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Sour Apples A Novel For Those Who Hate to Read by Paul Jantzen

Sour Apples A Novel For Those Who Hate to Read by Paul Jantzen

Imagine, if you will, an eleven-year-old boy with an imagination so powerful that he uses it like others would use a compass. Our hero, Jimmy Hamilton, loses his fort on three separate occasions all in the span of one summer. He must battle both his wits and unwanted squatters. He comes to discover each new unwanted tenant proves more difficult to evict than the last. His plans have a modicum of success but each come with unintended consequences.
Adding to the mix of that imagination and his antics to win back his fort, the prettiest girl his age, a baseball diamond, a groundhog, a snapping turtle, and the town vagrant and Jimmy soon finds his summer adventure is more than he bargained for.

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The Source of Death by Jay Michael Night

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On the night that monsters with glowing eyes took everything away…

Mikey Black’s mother had called him special. As if making everyone around him deathly sick was some kind of gift. But it only brought Mikey terrible loneliness.

He spent years being tossed between foster homes, never lasting more than a month. It didn’t take families long to realize being near him was bad for their health.

All Mikey wanted were answers. What was wrong with him? What were those things? And why were they attacked at a gas station in the middle of nowhere?

Mikey thought he’d never find those answers or a place to belong. Until a kind hearted mailman named Arthur offered to adopt him. Amazingly, Arthur seemed immune to Mikey’s curse. But his new foster father had a secret…

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Growing Up Neighbors by Frances Hoelsema

Little Deborah Harrington stared across the street the day the Michaels family moved in. Who was this family? Would she even like them?

Nicholas Michaels hated the fact he had to move away from everything and everyone in his life, but his feelings change when he meets the Harringtons. Deborah and Nicholas become the best of friends, and as the children grow up, their friendship deepens.

But when tragedy strikes, will this cause them to part ways? Or will it perhaps make them realize they may have stronger feelings for one another before it’s too late?

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The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community College a Couple of Semesters Later by Peter L. Harmon

The second book in The Happenstances… YA book series from Peter L. Harmon.

It’s a couple of semesters after the fateful Tri-County Relay Race that changed everything for the crew from Yellow County, Maryland. Charlie is treading water at a dead-end job, uninspired as a writer once again, and taking classes at the Yellow County Community College. Roheed is a successful app developer on the west coast, but his relationship with his girlfriend Florence is on the rocks. Jonathan is the swim team coach at the community college. He’s not living at the Swim and Racquet Club anymore and he’s never looked back.

When Jonathan and his fiancée’s wedding weekend brings the gang back together it kicks off another series of happenstances that could mean the end of old relationships, the beginning of new friendships, and the bottling of miniature pirate ships (well except for that last one). A villain threatens the wedding and the gang has to rely on an old traitor, a new flame, and a forgotten family member to hopefully wed Jonathan and his betrothed, keep Roheed and Florence together, and maybe inspire Charlie to get off his bum and follow his dreams.

The citizens of Peter L. Harmon’s wonderfully weird fictional Maryland county are back in this essential, esoteric new chapter in The Happenstances… saga.

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Whimsical Tendencies by Suzanne G. Rogers

Although Cypher McCall has no memories before the quake that destroyed the kingdom of Augury, she holds a steadfast hatred of the repressive Cauldian regime now occupying the country. Because her magical gifts are deemed subversive, she does her best to avoid detection–until the Cauldians plan to desecrate the ruins of nearby Castle Augur. She stumbles on a silver key that she hopes will unlock her memories, but first she must confront a long repressed horror from her past.

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HIV + Lagos Queens by Success Akpojotor

A medic hacks into the database of a university teaching hospital in pursuit of answers regarding the pasts of seven women from her past life. What follows is a recipe for the unimaginable.

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The Marked: Knight’s Academy Book 1 by Emerald Barnes

Myka Williams has never fit in with her peers, and although her adoptive parents are loving and supportive, she feels most at home alone in the woods.

When she’s offered a full scholarship to Knight’s Academy in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she takes the opportunity for a fresh start. She soon learns that Knight’s Academy is more than just a school. Within the stone walls of the institution, humans and vampires are mixing, and their offspring are going unnoticed.

As Myka falls prey to the evil plan of the school, she makes a chilling discovery about her own heritage and realizes that she’s at the Academy for more than just an education. Myka must yield to her birthright at the risk of losing everyone she loves or succumb to the fate that Knight’s Academy has in store for her – a fate worse than death.

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The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last by Peter L. Harmon

The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last is a bittersweet, nostalgic, but comic novella about a team of misfits, including a loser who secretly lives in the guard house of the club, a struggling artist with webbed toes, a timid teen with a concave chest, and the beautiful heiress of the Comfort Inn fortune. They have to win the impending Tri-County Relay Race and save the club from being run by a management company that only cares about money. The management company hires an opposing relay team of ringers including a girl with a prosthetic dorsal fin and a man named Carmichael Schmelps who looks suspiciously like a certain Olympic gold medalist.

