Kymberly Mellen
When, Birdie, fragile teenager with an overactive imagination is placed in an isolated Midwestern convent on the brink of closure, her strange and in some cases grotesque obsessions begin to consume her attention. Outside life beckons when she meets Julia, the confident, spirited maintenance girl, inspiring a growing infatuation. But privately, Birdie can’t turn away from her fascination with the gory and whimsical hallucinations that plague her. Birdie sets off on her spiritual quest to discover if the source of her visions is something saintly or a dark heresy. The convent itself holds ghosts of nuns who’ve met untimely deaths. Are they calling Birdie to the same fate?
The classic Beauty and the Beast tale told with a twist! Isabelle is all beauty - on the outside. When she gets lost on a skiing vacation, she is helped by Jeremy, a man hiding from the world and his past. He's the first person to put Isabelle in her place, and Isabelle realizes she might be more beast than she wants to admit. Through Jeremy's influence she begins to change - and fall in love.
Jason Conrad is bored staying at his grandmother's house with his sister for the summer. It gets worse when his best friend write to tell him all about Space Camp, but he has nothing interesting to write about. When he finally finds something of interest - a pet mouse - the space-faring penguins come to life and draft him into helping them deliver an emergency supply of duct tape to Space Colony Doublewide before the doom funnel season gets started. But will the arrive in time?
