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Asylum by Tamera Lawrence

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After reading Asylum, you might very well decide to let bygones be bygones and not revisit your past.

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Instead of improving lives, Rose Hill stole their souls. It was disheartening not to be able to do anything about it, and now it was too late.

Tamera Lawrence. Asylum (Kindle Locations 102-103). Grizli777. Kindle Edition. 

Language: English

Print Length: 232 pages

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Publication Date: 1 May 2019

Categories: Suspense | Thrillers | Suspense Thrillers

Trigger Warnings: Profanity | Violence | Death | Abuse | Bullying

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Award-winning author. Tamera Lawrence is passionate about writing and, her books entertain readers with tense thrillers and mysteries. As a mother of six children, she uses her personal experiences to create interesting characters in complex settings. Tamera enjoys interacting with her fans and writing book reviews. 

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Turtle Crossing by Malve von Hassell

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Turtle Crossing was written to help children with the realities of moving to a new home.

He didn’t want to leave his strawberry patch just when the strawberries were getting ripe. 

Turtle Crossing – Malve von Hassell (pg. 12)
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Malve von Hassell holds a Ph. D in anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She writes, researches, and also works as a translator. She has published several books and journal articles and has edited her grandfather’s memoirs. Ulrich von Hassell wrote it in 1944, while in prison.

Her first children’s book is Letters from the Tooth Fairy, with a new edition published in 2020. She published a historical novel – Falconer’s Apprentice – for young adults in 2015.  

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Turtle Crossing is a picture book for children from three to eight years and was published in April 2021.

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A Time for Violence- An Anthology

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A Time for Violence explores violence in its many forms, as well as what drives people to use it.

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So why violence then? Well,  A Time for Violence was a cool title, which was where it began. But beyond that, it’s a simple theme that inspires edgy, transgressive material. And at the end of the day, that was the real theme  — edginess and transgression.  

Anthology. A Time For Violence 6 x 9 v6.5 Caliber Mobi Creation (Kindle Locations 23-25). Close To The Bone. Kindle Edition.
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Language: English

Print Length: 268 pages

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Publication Date: 1 May 2019

Categories: Fiction Anthologies | Literary Anthologies & Collections | Short Stories Anthologies

Trigger Warnings: Deity Swears | Profanity | Violence | Slavery | Racism |Suicide

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Short story anthologies became popular in the eighties and were sold in supermarkets. It was riding the wave of the paperback horror boom. The starting point for this trend was the increasingly popular books of Stephen King. 

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Bald is Beautiful by Carola Schmidt

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Bald is Beautiful: A letter for a fabulous girl is written to inspire and encourage all girls (and women) who are bald or might go bald for various reasons. 

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Be strong!

Be powerful!

Be what you want to be.

Do whatever you want to do.

Bald is Beautiful: A letter for a fabulous girl – Carola Schmidt (pg. 21)
Book cover Bald is Beautiful by Carola Schmidt

Carola Schmidt is a pediatric oncology pharmacist and has written many scientific books about her field. Her books are listed in BookAuthority’s Best Pharmacy Books of All Time, Best New Pharmacy Books and eBooks, and Springer Highlights 2020.

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Besides Bald is Beautiful, the author has also written Cancer Daily Life and

Chubby’s Tale: The true story of a teddy bear who beat cancer.

Book Authority listed Chubby’s Tale as one of the 81 best leukaemia books of all time. Carola also wrote the Babushka Series – the first time that she doesn’t write about cancer.

Dian Ovieta was responsible for the beautiful illustrations in Bald is Beautiful.

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Book Subscriptions For Kids: Share The Magic Of Stories With Bookroo

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I grew up in a family of readers. I remember the highlight of my week was the visit to the library on Friday. But times have changed so much since then, and with so many moms working, time is at a premium. Book subscriptions for kids are a great idea for parents who want to raise children who love reading.

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Why Are You Here? by Radhika Iyer

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Why Are You Here? is a collection of short stories featuring women and their ability to survive despite difficult circumstances.

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She could not return home, not like this. Abandoned. Useless. She could envisage the reaction of her family, who would not reject her, although deep in their hearts they would want to. She would be a burden for the rest of her life.

Radhika Iyer. Why are you here? (Kindle Locations 750-751). Castles in the Air Press.

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Language: English

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Publication Date: 1 August 2021

Categories: Women’s Short Stories | Contemporary Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Trigger Warnings: Profanity |Violence | Discrimination | Racism

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Why Are You Here? By Radhika Iyer is the first book published by Castles In The Air Press. 

Radhika was born in Malaysia, a daughter to immigrant parents. They were Indian first and Malaysian second, and this is how they raised her. The Indian community represents only 10% of the total population. Radhika felt like a minority within a minority, being part of a smaller group within the Indian community. It leads to an identity struggle, made worse when she moved to England and later Dubai. 

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Remarkable Author Gail Aldwin: Feisty, Sighophile, And Word Wangler

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Gail Aldwin writes novels, poems, and scripts. Her debut novel The String Games made her a finalist in The People’s Book Prize and the DLF Writing Prize 2020. She also wrote a children’s picture book, named Pandemonium. It has such an adorable cover!

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She loves to appear at national and international literary and fringe festivals.

Her involvement before the pandemic at Bidibidi in Uganda, the second-largest refugee settlement in the world, shows her spirit of kindness and empathy.

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The Alchemy Thief by R.A. Denny

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The Alchemy Thief takes us on a journey back to when pirates roamed the seas, and the Puritans preached the gospel to the Wampanoag Indians.

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But if she had gone back in time, could her actions change the future? Would people she knew never be born, or would she cease to exist? Had she just signed her death sentence with her words?

R.A. Denny. The Alchemy Thief ARC (Kindle Locations 1759-1760). UNKNOWN. Kindle Edition. 
Book Cover of The Alchemy Thief by R.A. Denny.

Language: English

Print Length: 474 pages

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Publication Date: 16 July 2021

Categories: History of Morocco | 17th Century World History | Historical African Fiction

Trigger Warnings: Violence | Death | Slavery | Mind Control

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R.A. Denny has graduated with a law degree from Duke University. She loves history and being active with horseback riding, swimming, and kayaking. She has two sons, one grandson, and another grandchild due soon. 

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Concrete Operational Stage: The Truth about Language Development

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Congratulations! Your child is going to Grade 1! It is the start of her formal reading education. You have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it excites you, but you also want her to succeed in school. Knowing what to expect and what you can do to give her an advantage will go a long way to ease your mind.

Let’s have a look at this stage in your child’s life. According to Piaget’s model, the concrete operational phase lasts from seven to twelve years. This stage covers elementary to preadolescent children.

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The Edge of Cascadia by S.A. Sebuci

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The Edge of Cascadia is a futuristic novel about survival after an apocalypse.

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It’s the “what if” questions that get me going.

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Book cover The Edge of Cascade by S.A. Sebuchi.

Language: English

Print Length: 288 pages

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Publication Date: 3 August  2021

Categories: Dystopian Fiction | Dystopian Science Fiction | Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Trigger Warnings: Death | Suicide| Deity Swears

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S.A Sebucchi grew up in Washington and started writing at an early age. She studied at the University of Washington and earned a B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas. The author, her husband and two children live on a five-acre property in the woods. She loves reading, writing, and living in her imagination.

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