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Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood. Two decades later, Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and her fraught relationship with Sadie has come to a scandalous head.

Princess Celeste is bored to tears, and her brothers, Prince Jude and Prince Torrin, aren't doing much better. In a palace where all they have to look forward to are endless games of croquet and barley-water soup for supper, they don't have much by way of excitement. Until the one night Torrin sees a light in a forgotten tower of the palace, and they meet a wonderful and mysterious aunt who unlocks a brand-new world of adventure they will never forget.

There once was a large orange cat that decided to chase a black rat up a tree and down by the blue sea. The soaked black rat swam up to the shore, with water drops leaking off his hat worse than before. He ended up near Mr. Shoemakers' door. With a tap, tap, tap and rap, rap, rap, the black rat knocked on the door, still wearing the pink and black hat.

Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood.

Now, a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If only I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well.” (Mark 5:25-28) Have you ever wondered what might this woman’s life have been like prior to her years of suffering from this ailment, or what would she have endured during the years of her infirmity?

The clockwork dolls seem to be moving on their own. What are they trying to show? When Ainsley moves in with her uncle, the governor, it seems like a beautiful situation. An orphan is finding love in an elite household. However, she carries with her the power to reveal her uncle’s darkest secrets.

“But birds need to fly! You cannot keep them imprisoned.” “Do they indeed?” said the man. “We shall see about that.” A short tale from the world of P.A.W.S.

Cousin Adelide is coming for a visit, and the three royal children are thrilled. But she doesn't turn out to be very nice at all, and even worse, Aunt Maggie says she has to come on their adventure! When the team must save two winged kittens from a mean old troll, will Adelide help, or make rescue impossible?

One afternoon, while Ben and Jenny play in the garden, Ben notices a pair of extremely hairy legs belonging to a huge creature hiding in their hedge. Just as they investigate, they are called in for tea. From that moment on, the pair attempt to determine what the creature is.

A Christmas tale set in Santa’s kingdom, told twice in different ways by two very different storytellers. The first is SnowShine, Santa's Smallest Elf. The second is GobDrop, the…but who really knows who GobDrop is? SnowShine has heard of him from the spooky fireside tales told by bigger elves - but when SnowShine gets lost it is GobDrop who finds him. Carried in an old sack full of fish bones, the tiny elf enters GobDrop’s lair to discover a hidden kingdom below the snowy mountains.

What would happen if all the laughter and giggles were stolen from the world? Mortlock, the darkest and nastiest fairy from the fairy realm, intends to steal all the baby giggles and laughter from the world so he can control humanity. He also plans to capture all the fairies so that he can use their magic to fuel his dastardly plan. What he didn't expect was Elora, the one-winged fairy, escaped his grasp and has been called to the world by a baby giggle.

Take a trip to Paris, France with Amelia, Hudson, and their parents. Adventure begins at the airport with big shiny planes that cross oceans. Flying is fun. So is taking a boat ride down the Seine River. This family visits the “awful tower” and sees Mona Lisa smile. They watch the windmill at the Moulin Rouge and visit an old tea store. Stand silent inside Notre Dame Cathedral. Sipping drinks at cafes and eating yummy snails make this trip complete.

Emily's world has been turned upside-down. Her favorite fantasy stories of magic had come to brilliant life! A delightful Cornish pixie needs her help. Emily will do whatever it takes to set things right.

Emily is embarking on a new adventure - she's in middle school. Unfortunately, the challenges remain the same. Nobody can pronounce her Cornish last name, Treworgy. Her mother is working all the time and her stepfather barely knows she exists. Her only escape is to lose herself in her favorite tales of King Arthur at the Whitinsville Social Library. But when she happens across a leather-bound book of Cornish poetry, her life changes forever...

Emmy is a 30-year-old stuck in a dead-end job she hates, but life takes a pleasantly unexpected turn when she wins a contest to own and operate a chocolate shop in northern Minnesota. When she leaves the big city for a fresh start (despite knowing nothing about business or candy making), fun, romance, and little mystery follow. Will her new business succeed? Will the cute guy from the store next door add to her sweet rewards, or will he only be a disaster-level distraction?

Princess Arthina, knightess of Camalittle, has sworn to protect the kingdom and earned her place at the Square Table with the other knights. There's just one little problem: Her over-protective parents won’t let her go on any adventures! Things get interesting for Arthina when she discovers that poor Prince Henry of the neighboring kingdom has been kidnapped by a fearsome dragon, and she’s the only one who can help. It’s up to Arthina and Bolt, her trusted horse and best friend, to save the day.

Where do light bulbs go when they burn out? Do they stay dead forever? Or can they be regenerated to live a brand-new life with a brand-new purpose? If they’re lucky, they go to Star Factory 13 to become glorious stars in the sky, after they pass a rigorous test of their personality given by Carelia the light goddess, that is. But how in the world did 10-year-old Alicia get to Star Factory 13?

Thrust into a world 116 years in the past, Adrienne Phillips must decipher the enigmatic words of her dying grandmother. "Butterfly; Go to Henri. The woman in pink." With the help of a can-can dancer and a castaway caught in the past, Adrienne attempts to solve the riddle. The answer lies in a well-known painting by Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge: The Dance.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.

Emily is running. Escaping a past haunted with memories, attempting to create a clean slate. Leaving virtually all she has behind, her last dollar gets her to nowhere USA. Taking a job as a waitress, she delivers the very finest Vinny's Roadhouse has to offer. There she finds normalcy, happiness, and a sense of belonging like she has never experienced. Until one day, a forgotten diary reminds her that she is running, and she cannot hide forever.