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The Axe's Daughter - All World's A Carnival
Sometimes Lizzie Borden feels like she’s living a Shakespearean comedy. So much has happened since she joined Monsieur Mesonges’ Carnival that she barely remembers her prior life as a stripper. After arriving in Ashland, Oregon, Lizzie learns she must use the talents of her past to reel in a warden for information about a Shield, locked in his small-town jail. Will she be able to dance her way to a carnival brother’s freedom? There’s one thing she knows for sure:
The show must go on!
“Careful, or The Bad will get you”
“Mother says the barn is filled with The Bad, but it’s one of the only places Viola finds peace. Her memories aren’t her own and it’s almost too much for a nine-year-old to bear.
Generations had been born on Klein Farm, but as far as Viola can tell, none of their lives had been happy — and some of them ended in violence, including her own.”
The Axe's Daughter: Maid In The Sun
After being summoned to beautiful Santa Cruz, California, Monsieur Mesonges’ Carnival learns one of their kind is in trouble. An ocean rescue is in order, and Lizzie decides she’s going to be the hero. When not swinging on the trapeze, she’s scouring the boardwalk for clues, hoping to find the mysterious figure on the run from some really bad guys–who just happen to be her relatives.
Lizzie finally has the family she always dreamed of, is the star attraction for an enchanted carnival, and has the best boyfriend ever. Not everybody is happy for her, though–some would like nothing more than to sweep the trapeze safety net from under her feet!
The Axe's Daughter
Good thing being one tough mother is in her blood.
Lizzie Borden is pretty sure she is going to spend the rest of her life bumping and grinding at the same pole her mother stripped on before her. Once she finally decides to embrace her exotic dancing destiny, she finds a shiny new one. Lizzie learns that before she was born, her mother worked as a gifted trapeze artist for an enchanted traveling carnival, owned by Monsieur Mesonges: Ringmaster extraordinaire and Lizzie’s maternal grandfather.
As Mesonges long suspected, Lizzie inherited her mother’s acrobatic endowment – and now that she knows where she belongs she must fight to remain there. Once believing herself a lone orphan, Lizzie finds she has a large and unique extended family. One half is full of magic and ready to welcome her into the fold, but her father’s side will stop at nothing until she’s dead.
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Will Travel
The clock is ticking.
Time travel is real: Will North knows how it works. A henchman from the future will stop at nothing to get his secret, but no threat of torture will change the fact that Will is a nonverbal nine-year-old. His alcoholic mother and her future sober self must find him before irreparable damage is done.
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Necromancer's Garden
Rose of Sharon learned at an early age that she has a very strange talent – the ability to raise the dead. Shunned by the People's Land, an isolated community, she walks through life as a pariah.
Across the river is The Outside, and the forbidden things females aren’t supposed to experience: books, education, technology, freedom. Chrys and her mother Catherine, escapees from the People's Land, are Rose of Sharon's only true connection to her past. But time is running out - Catherine is quickly losing her battle against cancer.
As the two cousins forge an unlikely friendship through a series of letters, they learn about each other's lives and how much they can rely on one another. Rose of Sharon dreams of a place she can belong and Chrys is desperate to rescue her from the closely guarded property, where only men are allowed to exit ... and Outsiders are not allowed in.
Frankie in Paris
Frankie has never been, well, normal. But apart from her family and a few close friends, no one knows how different she really is. Born with telekinetic powers, Frankie tries her best to act like everyone else—but sometimes her emotions get the best of her and her "special talent" takes the wheel.When Frankie's grandmother, Lulu, offers to take her to France, it seems like a pretty good deal! Frankie could never have dreamed of the crazy adventures she would experience, and how often she might have to rescue her grandmother. Prior to leaving on their vacation Frankie is reminded by her friends not to "do that extra thing" that she can do. However, Lulu participates in more than her share of hijinks—leaving Frankie to wonder who is acting as the adult on their vacation, and occasionally causing her to lose the tenuous internal battle that she often has to wage with her TK powers. She sees some famous sights and encounters a host of colorful people, wishing that she could have shared her trip to the most romantic place in the world with her handsome boyfriend—instead of with her crazy grandmother. In the end, Frankie learns that you can't choose your family but you're pretty lucky if your family chooses you for a traveling partner—no matter how unconventional they may be.
Chicken Soup of the Soul - Christmas Is in the Air
Get into the holiday spirit with these 101 magical stories about the most wonderful time of the year!
Prepare to be inspired by these tales of giving, gratitude, and kindness. You’ll also pick up some creative ways to make your own holidays even more special, with new plans for family fun, gift ideas, and activities.
These 101 true personal stories are filled with the cheer of the season. They’ll leave you smiling and eager to share the joy of the holidays, from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas and New Year’s. We didn’t forget the kids either. All the stories in this collection are “Santa safe,” meaning they keep the magic alive even for precocious readers. And your purchase will support Toys for Tots as well, creating miracles for children all over the U.S. 25¢ per book sold will go to Toys for Tots.
