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The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book:
You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes-even written several chapters. But as you sit down alone with the blank page or your next scene, nothing happens. Or if the writing does start to flow, it soon dries up.
You’re facing that overwhelming gap between the ( Read more... ) -
Lightning Bugs And Aliens: A Small Town Coming-Of-Age-Story by Daniel Babka
Book Summary:
During the summer of 1960, five imaginative, adventurous 13-year-olds, free from computers, cell phones and social media, suddenly must grapple with the loss of childhood security in this small Ohio town, first person, coming-of-age story. A tsunami of science fiction movies, Cold War paranoia about Russian missiles, and an explosion ( Read more... ) -
Mary Whitcombe by Valerie Nifora
Book Summary:
It's the turn of the 19th century, and Mary Whitcombe lives in blissful ignorance of the wider world. An orphan born into wealth, her guardian sends her away to a convent, where she grapples with the abrupt transition from opulent living to the austere cloister. But as she matures, Mary's heart discovers its first love in the form of ( Read more... ) -
Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship by Julie Ryan McGue
Book Summary:
Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship. It challenges the reader to embrace all of who we come to be, and to discern with whom and where we belong. Because ( Read more... ) -
The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric City by Robert Brighton
Book Summary:
Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York-Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown-all of them looking for a good time.
As heat and swarming crowds choke the city, the bodies of prostitutes begin turning up, slashed and mutilated ( Read more... ) -
Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher by Kenny Loui
About the book:
The tale of a man drifting through life, collecting cute, cuddly plushies and valuable life lessons along the way.
Kenny Loui is a self-proclaimed "UFO catcher," whose life goal is to "liberate" all plushies trapped in captivity inside arcade claw machines. In his UFO-catching journey, Kenny encounters a concerned guardian spirit ( Read more... )
