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It’s Sleepover Saturday and Amelia has invited her best friend, Eleanor, over to stay the night. They have been best friends since they were babies. These ten-year-olds do everything together and have love and respect for one another. Along the way, they made friends with Orbit, who was born during the Covid-19 pandemic when the world was hurting. He is on a special mission to find out what Amelia and Eleanor have done throughout their ten years together that have made them the best friends they are today.

The Dragon Way Home

Jamison Greene is having a tough time growing up in the Gold Coast. His father is remarried and has a new baby living in far off Paris. His mom is with a new boyfriend and neither is very good at anything in regards to parenting, so they leave him pretty much to fend for himself all the time. One afternoon after leaving his house to get away from the chaos at home, he goes to Surfers Paradise, a beach area he loves to spend time at to escape his problems. He meets a guy named Raymond who is sculpting a dragon in the sand.

When Darksome Falls

I used to be a vampire. Used to be able to run like a hurricane wind. Now I'm human again. Took the cure that turned me back to being weak. I was never strong to begin with. I was happy as a vampire. Now I'm miserable. All I see everywhere I go are happy couples. I made a happy life with Vince until I was forced to move on without him and it sucks...

Financial Dignity

Financial Dignity by Andreas Jones offers a roadmap to success when it comes to one’s finances. This book endeavors to teach you how to remove the moment of panic when you login to your bank account and are waiting for the balance to load. It offers practical one step at a time methods regarding saving, budgeting, creating an emergency/rainy day fund, and even investing. The book focuses on getting rid of debt and expanding one’s own wealth. Are you ready to stop worrying about what your bank balance will be when you log into your bank?

Gemma

Gemma by Patrick L. Wimsatt is a romance book about a young lady and man who worked together to defeat a wicked man and rebuild their kingdom. James is a young man also known as Prince James Edmond before he was stripped of his title by a wicked man named Alazaar, who treated people badly and made them slaves. One particular day, James was walking when he came across a man with a young girl bound in chains. It was obvious she was a slave, but he felt connected to her in some way and decided to pay some money to “buy” her.

Shell Shocked: An Ocean Mystery

Alex and Avery are two teenagers who live in the sleepy town of Cataluna Island. Every year tourists flock to Cataluna Island to enjoy the beaches, but Alex and Avery are focused on something much more important. They are both interns at the local rescue center, where they work to protect the island's turtles. When Avery finds a turtle washed up on the beach with an X written on its shell in red, he knows something fishy is going on. He tells Alex, and they investigate around town, but Alex and Avery feel like they are missing something.

Guinea Pig Power

Fuzwald and Rex, two adorable guinea pigs, live an ordinary life with their family by day, but when night falls, these two furry companions turn into superheroes because of special food the family feeds them, Guinea Pig Power Chow. The family thinks they are feeding them healthy, delicious food, but unbeknownst to them they are actually feeding them superpower food which helps Fuzwald and Rex turn into caped crusaders. They help kittens stuck in trees and even stop angry squirrels from brawling with each other.

A Big Day For Kay

Kay is so excited when she wakes up. Today she is going to the aquarium for the first time, and she is going to see sharks up-close. She gets her backpack ready and her mom drives her to the aquarium for them to spend a day of fun together. When she arrives, the first thing she notices is the sound level is too loud for her, so her mom suggests for her to put her headphones on to muffle the noise. That helps a great deal! As she’s ready to go exploring with her mom, she sees her friend Ben there with his mom.

Restart: Book 2

Restart: Book 2 is an adventure focusing on a teenager named Ulysses, who along with his two friends (Max and Xavier), is trying to help Max's dad with ending the technological apocalypse that occurred in the previous book. The story begins in space, where the last book ended. Max and her dad have a plan to quickly get back to Earth and hopefully foil what Queen Eve (who also happens to be Max's mom) has in store for Earth and the rest of the humans left there.

The Cat Who Chased Ghosts

When the Thompson family moves into the mansion they inherited from Robert’s relative, the lawyer had played up that the house had such quaint charm that they thought they were making the right decision by moving into it. When they arrive, they are beside themselves at just how rundown the outside and inside really are. Everything about the place is rundown and needs desperate repairs. What they aren’t aware of is that the house also comes with an older cat in tow named Whiskers. He even looks like he could use some care.

The Maybrick Murder and the Diary of Jack the Ripper

The book explores two mysteries: Who was the American woman Florence Chandler Maybrick? The second mystery involves the Jack the Ripper Diary discovered in 1992.

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