The moon was bright and full that night, bigger than I could ever even remember it. Maybe because it was moving towards me... After giving the worst violin recital of his life, and being laughed at by the entire school, the boy vows to never play music again. Later that night, when the moon swallows up his bedroom, it shares the secrets of being a true artist, helping the boy re-claim his self-confidence, overcome the pitfalls of perfectionism, and believe in his own dream. Each of the five stories in The Night the Moon Ate My Room! is designed for young readers to experience the joy of self-discovery, valuable life lessons, and the adventure of turning their greatest dreams into reality. 'In lyrical prose Jesse Wilson explores fundamental childhood issues: overcoming adversity, discovering your courage, and the power of dreams.' Laurel Schmidt, author of Seven Times Smarter: 50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Child.

Bad Moon Rising: Sometimes Revenge Is Sweet is the sequel to Kellie’s Curse. Set in Port Melbourne Australia in the 1960s, it is the engaging story of the flamboyant Kellie Earl, her handsome and artistic brother Billy, and their glamorous and enigmatic Russian mother, Jana Zirakov. When Jana first arrived in Australia, she was pregnant with Kellie and Billy was two years old. Jana hopes to put the horrors of her past behind her and start a new life, but is bitterly disappointed. Years later, Jana unwisely brings unsavory boyfriends into their home and Kellie is raped. Kellie ends up killing the man. At twenty-eight, Kellie becomes a rich widow. However, she cannot forget her suspicions surrounding Billy's tragic death at seventeen. She moves to Sydney where she writes popular novels using the nom de plume B.M. Rising, for “Bad Moon Rising,” Billy's favorite song. Nothing alleviates the pain over losing her brother or can lessen the hatred of her rapist. She is also troubled by the secrets Jana keeps about Russia. poses the questions: Is murder ever justified, and are killers born or created? Although the characters are fictional, events are based on real stories. “Fantastic. I couldn't put down! It's an intriguing novel, very cleverly written.” – Robert Bailey, former editor with the Commonwealth Government “Brilliant work. You are a literary genius!!!” – Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, director, MonashAlfred Psychiatry Research Centre

Journey into the Grazi Kelly Universe with this heart pounding Young Adult Urban Fantasy series featuring teen Werewolf Maria Graziana Kelly, aka Grazi, as she comes of age and learns the truth behind the mystery of who she really is. "Everyone always says how big the ocean is, but those are just empty words until you actually see it. It was honestly and truly the biggest thing I’d ever seen. I’d visited the Jersey Shore a time or two as a kid but sitting on a crowded beach and looking out over the water from the deck of a ship were two very different things. I liked the beach, don’t get me wrong, but this was something else." Teenage Werewolf Grazi Kelly must end the Curse of Natalis once and for all. With the help of Ronan and some unlikely allies she finds herself in a situation she could've never predicted. Will she be strong enough to fight both the Dark Witches and the High Council? Find out what fate has in store for Grazi this last installment of the Grazi Kelly Novel Series. Teenage Werewolves. Demons. Witches. A Curse that must end. Keywords: werewolf urban fantasy, teen wolf romance, teen wolf mystery, young adult werewolf, young adult wolf shifter, YA werewolf romance, YA werewolf mystery, teen wolf urban fantasy series, teen wolf YA romance, hounds of god series, wolf shifter urban fantasy novel, wolf shifter ebook, teenage werewolf book series, first love paranormal romance, first love urban fantasy, clean urban fantasy read, complete series

