help them understand the harsh realities they face. But their determination to push boundaries exposes them to more than just racial injustice, and they soon find themselves in over their heads.With their childhood innocence slipping away and the pressures of their small town threatening to tear them apart, the boys are left questioning the strength of their friendship and the trustworthiness of those around them. In this coming-of-age story set in Gray’s Crossing, not everything is as it seems, and Brady and Truman must decide whether they can rely on each other or succumb to the forces that seek to divide them.
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Ambra: The Long Journey
Spring awakens Doug the hedgehog from hibernation, reuniting him with Ambra the blackbird. Join these unlikely friends on a three-week adventure across the countryside! Who will they meet? What peril awaits Doug at the campsite? And who are the three surprise companions at the journey’s end? Discover friendship, courage, and wonder in this charmingly illustrated tale!
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Jezebel: The AI That Took Me Back In Time
Now, if you thought just because the title of this book is Jezebel, it is about you know who, I’ve some good and bad news for you, which one do you want first?Okay, bad news it is.At least, until this protagonist silences the little voice in her head that keeps telling her to conform and be ordinary, she will not be able to create a story worth telling. The good news is she has the potential but not before she untangles the web of murder mystery ensnaring her.That said, this reclusive protagonist, preferring the crisp logic of technology over the societal rules that do not serve her, does not only find solace in the digital realm, but she also devises an AI to aid her in understanding the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian society. This is until deceased bodies are discovered bearing tattoos of the symbols she had coded into the AI, giving her mundane life a whole new spin.What does she do?Well, we all know debug is not a pill available in drug stores, so she delves further into the technology and the new places it opens for her, every line of code she deciphers and every ancient rule she unravels, drawing her closer to a reality more startling than she could have ever envisioned. Except, the path to vindication becomes burdened with ancient rules encapsulated in a sacred book she must adhere to before she is able to debug the AI.Join Jezebel in a journey unbounded by time and space where she encounters the good and evil of the ancient world, and who is best to do it with but the historical and mythical figures she meets along the way!
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The Little Odds
Hold on to your hats… here comes a roller-coaster, magical, mystical, and hilarious adventure for children of all ages. Little Odd lives happily on Cloud Ninety-Nine-a-Hundred, until one day, an accidental roll sends Little Odd tumbling to Earth. Completely clueless and lost, Little Odd soon gathers a motley crew of misfits and outcasts. Together, they embark on a madcap journey through The Dump, The Land of Wonder, the Pits of Despair, the Underworld, and finally, a grand finale of fun and festivities.The Little Odds Trilogy celebrates the joy of letting your imagination run wild while delivering serious messages about climate change, protecting our beautiful planet, and treating everyone with kindness and compassion. It is a whimsical tale about humanity that is truly like nothing on earth. Honestly.
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Rita Goes Home
After escaping from the awful Mr and Mrs Nicompoop, Rita sets off on a long, long journey back to Africa where her parents lived, and where they had been captured.On the way, she has a few scary moments where she has to think quickly to stay out of danger. But she is helped on her way by several acts of kindness – from humans and from other birds and animals – and she makes some good friends.This teaches her a lot about the world and about herself.
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Caterpillar's Journey
Caterpillar’s Journey takes readers (moms, dads, grandparents, and more) on an enchanting adventure through the life of a little caterpillar. From hatching out of her egg to transforming into a beautiful butterfly, this story blends biological accuracy with fairytale magic. The woodland animals, along with the caterpillar herself, talk, think, and feel like humans, sharing their dreams and aspirations. This heartwarming tale touches the heart, mind, and soul of anyone, young or old, who is open to the wonders of nature, spirit, and life itself.
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Guru Sal
Guru Sal is a wise woman in the modern world, one who has been gifted with valuable insight and eternal wisdom. Guru Sal has walked the paths of female angst herself and now seeks to assist Sisters of the world and guide them to their own solutions to their issues. Not all in this world is rosy, not everything is easy for women or girls. But with the help of Guru Sal, Sisters will have the support of a woman who holds this knowledge, insight, and intuition. She will help you to overcome personal issues and make your life easier.Whether it is your man, your workload or wanting more of life’s simple pleasures, Guru Sal will strive to help you achieve this through her own expertise and objectivity.Guru Sal invites Sisters to write in with their problems and she will respond with assertive, no-nonsense solutions. Names and places will be changed to protect privacy.Power to my wily Sisters!
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Barafa the Snow Leopard
These stories have been written to introduce young readers to the natural world and the wonderful and rare creatures that live in it. The stories in the book provide factual detail and extrapolations on the lives of the animals, as told by the animals themselves, and invites the young ready into a special world that is rarely seen or heard from. The animal characters are larger than life and engaging.The stories carry messages about kindness and friendship and the need to preserve the natural world for future generations of both animals and humans.
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Have You Ever Wondered?
Have you ever wondered what the Tooth Fairy does with all the teeth she collects?Where does she take them? What are they used for?Join the Fairies of Tooth Fairy Land to discover the secrets behind the magic and learn why it’s so important to brush your teeth!
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Folk Tales of Old Europe
Be transported from the limestone caves of Slovenia to the coast of Norway, and from French salt pans to a village in Poland. John Weeks retells nine folk tales, each one set in a different country of Europe. They introduce the reader to an Irish weaver, to Scottish fishermen and to a Jewish dealer in violins. The stories share the familiar narrative features of folk tales all over the world – quests undertaken, wicked plots thwarted, mysteries revealed and kindness rewarded. Many of the familiar characters are there – trolls, an ogre and a cheating miller. But have you ever wondered what the characters in folk tales ate and drank? When not adventuring what work did they do to support themselves? What did they believe? As they journeyed what sort of landscapes did they cross? In his retellings John Weeks answers some of those questions. Each tale is grounded in a real landscape, with the features and the creatures distinctive to it. Something of the culture of each country is shown, so the reader will encounter the rivalries of tribal chiefs, piracy preying upon merchant shipping, and the poverty of feudal peasantry. Local ways of life are depicted, showing, for example, trade in amber, peat cutting and salt production. The tales are peopled by folk who embrace Christianity, by Jewish people and by those who acknowledge pagan spirits and Celtic deities. In notes to each of the tales the author briefly explains details, where necessary, and he refers to the sources, both literary and oral, which lie behind the stories. The result is a collection of tales richly contextualised to present a picture of Europe not in one era, but in an unspecified, distant past, a Europe at a time before modernity dulled the sparkle of its magic.
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Short Story Collection
Journey through humour and heartache in this eclectic collection of short fiction. From a miner’s grim reality to a dentist’s bungled procedure and a soldier confronting his enemy, these stories shine a raw light on the human experience. Feel the chilling isolation of ‘Behind Closed Doors I Hide’ and the bittersweet nostalgia of ‘It’s Never Too Late.’ With an array of voices and perspectives, author Pearl Marie Murdoch bears witness to hardship and hope, trauma and transcendence. Whether tragic or comic, her brief tales leave an indelible imprint. Let Murdoch captivate you with her candid snapshots of life in all its messy glory. Candid, poignant, and peppered with regional dialect, this compilation offers a vibrant cross-section of characters. See familiar struggles through fresh eyes in this collection of provocative vignettes.
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