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In this sweet story about developing courage, Max Mallard learns how to overcome his shyness and become a confident young duck.

If your friend is possessed and tries his best to kill you, is he still your friend? Oh come on. Really?Fenwick interrupted Caz's peaceful existence with another assignment from the king. After a difficult mid-winter journey, they find things are far worse than reported. A mage of the Dark Arts has appeared. The two return to the city and obtain assistance from Lucy and the queen.When Caz returns to the Eastern March, the time of the annual incursion of the horse nomads is near. Caz rides east to find a suitable place for an ambush. Caz and his forces, aided by the crown prince and some of the king's personal troops, spring the trap perfectly.Caz learns that the leader of one of the kingdom's most powerful criminal organizations has kidnapped his father. The law and the crown are unwilling or unable to help. Caz and Fenwick deduce that the kidnapping is only meant to draw the two of them into a trap.What sort of courage does it require to walk into a known trap, without knowing what the threat is that's waiting?

Casey Washington has had well-earned success in her career as a data scientist at a start-up in Portland, but all the data in the world hasn't made love possible for her. She's always lamented Adam Raines, the one that got away in college, simply because the timing wasn't right. Adam has been able to get back to his first love, music, since his divorce. He's happy even if life is complicated with his three kids, running his record shop with his brother, and slowly building a name for himself as a songwriter. He has no time for love, but his mind has been going back to his college days, and the woman he's never forgotten. When tragedy brings Casey back to Oklahoma and into Adam's record shop, their entirely different worlds meet head on and everything is turned upside down. Adam offers to help her catalog her dad's record collection. The energy between them is off the charts, but they both know that Casey's time in Oklahoma is limited. Nothing real can come out of this reconnection-but they both can dream, right? The real question is whether or not the dream can come true.

Is true purity found in the laws of religion or in the hearts of the faithful?East Molesey, England, 1661-With the return of the exiled king to his rightful throne, Kate Sinclair's world of black and white now offers the hope of color. But where does color-loving Kate fit? In the bakery as the daughter of a Puritan or in the palace garden among God's myriad hues? Certainly not within the palace walls of an immoral court with new friends.Exiled with King Charles II on the continent, Peter Reresby claims unwavering support of his friend's regained crown. While fighting for the monarchy against his family's wishes, his sister disappears, and Peter is determined to find her.When their opposing beliefs collide, Kate and Peter witness a true test of faith in the ability of mankind to shed the past in order to preserve the future... and perhaps learn that the "greatest of these" truly is love.

The woods do not scare Elena-even if they did have a reputation for being cursed. At least, that was the bravery she had when her father was still alive. Now, accused of being a witch by the village that she once held dear, Elena realizes that going into the woods clouded with superstition may be her only chance at survival. However, once she steps foot past the threshold of the forest, she wonders if perhaps her village had been right about the dangers that lurk within. With what has been taken from her, she is left to hope that her promise to be brave is enough to help her survive.>As clouds darkened the sky and prepared to cleanse the earth with rain, Dmitri could feel something different about the forest. He felt the subtle shift in the trees - a sense of urgency that he had never felt before. He could feel it inside of his chest, like a bird stirring against his ribcage. Helplessly drawn to the source, Dmitri found himself moving as if it had called to him. All he knew was that, as soon as he crossed paths with whatever it was, his life would never be the same.

Adventures of Moosa Kissa is a children's story about a young black female cat who stalks a chipmunk and follows him across the street. Once there she meets another cat, a young gray tiger colored male. They spend the summer chasing and tormenting other animals, including chipmunks, rabbits, squirrels, skunks and birds. One day Moosa Kissa doesn't come to play with Friskie and he visits the house where she lives to find she has four little kittens. ADVENTURES OF MOOSA KISSA is the fourth book published by Carol Ann Asplund, a former teacher as well as a regional transportation planner. In addition, she and her husband owned a general construction company. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography and geology from Clark University, a Master of Arts degree in elementary education from Assumption University and a Master of Science degree in Construction Project Management from the Civil Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Faith Can Move MountainsThere are times in life we find ourselves facing challenges that are unexpected and difficult to handle. We look for integral sources to help us handle the tough periods along the way. We search for those who have experienced where we are, hoping they will give us the answers to make it through our moments of loneliness, worries, and fear. We hope to find someone to identify with who can inspire us to move forward, give us insight, and get us to our victory. We need someone to help us look at and appreciate the challenge through different lenses other than our own. This gives us greater respect and appreciation for those who have experienced where we are, beat it, endured it, and have not succumbed to it. This book is one of those reads that will make you look at the way you see autism. Children with difficulties are labeled as having a disability. They are called disabled. This book will force you to look at life through another lens. They are not all disabled; they are different. These differences must be recognized and dealt with in ways that may not always be our society's standard. This book will challenge you to look at yourself and how you feel about children with differences. Isaiah and Marcel are champions. She raised a champion, and this book will provoke you to look at the ups and downs, the very dark nights, and the very lonely moments that parents have to endure when there is a society that doesn't understand what it takes to deal with this, day in and day out. Our society must change. "Raising Isaiah" will inspire you to have faith that you may not have had before. This woman's faith, tenacity, and veracity for the love of her child and her faith in God aided her in how to raise a young man to become a contribution and a blessing to society.

