My name is Ugh, a zombie, and I’m just about to start my first year of middle school. I think that this school year is going to be crazy. I mean, I am going to a school full of monsters for teachers and students. Four of my best friends will be there to join me in everything that happens. I can’t help but wonder what types of monsters and new adventures I’ll run into at my new middle school.GENRE: Children’s Adventure (An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen)My name is Ugh, and I’m just about to start my first year of middle school. This summer I had to go through some crazy summer school classes to even get to middle school. I don’t exactly have the best reputation for showing up to class, which is how I got into that situation in the first place. This school year I’m going to work harder to do well in my classes, and to show up to them in general. Even though I don’t plan on skipping every other class that I have, I still think that this school year is going to be crazy. I mean, I am going to a school full of monsters for teachers and students. Four of my best friends will be there to join me in everything that happens: Tibby, Snow, Will, and Grunt. I’m sure that we can do whatever we set our minds to when we stick together. I can’t help but wonder what types of monsters I’ll run into at my new middle school. All I know for sure is that I’ll have a great time no matter what comes at me!Author’s Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft ®/TM & © 2009-2013 Mojang / Notch Views: 266
For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community...
Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, see the new, closer companionship as beneficial—both personally and practically.
But not everyone is convinced. A group of radical humans is seeking to usurp land through a series of violent attacks on the Others. What they don’t realize is that there are older and more dangerous forces than shifters and vampires protecting the land that belongs to the Others—and those forces are willing to do whatever is necessary to protect what is theirs… Views: 266
The Timeless Tale picks up just where Book One left off - give or take a few blurry months for our characters while the author did other things.
You see, Peter lives in the land of Fiction itself. Now our (ex-boy wizard) protagonist must grapple with the idea of changing his story, as he's presented with a rare and dangerous object straight from the Real World: his own backstory.
As his Conflict unfolds, you'll be taken to mysterious lands like Nonfiction, you'll come across a villain far more horrifying than that other guy (seriously, DON'T say his name); and you may even fall in love. Journey into this world beyond the page - and be sure to hold in your Inner Dialogue.
This is the second book in the Peter Able series. Book Three - just released! **
Review
"Natalie Grigson takes us on a hilarious ride through the behind-the-page world of Fiction where heroes, villains, and unnamed side characters live out their lives free from an author's demands. Like a Toy Story for the book lover, the Peter Able series is a laugh-out-loud exploration of what happens when the reader isn't looking. With the humor of Douglas Adams combined with Sue Townsend, Grigson is a writer I look forward to reading for years to come. These books are a riot!" - Owen Egerton, author of Everyone Says That at the End of the World
About the Author
Natalie Grigson is a Young Adult and Middle Grade author/illustrator from Austin, Texas. She has written such books as the Peter Able series, Just Call Me Is , Call Me Perfect, The Woods , and Matthew Templeton and the Enchanted Journal. When she is not writing, she can most often be found leading workshops for teens, outdoors, climbing trees, travelling, and/or pretending she is a dog. Views: 265
Indigo Fire
The Indigo Brothers Trilogy
Book One
What would you do if your family went missing?
Three brothers, Jackson, Mitch, and Garret Indigo are summoned back home to tiny Indigo Key by their mother. Their sister has gone missing along with her husband and two kids. But the mystery only deepens when they learn a visitor to the town has also disappeared. Are the two cases related? And, if so, what are the people in their hometown hiding?
**About the Author
Vickie McKeehan's novels have consistently appeared on Amazon's Top 100 lists in Contemporary Romance and Romantic Suspense. She writes what she loves to read -- heartwarming contemporary romance peppered with suspense. Because she can't actually kidnap people or toss them over a bridge, she writes about compelling and down-to-earth characters that get to do those kinds of things. Her characters and settings will haunt you long after you finish her books.
She's the author of twenty novels and numerous short stories with no plans to slow down.
She is a full-time author who makes her home in Southern California with her husband and her dog named Beau. She loves the beach and can often be found there with her toes in the sand, walking Beau.
Join Vickie's mailing list at vickiemckeehan.com for news about new books and other things. You can follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/VickieMcKeehan/, or Twitter at Twitter @VickieMcKeehan.
