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TheCentersChildCoverMCNNewWebsiteCheck out this other book I wrote.

This high action young adult (YA) science fiction book is a read the entire family can enjoy!

JUST WHO . . . OR WHAT . . . IS CAMDEN ARCHER?

ONLY REAL BOYS HAVE SOULS, and if Camden’s not real . . . Jake Turner doesn’t even want to think about that.

Camden Archer lives at the Center, along with seventeen other orphans. Jake Turner is Cam’s teacher at a Denver middle school. A storm throws them together, igniting Jake’s suspicions that the boy isn’t what he appears to be.

Cam grows an inch in one weekend, and his physical responses are too quick for Jake to follow—when the boy thinks Jake isn’t watching. The clincher for Jake? When Cam recovers miraculously from a deadly car accident that Jake was certain killed the boy.

Even Cam’s subsequent attendance at Sacred Heart doesn’t entirely convince Jake the boy is heaven-bound. Who is there to hear his confession, if he’s not real?

The boy’s abduction, and his ensuing pursuit by the Center’s highly trained team of ex-military types, pull Jake into a life-or-death quest to save the boy he’s come to care about as if he were his own.

In the deadly conflict that follows, Jake has to come to terms with his doubts about Cam. He also has to answer the bigger question: What does it mean to have a soul?

It matters very much to Cam, especially if the boy doesn’t survive long enough for Jake to save him.

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Life Lessons SCFluff. That's all our dog is. Ten pounds wet, and less once he dried.

Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog

In this book, you will come to love Lil' Dude as much as we do.

Lil’ Dude has traveled from Maine to Galveston, hiked mountains in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and played on the sand of the Outer Banks off the North Carolina coast. He’s romped in Colorado snow and moved across the country to a home as new to him as it was to us.

This is Lil’ Dude’s story, of the lessons we’ve learned from him as he’s grown from a two-pound puppy into a ball of fur that will challenge all comers if he thinks his territory is being invaded.

Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog includes two popular books in the Lil’ Dude series: Paws in the Sand (Book One) and Pineapple Treats (Book Two).

Join in this journey in the following chapters:

1. It’s Not Who Gets the Toy

2. Cute Isn’t Defined in the Dictionary

3. It’s Okay to Hide Behind Someone

4. Take Little Bites

5. You Can Sleep on the Back of the Sofa

6. It Doesn’t Matter What People Call You

7. Keep Your Toys Clean

8. Just Because It Tastes Good Doesn’t Mean You Can Keep It Down

9. Bring a Toy When You Want to Play

10. Hide in Your Opponent’s Lap

11. Don’t Let Anyone Grab Your Feet

12. Hold on with Both Paws

13. Don’t Run on the Ceramic Tile

14. Some Steps Are Just Too Steep

15. Always Bark

16. Stay Off the Sofa If You Can’t Get Up by Yourself

17. You Can Be Brave on Your Side of the Fence

This book will capture your heart and imagination.

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Abigail and 30 Wonderful Things

Perfect for a boy or a girl, this book tells the story of Abigail.

Abigail is a very real girl living in a magical house by the sea in the tiny kingdom of Rhode Island. Her grandmother resides in a cozy garden apartment at the foot of the stairs (in a basement that's much more than a basement). Overhead, an apartment hunkers under shadowed eaves, and warm, Portuguese laughter spills from the open windows into the walled garden far below.

Quivering ferns cling to the rock walls keeping Mr. and Mrs. Mole safe from New England's storms, and a burbling stone fountain whispers secret confidences to the scattered rays of afternoon sun.

Sparrows flit from the pine forest perched on the windswept promontory, and they sing the forest fairies' secrets to the frogs far below.

All-in-all, Abigail leads a pretty perfect life in her Rhode Island house by the sea. She helps her mother in the kitchen, and she counts her father's fingers while he tells her the secrets of tomorrow.

And occasionally, just every now and then, Abigail peers out her windows toward the sea, and when the moon comes out, or the wind blows in a new direction, she sees some very wonderful things.

This is Abigail's story of what she's discovered, from hummingbirds inviting her to a tea party, to a horse with feathered wings, to a toad that makes jokes (plus 27 more wonderful things). When you've finished this tale, I'm sure you'll agree. Abigail is the luckiest girl in the whole-wide world.

You will enjoy 30 engaging tales that will capture your heart and imagination.

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The Ferry Waits for No Man

Tales of Coastal Carolina and the Outer Banks

30 stories about the places you love

Shell Castle Rock, swallowed by a storm.

Ocracoke Island and its 200-year-old lighthouse.

Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station, the first one.

Diamond Shoals Lightship, torpedoed by a German U-boat.

Cape Hatteras Light, built to impress.

Find people who've inspired you.

Keeper Benjamin B. Dailey, fighting the sea.

Surfman Rasmus Midgett, a legend among life-savers.

Cap'n Unka Jennette, a lifetime of lighthouse service.

Captain J.B. "Toby" Tillett, a barge-and-tug ferryman.

T.A. Baum, where the NC ferry system began.

Uncover stories that will fascinate you.

Hawkins' Zouaves, out to win a war.

USS Huron, all hands lost at sea.

The Bluejacket's Manual, a story of the U.S. Navy.

RMS Titanic, reaching out to Hatteras Weather Station.

Aleta, the Ocracoke Mail Boat, the lifeline of Ocracoke Island.

Plus 15 more stories. If you've traveled the east coast of North Carolina, you'll recognize many of these names and places. If you haven't, this is your chance to immerse yourself in a land that's captured people's imaginations for hundreds of years.

If you ever plan to visit the Outer Banks of NC, you need this book in your hand. 

Get it today.

An amazing blend of facts and imagination that will keep your interest.

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