Three Coins in a Fountain Jessie, Gina, Libby Three women, three wishes… Three Coins in a Fountain Practical, straitlaced Jessie Needham wished she could forget the wildly passionate affair she'd shared with Nick Carlucci—but she was having Nick's baby. She could handle being a single mom—but didn't every child need a daddy? Still, with Nick far away, Jessie could control her memories of long summer nights and melting kisses. Keeping her secret seemed safe—right up until she opened her door and found Nick on the other side…. Only a wish from the heart will come true.
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Jake McCluskie’s wife, the doc, is brutally murdered by a powerful deity, igniting the fuse to a deity civil war that only McCluskie and his partner, Detective Frank Sigorlli, can stop.
George White, an inoffensive little chemist in East Anglia, finds himself the possessor of a somewhat unusual accomplishment - he only has to wish someone dead and his wish is granted. The first inkling of his abilities comes when Major James, a petty tyrant who made George the butt of his jokes, dies suddenly. Did he succumb to occult powers or had his own weak heart finally got to him? Although the police accept that the major's death has natural causes, several of the locals think otherwise, and attempt to solve the mystery to their own satisfaction.
Why should children learn to write fluently? What difference will it make to them and the opportunities available to them later on in life? The ability to communicate clearly, accurately and persuasively is a vital life skill. Deficiencies in motivation and thinking skills pervade the challenge of improving children's literacy levels. Get Them Thinking Like Writers! combines practical activities to help children aged 7-11 develop their writing skills, with insights into the attitude that experienced writers apply to their craft. The activities explore different working methods - such as how authors tap into and develop their creativity and how they deal with 'writer's block' - and are supported by strategies for thinking that will develop children's literacy and the way they use language to express their opinions in all subject areas. Steve Bowkett, author, storyteller and education consultant, provides the key concepts and learning benefits of each strategy, along with a series of activities, extension ideas and useful links. Linked resources can be found on the series companion website.
“O Mother of Mares, send me a change in the wind!” Jessa, Healer to a nomadic tribe, is content enough among them but life is routine and predictable, and her heart is empty. She prays for change, and apparently the Gods hear her, for change arrives – most unexpectedly, in the shape of a warrior from an alien world. As an officer with the British Army in Afghanistan, Captain Malcolm Redwing finds life anything but routine and predictable. It becomes even less so when after a serious accident on active duty he wakes to find himself among Jessa’s tribe, a stranger on a world that is not Earth. At first he is regarded with dislike and suspicion, but eventually he makes his peace with The People and settles down as one among them. As a professional soldier should, he waits for his chance to discover how he came to their world, and whether he can make his way back to his own by the same means. As time passes, however, the friendships he makes and his developing relationship with Jessa begin to come into conflict with his loyalty to his regiment and the comrades and friends he has left behind. His duty is to return home if he can, but as the months slip by he begins to question where his true loyalty really lies. Then news comes that a long-feared invasion by a strange and warlike people from the South has begun, and both Malcolm and Jessa are swept up into a conflict for which the peaceable Tribe are utterly unprepared.
HARD TIMES IN HOUSTON Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program. He is also a poet. Graduate student and poet--hardly the world's most lucrative endeavors, especially for someone who has just embarked on a money-draining divorce. To make ends meet, Neil moonlights as a chef for a high-society caterer. Just when his life seems bleakest, Neil's oldest friend, racehorse breeder Jason Keys, is murdered. And guess what! Neil becomes the prime suspect. To save his neck, avenge his friend, and rescue a missing championship Thoroughbred, Neil penetrates the dark underworld of horse theft and illegal breeding. Neil's friends--his attractive writing teacher, his cooking colleagues, and a freckle-faced teenage horsewoman--cheer him on. But Neil knows if he fails, his goose is cooked. . . .
The fairy promised her three wishes… And delivered three curses instead. Ceana Campbell now knows what defeat really means. She’s doomed to fail at everything she tries. She’s been erased from the memories of everyone who mattered to her. And her attempt to save one person she loved put another in jeopardy. Her little brother will die. The only way to save him is to break the curses. But to do that, she’ll need the help of the man she once loved—the man who no longer remembers her, the man who thinks she’s mad…or a monster trying to steal his soul. She’ll also need to find someone powerful enough to break a fairy curse. The one woman who might be able to do that has a secret of her own. One guarded by a supernatural beast that will make an angry fairy seem like the least of their problems. Cursed Wishes is the first book in Marcy Kennedy's Three Wishes Historical Fantasy series. If you love evil fae, unique Scottish mythological creatures, and clean romance, then you'll enjoy this fantasy about fighting for what you love against all odds. Get it now!
In 1826 Millicent Post was burned as a witch. Before the flames consumed her, she cursed the town of Whistlestop and vowed she would return. Centuries later, Katie White becomes possessed by Millicent’s spirit and while Katie’s soul is held captive in a clay vessel, the resurrected witch causes havoc upon the town. With each death her powers grow until she becomes unstoppable, consuming the town and all those who destroyed her so many years ago. Whistlestop’s only hope is in the hands of Michael White, Katie’s father. Can he release his daughter from Millicent’s grip and by doing so, save Whistlestop, or will he be too late?
"As the search unfolds, Frankie ventures into an elite fringe world where the antiquities trade slips too easily into international money-laundering and far higher stakes."--BOOK JACKET.
