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Once upon a magical time is a compilation of 8 short fictional stories that follow a magical theme. These bedtime stories include the following titles: Once upon a magical garden, once upon a farmhouse mansion, once upon a covid chameleon, once upon a winter wonderland, once upon a unicorn's wish, once upon a spaceship, once upon a summer camp and once upon a girl's day. This children’s book has been written to make youngsters laugh and spark the imagination of children all around the world.

Sixteen-year-old Kate Mansfield and her blind brother Neil live in a manor on the edge of the Brent Prior moors. It is a dreary place populated by the dispirited and the disillusioned, where the young nurture desperate dreams of escape. And Kate is no different. But her plans to run away to the city are crushed one very ordinary morning when the quiet in Brent Prior is shattered by an inexplicable act of violence. In the wake of the tragedy, Kate's beloved father is stricken by a strange illness, and she and her brother fall under the care of the manor's caretaker and maid.

1979. Leading businesswoman Rebecca is struggling to build healthy relationships. Her on off partner is a philandering police officer, part of the team chasing the Yorkshire Ripper who’s striking terror across the county. Then Rebecca meets Larry, the charming American, with a troubled past. And then of course there’s Mervyn, the creepy journalist who’s desperate for a girlfriend and willing to do anything to keep her in his life. With three very different men craving her attention, and a serial killer on the loose, Rebecca finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse.

“The Soldier with the Golden Buttons—Adapt For Youth” presents a child’s view of the Holocaust. It is the story of Jewish children wrenched from a carefree childhood to be overwhelmed by the brutal savagery of war. A few days are enough to turn them into adults forced to content with hunger and thirst, fear of death, and with the horror of being taken away from their mothers. Closed in a wagon, children are helping each other.

Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan finally decides to take a risk and hypnotizes her. With terrifying consequences.

"The story of becoming sober signifies a great deal more than simply not 'picking up' or 'using'. This is a story not only of recovery, but also of what it means to live in sobriety." Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, 1st District, Rhode Island.

Alexandra couldn’t help herself. She fell madly in love with married man Ryan, the father of her pupil Mia. When he stopped calling, her heart was broken—and she consoled herself with an acquaintance named Henry. But neither man is really out of her life. Henry wants more. And she can’t avoid running into Ryan at school. Before long, Alexandra is caught between two men. When she discovers her actions will have a greater effect on her future than she could have ever imagined, Alexandra also finds out that one of the men has been manipulating the truth—and that she is now in mortal danger.

This move, this new job at the architect’s firm, it’s the fresh start Livia desperately needs—if she’s ever going to forget what happened three years ago... Then one day, crammed into a drawer in her creaking old fisherman’s cottage, she finds a diary. She’s utterly captivated by the unfolding story of infatuation, rejection and guilt, so similar to her own. But just as the writer is about to confess a chilling secret, the diary stops, the rest of its pages torn out. Convinced that the author lived in the same cottage, Livia is desperate to find out the truth about how the diary ended.

Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861. Jan is a German immigrant who begins his studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. Emma is a Quaker who has learned survival skills growing up in a thick forest. Gabrielle, is a Southerner, was raised by her governess and wealthy Virginian father. Maura travels alone to America from Ireland to escape the potato famine and eventually enters the convent as a Sister of Mercy.

London, 1944: As bombs start raining from the sky, two women rush out of a restaurant, leaving their possessions behind. Their chance meeting amid the chaos and destruction will have long-lasting consequences. Both beset by desperate problems, they take advantage of the wartime chaos to escape their humdrum lives and start again.

When the Duke of Hurstbourne dismisses a letter from his childhood friend, Winston, asking him to marry his sister, Hurst’s decline comes back to haunt him in a most unsettling way. He always believed in love at first sight and felt he would know the woman he would marry. But the well-heeled person attired in tailored finery, standing in front of his desk, heightens his interest, and his quick instinct tells him this is no man. Rather, it is a woman disguised as a man and a very superb disguise at that.

Since getting her life back on track after being wrongly accused of murder, Julia Ford is finally realizing her ambition of opening a bookshop in the sleepy English village of Biddle Rhyne. But, best laid plans and all that, things go awry when she stumbles upon the body of Barry, who worked alongside her in the local pub.