Little Miss Grouch by James Hopkin Adams is a cute ship romance about a young male love interest and a distraught young brunette. Excerpt: "Several tugs were persuasively nudging the Clan Macgregor out from her pier. Beside the towering flanks of the sea monster, the newest and biggest of her species, they seemed absurdly inadequate for the job. But they made up for their insignificance by self-important and fussy puffings and pipings, while, like an elephant harried by terriers, the vast mass slowly swung outward toward the open. From the pier, there arose a composite clamor of farewell."
Despite efforts to create a safe environment to see out the pandemic, the residents of the Last Ditch Motel face more dangers than they imagined possible in this hilarious yet claustrophobic mystery. March 2020 and Operation Cocker is a go! The owners of the Last Ditch Motel, with a little help from their friend Lexy Campbell, are preparing to support one another through the oncoming lockdown, offering the motel's spare rooms to a select few from the local area in need of sanctuary. While the newbies are settling in, an ambiguous banner appears demanding one of them return home. But who is it for? Lexy and her friends put a plan into action to ward off the perpetrator, but the very next night, a resident disappears and a message scrawled in human blood is found. As California shuts down, the Last Ditchers make another gruesome discovery. They tried to create a haven but now it seems as if everyone's in danger. Is the motel under attack from someone on the outside? Scary as that is, the alternative is worse by far.
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book." —Neal Gaiman Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist--a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel--in 1926. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. "Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Under her own name, she published three novels: Madeleine— One of Life's Jansenists (1921); The Counterplot (1924); and her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist, which has acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers."--SF Site "Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually underrated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy."—The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Young, separated and with three children between them, Chloe Vines and Abigail Webb decide theyd be better off living in the tiny, uncharted town of Witchs grove, Kentucky, than to go on living with their alcohol abusing husbands. Abigails brother (Garret) and his wife (Cora) happily invite them to stay in their home through this upsetting obstacle in their life. But when a crazy-eyed old man with his protective, pet opossum has a fear for the new-comers, they get the boot. Things were starting to look bleak for the best-friends until they found Zavier and Abraxas Celeste, who has a house for rent; two gorgeous home-owners up Falcons Climb with an incredible secret and something magical up their sleeve. This book not only captures the problems in every day domestic situations, it is also a tale of triumph! Two main sides in a world of magic are the Godly Paradragons, and the Devilish Mist Witches. Find out how the war started eons ago, and how Chloe and Abby cope wtih the whole immortal dealings. Without the broomsticks, knights and castles, The Celeste will take you back to olden days of England, the time of queen Mary Tudor, all the way to present day U.S.A. Read about Chloe and Abby's infatuation for the Celeste brothers and a major twist, that even their psychic abilities over-looked.
The first in a new supernatural fantasy trilogy of novels, AXiS: Elemental Rise deals with the story of Xavier Gaia, a young teenager who has his family slaughtered at the hands of Mist Violet, a shy schoolmate of his who appears to be infatuated with him. Outraged, the boy attempts to take her life, despite her innocent appearance. He is stopped by his close friend Katon Maxwell, a large boy with an overbearing presence and also extra sensory perception. Delving into the girls mind, he informs Xavier that she is being possessed by some kind of entity, explaining the apparent outburst and subsequent killing of his family. With that, the trio set off on a journey to free Mist from her oppression and for her to redeem herself, but also for Xavier to avenge his family. Along the way, they engage several out-of-this-world villains that stand before their goal, explore their inner feelings as Xavier comes to terms with Mists actions and find out more about themselves and the dormant powers resting deep within them
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Small Dark Man" by Maurice Walsh. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.