DescriptionTales from the Ebony Cat is a collection of poems verse and short stories. Sandra tells in the medium of poetry about her experience of psychosis, what it is like from the inside looking out. Her unique perspective describes the symptoms of the illness giving the reader a look inside her head. The short stories are accurate accounts of periods of psychosis that go to make up the label schizophrenia. This is a collection of the various symptoms and different ways that the perception can be challenged during the illness. The Ebony Cat is Sandra's way of telling her story through the muse of her pet, who when Sandra is ill acts as a telepathic familiar springing from her younger days when Sandra was bullied as a child and called a witchAbout the AuthorSandra Banawich was born in 1964 second eldest of six children; she had an unhappy childhood and was bullied quiet badly. When she was first sectioned in 1991 under the 1983 Mental Health Act, everything took her by surprise, she was totally unaware she was becoming unwell, it happened so fast. Sandra had married young and had a 3 yr old son with undiagnosed Autism. She had a second son who kept her awake at nights; her second son had to be bandaged from head to foot because of his severe eczema. Sandra also had a young baby who had developed infantile eczema. It all became too much for her to cope with so in January just after Christmas Sandra experienced her first breakdown. That first experience of psychosis was very confusing; she could no longer trust her own thoughts.When Sandra was released from hospital she decided to train as a Citizen's Advice Worker, she needed just to prove to herself that she had value. Everything went well and Sandra qualified as an advice worker. Then things took a turn for the worse her family found it hard to come to terms with her illness.She fought hard to get her head back together and joined the Labour Party. In 2000 Sandra was elected a local councillor for St Helens. She could finally hold her head up at last. As Chair of Health and Social Care scrutiny Committee Sandra was the first person to give written evidence against the Draft Mental Health Bill in 2004 when it was going through Parliament. Campaigning on mental health issues is something that she continues to do even though no longer a councillor.Sandra came out in the local press about the problems facing service users and as a local councillor with mental health problems she also wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper on the subject of her Mental Health. Sandra was reunited with her family Mum and Dad were very proud and old wounds healed.

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have to break her back foraging wild food to sell at market; they will have the money to build a fine tomb for his aunt Okike; and his family’s status as ohu ma, the lowest Igbo caste, won’t matter anymore. But when his father is passed over for a younger man, breaking tradition, Dimkpa realizes that he must make his own fate. Journeying from his small village in rural Nigeria, to Lagos, Awka, and home again, Dimkpa learns that no money is easy money, that superstition runs deep, that knowledge is power, and that sometimes it is better to live in the present than to always be chasing a future just out of reach. The Liquid Eye of a Moon is by turns hilarious and poignant, capturing all the messiness of adolescence, and the difficulty of making your own way in a world that seeks to oppress you.

Amber Moon, starts her autobiography from her youngest age of two about the different abuses she endured while growing up through her adolescence years into her teenage years. Throughout the novel, she expresses the actions and emotions how she overcame her abuse in hopes to help others. A nice day out. I was only 4. My brother Tim and I had been home with my dad all week while mother has been working at the hospital taking care of patients. She's a LPN. After breakfast my dad came out back and told us we were going to the "icebox" to go fish with Rob today and we needed to get inside and get ready. Oh how I can remember my brother being so happy. Me...I felt panic. As I knew this was going to be a day of drinking and torture as it always was when my dad and his friend are together. We had gotten to the sink hole of a fishing place, it was back behind a lot of trees. I can still remember the smell to this day and how dirty it was. I often wondered why we ate the fish from that place. The water was always filled with trash. Yes, refrigerators too. Yet everyone in Hornell fished there. My dad set up the fishing rods on the bank and told me to sit on the ground that I wasn't good enough to sit in a chair, they are used only for men. As I watched my father, Rob and my brother all sit down in one. I sat in a pile of muddy grass patch that had trash in it. Crying, my dad slapped me across the face and asked me, "Do you want another?" As he raised his hand over his head. I curled up my legs and hugged them close to my chest in hopes I would not get hit again. Instead he pulls out his Polaroid from the back seat of his truck and takes a picture. As he yells, "Come on you little pussy."

What The Night Moon Said is a compilation of reflections, stories and convictions gathered over the years of the author's life. Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author of "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament", and the co-author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness. She herself lives in this shadow. Ms. Jamison believes research and history provide evidence that, for many, the bipolar condition has been an influencing factor in fostering their artistic spirit. After being diagnosed in her thirties, the author of this book finally understood her craving for expression as she traveled through rapidly changing horizons in the hills and valleys of her life. Most of this book was conceived and written at night under the still, hovering presence of the moon, which - although a speck in the universe - gifted her with peace and stability in the darkest times. Anyone who has sat alone and silent during the night, with only the click of a key or scratch of a pen to mark the hours, will understand.

Reproduction of the original: The World Decision by Robert Herrick

The tale of a girl growing up on an island (told from her perspective)with a family who are not who they seem. Her mother is a healer but who is her father? All she knows is her father walked off a ship long ago. The same ship has returned to the island and the crew have tales to tell of who her father was in distant lands but she only wants to know one thing. Will he be leaving with the ship? Yet worse events occur when her father fights with slavers, will he live through the night?