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Talon, come fly with me

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About Talon, come fly with me:

It’s an inspirational, engaging and thoughtful must read story. It follows the story of a little nine year old girl whose parents are missionaries in the small village of Pucara, Peru. Matica, finds making friends with the local kids to be difficult. Matica has a condition that has hindered her growth, so she is extremely small like that of a two year old. The local Indians and villagers, don’t understand her and are leery and mistrustful of her.
Then Matica comes upon two condors, a male and a female. She is able to win their trust and begins to mysteriously communicate with them. Her adventure has begun. The condor’s egg is stolen by poachers and Matica and her father set out to rescue it, and they are successful. With the condor’s approval, Matica takes care of the precious egg. When the egg hatches,Matica becomes a substitute mother to the baby condor and names it,Talon. The local’s observe the success Matica has had with the condors,and they begin to warm up to her. Eventually, tiny Matica, becomes a well-liked, admired and respected part of the community.
Talon, Come Fly with Me by Gigi Sedlmayer is filled with warmth and inspiration. It is a touching story about a nine year girl that overcomes her disability and uses it for something extraordinary.Her love for nature changes her life and it becomes meaningful and purposeful for her. Her disability is no longer a hindrance or something to be ashamed of.
Gigi Sedlmayer has woven a tapestry of beauty, harmony and excitement in her fabulous story. It is filled with intrigue and even some suspense. I loved it and couldn’t put it down and read it late into the night to find out what would happen next. It brought a feeling of serenity to my soul. I loved the tale of the giant magnificent condors,coupled with the human interaction. It is just a beautiful story that adults and children will both enjoy. It will be fully entertaining for the entire family.
I believe that Talon, Come Fly with Me should be a reading requirement in schools. It is full of emotion and love with important messages throughout. The exemplary descriptive writing had me on the beautiful scene watching on as the story unfolded. Gigi Sedlmayer is an excellent writer with a unique voice. This story is original, genuine and compelling. Artisan Book Reviews highly recommends it to all readers. It is a page-turner and a must read magical tale for everyone that likes clean, thoughtful and exciting reads about animals and extraordinary people.

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Half Moon

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Time-travel, medieval knights, contemporary Florida and teenage problems in this sweet romantic comedy that is perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Outlander.

Ever since sixteen-year-old Lucy Hernandez found out she can travel in time her life hasn’t been the same. Now she has to regularly meet with Mr. Harris — a sixty-year-old historian with whom she shares a distant ancestor — as he is her time-travel master. On their missions, Lucy and Mr. Harris travel to different time periods so they can warn young Time Travelers about their powers and convince them not to go back in time under any circumstances, since changing past events can have catastrophic consequences.

In one of their missions, to the First Crusade, things go terribly wrong. The Traveler they are supposed to warn doesn’t want to listen. His brother, a young knight called Liam Marshall, interferes to protect Lucy and she ends up accidentally bringing him to the 21st century.

Now that Liam’s younger brother knows about his special power, he plans on using it to make Liam not be born so he can be the only son and, therefore, inherit their father’s lands. To protect Liam, Lucy has to keep him hidden in her bedroom while her parents are traveling, at least until she, Mr. Harris and Liam can come up with a solution to the problem. But including a medieval knight in her routine in contemporary Florida and making him pass unnoticed won’t be the easiest of the tasks. And things get even more complicated when she realizes she is falling in love with him…

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From the Sky

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An interdimensional being from a distant world stranded on earth learns what it means to give up everything for a human. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. Follow Samantha Hunter and Lucien Foster through grief, romance, secret government organizations, redemption, and survival that spans galaxies.

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The Witch Board

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How far would you go to contact loved ones on the other side?
After the tragic death of a friend, a group of teens try to communicate with her by using a Ouija board. They soon discover that they are not in contact with her. As the Ouija board moves on its own, they accidentally release an evil spirit, a spirit that wants all of them dead. To keep themselves alive, they must find a way to send this spirit back to where it came from. One by one they start experiencing paranormal activity so they go and talk to Penny Lane, a local clairvoyant, for help.
Penny tells them that some things aren’t meant to be played with, especially the ‘other side.’
Can she do something to prevent this entity from taking their lives?
This is the first novel in the spooky Penny Lane, Paranormal Investigator series.
If you are into the paranormal and like the unknown, take a journey with Penny Lane and join in her adventures where good fights evil.
Buy The Witch Board today and watch an ordinary young woman battle with the powers of evil.

