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The story of Judy Baumann s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a witch, the witch s consort, a family of fairies, an ancient oak, and a bevy of animals each help her in this enterprise.We lived just at the edge of the frontier, as Mama called it, at the border of civilization. According to her the woods beyond our field was a lawless place, full of perils far worse than I could imagine, and so she made me promise to stay in our back yard or, if I was with my brother or an adult, the field beyond. But never did she allow me near the woods. She worried about the forest and other dangers too, man dangers. That's what she called them. Man dangers. The story, situated between Germany and Poland, begins in 1929 and ends in 1933 when Judy becomes a woman.

It s 1981 and 17-year-old Norma Rogers' parents drop her off at the college dorms. Soon, Norma finds herself drunk and nearly naked with three strangers. The strip poker event is the first of many experiences that prompt Norma to question who she is and who she wants to be. Norma's relationships with an array of characters induce her to grapple with society's messages about women, sex, and freedom. These characters include Jack, her aloof on-again, off-again boyfriend; Goat, her antsy dorm neighbor; Liz Chan, a pot-smoking sorority girl; Benny Moss, a nerdy guy who has a thing for Liz; and Paul Fellows, Benny's roommate, whom Norma calls Chuck because he reminds her of Charlie Brown. Chuck, a witty aficionado of old films, plays a pivotal role in Norma's discoveries about life's possibilities, as does Norma's roommate Stacy a beautiful, kind, and somewhat mysterious blonde.Many tumultuous events take Norma through an array of troubles, pleasures, and thrills: from drug use and ominous encounters with strangers, to rowdy parties and road trips, to queer coming-out surprises. In the midst of these incidents which are peppered with 1970's and 1980's pop cultural references Norma reflects on her desire for freedom (sexual and otherwise). Reinforcing these themes are the intermittent appearances of her middle-class parents and her sister, as well as her best friend from high school whose life in a small town as she prepares for her upcoming wedding is poles apart from Norma s. Ultimately Norma comes to see that there are many ways to live and love.

Color Edition: This book makes obsolete most of the fundamental theories about the working of planet Earth. It proves through cause-and-effect as well as basic physics what drives the planet to spin about its axis and what makes its spin speed to vary. The book explains what configuration of magnetic fields are emanating from Earth’s core to answer the true reasons behind the weakening of the magnetic field, global warming, climate change and reversal of the magnetic field force in Antarctica. Ancient texts and petroglyph enabled the establishment of a cycle of Earth changes of 3,562 years. The scholars who supported Joseph Goodman’s decoding of the Mayan Calendar made an error. The end of a cycle of Earth changes, where calamities such as burgeoning earthquakes, epic flooding, heated oceans, and more, is not December 21st 2012.This book shares the correct date. The book has given the readers an unprecedented never ending experience. Every day in the news and over the internet and other media, there are articles about new Earth changes that are relentlessly escalating. Most news articles contribute to confirm the Earth’s model that the author has built in this book and the drivers behind the changes. The same Earth’s model was recently found to repeat itself over other planets of the solar system. It helps to explain Mars’s and answers why its ice cap is melting. It helps to explain why Venus and Saturn spin speed is slowing down. There can be no more excitement than seeing such a new planetary model to grow from more to more as days go by. Upon reading “More Than 60 Minutes- When Earth Stands Still” you will be able to answer: Why has the annual number of Earthquakes, above 6 Richter, doubled since 2007? Where is the energy that forms the temperature belts of homogenous climates, coming from? Why is North America getting warmer winters while Europe is getting colder ones? What is the relation between the weakening of Earth magnetic field and the increase in global warming? Why are there patches of reversed magnetic fields in Antarctica? What makes Earth spin about its axis, speed up at times and slow down at times? What is the cycle of climate change? Or should we better call it climate exchange? How did ancient text and historical citation within the holy books, speak of cyclic climate changes? What wrong did historians do when they decoded the Mayan Calendar? Why December 21st 2012 date, for an end of cycle and a beginning of a new one, is incorrect and what is the correct date? How can humanity be better prepared to face more brutal changes in a short window of time? What we lack as human species is a confederated effort to challenge and build on the strategies that the author has proposed in this book, to saving our civilization cornerstone industries such as Agriculture, Energy, Infrastructure, Wealth Management, Civil Order and most of all provide a speedy recovery. It is expected that any new discovery be met at first with opposition from orthodox scholars. This is unfortunately a common response of conforming historians, scientists and geologists towards new ideas. It is however self-defeating. For in the end, new ideas and integration of existing theories and established data with a different proven insight will always triumph over the old. While the reader can find all details on the pages of the book, there is also a summary profile on http://www.planet-earth-2017.com “More Than 60 Minutes- When Earth Stands Still” forces the re-writing of Earth sciences, the telling of the true history and the saving of our current civilization.

Richard Zelman wants to break away from his past and find a place where he feels accepted and understood.He runs away, physically and mentally, from the expectations set for him by an overbearing father, and the uninspiring banality of his suburban, American life of the late 1960s and early 1970s.He changes his identity and becomes Nygel Ply, traveling the world and seeking acceptance from people who knew nothing of Richard.What he finds changes the way he sees others and changes the way he sees himself.His new life, caring for mentally handicapped children, and his new relationships, with other struggling souls, become one perfect mirror for him to gaze.Remembering Nygel is a reflection, by Richard, who relives those moments that he sees as "turning points."Everyone has "turning points." Some days, when silence fills our minds, we recall them, and connect the lines between them, the successes and the failures, times of joy and pain, and people we loved.For Richard Zelman, his moment of reflection has come.

Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2012 for Young Adult Fiction

Honorable Mention at the 2012 New York Book Festival

Runner Up - 2012 Hollywood Book Festival

Still reeling from the suicide of his best friend Tess, seventeen-year old Brendan struggles to overcome addiction and identity issues. Walking the ledge outside his Manhattan apartment has become its own sort of drug, as he stands night after night with his arms outstretched, ready to fly away.

Sarah can see him from her window, and begins journaling about a boy on a ledge. Paige and Nate, a young couple in another building, can see both teens from their fire escape.

None of them know the others are watching, but a strong desire for freedom resides in each of them, and as their lives begin to intertwine, that desire will be tested. Anyone can jump, but not everyone can fly...

Sharp, humorous, and deeply layered, this chronicle of a suicidal teen’s survival explores the reality of addiction and other tough issues, but does so easily, through the use of multiple perspectives, intelligent dialogue and authentic characters. Equal parts romance, contemporary drama, and coming of age, this highly engaging and intensely beautiful novel challenges our cultural perceptions in the battle for balance.

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"When I was a kid I used to dream about being a pilot. I had a bunch of model airplanes and I would fly them off our balcony, then ride the elevator down and try to find them. Of course they were never there, so I figured once they left the balcony they must have become real airplanes–Pinocchio style. I know better now, but there’s a part of me that still wants to believe in miracles. When you make the leap, can you really become what everyone else says you can’t?" - Brendan

Try as we might to deny it, we are in part what our families have made us. Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become. It is a story of joy and grief, of love and anger, andof a boy who grows to manhood while the world he knows crumbles and falls. In his first novel, reprinted now after nearly three decades, Chester Aaron’s clear eye leaves hidden neither the triumphs nor the tragedies, the sense nor the madness that are inevitable when human dreams and fears collide.

From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from WWII to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era.

TITLE:  Persuasion, A Novel  (first edition paperback; release date 9/15/11; Exclusive limited edition Kindle book released 1/13/12 - FREE to borrow for Amazon's Prime Membership)
GENRE: Contemporary Fiction
THEME/S: coming-of-age, mystery, roles, paranormal, romance
TAGS: coming of age, environment, Francine Saint Marie, ghosts, identity, magic realism, mystery, romance, paranormal, persuasion
AUDIENCE:  All (PG)
MAIN CHARACTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):Jessica Wheeler (age 19), Zoe Boice Summerfield (age 22), Millicent Ida Parsons (ghost), The Karner Blue (endangered butterfly)
PRIMARY SETTING: present day New England U.S.A. (September)
PERIOD: 21st century, 19th & 20th century flashbacks
TIME FRAME OF EVENTS:  approximately ten daylight hours
NARRATIVE:  third person
FONT/S:  Times New Roman (11½ point), Brush Script (chapter headings), Arial (page headers only)
NUMBER OF PAGES:  200 total
NUMBER OF CHAPTERS:   twenty (see table of contents below)
CHAPTER TITLES (1 to 20):  The Letter, The Key, The Window, The House, The Trees, The Town, The Music, The Message, The Woods, The Car, The Call, The Butterfly, The Spirit, The Battle, The Man, The Path, The Truth, The Decision, The Answer, The End
PUBLISHER:Fifth Column Press (first edition - September 2011)
PERSUASION:  Coming of age; coming to terms. A new novel from critically acclaimed author, Francine Saint Marie.

There has been a lot of speculation over what event will trigger 'The Last Days'. The answer lies in a small Hispanic restaurant located in the nation's capital.

Donald Hairston and his hoodlum friends are caught in an extensive police initiative targeting the most crime-ridden neighborhoods in the city. The heavy police saturation drastically reduces the flow of drugs in the area, and along with it, the flow of cash to Donald's crew.

Looking for an alternate source of income, the young men rob a Hispanic restaurant outside of their neighborhood, killing two of its patrons in the process. One of the victims happens to be the brother of a racist Latino councilwoman who is not afraid to speak her mind. But she's tired of talking . The inflammatory rhetoric she spreads causes a small race war in the city that grows rapidly and will test all boundaries.

Kayla Bossy Tucker is a bona fide product of the streets, spending her time on the grind and settling scores. Years after forming alliances with a couple of the city s most notorious gangsters, she creates a formula to cook cocaine with a potency most dealers would pay top dollar to get their hands on. Now in her prime, Bossy has gotten tired of looking over her shoulder and watching her own back. The death of her mentor expedites her decision to walk away from the hustle until new enemy forces her to fight one final battle. A new battle has begun and the gloves are off.

Dwayne S. Joseph’s talents shine in this compelling coming-of-age novel about seventeen-year-old Brian Moore, who seems to be a “bad kid” thanks to his friends, but who’s also struggling to escape the streets. Despite the straight A’s Brian gets in school, there’s still plenty of trouble swirling around him all the time, threatening to drag him down into it. Brian has no father and his mother, Deahnna, works two jobs so she’s never around. His teacher, Jawan White, came from the same streets as Brian, and he knows there’s more in Brian’s future than being a thug, but his constant lecturing isn’t helping matters any. But when Jawan falls for Deahnna, and Brian’s girlfriend learns she’s pregnant—that’s when the real drama begins.

The sequel to David Wilbourne’s much-loved first novel, A Vicar’s Diary, about a new vicar’s taste of village parish life in the Yorkshire of the 1960s.