Amy Laurens
61) With This Ring
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Selkies and swan maidens… Everyone knows the European tales of these innocent changelings, captured by greedy humans. Now meet them Down Under.Platypuses like Orkney: playful creatures, gentle water animals not known for their aggression. For a collector like Lia? The perfect target.But once collected, platykies can't remember their old identities. Orkney has a lingering sense of wrongness, of loss… and he can't place it.Let's hope he can figure...
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Her father murdered her mother right in front of her. Of course that left traumatic scars.But in her quest for revenge, she discovers nothing about her life matches her beliefs.Confronted with the choice, revenge or truth, she must decide what she is willing to lose…A very short dark fantasy about that moment when your childhood paradigm shatters-and how you move on through the fallout.
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Nearly one in four people in the western world own a dog. Chances are, you're one of them-or you'd like to be. But is everything you think you know about dogs correct? How much conventional wisdom can you really trust?Welcome to thirty-two of the more common mistakes that people make about dogs. Learn the truth about ideas you didn't even realise were wrong, and become even closer to humanity's very best friend.
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Nuns, possibly magical-Mary never could get the story from her mother straight-raised her mother. They provided her food, and care, and love-and left her with a legacy.Because when Mary reached maturity, it came with a surprise: plant magic.But Mary must figure out the secret left by her mother- A kiss? How can a kiss be a secret? Which kiss? With whom? And when?-if she ever hopes to use her powers for good.For everyone who longs for magic and a happy...
65) Bones of the Sea
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Due to a fortuitous combination of luck, caution and common sense, Lucy makes it to fourteen without seeing the Mist-carnivorous, ravenous, rolling in through the forest from the sea every few years.
Then her mother sends her to the forest for potion ingredients. Determined to prove her maturity, Lucy goes eagerly.
The Mist rolls in, and Lucy must choose: carnivorous Mist, or cursed bones?
A rich, dark fantasy for everyone who believes in doing...
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The fairies have a secret they're just DYING to protect...Snatched away from her friends in Melbourne, Australia, and sent to the small town of Nowra with her family under witness protection, Emma spends her birthday afternoon alone... Until the doorbell rings, revealing a hand-addressed parcel.
Someone knows their location.
Emma snaps. Furious at her sister for jeopardising their family's safe, Emma storms out. But what Emma finds down at the creek...
67) Fire Bright
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The absolute last thing Adela wants? Rather, um, heated dreams about Jiri, her school archnemesis now on the opposite side of a violent, magical culture war.
Unfortunately, her subconscious disagrees.
Or the magical fate potion Anamata disagrees.
Either way, Adela needs to sort out her feelings fast, before the annoying night-time distraction becomes a possibly fatal distraction in the middle of a battle…
68) Shoe
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Jenna finds an abandoned shoe on the side of the road, unaware that the shoe waits deliberately. Inexplicably drawn to the shoe, Jenna takes it home. But what the shoe wants from her? A price she never wanted to pay… A short, chilling retelling of the Red Shoes fairy tale.
69) Not Fantasy
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Meet Beth, young, hopeful, and a staunch believer in all things magical-made easier by the fact that she owns a talking pink tortoise and a hyperactive pen.Meet her creative writing professor, Mr Sedriane, who refuses to allow his students to write anything fantastical. But maybe today, for this assignment, Beth might write from the heart. Something she loves. Something she believes in. No matter what the punishment. No matter what the price.A story...
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In a series of plays written for a teen audience, "Where Your Treasure Is" explores a variety of Christian concepts, from the real meaning of trust, freedom and forgiveness, to the importance of exercising the gifts we have been given. Plays range from 8 to 70 minutes and usually require 6 or 8 actors.Drive (a 70-minute play for 8 actors): Two apparently unrelated teens learn what it means to both trust and be trusted.Where Your Treasure Is (a 40-minute...
71) The Loved One
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Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage...
72) The reader
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c2012
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IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A boy and his dog hike to the top of a very tall, snowy hill where they play, enjoy a snack, and then share their favorite book before sledding home.