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The Modern Author’s Playbook : The Complete Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Writing and Publishing Today

Jasveer Singh Dangi, author of Chasing Shadows: A Novel, The Hunter series, and numerous other fiction and non-fiction titles, is proud to bring you this empowering guide for writers. We are living in the most exciting era for authors. The walls that once kept writers from sharing their work with the world have crumbled. Today, with just a computer and an internet connection, anyone can write, publish, and reach readers across the globe. Yet with these new opportunities comes a challenge: standing out in a crowded, competitive marketplace. This book is your step-by-step roadmap for n...
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The Modern Author’s Playbook : The Complete Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Writing and Publishing Today

asveer Singh Dangi, author of Chasing Shadows: A Novel, The Hunter series, and numerous other fiction and non-fiction titles, is proud to bring you this empowering guide for writers.We are living in the most exciting era for authors. The walls that once kept writers from sharing their work with the world have crumbled. Today, with just a computer and an internet connection, anyone can write, publish, and reach readers across the globe. Yet with these new opportunities comes a challenge: standing out in a crowded, competitive marketplace.This book is your step-by-step roadmap for navigating the...
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Chasing Shadows: A Novel

"This book offers a refreshing and unique take on the typical Nazi treasure hunt narrative." - Litlinks by HSD Ascent on Goodreads"The action scenes are vivid and cinematic, and the twists kept me guessing until the end. This book makes you think while keeping you thoroughly entertained." Author Seema Garg on Goodreads and Amazon"This is the kind of book that makes you hold your breath and race through chapters. A fast paced, intelligent thriller with real heart." - Leonie Kaye on GoodreadsWhat would you do if you uncovered the secret of a hidden treasure? Would you chase the gold—or hunt do...
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Dear Mr. Orwell, Dear Mr. Huxley

They were told it was for safety. For order. For the good of the country. But inside the frozen lobbies, where vending machines hummed louder than conversation, a darker truth took root—one clipboard, one quota, one vanished neighbor at a time.Dear Mr. Orwell, Dear Mr. Huxley, is a chilling work of speculative fiction grounded in the very real erosion of privacy, autonomy, and morality in modern surveillance states. Told through stark, immersive vignettes, it examines a world where every product tracks you, every app reports you, and every officer is handed a target instead of a reason. From...
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The Tree of Life and Other Stories

"Life is the greatest story being woven all around us, and we are the ones holding the pen." - JasveerI did not begin this book with a map or a destination in mind. Each time my hat, my mind, leaned into its own quiet sorcery, it revealed something unexpected, the way a magician's hat offers wonders no one asked for but everyone hopes to see. This book is a gathering of such surprises.Some of the stories are born from a delightfully strange imagination; others rise from fleeting thoughts, half-remembered moments, and memories too precious to leave behind. A few are fragments of my own life, di...
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The Legend in the Stone: A Historical Fiction Novel

For years, stories have circulated around the Superstition Mountains about an old hermit who seems to have been there forever.University of Arizona graduate student Matt Hayden has always been fascinated by the stories, but fascination isn't enough for a historian. When the opportunity arises to investigate the legend for his final graduate paper, Matt sets out to find out what is fact, what is folklore, and whether the mysterious hermit ever existed at all.He finds the answer sooner than expected. What begins as a simple research project soon becomes something far stranger as the man that Mat...
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The Long Journey: A Historical Fiction Novel

George Massey never expected his life to become a journey.Forced from his Cherokee homeland and sent west to Indian Territory, George collapses along the way, certain he has been left behind to die. Instead, he finds help in an unexpected place: a Kentucky farm belonging to the McGregor family.There he meets Ellie, a young woman whose kindness changes the course of his life. Their friendship grows into love, and soon George and Ellie begin a new life together, but building a family in a divided and changing nation won’t be easy. They face prejudice, hardship, difficult choices, and the uncer...
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Billy: A '70s Story

Sometimes the family that saves your life is the one you never knew you had.New York City, 1972. Eighteen-year-old Billy Johnson has spent most of his life believing he was unwanted. After years of abuse, foster homes, and surviving on the streets by selling drugs, he expects nothing from the world except another day of getting by.Everything changes when a chance encounter leads him to Ethel Schiender, a lonely widow living in a Greenwich Village townhome. As Billy begins helping the elderly woman with everyday chores, an unlikely friendship grows into something neither of them expected. Throu...
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Manual de cómo motivar equipos

