True Girl

True stories of fascinating pioneer women in Arizona. Featuring: Sarah Ashurst who tied her two year old daughter Eve to a wagon wheel so she wouldnt wander off while she gave birth, unassisted to the baby that would become Arizona's first senator. That was only the beginning of Sarah's adventures as she and her family headed to the Arizona Territory! Kate Lyall, a single mother with four children homesteaded in Southern Arizona in Doubtful Canyon, so named because early pioneers were "doubtful" they would survive. Martha Purtymun baked a saw into a cake to help her father, the very ...

Blake: I have a job to do, and it matters. But nothing is more important than her. Nothing. I wish I could tell her the truth. Tell her who I really am. When she finds out she may never want to see me again. Shelby: No man has ever had the effect on me that he has. I just can’t shake the feeling that he doesn’t belong in my world. He’s just too perfect. And so incredibly handsome. But something about him doesn’t quite add up. And I wish more than anything it did… Short Romance, apprx. 10,000 words. HEA.

Weddings are always fun! Other people's weddings. Not yours! . Kishore is home on vacation after three years. To his horror, his family is determined to get him married this time. He isn't ready to settle down yet. He loves the carefree life he leads and his career as a successful civil engineer in Dubai. So, he devises the perfect plan to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family. Just when he thought he had everything under control, that girl from his past literally crash lands into his life and turns his life upside down. Within a day, he is ready to ditch his bachelorhood enchanted ...

Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all - a loving family and a beautiful home in Sydney's Northern Beaches. But in the summer of 1982 his wife Lynette disappeared and not long afterwards Dawson married a much younger woman, a former student. Less than a decade later this young woman escaped the marriage and went to the police to record her suspicions that Dawson had been involved in Lynette's disappearance. A homicide investigation followed but got nowhere until 1998, when Detective Sergeant Damian Loone was handed Lynette's file.

Shattered Justice, bearing the title chosen by Paul Smith (Sheriff of Mayes County, OK, from 1981 to 1985), describes Smith’s squelched efforts to get justice for three little Girl Scouts murdered deep in the woods just outside Locust Grove, OK, on June 13, 1977. Lori Farmer, 8, Doris “Denise” Milner, 10, and Michelle Gusé, 9, were bludgeoned and strangled while sharing a tent during their first night of summer camp.

Nikki broke the law. As determined by the Moltov Discipline Committee, she must spend a year with a level 3 disciplinarian on Hades-4. Before she even leaves the courtroom, he has her over his knee and administers a searing reminder of what she has to look forward to. Vukzin has the blood of the old race. Punishment and discipline run through his veins. It’s been too long since he last had a ward, but the time has come for him to punish anew. Nikki’s year with him will be a painful one, but he can’t wait for it to begin. Nikki’s New Disciplinarian is a domestic discipline alien ...

Liz was okay with her busty roommate, Amy being a lesbian, since they both like to play video games, drink beer, and watch movies together. But one evening, Amy takes a little farther, and the two of them explore each other in all the saphic ways! Plenty of hot, girl-on-girl hardcore lesbian action! Kissing, fondling, spanking, and backdoor play! You won't be disappointed!

An unforgettable true story of resilience, family, and chasing your dreams against all odds. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, Tani Hanes recounts the remarkable life of her grandmother, Mitsuko Ishikawa, who grew up in early 20th century Japan dreaming of independence and education. Mitsuko's steadfast determination carries her through an arranged marriage, raising children during wartime, and carving out an accomplished career as a midwife, nurse and ikebana master - despite a society that expected her to be only a dutiful wife and mother. Through lyrical prose and vivid detail, ...

Books for Girls 9-12: Charlotte awakes from a terrible nightmare, could it be true? Is Margaret back to haunt her? And then Charlotte meets up with Charlie again, heart flutter as they stare into each other's eyes. Until something disgusting begins to happen, and Charlotte feeling embarrassed and sick has to leave Charlie in Margaret's hands. Charlotte discovers she has a special talent. At first, it is difficult to control, but with practice, Charlotte finds this talent very useful. Miss Moffat announces that the girls will go through 3 tests and the top five girls will visit the wizardry ...

The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in Western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing; and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard.

The stars align perfectly sometimes. From librarians to vampires, true love can seem difficult to organically come across. But it can also sneak up on you faster than one of Cupid’s arrows. Whether or not you choose to pursue it is ultimately your decision. Just keep in mind that everyone should take a chance on love like these characters. Featuring stories by Katie Jordan, David W. Landrum, Katie Kent, Alyce Elmore, Simone Solon, Mira Bell, and Kacey Black.

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets eyes on them that four-year-old Bo and seven-year-old Billy have clearly been subjected to unimaginable neglect, and it takes all of Maggie's skills as a foster carer to try to connect with the volatile little girls, who seem far younger than their years.

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."

On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police collusion abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved, and the girls were never found.

In her new book, the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.

Rumors of dragon sightings are stirring up fears based on old stories that depict dragons as bloodthirsty, fire-breathing monsters. To protect his people, the Overking decrees that all dragons must die. Twelve-year-old Eliana knows the truth about dragons. After all, her best friend Winston is one! Fresh off an adventure where she saved her kingdom with her ability to communicate with Winston’s family, she is now excited to hone her skills through her Dragon Speaker apprenticeship.

There I was sitting on the bathroom floor as if life had been syphoned from my feet, and a rug had been unsuspectingly pulled from underneath them. Could this be real? Is this a bad dream? If so, I need to wake up because I want out of this scene! What happens when tragedy strikes and the supernatural intervenes? Many great minds have experienced the mystical presence of God and His salvation in their lives and have testified to the vivid reality of the spiritual experience. Albert Einstein often said that as a scientist, his goal was to “read God’s mind.” Dwight D. Eisenhower said he...

A girl uses her wits to survive a maniacal killer who wipes out her family. A woman is condemned for the "final betrayal of motherhood" for killing her children. A grieving mother becomes convinced that the man convicted of murdering her beautiful teenage daughter is innocent.

A father kills his three young children and his wife and impersonates a disgraced journalist. Oregon's most famous murderer explains how her jail breaks show she's ready for parole.

GHOST STORIES from the real investigations of the Evansville Vanderburgh Paranormal Team. Frost & Flame Trilogy about ghosts, real hauntings and paranormal investigations. When the E.V.P. Investigations team formed in 2008, its founding members never anticipated what they would be up against. Intentions of finding proof of the paranormal and afterlife had been their goal, but they soon uncovered more than they had bargained for as the tales unfold in this trilogy of encounters: Frost & Flame. The final book, NeverEnding Maddness, brings the team to an abandoned Infirmary in Northern Ohio ...