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by J.S. Frankel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Courage counts for everything.

Nate Holliday is your average teen, living a fairly ordinary life in Portland, Oregon. Born without a right hand, he copes with his disability the best that he can, although he still feels like an outsider.

His fairly ordinary life changes when he meets Ukiko Monaghan, a woman from an alternate Earth. Ukiko, known as Dividing Woman for her ability to split her body into multiple copies of herself, is after a violent criminal named Astral, who can summon up demons from another dimension.

Astral is aided by Tony Lethal, a thug who enjoys stomping people. Together, they are in search of the Spark, an all-powerful weapon, and Ukiko enlists Nate’s help in finding it before they do.

Now, Nate, along with his girlfriend, Melanie Sarkosian, have to avoid spectral demons, the various branches of the law, and curiosity seekers as they race to find the Spark before Astral does. It’s a hard journey, one fraught with danger, and Nate has to conquer his own demons before he can conquer those who seek to defeat him in his quest.

Sometimes, courage is all you need.
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    January 24, 2020
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0841TXXGB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Devine Destinies (January 24, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 24, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 461 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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J.S. Frankel

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J.S. Frankel was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up there, receiving his tertiary education from the University of Toronto and graduating with a double major in English Literature and Political Science.

After working at Gray Coach Lines for a grand total of three years, he came to Japan at the age of twenty-six and has been there ever since, teaching English to any and all students who enter his hallowed school of learning.

In 1997, he married Akiko Koike. He, his wife and his two children, Kai and Ray, currently reside in Osaka. His hobbies include weight training, watching movies when his writing schedule allows, and listening to various kinds of music.

His novels, all for the YA set, include Twisted, Lindsay Versus the Marauders and it's sequels, Lindsay, Jo, and the Tree of Forever, and Lindsay, Jo and the Well of Nevermore, all courtesy of Regal Crest Enterprises. He has also written the Catnip series (five novels), Mr. Taxi, The Titans of Ardana and its sequel, The Titans of Ardana 2: Battlefield, along with Picture (Im)perfect and more novels, courtesy of DevineDestinies.com.

Future projects for Devine Destinies include the final novel in the Titans trilogy, the final novel in the Just Another Quiet... trilogy, The Undernet, the re-release of Star Maps, and more. He is also the author of The Menagerie and The Nightmare Crew trilogy, all courtesy of Finch Books.

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Teresa
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful Y/A story.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020
Reviewer: Teresa Fallen Angel

Summary:
Nate’s life was never perfect, but he made it work. With his girlfriend Melanie by his side things seemed to work out. It is never easy having a disability, but not having a hand didn’t stop Nate. It was how others saw him that made life difficult. Everything changed after Nate stepped in to save a child setting events in motion after he met a youth, Ukiko, like himself who was form an alternate Earth. Ukiko had her own difficulties being accepted because she was different something that Nate could easily understand. Ukiko was on a mission to capture a criminal from her world, but that was easier said than done placing the world in danger that only Nate and his friends had a hope of stopping.

This was a wonderful story that gives the reader an understanding that no obstacles is too hard to overcome if you believe in yourselves and stand by each other. It was wonderful how Melanie never saw Nate as disabled, but just a Nate. If everyone looked beyond the surface to who you really were the world would be a better place. It was fascinating how the superhuman theme remained as fascinating part of the story while the human interactions and frailties were most important.
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Wanda Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Y/A Book
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020
A superb Y/A book. A handicapped young man meets a superhero of sorts from another Earth and teams up with her to keep two super villains from getting their hands on The Spark which can be used to alter and control the planet to their choosing. Nate, along with his girlfriend Melanie face a host of dangers and are wanted by every intelligence agency in the quest to save the world from Astral and Tony Lethal. Nate does not let his disability stop his confidence or determination as aliens run amuck causing havoc and instead ends up overcoming the fears he knows in order to come out on top. A great story, very well written and very entertaining. This writer just keeps knocking them out of the park one book at a time.
-To The Author- You make writing seem effortless. Mad skills.
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Ann
5.0 out of 5 stars We are all able to take on the world!
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2020
Love Mr Frankel’s work. He creates a world that is in great danger and his characters, who face challenges of their own, still managed to go above and beyond in making everything ok. I think he knows a lot about a lot. I read some of his books before that my grandma keeps sending me. I like them all! Thank you, Mr. Frankel for incredible stories!
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