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R. Caine High School, Books 1-3 by Victoria Danann

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About R. Caine High School, Books 1-3 by Victoria Danann

“FIVE STARS for one of the most peculiar high school experiences of all time!” – The World is Hers for the Reading

A STUNNING NEW TEEN FANTASY SERIES LIKE NOTHING ELSE!
The gods are using their own children as players in a high stakes game located in the most treacherous environment in the known universe… high school. To make it more interesting, they’ve stripped their children of knowledge of who they really are and withheld the rules of the game.

Sixteen-year-old Ever Moore thought she was an ordinary human girl until she transferred to R. Caine. Now she finds herself in a vortex of crazy occurrences where mystery, myths, and mystic collide.

Start reading TODAY and find out why readers are calling R. Caine HS funny, fast paced, and fabulous with flair.

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Elemental Origins: The Complete Series by AL Knorr

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Born of Water (2018 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner): A mysterious shipwreck could unlock ancient powers… or send her to a watery grave.
Targa feels more at home on dry land than in the realm of her mermaid ancestors. To keep her mom’s identity under wraps, she signs on for a salvage in the Baltic Sea. Her plan to blend in with the crew is spoiled when she catches the eye of a handsome local.

A freak accident attracts even more unwanted attention, putting their lives in danger. Can Targa find the courage to unleash the currents surging deep within?

Born of Fire: Welcome to the world of fire magi, where what doesn’t kill you (literally) makes you stronger.
Saxony Cagney counts herself lucky when she wins a position in Venice for the summer. She meets two Italian men…. Both are smart, successful, and sexy. When she discovers one of the boys in her charge is dying, things get a shoved into complicated…then contagious – she’ll never be the same.

Just when she’s got more than she can handle, she gets tangled with the most powerful crime family in Venice. Will she survive long enough to learn the secrets of her new abilities, or will they kill her?

Born of Earth: When the earth gives up her dead, you shall understand.
Georjie isn’t thrilled about going to Ireland for the summer, and even less thrilled when her sexy cousin Jasher (not blood-related and don’t you forget it) is as friendly as a nest of vipers.

When Georjie unearths Jasher’s terrifying secret, things she never knew about her family come to light; A woman who disappeared without a trace. A desiccated body. Strange cocoons hanging in the greenhouse. Georjie finds herself trapped in a mystery involving the power of nature itself.

Born of Aether: They say if you tell a lie long enough, you’ll eventually believe it, but Akiko will never forget who she really is.
Akiko’s life as a teen is a complete sham. The old man she lives with is not her grandfather, he’s her captor. And Akiko isn’t a teen. In fact, she isn’t even human. But Akiko isn’t allowed to share her truth with a soul. Not even her friends know the power she could wield.

When she’s sent to steal a sword, she jumps at the chance to secure her freedom, only to get caught in a game with the most deadly crime syndicate in Japan.

Can Akiko escape with her life, or is true freedom as elusive as the Aether she was born from?

Born of Air: She is a supernatural unlike any you’ve ever seen before.
All Petra wants in life is to study Archaeology. She’s got the grades and ambition, all she needs now is work on an Old World dig. When Petra spies an ad for an excavation to Africa, she knows its for her.

A heart-pounding race through the desert with Jesse-her sexy dig-mate-ends when she falls into a cave where her life changes forever.

As her powers manifest, there are those who have reason to destroy her. Will she survive long enough to learn what she’s really capable of?

The Elementals: Can they use their newfound powers to save their hometown?
The summer is over and the girls share the adventures that have gifted them with elemental powers.

When they are recruited to execute a secret project, it seems they’ll be rocketed to glory. But when they unleash a terrible force, things deteriorate rapidly…

The deadly entity seems immune to their magic and it is too late to turn back.

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The Sidewalk’s Regrets

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boy in the music store play the guitar, the music thrills her and she falls hard for Dylan and his sound.

Sacha finds herself spending less time with her violin and more time with this guy. Her plans for her violin-virtuoso future—and her self-confidence—are shattered when she screws up the audition for a summer music program. Failure isn’t something she’s had to face before, so when Dylan asks her to spend her vacation with him in the city, she lies to her parents, pretends she won a place in the summer school, and secretly moves in with Dylan.

She’s expecting romance, music, and passion, but when she finds herself playing second fiddle to Dylan’s newly acquired drug habit, she realizes despite what the songs say, sometimes love isn’t all you need.

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Star Child by Leonard Petracci

About Star Child by Leonard Petracci

Powers are determined by birth location and SC is the first person born in space, a crime punishable by death and his darkest secret. But when his mother is abducted, he joins a school to learn how to fight. To save her, he must reveal his true abilities.

