For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has. Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women. Her grandmother, her aunts, her friends and cousins are all desperate for her to conform, but Kirabo is inquisitive, headstrong and determined. Up until now, she has been perfectly content with her life at the heart of this prosperous extended family, but as she enters her teenage years, she begins to feel the absence of the mother she has never known. The First Woman follows Kirabo on her journey to becoming a young woman and finding her place in the world, as her country is transformed by the bloody dictatorship of Idi Amin. Jennifer Makumbi has written a sweeping tale of longing and rebellion, at once epic and deeply personal, steeped in an intoxicating mix of ancient Ugandan folklore and modern feminism, that... Views: 662
The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary—a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet—into a sinister link to to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories. Views: 662
Emily Coates was a free spirit and daddy's little girl. She loved romance and daydreamed about a love she had yet to discover. However, her emulation of Jane Austen was the center of her problems with men. After her father sets her up with one failed suitor after another, all local and successful men who would ensure his daughter would want from nothing. Admiral Carlton Coates, forces his daughter to be dependent and centered. To ensure she'd never be lonely like her mother, he established a 'no sailor rule' for ALL potential suitors.However, overtime, he is clearly starting to run out of options and strikes that rule. He arranges for her to marry... a sailor, this time and one who appears successful in black and white. Albeit, this man has secrets that he must keep at bay in order to gain not only Emily's trust and her heart...but to regain what he had lost so long ago...with the notion that only her father's fortune would have him set for the rest of his life.Yet, in the scheme of things, there is another who has admired her from afar and would go to great lengths to protect her from all things seemingly dangerous.Will Emily accept the new suitor into her heart so easily or will she learn in time his schemes? Or will the other admirer prevail in taking her heart? Who will Emily Coates fall, completely, perfectly and incandescently in love with? Views: 662
The family he was supposed to have...His runaway bride is back...With twins!The last person Gabriel Lawson expects to find in town is Rachel Marshall—especially with twin toddlers in tow. Gabriel refuses to risk his heart again on the woman who left him at the altar years ago. But working to renovate her mother's house means he must spend time with Rachel and her adorable twins...and soon he can't help but wish they were his family. Views: 662
From the sixth century plague of Justinian, to the nineteenth century third pandemic, bacterial infection throughout the centuries has caused a huge loss of the population of Europe and beyond. This is a new tale of the discovery of a killer bacterial disease, one which is immune to antibiotics.An innocent girl discovers a secret, but there's one that's bigger than she knows, a secret that causes her to lose her life. After her death, portrayed by the authorities as a tragic accident at a North Derbyshire school, Adam Brant his twin sister Chloe and two close friends Adele and Jonathan are witnesses to a second horrific incident.Adam becomes obsessed and is driven by his inquisitive nature on a quest for knowledge and truth, one that will satisfy him and put to rest the spirit that is said to haunt this particular community. But what will he learn along the way – and will he wish he'd never set foot on this path? Views: 662
