Orangeberry FreeMe #277
Sunday, 31 March 2013
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Genre - YA
Rating - PG13
4.0 (20 reviews)
Free until 1 April 2013
No one, except Durango.
Mars stinks.
IThe air reeks of burning fuel; the rivers and lakes seethe with sulfur. In the shadows, evil men plot terror and beasts hunt the innocent. Out on the barren crags of the terraformed planet, there is nowhere to hide. No one to heed a call for help.
What Is Stem? - Ponn Sabra & The Sabra Sisters
Genre - Juvenile NonFiction
Rating - G
4.0 (4 reviews)
Free until 3 April 2013
STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Math.
Book 1 introduces the world's first STEM robots, also known as STEMBots: Emmy and Ott. They teach STEM to 4-12 year old children in fun rhymes, making these subjects easy to understand and enjoy. A full Glossary of terms is shared for a child's learning pleasure.
While targeting ages 4-12 years old, research shows that many teens have not mastered many of the concepts discussed in this book. So, kids young and old could learn from this quick colorful book as well.
Opening Poem
STEM is easy, you will see
Science and Technology
There is Engineering too
And, adding Math is nothing new.
Now, come meet Emmy and friend, Ott
They’re the world’s first STEMBots.
They love everything related to STEM
So, come along; and learn with them!
Book 1 introduces the world's first STEM robots, also known as STEMBots: Emmy and Ott. They teach STEM to 4-12 year old children in fun rhymes, making these subjects easy to understand and enjoy. A full Glossary of terms is shared for a child's learning pleasure.
While targeting ages 4-12 years old, research shows that many teens have not mastered many of the concepts discussed in this book. So, kids young and old could learn from this quick colorful book as well.
Opening Poem
STEM is easy, you will see
Science and Technology
There is Engineering too
And, adding Math is nothing new.
Now, come meet Emmy and friend, Ott
They’re the world’s first STEMBots.
They love everything related to STEM
So, come along; and learn with them!
Are You My Mommy? - Janet Louis Stephenson
Genre - Family Relationship, Adoption
Rating - PG13
4.8 (13 reviews)
Free until 1 April 2013
Two sisters passed around from family to family as toddlers, handled their situation in dramatically different ways. The older sister internalized the abandonment and rejection, while the younger sister eagerly embraced each new mother figure asking, "Are you my mommy?"
Thirty years after being adopted into a Forever Family, these sisters seek out their past. In the search to reconnect with their biological family, they easily locate and reunite with their birth father. Through this reunion, they start to learn of the difficult life their birth mother had lived, and might still be living.
Several clues point to Native American Heritage through their birth mother's family line. While intense curiosity drives them to know more of their ancestry, their desire to reunite with her is diminished by an uncertainty over whether she wants to be found or if she would rather leave the past behind her where she buried it over 30 years ago.
They seek answers to these questions:
- Is their birth mother alive?
- How will the answer to this question affect them?
- If found alive, will she accept or reject them?
- What secrets has she been guarding all these years?
- Does she hold the keys to connect them to their tribal ancestry?
- What will it take to heal the wounds for both mother and daughters?
The tale stretches beyond the exhaustive search for their mother, delving into complicated family relationships, spirituality, healing, and forgiveness.
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Quail Crossings - Jennifer McMurrain
Genre - Historical Fiction
Rating - G
4.9 (15 reviews)
Free until 2 April 2013
Tragedy has struck the small town of Knollwood, Texas and Dovie Grant finds herself dealing with the loss of her husband and daughter. Despite her grief, she still must fight to bring her remaining family through the already trying times of The Great Depression. Her father needs help on their struggling farm, Quail Crossings. She isn't thrilled that he's hired a young 18 year old boy who's caring for his three younger siblings. Surviving her grief, as well as the constant dust storms that plague the plains, will Dovie be able to put her pain aside to care for these children or be forever trapped in the darkness of the loss in her family.
Stewart Blackburn - The Skills of Pleasure
Genre - Non Fiction, Health
Rating - PG
5 (8 reviews)
Free until 2 April 2013
Pleasure is a much more important part of our lives than we give it credit for. In its many forms, it is what we all crave the most. There are significant ways that we can work with pleasure, not just for enjoying life more, but also to be more effective, creative, caring, loving, healthy, spiritually connected...and happy.
By learning the individual skills that build pleasure and joy, and by using the powerful exercises (including a delicious chocolate meditation), you will soon be able to make a life for yourself that is more deeply satisfying than you’ve ever imagined.
There’s no reason to waste another minute on past regret, anger, or fear of the future. Great joy, love, and happiness are your birthright. Claim them now and learn how to savor yourself by using The Skills of Pleasure.
By learning the individual skills that build pleasure and joy, and by using the powerful exercises (including a delicious chocolate meditation), you will soon be able to make a life for yourself that is more deeply satisfying than you’ve ever imagined.
There’s no reason to waste another minute on past regret, anger, or fear of the future. Great joy, love, and happiness are your birthright. Claim them now and learn how to savor yourself by using The Skills of Pleasure.
Ghost Hand - Ripley Patton
Genre - YA, Paranormal
Rating - PG13
4.4 (64 reviews)
Free until 1 April 2013
Olivia Black just discovered that her ghost hand, a rare birth defect, can do more than light up a room. It can reach into people and pull things out. Things from the darkest depths of the human psyche never meant to exist in this world.
Olivia can pickpocket the soul.
But she can't control her ability, or the strange items it extracts, and the only thing between Olivia and the men bent on taking the power of her hand is a boy she barely knows and doesn't trust.
Olivia can pickpocket the soul.
