Teen Unicorn Book Feature - The Seventh Unicorn By Shirley Barber

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Teen Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is

The Seventh Unicorn

By Shirley Barber

There was something magical about the old mirror at the entrance to Aunt Zelda's gift shop. Rachel sometimes imagined she glimpsed a beautiful land in it - beyond the silver speckles.

Then one day Rachel and her brother Robert polished the mirror. A few minutes later, a little pearl-white unicorn leapt out of it in a swirl of star-dust. This was just the beginning of an amazing adventure ... Another enchanting picture book by award-winning author/illustrator Shirley Barber.

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Unicorns!  How we love them. . .


Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups.  I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.


You can also find hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.

Find Unicorn Gifts For Teens,YA and Older Readers At Sybrina's Book Store, Too!

This blog post was brought to you by Unicorn Author and Entrepreneur, Sybrina Durant.  Visit her Sybrina Blue Unicorn Book website for unicorn books, Unicorn Reader Tees, Unicorn Writer Journals and Notebooks, Unicorn Reader Book Sleeves and many cool unicorn gifts.  Sybrina writes The Blue Unicorn Books. If you enjoyed reading The Hobbit, Alice In Wonderland or even Watership  Downs, you might just love this purely fanciful anthropomorphic fantasy novel.


Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale by Sybrina Durant is an enchanting escapade about a metal-horned tribe of space-faring unicorns stranded a universe away from their home world of Unimaise. It is full of magic and adventure with walloping dashes of pseudosciencey stuff sprinkled throughout. It also offers a thought-provoking look into love and war amongst the other denizens of MarBryn. . .including Magh, the sorcerer who wants to kill all unicorns.

 Unicorn's Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale

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In all, you'll find thousands of books and gifts for your favorite unicorn lover at Sybrina's Unicorn Book Store. Sybrina has spent countless hours researching, finding and cataloging these books to make it easy for others to find what might become their next favorite book.  



Sybrina is an Amazon Associate and Influencer, so you can feel safe making a purchase from her online store because each link goes directly to the book's Amazon page. At this point you may be wondering...why not just go straight to Amazon.  The reason is simple.  Sybrina accepts no money for advertising so you can be assured that the books you see in her online store are not simply limited to who pays the most to have their book up front. You will be amazed at what you will find there. 


And if you don't find a particular book that you feel should be there, just send Sybrina an email with the book title and author's name.  She will accomodate almost all requests to include a new (or old) unicorn book in her online store.


Where you'll find unicorns, more unicorns and nothing but unicorns! Visit now.

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Tween Unicorn Book Feature - Rider of the White Unicorn By Laraine Anne Barker

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Middle Kid (or Tween) Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is

Rider of the White Unicorn (Mark Willoughby Book 4)

Laraine Anne Barker

… He looked down—straight into a pair of fiery yellow-green eyes. … Mark caught a glimpse of a cavernous mouth full of sharp yellow teeth. The creature seemed to have no substance, but changed shape more rapidly than clouds in a high, blustery wind. Its eyes winked on and off. … Each time they reappeared they came closer. … Then suddenly the air seemed to get even colder and he saw there were two pairs of baleful eyes. … Sharp icicles seemed to ripple through his bloodstream as realisation dawned: the creatures slowly circling him were trying to freeze him to death.

The search for the golden key of the Tower of Kaleidoscopic Light has brought Mark and Esmé, separately, down into a terrible place of darkness and death where terror stalks them on every side. And it seems that even in Castle Lazarone treachery lurks …

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If you read any of the books found here, remember to take the time to say a little something about the book or at least give it the stars you feel it deserves. Of course, a well thought out review would be even better.  Comments and stars, especially in this day and age, really help other potential readers make informed decisions.

Unicorns!  How we love them. . .

Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups.  I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.


You can also find hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.

Find gifts for middle graders and tweens at Sybrina’s Book Store

This blog post was brought to you by Unicorn Author and Entrepreneur, Sybrina Durant.  Visit her Sybrina Blue Unicorn Book website for unicorn books, Unicorn Reader Tees, Unicorn Writer Journals and Notebooks, Unicorn Reader Book Sleeves and many cool unicorn gifts.  Sybrina writes The Blue Unicorn Books. This book, written by Sybrina Durant and illustrated by Dasguptarts, is presented in chapter book style with lots of pictures in order to keep young readers interest. It is meant for middle grade readers and up. If you love to read and you love to color, this is the book for you. Read a chapter, then color the fanciful pictures yourself in this fully-illustrated black and white version of "The Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm". It is also available in glorious water-color style.

  The Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm "Read and Color" Book

Browse Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store

In all, you'll find thousands of books and gifts for your favorite unicorn lover at Sybrina's Unicorn Book Store. Sybrina has spent countless hours researching, finding and cataloging these books to make it easy for others to find what might become their next favorite book.  

Sybrina is an Amazon Associate and Influencer, so you can feel safe making a purchase from her online store because each link goes directly to the book's Amazon page. At this point you may be wondering...why not just go straight to Amazon.  The reason is simple.  Sybrina accepts no money for advertising so you can be assured that the books you see in her online store are not simply limited to who pays the most to have their book up front. You will be amazed at what you will find there. 


And if you don't find a particular book that you feel should be there, just send Sybrina an email with the book title and author's name.  She will accomodate almost all requests to include a new (or old) unicorn book in her online store.


Where you'll find unicorns, more unicorns and nothing but unicorns! Visit now.

If you like this post and others on this blog, scroll all the way down to the bottom left of this page and click the FOLLOW button to receive more from Sybrina's Book Blog.

Little Kid Unicorn Book Feature - Jellycat Una The Unicorn Who Loves to Dance by Amelia Gatacre

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Little Kids and Toddlers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is

Jellycat Una The Unicorn Who Loves to Dance

by Amelia Gatacre

Una the Unicorn Who Loves To Dance is a toe-tapping tale of one unicorn's talent. Una dances, boogies and grooves and everyone loves her funky moves! Pull some shapes and shake your hooves as Una shows you how to dazzle on the dancefloor!



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If you read any of the books found here, remember to take the time to say a little something about the book or at least give it the stars you feel it deserves. Of course, a well thought out review would be even better.  Comments and stars, especially in this day and age, really help other potential readers make informed decisions.


Unicorns!  How we love them. . .


Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups.  I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.


You can also find hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.

Find Unicorn Gifts For Little Kids At Sybrina's Book Store, Too!

This blog post was brought to you by Unicorn Author and Entrepreneur, Sybrina Durant.  Visit her Sybrina Blue Unicorn Book website for unicorn books, Unicorn Reader Tees, Unicorn Writer Journals and Notebooks, Unicorn Reader Book Sleeves and many cool unicorn gifts.  Sybrina writes The Blue Unicorn Books. This is one was co-written with Sandi Johnson with illustrations by Enrique Vignolo -

  Lil' Metal Horn Unicorns

Browse Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store


In all, you'll find thousands of books and gifts for your favorite unicorn lover at Sybrina's Unicorn Book Store. Sybrina has spent countless hours researching, finding and cataloging these books to make it easy for others to find what might become their next favorite book.  




Sybrina is an Amazon Associate and Influencer, so you can feel safe making a purchase from her online store because each link goes directly to the book's Amazon page. At this point you may be wondering...why not just go straight to Amazon.  The reason is simple.  Sybrina accepts no money for advertising so you can be assured that the books you see in her online store are not simply limited to who pays the most to have their book up front. You will be amazed at what you will find there. 



And if you don't find a particular book that you feel should be there, just send Sybrina an email with the book title and author's name.  She will accomodate almost all requests to include a new (or old) unicorn book in her online store.



Where you'll find unicorns, more unicorns and nothing but unicorns! Visit now.

If you like this post and others on this blog, scroll all the way down to the bottom left of this page and click the FOLLOW button to receive more from Sybrina's Book Blog.

YA Unicorn Book Feature - Acorna The Jade Man's Eyes - Unicorn Fantasy by Michael Moorcock

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Teen Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is

The Jade Man's Eyes (Unicorn Fantasy)

by Michael Moorcock

This British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Short Fiction (1974) is only seventy four pages but it is full of meaning.


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If you read any of the books found here, remember to take the time to say a little something about the book or at least give it the stars you feel it deserves. Of course, a well thought out review would be even better.  Comments and stars, especially in this day and age, really help other potential readers make informed decisions.


Unicorns!  How we love them. . .


Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups.  I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.


You can also find hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.

Find Unicorn Gifts For Teens,YA and Older Readers At Sybrina's Book Store, Too!

This blog post was brought to you by Unicorn Author and Entrepreneur, Sybrina Durant.  Visit her Sybrina Blue Unicorn Book website for unicorn books, Unicorn Reader Tees, Unicorn Writer Journals and Notebooks, Unicorn Reader Book Sleeves and many cool unicorn gifts.  Sybrina writes The Blue Unicorn Books. If you enjoyed reading The Hobbit, Alice In Wonderland or even Watership  Downs, you might just love this purely fanciful anthropomorphic fantasy novel.


Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale by Sybrina Durant is an enchanting escapade about a metal-horned tribe of space-faring unicorns stranded a universe away from their home world of Unimaise. It is full of magic and adventure with walloping dashes of pseudosciencey stuff sprinkled throughout. It also offers a thought-provoking look into love and war amongst the other denizens of MarBryn. . .including Magh, the sorcerer who wants to kill all unicorns.

 Unicorn's Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale

Browse Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store


In all, you'll find thousands of books and gifts for your favorite unicorn lover at Sybrina's Unicorn Book Store. Sybrina has spent countless hours researching, finding and cataloging these books to make it easy for others to find what might become their next favorite book.  

Sybrina is an Amazon Associate and Influencer, so you can feel safe making a purchase from her online store because each link goes directly to the book's Amazon page. At this point you may be wondering...why not just go straight to Amazon.  The reason is simple.  Sybrina accepts no money for advertising so you can be assured that the books you see in her online store are not simply limited to who pays the most to have their book up front. You will be amazed at what you will find there. 


And if you don't find a particular book that you feel should be there, just send Sybrina an email with the book title and author's name.  She will accomodate almost all requests to include a new (or old) unicorn book in her online store.


Where you'll find unicorns, more unicorns and nothing but unicorns! Visit now.

If you like this post and others on this blog, click the FOLLOW button to receive more from Sybrina's Book Blog.

Lone Star Book Blog Tours - Book Blitz - Storms of Malhado by Maria Elena Sandovici

STORMS OF MALHADO
by

MARIA ELENA SANDOVICI

Genre: Historical Fiction / Ghosts
Publisher: Independently Published
Date of Publication: March 26, 2020

Number of Pages: 252

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Galveston Island, Texas, September 2008 Katie doesn’t believe in ghosts. And she certainly doesn’t believe the rumors that her family’s home is haunted, despite its tragic history: two young women who lived there in different eras died in hurricanes—one during Hurricane Carla in 1961, one during the Great Storm of 1900, the greatest natural disaster to befall the United States. But that was the past, a fact Katie reminds herself of when she returns to Galveston to await Hurricane Ike with her parents and boyfriend in her family’s Broadway mansion, hoping to rekindle her flailing relationship.

While Katie is not afraid of the ghost stories she’s heard, she is afraid of the monster storm approaching. As even die-hard Islanders evacuate, her fears grow—fear of the looming hurricane, fear that she’s talentless as a painter, fear that her relationship with her boyfriend is already over. As Katie struggles against her fears, the past whispers to her of the women who died there and the haunting similarities they share with Katie’s own life. 

Through three different timelines, Storms of Malhado weaves a story of Galveston’s past, underscoring its danger and isolation, as well as its remarkable resilience, and its capacity for both nostalgia and reinvention. Full of contradictions, at once insular and open to the world, Galveston Island is as much a character of the novel as Katie, Suzanne, Betty, their lovers, and their confidantes.

PRAISE FOR STORMS OF MALHADO:

“Taking place entirely on a beautifully moody Galveston Island, Ms. Sandovici weaves three simultaneous stories with ease. With a timeless tale, ethereal language, and complicated characters, readers will be entranced by this modern ghost story. How many times can the past repeat itself? How do we recognize people through generations? The author tackles this topic amid a backdrop of violent nature and intangible dreamscapes." 
—Courtney Brandt, author of The Queen of England: Coronation, Grand Tour, Ascension

”Three women, three great storms, and one house, haunted by forbidden love and frustrated ambition. Get ready to be swept away by Sandovici’s foray into Galveston Island’s tempestuous history in this tale of lives intertwined across time.”
—Donna Dechen Birdwell, author of Not Knowing

Excerpt from Storms of Malhado

By Maria Elena Sandovici

“Galveston 1961 – Are You Happy, Miss Betty?”

