Chi may have defeated Fagen, but the battle for Bane City’s hearts has only just begun.
The questions keep mounting, but Chi has no time to find their answers.
The Lonely King strikes again, and this time there may be no stopping him. He’s intent on using Chi’s heart to open a door to the past. Chi is the only witch who can stop him. But there’s a problem - a big one. Chi has finally figured out her magic comes at a cost. Now she’ll have to decide between everyone else’s future and her own….
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In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom, and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia—and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music, and her daddy's dimestore. It was in that dimestore—listening to customers and inventing life histories for the store's dolls—that she began to learn the craft of storytelling. Even though she adored Grundy, Lee Smith was being raised to leave it. Her formal education and travels took her far from Virginia, though her Appalachian upbringing never left her. Dimestore's fifteen essays are crushingly honest, always... Views: 95
Cold sweat trickles down my forehead. My legs are up in stirrups. Mama stands beside me, clutching my hand. The lights blur my vision and my back aches. Everything in my body feels sore, tired, and worn out. I’m exhausted. I can’t stop. My eyes flick to my left. Mama is staring down at me, her mouth in a tight line, her eyes bloodshot. She’s tired, too.“Keep going, Julietta,” the midwife calls to me, her hands at the ready.“You’re going to be just fine,” Mama soothes, lifting her hand and rubbing a cool towel over my clammy forehead.“Push!” yells the stout middle-aged midwife.I bare down and push. Pain unlike anything I’ve ever felt in my entire life explodes through my body, clutching my mid-section like a vice. It hurts. It hurts so much. Probably as much as my numb and broken heart. I heave, spittle flying from my mouth. My screams echo through the room, but there is only one thought in my mind.Please. “Push,” she cries again.Please. God. Please.“We have a head.”Please. “One more big push.” Views: 95
With nearly 2 million books in print, this Little Apple series is H-O-T, hot. The SECRET is out — DROON is the series that kids, parents, and teachers are talking about! It's a dangerous time in Droon. A mysterious ancient sorcerer has arrived, waking the infamous Warriors of the Skorth and wreaking havoc. He seems to be an expert in the most evil, long-ago magic, and leads Eric and his friends on a treacherous journey to the Dark Lands. But what awaits them there? And what is the mysterious sorcerer really after? Eric hopes that it's not too late to find out — and stop him. Views: 95
A Devious Mind: A Dusty Kent Mystery Views: 95
