Author: Matthew Edwards
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532619995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Jonah is a fifteen-year-old orphan who thinks he already has enough problems in his life. He's failing all his subjects at school, frequently tormented by the school bully, and can count the people who care about his life (including his cat) on one hand--with fingers to spare. When he faces losing his older brother, he's convinced things couldn't get worse. Then he is awoken in the middle of the night by a clockwork cyborg goblin who robs him of a cherished opal pendant and departs through a magical portal. In his pursuit of the goblin thief, Jonah finds himself cast into a world beneath his own where he must pick his friends wisely, grow up quickly, and choose between an eight-foot evil seductress queen and a thousand-year-old tree nymph if he is to survive --and save the world in the process.
Jonah and The Clockwork Goblin
Author: Matthew Edwards
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532619995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Jonah is a fifteen-year-old orphan who thinks he already has enough problems in his life. He's failing all his subjects at school, frequently tormented by the school bully, and can count the people who care about his life (including his cat) on one hand--with fingers to spare. When he faces losing his older brother, he's convinced things couldn't get worse. Then he is awoken in the middle of the night by a clockwork cyborg goblin who robs him of a cherished opal pendant and departs through a magical portal. In his pursuit of the goblin thief, Jonah finds himself cast into a world beneath his own where he must pick his friends wisely, grow up quickly, and choose between an eight-foot evil seductress queen and a thousand-year-old tree nymph if he is to survive --and save the world in the process.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532619995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Jonah is a fifteen-year-old orphan who thinks he already has enough problems in his life. He's failing all his subjects at school, frequently tormented by the school bully, and can count the people who care about his life (including his cat) on one hand--with fingers to spare. When he faces losing his older brother, he's convinced things couldn't get worse. Then he is awoken in the middle of the night by a clockwork cyborg goblin who robs him of a cherished opal pendant and departs through a magical portal. In his pursuit of the goblin thief, Jonah finds himself cast into a world beneath his own where he must pick his friends wisely, grow up quickly, and choose between an eight-foot evil seductress queen and a thousand-year-old tree nymph if he is to survive --and save the world in the process.
Beast-Speaker 3
Author: W. A. Noble
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725252279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Dragon Home is the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Beast-Speaker trilogy. Seeger and his friends are horribly damaged from their experiences as child soldiers in books 1 and 2 of the trilogy. Returning home is also difficult and their longing for meaning and belonging catapult them into an adventure to rescue a trafficked girl and save the dragons’ ancient home from evil. But how can they win a war with so few resources? Dragon Home will not only transport you to Seeger’s world but will make you gasp, weep, and even laugh out loud through WA Noble’s masterful imagination and insight into injustice done to children and animals. Dragon Home will leave you wanting much more of Seeger and his dragon friends. - Rosanne Hawke, author of Riding the Wind: Writing for Children and Young Adults
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725252279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Dragon Home is the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Beast-Speaker trilogy. Seeger and his friends are horribly damaged from their experiences as child soldiers in books 1 and 2 of the trilogy. Returning home is also difficult and their longing for meaning and belonging catapult them into an adventure to rescue a trafficked girl and save the dragons’ ancient home from evil. But how can they win a war with so few resources? Dragon Home will not only transport you to Seeger’s world but will make you gasp, weep, and even laugh out loud through WA Noble’s masterful imagination and insight into injustice done to children and animals. Dragon Home will leave you wanting much more of Seeger and his dragon friends. - Rosanne Hawke, author of Riding the Wind: Writing for Children and Young Adults
The Tale of Alathimble Spaide
Author: Morton Benning
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532659598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The Tale of Alathimble Spaide is a collection of fantasy tales and poems to amuse and delight. The book includes tales of wizards, gnomes, ogres, trolls, vampires and one dragon who isn’t all that he appears to be. The main character of the title work is a hapless magician and his pet pig who together, through shared misfortune and ineptitude, become unlikely heroes. For the reader searching for deep and serious high fantasy, we strongly recommend Tolkien. For those simply looking for a bit of frivolous fantastical fun, this is the book for you.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532659598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The Tale of Alathimble Spaide is a collection of fantasy tales and poems to amuse and delight. The book includes tales of wizards, gnomes, ogres, trolls, vampires and one dragon who isn’t all that he appears to be. The main character of the title work is a hapless magician and his pet pig who together, through shared misfortune and ineptitude, become unlikely heroes. For the reader searching for deep and serious high fantasy, we strongly recommend Tolkien. For those simply looking for a bit of frivolous fantastical fun, this is the book for you.