Betty went back upstairs, actually went all the way up to the third floor, where the servants’ quarters had been back when the house was inhabited by a wealthy family, and sat at her drawing table. The table was a wooden rectangle with uneven legs that required balancing with matchbooks. It wouldn’t have been remarkable in any way, except for its sturdiness, a quality at odds with its wobbly nature, a paradox Betty found endearing, as if this large and unwieldy furniture item, undoubtedly left up here by former inhabitants because it was too much trouble to move, were a hippopotamus with a limp, or a massive heifer with a vertigo problem. Betty loved the discoloration of the surface, the circles of wood underneath the worn veneer, the warmth and porousness of it. This table, to her, was like a friend, and the third floor where it resided, her place of refuge. She was grateful for this old abandoned object, a feeling that eluded her about most other things in life, including the privilege of living in the house itself. She supposed that one good thing about Galveston was that nobody wanted to be here. They could afford a mansion if they wanted to, although it was a mansion in disrepair, and sometimes Betty wondered if newer houses with better insulation and fewer ghosts were not indeed more expensive than this ancient carcass Carl had surprised her with.

Her mother thought it strange that Betty liked to go to the third floor. Her mother thought that must be the most haunted part, she’d heard it somewhere, and that a sensible girl would steer clear. But for all the talk going around, Betty had not so much as been startled by an unaccounted-for draft of air. She’d been in other houses on the island where she could feel a presence. But not here. And she was sensitive – as observant of currents of air or unaccounted for energy as she was of light and shadow, of particles of dust floating in rays of light, shiny like snowflakes, or of the subtle changes in color as the Island sky churned the golden hour into the blush of dusk.

Perhaps an actual supernatural presence would have been easier to bear than a vast mansion that was haunted in a different, metaphorical way. For it wasn’t actual ghosts that bothered Betty here, but the thought of the imposing old home as a symbol of days gone by. It was its testimony of an era of affluence wiped out unexpectedly, the Island’s perpetual nostalgia for its own wealth and glory, lost in the violence of the Storm of 1900. With its grand entrance, tall ceilings, dramatic staircase seconded by humble back stairs meant to lead servants seamlessly from the kitchen to the third floor where their rooms were, the house served as a constant reminder that Galveston’s past would forever outshine its precarious present and uncertain future. Betty wasn’t sure it was healthy to live with this much nostalgia. And yet, her domain was the abandoned third floor, the now redundant servants’ quarters, where at the old wooden table which at some point must have been used for more practical tasks she sat for hours and stared at blank sheets of paper.

Carl didn’t bother to come up to the third floor, and Betty had made sure Edna understood that this part of the house was to be excluded even from the more thorough cleanings. Edna had seemed disappointed. Or perhaps Betty had misread her expression. It didn’t matter, anyhow. She’d rather have dust bunnies pile up in the corners of the room, than suffer even a benevolent intrusion. Solitude was the greatest luxury. She could leave her sketches lying around. She could leave books open, photographs scattered, still lives in place. Nobody would bother her workshop. Betty loved having a place that was entirely her own. Yet she knew that there was something amiss with her desire for isolation. For one, it meant the absence of criticism. It was a weakness that she craved this so. It reminded her that she had dropped out of art school, dropped out during her first semester, and not just because she couldn’t make ends meet. Like the old house, she was a creature whose most ambitious hopes lay buried somewhere in the past.

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Maria Elena Sandovici is a full-time writer, artist, and gallery owner living in Houston, Texas. After obtaining a Ph.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2005, her curiosity led her to Texas, where she taught at Lamar University for fourteen years. She felt attracted to Galveston Island from her first visit and lived there part-time for three years before her artistic career took her to Houston. 

Sandovici is a 2008 graduate of John Ross Palmer's Escapist Mentorship Program, a program that teaches artists business skills. She resigned from her tenured academic position in December 2018 and opened her own private gallery space. Her previous works of fiction are Dogs with Bagels, Stray Dogs and Lonely Beaches, Lost Path to Solitude, The Adventures of Miss Vulpe, and Lone Wolf. She is also the author of Stop and Smell the Garbage, a volume of poetry in the voice of her dog, Holly Golightly. You can follow her daily adventures on her blog HaveWatercolorsWillTravel.blog.

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