The Evil Secrets Trilogy
Just Evil
Deeper Evil
Ending Evil
The Pelican Pointe Series
Promise Cove
Hidden Moon Bay
Dancing Tides
Lighthouse Reef
Starlight Dunes
Last Chance Harbor
Sea Glass Cottage
Lavender Beach
Beneath Winter Sand
The Skye Cree Novels
The Bones of Others
The Bones Will Tell
The Box of Bones
His Garden of Bones
Truth in the Bones
The Indigo Brothers Trilogy
Indigo Fire
Indigo Heat
Indigo Justice Views: 265
7 classic ghost stories by acknowledged masters of weird fiction with a brief introduction by Tony Walker:7 classic ghost stories by acknowledged masters of weird fiction with a brief introduction by Tony Walker:A Room in the Tower - by E F BensonThe Woman's Ghost Story -by Algernon BlackwoodThe House and the Brain -by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Beast with Five Fingers- by W. F. HarveyThe Dunwich Horror - by H P LovecraftThrawn Janet - by Robert Louis StevensonThe Signal-Man by Charles Dickens Views: 265
Welcome to the Queendom of Maadre, where women rule.A collection of the stories of the Amazons Country written so far. Bonus story: The Painter.In this book: The Death of Queen Amazonia, The Public Man, Doreen, Uncommon Amazons, Amazons' Men, The Queen's Son, Jessamine, The Tiger and the new story The Painter. Views: 265
Excerpt from The Brighton Boys in the Argonne ForestThe building Of the Panama Canal, the discovery Of the North Pole, the results attained at the modern Olympic games are but minor instances of our determination; the accumulative values Of inventions and their commercialism, the acquiring Of vast wealth and well being express this more generally.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Views: 265
Three babies and two miscarriages. Ten years. Use contraceptives and be damned to hell. This has long been the plight of devout Catholic women. Pope Francis, currently everyone's darling, hints of change. Ann Mary, Contraception and the Pope of Rome gives this timely issue flesh and blood, humor and pathos. Ann Mary fears hell, honors the clerics, and lives in strict obedience to the Pope of Rome. But the Pope is asking too much of Ann Mary. Hope comes from an unexpected source. Set in Post WW II San Francisco, the novel recalls a city of neighborhoods, old open-ended iron streetcars, sparse traffic, Playland, the dunes bordering Ocean Beach, and the way children played, happily and safely, in the streets outside their row houses. Much of the drama unfolds in the thriving Catholic Church of the 1940's with its vestments, candles, statues, chants and Latin medieval liturgy. Follow Ann Mary, poignant chapters alternating with comic ones, a moving work of sadness and tenderness, humor and love.Review
Awarded a Kirkus Star, given to books of exceptional merit. A debut novel about a religious family that will pack a real wallop for Catholics (or ex-Catholics) of a certain age. Taforo-Murphy takes readers back to post World War II San Francisco and the struggling Kenny family. The story is about Ann Mary Kenny, a devout Catholic, and narrated in retrospect by her middle child, Theresa. This is a family that s slowly being torn apart by the issue of contraception or rather the prohibition against it, as dictated by the holy mother church. It s an age-old bind for married women: to celebrate the connubial act (as the church and one s husband encourages) but then to be terrified that it may result in yet another mouth to feed. One funny and sad chapter has a bewildered Ann Mary trying to follow along while a doctor explains in detail the rhythm method, the only birth-control option that the church approves. Henry, the non-Catholic father, becomes more frustrated, angry, and distant, and Ann Mary goes slowly, literally, insane as Theresa watches. The book is an unapologetic polemic, and conservative Catholics may be enraged, but Taforo-Murphy gives no quarter. There are good people in this story, such as Father Capwell, the pastor of St. Cyril s parish, who really was a kind man, a man with the unselfconscious sweet innocence of an angel, a rather dim angel, one settled into an only minimally reflective goodness. But there s the rub: this old, feckless priest is the best of the bunch. As Taforo-Murphy portrays it, the church as an institution is rule-ridden, absolute, and smugly, unshakably certain, even if it costs a woman s sanity. Parochial school also gets its lumps here, as it s apparently designed to instill a lively guilt. Young Theresa herself, aiming in her own twisted way to save her mother from hell, becomes a moral fanatic, a confessional junkie. The Mission Band, a tag team of visiting priests, preaches sermons that would make any Puritan look wishy-washy. Thus are people ground down with the best of intentions in this novel. An afterword reveals that young Theresa s story was based on Taforo-Murphy's own, so readers will know why she pulled no punches. Taforo-Murphy is a born storyteller with a poet s ear and eye, making every line of her hilarious, biting, and vengeful book a pleasure to read. --Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
I was born in hard times, when lights were going out across Europe and battleships were sinking in Pearl Harbor. My parents were awfully brave. Either that or my father wanted desperately not to be drafted. Either reason had merit. I grew up in the now gone San Francisco of the 40's and 50's. There were few skyscrapers, little traffic, no fear of abducted children, in fact, little fear at all. Our day in the country was an excursion beyond city limits, and our idea of great fun was feeding the ducks in Golden Gate Park. Simple pleasures, happy lives. I attended Catholic schools for the next 16 years, but have no worry here...I do not sentimentalize nuns or priests. My story includes mockery and a clear-cut appraisal of churchly virtues and failings. I graduated Magna cum Laude from a top-notch college and was awarded a Ford Fellowship to Stanford University. Thereafter I taught literature and composition on the high school level, and worked as a deviser of literacy tests in business. But I have found great happiness in writing for the last many years. My aim is to describe San Francisco as it was and how it could again become, and to turn a beady, non-flinching eye on Catholicism. I wish to make readers laugh and think, and I believe that I have done so. Views: 265
