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  Spacemen Die At Home - Exile...

  Edward W. Ludwig

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  Spacemen Die At Home by Edward W. Ludwig - One man's retreat is another's prison ... and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home! 
  Forty days of heaven and forty nights of hell. That's the way it's been, Laura. But how can I make you understand? How can I tell you what it's like to be young and a man and to dream of reaching the stars? And yet, at the same time, to be filled with a terrible, gnawing fear—a fear locked in my mind during the day and bursting out like an evil jack-in-the-box at night. I must tell you, Laura. 
  Perhaps if I start at the beginning, the very beginning.... 
  It was the Big Day. All the examinations, the physicals and psychos, were over. The Academy, with its great halls and classrooms and laboratories, lay hollow and silent, an exhausted thing at sleep after spawning its first-born. 
  For it was June in this year of 1995, and we were the graduating class of the U. S. Academy of Interplanetary Flight. 
  The first graduating class, Laura. That's why it was so important, because we were the first. 
  We sat on a little platform, twenty-five of us. Below us was a beach of faces, most of them strange, shining like pebbles in the warm New Mexican sunlight. They were the faces of mothers and fathers and grandparents and kid brothers and sisters—the people who a short time ago had been only scrawled names on letters from home or words spoken wistfully at Christmas. They were the memory-people who, to me, had never really existed. 
  But today they had become real, and they were here and looking at us with pride in their eyes. 
  A voice was speaking, deep, sure, resonant. "... these boys have worked hard for six years, and now they're going to do a lot of big things. They're going to bring us the metals and minerals that we desperately need."

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  The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines

  Mo Netz

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  In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom disappears, it’s up to Jerry to brave the forest and its demons so she can save what’s left of her family. 
  Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair.  
  But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into the woods, never to been seen again. Not to mention that Jerry’s mom keeps vanishing to do “special work” that she refuses to discuss. When her mother doesn’t come home one morning, Jerry springs into action. 
  Luckily, she’s not alone. Paul, a pocket-size imaginary dragon, and Chapel, a new friend with a penchant for the supernatural, join Jerry’s search for her missing mom. But along the way Jerry discovers her mother’s terrible secret: she’s not a housekeeper at all; in fact, she’s been defending the town from demons that have been haunting it for generations. 
  Armed with nothing but a Ren Faire sword and a backpack, Jerry and her friends venture into the forbidden woods to save Jerry’s mother. But the “demons” hiding there aren’t what they seem, and Jerry must unravel the truth behind the town’s legend, or risk losing what’s left of her family.

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  Revolutions

  Carissa Andrews

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  A Stunning Dystopian Sci-Fi Finale 
  The rebellion has begun, but the battle is far from over. 
  Runa’s journey comes full circle as she and her allies prepare to take on the Helix, the oppressive System controlling Pendomus. Armed with ancient knowledge, her emerging powers, and the strength of those she loves, she must confront Videus—the architect of destruction—before he reshapes her world into a nightmare of control and conformity. 
  But as shadows of betrayal loom and secrets unravel, Runa faces her most dangerous challenge yet: the truth about her destiny and the role she must play in Pendomus’s survival. The line between savior and sacrifice blurs, and Runa must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect those she holds dear. 
  With enemies on all sides and time running out, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Can Runa dismantle the Helix before its grip becomes unbreakable, or will her revolution crumble under the weight of its secrets?

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  Edgar the Danceman Season 1...

  Abel Studios

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  Edgar has found a new job as a traffic conductor. It's perfect. No music; just the sounds of traffic. Even better, though... Olivia agrees to go on a date with him. Things are looking up! But how is he going to go on a date that doesn't involve any music?

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  The Days of Bluegrass Love

  Edward van de Vendel

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  Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it – school, friends, girls, plans for the future – just kind of . happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn't direct. 
   
  So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway. 
   
  And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his. 
   
  The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers – a tender, intense, unforgettable story of first love.

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  A Loveliness of Ladybugs

  Kathy Broderick

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  Want a  delightful way to unpack the meaning of unusual figures of speech. This imaginative book takes a closer look at the fanciful, and sometimes curious, words we use to describe groups of animals.

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