¿Qué hace que una persona se involucre de verdad con su trabajo? Y, sobre todo, ¿por qué aquello que motiva a alguien puede dejar completamente indiferente a otra persona?Manual de cómo motivar equipos es una introducción práctica para nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos. Propone comprender la motivación antes de intentar provocarla, observando qué mueve la conducta de cada persona y qué condiciones pueden fortalecer o debilitar su compromiso.A lo largo de diez pasos, el libro desarrolla la diferencia entre motivación intrínseca y extrínseca, el uso de ince...
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Manual de cómo delegar

Manual de cómo delegar forma parte de la colección Manuales de liderazgo y fue desarrollado como material complementario para cursos, talleres y capacitaciones en liderazgo.Está dirigido especialmente a nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos. El manual propone distinguir entre asignación, escalamiento y delegación para comprender qué responsabilidades debe conservar el líder y cuáles pueden pasar progresivamente al equipo.También desarrolla cómo elegir a la persona adecuada, acordar resultados, responsabilidad, autoridad, límites y seguimiento, y cómo acompaña...
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Manual de cómo dar feedback

Manual de cómo dar feedback forma parte de la colección Manuales de liderazgo y fue desarrollado como material complementario para cursos, talleres y capacitaciones en liderazgo.Está dirigido especialmente a nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos. El manual aborda el feedback como una herramienta de comunicación y desarrollo, trabajando cómo preparar la conversación, describir situaciones y conductas concretas, explicar su impacto y favorecer un intercambio que permita avanzar.A lo largo del recorrido se desarrollan recursos como el modelo SBI, la escucha activa, las...
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Manual de objetivos SMART

Manual de objetivos SMART forma parte de la colección Manuales de liderazgo y fue desarrollado como material complementario para cursos, talleres y capacitaciones en liderazgo.Está dirigido especialmente a nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos. El manual propone trabajar los objetivos partiendo de la situación actual, la situación deseada y la brecha existente entre ambas.A lo largo del recorrido se desarrollan los criterios SMART —específico, medible, alcanzable, relevante y temporal— junto con recursos para analizar obstáculos, alternativas, apoyos, planificac...
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Manual de liderazgo situacional

Manual de liderazgo situacional forma parte de la colección Manuales de liderazgo y fue desarrollado como material complementario para cursos, talleres y capacitaciones en liderazgo.Está dirigido especialmente a nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos. El manual desarrolla cómo adaptar la forma de liderar según la competencia, el compromiso y las necesidades que presenta una persona frente a una tarea determinada.A lo largo del recorrido se trabajan los distintos niveles de madurez y las formas de intervención del líder, combinando dirección y apoyo según cada situa...
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Manual de estilos de liderazgo

Manual de estilos de liderazgo es una introducción práctica para nuevos líderes y personas que comienzan a conducir equipos.El libro parte de una idea central: liderar no significa actuar siempre de la misma manera. Cada persona, cada tarea y cada situación pueden requerir una forma diferente de acompañar, orientar y tomar decisiones.A lo largo del recorrido se presentan distintos estilos de liderazgo y se explica cómo reconocerlos, cuándo pueden resultar útiles y qué ocurre cuando la forma de liderar no coincide con las necesidades de la persona o del contexto.También se abordan her...
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A Wanderer’s Guide to the Gates

A Wanderer’s Guide to the Gates by Cian Didymos.

 

A free EPUB download is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGmZ3JvPoYoT4uSpS8msC8Wenao4H-V2/view?usp=drive_link

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The Case Files of George Spade

Get ready to laugh out loud at this hilarious anthology of the nineteen cases handled by P.I. George Spade.  In a world filled with advertising icons and cartoon characters, intrepid shovel Spade digs up dirt on people, clients and suspects alike.  Read about his budding romance with his secretary, Wendy Wedgewood, who's a real dish.  Read about his clients, the famous characters that appear on cereal boxes to the muscular man with the bald head who sells cleaning products.  And laugh at the sarcasm and outright silliness of his clients who display very human faults despite...
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BLACKRIDGE

Megan Black has lived at Black Lodge long enough to know how Blackridge works: old blood carries old debts, family loyalty has teeth, and “protection” can become another word for control.Her heart is already tangled with Lucien Vale, Sebastian Cross, and Bennett Wren—three very different men, each carrying histories, loyalties, and dangers of his own. But in Blackridge, love is never entirely separate from power, and the people who care about Megan most are not always the ones willing to let her choose for herself.Now buried family truths are surfacing, old loyalties are being tested, an...
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The Dark Alignment: The System Secret