But she can't control her ability, or the strange items it extracts, and the only thing between Olivia and the men bent on taking the power of her hand is a boy she barely knows and doesn't trust.
Half A Dozen Of The Other - Gavin Marshall
Genre - Suspense
Rating - R
4.8 (18 reviews)
Free until 4 April 2013
Six strangers are unaware that, in a handful of trivial situations, their paths have previously crossed. Then, on one eventful morning, they find their courses colliding in ways they could never have imagined.
Wednesdays aren’t meant to be like this.
Jonny K is in search of justice.
Robert has squandered his very existence.
Guilt is dwelling within homeless Peter.
Once superstitious Sally is about to test her luck.
First rate Jack keeps exploiting his second chance.
And Jenna’s secret is about to surface.
The middle of the week has just got a little bit darker.
Wednesdays aren’t meant to be like this.
Jonny K is in search of justice.
Robert has squandered his very existence.
Guilt is dwelling within homeless Peter.
Once superstitious Sally is about to test her luck.
First rate Jack keeps exploiting his second chance.
And Jenna’s secret is about to surface.
The middle of the week has just got a little bit darker.
Diner Six Miles from Nashville - Elaine Littau
Genre - Christian Romance
Rating - PG
4.4 (37 reviews)
Free until 31 March 2013
Betty Barnes finds herself hundreds of miles away from her Guymon, Oklahoma home. Since leaving for a large Bible College in Missouri, her life has been twisted around. Not that things weren't already a challenge for her with her brother in Vietnam and her heart bleeding from a recent break up.
Faced with unbearable loneliness and loss, she arrives at a diner six miles from Nashville. There, she has a chance to pick up the pieces and build a new life for herself as an independent young woman with a great future ahead of her.
Faced with unbearable loneliness and loss, she arrives at a diner six miles from Nashville. There, she has a chance to pick up the pieces and build a new life for herself as an independent young woman with a great future ahead of her.
When Girlfriends Step Up - Savannah Page
Genre - Chick Lit
Rating - PG13
4.2 (19 reviews)
Free until 2 April 2013
A novel about love and support, and learning that with enduring friendships, no woman is ever alone.
Robin Sinclair is young, determined, and has a promising career at a small publishing house in Seattle. Even though she considers herself unlucky in love, Robin still dreams of eventually meeting Mr. Right and having a happily-ever-after kind of life. And at twenty-five, the world of opportunity is wide. But it's been a difficult year filled with trials...and it's only just begun.
While long-time friendships are finally on the mend, and things are starting to look up again, Robin is faced with her biggest challenge yet. She's single and pregnant.
Uncertain now of her future and scared of being alone, Robin must re-examine her life and choices, and summon the courage to step up.
With the love and support of her best girlfriends from college, especially her best friend and roommate, Lara, Robin will learn that when the going gets tough, the best of friends become family. And, perhaps, with their encouragement, Robin can mature and gain the confidence needed to become a single mother. And, who knows about being unlucky in love. Things are suddenly getting interesting with Robin's attractive co-worker, Bobby.
This is an endearing story about maturity and perseverance. It's a story about friends coming together as family, about finding the strength within and around, and about writing your own happily-ever-after. About what happens when girlfriends step up.
Robin Sinclair is young, determined, and has a promising career at a small publishing house in Seattle. Even though she considers herself unlucky in love, Robin still dreams of eventually meeting Mr. Right and having a happily-ever-after kind of life. And at twenty-five, the world of opportunity is wide. But it's been a difficult year filled with trials...and it's only just begun.
While long-time friendships are finally on the mend, and things are starting to look up again, Robin is faced with her biggest challenge yet. She's single and pregnant.
Uncertain now of her future and scared of being alone, Robin must re-examine her life and choices, and summon the courage to step up.
With the love and support of her best girlfriends from college, especially her best friend and roommate, Lara, Robin will learn that when the going gets tough, the best of friends become family. And, perhaps, with their encouragement, Robin can mature and gain the confidence needed to become a single mother. And, who knows about being unlucky in love. Things are suddenly getting interesting with Robin's attractive co-worker, Bobby.
This is an endearing story about maturity and perseverance. It's a story about friends coming together as family, about finding the strength within and around, and about writing your own happily-ever-after. About what happens when girlfriends step up.
My Song of Songs - Joanna Hynes
Genre - Romance
Rating - R
3.3 (14 reviews)
Free until 2 April 2013
As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate.
Audrey’s guide to Witchcraft - Jody Gehrman
Genre- YA
Rating - PG
4.3 (76 reviews)
Free until 4 April 2013
Falling in love, baking a magical cake, fighting an evil necromancer--it's all in a day's work for Audrey Oliver, seventeen-year-old witch-in-training. When her mother goes missing and her mysterious "cousin" shows up out of the blue, Audrey knows something's gone horribly, dangerously wrong. Now it's up to her to get her own magical powers up to speed before everyone she loves is destroyed by the sorcerer intricately connected to her mother's secret past.
Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft is more than just a novel; it's a book of spells, a collection of easy recipes, a charming coming-of-age tale, an enchanting romance, and an action-packed adventure. As Audrey overcomes her insecurities and learns to protect herself against the wicked black magic of her nemesis, she grows into a heroine we can root for--a witch who knows that true power comes from deep within.
Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft is more than just a novel; it's a book of spells, a collection of easy recipes, a charming coming-of-age tale, an enchanting romance, and an action-packed adventure. As Audrey overcomes her insecurities and learns to protect herself against the wicked black magic of her nemesis, she grows into a heroine we can root for--a witch who knows that true power comes from deep within.
