Helen Plum Library

June's life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one—and a secret one. Not even her father knows about it. She's trapped like a butterfly in a jar. But then she meets Blister, a boy in the woods. And in him, June recognises the tiniest glimmer of hope that perhaps she can find a way to fly far, far away. But freedom comes at a price... Paper Butterflies is an unforgettable read, perfect for fans of Lisa Williamson's The Art of Being...

Ben Wireman is partially deaf and completely insecure, but he feels normal when he's with his best friend, Tyler Nuson. But Tyler no longer seems interested in Ben. Who is Ben without Tyler? Is Tyler really all that "normal" anyway?

Why I was brought in to solve a mystery of people getting and staying healthy was a bit curious on its own. They were all terminally ill. And in quarantine. Yet one nurse and her student "angels of death" had been able to reverse this deadly disease that modern "medicine' had created through their own negligence. Most of the big city hospitals had these outbreaks, and had sent their worst cases out to live their lives in suburban hospices - often...

You don't expect a goddess to visit you and start talking about your writing, or the lack of it. Yet here she was, dressed in a garment so thin that it was nearly transparent if the sun hit it just right. And, here with some message for me. Of course, she didn't get to it right off. Like her dress, she used her conversation to get my full attention before she could tell me what that message was. It didn't take long for me to see she was dead serious...

An unintended result of a terrorist bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai could kill a person without touching them. The government made it worse by their experiments. All the children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their powers increased. And they found they couldn't be stopped. Chuck hears a rumor of one coming his way, to his remote way station on the highway. But he can't leave his wife, who's dying. So he...

An Epic Road Trip and Fantastical Semi-Memoir Living life is nothing that any moron or better couldn't accomplish, even without setting one's mind to it. The trick is to do something with that life. Or live several at once, so that one could at least be a success in one of them. Herbert, having endured his mid-life crisis with all the aplomb possibly available to him, now was set on making a new life for himself. This is his book. Such a book has...

Frankie Rosenberg, the world's first slayer-witch, has hordes of demons--both of the real and the metaphorical variety--to contend with when a rebooted Hellmouth begins luring evil back to Sunnydale