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How to: Survive Tweenagehood

Tweenagehood. It's a weird time. You're not quite a real teenager, the scary ones who drink alcohol and can drive cars (hopefully not at the same time), but you're definitely no longer a child. Braces, training bras, and a hell of a lot of friendship drama, it's a stressful time. It's a good thing I've already done i...

How To: Survive Teenagehood

There is a stage between childhood and adulthood that makes us all want to bang our heads into a concrete wall as if that will somehow make us forget the things we did in that cringe-worthy stage of adolescence. That golden era of bad haircuts, first and last dates, and that undeniable feeling of wanting to fit in. T...

The Three Musketeers (1844) (Completed)

The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, which recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos an...

355: The Women of Washington's Secret Spy Ring

When hostile Redcoats threaten the newly-formed United States by invading New York, three women-a British sympathizer, a quick-witted rebel, and an altruistic young widow-are recruited into Washington's spy ring. Although each has a different role to play, their goal is the same: help liberate America or die trying. N...

It Started With A High Top

Anne De Ville is a do-the-same-thing-every-day kind of ordinary. On the one day she chooses to try and do something different, she ends up dropping her shoes down several flights of stairs, right onto the head of her crush-and her brother's best friend-Hunter Denegan. Will her Prince Charming look for the girl who lo...