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The 20th century has just dawned when David is apprenticed to a Yorkshire coal miner. But what of the younger brothers and sister he has been forced to leave behind in their London workhouse? Will he ever see them again?

This is a short book of mostly short poems, all of them about Tobin the dog. He was the best yellow lab friend many of us ever had. This homage to Tobin will make you laugh and cry!

The story of a bean and a firefly who fell down a very deep well and how they survived to tell the tale.

Two of the fairies have a day off and go on a picnic, but as is often the case with young people they do not heed the warnings, and as you can guess from the title get lost in the forest, but not just any forest.

Enjoy this collection of magical short stories about dragons. In "When Dragon Shrank", hear an enchanting story of the friendship between Dragon and Red Squirrel, who swap sizes for a day. They experience one another's worlds and learn to appreciate themselves just the way they are. Also included are four other dragon stories: "Sir Thomas and the Dragon", "Too Many Dragons", "There Goes the Neighborhood", and "Mae and the Dragon."

A summery short story about hitchhiking, surfing, and living the alternative lifestyle.

This is the latest in the series of fairy tales about the fairies who look after the colors in the world. It tells the story of the annual spring ball and the naming ceremony of Ruby and Francisco's twins.

Audiobooks one to three of the Forest People series. Includes Chameleon: The Awakening, Chameleon: The Choosing, and Chameleon: The Summoning.

Surviving the ultimate transformation and the Agnoses predators, Camryn now faces the rise of a new Mazikeen Queen who thinks nothing of calling the darkness for her own needs. With the forest people on the brink of war, she retreats to the solitude of the Cloud Forests. To grieve. To heal. To accept she is the chameleon of prophecy. But the ancient world proves to be anything but quiet, and she is far from alone.

[Contains explicit content] Maggie Faris joins Audible for her sophomore album, A Dingus Among Us, highlighting the signature goofiness that has endeared Maggie to anyone who has had the privilege of hearing her perform. This album is compiled of some of her favorite jokes to use on the road, from silly one liners to the absurd storytelling that has carved out a perfect seat for her in the renowned Minneapolis comedy scene.

A woman called to me from the end of the grocery aisle. “Yoo-hoo, Baxley! Did you hear about last night’s burglary?” Charlotte Armstrong was my best friend and a reporter for our weekly paper. Excitement radiated from her plus-sized body, fluorescent lighting glinted off her purple glasses. I put down the generic peanut butter I’d been considering. “Are you kidding? The whodunit question buzzed around the hardware store and the bank like a drunken hornet.”

Audiobook nine tells how the Colour Fairies learn about Valentine's Day, how the customs started, and how they celebrate. We meet old favorites like Clementine and Golda and meet new fairies like Thistledown.

Opposites attract when billionaire Bryce Dalton meets his lodge guest, Kat Jones, while she's on a corporate retreat. It's love at first sight for Bryce. For Kat? Not so much.

After the Viscount Marlowe's latest misadventure gets Miss Minerva Jones sacked from her teaching post, he hires her as a governess for his twins. Marlowe finds himself falling for the feisty bookworm - an alarming development for a man who was nearly broken by his disastrous marriage. Can he risk his heart without falling apart again? Minerva would rather be employed by anyone other than the walking disaster that is the Viscount Marlowe, but she finds a home in Lord Marlowe's eccentric household, and loses her heart to not only the twins but also their impossible father.

London, 1897: Lady Christiana Harker once committed a grave sin against her kind when she saved Inspector Elijah Drexler's life by turning him into a vampire. Christiana's bold act has only driven Elijah deeper into an impenetrable darkness, fueled by morphine, nightmares, and a constant thirst for blood. Elijah has no room left in his heart for anything but his quest for vengeance against his childhood tormentor, a quest that he fully expects to end with his own death.

Swimming one mile takes me about an hour, and for a long time, I gaged my experience by how many laps I had swum. Once I got to 36, the mile mark, I would quit swimming. I talked to a lifeguard who is a veteran of the Iraq war and was touched by his humility. He said if I want motivational advice not to talk with him. But he told me his routine involves swimming at whatever pace he feels like for about an hour. I began wondering if I could do that, to swim like I did when I was a child, just for swimming's sake. Just because it feels so wonderful.

Some people write college essays just to turn in the required assignment, but rare students - through their passion - turn into the assignments as works of art. Five of these were actual assignments for classes in autobiography, bloomsbury, religion, peace studies, one was written just for fun during college years, and the final essay was my actual admissions essay.

This is the story of Mhoddy Dhoo, which basically means "black dog". He haunts the ruins of Peel Castle in the Isle of Man or Ellen Vannin, as it used to be called. He has many adventures before and after his death, and this story tells but a few.

This is a short story of a young woman driving south in the time of the Korean War. Loosely told, it is fiction based on the history of Monteverde, Costa Rica.

This is wonderful material. This is a giddy collection of idiosyncratic folks living close, all noticing what the others are doing.