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TOur world and this other world, called Ambrosia, collided a little over a decade ago when a man from Ambrosia was sent to Earth for official business but he met and fell in love with a woman from earth and they had a child together. Eventually, the man thought the woman and his daughter would be better off without him and he went back to his world. The daugher's name is Sadie. Since Sadie has blood from both worlds, she needs the healing water to survive so Rayne is sent to earth from Ambrosia to look after Sadie. Rayne is supposed to not let Sadie know who he is, or how special she is, or that she needs the healing water to survive. However, their feelings for each other grow and Rayne tells Sadie the truth. There are also some bad guys in the book to keep things interesting. Actually, the book is interesting. The characters are well developed and draw you in.

Wonderful new version of the classic poem every family should own. Lavishly illustrated by renowned artist Charles Santore, the critically acclaimed illustrator of The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and others.

This is truly a must have for Harry Potter fans! It not only lists spells, hexes and jinxs, but there are also the wand movement for some.

Shortly after the Civil War, the Muddle family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act, but when the father moves on for better land, the three boys must begin their own journey. They must learn to take care of one another and face the dangers of the Wilderness alone.

Best Friends James (a boy) print and Marvin (a beetle) are separated for a week while James goes on vacation. Marvin has to make do with his irritating cousin, Elaine

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.

When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune.