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Believing In Horses
Believing In Horses
Valerie Ormond
Age 9-18
First the move to Maryland. Then Dad's deployment to Afghanistan. Sadie is in trouble. Then she gets Lucky, a new, young horse who proves to be a handful. But that's just the beginning. Together they encounter horse thieves, Maryland storms, and unwanted horses destined for auction and uncertain futures. Sadie makes it her personal mission to save the horses. Along the way, she meets other people who are dedicated to rescuing horses. She also learns some people in the horse industry are driven by greed. And, she's only twelve.
Believing In Horses
Believing In Horses
Valerie Ormond
Age 9-18
First the move to Maryland. Then Dad's deployment to Afghanistan. Sadie is in trouble. Then she gets Lucky, a new, young horse who proves to be a handful. But that's just the beginning. Together they encounter horse thieves, Maryland storms, and unwanted horses destined for auction and uncertain futures. Sadie makes it her personal mission to save the horses. Along the way, she meets other people who are dedicated to rescuing horses. She also learns some people in the horse industry are driven by greed. And, she's only twelve.
Believing In Horses Out West
Believing In Horses Out West
Valerie Ormond
Age 9-18
Sadie Navarro rescued a mare from an auction accomplishing what she thought was the most important mission of her young life.
Now, that mare is headed to a ranch in Montana and a home Sadie knows nothing about.
She wants to make sure the horse is in good hands, but Montana is far away and a different world from Maryland.
Will fourteen-year-old Sadie need to stand up to rugged cowboys to protect her special rescue horse?
Believing In Horses Out West
Believing In Horses Out West
Valerie Ormond
Age 9-18
Sadie Navarro rescued a mare from an auction accomplishing what she thought was the most important mission of her young life.
Now, that mare is headed to a ranch in Montana and a home Sadie knows nothing about.
She wants to make sure the horse is in good hands, but Montana is far away and a different world from Maryland.
Will fourteen-year-old Sadie need to stand up to rugged cowboys to protect her special rescue horse?
Believing In Horses, Too
Believing in Horses Too
Valerie Ormond
Age 9 -18
Thirteen-year-old Sadie Navarro loves horses and her dad. But for now, her dad is in Afghanistan, and she’s eager to distract herself until he’s safely home. So Sadie focuses on training her new horse, Lucky, to compete in the largest local show — and checks in on Goliath, the draft horse she rescued.
It seems like the perfect plan, until Sadie’s enthusiasm gets her roped into volunteering for a therapeutic riding program for returning soldiers. To make matters worse, her inexperienced horse and an unwelcome show ring rival are threatening Sadie and Lucky’s chances to win.
Sadie wants to make her father proud. She wants to help others. But can she find the courage to overcome her fears?
Sensitive, thoughtful, relevant, and moving, Believing In Horses, Too is award-winning-author Valerie Ormond’s second book exploring military family life and challenges faced by teenagers today.
Believing In Horses, Too
Believing In Horses, Too
Believing In Horses, Too
Believing in Horses Too
Valerie Ormond
Age 9 -18
Thirteen-year-old Sadie Navarro loves horses and her dad. But for now, her dad is in Afghanistan, and she’s eager to distract herself until he’s safely home. So Sadie focuses on training her new horse, Lucky, to compete in the largest local show — and checks in on Goliath, the draft horse she rescued.
Sensitive, thoughtful, relevant, and moving, Believing In Horses, Too is award-winning-author Valerie Ormond’s second book exploring military family life and challenges faced by teenagers today.
Clean Teen Fiction
I Don't Trust You
I Don't Trust You
Twisting Turning Healing Journeys
Ken Saik
“I’m out of here.”
A teen escapes a few weeks before her graduation. No longer will I be tortured by my alcoholic father’s mental and physical abuses. I’ll start a new life. I won’t make my mother’s mistake. I won’t marry a man who drinks. Then, I’ll have a loving family.
Too idealistic? Maybe not, for a person with strong willpower. Of course, she must overcome the image that she’s a vulnerable girl. How can she escape the psychological scars burned into her memory? How will she cope with the conviction that no one can be trusted? Particularly men?
She needs help. How can anyone win a sliver of her trust?
