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Meet eight-year-old Malory. Malory has a learning disability, but she doesn't let that stop her from enjoying her life. Whenever she is feeling blue, her mother and father remind her of the list of those who love her. Ms. Julie, her art teacher, understands what it is like to be different. She was born with autism. Ms. Julie encourages Malory to express herself through art.

The American territory in the 19th century was a place of uneasy Army-Indian relations and fiercely fluid borders. America’s Fallen Forts chronicles the lives and times of a cast of characters both strategic and star-crossed, taking the listener on an evocative journey through the battle-scarred days of the U.S. frontier - an era of Indian wars and infighting; massacres and Manifest Destiny.

If, at the end of your life, you got to pick one day to relive, what day would you pick? Walter Zawislak wants none of it. Not a day to relive, not a trip down memory lane through a life he wasted. His wife, Rosie, died 20 years ago, and without her he hasn’t done much living. So if it’s lights out for him, then just turn them off already and let him get some peace and quiet. But Peter, the mysterious young man in charge of Walter’s afterlife, isn’t listening to Walter. In Peter’s eyes there is beauty in every day, even the bad ones. Even the really bad ones.

Beneath the Mango Trees is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that transports readers to a small coastal village in Jamaica, where young Marley James lives under the warmth of her family's heritage and the wisdom of her beloved grandmother, Nana Liz. Every day, under the sprawling branches of an ancient mango tree, Marley hears tales of her family's past, deepening her connection to the land and culture that shaped them.

Drayden and his friends thought nothing could be harder than the Initiation. Little did they know it had only been a warmup for the challenge that lay ahead. With New America’s situation dire, Drayden and the pledges venture into the unexplored world beyond the walls, escorted by a team of elite Guardians. The group seeks to contact another civilization in what remains of Boston, but Drayden has secret goals of his own.

On the way to the promised land, one of the Jaredite barges takes an unplanned detour. Shipwrecked during a violent storm, the inhabitants of the barge find themselves on a strange shore without the company of the other 15 barges and no hope of rescue.

Fifteen more nearly unbelievable stories from the life and times of Cameron Thun. In his latest installment of stories about people he has encountered in his life, Cam walks us through experiences even our wildest imaginations couldn't come up with on their own.

Experience another 26 chapters of "The People Who Cam Has Encountered" in Volume 4 of the series. This collection of rated-r short stories will probably shock you, make you laugh, and possibly trigger a gag reflex.

An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.

A psychopathic killer, in the seaside town of Worthing, with an obsession for girls with breast implants goes on a savage and bloody rampage.

For hundreds of years in ancient Mesoamerica, the Nephites and Lamanites continued a feud started by a single family. This family crossed the sea from Jerusalem to settle in a Promised Land, clinging to the promise that God would protect them as long as they remembered him. Inspired by the narratives found in the Book of Mormon, Tales from the Promised Land is a collection of exciting short stories set against the backdrop of the ancient Americas.

A collection of short works from author Jack Freestone. This book has something for everyone--horror, erotica, and autobiographical.

I was born in 1964 in Prince George British Columbia on December 18. My biological father was a nice guy when he was not drinking. My mother and he had a very rocky relationship. She left him when I was 8 years old. About three months after they broke up, she found the love of her life, Al Thun. He had just moved from Vancouver and bought the National hotel.

Samira Palmer isn’t dating anymore. Not after last time. And especially not bad boys. Her career is the only relationship she wants to be in these days, and they’re damn good together. Even if she can’t bring her job to the costume ball as a date. She didn’t expect fate to literally run into her in the form of a handsome, green-eyed Frenchman.

It all started with the best sex of my life when I met my wife. When I met her, I proceeded to hang on for the rest of my life. Which in turn led to our wedding, and then the honeymoon in Punta Cana. My mother paid for our two-week honeymoon in the DR. We stayed at an incredible all-inclusive resort and went outside of the resort to explore. We had some incredible experiences and saw the DR through a new set of eyes P.B. Dye. His family has lived in the DR for quite some time. He and his dad have both built golf courses on the island.

The following stories took place from 1978 till 2016. They are all 100 percent true. In 1978 my dad, my mom, my dad’s business partner (Walter), and a new party all bought the First Litre Complex. When they first bought it, it consisted of a pub, grocery store, beauty salon, and laundromat. There also was an apartment below the grocery store that the owner-operator was going to live in. The owner operator eventually moved out beside the complex, into a little house that the partners purchased. We leased the grocery store out to an independent operator.

“I’m busy” is no longer just an exasperation. It is an addiction. People are increasingly uncomfortable with stillness, and the incessant engagement with the outer world fractures our connection to our own inner awareness. Cami affirms that living into the power of the pause supports your efforts to stop the relentless pace and intensity of life, breathe your way to inner stability and peace, think about your self-care and growth process, and choose to engage in life aligned with meaning and purpose.

As a child from a religious family, I didn’t like to pray. There are several reasons why I didn’t like to pray, but the top reasons were: I didn’t understand why I needed to pray and didn’t know how to pray. Grown-up prayers can be a little bit too difficult for younger minds. They have too many big words that sometimes make it too hard to understand.

A young girl who was a scullery maid goes to New York with a former chimney sweep named Sam.

This audiobook dives into the thought-provoking topic of meditation. While many of us look for a way to escape our daily lives through meditation, others use it to search for something else: The deeper meaning of their lives, a connection to nature, a realization of reality shattering proportions. This audiobook is here to start your journey on a path of self-discovery, dealing with basic meditation techniques, as well as a personality tailored guided meditation.