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Mae Barlowe’s annual beach trip is anything but a vacation. It’s the anniversary of the worst day of her life. When her husband and best friend surprise her with a last-minute itinerary change in the form of a couples’ cruise, she struggles to hide her reservations about the new plan. A week spent cruising around in a tropical paradise sounds like a dream come true to everyone else, but for Mae, it’s an eerie reminder of chilling memories from her past. Once on board the ship, a mysterious stranger causes confusion among the group, leading them to ask unsettling questions of one another.

At the heart of Dark Romanticism is its brooding, pessimistic tone, its emphasis on the supernatural and the sins of humanity, and its use of iconic symbols and horrifying imagery. The classic Dark Romantic authors (Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville) are represented in the stories and poems in this volume, as well as some authors who are not commonly included in this genre.

Newbery Medal winner Carol Ryrie Brink uses vignettes of people she knew during her childhood in Idaho to give a glimpse of everyday life in the early 20th century and to provide insight into her own tragic early years.

On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on her ailing mother and the children left in her care by the struggling single parents of North Falls, Vermont. But now the additional loss of her husband is too much to bear. As she edges closer to the truth, she begins to uncover some secrets that are better left buried.

Through the expressive language of poetry, the author paints a vivid picture of anger's chaos and the healing power of love. They delve into the numbing weight of depression and the insidious nature of bullying, highlighting the importance of unity and compassion in a world that sometimes feels cold and harsh.

This collection of short, contemporary plays by award-winning playwright Susan C. Hunter provides a wide range of thought-provoking listening. Each play is a stand-alone gem, yet experienced together, they are eloquently connected, often mirroring the humorous and dramatic sides of the same themes. Alternately hilarious and moving, it is read by a full cast of talented narrators.

Sometimes cozy and familiar as Grandma's homemade scarf, sometimes cold as a frozen forest after a snowstorm, this collection of classic winter tales and poems is as varied as the season it celebrates. Featuring the masterful storytelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens and a host of others, this audiobook will keep the listener enthralled deep into the long winter night.

A young teen girl is torn between proving her friend is innocent of killing his mother, and finding out why there are horse embryos growing in the rabbits she is taking care of. This is book 4 in the Jessie Crew Mysteries series. Jessie and her buddy Deboyce are tangled in a maze of intrigue that tests their friendship, and endangers their lives along with the lives of their friends and schoolmates.

Three determined women; their intuitive, snarky dog, and one shaved cat seek to solve a murder in the mobile home park where they all live.

It's 1957 in Oregon, where prejudice runs rampant. As if finding out that her best friend's dad was thrown in jail for being a Pinko Commie isn't enough, Jessie learns the identity of her own father whom she never knew existed. Even though their lives are in a turmoil, Jessie and her friend Deboyce risk life, limb, and their own freedom to try and save a trapped girl and the lives of 20 other barefoot, enslaved girls who are being worked to near starvation by a tyrant.

The story takes place in 1956 in Oregon. When authorities find out that 12-year-old Jessie is being raised in a lesbian home. They remove her and place her on a ranch where 20-some barefoot girls are treated like slave labor. The ranch owner’s boyfriend tries to force himself on Jessie, but she fights back, stabbing him with a pitchfork. She escapes with no shoes, no food, no money, and no idea where she is. She is terrified that the cops will find her and arrest her for murder.

Into the Land of the Midnight Sun is the third volume of poems (The Star Road, Volume 1 and Doctrine of the Moon, Volume 2) written to accompany the treasure fleets series (A Story: Love and Land Discovered and A Story Hope Returns). As she continues to write her poems for him and he for her, they are a world apart. Their love grows as they try to find a way to be together again.

The real story of the American "Shero" Mary Patton and her famed gunpowder production can finally be heard in her voice via this creative nonfiction work. Scientific, forestry, and geologic research reveal the hidden truth untold for hundreds of years. Her famed gunpowder helped win the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse. Sold across the entire Southeast, the legend comes to an all new light.

Twelve-year-old Jessie finds out that a young teen girl was found murdered at a lumber mill log pond less than a mile from where she and her mother just moved. She sets her sights on finding the killer, not realizing that she might become the killer's next victim. It's the summer of 1956 in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, a place and time where kids were free to ride their bikes into adventure and danger. Prejudice was rampant, and everyone had secrets.

A volume of poems written to accompany the Treasure Fleets series. The characters write a series of poems as they journey on the voyage of the treasure fleets across the seas. Words written to record their passions, emotions as they travel.

The last thing Vi Purdet wanted to do was spend Thanksgiving weekend putting a roof on her parents' house with her two asshole brothers. There was a storm headed their way: a rain storm and a shit storm.

Do you like variety? Enjoy a medley of light verse that will have you sniggering at its absurdity. Pterodactyls suddenly appear out of a clear blue sky; almost-celebrities contemplate putting sweaters on chickens and a hard-boiled detective, slightly demented, takes aim with her Webley-Foster. On a gentler note, a stone fairy is given life behind a waterfall, and ephemeral musings explore synesthesia.

Sara had suffered a double tragedy when she lost both her sister and her brother. She lost her sister to a sudden, unexpected accident. Sara's brother left her, disappearing into the night, never telling anyone where or why. Sara tried to forget her past, but it came barreling back down on her when Michael came back to find her. Sara has come back to her hometown to find her brother, but what she is about to find will change her entire world.

Sara thought she had made a new life after she left her home and her friends in an attempt to escape her past. A tragedy had befallen her sister, and caused her to lose her brother, and the rest of her family in the process. She thought she had succeeded in escaping those memories, until Michael came back into her life, and brought the past back with him.

As a parent, you want the best for your child, and one of your greatest hopes is that your child will grow up to be a good person. So, what makes a good person? Generally, we think about good people as being kind: compassionate, empathetic, generous. However, it seems that, in our fast-paced, individual-driven society, kindness is fading and the pressure on parents to raise socially conscious, empathetic, and caring children can seem overwhelming at times.