Books with author Mary S. Sheppard

This is the second book in the series The Feelings Are the Same.After a harrowing escape from Earth, Suki and astronaut Jett Keystone find themselves still aboard the alien ship heading back to Planet Humex. They soon discover that Planet Humex was not the only place where psychological experiments were being conducted. The aliens traveling with them on the spaceship are equally surprised.

Set in Newfoundland, One for Sorrow chronicles a pivotal year in the life of Issy Heffernan, one of the most complex and appealing young heroines in YA fiction. Saddled with a mean and bedridden mother; an older, increasingly bitter schoolmarm of a sister; and a lovely but mainly absent father, Issy dreams of leaving her miserable life behind for a life on the mainland, maybe even in a big city such as Toronto.What reason is there for her to stay? But there's one thing holding her back: Issy is illiterate. She can't read at all and never could. How far can she really go?

In Newfoundland’s Cook’s Cove, summers are short but sweet. Fifteen-year-old Melinda is looking forward to two idyllic months of garden parties and socials with her cousins Rebecca and Kate.Rebecca’s the goody, goody homemaker, well trained by her strict and formidable mother, Grace. Studious Kate is determined not to let a boyfriend get in the way of her plans for the future. Then there’s outspoken, scandalous Melinda with her smoking and drinking and sneaking off with her boyfriend, with whom she is tempted to do "dangerous things down behind the fish shack." The girls are like sisters and nothing can ever come between them.But when a stranger comes to the village and invites Rebecca to go to Boston to develop her artistic talent, the cousins are suddenly exposed to the possibilities and dreams of the outside world.Aunt Grace however forbids Rebecca to leave. The question is why and impetuous Melinda leads the crusade to find out. The discovery brings her face to face with desperately difficult choices as she finds that she herself has become the keeper of the family secrets.

Arriving at the small outport village of Cook's Cove on Newfoundland's west coast, Melinda embraces the closeness she shares with her two cousins, Kate, who lives in the city, and Rebecca, who lives with her strict mother, but when a stranger comes to town and asks Rebecca to go to Boston to explore her artistic abilities, Melinda is forced to make some difficult choices.

A fantastic short read of how to develop the psychological tools necessary to adequately and effectively Beat The Bully. Simple mental practices that develops confidence and mental stamina for all ages to use that once learnt can never be forgotten or unlearned. This little book is dynamite for the mind and breaks wide open the closed state of mind that a bullied or persecuted person can develop over many days, weeks or years of abuse. A refreshing look at how to untie the bondage of mental abuse permanently freeing the reader of any age from such persecution ever again. Teach yourself how to become sovereign of your own mind and develop well trusted practices to filter unwanted or unsavory and unhealthy mental concerns and never torment yourself over and over again unnecessarily with mind junk. An absolute must for school children and adults alike.

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