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Gems of Fire by Diane E. Samson

Palace of Sunderland. Paradise to the peasants. Prison to sixteen-year-old Anna, daughter of the king. She can never escape the castle’s cold walls and scorning disapproval of her father and his brute royal counsel, Seamus. She’ll always live in the shadow of her late mother the queen. Will they ever see her for who she really is?
A riding accident lands Anna in the hands of traders who sell her as a slave in distant Kasdod to none-other than her father’s enemy, Lord Anwar. After overhearing a dangerous plot to conquer Sunderland and kill the royal family, Anna must escape and warn her father, even if it means facing her greatest enemy.
With the doom looming over her, Anna is approached by a dangerous-looking man in the dark. He claims to want to help her, but can she trust him with her secrets? The perils of the journey ahead will push Anna to the limit and answer the one question that has always plagued her. Will she ever be enough?

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Raji: Book One Octavia Pompeii by Charley Brindley

Raji is a girl of thirteen from India. In 1925, on a cold December morning in Virginia, Fuse finds her sleeping in his parents’ barn. He thinks she’s a vagrant and tells her she has to go. She doesn’t understand English and doesn’t know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens New York where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant. After Vincent leaves for school, Raji slips into his house to find something to eat. She peeks into the front room and is startled to see a man sitting in a wheelchair. He stares at her but apparently cannot move or speak.

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Twisted Beginning by R.A. Lingenfelter

Spoiled young rich boy, Scott Roberts always got what he wanted, and if he didn’t, he took it on his own. One exception to that rule was Lizzie Howard, Scott’s girlfriend. She had come to him willingly and was the one person he counted on. On the night they were to go to prom together, Scott sees Lizzie with another man, and feels completely devastated and betrayed.
One reckless drive home costs Scott his life. Consumed by his anger and conditioned by his privileged mortal existence, Scott forsakes Heaven and instead allows himself to be lured away from the light by the mysterious dark one.
Whispering promises of revenge and power, Lord Icarus recruits Scott to help other bitter spirits seek their own revenge. But with each act of retribution, Scott begins to see that the “promises” Icarus has made to him, are not quite what he believed them to be. In danger of losing his mortal soul, can Scott battle the evil dark one and win or will he be forever destined to hell?

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Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs

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Called, “both intimate and epic,” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs is a coming of age teen adventure full of romance and laugh out loud humor. Fans of John Green’s Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska and Robyn Schneider’s The Beginning of Everything will find what they’re looking for in this debut young adult novel.

Edwin Green’s ex-girlfriend is famous. We’re talking cover-of-every-tabloid-in-the-grocery-store-line famous. She dumped Edwin one year ago on what he refers to as Black Saturday, and in hopes of winning her back, he’s spent the last twelve months trying to become famous himself. It hasn’t gone well.

But when a history class assignment pairs Edwin with Parker Haddaway, the mysterious new girl at school, she introduces him to Garland Lenox, the nursing-home-bound World War II veteran who will change Edwin’s life forever.

The three escape to France, in search of the old man’s long-lost love, and as word of their hilarious adventure spreads, they become media darlings. But when things fall apart, they also become the focus of French authorities. In a race against time, who will find love, and who will only find more heartache?

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The Viral Superhero Series Box Set: Books 1-3 by Bryan Cohen

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When evil spreads, a hero will rise. Eventually…

3 books. 700+ pages of power-packed action from two USA Today bestselling authors! If you like fast-paced thrillers, witty heroes, and ruthless villains, then you’ll love this high-octane series.

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Dragon My Heart Around by D.R. Perry

What’s luck got to do with it?

Dragon shifter Blaine Harcourt’s bewildered when he catches a woman robbing his parents’ Newport Mansion. It gets worse when they leave him in charge of her punishment. His step-dad says it’s time to prove he’s worthy of his future inheritance. His mother just blames him for the whole thing. Blaine’s so angry he just can’t even.

Kimiko Ichiro only wanted to replace what she stole from her father. It’s not her fault the only luck charms powerful enough to stop his rapid aging are in the Harcourt hoard. Robbing powerful dragon shifters seemed like the only way. Besides, thievery’s no big deal to a Tanuki.

Blaine’s used to dealing with books and artifacts, not brilliantly dishonest women. Is Kimiko just using her feminine wiles to hoodwink him, or is something else at play here? And how did she get into the Harcourt’s magically sealed vault in the first place? Could Blaine’s part in foiling an evil magus be the reason for his bad luck, and can Kimiko help him turn it around?

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The Hypnotist by Alyssa Devine

When, on an afternoon outing in Bayou Vermillion, Lafayette, LA, teenager Amanda Wilcox has her fortune read by Madam Zu-Zu, she and her classmate, Tom Lassiter, never thought it would lead to her having a nightmare in which she dreamed she was being choked to death. Under hypnosis, Amanda reveals to Tom that she once was a woman named Kyla Decker, who disappeared 25 years earlier after being stopped by a policeman while driving home early one morning after partying with her girlfriends. An Internet search reveals the name of another woman, Cindi Lathrop, who disappeared some years after Decker under similar circumstances.

