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  Festergrimm

  Thomas Taylor

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  In the fourth tale in this beloved series, villainous Sebastian Eels returns to Eerie-on-Sea, thrusting Herbie and Violet into a new adventure involving a missing girl, a spooky wax museum, and a dangerous clockwork robot. 
   
   
   
  Herbie Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, and his fearless friend Violet Parma have unearthed many secrets in their village of Eerie-on-Sea: secrets lurking beneath the waves, lapping onto the beaches, and lying behind locked doors. When their brilliant and ruthless nemesis, Sebastian Eels, returns with a plan to open the long-shuttered waxworks museum, Herbie and Violet suspect nefarious motives. Their investigation leads them into the dark Netherways below the town—and into the tragic past of the famous toymaker and inventor Ludovic Festergrimm and his doomed daughter, Pandora. Sebastian Eels is convinced that within the story of Festergrimm is the key to Eerie's deepest secret—a secret in which Herbie himself plays a crucial part—and he'll stop at nothing to uncover it, including bringing a terrifying clockwork legend back to life. With echoes of fairy tales and monster movies, plus a dismembered finger or two, this is a deliciously creepy addition to a fantastical mystery series that is perfectly calibrated to thrill middle-grade listeners.

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  Bibi and Tina The Haunted Forest

  Markus Dittrich

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  Ghosts in the Falkenstein Forest? Bibi and Tina make fun of these rumors with Alex and Freddy and keep scaring each other for fun during a camping trip. But then strange things happen on the Martins Farm: things disappear from the stable, strange noises can be heard. Is it haunted?

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  The Hills of Home - Was It...

  Alfred Coppel

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  The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel - In the quiet beauty of a late-summer riverbank, a soldier returns to the place that shaped him. But the peace of home hides memories and truths he can’t escape. 
  The river ran still and deep, green and gray in the eddies with the warm smell of late summer rising out of the slow water. Madrone and birch and willow, limp in the evening quiet, and the taste of smouldering leaves.... 
  It wasn’t the Russian River. It was the Sacred Iss. The sun had touched the gem-encrusted cliffs by the shores of the Lost Sea of Korus and had vanished, leaving only the stillness of the dusk and the lonely cry of shore birds. 
  From downstream came the faint sounds of music. It might have been a phonograph playing in one of the summer cabins with names like Polly Ann Roost and Patches and Seventh Heaven, but to Kimmy it was the hated cry of the Father of Therns calling the dreadful Plant Men to their feast of victims borne into this Valley Dor by the mysterious Iss.

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  Make a Pretty Sound - A Story of...

  Traci N. Todd

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  Once upon a time, children's music was just Mother Goose, nursery songs, and lullabies. And then came Ella Jenkins. 
    
  Ella Jenkins is an American folk singer and living legend dubbed The First Lady of Children's Music. For nearly 70 years, she has been writing and performing music that has entertained and engaged generations of young listeners. In Make a Pretty Song, Ella's life and legacy are captured in vibrant sights, sounds, and stories that leap right off the page. 
    
  Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Chicago, Ella grew up loving music of all kinds—the call-and-response of Cab Calloway, the exciting rhythms of Moroccan and Indian records spun in a local record shop, the bluesy notes her uncle teased from his harmonica. She listened to music from around the world, and no matter what language it was in, she could feel what it meant—the bridge in understanding and feeling that music offers from one heart to another. 
    
  When she began working with children, she knew just what to do. She knew music would offer children a kinetic learning experience that engaged them physically, verbally, and empathetically, creating community out of song. Soon, she was recording her own albums and became an international star. 
    
  Ella's journey—from the gritty streets of Chicago to the classrooms where she found her calling to an opportunity to raise her voice for freedom alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., to the spotlight of the world's stage—is rhythmically, joyfully, brilliantly illuminated. For readers familiar with Ella Jenkins or new to her work, this nonfiction book offers a treasury of inspiration that touches on American history, civil rights, cultural awareness, and the incredible power of music.

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  Jupiter Rising - The Celestial...

  Christopher Allen

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  JUPITER RISING – THE CELESTIAL CHRONICLES 
  Book 4 of 6  The Rings of Saturn 
  This story is summarized as follows: 
  Captain Minerva Voss and her crew aboard the Odysseus uncover a cosmic mystery hidden in Saturn’s rings. What begins as a haunting harmony turns out to be a Sagittari language—a warning. The team discovers an ancient archway, a gateway to a quantum echo revealing the rings as a stabilizing circuit keeping the entity Nyx imprisoned within Jupiter. But the Syndicate, led by Darius Kane, seeks to disrupt this balance and unleash Nyx’s power. A rogue Syndicate scientist, Jace Ryker, joins Minerva to stop Kane’s catastrophic plan, revealing a project aiming to merge humanity with void energy. As planetary alignment nears, Minerva leads a desperate mission to retune the rings and reinforce the prison. Jace sacrifices himself to complete the sequence, stabilizing Jupiter—for now. But a final vision warns: Nyx stirs, and the next Convergence looms ever closer.  
  This is the fourth of six audiobooks in the series and I do hope you enjoy this fourth instalment, and it's only $3, all subsequent will remain at that price. 
  I have worked very hard and meticulously to provide you with an enjoyable experience, the initial opening credit music which does run to approximately 2 1/2 minutes and prepares you for the start, synthesizer, bass and cymbals in a soul/funk form. The closing music ends the tale on a darker tone and at about 2 minutes and the same musical instruments, genre and industrial/fearful mood but with more caution added.  
  The story itself runs to about 15 minutes and is narrated in my own voice.  
  I do hope you enjoy this audiobook and let me know what you think, there are a lot more to come! 
  Christopher Allen     -      At your service

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  Ice Cycle - Poems about the Life...

  Maria Gianferrari

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  Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms!
   
  From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!,comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the many different types of ice on land and at sea. Fascinating back matter provides additional information about water as a solid, liquid, and gas, as well as more details about the unique forms of ice mentioned in the poems. Celebrate winter with this evocative and atmospheric exploration of ice!

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