Jessica Almasy
21) Firefly Hollow
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Three lonely riverside dwellers - a boy, a firefly, and a cricket - are all trying to make sense of unexpected changes in their world. Each has a secret dream, but each finds himself trapped. Becoming friends brings them happiness and solidarity, but more changes are in store. Each character stands up to his greatest fear, and, in doing so, finds his greatest strength.
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Midlife is supposed to be messy, but this is a full-on catastrophic crisis. Just when I thought life might be getting back to normal, normal being a relative word, I couldn't have been more wrong. Marriage proposal from the Grim Reaper? Yes.
Beautiful healthy baby? Yes.
Friends and family safe? Yes.
Ghost of my worst enemy sitting on my front porch? OMG. Yep. With the ghostly world imploding around me, I'm going to need more than superglue to repair...
23) The Dead Drop
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Acclaimed author Jennifer Allison's award-winning mystery series featuring smart and spunky psychic sleuth Gilda Joyce continues. Gilda has landed the perfect summer internship at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda discovers a drop zone for spies. Trying to decode the information she finds, she realizes a mole might have infiltrated the D.C. intelligence...
24) Butterfly Bayou
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New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is back with an all-new heartwarming, small-town contemporary romance series set against the spicy southern backdrop of Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou.
Life in Dallas took a tragic turn for nurse practitioner Lila Daley. In need of a fresh start, she retreats to Papillon, Louisiana, a tiny town on the bayou. Sure, she's greeted by a gator, finds herself in the middle of golf cart wars, and unwittingly adopts...
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Midlife is sheer madness, and the facts of midlife are not taught in school. Unfortunately, some lessons are hellishly hard to learn.
I thought I had it figured out. I was wrong.
Proving I'm the Angel of Mercy is turning into a sh*tshow of epic proportions.
Not too long ago, I was a forty-year-old gal with a stable and boring life ahead of me. Now? Not so much. I have celestial siblings who are no walk in the park. Their decisions can destroy my future.
And...
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This week is going to be the best ever for Clementine. She’s been chosen as Friend of the Week in her third grade class-- and she's bubbling with excitement! This great honor means you get to be a line leader, collect lunch money from everyone, and feed the fish. It also means the other kids will give her a nifty booklet saying what they like about her. What could be better than that? Hoping to get the most glowing, perfect booklet ever, Clementine...
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My motto-Let's get this party started. My goal-staying alive.
Recently, I was given my own sitcom, and my forties were looking fabulous. My dreams were finally coming true-were being the operative word.
Of course, just when I think I might have a grip on my newly discovered Demon status, it all goes to Hell. Literally.
I've gone from enemies-to-lovers back to enemies with the hottest Demon alive, who also happens to be the producer on my show. What...
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Midlife's a bumpy journey. The ride is a freaking rollercoaster. The crisis is real.
With my life back to normal-normal being a very relative word-one would think I'd catch a break.
One would be very wrong.
With an Angel gunning for me and a Demon in my bed, life couldn't be more complicated. Not to mention, I'm going to have to make a rather large life choice.
Do I want to live forever?
Does anyone? Forever is a very long time.
Whatever. I'll...
29) Hungry Hearts
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For fans of The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols and Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven.
When an amateur chef attempts to use food as his love language, Landra, who struggles with anorexia, finds his approach off-putting. In fact, she finds Brian to be rather annoying.
Undeterred, Brian snags Landra in a friendship that eventually grows into something else, as she finally trusts him enough to sample some of his homemade gourmet treats.
But...
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My midlife crisis. My rules. And if it doesn't put me six feet under, I plan to live it up in style - possibly for the rest of eternity...
After a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment, I discovered I do indeed have a father. He comes with a hell of a lot of baggage, but I've decided to keep him. Not only do I have a father, I have a kickass new sister, a ghostly family, and super powers to boot. If you add to the mix that I'm dating the Grim Reaper,...
31) The Edge of Evil
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What happens in Vegas, slays in Vegas.
With a show to produce and my career as an actress on the line, I really don't have time to die-especially violently. However, while that might not be on my agenda, it seems to be on other's.
Awesome.
Instead of acting in my latest endeavor, I'm playing the real-life role of Reluctant Demon Who Has To Save The World-or at the very least, the hot hero.
Fine. I'm always up for a plot twist or a re-write....
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A monster slayer needs no bedtime! Once her parents are off to bed, Poesy excitedly awaits the monsters that creep into her room. With the knowledge she's gained from her trusty Monster Book and a few of her favorite toys, Poesy easily fends off a werewolf, a vampire, and much more. But not even Poesy's bubblegum perfume can defeat her sleep-deprived parents!
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Midlife's a journey. Enjoy the ride. Crisis included.
Never knew that life after death was far more dangerous than real life.
Never in my forty years did I think my new normal would be gluing body parts back onto ghosts and hosting a houseful of dead squatters. Thank God for superglue and a strong stomach.
Never thought I'd date the Grim Reaper and that I would be the one to blow it. I mean, how idiotic does one have to be to get dumped by a dude...
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Lately, my life has been a big, fat, hairy midlife crisis. I could really go for a boring day or three. Apparently, there's no rest for the over-forty crowd.
Yes, I have fabulous friends.
Yes, I have a beautiful baby.
Yes, the ghosts are coming back home. Yes, I'm in love with the Grim Reaper. However, that sexy Demon has got some major 'splainin' to do... like his possible involvement in the shocking kidnapping of my worst and most deadly enemy....
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17-year-old Winnie Flynn, a closet horror fan with a starkly realistic worldview, has never known her maternal aunt Mona: a high-profile reality TV producer. Winnie's mom allegedly committed suicide several months ago, and her father has checked out in the wake of the tragedy. When Mona recruits Winnie to spend a summer in their family's home state, working as a production assistant, Winnie figures that she has nothing to lose. Soon she's drawn into...
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Whoever said life begins at forty must have been heavily medicated, drunk, or delusional.
Thirty-nine was a fantastic year. I was married to the man I loved. I had a body that worked without creaking. My grandma, who raised me, was still healthy, and life was pretty damned good.
But as they say, all good things come to an end. I'd honestly love to know who "they" are and rip them a new one.
One year later, I'm a widow. My joints are starting to...
37) Apples to Oregon
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Daddy has uprooted the family to move to Oregon-but not without his babies-apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries! Will Daddy's precious plants persevere? This tall tale is loosely based on a real life fruit pioneer who brought his fruit trees along on the Oregon Trail.
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Have you ever wondered just how a glow stick works? Or what about those glow-in-the-dark stars you stick on your ceiling keep on shining? In her first book, author and teacher Anita Sitarski answers these questions and more giving listeners the inside scoop on everything that glows. Fireflies, bacteria, squid, jelly fish-what do all of these things have in common? They glow! It seems like one of mother nature's mysteries, but many curious scientists...
39) The Ghost Sonata
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Jennifer Allison's best-selling Gilda Joyce series features a spunky heroine with a knack for hunting down the paranormal. When best friend Wendy Choy gets an invitation to compete in a piano competition in Oxford, England, Gilda Joyce manages to secure a position as Wendy's page turner. They will sip tea, flirt with English boys, and bask in the warm glow of applause. But when Wendy seems set to become the next victim of a local ghost, the Psychic...
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From the best-selling author of the Judy Moody books comes this hilarious story about a precocious youngster who's thinking about eating her first bug. Beetle McGrady loves adventure and she wants to explore the world. When her class makes a food pyramid, she decides to add a new food group of her own-bugs! Beetle knows that people in other parts of the world eat bugs every day, so when the other kids dare her to eat an ant, the real fun begins!