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Longevity: The Wardens Of Time

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Noah Thomas is a scrawny seventh grader who is bullied to the brink in his new town. Friendless, except for sassy tomboy Wendy Sherman, who seems to lend him the confidence he needs to stand up to his oppressors. Upon stumbling into a book shop one afternoon while on the run from some teenaged tyrants, Noah is hurled into an unexplainable adventure. Noah learns that the bookshop does, in fact, lead to the Akashic Records – a place that holds all spirit lives recorded in tablets of light. With this new found knowledge, Noah begins to grow in wisdom and confidence to face his fears. His biggest challenge comes in the form of five demonic spirits that he accidentally lets loose from a lost tablet. Will Noah succeed with the help of his guardian angel cat he calls Keeper, or will all Hell’s henchman prevail?

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To Pieces by Kati Rocky

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To friends and family Jane seemed like a normal teen… Until one day she didn’t

Jane Flynn – a self-proclaimed Plain Jane – finds her life taking a dramatic detour junior year of high school when she undergoes her first bipolar episode. This gripping novel is a wild ride through Jane’s descent into dark depression and out-of-control rise into mania as she juggles school, first love, friendship and a dark family secret.

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River of Bones

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When seventeen-year-old Dharma Moore moves to Bayou country so her scam artist mother can work as a Paranormal Investigator, she discovers that more than ghosts haunt the abandoned plantation they now call home. Centuries ago, a voodoo curse was placed on the swamp waters surrounding the old plantation by a murdered slave. This terrible curse ensnares Dharma with its deadly effects. To save herself, she must face the terror of the haunted waters, find the dead woman’s skull, and convince the slave’s soul to release her from its torments. When Dharma discovers an ancient secret that links her to the property-a secret kept from her by her own family-she realizes that the curse is more personal to her than she ever imagined. To survive, Dharma must accept the help of the locals, and put her trust in the handsome gardener, Wolf Bodine-who is the only one crazy enough to come near the plantation. With his help, Dharma must learn to embrace the truth and accept that magic is not only real… but that it can be very, very deadly!

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Bright Spark – An Urban Superhero Story

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Glasgow 2047. The city is a pre-dystopian slum. Gang warfare spills onto the streets while shoppers go through the motions. One young man is ready to use his superpowers to change this city for the better.

Step into his shoes to experience the visceral action and emotional weight of juggling crime fighting and University in a world dying a slow death.

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Raven’s Sight

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Her gifts of Sight may just kill her…
Raven’s Sight is the first book in the bestselling, Supernatural Mystery series.
Raven can not only see ghosts, but she can also see the memories attached to places and people, auras, and even get glimpses from the future. With no idea how she attained these gifts from her seemingly normal family, she is locked away inside of her grandmother’s mansion after her Father’s untimely death, in the small, industrial town of Cogsworth.
On her 18th birthday, she sits on the garden wall and imagines a life beyond the confines of the mansion, when the ghost of a small child changes the course of her life forever.
On her eve of her grandmothers death, Raven’s awful uncle moves in, and the events surrounding her gets stranger with each passing day.
She finds herself in the gas-lit streets of London, on the trail of a serial killer. As she tries to solve the string of murders, she realizes that the murders are almost identical to those from a case left unsolved years before she was born and are somehow tied to her true heritage.
In a race against time, Raven is thrown into a world she doesn’t know. With her crush, Tom, a ghost, her friend, Emmett, now a primary suspect in the case, and an uncle who runs illicit groups and hates women, Raven will have to unravel the mysteries quickly before she becomes the next victim.
~ A must-read for fans of A Shade of Vampire, The Watchmakers Daughter and The Last Necromancer. ~
Raven’s Sight is the first book in Raven’s Shadows, a paranormal mystery series.
Each book has a different theme, with Raven’s Sight having a Sweeny Todd feel. Each book introduces more paranormal elements as the series goes on, with vampires featuring in Raven’s Ghost and Raven’s Heart.
With mystery, ghosts, forbidden romance, and some horror elements, get caught in this whirlwind Victorian series today.

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Struck: The Lightning Project Book 1 by Victoria Kinnaird

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Capes are stupid.
Superheroes are just wishful thinking.
True love doesn’t exist.
I’m not a hero.
Well…not yet.

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A seventeen-year-old hacker, a group of teenage superheroes and one hell of a family secret come together to form the perfect storm.
Are you ready to get Struck?

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The Marked (Knight’s Academy Book 1) by Emerald Barnes

About The Marked (Knight’s Academy Book 1) by Emerald Barnes:

Myka Williams has never fit in with her peers, and although her adoptive parents are loving and supportive, she feels most at home alone in the woods.

