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Tara and the Giant Queen is a fantasy in the Land of Giants. Nine-year old Tara finds herself in a strange land after a storm. She accidentally lands on the head of the queen of giants and is taken into her care. The good queen promises to help her return home but there are evil giants who believe Tara is a magician and are out to capture her for her magic powers. What follows is danger, courage and a fascinating journey home. And yes, fun, because Tara and the boy-giant, Montek, become great friends.
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The magician announced, "Tricksters are calling themselves magicians. Soon magicians will be called tricksters! I cannot allow that to happen. So tonight, I bring you real magic." Ismail and Hassan, and everyone in the audience are amazed by Jadugar's act. Bur is it really magic? Ismail thinks not. Until he and Hassan are swept into The Magician's Turban! About the Short Chapter Book Series The Short Chapter Book Series is an attempt to inculcate the love of reading in all children, transitioning beginning readers to more advanced readers, and reluctant readers into beginning readers. The books are also read-alouds for younger readers who are able to follow a story but have not learnt to rea...
Laura has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke—he is not the man he appears to be! To Anthony’s, Duke of Wimberley, utter shock, Lady Laura believe the worst about him! Growing up in the shadow of her parents’ estrangement, Laura has learnt to mask her feelings. She is also unused to company. Her father, though an earl, was a recluse. Now she must go to London during the Season where she will meet her mother - the mother she had pined for and resented in equal measure. Laura finds herself a success. She has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. She isn...
Anything is possible if fate wills it. A desperate woman calls a neighbor before dying in childbirth. Is it a coincidence that she chooses someone who will give her all to save the baby from its unscrupulous father? When Sudha answers a telephone call in the middle of the night, she cannot know how it will change her life. From the first, she feels a strong connection with the motherless baby. She brings her home and names her after the Arundhati star. Sudha loves Arundhati – Anu as she calls her – as much as she does her son. Anu is the daughter of her heart, a precious gift that fate has given her. As the threat to Anu’s safety increases, Sudha grows desperate and takes a drastic ste...
"A young drama teacher in the West of Scotland suffers deep psychological problems which affect all areas of her life. She fails to find meaning in anything around her, but in her search she strips situations of their conventional values and sees them in a sharp, new light." --Publisher's description.
“Maybe we should get a divorce.” Raj utters the D-word and immediately regrets it. He hopes that Divya, who is deaf, hasn’t lip-read the words. But Divya has and is shattered that Raj wants to end their thirteen-year-old marriage. Determined to build a new life for herself and the children, she uses her deafness to ignore Raj as he tries to regain the ease of communication they had in the beginning of their marriage. From Reviews on Goodreads. It is a full-fledged novel condensed into only a few pages. Beautiful work, this. (Grady Harp, Hall of Fame Reviewer ) Gita Reddy has taken several delicate subjects and has handled them to the degree that even more experienced writers have misse...
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...