It’s been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have traveled far and wide in search of adventure. Now Peter and Sir Tode have been summoned by Professor Cake for a new mission: find a 12-year-old girl named Sophie Quire.
Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father’s bookshop, where she works as a bookmender and dreams of leaving the confines of her city walls. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up searching for a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. Views: 534
The Spark That Ignites The Flame. In this Project Integrate Prequel, Amery Jones embarks on her first trip to summer camp. When a camper goes missing, she fears she was the intended victim.The Spark That Ignites The Flame.Seventeen years ago an entire generation of aliens were sent to Earth in order to save their home planet and integrate into the human population. Now, those aliens are being hunted.Amery Jones is finally allowed to go to camp for the summer. With her best friend Lola by her side, she is expecting awesome times ahead.Unfortunately, Lochie, her charming mortal enemy and the only guy who can get under her skin, seems to have made it his mission to annoy her for the entire summer.When one of the campers goes missing, Amery finds herself teamed up with Lochie in the search mission. Now, more than ever, her alien status has to remain a secret.Also in the Project Integrate Series:Ignite (Short Prequel)UniteDivideConquerSoarRiseBroken Views: 534
Loner, misfit, wild. Everything about the new guy at school, Cayden, should push me away. And when the wolves appear in the woods around town, one of them shares Cayden's dark hair, red highlights, and his wild, noble eyes. Deep down, I know the explanation for his amazing hearing, graceful walk, and his ability to fight off guys twice his size. I should fear him, but he draws me in. I'm alone, too, having lost parents at a young age. Only Cayden understands what it's like to be different. But Cayden warns me off as his eyes yearn for me. Turns out he's right to. Other werewolves exist, savage ones who hate human life and noble Wolves like Cayden. They'll attack anyone who dares enter his life. And now they're settling in my hometown. It won't be long before they destroy my home. Staying away from Cayden is the safe thing to do. But without me, he'll go up against the savage werewolves alone. And I can't let him do that. Views: 534
We were born on the land and will live here happily. Forever. Free.This short story addresses the flight and hopes of a family facing great changes. Live safely and die free. Views: 533
A classic epic fantasy tale that examines modern questions of morality and belonging. In the style of "A Wizard of Earthsea" and Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series.The land of Aeon has been at peace for a hundred years, and towns and cities prosper. There is a new, just king in the city of Caelron, and the Sorev Ael of Var Athel keep the dangers of the Wilds at bay. But when an ancient artifact is found and brought through Dunlow, a fleet of ships with black sails invades in the dead of night, leaving hundreds dead. The land of Aeon is left reeling, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. Views: 533
A collection of poems on different topics like life, love and betrayal.This book is a collection of poems on different topics. It touches on subjects like organised religion, childhood, knowledge, hope, broken relationships, lies, death, commitments, and those words we can't unsay. [Titles - " " / A Divine Passage / A Smile That Hurts / Curtains / Dreamless Sleep / Falling Into the Sky / Heaven / I / Left Alone / Lesson / Necromancer / Painting in the Dark / Shackles / She Comes in the Dark / Stranger in My Bones / Sunshine / The Thousand Words of an Accidental Painting / Voices of Gods / Where the Sky Ends / Wise Fool] Views: 533
Now that Trip’s siblings are safely back in the capital, he would like it if life got back to normal. As normal as possible for a half-dragon army officer learning to use his magical powers when he isn’t busy piloting with Wolf Squadron.
But trouble keeps popping up, and the capital isn’t the safe haven Trip had hoped. More and more dragons are working together, with attacks growing frequent as they scheme to claim the country for themselves. Equally daunting, Rysha wants to introduce Trip to her parents, parents who want a proper nobleman for their daughter, not some odd commoner sired by a dragon.
If Trip is to have any chance of bringing peace to the country—and impressing Rysha’s parents—he’ll have to finally and fully embrace what he is and what he can do. Before time runs out. Views: 533
A Short Story-A retired teacher and indie author enlists his former student, a teenage computer wunderkind in a wild scheme to exact revenge on unfaithful readers.A Short Story-Bill Tompkins is a retired high school science teacher turned novelist and indie author. Frustrated at the lack of sales for his AWESOME book, he turns to extreme measures.Nar Schmidt is Bill's 15 year-old neighbor, former student and computer prodigy whose favorite pastime is roaming around in the elaborate computer systems of large corporations.Bill enlists the teenager in a wild scheme to exact revenge on unfaithful readers- forcing them to buy his book at the point of a gun. Views: 533
Keith Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction, opens on a winter’s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door.
