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Ann Stratton

What happens when you meet yourself? Would you trust what you saw? What happens when you want to leave but you can't find the door? And just who are all these people who like me more than I do? A story of trying to adjust.

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Ann Stratton

It's almost Meggan's birthday and she's looking forward to the pretty new dress, the cake her Dad made or her, her friends and grandparents celebrating with her...Except for those stupid squirrels who keep eating the bird seed Dad puts out for the birds. If it weren't for that stupid squirrel, Arthur wouldn't be bugging her about finding his Mamma!But he does. He comes to her at all the wrong times to ask for help. Meggan has no idea who his Mamma is, or where he lives. He ...

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Ann Stratton

It's the end of the world as we know it and we... don't feel fine.Something blew up and set the house on fire, and Rafael and Ada must fight the fire and escape, somehow.Outside, the whole neighborhood looks to be in the same condition their own house is in. There is no place left to go, but go they must.Will they make it to the end of the street?Or will they drop dead in the middle of the street?And what about their neighbors?

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Ann Stratton

Book 7 -

The Wind That Moves the Stars

Mary's group of psychic friends realize Something is coming and it isn't friendly. In fact the Artifact is having a panic attack that just about liquefies everyone's brains.When Mary goes to work at the Museum, she discovers the meteorite collection is aware that Something is coming, and their panic attack just about liquifies everyone's brains.Something Is Coming: she can smell it on the wind. The Artifact is terrified witless. Mary's family is afraid but determined to sav...

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Elinor Klivans, Ann Stratton

"[A] drool-inducing, photo-heavy cookbook . . . [Klivans] guides even the least confident baker to a cocoa-dusted kitchen and full-on chocolate ecstasy." — Publishers WeeklyThere are enough people out there obsessed with chocolate cake to warrant an official holiday: National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27. Beloved baker Elinor Klivans, author of the best-selling Cupcakes! and Cupcake Kit, has dedicated her new cookbook to the stuff of chocoholic fantasy: c...

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Ann Stratton

Paul Arsenault has been hired at the last minute to oversee security for this wedding. He's not secured a wedding before, but even so, there are things that don't quite add up for this one. Nobody will tell him what happened to the previous security director. The house is a fortress. The women keep changing their appearance. There's the usual gate crashers....was that a rifle shot...?

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Ann Stratton

Jane Ross has just been shanked with a ball point pen. Who knows why? So here she is, in the emergency room, waiting to get a ball point pen extracted from her innards.Surgery goes well. The neighbors, not so much. The nurses, slightly better, even is they do make her do her breathing and belly exercises.Then they hand her off back to prison, where things are pretty much he way they are. *shrug* It's prison. What are you going to do?Trial, yeah. Pretty much the same...

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Ann Stratton

Tourists have found Wayne Emery's private paradise. They are trampling all over everything he has worked for. How will he get rid of them before they destroy everything?

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Ann Stratton

Hannelore Quinnel has given Cameron Lieberman a mission: kill the matriarch. So Cameron has come to the heretic's bazaar with stiletto in hand to carry out this mission. He's not a killer. He's an ordinary man. He doesn't know this matriarch, much less need to kill her but Hannelore Quinnell put the stiletto in his hand and told him to kill the matriarch.The heretic's bazaar claims to hold the wisdom and guidance of every deity and philosophy even dreamed up by the mind of man. How...

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Ann Stratton

A collection of ten stories about people who meet each other under strange circumstances and how they interact:Old Maid: Tilly reads cards in the park and meets someone who is not what he looks like.Man in the Maze: Cameron stands in the rain with a knife, under orders to assassinate the matriarch.Meeting the Elephant: Jenda takes food to the elephant tenders in the barn.Footprints in the Dark: Jesus finds something very strange in the old church during a pa...

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Ann Stratton

This ranch house in the middle of nowhere was a godsend, as Roger Thompson and Elena Mercado had no idea where they were or how long it would take to get there. These kindly people took them in, offered them a place in the hay barn--the house was full--and fed them breakfast.Thankfully, they get back on the road, but it's not as simple as all that...

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Ann Stratton

Arjuna and Deliya are barely scratching a living out of their ghost town. the weather is bad, the soils depleted, their neighbors too old and crippled to take care of themselves, and worst of all, Arjuna lost everything he was heir to, everything he ever deserved. And then Deliya starts leaving one of their fine China cups on the gatepost... The stranger brings all new trouble and questions Arjuna never had to ask himself before, making him question his very existence.