Marriage Mistake
Marriage Mistake
Twisting Turning Healing Journeys
Ken Saik
I will make this marriage work. My love will make this marriage work.
In this family story, Marriage Mistake, two people’s motivations differ, but they are committed to living together in a harmonious relationship. Unforgotten childhood experiences intrude to rest their resolve. Witness the human spirit rise against unwelcomed challenges as you read this story.
Second book of the Twisting, Turning, Healing Journeys.
Helping Hands
Helping Hands
Twisting Turning Healing Journeys
Ken Saik
In this inspirational story, a woman attempting to reclaim her life is led on an emotional journey with the help of a devoted friend. Their quest ultimately reveals denied truths and prompts her to seek forgiveness.
After an accident that causes recently divorced Jill to spend six weeks in the hospital, she returns home. She is disturbed by the discovery that she needs to find a way to become part of her children’s lives. Her efforts are hampered by having no car, by her job that is temporarily on hold, and by her fear of dipping into the limited funds in her bank account. While her physical injuries are healing, she continues to be haunted by her lifelong psychological scars. To whom can she turn to for help?
Kindle E Book
In The End
In the End
Ken Saik
A Sinkhole Swallows 12 Teens
In the young-adult thriller novel, 12 senior high boys attempt to escape death by sliding down a rope and climbing into an old mine tunnel, the entrance to an underground labyrinth.
One of the boys senses a menacing presence but can’t prove its existence. Then the mine’s dangers claim one life after another.
The closed-knit boys soon realize that their limited food and water supplies is the least of their problems. Hope of returning home changes to needing to find a way out of the endless, dangerous, tunnels to escape whatever is killing them off. How many of them will live to tell their tale?
The Fall of Varlana
The Fall of Varlana
Joy Simons
She hummed a sweet song as she washed the king's dishes. I wonder when I'll see him again. He's so wonderful. And we're to be married! She twirled around in joy and laughed as soap suds flew about the room. "Knock, knock." Her heart skipped a beat and she turned to smile at her beloved. She ran across the room and jumped into Jakfa's arms. "Little Bird, you'll knock me over." "I love it when you call me Little Bird." Jakfa smiled and kissed her. "I can't stay, but I wanted to see you one more time today. Do you still love me?" "Oh yes. Oh yes. I will love you forever."
Book 1 Rule of Wisdom Trilogy.
The Rise of Echlys
The Rise of Echlys
Joy Simons
Book 2 in the Rule of Wisdom series, The Rise of Echlys chronicles Ja'el's slide into darknes and Jakfa's rise to power through the fortunes of the evil dragon Echlys. Umberlan is torn apart by the rise of a new religion, The Order. Dugan's army grows and he successfully pushes back against Gailen's advance, but the war reaches a stand still at the battle of the Angese. With General Tobin stopped at the river, Echlys begins to manipulate humanity for his own gains.
However, Echlys is unaware that the ancient dragons have sent Echlys's sister to combat the expanding evil. Weaker than her brother, she desperately searches for a way to defeat him, making an alliance with King Gailen and Robin, a boy in the care of Ja'el.
Book 2 Rule of Wisdom Trilogy.
The Final Battle
The Final Battle
Joy Simons
The power of Echlys grows even as the armies of Tobin and Dugan prepare to face each other. Caleb leaves Ja'el as Ja'el moves ever deeper into the darkness of powerful magic. Adonna is captured. Noran is suspicious of a new soldier who seems to receive his orders from an unknown source. The dragon/human bond is revealed even as the unity of the dragons unravels.
The end approaches and the world is in disarray, which is exactly how Echlys likes it. He sees victory coming closer, but the fight isn't where he believes it is.
Book 3 Rule of Wisdom Trilogy.
Creepo Rico
Creepo Rico
Nolan Wattay
Located in Richmond, Virginia, an estranged child by the name of Rico Ballistar is born into a broken family where his father leaves him after he is born and his mother and half-sister neglect him. He has no friends, but due to what seems like a fateful circumstance, finally makes one. They immediately get along and share a few fond moments together. Though not long after, his friend is murdered, and we know exactly who did it. He is at the wrong place and time, and he is framed for it. He ends up evading the corrupt police force and goes into hiding with a close, family friend. Five years later, he, nor the real murderer is caught, and the case goes cold.
