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- The Beginning of Never by Emily Kurtyan
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Amy Wolf is a fifteen year old girl with depression. At-least, she was until the night she killed herself and became a ghost. Amy killed herself because she lost both her father and her grandmother; the only people that actually cared about her. Her mother remarried an alcoholic who abuses both Amy and her mother.
Amy watched her friends deal with grief without her. One by one she says goodbye to each one of them. She finds out that her boyfriend Carter cheated on her with her friend Brooklyn and seeks revenge on them. She says goodbye to her friends through their dreams, which she can enter in a process called “dream walking.”
Amy receives a ghost mentor named Ebony who explains to her what will happen now that she is a ghost. She has roughly a month to get closure before she moves on to Terra Porta Mortuua, or the land of the dead. Ebony tells her the story of her death; a story of love, jealousy, and murder. Amy and Ebony become great friends until she leaves for Terra Porta Mortuua.
After Ebony moves on, Amy meets the boy she must mentor, Evan. She feels an irresistible pull to him, and the two instantly fall in love. Amy tells him her whole story of why she killed herself. At the end of the book she admits that she was raped by her stepfather’s friend, got pregnant, and was forced to have an abortion. Finally, Amy finds love with Evan as a ghost, and peacefully moves on to her next life.- Genres: Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Speculative Fiction
- Who Will Hug the Sun by Ey Wade
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Mhia loves to hug and receive hugs. In the book, Who Will Hug the Sun?, Mhia is so upset about not being able to hug the sun her mom tells her the story of the antics the sun goes through to get a hug and she learns a little science in the end.
Who Will Hug the Sun is part of a series of picture books titled IN MY SISTER’S WORLD The series features young African-American sisters and their view of the world around them.
- Genres: Children, Fairy Tales, Young Adult
- NOT A SOUND NOT A PEEP by Ey Wade
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What would you do to ease the fears of your child’s nightmares? Not a Sound, Not a Peep shows how the family in prose and illustrations handles the nightmares of Mhia, the youngest child in the family.
- Genres: Children, Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult
- BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM by Ey Wade
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Gillean is the middle daughter. She sometimes feels neglected and left out.
Between the Two of Them explores the advantages and disadvantages of being the middle child and shows how Gillean discovers she has the uniqueness of being the only sister with the ability to be either the eldest or the youngest child in the family.
- Genres: Children, Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult
- "Thorns of a Red Rose" by RoseMeade
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This gruesome mystery takes place first in El Paso, Texas and then in Charleston with many of the characters living very horrific lives. You'll read some scenes that cause you to slam the book down... only to pick it up and begin again later. If you find yourself believing you have the plot figured out, continue to the next chapter. You will find that you may have missed one last detail. Our advice, don't read “Thorns of a Red Rose” while trying to fall asleep, unless you’re the type of reader that “just can’t put the book down.”
- Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
- From inside these prison walls By: Louis M. Boudreaux
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Shackles
They may be able to put shackles on my wrist, and they can put shackles on my ankles;
But they will never be able to shackle my mind.
This may be hard for some to understand
But even though I sit and write from the confines of an Arizona prison,
I am blessed in so many other ways.
Yes, I long for my freedom
As I look out at the world from inside these prison walls.- Genres: Poetry
- I remember you well by Louis M. Boudreaux By: Louis M. Boudreaux
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This poetry was written over the last four years; in Hollywood California, Las Vegas Nevada, Casa Grande, Tempe, and Tucson Arizona. Written in friend’s bedrooms, coffee shops, bars, sitting on sidewalks, motel rooms, and jail cells. Thank you to The Lost Girls for all of your inspiration. An extra special thank you to Riverside Julia for getting me started over a decade ago. Your belief in me has not been in vain. My most heartfelt appreciation to you, the reader. Writing this book has brought me great joy and heartache. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
All my love and respect,
Louis M. Boudreaux- Genres: Poetry
- The Love of the Truth, American Babylon, the price of freedom By: Doublee
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First and foremost, thank you God, for bringing Christ to me. Thank you Angie, for never forsaking me after I came to prison. Thank you Dad, for your love and support and for not giving up on me when everyone else did. Thank you Stephen Karban for being a good cell mate and a great friend, and for encouraging me to keep writing. And a very special thanks to Jennifer and MLR Publishers for publishing my books when no one else would.
- Genres: Religious