A cantankerous former mayor and a dead man with a secret...A midlife magic gift to a cat rescue in small-town Texas...A murder mystery that keeps you guessing... After twenty-five years of being chained to a desk job, Eleanor Rockwell finally made her dream a reality. Before retirement age could issue the forty-five-year-old a watch, she packed up her things and moved a few miles north of Austin with her daughter, Evie, by her side. The mother and daughter started a Silver Circle Cat Rescue in the adorable western town of Scarville, Texas, and they never looked back at the life they'd left behind.With Silver Circle Cat Rescue the county's largest shelter for lost kitties, it's no surprise when handsome Deputy Markham brings Belladonna, former mayor Fiona Blackwell's cat, after she's arrested for murdering her husband, Beau. But why did the Deputy bring a silver drink tray with strange markings and an otherworldly glow along with the sullen, angry cat-and why is Belladonna talking when she walks on it? Before Ellie can get any real answers, Fiona Blackwell is murdered after a mysterious geriatric prison escape. With all this death in the small town, and the sly black cat being cagey, Ellie is sure that Belladonna knows far more than she's saying-can the Cat Rescue save the cat and crack the case?Join Ellie, Evie, and all the cats at Silver Circle Rescue in this new cozy paranormal midlife mystery series! The townsfolk of Scarville and the animals that call the rescue home will captivate you.

Michael Somes is the unsung hero of The Royal Ballet - the dynamo driving performances as dancer and partner to Margot Fonteyn and as overseer of performances in the company's greatest years. From humble beginnings, he challenged the prevailing prejudice against male dancers to become a star and a maker of stars, serving The Royal Ballet longer and contributing more to its development than anyone except its founder, Ninette de Valois. The Royal Ballet was his life. Somes was born in 1917when ballet belonged to the exotic foreigner and even a British ballerina seemed impossible let alone an Englishman becoming a ballet dancer. In 1934, three years after the establishment of the Vic-Wells (now Royal) Ballet he was the first scholarship boy at their school. Only three years later ballets were being created for him, but four years of wartime service, culminating in serious injury, threatened to put an end to his career. In 1946 he was integral to the company's move to Covent Garden, acclaimed tours in war-scarred Europe, a sensational New York debut in 1949 and triumphant coast-to-coast tours of North America. His masterly partnering skills underlay Fonteyn's transformation into an international star. They were the great ballet partnership, glamour incarnate, feted throughout the world: in Australia and South Africa people curtseyed to them like royalty: they were cultural ambassadors in Eastern Europe at the height of the Cold War and the first British dancers to appear in Japan. They danced before crowned heads and heads of state and the elite of Hollywood and Broadway. Under Somes' stern editorial eye, Ashton created masterpieces for them. As The Royal Ballet's Assistant Director in the 1960s, during the company's golden years, Somes nurtured a wealth of talent at all levels, notably Antoinette Sibley (who became his second wife) and Anthony Dowell, and developed a corps de ballet of unsurpassed perfection. He described himself as a "'sponge' & 'telephone wire'" through which to pass the treasury of knowledge he learnt from the legendary names of 20th century ballet, and saw passing on that knowledge as a duty and a privilege. Now the legend of Somes the ruthless upholder of standards, of iron discipline and unpredictable rages was born, but seldom acknowledged is his endless patience, kindness, generosity and deep concern for every member of the company. Somes was The Royal Ballet's soul and moral centre. Woven through his life were the legends of 20th century ballet - Karsavina, Massine, Markova, Dolin, Balanchine, de Valois, Ashton, Fonteyn, MacMillan, Nureyev - musicians like Constant Lambert and Adrian Boult, artists like John Piper and Edward Burra. Drawing on Somes' hitherto unseen letters and diaries augmented by interviews with contemporaries and those he mentored, Dynamo is a first-hand account of both successes and failures, the day to day struggles, the grumbles and disagreements as British ballet grew from a few dancers in a fringe theatre in then unfashionable Islington to a company that challenged the supremacy of ballet in Russia and France.