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The Ring of Experience

Fifteen-year-old Taydis Fletcher lost his grandfather—his only positive role model—in a supposed wild animal attack. Without his mentor, Taydis has lost his way.

Everything changes when magical orbs gift him the very thing he needs most, something humanity lost long ago: empathy.

Taydis is whisked away to Arrendar Academy, an outdoor school once attended by his late grandfather. There, he learns how to survive in the wild, craft magical armor, and ultimately, earn more orbs. For the first time in his life, he feels like he belongs.

The Anna Ford Attaway Story “The Abuse That Set Me Free”

This is the heartfelt story unfolded through the voice of Anna Ford - Attaway, who endured years of emotional, spiritual, and physical abuse at the hands of the one who vowed to love her. This book is more than a memoir for his mother, it’s a voice for the voiceless, a light for those still in the dark, and a reminder that healing, peace, and freedom are always within grasp.

The Philly Phenoms

Ten-year-old Lee Lomax is trying to scratch a severe golf itch. Like many early adolescents, Lee idolizes his dad, Sam, a talented golfer turned Band-Aid salesman who has put his passion for the game on the back burner to focus on providing for his family. But Lee is relentless and vows to spend his summer at Sam’s blue-collar country club in the Philly suburbs, hoping that will entice his dad to do the same. Sam, however, is a family man and his family needs him at home. Big time.

South Coast Allsorts

Six teenagers from different backgrounds - outsider Kate, pirate Patrick, golden boy Teddy, princess Lady, loner Dana, and Dougie, the rebel - all find themselves on a South Coast bridge one Saturday night and decide to face their demons together.

Button Box - Rascals and Revenge

Susan time slips between two different worlds - her everyday present is at home and school but by night she has a magical past in Victorian London. There, resourceful orphan boy Baxter has taken her under his wing like a sister. Pearly King coster boy and rat catcher, Baxter’s trades bring them into unusual company, children alone in the city and living on the margins of society. When Baxter and Susan fall into the employ of Bram Jarvis, a man with revenge on his mind, they are soon drawn in to strange new adventures.

Addicted

When darkness creeps into Bella’s life, finding an anchor in Jeremiah is her only hope of survival. Sixteen-year-old Bella Kynaston has been the victim of a brutal rape by someone she can only describe as ‘the scar-faced man.’ With little recollection of what happened, she must somehow rebuild her life. Being the person she once was, proves more difficult than she imagined. Bella has just met Jeremiah Detrone, the new guy in school to complicate matters. He’s attractive, funny, and smart. All things she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. Too bad she’s conflicted over so many unexpected emotions.

A Stone's Throw

Set in San Francisco in 1969, Maggie Stone is the twelve-year-old daughter of a single mother who suffers from a mental condition that sends her to bed unresponsive for hours at a time. Forced to be the responsible adult since the age of eight, Maggie has had to do the household shopping, cooking, cleaning and money management chores. When her mother is hospitalized after lapsing into an extended coma, Maggie is sent to an orphanage. A month later her grandfather Ira, whom Maggie has never met, suddenly shows up in San Francisco to whisk Maggie away to his ranch in Montana.

Faeries Don't Lie

Releasing a Chandarion’s god-like magic into the world isn’t what sixteen-year-old Aunia, the village’s outcast, intends. She only wants to impress Mathias, a visiting seventeen-year-old pegasus flyer, who fiercely believes the choice—either Faery or Mortal world surviving—has come. Her action calls forth the Boggleman, a soul-sucking ghoul, who abducts her dad, eats her faery friends with his carnivorous cloak, and sets Dagel demons on her isolated village. And worse.

Eve's Covering

Eve’s family moves to Harbor Springs, a small lake town nestled along the shores of Northern Michigan. Her parents are eager to make a new start-and new friends. But Eve soon realizes there is something sinister about Simon and Marigold Blackwell. When Eve’s cousin, Alice, dies and is said to have committed suicide, she knows something fishy is going on. Alice would never take her own life. Things get complicated further when the Blackwell’s nanny disappears without explanation. The Blackwells endear themselves to Eve’s family, gaining the trust of her parents.

Einstein's Compass a YA Time Traveler Adventure

Einstein’s Compass by Grace Blair is a “YA Time Traveler Adventure.” Historical fantasy science fiction. The book intertwines events in Albert Einstein’s life with fantastical elements while including scientific concepts. Topics that emerge include coming of age, antisemitism, and bullying. Most of us are familiar with Einstein’s legacy as a scientific genius and a giant of physics. But where did his ideas originate? How can one person be so brilliant?

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