When she’s offered a full scholarship to Knight’s Academy in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she takes the opportunity for a fresh start. She soon learns that Knight’s Academy is more than just a school. Within the stone walls of the institution, humans and vampires are mixing, and their offspring are going unnoticed.

As Myka falls prey to the evil plan of the school, she makes a chilling discovery about her own heritage and realizes that she’s at the Academy for more than just an education. Myka must yield to her birthright at the risk of losing everyone she loves or succumb to the fate that Knight’s Academy has in store for her—a fate worse than death.

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The Collar and the Cavvarach (Krillonian Chronicles Book 1) by Annie Douglass Lima

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Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is desperate to see his little sister freed. But only victory in the Krillonian Empire’s most prestigious tournament will allow him to secretly arrange for Ellie’s escape. Dangerous people are closing in on her, however, and Bensin is running out of time. With his one hope fading quickly away, how can Bensin save Ellie from a life of slavery and abuse?

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Blind the Eyes by K.A. Wiggins

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In a city where dreams are deadly, only one girl can end the nightmare. Too bad the monsters got to her first.

Haunted teen Cole is one of the lucky ones. The nightmarish Mara only devoured her dreams, rendering her incapable of disobedience. At least, that’s what she claims—because if anyone uncovered the truth, she’d lose what little she has left.

Cole’s not the only one with a secret—and her life’s not the only one at stake.

One-click this YA dystopian fantasy Barnes & Noble Press picked for “20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018” today!

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Wind Catcher by Jeff Altabef and Erynn Altabef

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WINNER: 2015 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal – Young Adult Coming-of-Age

Lies. Betrayal. Destiny. A choice that changes everything.

My name is Juliet Wildfire Stone, and I am special. I see visions and hear voices, and I have no idea what they mean.

When someone murders medicine men in my sleepy Arizona town, I can’t help but worry my crazy grandfather is involved. He’s a medicine man and more than a just a little eccentric. He likes to tell me stories about the Great Wind Spirit and Coyote, but none of it makes any sense. I thought I knew the truth, but in order to clear his name I dive into his alien world and uncover an ancient secret society formed over two hundred years ago to keep me safe—me! And I can’t help but to start to wonder whether there’s some truth to those old stories my grandfather has been telling me.

I just want to be an average sixteen-year-old girl, but apparently I’ve never been average. Could never be average. I didn’t know it before, but I’m a Chosen, and those voices I’ve been hearing… well, they’re not just “voices.” I’ve started to develop abilities, but they might not be enough. A powerful entity called a Seeker is hunting me and he’s close—really close.

I thought I knew the answers but truth is, I don’t. Betrayed by those I love, I must choose to run or risk everything in order to fulfill my destiny. I hope I make the right choice. Don’t you?

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Hello Stranger (Gifted Book 1) by Skylar Layzer

About Hello Stranger (Gifted Book 1) by Skylar Layzer:

( This book is not about vampires!!! )

It’s hard standing here, in front of you, and not kiss you… How can something so wrong, feel so right?

Emilia has been waiting for months, for the old gift of the Blood Aristocracy to awaken in her. Even her best friend doesn’t know about her magical descent. The laws of the Blood Aristocracy are very strict and under no circumstances is it allowed to share knowledge with outsiders. Things get even more difficult when she meets a gorgeous guy Luzius and sparks are flying. While she struggles with her feelings, the problems have only just begun. Too bad that Luzius is forbidden fruit. Being with him is against the rules of the hidden society they are born into. Little did she know that this encounter would turn her world upside down.

Luzius made a sound deep in his throat, and the rawness of it made my legs turn to jelly. With a moan, he pushed me against the hedges and I felt the heat of his touch in every cell of my body—until I realized what we were doing. Luzius’ fingers on my waist were like flames singing my dress, and I pushed him away, panting, and staggered a step to the side. My chest heaved and a thousand thoughts whirred through my head. I was hopeful the kiss had worked, but also ashamed that I had enjoyed it so much.

Hello Stranger is the first book in a series of Gifted contemporary fantasy romance novels.
Let’s explore the mystical story of Luzius & Emilia today!

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Dragon Mage Academy by Cordelia Castel

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When Princess Alba disguises herself to join the Dragon Mage Academy, she accidentally bonds with a dragon accused of murder. With only three days to prove the dragon’s innocence, Alba must risk everything to stop the execution or they will both die. Page-turning fantasy adventure for fans of Eragon and Dragon Riders of Pern!

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