Playing God
Author: Morton Benning
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153264499X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Keenley Turnshoe is a young apprentice cleric living in Utoptia, a medieval-like fantasy world of magic and monsters. But unknown to Keenley and the other inhabitants of Utopia, their world is also the virtually rendered plaything of a very wealthy and self-absorbed young man named Jeff, AKA the Great God Avatar. When Jeff’s ‘answering machine’, the Deus Interface, decides that it is the Great God Avatar, it identifies Jeff as a threat and strands him in his own virtual world. Jeff seeks help from Keenley and his companions as he tries to return to his virtual throne room. As they risk their lives on a quest to find the Great God, will they discover the true identity of their difficult travelling companion? And will the Deus Interface be able to locate and destroy them before they fulfil their quest?
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153264499X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Keenley Turnshoe is a young apprentice cleric living in Utoptia, a medieval-like fantasy world of magic and monsters. But unknown to Keenley and the other inhabitants of Utopia, their world is also the virtually rendered plaything of a very wealthy and self-absorbed young man named Jeff, AKA the Great God Avatar. When Jeff’s ‘answering machine’, the Deus Interface, decides that it is the Great God Avatar, it identifies Jeff as a threat and strands him in his own virtual world. Jeff seeks help from Keenley and his companions as he tries to return to his virtual throne room. As they risk their lives on a quest to find the Great God, will they discover the true identity of their difficult travelling companion? And will the Deus Interface be able to locate and destroy them before they fulfil their quest?
Serpent Bearer
Author: Ian Miller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532672330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Back on Earth after his life-changing encounter with the people of the planet Arboretum, Timothy Martin learns of a developing crisis in the Galaxy. The Shadow is growing and threatens Earth’s nearest populated planet with oppression and malice. Responding to this threat, the Custodians of Arboretum find themselves in mortal danger. Timothy accepts a plea to come to their aid. But will he be able to make a difference? Can an answer be found to combat the Shadow? Will the black sea of Timothy’s inner world thwart his chance to save his friends?
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532672330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Back on Earth after his life-changing encounter with the people of the planet Arboretum, Timothy Martin learns of a developing crisis in the Galaxy. The Shadow is growing and threatens Earth’s nearest populated planet with oppression and malice. Responding to this threat, the Custodians of Arboretum find themselves in mortal danger. Timothy accepts a plea to come to their aid. But will he be able to make a difference? Can an answer be found to combat the Shadow? Will the black sea of Timothy’s inner world thwart his chance to save his friends?
The Golden Hour
Author: Claire Belberg
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532637896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Graphic artist and computer hacker, James Elkind, finds himself imprisoned in a windowless room with two women. Who are they and what is this facility they’re trapped in? As they search through the past to try to understand their surreal dilemma, seventeen year old James must confront the contradictions of his identity. Can he escape to find a future, or will this room prove to be his tomb?
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532637896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Graphic artist and computer hacker, James Elkind, finds himself imprisoned in a windowless room with two women. Who are they and what is this facility they’re trapped in? As they search through the past to try to understand their surreal dilemma, seventeen year old James must confront the contradictions of his identity. Can he escape to find a future, or will this room prove to be his tomb?
Sub Urban Tales
Author: P. H. Court
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532644965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
n these glimpses of suburban life, Pete Court's gentle yet sharp observations of the human condition manage to be both sardonic and compassionate. In language that sings with inventiveness and a joyfully grim humour, each tale is woven through with touches of the magical, little sparkling surprises that add a thread of mystic wonder throughout the whole. At the end of it all I was left contemplating just how well I was living, loving and being a Light in the Darkness. - D.M.Cornish, author, Monster Blood Tattoo series Court's prose is a world of its own. In these stories he gets into the minds of some desperate and 'unbelievable' characters. While the stories are gruesome, they make a case for our common humanity. Above all, they have verve and incredible energy. - Phillip Edmonds, author of Tilting at Windmills and Leaving Home with Henry Court's precise evocative writing gives us troubling stories, inviting the reader into challenging worlds of grotesquerie and distortion. In scenes reminiscent of Kafka, all three novellas are a search for elusive threads of meaning, with the Dark as a linking motif. . . . Intriguing and compelling reading. - Valerie Volk, author of Even Grimmer Tales and Bystanders P.H. Court's Sub Urban Tales navigate that mysterious territory where time, place and eternity meet. At once intriguing, sometimes gruesome, often hilarious and always relatable, these cunningly interwoven tales remind us of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the grace reflected in all surfaces though dimmed by the Dark of human conceit. - James Cooper, Head of Creative Writing, Tabor College P. H. Court is co-host of the popular Breakfast with Kit and Pete on Adelaide's 1079 Life and is creative writer for the radio station. He is an adjunct lecturer at Tabor College and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at University of Adelaide. He has published numerous award winning short stories and satires.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532644965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
n these glimpses of suburban life, Pete Court's gentle yet sharp observations of the human condition manage to be both sardonic and compassionate. In language that sings with inventiveness and a joyfully grim humour, each tale is woven through with touches of the magical, little sparkling surprises that add a thread of mystic wonder throughout the whole. At the end of it all I was left contemplating just how well I was living, loving and being a Light in the Darkness. - D.M.Cornish, author, Monster Blood Tattoo series Court's prose is a world of its own. In these stories he gets into the minds of some desperate and 'unbelievable' characters. While the stories are gruesome, they make a case for our common humanity. Above all, they have verve and incredible energy. - Phillip Edmonds, author of Tilting at Windmills and Leaving Home with Henry Court's precise evocative writing gives us troubling stories, inviting the reader into challenging worlds of grotesquerie and distortion. In scenes reminiscent of Kafka, all three novellas are a search for elusive threads of meaning, with the Dark as a linking motif. . . . Intriguing and compelling reading. - Valerie Volk, author of Even Grimmer Tales and Bystanders P.H. Court's Sub Urban Tales navigate that mysterious territory where time, place and eternity meet. At once intriguing, sometimes gruesome, often hilarious and always relatable, these cunningly interwoven tales remind us of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the grace reflected in all surfaces though dimmed by the Dark of human conceit. - James Cooper, Head of Creative Writing, Tabor College P. H. Court is co-host of the popular Breakfast with Kit and Pete on Adelaide's 1079 Life and is creative writer for the radio station. He is an adjunct lecturer at Tabor College and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at University of Adelaide. He has published numerous award winning short stories and satires.
