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Uncle Hubbard and the Burlap Sack tells the story of a small, curious girl named Mary growing up in small, rural Sullivan Hollow - a southern town that was a lovely place of hills, trees, and fields. Mary was surrounded by family and friends, including her neighbors and the students who rode the yellow school bus to school each day. Mary’s family included four sisters, four brothers, her mom, her dad, and her grandfather. There was much work to do, and they did it as a group. They made sure that there was ample time to play with family and friends when the work was complete.

Living a very humdrum existence, Charlie McGuire feels confined by the overwhelming pressures of life. In an effort to maintain a tranquil existence on the home front, he works hard running a successful bakery, caters to his wife's materialistic values, and struggles to keep his spoiled children at bay. He dreams of escaping the boundaries of his mundane world but gets more than he bargained for when he awakes on a desolate island in the middle of nowhere.

Steady Teddy is back, and this time the stakes couldn’t be higher. One man stands between her and everything she needs to reconcile her past and secure her future. Her mission is simple. Deliver Gordo to Jonathon, and Teddy will be well on her way to getting her life back, but, of course, nothing goes smoothly where Gordo is concerned and finding him may prove to be an impossible task to pull off. He knows all the tricks and always somehow manages to stay one step ahead, but Teddy is driven beyond reason and will stop at nothing to track him down.

While taking a beautiful drive through the mountains, Kate encounters a driving snowstorm. Suddenly, she realizes that the storm has gotten so bad that she must find cover. As she makes to way down the mountain, she comes upon a school bus that's been pulled to the side of the road. When she checks on the bus, she discovers several children awaiting the return of their bus driver, who has gone to find help. She decides that she must try to take the children to safety.

The Polaris is on a mission to explore new lands, and its crew is eager to bring their discoveries back home. But when members of the advance landing party mysteriously disappear, the remaining adults abandon ship, leaving behind the young cabin attendants and deckhands - none of them older than 12. With whispers of mutiny, a strange tropical illness, and perhaps even a wild beast shadowing them, the young sailors are desperate to steer the vessel to safety.

When 18-year-old Teddy loses her parents to a tragedy, she's left alone, and with no memory of the life she once had. Now older, wiser, and tougher than ever before, Teddy has managed to carve out a small place in Austin's criminal underworld, but that world comes with its own brand of trouble. Trouble she's learned to handle with some razor-sharp wit, and the occasional baseball bat.

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for 16 years - but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the stories of chronic Lyme patients from around the world and their struggle for recognition and treatment.

On the brink of extinction, being human means more than just surviving. In Lib's world, it's dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn't live up to the Artificial Intelligence's standards, it's practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind: "It's all my fault." Lib is a Glitch - an imperfect human component of the utopian world called the Norm.

In Emily Cataneo's eery tale of magic and mystique, three rivaling sisters - Abena, Kayin, and Ndidi - encounter a shadowy figure in a dark forest. With Kayin and Ndidi's lives in danger, it's up to Abena, the eldest, to devise a plan to save them from the evil sorcerer's castle.

An impacted wisdom tooth and a prescription for oral surgery send Sara Cohen into a crisis of identity. She's got her mother breathing down her neck, insisting dentists are not to be trusted. Meanwhile, asking her boyfriend for advice only creates more problems. As she navigates the bumpy terrains of love and intimacy, Sara must confront the most difficult procedure of all: becoming an adult.

The orphan Rhaps never intended to be the village prophet, but when others discover the predictive power of Rhaps' dreams, they sequester him in the local mill, where the village lines up each morning to await their fortunes. Hoping to reclaim the liberties of youth, Rhaps enlists the help of an unexpected friend to help him escape the curse of his psychic abilities.

Molly Henderson and Ben Weaver have been rival magazine writers for the same publishing group for years. When both come up for the same promotion, they find themselves in an unexpected competition to win the spot. Molly, editor of Quilter's Heart, and Ben, editor of Outdoor Adventures, must switch roles, each working for the other for one month, then submit an article at the end of their quests.

After her fiancé returns from the Klondike gold rush in 1897, Florence Harms sets about building a new life in her new marriage - even though the lingering effects of illness have left her weak and vulnerable. She and her young husband, Will, work tirelessly to clear the land around their Northwest cabin, content with their modest life. But then a stranger comes knocking and Florence suddenly senses a restlessness in Will's spirit that she had never seen before.

Brandon is a small town cowboy turned New York City reporter. Hope never left the small town. Twenty-five years ago, they fell in love in high school. Only one problem, she was the daughter of the Mormon Bishop and he the outsider who happened to be Catholic... and in 1977, rural Utah, that mattered. In 2006, he is returning to Utah for the funeral of his best friend - who married Hope.

Love is a Disaster! 'Nuff Said!

The one thing thirteen-year-old Margaret O'Malley is sure of is that her father is innocent. So when the unthinkable happens and he's sentenced to death by the cruel Judge Biggs, Margaret is desperate to save him. She'll do whatever it takes, even if it means using her family's secret - and forbidden - ability to travel through time. Margaret's only hope is to stop the chain of events that turned Lucas Biggs into a corrupt and jaded man.

This book was written because I enjoy poetry, and I decided to write this book because I thought some of the poems that I had read were too confusing and hard to understand. I did not get any meaning out of them except for some poems by Emily Dickingson, Robert Blake, and A.E Houston. Therefore, I set out to greate a masterpiece that listeners like myself could understand and enjoy.

Through poetry I find a path to make one cry, to make one laugh. Hinted expressions of how I feel. Epitome of something real... David J. Greene's style of poetry is one all to its own. Not only is it expressive and motivational, it's beautifully written and undeniably honest. David's way of explaining his inner emotions and thoughts leaves you yearning for yet one more line. His poems draw you in, hold you close, and leave you recklessly forwarding to see what the next one has in store.

Maddie Alden has always longed for more than her small town could offer. Now that it's being overrun by wealthy New Yorkers looking for a respite from the city, Maddie has gotten herself a lucrative new job in real estate. And her first sale brings her a charismatic new friend who is everything Maddie longs to be. Little does Maddie realize that the glamorous Anne will shake up her quiet marriage - and will force Maddie to face the truth about the past, and the terrible secret she shares with her husband and his best friend....

Meet Lennox Cooper. She’s a smart poker player, a smart detective, but she’s got issues. A year ago her affair with a married cop got her fired from the Portland Police. Now she’s trying to build a new life as a private investigator, but all she’d landed so far are surveillance gigs. The murder of a wealthy developer gives her a chance to reestablish herself as a homicide detective. During the course of the investigation she meets Mr. Right. Only problem, he’s on the short list of suspects. Lennox bets on her lover’s innocence.