The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the woman’s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town.
Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norah’s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the child’s true identity and her purpose in Margaret’s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter?
Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohue’s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.
From the Hardcover edition. Views: 533
"The time machine first arrived during the summer. I was outside, mowing the lawn, when it insinuated itself into the shrubbery."So begins "But Always Meeting Ourselves", a darkly comic tale by Leo Hunt about gardening, memories and the terrible consequences of being able to go back."The time machine first arrived during the summer. I was outside, mowing the lawn, when it insinuated itself into the shrubbery. The time machine was a tall yellow cylinder, like a can of pop someone had stretched. I remember it smelt like the carpets at my grandmother’s house, which I had crawled across as a child. I turned off the lawn mower. A slot opened in the machine and my future self climbed out."So begins "But Always Meeting Ourselves", a darkly comic tale by Leo Hunt about gardening, memories and the terrible consequences of being able to go back. Originally published in issue thirty-six of Neon, this short story is now available as an individual eBook edition. Read more about it at www.neonmagazine.co.uk, or visit Leo at coldstarharbor.tumblr.com. Views: 533
Some have called her Nemesis, some Aphrodite, others Invidia: but whatever her name, her wrath seems to increase with every recounting of the merciless vengeance she’s inflicted on what little remains of man’s civilisation.Humanity requires a saviour, someone who can stop Memesis while men still live.But all they have to save them is a girl: a girl so young, so small, she’s called Lil’.A call at the night of his birthday drags Rajan to a horrendous crime scene for an investigation. At first, everything seems like a normal murder case until the dead re-embroideries his most terrible fear. Rajan soon finds himself entangle in a web of strings pulled by the master puppeteer.Will Rajan be able to conquer his past and save the present? Will he able to crack the case ?Read this exciting psychological short thriller to find out. Views: 533
This collection contains fifteen short stories in a variety of genres, including science fiction, crime, and horror.Conflict: A woman becomes possessed by the ancestors of those murdered to obtain the diamond for her wedding ring.Marvin's Dead: A woman mourns the man she loves.Jahannam: A young man pays a ransom for his kidnapped father, and waits at the morgue for news.Font of Youth: A man discovers immortality, alone.Four Degrees Above Freezing: A detective questions a man who found a chilled corpse.Fallstaff: Sir John is the King's man.Check Out: A former killer-for-hire hides out after being unable to fulfill a contract.Fainting Game: A man becomes obsessed tracking the deaths of several young boys.Murder on Holiday: While on holiday, a serial-killer's activities lead to the birth of Jack The Ripper's myth.A Life In Porn: A man records and relives little moments with the women in his life.Betty Page Is Dead: A young GI falls in love with a pinup picture.DID Have: Four personalities in the same body reflect on the death of the fifth.Spirit: A NASA probe finds love. And note I didn't go for the obvious 'willing' joke.PWI: An astronaut fights with his ship's computer about his habit of getting drunk while piloting.Baby Back: A pregnancy re-kindles a failing relationship.Cockfight: A rooster, irresistible to hens and humans alike, upsets the pecking order. Views: 533
Four teenagers gain superhuman abilities in an abandoned laboratory in the woods. They think it's perfect, until they discover a dark entity named the Shadow. They have to defeat him before he defeats them, but can they defeat darkness?In the first book of the epic the Super 4 series, four teenagers, Harrison, Jake, Carly and Darryl, embark on an adventure of lifetime, when during a mountain walk, they find themselves lost and thirsty. That's when they stumble across a lab. It was a miracle. Vending machines lined up the wall. They drink as many sodas as they can.The left feeling powerful.Though they still faced life's natural problems; bullying, grades and fights, they felt confident and powerful.Then, havoc started wreaking in their lives. All hell broke loose. Family problems, personal problems, friend problems.They discover the person behind all this, one they nicknamed, the Shadow, and knew that problem had to be solved.With no knowledge of who the Shadow really was, the teenagers fight for their lives.But can they defeat darkness? Views: 533
