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NEW RELEASE | The Blue Umbrella by Mike Mason

The Blue Umbrella, by Mike Mason from David C. Cook on Vimeo.

The Blue Umbrella

In his first novel, best-selling author Mike Mason offers the Unfortunate Events crowd a beautiful literary fantasy with deep spiritual resonance

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SNEAK PEEK | Lucy’s Perfect Summer

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Lucy’s Perfect Summer (A Lucy Novel)
by Nancy Rue

Why My Life Is Just About Perfect

School is out for the summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucy would have made more exclamation points, but Lollipop, her pot-bellied kitty, was watching from the windowsill above the bed, her black head bobbing with each stroke and dot. She’d be pouncing in a second.

Lucy protected the Book of Lists with her other arm and wrote…

2. Aunt Karen is taking her vacation to some island so she won’t be coming HERE for a while. YES!!

3. We have a soccer game in two weeks, thanks to Coach Auggy. A for-REAL game, with a whole other team, not just our team split up, which is always lame since we only have 8 players to begin with. I cannot WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lollipop twitched an ear.

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SNEAK PEEK | On the Run by Bill Myers

image On the Run
by Bill Myers

“Beginnings …”

Zach Dawkins headed for the schools.

“Schools” as in the high school, junior high, and elementary school that were all lined up side by side on the same street. “Death Row,” he called it.

Zach was pretty good looking—sixteen with dark hair that stuck out in so many directions it looked like it got cut by a lawnmower gone berserk. It’s not that Zack was sloppy … he just had better things to do than worry about his looks—especially when he was late for school, which was like every day.

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SNEAK PEEK | There’s a Spaceship in My Tree

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Today’s Wild Card author is: Robert West and his book:  There’s a Spaceship in My Tree! (Zonderkidz – April 1, 2008)

Chapter One

Alien

Beamer was an alien. He wasn’t a ten-legged slime bag with fourteen eyes, unless, of course, you believed his big sister. Still, Beamer was an alien — no question about it. He didn’t belong here. He couldn’t even breathe here.

His mom said it was just the humidity. Sure! Methane was more like it! When they found his shriveled, oxygen-deprived body, they’d be sorry.

Now he’d been sent to some place called a cellar — clearly an alien environment. Nobody in California had a cellar.

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