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The Counting Books and Games Store – Book – One Monkey: A Learn To Count Book
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I’m celebrating! I just finished my first draft of latest novel, MYSTERIES AND MARTINIS. (Last word = fly) Because the online tools I have make it so easy, I composed a fantasy cover & ad. But now the real work begins. On to revisions, queries, and putting myself out there!
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The Sky King Ranch Series By Susan May Warren - Lone Star Book Blog Tours. Genre: Christian Fiction / Romance. The Kingston brothers are back in town, and you can read their stories in the Sky King Ranch series books Sunrise, Sunburst, and Sundown by USA Today bestselling author Susan May Warren.
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The Messy Room Book Store - Frizzy Tizzy Cleans Up by Wendy Hinbest
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When it comes to fiction genres, people love science fiction. But how do you write a sci fi short story? This post will take you through the steps, so you can write your own sci fi short story, or teach your students (even if you’re not that familiar with science fiction writing.) There’s a lessonContinue Reading
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Skull's Vengeance (Curse of Clansmen and Kings Book 4) By Linnea Tanner - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: Historical Fantasy. A Celtic warrior queen must do the impossible—defeat her sorcerer half-brother and claim the throne. But to do so, she must learn how to strike vengeance from her father’s skull. Ultimately, in order to defeat Marrock, Catrin must align herself with a dark druidess and learn how to summon forces from skulls to exact vengeance. But can she and Marcellus outmaneuver political enemies from Rome and Britannia in their quest to vanquish Marrock?
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Angelbound - Archenemy By Christina Bauer - Goddess Fish Promotions. Genre: Paranormal Romance. Ancient Egyptians. Powerful gods. Lost loves. And one badass warrior with wings.
Welcome to the beautiful land of ancient Egypt… only it may not stay so lovely for long. The chaos god, Set, plans to destroy the human world. Fortunately, the angel Xavier has the perfect plan to imprison Set and fast. Even better, Xavier can enact his scheme alone… which is just the way he likes it. No partners. No complications. No problems. Read Excerpt and Enter Giveaway.
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Now There's Unicorns To Help Kids Learn The Magic of The Periodic Table - New Teaching Tools and Activities To Encourage Your Child's Interest In Science How Fun Is This? Create Your Own Magical Unicorn Elemental Periodic Table Activity! For year, kids have been creating fun comic book characters to make it easier for them to learn more about the elements of the periodic table. They could either come up with a super hero or a villain to represent their chosen element. Now, there's some competition from UNICORNS! Unicorns are magical and so are the elements of the periodic table. This Create Your Own Magical Unicorn Elemental Activity is based on the 26 unicorns from the “Magical Elements of The Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically By The Metal Horn Unicorns” book. Each unicorn acquaints kids with their own unique elemental magic as well as its amazing everyday uses. Alumna starts things out by introducing the very necessary metal, Aluminum, on her element sheet. Dr. Zinko rounds out the alphabet by presenting facts and other fun information about the metal, Zinc, on his. The Metal Horn Unicorns say, “No Metal – No Magic. . .and No Technology”. The activity is a printable pdf file.
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Tales of the Forgotten Founders By CW Allen - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: Middle Grade Fantasy. Zed and Tuesday ought to be living the good life. After all, it’s not every day two kids take down an evil dictator and their mom gets put in charge of an entire dimension. But after moving into Falinnheim’s palace, they learn that life as royalty isn’t as carefree as they’d imagined. Read excerpt, author guest post and enter giveaway.
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In Neddy, John Cheever created a truly delusional man who suffers from selective amnesia while he imagines himself to be great. Neddy lives in what should be a suburban paradise, but in the superficial McCarthy-era world of deceit, materialism, and broken promises, nothing is as Neddy wants to believe it is. Even the weather eludesContinue Reading
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Joyce Carol Oates wrote “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been” back in 1966. Apparently the story was inspired by a Life Magazine article serial killer Charles Schmid, known as the Pied Piper of Tucson. Oates depicts a young girl who is both simultaneously terrorized and seduced by a magnetic man who is possibly theContinue Reading
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Locksmith's War The Locksmith Trilogy Book Three by Paul Briggs - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: YA Sci-fi (Young Adult, Science Fiction). For Lachlan Smith, learning the secret of the apocalypse was the easy part.
Ever since Locksmith found the portal to the future, he has been wondering who or what was responsible for the empty, uninhabited world he found.
Now he knows—and now he has to fight them.
He thought he had fifteen years in which to prevent the extinction of the human species. Now, he has only hours.
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The Chronicles of Deneb Series By Zanne Raby - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: Science Fiction/Space Opera. The Chronicles of Deneb is a science-fiction/ space opera series set in the near future. The year is 2080 CE. The world is dying. Get ready to travel into the future to a time when nothing is certain. In THE FLIGHT OF THE MAYFLOWER, the first novel in The Chronicles of Deneb, Dr. Daniel Radu – project manager for NASA’s Space Ark Mayflower – uncovers a global conspiracy of immense proportions.
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Late in her life, Eve Babitz became both a cultural and a feminist icon. But for decades, she was overlooked, dismissed even. I see her as the Dorothy Parker of her time. Eve Babitz was author, artist, and socialite whose writing style has been widely acclaimed for its wit and insightfulness. She was best knownContinue Reading
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Of Wings and Shadows Of Cinder and Bone #5.5 by Kyoko M. Genre: Science Fiction, Contemporary Fantasy In a modern-day world teeming with marauding dragons, there is only one solution: The Wild Hunt. The United States government has decided to hold a tournament called The Wild Hunt to determine who will be responsible for the […]
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Use this video that explains paradox, gives examples, and provides a writing prompt as a warmup activity for your students, or to spur your own creativity. Enjoy!
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Chapter 19 Anna and Dolly chat and Anna convinces Dolly to try and forgive Stiva. There’s a bit of foreshadowing when Dolly asks Anna if she could forgive her husband if he ever cheated on her. Anna has to think about it for a few seconds, but then she decides. She’s like, yeah, I couldContinue Reading
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Something big happens in part 2, chapter 11. Anna and Vronsky sleep together! But you don’t get any description of their love scene. No, instead you get a detailed description of their anguish afterwards. Vronksy feels like a murderer (foreshadowing, anyone?) and Anna is convinced she no longer deserves happiness. As for chapters 12-20, well…I’mContinue Reading
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