Prompting The Moon
Lunar stories from some of the best writers on Twitter! Edited by Scott Christopher Beebe, published by Steering 23.
The fourth anthology from Steering 23 Publications, edited by Scott Christopher Beebe. It features writers from Twitter's Writing Community which is unprecedented in terms of the members' collective, endlessly innovative pieces. These seventy-eight creatives come from all four corners of the world, each bringing their own unique perspective on the moon. Readers will shuffle through each identifiable human emotion by the time they have consumed all the landmark beauty, devastation, humor, sorrow and elation brought forth by zesty language of these brilliant authors. They will also recognize this volume as a literary experience which is marked by a genuine force in these wordsmiths' authenticity.
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Avalanches in Poetry
This bookzine is a book dedicated to the Inspiration of Leonard Cohen has left on many lives. Poetry, Quotes, Artwork photos, stories. It has been 3 years since his passing, and it is still hard to come to full grip with this. Contributors include Geoffrey Wren, Paul Robert Mullen, Attracta Fahy, John Everex, Lennon Stravato, Joan Hawkins, Christina Strigas, ps Pirro, Sarah Marquez, Xerado, Norb Aikin, Ediney-Santana, Neel Trivedi, Amanda McLeod, Robert Frede Kenter, Jack Bowman, Ryan De Leon from Sons & Daughters Journal, Ellen Kirkman, Greg Santos, Kari Ann Flickinger, John W Leys, Pavlina Marie, Amy Barnes, Michael Igoe, Kushal Poddar, Gerald Jatzek, David Mellor, Ankh Spice, David Grant Lee, Shauna McGuiness, Peter Hague, Samantha Merz, Tim Heerdink, Madison McSweeney, Kimberly Cunningham, Barney Ashton Bullock, David L O'Nan, Hillesha O'Nan
Poetry in 13: Volume One
Editor Scott Christopher Beebe assembled 37 worldwide participants of his exercise for poets, #Poetryin13 where their task is to create a thirteen-word poem using the word he daily provides. This is the first anthology project. Their masterful use of language and intricate skill makes one assume it is effortless for these professional people, but seeing that their host also creates daily poems alongside, Mr. Beebe understands how difficult it can be. Readers will find more than their money's worth with their wonderful poetry.
Poetry in 13: Volume Two
Steering 23 Publications is proud to announce the arrival of editor Scott Christopher Beebe's latest project: the fifth anthology of unparalleled globe-spanning poets from Twitter's Writing Community, which features an accumulative breathtaking gift. Here in the second volume of POETRY IN 13, Beebe had given followers the complicated task of weaving poetic pieces using 13 words including (and around) a daily prompt word he gives them. Sixty (nearly twice the amount of poets featured in the first anthology) of them selflessly gave him permission to edit their work into this outstanding mass of poetry which tallies more than 500 pieces. Waiting for you to discover is all of their unique voices which are sure to cause readers to experience the entire spectrum of emotions.
Crispy Rooftop Conversation Stories
More than 900 micro fiction stories from 121 of Twitter's finest writers from around the globe are included in this comprehensive collection based upon the daily word hashtag #ConverStory, created by the book's editor, Scott Christopher Beebe. The task these writers are given is to create original Tweet-length stories by only using conversations. No dialog tags or any other action is allowed. This wound up yielding hilarious, poignant, quaint and clever results.
Hashtag The Horizon
Scott Christopher Beebe (author of WHAT'S BECOME OF ME, UNDERDOGS ARE NEVER OVER CATS and the BREW TOWN MAYHEM mystery series as well as editor of the micro fiction anthology CRISPY ROOFTOP CONVERSATION STORIES) personally selected 50 members spanning all six livable continents in Twitter's worldwide Writing Community to participate in HASHTAG THE HORIZON, a book which subject is a personal one to anyone who has ever held onto hope for themselves, mankind, and good outcomes whether it be at the end of a war or first date. None of them failed in the task when he gave them a hashtag prompt for "the horizon". Heartfelt, humorous, whimsical, terrifying, mysterious, multi-generational, -sexual identified, -cultural, -spiritual, among many other facets can be identified and proven in their stories and poetry as these fifty incredibly talented people showcase a lovely, loving, masterful use of language in multitudinous genres such as horror, micro fiction, prose, mystery, LGBTQ, humor, and more represented in one little book with a big heart plus a whole lot of soul.
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Flashing Conversation Stories
Editor Scott Christopher Beebe has assembled sixty-eight members of Twitter's impressive Writing Community to contribute work they had written for his hashtag game, #ConverStory. They hail from all over the globe, and bring their unique voices and outlooks on life through the art of conversation. The entire spectrum of emotions are on display in the roughly 500 micro fiction pieces that were selected. These verbal exchanges also cover an impressive amount of literary genres, from science fiction to mystery and suspense to LGBTQ to horror to history and many more. There's something here for every serious lover of the written word.