CLEAN TEEN FICTION
The Stone Shall Be Mine
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Stone Shall Be Mine
Book 1
Bradford Henshaw
THE PRINCE OF BRIM-LOCH TUM is a tale told in seven books; a simple rustic fantasy, vintage in bearing and romantic in scope. Set in a world of Elves and Men and Little People, it tells the lives and histories of many—both of the evil, and of the good—who become embroiled in the struggle for mastery over a rich and diverse land called Cen-Tuin. Will the Evil One find a way to defraud them of their inheritances?
The Three Sided Bridge
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Three Sided Bridge
Book 2
Bradford Henshaw
THE PRINCE OF BRIM-LOCH TUM is simple rustic fantasy, vintage in bearing and romantic in scope. Set in a world of Elves and Men and Little People, it tells the lives and histories of many—both of the evil, and of the good. Seven nations have covenanted together against a common enemy. Being thus bound, they find themselves not only at war with the Black Flower, but in conflict among themselves as well. As the story opens, two children have been born on the same calendar day—Storr Mason of the Minnekens, and Llam of the Mariner kings.
The House of Royalle
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The House of Royalle
Book 3
Bradford Henshaw
As it is plainly foretold—There shall be hostility between the Evil One and the High King, and between Her spawn and his offspring. She shall splinter their arrows, and he shall shatter Her bow. From the Place of Beginnings a little people come forth down from the ice and snow bearing a treasure without which the world must perish—a great burden to be guarded when all other treasures are lost. Who in the King’s household conspires for the life of the Prince? Wild game moves on—but the hidden track remains.
Tendrils of the Black Flower
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: Tendrils of the Black Flower
Book 4
Bradford Henshaw
TENDRILS OF THE BLACK FLOWER: Sait Agatha Veld was first to give her nation over to the Evil One. Being a transterpreter, Agatha was able to turn darkness into light, smuggling two illegal tribes into Cen-Tuin and calling it legal. Wraylan La’Brille was second to throw away his soul and his people to the Black Flower. Born High Lord Viceroy to a nation of spineless Scyphotanians, he proved unserviceable to the powers of Brim-Loch Tum.
The Port Darling Waterfront
The Port Darling Waterfront
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Port Darling Waterfront
Book 5
Bradford Henshaw
Storr Mason had turned fifteen last Autumn. Until this spring his whole life had been the sweet, slow pattern of all Minneken children, running in the sunny fields of Minnionon and playing in the shady woodland groves at the foot of the mountains. But suddenly all those things had been altered. Clayborn and Letty Mason’s lives had lately taken on a weighty measure of changes—changes which would shape Storr’s days like they had never been shaped before—changes upon which could turn even his final destiny.
The Forging of a Prince
The Port Darling Waterfront
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Forging of a Prince
Book 6
Bradford Henshaw
A lone bugle sounding in the forested hills calls the plain mountain people down the hollows and rills, down the quiet meadows from their orchards and mills with their axes swinging in their hands. Beneath the grey welkin of a gathering storm, the tolling of a bell on the heavens is borne; breastplate of justice over jerkin is worn, and joy is a longbow in the hand. The Olden Road was cobbled when the Ages were dim, the Wynde River thundered o’er the Palisade Rim; the Old Sage is marking with an eagle-wing pen, spear tips glitter in the sun. Merrily, merrily, merrily we sing — Merrily, merrily, marching off to War.
The Opalescent Covenant
The Opalescent Covenant
The Opalescent Covenant
The Prince of Brim-Loch Tum: The Opalescent Covenant
Book 7
Bradford Henshaw
Each of the Seven Stones of the Opalescent Covenant is brought to judgment according to its owner’s response to the challenge of personal sovereignty. Who shall wear the Rainbow Pearl? Will it be Death or will it be Life?
Seven Gates of Brim-Loch Tum—portals to the Chamber of Inquiry—are breached by hands no longer hands. The frailest hand in The World Which Is, then joins with Him who conquers last, to breach the Gate of Forever Lost.
Seven Tales not Fully Told are as fully told as tales permit—as long as lambskin, ink and quill—as long as Time and Truth endure.