The system has been active longer than humanity has existed.As the final alignment approaches, the truth behind the twin worlds, the Moon, and the ancient orbital structure is finally revealed.What began as discovery became convergence.What followed turned into conflict.Now there is no time left for speculation.Deep beneath the Moon’s surface, the last layers of the system unlock—exposing records older than Earth itself and a purpose never meant to be understood by those living inside it.The Architects are not legends.The caretakers were never protectors.And history was not shaped by chanc...
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The Dark Alignment: Cold War of Two Worlds

No one declared war.The boundary appeared anywayAn invisible line now divides the solar system.Beyond it, space behaves differently.Motion falters.Signals fail.When humanity attempts to test the boundary, the response is immediate—and absolute. Ships vanish without impact. Weapons are removed before they can be fired. Gravity itself becomes an instrument of enforcement.There are no enemy fleets.No invasion forces.No negotiations.Only rules.As political leaders argue and military command fractures, the Moon activates deeper systems buried beneath its surface—structures designed not for expl...
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The Dark Alignment: First Landing

Humanity has crossed the boundary.The corridor between worlds has opened.For the first time in history, a human vessel passes beyond Earth’s orbit—not into open space, but into a controlled path built by something far older than humanity.The destination is not empty.The surface of the second world is structured.Organized.Waiting.As the landing craft descends, ancient systems respond with precision, guiding every movement, sealing every retreat. The Moon itself begins to behave less like a satellite—and more like a machine.There are no weapons.No warnings.No greetings.Only procedures.Deep...
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The Dark Alignment: Closing Distance

The planet is no longer standing still.What began as an impossible discovery has become a measurable threat.The twin world hidden behind the Sun has started to move.At first, the change is subtle—numbers shifting, gravity leaning, margins tightening. But soon the truth becomes unavoidable: the distance between worlds is shrinking.As global panic spreads and governments lose control, Earth’s Moon begins to behave in ways no one can explain. Ancient systems buried beneath its surface awaken, responding not to human command—but to something far older.Calculations fail.Models collapse.Physic...
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The Dark Alignment: The Shadow Orbit

A planet has appeared where nothing should exist.Hidden behind the Sun, something massive has taken Earth’s place in orbit.At first, it’s only a gravitational anomaly—barely detectable, easy to dismiss.Until the data becomes impossible to ignore.The object isn’t an asteroid.It isn’t a ship.It’s a planet.Perfectly synchronized with Earth’s orbit.Mirrored.Watching.As global authorities scramble to suppress the discovery, a small orbital monitoring team uncovers a far more disturbing truth: the Moon is no longer passive. Ancient structures buried beneath its surface have begun to aw...
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Children of Fire: Judgment of Fire

The cycle has reached its end.Humanity has been judged before.It failed every time.In Judgment of Fire, the final book of the Children of Fire saga, the Guardians reach the conclusion they have avoided for millennia: the current human civilization is accelerating toward collapse faster than any before it.This is not war.This is not punishment.It is a reset.As climate systems unravel, oceans shift, and the atmosphere turns hostile, civilization falls apart. Cities vanish. Billions die. Only small, randomly selected groups survive—not heroes, not leaders, but ordinary people chosen for one rea...
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Children of Fire: The War of Inheritance

The creators are divided.The children are done obeying.Humanity has learned the truth:We were not born alone.We were shaped.Now the wardens who guided our evolution are no longer united—and the silence between them is more dangerous than open war.As human forces cross forbidden boundaries and claim technology older than civilization itself, the Guardians fracture into opposing factions. Some believe humanity deserves autonomy. Others believe it has proven, once again, that power without restraint leads only to extinction.When blood is spilled on both sides for the first time in thousands of ...
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Children of Fire: Beyond the Frozen Silence

They thought the world had been saved.They were wrong.When every nuclear weapon on Earth is neutralized in a single, unexplained moment, humanity celebrates a miracle. But miracles don’t arrive without consequences.As the Antarctic ice collapses, a hidden city awakens — a living system older than history, built by beings who look human… and claim they created humanity’s path forward.The truth is devastating:Earth has hosted advanced civilizations before.All of them failed.Now humanity stands as the fourth attempt.The Atlanteans — Earth’s silent guardians — reveal they have been w...
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Children of Fire: The Day the Sky Began Watching

