New Releases by Mary Alice Monroe

Sometimes fairy tales do come true! As a single mother of two, Faye O''Neill has no time for fairy tales. She''s not even certain she believes in luck. Practical, smart and desperate to escape a shadowy past, Faye takes a job at a top advertising firm in London where she hopes she and her children can find a fresh start. When she finds the beautiful two-story flat for rent in a stately old Victorian complete with a neglected but tumbling English garden, she can scarcely believe her good fortune. But it''s not long before Faye realizes everything in the old home may not be as peaceful as it seems. A strange light begins to appear in her children''s rooms at night, and then there''s the reclusive elderly tenant her landlady warned her to steer clear of, the woman who spends her evenings spying on Faye''s children from her garret-room window. To make matters worse, Faye, who has sworn off men, discovers her downstairs neighbor Jack is a disturbingly handsome professor with a talent for charming women and children alike. Before she knows it, Faye has embarked upon a whole new adventure into a world where anything might be possible, where broken hearts can be healed by a kiss, and where Neverland may not be a place of fables, but a forgotten land one can still find if they are only brave enough to follow the second star to the right.

A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.

Laurel Carrington always followed her father''s play-it-safe plans for her future. Yet as she stands on the brink of womanhood, she faces the emptiness in her life and longs for passion, adventure, and love. When an unexpected invitation arrives inviting her to apprentice for the renowned but reclusive painter Maybelle Starr, Laurel impulsively grabs at the chance. Laurel soon finds her orderly life turned upside down by the artist''s unusual lifestyle and her feelings for the enigmatic Dane. When harsh realities threaten their fairy tale deep in the woods of Fallingstar, Vermont, Laurel is forced to choose between what is real and what only happens on one summer''s night...

"The colorful flowers in Mama''s garden reveal a strange-looking creature. "What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?" Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis and then emerges as a beautiful monarch butterfly. How can the young girl "claim" the butterfly as her own but still let it go free?"--

Now in paperback from "New York Times"-bestselling author Monroe, the story of four very different women who embark on a transformational journey following the migrating monarchs across the United States.

Aquatic creatures from environments around the globe excite the pages of the 12 Sylvan Dell books in this Marine Animals Set. These books support fun fictional stories with natural science themes and vivid illustrations. The set includes award-winning Sylvan Dell classics as well as newer titles. It consists of Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud, If a Dolphin Were a Fish, Turtles In My Sandbox, Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, Ocean Seasons, and River Beds: Sleeping in the World''s Rivers, Where Should Turtle Be?, Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls, Astro: The Steller Sea Lion, and Ready, Set]]Wait! What Animals Do Before a Hurricane. All books feature a 3-5 page "For Creative Minds" educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: 30-80 pages of cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.

12 Sylvan Dell books between Accelerated Reading Levels 4.0 and 4.5: Felina''s New Home; Mother Osprey; Saturn for My Birthday; Turtles In My Sandbox; Baby Owl''s Rescue; Whistling Wings; The Best Nest; Where Should Turtle Be?; In My Backyard; Henry the Impatient Heron; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Turtle Summer

Includes all 55 current Sylvan Dell titles: A Day in the Salt Marsh; A Day on the Mountain; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Astro: The Steller Sea Lion; Baby Owl''s Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro''s Tortillas; Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Champ''s Story; Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Felina''s New Home: A Florida Panther Story; Furs and Feathers; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Red Bat; Little Skink''s Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Newton and Me; Ocean Hide and Seek; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Pandas'' Earthquake Escape; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; Ready, Set... WAIT!; River Beds: Sleeping in the World''s Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn''t Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings.

This set includes all 55 current Sylvan Dell titles. Sylvan Dell Publishing will award any institution that purcahses 2 of these sets a 1-year eBook Site License, representing all titles. Proof of purchase necessary. The set comprises: A Day in the Salt Marsh; A Day on the Mountain; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Astro: The Steller Sea Lion; Baby Owl''s Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro''s Tortillas; Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Champ''s Story; Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Felina''s New Home: A Florida Panther Story; Furs and Feathers; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Red Bat; Little Skink''s Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Newton and Me; Ocean Hide and Seek; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Pandas'' Earthquake Escape; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; Ready, Set WAIT!; River Beds: Sleeping in the World''s Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn''t Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What''s New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; What''s the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings. 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio

Last Light Over Carolina Every woman in the sultry South Carolina low country knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling. Over the course of one terrifying, illuminating day, Carolina looks back across thirty years of love and loss, joy and sorrow: How she rejected a well-to-do upbringing to marry Bud and embrace his extraordinary lifestyle by the sea . . . how hard times and loneliness have driven them apart . . . and how, with one mistake, she may have shattered their once-unbreakable bond forever. While their the close-knit community rallies together to search for one of its own, Carolina knows their love must somehow call him home, across miles of rough water and unspeakable memories. New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe explores a vanishing feature of the southern coastline, the mysterious yet time-honored shrimping culture, in a compelling tale of a strong woman struggling to prove that love is a light that never dies.

While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate''s example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.

In only a few short years, Sylvan Dell Publishing has earned accolades from magazines and associations nationwide. 16 picture books in this set are each fictional stories with nature & science themes designed for reading fun but, at the same time, to pique a child''s interest and tee-up science, math, and geography learning. Titles include: Baby Owl''s Rescue, Carolina''s Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, Count Down to Fall, Henry the Impatient Heron, Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, Little Skink''s Tail, Riverbeds: Sleeping in the Worlds Rivers, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, If a Dolphin Were a Fish, Happy Birthday to Whooo?, One Odd Day, My Even Day, Sort it Out!, Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter, Whistling Wings, and The Rainforest Grew All Around. 4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back of each book 40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on each book''s homepage eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio

A mother''s journal of a summer spent with her daughter on an island among loggerhead turtles.

Mary June Blakely''s family is broken and scattered. She and her husband have paid the price for years of unspoken emotions - one son is lost forever, another, Morgan, has not been home in over a decade. When Morgan unexpectedly returns to help care for his sick father, the family begins to face their demons.