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Ciani wants to make the world a better place but first, she must survive her own struggles.

In his second Adventure, Davy Match, now seventeen, is invited by Professor Beal to join an archeological dig in Anatolia. The professor gets into a jam with a rare letter on archeology he’s “borrowed” from the British Museum, and Davy is sent off to Kurdistan to lay low, with this letter— written by the hand of Benjamin Franklin. On a mountaintop, by the enormous head of an ancient God-King, he meets Gül, a mysterious Kurdish girl, who instructs him to go to the town of Hasankeyf on the River Tigris, a town doomed to be flooded by the construction of a hydro dam. Gül challenges him to help her find the grave of her missing brother, a Kurdish fighter. With the help of an observer from th ...

Join a boy named Zeryl, who loses his parents in a tragedy caused by an evil tyrant. He awaits the day of the Aurora Animae Rebirth when he can exact his revenge on this tyrant and avenge his parents. To accomplish this task, he must first attain the nine elemental relics and earn their respect. In his journey, he learns what it means to walk his true path, as he faces many trials and adversities, plus some near-death experiences.

A recurring dream about a magnificent hotel spurs Maria Peterson into action as she tries to solve the mystery of the dreams. Forgoing her mother's concerns about her Bipolar Disorder, Maria and two friends travel to San Diego and dive deeper into the true nature of the hotel. Danger awaits them, and the three must fight for their lives as they try to escape before it's too late.

The Journal of Virgil Fray Lovejoy, 'My Struggle Through the Civil War,' (Small Print Version) is a gripping novel taken straight from the letters, newspaper articles, first-hand accounts, and journals of Civil War soldiers. This extensively researched work is the brainchild of author Chris Jacobellis who spent over 30 years as a Civil War living historian hobbyist. Follow Virgil from his days as a college student to his farm during the last days of the Civil War. Take this journey back in time before political correctness, when the truth was pure and factual, not contrived to serve a particular agenda. The language is rough and honest. Virgil Lovejoy will grow as a man and a human bei ...

The battle between our two primal organs. We can FALL in LOVE with words but only actions provide the LOYALTY to STAND on!

THE MUSEUM OF THE DIGNIFIED AND THE BEAUTIFUL defies classification: it is at once a fable, and poetic meditation on creativity, a paean to literature itself, a realistic drama, an anti-heroic saga, and a portrait of the artist as a young woman—the last being perhaps the book’s most salient theme. In modern Italy, an old man climbs a mountain of historical (World War I) importance, in the depth of winter, to redeem his unprepossessing life. In the aftermath of this all-but-insane endeavor, there ensues an unlikely triangle of friendship between the old man, a young, soulful nurse who cares for him, and a boy thief. The author himself is also a character in the story, as the frag ...

When the founder of the California missions, Junipero Serra, has his heart cut out the day of his death in 1784, it is stuck in a ceramic jar, and rode off on horseback. Within the day, it is lost and for the next two hundred years the heart, floating in brandy, is handed from owner to owner until it ends up at the El Fornio Historical Society in modern day California. During the annual Old Spanish Days festival, the heart is stolen and curator Hank Peabody, Jr., and his “cousin” Janet Librado are called to action with their band of misfit friends to find the thief of the heart and set things right. “Whoever controls the heart” Janet reminds Hank, “Controls history.” Hank, however ...

I was rejected in the womb. Birthed into a narcissistic family whom were wounded and without love to show or give. Abandoned by my father. I defined sex as love. Lost in confusion, a passion for drugs & alcohol. My instability led to sexual transmitted diseases, prison time, and pregnancy. My uncertainty in life allowed me to be blind. Marriage now divorced my world fell completely apart. Falling in love after divorce led me to be traumatized by men. What I kept locked within was brought to surface. Fighting the venom inside I realized I couldn't heal into the façade ended it.