All She Wrote: Charmaine’s Version


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All She Wrote: Charmaine's Version instantly takes the reader on an emotive journey through life's countless spirit-lifting triumphs and inevitable trials. These snippets of self-discovery in poetic form reveal a heartfelt narrative that jolts the depth of one's psyche wide awake. Through Charmaine's eloquent use of alliterative lines, striking stanzas, and lulling metaphors, this ultimate awakening of the senses gains momentum page by page. Both insightful and equally as expressive, poetess Charmaine Glass Davis invites you to lose the notion of all things superficial and trivial, so you can discover what really matters in this life: authenticity and true depth at a soul level. By the book's end, you will hold in your hands not a typical collection of poems, but a one-of-a-kind transformational story that you won't soon forget.




Almost Invisible


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Jewel is on the run from an abusive home situation and furtively living at school. After Maya discovers her classmate’s secret, should she tell? Or can she help Jewel on her own? Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address. She tried to find Charmaine once, but that only brought her family to the attention of the police. Now Jewel keeps her head down at school, looks after her special-needs brother as well as she can, and tries to steer clear of her parents and their shady friends. When her father’s friend comes into her bedroom one night, Jewel finally understands why Charmaine had to leave home. Soon she is on the run herself. When her food runs out, Jewel chances upon a new place to live — the cupboard of the art room at school. It turns out to be surprisingly easy to live under the radar when you have perfected the art of being almost invisible. That is, until Jewel’s classmates, Maya and Lily, discover her washing her hair in the girls’ washroom at school and making breakfast in the lunchroom. They take her on as their project, finding her places to sleep, fixing her hair and wardrobe — even as they can’t quite understand her terror, or why she is so afraid of seeking adult help. But the girls help keep Jewel and her secret safe — until they no longer can. Told in the alternating voices of Maya and Jewel, this is a thought-provoking and moving story about loyalty, privilege, keeping secrets, and what it means to be a good friend. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.




Flying with a Broken Wing


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Flying with a Broken Wing tells the true story of a boy growing up in India in turbulent times. Sat Mehta was five years old when he and his family became refugees, caught up in the biggest migration in modern history at the time of Independence. His home was destroyed, his uncle murdered. Once very wealthy farmers, the Mehtas became destitute. Later, Sat suffered a broken arm - complications set in and amputation seemed inevitable. As he lay in hospital, a world famous surgeon, Professor Robert Roaf, strode on to the ward, choosing "hopeless cases" to help. Sat got a second chance. The gratitude he felt for the great man's skill shaped the rest of Sat's life. He qualified as a doctor and arrived in England, where he has lived and worked for 30 years. He says of his life: "It is a story of a disappearing world, sadhus, snakes and baking sun, monkeys, monsoons and riot and murder. As a boy, I saw it all."




Stolen in the Night


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Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence. Reprint.




Another World


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There is another world out there, a world of Magic and Demons, a world that I am still learning about. I’m a new Lamiahaem Demon, I wasn’t always like this. Before my change I was a Witch who could read minds. I have recently found out that my sister Taylor and I come from a long line of Witches, it’s in our blood. We have been told it goes back seven generations; maybe even further. We are different from other Witches and Warlocks, we don’t use spells. Taylor and I discovered a lot of information about our family and our childhood. We didn’t remember much, because our Nanna Elsie had played with our memories. She erased memories of a childhood full of Demons that had threatened us. We both know that our grandmother and our parents had all the best intentions, but ever since they did this I’d been having nightmares every night. A lifetime of nightmares, no wonder I was always tired and occasionally a bit irritable. I have three human children, children that have remained with me. They live with their Demon great grandfather, Pops. There not really children, they’re young adults now. They’re all mind readers, Dillon is much stronger, he can ‘hear’ a lot further, James has visions in his sleep and Nikki has started to learn that she has a bit of magic in her as well. They get their abilities from my side, my ex husband had been an average human, just a very violent man. I’m also going to be a grandmother, not something I was very happy about in the beginning. Dillon’s fiancée Kylie is pregnant; she has the ability to calm a room full of angry thoughts. James’s girlfriend Suzanne is also pregnant; Suzanne is able to see the story behind the spoken word. I woke from my second sleep in January, that was just over four months ago, I’m a little different to the rest of our species. Where they all have abilities like tasting relationships, seeing visions or feeling illnesses and injuries, I have kept my magic which was something else that wasn’t normal. To keep my magic strong I need to sleep, this was according to my new father in law Simon. This is because all my magic comes from my mind, and not spells, so I need to be rested and in a good frame of mind. The only mind I could still hear was my husband’s. We also discovered that when I looked in a mirror I would see how one would look if they hadn’t been changed. My mother in law, Julie, is 407 years old it wasn’t a pretty picture, so I no longer looked in mirrors. Looking out of my own eyes though, she looked normal, not a walking skeleton. My new husband is a 134 year old Lamiahaem and is my soul mate. We married 14 months ago after a whirlwind romance. Jack is a mind reader he can hear everybody. He has unofficially adopted my children, changing their names to Carter like ours, they think he is the best and Jack returns the sentiment. Jack has a brother Jonathon who is married to Tania and a sister Charmaine who is married to Tony, they are all Lamiahaem Demons, and they all have different abilities. There is an uncle who is a Vampire, Jones; he is a brilliant loving man, he’s married to my sister Taylor, she’s a human and has recently found her magic. We all live together, it makes for interesting times. To pass the time we like to play practical jokes on each other, brothers versus sisters. At the moment, the sisters are in front. All of my family supports the Guard. The Guards, whose sole purpose is to protect humans, from being indiscriminately eaten or drank by Demons of any kind. We aren’t full time Guard, we are on call, and when they call my family goes without question. The Guard are run by The Elders, Jack’s grandfather Pops, is one of the founding members, and he is still in charge. There are other Demons that are in the Guard. Jorgenhan, that could tell straight away if you were lying or not. Siren’s, who were perfectly stunning women who could make most men do their every bidding, Casanova’s who did the same to w