As their relationship blossoms, Amanda and Tom uncover evidence linking a former Lafayette, LA, policeman and a funeral home employee to the abductions, men who they suspect murdered the two women. But then, in what appears to be a real-life enactment of what the fortune teller told Amanda, the teenagers find their lives threatened by one of the two men they think was responsible for the murders committed 25 years earlier. Can the teenagers survive, knowing the last of the five tarot cards read to Amanda by Madam Zu-Zu was Death? The only way to learn the answer to that question is to listen to The Hypnotist.

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Of Wolf and Peace by D.R. Perry

If you don’t own your mistakes they’ll own you.

Wolf shifter Josh Dennison shouldn’t tempt coincidence, or he’ll end up ill-fated, like his missing brother and maimed sister. The wolves pledged neutrality when the Goblin King and Sidhe Queen split up centuries ago. But he’s falling for the one woman he can’t have, a Kelpie whose magic comes straight from the Goblin King’s court.

Nox Phillips has hidden on campus since she undid the Queen’s punishing spell. When she and Josh work together again, their mutual attraction can’t be denied. But for any favor shown to one Faerie court, a price must be paid to the other. Nothing can erase Nox’s guilt or prevent the Sidhe Queen from putting her on trial. How far will Josh go to save her?

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Fangs for the Memories by D.R. Perry

Memory is a tricky business.

No one remembers Maddie May. That’s fine with her; just a side effect of Umbral magic. Unfortunately, she has to take the Magic Theory Lab at Providence Paranormal College. Maddie won’t pass if the Professor can’t remember her.

Henry Baxter’s a psychic vampire who can store total recall for himself and others. He’s been in business since 1986, but new regulations mean he needs a degree to keep operating. Going back to college after sixty years on earth is definitely a drag, especially since society treats vampires as second-class citizens.

The woman everyone forgets and the man who remembers everything seem a natural pair. While Maddie’s all for it, Henry keeps pushing her away. But what if the only way they’ll survive is together?

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Swim Season by Marianne Sciucco

Champion swimmer Aerin Keane is ready to give up her dreams of college swimming and a shot at the Olympics. As she starts senior year in her third high school, Aerin’s determined to leave her family troubles behind and be like all the other girls at Two Rivers. She doesn’t want to win anymore. She’s swimming for fun, no longer the freak who wins every race, every title, only to find herself alone.

But when her desire to be just one of the girls collides with her desire to be the best Two Rivers has ever seen, will Aerin sacrifice her new friendships to break a longstanding school record that comes with a $50,000 scholarship?

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Bearly Awake by D.R. Perry

ass, fail, or die.

Bobby Tremain is going to flunk out. And it’s all a massive snowstorm’s fault.

He’ll hibernate until spring unless he can figure out why he’s sleepier than the average bear shifter.

When his professor assigns him a stunning genius-level tutor to pass exams, he discovers Lynn Frampton has her own problems.

Lynn suspects the weather’s being magically enhanced. But as the only regular human on campus, nobody listens to her. Bobby’s listening but that’s a new experience for Lynn.

Working together is the only way to survive the semester and they must focus on books instead of each other.

But exams aren’t their only problem. Ignoring the magical threat is unbearably dangerous.

Unknown forces want Providence Paranormal College closed down at any cost. You’ll love this tale of brain and bear. And this is only the beginning of a ten book series.

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Matt Legend: Veil of Lies by Denis Mills

All Matt Legend wanted to do that dangerous summer was win the affections of a certain mysterious small town girl and get back to L.A. But when they discover a 30-foot human skeleton inside an ancient burial mound he is warned if he tells anyone terrible things will happen and terrible things do. He doesn’t believe in the devil or God. That is about to change.

They have stumbled on a stasis giant, an entity Abraham Lincoln warned mankind about.

Having a normal life ever again is out of the question as Matt and the super-heroine-like girl of his dreams find themselves pitted in a war against the spirit world ─ a war they cannot possibly win. An evil force pulls the stops to try to kill them, their families and their friends when they learn ghosts are not dead people. When they try to tell the world, things go from terrible to worse when they discover the force has an even deadlier secret to protect ─ extraterrestrials are not extraterrestrial.

With an ending you won’t see coming, if he wins, Matt will get the girl. If he loses, seven billion people will perish.

This is the first of the Matt Legend series of young adult fiction paranormal adventures and encounters of the strange kind that deal with every supernatural thing from giants and mermaids (yes they really do exist), to aliens, UFOs, USOs, cryptids, fallen angels and other extra-dimensional beings, the hollow earth, the hollow moon, subterranean civilizations, chemtrails, forbidden archaeology and all strange and terrible things. Heralded as a paranormal Spykids meets Raiders of the Lost Ark, this thrilling series is inspired by little-known covered-up true events.

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