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Easy Pieces for Keyboard and PianoNB: YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE KINDLE VERSION. A PAPERBACK VERSION IS ALSO AVAILABLEThis is an ideal book for children who are just starting out, with simple, well known tunes which are easy to learn and fun to play. The print is big and every note has a letter name printed clearly above it, in order to help children who are not so familiar with music reading. A short guide to music notation is included at the end of the book.Easy Pieces for Keyboard and Piano is the perfect starter book for young musicians.IMPORTANT:If you are buying this KINDLE EDITION please note that this book is not suitable for use with a mobile phone as the print size will be too small. It is recommended that an iPad or similar larger size tablet is used.

A fast-paced YA sci-fi adventure novel set on a colonized Mars that is a heady mix of Ursula K. Le Guin's imagination and Amie Kaufman's high-tech escapades. "Mary Turzillo has crafted an extraordinary tale of teenaged adventure on a harsh planet. Heroines Nanoannie and Kapera use bravery and ingenuity to survive on a vividly imagined future Mars." —Brenda Cooper, author of Edge of Dark "Mars Girls delivers real-feeling characters in a fast-moving, exciting space adventure." —Kij Johnson, author of The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe "Great fun! A rollicking adventure across a uniquely imagined Martian landscape." —S Andrew Swann, author of Dragon Princess "Uniquely qualified to write about both Mars and humanity, Mary Turzillo has conjured up an intriguingly intricate plot filled with plenty of adventure, engagingly fresh and memorable characters, and provocative ideas." —Stanley Schmidt, Hugo Award-winning editor Nanoannie is a bored teen stuck on Mars. She wants to go to clubs, wear the latest Earth fashions, and dance with nuke guys. But her life is not exciting. She lives on her family’s Pharm with her parents, little sister, and a holo-cat named Fuzzbutt. The closest she gets to clubs are on the Marsnet. And her parents are pressuring her to sign her contract over to Utopia Limited Corp before she’s even had a chance to live a little. When Kapera—a friend from online school—shows up at her Pharm asking for help, Nanoannie is quick to jump in the rover and take off. Finally an adventure! What Nanoannie and Kapera find at the Smythe’s Pharm is more than the girls bargained for. The hab has been trashed and there are dead bodies buried in the backyard! If that wasn’t bad enough, the girls crash the rover and Kapera gets kidnapped by Facers, who claim her parents are murderers! Between Renegade Nuns, Facers, and corp geeks, Nanoannie and Kapera don’t know who to trust or where to go. Kapera only wants to find her parents so they can get to Earth Orbitals and she can be treated for her leukemia. Nanoannie wants to help her friend and experience a little bit of Mars before selling her contract to the first corp that offers to buy it. Life isn’t easy when you’re just a couple of Mars Girls looking for excitement, fun, and adventure and trouble follows you around...

A moonlit night, a young couple strolling hand-in-hand along a deserted country road. It seems like a perfect date night until he leans over to kiss her and instead sinks his fangs into her throat. The vampire drains his prey, sating his hunger, and releases the lifeless corpse. He wipes the blood from his lips, content to leave her body in the field to be found in the morning by the humans. He's momentarily blinded by a harsh light from above. He feels a vibration around him, a powerful wind, and a tremor in the ground. He opens his eyes and sees a spaceship has landed.The aliens notice the vampire. They're confused because their sensors indicated there were no life forms in the area. But their sensors are calibrated for humans and other life forms... Not the undead. The vampire learns that the aliens are setting up secret plants in isolated areas with the ultimate goal of stealing the Earth's water, a scarce but necessary resource they need to survive. Escaping from the aliens, he warns other vampires of the arrival of the aliens and their plans which, if carried to fruition, would doom the human race... And with no humans or other life left on earth, the planet's furtive vampire population would be deprived of its sole food source. Now the vampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while keeping the fact of their own existence from the humans, just as the aliens don't wish for the humans to learn of their invasion that's already underway.

They came from a dying world to steal the Earth's water... but they didn't anticipate resistance from the vampires, who realize the aliens' plans which, if carried to fruition, would doom the human race... And with no humans or other life left on Earth, the planet's furtive vampire population would be deprived of its sole food source. Now the vampires must wage a secret war against the invaders while hiding their own existence from the humans, as the aliens also conceal their presence from the humans so they will not learn of their invasion that is already underway.Sebastian arrives. He’s a mysterious Elder vampire sent by the Conclave of Elders, who disapprove of Gaunt’s decision to handle the alien threat without consulting the Conclave. But Sebastian has his own deadly secrets...Hailey Rumson arrives to start classes at the local college in the fall. She had moved away two years ago, before Courtney Cartwright came to town. Hailey is old friends with Brandon but has never met Courtney, who had become her cousin's BFF. Hailey wants to learn more about her cousin's death and distrusts Courtney because she spends so much time around her cousin's killer.The military intercepts Brexa as she enters the Earth’s stratosphere to warn Kira and Kevian their lives are in danger. Saskia, an alien rebel, takes over the Neptune Corporation while Kevian and Kira are on the run from Quill. A hermit-alien monk aids a renegade vampire. Of course, the vampires — Young Bloods (Misha, Scarlett, Jaxson, and Nicholas), Old Bloods (Zachary & Audrey), Elders (Gaunt, Talia, Tobias, Marcus, and Francesca) — are back.Oh, and remember that message Jansa sent to the home world? Someone got the message. And they’re coming. But not who anyone expects.