Avery Stone


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Avery Stone is the urban tale of a young woman’s struggle to find love—and herself—as she begins a new chapter. While bravely moving forward on her path through life, she is doing her best to follow her pastor’s advice to focus on God, stop searching for a husband, and live her life. Sometimes her irrational life choices lead into roller coaster relationships that test her inner-strength and character. Avery embarks on a journey of self-discovery where she must learn to rely on her faith and wisdom if she is ever going to find her happily-ever-after.




The Boy Who Skipped


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What seems like a series of unconnected anecdotes become the threads that bind together the story of three people, and one very unusual year at Col. Devitt Caudill Memorial High School. The Boy Who Skipped tells three intertwined stories: Jeff Mason auditions for the school play as a favor to his older sister. He is a bright science geek, looking for his place in the universe as well as in the hallways of his school. Lynn Anderson is a gifted actress and cheerleader, seeking something to make her life meaningful in her new rural school far from the suburban life she had expected and the suburban life she feared. And young teacher Carol Caudill is determined to bring the beauty and power of theater to a town that would just as soon live without it...and heaven help anyone who stands in her way. The story is set in a small town in 1970's Eastern Kentucky. Based on real events, it tells stories about how these three people and a group of young actors set out to do what everyone told them was impossible.




The Body in the Bouillon


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"A Faith Fairchild mystery".




Dead in the Shower with the Seven Senior Sleuths


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Dead in the Shower is about the discovery of a naked body in the shower of the exercise and pool area of the recreation building of a small senior community in Florida called Crane’s Roost. The body was discovered by one of our senior sleuths who had joined the security committee of Crane’s Roost and was doing her duty by closing up the facilities for the night. When the county deputies arrived on the scene so did the lady’s friends to help solve the mystery.




Quadrilogy of Paranormal Romance.


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4 kreepers from the krypt. each with its own kreepy kreeper. each about a love that neither one would live without, forget, or risk his life to save the one they loved. one man will enlist in the military. without knowing he died in combat. she will remember what he told her the day that he left. if she lived he would return if an Angel allowed. he would return for her on her deathbed. together they would rekindle a love that he felt was meant to be in heaven. a man on his way to see his fiance. will fall into a freezing lake. he will die because he could leave the car. a creature outside in the cold waited to eat him. a creature half merman and half alligator. he will talk to his fiance from a freezing grave at the bottom of the lake. a search will take her to the water. she will encounter the creature. her fiance did not let it have her. instead he stayed behind with the creature in his grip and him in its arms. one other a young man will face a village of the dead. he will clean clear and cut the village from ghosts by burning it to the earth. he will find a young girl in the next village. he will hear that a band of thieves will run across a bridge. a bridge he will have to dismantle before they make it to the village. he will attempt to stop them. he will attempt to save them. a kreepy kreeper is all you'll find for an ending. four kreepers each with a kreepy story to tell. each kreeper with 25000 to 35000 words.