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Allie Banks finds herself in the middle of the biggest rivalry in school history. Over the summer, by random chance, she meets Ellis Edgar, a lifeguard who shares her love of seventies music and artwork. Ellis steals her heart and becomes her first love. When her brother Auggie learns of their romance he demands she break it off. Unbeknownst to her, Auggie and Ellis have an intense football rivalry that dates back to when they were kids. He doesn't believe they met by random chance. After all, how would the star quarterback have time for a summer job? Auggie believes Ellis is using his relationship with Allie as a rouse to mess with his season and steal his football scholarship to Florida. As Allie falls deeper in love, her brother tries to put a stop to their romance. When rumors of Ellis begin circulating around the two schools, Allie is forced to question his intentions. Did she meet Ellis by random chance? After a deep dive into his social media, a discovery makes her question everything. This book will keep you guessing as Allie struggles to learn the truth about her relationship. She is in love with Ellis, but is it worth it when her twin brother, her best friend, and the entire school disapprove? Join Allie as she uncovers secrets about Ellis' family, discovers who is telling the truth, who is lying, and whether this will end her relationship or divide her family.

Leah and Finley are starting high school in the fall so it's their last chance to totally goof off as kids. They make a list of ten things they've always wanted to do and secretly try to complete them all, from building a throne and driving a car to finding buried treasure and attempting a world record.They're set to have an amazing time but mental health struggles, growing responsibilities, and self-esteem issues aren't as easy to ignore now that they're teenagers. This summer they'll need to fight for their friendship and for their childhood dreams to last a little longer.

Twelve-year-old Eddie, short, pudgy, hard-of-sight, his nose buried in a book, has no idea how he wound up in the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage as an infant or why he can't be adopted. He gets the shock of his life one evening when the bat in the orphanage basement transforms into a vampire and introduces himself as Count Bloodless. The starving Count is also an orphan, rejected by his vampire family because he is vegetarian. An unexpected friendship blossoms as Eddie helps the Count find the food he desperately needs to survive, and the vampire helps Eddie unlock the secret of his past. Written in the rollicking spirit of Roald Dahl and set in World War II-era Boston, Eddie and the Vegetarian Vampire features a protagonist who will discover that family and belonging are sometimes found in the most unexpected of places.

"i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)..." Painted against the backdrop of e.e.cummings poetry, Chopin's Nocturnes, and the unleashed passions of the times, River of Forgiveness is a coming-of-age story set at the close of the Second World War. Eighteen-year-old Sydney Archumbault's chance encounter with an older British stranger awakens her longings to the exuberant power of her one true love, forever altering the course of her life. Intrigued by this educated, artistic man, whom she later discovers is an escapee from an internment camp, Sydney impulsively embarks into a complex and tumultuous relationship, finding herself embroiled in a love that can never be.

For 12-year-old Nelly Melcham, it's embarrassing to be afraid of flying when your mother is the most famous pilot of 1936. So, when her mom makes plans for Nelly to fly to Puerto Rico, it's impossible for her to say no. Before long, Nelly finds herself in a Miami airport, where her fear of flying is quickly forgotten when she encounters an unusually tiny detective from London named Tim Morcombe. Tim tells Nelly he is on his way to solve the strange mystery of a woman abducted by ghosts. Speaking of strange, whether human, leprechaun or something else, pint-sized Tim is unlike anyone Nelly has ever met and she can't resist joining his adventure. Together, they travel to the jazz-infused, racially segregated city of New Orleans to search for the missing woman. Their only clues to her disappearance? When it rains, her ghost sings sadly from the signpost in front of her house; and a Voodoo priestess has predicted the woman will disappear forever in the next great storm. Can a girl afraid of flying find the courage to face ghosts, treacherous villains, and a sinister, voodoo witch? Nelly has no choice. A life needs saving and it's up to her to do whatever it takes.

The story of Thecla brings to light the dangers, bravery and complications of spreading The Word in the early Christian Church-bandits, nay-sayers, powerful leaders and the ever-present Romans, to name a few. Thecla followed Paul. His teaching spoke to her so completely, she accepted Paul's anointing as the first woman evangelist. The eventual question the reader will ask, did she love Paul or his message. Read the story, you decide.

In this historical fiction story, the author weaves the modern Darwinian theory into the fabric of the biblical Genesis story of the (Garden) Valley of Eden which has its origins in the ancient Sumerian Gilgamesh epic and the Mesopotamian epic, Atrahasis.The story takes the reader through an imaginative path from Adam and Eve's life before the Valley of Eden, the mythical encounter in the Garden, the expelling from the Valley, their life outside the Valley raising their family and finally, the consummation of their lives.Through the author's proficient style of building depth in each character through their deeds, conversation and thought processes, the reader is skillfully drawn into the story; a modern-day take on an old story of good and evil. (Rita Westphal)