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What happens when a simple outing turns into a new friendship? Nothing good that is. A short story about a boy and his...friend. When the forest speaks to you, sometimes you should ignore it. A small tale about what happens when you don't.

When Paul Delvay goes missing in the quaint town of Laurel Grove, Jack is hired to investigate. He finds the McTeague manor and is invited in for tea and talk. But it doesn’t take long before Jack starts asking the wrong questions. Now, he’s dwindling out of his clothes and the book club ladies are getting bigger and bigger. As they carry him up to the bedroom for a little fun, he starts to understand what happened to Paul.

Kendal Seers might be a lot of things—weird, introverted, boyish-looking—but she’s not stupid. She doesn’t have to learn the same lesson twice. But, when her professor selects her as a counselor in an exclusive program mentoring troubled students, and is assigned the same set of broad shoulders and marble cheekbones, this time she can’t storm off. Why was Nero Roman, star running back, in a program for troubled students? Could it have to do with his small-town roots? Can Kendall lower her guard long enough to find out?

Angela’s Expander finally works. After testing it on a cat, her girlfriend, Savannah, realizes it will do just fine on humans. When the couple experiment with size at home, Savannah decides she’d like to find a bigger space to really test the grow gun. She surprises Angela by renting a gymnasium....

This story is about Wendy; her horse, Tattoo; Cecil; and a racehorse named Cecil's Ghost. Cecil calls the racehorse Looper, which is a nickname for a caddie. A caddie carries the golf clubs for the golfer. Cecil has taught Looper many tricks to help him with his golf game. Later on in the story, Justin, Cecil's grandson, will be greatly helped by one of those tricks.

When Riley Raynor, a 50-year-old eye surgeon, is smitten with the painting of a dancer, it sets in motion a deeply intimate journey across three countries in search of the one thing missing in her life. Ana, a quirky mother figure and best friend who hilariously drives Riley to the brink of insanity, is devoted and true-blue. Young hip Sara turns Riley upside down and inside out, challenging her views of age-gap relationships. Quinn, the mysterious artist who painted the portrait of the dancer that hangs in Riley’s bedroom, brings an entirely new and unexpected challenge.

When a Gypsy promises Eva Mora a magic trinket if she will raise the Gypsy's son, Eva agrees. Not for the trinket, but because she had fallen in love with the baby boy. Eva has no concept of the trinket's power or what she may be called upon to do to ensure the boy's happiness and safety. When beautiful Nicole Windsor appears in Eva's life, the trinket takes on an entirely different meaning and significance.

Six years on, Ellie finds herself in a new city amid unfamiliar surroundings. But can she really run away from her problems? While bringing up a young child with a handsome new man by her side, Ellie’s new life looks to be seemingly the one she always wanted. But not everything is as it seems. For there is more than paper covering the cracks beneath. While Ellie’s life may seem perfect, new surroundings bring fresh challenges for her to overcome. How will she cope with being so far away from home? And can she truly escape the tragedy of her past?

With a blizzard bearing down on Colorado's Sun Ridge Ski Resort, Nick Gaffney went to work with the search and rescue team. What should have been a standard rescue, evacuating the mountainside cabins, turns into something much more when he encounters the injured Colby Hansen off the side of a ski trail. Colby is a city girl, hating the cold and snowy elements any mountain offers – until she stumbles upon Nick, making her feel safe for the first time in years.

Princess Kindle is a girl with a volatile energy and bright mind. And what’s more, she absolutely loves playing with fire. You could say she is a pyromaniac. Her friend, Prince Flint, is her best buddy, although sometimes, he’s not the smartest kid on the block. With him, she experiences several adventures at home and in their search for a cave, until they find a fire dragon unicorn.

He might make her nerdy heart pound like the drums at one of his football games, but Quin needs to get over star quarterback, Cage Rucker. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. For another, she didn’t come to college to find a guy, even if he is sweet and kind, and volunteers with kids on the weekend. She has bigger plans. Unfortunately, those bigger plans require one thing she doesn’t have—the ability to talk to people. And who’s good at talking to people? Cage Rucker.

Based on true accounts born into slavery, allowed to grow up with her owners' daughter, Molly was taught to read and write. After emancipation, Mary found it difficult to remain close to her childhood friend and struggled with many jobs throughout her life. At 60 years old, Mary became the first Black woman mail carrier and became known as "Stagecoach" Mary. Even though she frequented saloons, smoked cigars, and fought like a man, she was loved by the town of Cascade and given more privileges than a White woman.

The story is about Princess Snow, a five-year-old girl (go figure!) who lives with her parents in a gorgeous palace. One day, she meets an ice unicorn. She plays with the elegant animal and flies on its back to a magical place called Unicorn Iceland, where more ice unicorns live. There, she plays on slides, eats healthy ice cream, and does whatever a girl that age does.

I die every night in my dreams. Add to that the hallucinations of people I've never met and creatures that don't exist, and you can see why I don’t let anyone in. People don't take well to weirdos that can't tell reality from illusion. That all changed the day a dragon attacked. Yup, that’s right. A real-life, smoke-breathing dragon hunted me down in the middle of a school day.

Where is God when we are in the dark? Is God caught off guard when struggles happen? Why does it feel like I’m so alone? Does he hear my cry for help? Does he even care? In He Can Be Trusted, Melody Box tells her story of fighting a rare Stage Four cancer. Through this journey she is reminded that God is never caught off guard, that he has a plan, and that he is right beside you through your darkest moments.

From the author of Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot series, Jada L. Roberts' Bigfoot Stories 2 is a collection of stories from eyewitnesses who had their own encounters with an unknown creature lurking in the woods that they called Bigfoot. These eyewitnesses have contacted the author and wanted to share their story. These reports are from ordinary men and women who have seen Bigfoot in the flesh and have told that their lives have been changed forever.

Like everyone, Will Miller has a dream. A dream of one day becoming the creator of his own TV show. But unlike most, Will is determined to transform his dream into a reality, even if that means going to the most extreme measures and having the most ambitious expectations. Ellie is a world-famous Hollywood actress, with her face on billboards and people screaming her name no matter where in the world she may find herself.

When Crystal learns her birth mother sought witches to conceive her, the 15-year-old’s faith is shaken. God isn’t the one answering her prayers. She is. After her aunt is threatened, Crystal attempts to master her power, but flying and conjuring fireballs attract dangerous attention. A witch hunter kidnaps her boyfriend, and shamans and witches hunt Crystal, desperate to use her to end their centuries-old war.

New school. New year. It’s all too familiar for military brat Sara Parker. After her dad gets deployed, the darkness in her mind is set free, wreaking havoc on every aspect of her life. Stuck in the bottom of a pit with no one to turn to, Sara’s world comes crashing down as everyone around her discovers her secrets, one scar at a time.

It was not really easy to go to school. By 1988 to 1989, I graduated from what is known as secondary school, then trying to either further with college or another institute of higher learning in the years 1990 to 1991, but I was told it would not be possible at all. As my mom's last child, no one was ready to take responsibility for my education, which I loved so much, but against all odds, and by the Grace of Baba God, and through the hard work of my Mom and I, education was achieved.