The first nuclear fire did more than end a war.It triggered something the world was never meant to wake.In 1945, during the Hiroshima detonation, physicist Dr. Elias Carter records an energy anomaly unlike anything ever measured—clean, structured, and moving away from Earth. The second bomb confirms it.The signal wasn’t random.And it wasn’t alone.Years later, deep inside America’s nuclear defense network, Colonel Michael Reyes encounters a new threat—silent luminous objects appearing above missile silos during readiness drills. They don’t attack. They don’t communicate.They simpl...
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Through the Last Gate: The Breath Returns

The new world was supposed to be quiet. They were wrong.Ten years after humanity fled through the Last Gate, the survivors on Auralis believed they had built a future. They had only been granted a pause.Beneath the shimmering plains, the planet has been listening. Every footstep. Every buried grief. Every child born under alien suns. Now Auralis remembers — and she is waking.Children speak with voices older than language. Shadows walk without bodies. Machines that were never built rise from tunnels no map has ever shown.And when the sky tears open above the settlement, a dead world — hollo...
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Through the Last Gate

They said the sky would end in silence.They were wrong.When the Black Dwarf—a star older than light—began devouring Earth’s orbit, humanity faced extinction.In the shadow of the Rockies, Dr. Mara Ellison activated the Gate: a tunnel through folded space, untested and unpromised.One million souls stepped into the breathing light.None knew what waited beyond.Now, on a world that isn’t Earth—beneath twin suns and skies that remember every star—the survivors must confront the truth:The Gate is alive.It breathes. It remembers. It chooses.From the first night among singing soil to the va...
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depth of justice

Eastmon City doesn't sleep. Neither do the people trying to control it.Rico Torres Rodriguez arrives in Eastmon looking for a fresh start and a badge. What he finds is a city where cops, criminals, families, and hustlers all share the same streets—and where the difference between protecting the city and owning it isn't always as clear as it should be.Under the guidance of celebrated detective Tommy Gunnz, Rico begins learning what it really means to wear the badge. Across town, Joey Two Times Williams is beginning a rise of his own, earning respect in a criminal world already divided between...
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Ciudad anónima. Poesía visual

Ciudad anónima. Poesía visual. 1ª edición. 2023. 236 páginas. ISBN 9798390963951. (Poemas escritos entre 2019 y 2023)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU. La masificación en las grandes ciudades, el consumismo desenfrenado, el anonimato en las calles, la soledad en los edificios, las máscaras que se usan en la vida cotidiana y en las relaciones personales, la lucha del individuo —como ente único— por no perder su identidad y su esencia en la vida tumultuada de las grandes urbes, son algunos de los temas de Ciudad anónima.Escritos con rebeldía, sarcasmo e intriga; desafi...
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Elegías. La noche del arcoíris

Elegías. La noche del arcoíris. 1ª edición. 2023. 140 páginas. ISBN 9798376284209 (Poemas escritos en 2022)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU. Elegías. La noche del arcoíris es un poemario que revela nostalgia, autorreflexión, plegaria, remembranzas. Es un viaje lírico por diversas épocas de la vida en que se contrasta la luz del arcoíris con la oscuridad de la noche. Son poemas introspectivos que no buscan en aquel pasado perdido la razón de ser, si no la manera de entender el presente.Los 116 textos de este poemario transitan por diversos caminos, entre los cuales pod...
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Claroscuro. Historias macabras.

Claroscuro. Historias macabras. 1ª edición. 2023. 158 páginas. ISBN 9798375020785. (Cuentos escritos entre 2017 y 2022)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.1ª reimpresión: 21/11/2024.Claroscuro reúne trece cuentos que forman un ciclo de historias maquiavélicamente construidas en torno a las dos palabras que le dan título a este libro de cuentos cortos: claro y oscuro.La palabra claro nos remite a la “normalidad” (luminoso, transparente, diáfano). Los personajes de las trece historias aparecen en un primer momento como seres normales dentro del ambiente en el que viven, tanto ...
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El espejo invisible. Tomo 3. Ojos que no ven.