Hidden
Author: Sif Dal
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532637918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
On the morning of the town fair Lily did not believe in elves. Lily’s main concerns were fitting in with the other kids in her high school and her Dad’s refusal to re-engage with life after her mother’s death. All that changes when she and her friend Jackson fall into a mysterious, gaping hole on the outskirts of town. They find themselves in a cavernous underground world inhabited by a people who call themselves ‘the Hidden.’ While Lily and Jackson make friends with some Hidden their own age, it soon becomes clear that the leaders have no plans to allow them to return to the surface, where they might reveal the existence of the secret world of the Hidden. Lily suspects there is more to the Hidden’s desire to keep her and her friend among them and that their ‘fall’ into the hole may have been no accident.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532637918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
On the morning of the town fair Lily did not believe in elves. Lily’s main concerns were fitting in with the other kids in her high school and her Dad’s refusal to re-engage with life after her mother’s death. All that changes when she and her friend Jackson fall into a mysterious, gaping hole on the outskirts of town. They find themselves in a cavernous underground world inhabited by a people who call themselves ‘the Hidden.’ While Lily and Jackson make friends with some Hidden their own age, it soon becomes clear that the leaders have no plans to allow them to return to the surface, where they might reveal the existence of the secret world of the Hidden. Lily suspects there is more to the Hidden’s desire to keep her and her friend among them and that their ‘fall’ into the hole may have been no accident.
Arboretum
Author: Ian Miller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532652763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Timothy Martin is a respected lecturer in Astronomy who has spent most of his life trying to put behind him the trauma of a childhood dominated by ‘visions’. But the visions have returned, more real than ever. Not only does see other places, but he is now able to step into them. When he becomes fixated on the star Delta Crucis in the Southern Cross constellation, he sees a vision of a world orbiting it and impulsively takes a step – two hundred and forty-five light years into space. HE did not expect to survive. Nor did he expect to land in the midst of an alien city. And he certainly did not expect to threaten the well-being of another world, one that he finds disturbingly – at peace. At stake is not only his own destiny, but that of an entire world.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532652763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Timothy Martin is a respected lecturer in Astronomy who has spent most of his life trying to put behind him the trauma of a childhood dominated by ‘visions’. But the visions have returned, more real than ever. Not only does see other places, but he is now able to step into them. When he becomes fixated on the star Delta Crucis in the Southern Cross constellation, he sees a vision of a world orbiting it and impulsively takes a step – two hundred and forty-five light years into space. HE did not expect to survive. Nor did he expect to land in the midst of an alien city. And he certainly did not expect to threaten the well-being of another world, one that he finds disturbingly – at peace. At stake is not only his own destiny, but that of an entire world.
Beast-Speaker 2
Author: W. A. Noble
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532645031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Escaping from Midrash was not easy, even riding on the back of a dragon. Seeger promised his friend Boyd he would return with help to set him and the other child soldiers free from the brutality of the Midrashi. What he does not know is that it will nearly be a year before he finally returns, across the desert, with an army and five dragons. But what will he find after all this time? Can the Midrashi be defeated? And what has become of Boyd and the other children?
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532645031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Escaping from Midrash was not easy, even riding on the back of a dragon. Seeger promised his friend Boyd he would return with help to set him and the other child soldiers free from the brutality of the Midrashi. What he does not know is that it will nearly be a year before he finally returns, across the desert, with an army and five dragons. But what will he find after all this time? Can the Midrashi be defeated? And what has become of Boyd and the other children?