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This is an autobiography of James Kramer, who is The Boy In the Barn. Growing up in the 1960's, James was treated more like an animal than a child during a time when child abuse was not spoken of and many people looked the other way. A beautiful family on the outside, but no one knew what was going on behind closed doors. He and his siblings suffered tremendous emotional and physical abuse at the hands of a sadistic father and an absent mother. He...
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Busy with her new bar, reluctant medium Billie Culpepper is happy to keep the ghosts away, but when a monthly visitor fails to arrive, she's faced with a life-altering decision.
Meanwhile, Detective Mockler comes across a boy who is being lured out into the woods at night by a mysterious visitor. Concerned for his safety, he begins to suspect that the boy is being haunted.
John Gantry, dabbler of the dark arts, settles into a strange domestic arrangement...
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The Boy in the Song is a follow up to 2010's The Girl in the Song. It features the real-life stories that inspired some classic pop songs about the male of the species. While the first book was filled with songs about unrequited love, the follow-up is more varied, with songs written from a number of emotions. There are songs motivated by love and hate, there are tributes and there are biographical tales. Each song is featured on two, four or six pages...
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Are you tired of reading mundane books? Do you wanna feel like you're actually there? Hear the ocean splashing at your ankles whilst your feet sink into the golden sand, or shivering in the cold like you're in a whirlwind of distraught.
Welcome to the virtual roller coaster where Shakespeare becomes a distant memory and the next greatest author begins to reign. You're welcome
Viva Puerto Rico
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The Psychological Thriller that everyone is going to be talking about - once you've read it, it will haunt you for weeks! Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break, he enjoys the quiet solitude of the boating lake, enjoys passing the time, watching the people come and go. He has also begun to notice another visitor to the lake, a young boy, playing with a stick at the water's edge, a boy who is always alone. Slowly, Dylan can see that...
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Shelley has to pick up the socks she's left all over her room. But when she opens her sock drawer, a tiny troublemaking boy appears. She has to make her bed, but there he is again, underneath the sheets watering a tomato plant. Soon enough this tiny terror is making a mess all over the house and Shelley's efforts to get rid of him only make him grow bigger. The solution, to everyone's surprise, is banishment by hugs and kisses!
A newly designed Classic...
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Jack Grant arrives in Western Australia in 1882, having been expelled from his public school and then sent down from an agricultural college. He experiences hunting, farming, gold mining, fights and his first love of women. His character is forged by the Australian landscape and its hard, no-nonsense people. From the young boy emerges a tough Lawrentian hero. (Goodreads)
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The Boy In The Storm' chronicles three days in the lives of a family and a government agent in Nazi-occupied Britain in 1957. This moving and personal tale of human survival under totalitarianism is intertwined with the historical events, starting in 1941, that led to the current situation. Past and present come together to weave a powerful new story from Sea Lion Press.
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Bullied at school, ashamed of his parents, and tired of who he is, 12-year-old Joseph Ward is certain things are as bad as they can get. Until tragedy strikes and he finds himself locked up in St. Theodore's Academy for Wayward Children, a reform school overseen by a cruel and merciless headmaster.
Joseph has a secret gift, though. A gift that takes him to magical and terrifying worlds. His only hope of escape is through these places. But something...
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It's Halloween 2019 in Mobile, Alabama. Jennifer Riley, CPS supervisor and her team, face a nightmare line-up of child abuse cases. A young boy, imprisoned by his mother, in the family basement, fights for his very life. A baby girl, whose parents are drug addicts, is on life support from a traumatic brain injury. Despite the signs and natural assumptions that could lead the team to the perpetrators, the investigators discovered that the truth is...
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It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-year-old Anton who is running from memories of his brutal childhood and failed marriage. Within months, they begin a love affair that will never let them go. Robbie grows into an accomplished portraitist in the vivid London art world with the help of Anton's enchanting former wife, while Anton turns from his inherited wealth and connections to improve...
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The city of New Orleans, Louisiana has always been linked to the supernatural and occult, but until today, Detective Renee Chavez dismissed the claims as nothing more than tourist bait. When a murder investigation runs her afoul of supernatural creatures, she doesn't know what to make of it. The situation grows more complicated by the arrival of a teenaged, eccentric, supernatural hunter, here on his own agenda. Despite her mistrust, if she's to stop...
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Sometimes dreams aren't just dreams . . .
The boy begging for help in my nightmares is very real. He's trapped, and it's up to me and Mason to get him out. The trouble is, we have to find him first.
It would be a lot easier if we weren't also trying to solve a series of magical murders and deal with my horrible ex-boyfriend at the same time.
Oh, and on top of that, I'm trying to make this relationship work, but that's not the easiest thing to do...
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Boys run the riot volume 4
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Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
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[2021]-[2022]
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"A transgender teen named Ryo finds an escape from the expectations and anxieties of his daily life in the world of street fashion. This personal, heartfelt, fictional story from a transgender manga creator made waves in Japan and will inspire readers all over the world!"--
"High schooler Ryo knows he's transgender, but he doesn't have anyone to confide in about the confusion he feels. He can't tell his best friend, who he's secretly got a crush...
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Having been imprisoned in a deep stone pit by the tyrannical King Baltus for as long as he can remember, the Boy With No Name is unexpectedly set free by the last living minotaur, the albino Grim. Together, they escape into Myrr Wood to join the few remaining monsters of the Old World – a ragtag bunch of goblins, trolls, bendith, harpies, a wendigo, and the only lykkan left in the realm – all hunted by humanity to the brink of extinction. When...
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Annabel Turner sneaks out of her bedroom window at night and walks the streets of her quiet suburban town, while dreaming of a different life. She peers through people's windows, eager for a glimpse of what normal family life looks like.
She just wants to stay out of the way of her alcoholic father until she can get away and pursue her dreams. Unlike her friends, Annabel has little interest in marriage or having children. She desires an education...
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