El espejo invisible. Tomo 3. Ojos que no ven. 1ª edición. 2022. 190 páginas. ISBN 9798364910752 (Cuentos escritos en 2022)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU.A venta en cualquier amazon.com 2ª reimpresión: septiembre de 2023. Ojos que no ven es el tercer tomo de la serie de cuentos El espejo invisible (Tomo 1: Desaparecidos; Tomo 2: Corazones en fuego). Como en los libros anteriores, este volumen reúne seis cuentos surrealistas, fantásticos, donde la realidad se mezcla con los sueños, los sueños con la vida, y la vida con los deseos, lo misterioso y lo intrigante.Los s...
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Memorias ambiguas. Cuentos.

Memorias ambiguas. Cuentos. 1ª edición. 2025. 143 páginas. ISBN 9798277743164 (Cuentos escritos entre 2018 y 2021)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. 1ª reimpresión: agosto de 2023. Memorias ambiguas, un abanico de personajes reales que viajan en su propio tiempo, algunos comprendiendo el mundo que los rodea; otros en una lucha por la sobrevivencia física y mental.Los cuentos de Memorias ambiguas (escritos entre 2018 y 2021) abordan temas sociales como el feminicidio (Los amores de Elsa), la soledad de los ancianos (Las páginas dieciséis y diecisiete), la búsqueda de ...
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El espejo invisible. Tomo 2. Corazones en fuego.

El espejo invisible. Tomo 2. Corazones en fuego. 1ª edición. 2022. 174 páginas. ISBN 979-8352047699 (Cuentos escritos entre 2021 y 2022)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU.A venta en cualquier amazon.com1ª reimpresión. 2023.Corazones en fuego es el Tomo 2 de El espejo invisible que reúne seis cuentos en los cuales la pasión por la vida adquiere diversas tonalidades y nos transportan a la frágil frontera que separa la realidad de la fantasía: Un puente demasiado lejos, El rompecabezas de Martina, Los pasos de Violeta Hammer, La pareja perfecta, Tiempos modernos y Los inconvenient...
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A la orilla del tiempo. Cuentos

A la orilla del tiempo. Cuentos. 1ª edición. 2022. 172 páginas. ISBN 979-8843270377. (Cuentos escritos entre 1991 y 1995)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. 1ª reimpresión: julio de 2023. A la orilla del tiempo. Cuentos. El tiempo es el divisor de la vida y la muerte, las alegrías y las tristezas, las realizaciones y las frustraciones. El tiempo, un hilo frágil al que la vida se coge con fuerza, no se detiene.Las historias de A la orilla del tiempo forman un caleidoscopio de ficción en el que cada espejo refleja las imágenes y las voces de los personajes que se debate...
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The Imperial Almanac: Houses of the Agathos Empire

A catalogue of the major and minor noble houses of the Empire, their hierarchy and information about the Imperial Royal House. This book serves as an introduction to my original series Elementals, explaining some details or rules that this fantasy world has. As more books I write from this series, this book will have updated versions or sequels that will help with the developing of the worldbuilding.

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Where The Cobblestones Turn Black

In the rain-slicked town of Oakhaven, Elias Thorne lives among the dead--not ghosts, but the forgotten records of an ancient archive. For three years, he has been a man out of time, his life halted on a Tuesday in June by a lost train ticket and a woman who wears a silver scarf, with eyes from two different worlds--Clara--who vanished into the steam.His only link to her, is a heavy, rusted skeleton key, and a memory that plays on a loop like a fraying film reel.But when the basement air begins to smell of lavender and the town's ancient archivists start speaking in riddles, the line between El...
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles: A Reflections Saga

Ava's tragic past isn't haunting her. It's actively trying to murder her soul.She has been running her entire life, haunted by trauma, abuse, and abandonment, finding no solace in the psychic gifts she was born with - speaking to the dead, Clairvoyance and traveling the astral plane. Meant to connect her to the world, they only locked her into a lifetime of pain.Now, a terrifying metaphysical rupture called The Reflections is weaponizing her memories. Her only hope is Kyle, whose prophetic manuscript tells of a doomed 18th- century love that ended in violence- revealing a cycle of tragedy Ava ...
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Mission To The Moon

Blast off on an unforgettable journey to the Moon!A young astronaut climbs aboard his rocket ship and prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. After a thrilling launch, he travels beyond the clouds, floats through space and watches the Moon grow larger through his window.Soon he is landing on the Sea of Tranquility, jumping in low gravity, collecting Moon rocks and exploring the remarkable lunar landscape. But every great adventure must eventually end—and it is soon time to return to Earth and receive a hero’s welcome.Told in lively, accessible verse and accompanied by warm, richly detail...
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