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Zoe's arms prickle. She turns, trying to take it all in. The ache inside returns. It is not for her. It is too much. A real room with real floors and walls. A room for sleeping, and reading and dancing and . . . in her imagination she has pictured the room, but she has never pictured herself in it. Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own? A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her...
A dream world turns haunting nightmare in this spellbinding debut novel, perfect for fans of Circus Mirandus and The Night Gardener. After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea discovers tent after tent of dreams come alive; she can fly on a gust of wind, brave swashbuckling pirates and sea...
While Skye Manchester was away at her second year of college, her mother Lorelei lost her battle with breast cancer. As Skye is driving home for the funeral she finds herself consumed with so many thoughts and questions. When she begins reading her mothers old diaries she thinks shes getting all the answers. The next morning Skye wakes up in a strange room and soon finds herself face to face with a teenage version of her mother. Its somehow 1978. Her mind is racing, but soon she relaxes and learns to just go with it. Through school, concerts, dances and just hanging out with Lorelei and her friends Skyes many questions are answered. She witnesses great friendships, her parents first date and her mothers first love. Skye finds a friend in the woman she always called Mom. But, will the guilt she feels about not being there when her mother passed ever go away?
Five stories for children of all ages.
On a moor dark with dripping moss, plants and tentacles intertwined in a deathlike embrace, emitting a stench of graves long decayed, stood the old house. Bubbles floated slowly up from deep within the murky swamp water. Layers of bogs and quicksand were traps for any living creatures who dared venture too close. And it was to this forbidding house, one long year ago, to the very day, that Philip Hawkshire had brought his bride, his love, his life, his LORELEI...
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When their picture-perfect Cotswold village family life with a perpetually young father and hippy mother is shattered by a tragic Easter weekend, four siblings pursue separate adult lives before a reunion reveals astonishing truths.
Survival can be summed up in three words–Never Give Up. Bear Grylls Sydney Waters finds herself alone in the harsh and unforgiving Rocky Mountains. No sign of Jordan or the great hound, Dogma. The threat of snow in the air. Her choices whittled down to one: she must continue alone toward her destination. With many miles left to walk and winter closing in, the temptation to give up becomes overwhelming. But to give up now means sitting down and waiting to die. After coming this far, does Sydney really want to end her journey with a whimper? Book Three of the Upheaval series, Solstice Moon concludes Sydney’s courageous journey, traveling down twisty, challenging paths the reader never imagined. A post-apocalyptic adventure.