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Turn Me Back! (novella)

Regaining your youth isn't all it's cracked up to be.

At 23 years old, expert mercenary Willa Lang isn't exactly old to begin with, so she's less than thrilled when an 'undeserved' curse turns her back into a younger version of herself. A much younger version - meaning she now looks like a six-year-old. It's hard enough getting mercenary work when you're fully grown. As a child, it's practically impossible to make anyone take you seriously. Worse still, you can't even reach to stab the nay-sayers in the heart. Willa needs to turn herself back to normal, and quickly. But the woman who cursed her is being a complete witch, insisting that Willa show herself to be kind, generous and unselfish before she'll lift the curse. 

Kind generous and unselfish... Go on a quest and help a few people. It can't be that hard,...

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A London Christmas

When the unexpected happens just weeks before Christmas, can a stranger make everything right?After waiting three long months for this moment, Cait Walker was finally in London—excited and nervous and even a little scared. What if she didn't measure up to Derek's expectations? What if he took one look at her and backed out?She glanced down at her phone. And...there he was, in that first glorious email. Charming and dashing and handsome, they'd met through an online dating site. He'd been emailing her for months now, and they'd even talked on the phone twice. And oh, that lovely accent and deep voice...Downton Abbey and Jane Austen's heroes, all wrapped in one delicious package and tied with a perfect bow. For her.She shivered with anticipation, knowing that her life was about to change in ways she'd never even dreamed of.But wisdom sometimes comes too late...and sometimes, the most unlikely person of all might just be the one that dreams are made...
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Skunk and Badger

Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.   No one wants a skunk.   They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger can do about it.   When Skunk plows into Badger’s life, everything Badger knows is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens?   “Nooooooooooooooooooooo!”   Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake spins the first tale in a series about two opposites who need to be friends.  New York Times bestselling author/illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen completes the book...
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Not Compatible (Stand Alone Tales Book 11)

She works at a space station catering to everyone else’s virtual fantasies. When a man gets stuck in the scenario, she must wake the sleeping prince. Styra works at the Blue Station and has been programming since she was able to reach a keyboard. When she became an adult, she went from writing the simple scenarios and backgrounds to guiding tangled clients through the environments they had selected. Lately, she has been going in to pry out the difficult cases and making sure that everyone plays by the rules. Her boss calls her in on her day off and sends her in after an imperial captain. Somehow, he has gotten stuck in one of their fairy tale environments. She headed in to find the missing client, and the computer had locked him in the role of the sleeping beauty. The criteria were clear. A kiss was necessary to wake him, and the protocols were set. Once he was awake, she was ready to get him out of the scenario, but the computer was still locked. Yr-el wasn’t counting on his distaste for the virtual princess, but his drake had wanted to play in the scenario. When he wakes in the arms of a woman with moonlight for skin, he begins to understand why he was steered to this station at this time. All he had to do was get her to release the drake the same way she had released him, and he could begin a courtship.
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A Time of Birds

Helen Moat sets out to cycle across Europe, with her teenage son, on her sit-up-and-beg bike – aka 'The Tank'. She's not sure whether she is running away from the past or pedalling towards it.As she cycles the Rhine and Danube through the days of unfolding spring, the sky filled with birdsong, she senses her bird-loving father is by her side. Increasingly, she loses herself in her surroundings and memories of a childhood spent in the outdoors of rural Northern Ireland.Gradually, the natural beauty of Europe's great waterways bring healing, as does the kindness of friends and strangers along the way. She feels a sense of belonging on a continent shaped by war and peace, peoples divided and reunited, a shared history.But when the birdsong fades across the parched, late-summer landscapes of Bulgaria and Turkey, Helen finds herself recalling the Troubles and confronting a suppressed secret. This is her life affirming account of an unforgettable, if...
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