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When fourteen year old Acacia Wheatley moves from sunny California to rural Pennsylvania, she thinks the biggest of her problems will be making friends and getting acclimated to her new school. However, less than 24 hours into her high school career, she learns that she is a mage and must quickly learn to master her powers before they can cause more harm than good. For Acacia isn't just any regular mage, she's the Heir of Swansgrove, the descendant...
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Where is the Schuyler Mine? Mix Tape, a sophomore at Schuyler High School tried to find it. His friends didn't help Now that school has started, he tries for new ways to explore the town. Dina was in a car accident on her birthday that sent her to the hospital with a broken back. It wasn't the way she wanted to start the sixth grade. Orville is Mix Tape's best friend. Unlike Mix Tape, he hates his nickname, Popcorn. He is tired of people that make...
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This didactic collection presented by the character Professor Elibius, will show for the children colorful and fun themes such as: numbers, letters, hours, the solar system the table and more 15 subjects. An educational collection, very useful to present to the small themes important to your learning, in a playful way. In this volume: The five senses - Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste and Smell. More: tips and curiosities.
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Disillusioned by her first month as an adult, Gina Yang decides to take an impulsive getaway trip in hopes of finding the answers that she needs. While on her journey to self-discovery, she meets Rafael Lee, an athlete who is down on luck and looking to make his own quick getaway. Of course, not all first meetings go smoothly. As the coincidental run-ins don't stop there, the two come to realize that they may be more alike than they think.
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Aidan Argent is a privileged child born to wealthy nobility in 1940s Wales. While playing with the Manor's resident ghost, he falls from the rooftop to land on the spears of his mother's wrought iron fence, dying in his father's arms. Only for Aidan, death isn't permanent. He wakes up in the 1400s in England to meet the young princes of the Tower, in the 18002 with the Bolshevik Revolution and Anastasia. Finally forty years later to re-unite with...
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Hoy presento un proyecto que nos invita a un país a la vez incomparablemente bello, complejo y difícil. El Esequibo, un viaje por la historia y la realidad, es un ensayo que explora la región del Esequibo, un rincón de América del Sur que ha sido objeto de disputas territoriales durante más de 100 años. La investigación intenta arrojar luz sobre la historia, la geografía, la cultura y, lo más importante, la compleja relación entre dos países:...
8) Broken Fate
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In the kingdom of Chantendell, everyone has a fairytale fate. Xenia Safire is destined to be a villain. Her fate leaves her exiled from the life she knew with no hope of happily ever after. But when she's sent off to train for her story, a forbidden book falls into her possession. In it, she discovers an illicit way to evade her fate-by trading it with another. Felix Liftson is the youngest son from a line of heroes. And the only person Xenia knows...
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Daniel Chai only ever wanted to be an Adventurer. Born with a Gift of Healing that steals his memories and past experiences as its fuel source, Daniel must weigh his heart's desire with his gift as he attempts to clear his first ever dungeon. Along the way, he'll meet true friends like the Catkin Asin and the Northerner Omrak as he learns what it truly takes to be a professional Adventurer in Brad.
The Adventures on Brad is a light fantasy novel...
10) The Battle
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Having done his best to fulfill the commission given him by a supernatural messenger, yet apparently having failed to do so, Jeco and his friends, Dalian and Lord Farizel, find themselves running for their lives from the wrath of King Alvard III.The Battle is Book 3 of The Adventures of Jecosan Tarres trilogy. It is approximately 103,000 words (370 pages in the printed edition).
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My mother and father were murdered by thieves. they stole my father's prize horses and I vowed to find them and bring them home. I also vowed to bring the killers to justice. in a land newly settled by the people from the Oldlands across the Great Sea, we Newlanders struggled to create a new world and a living. What I didn't know was that the vicious creatures that had owned this land before were just like us or that we had pushed them back over the...
12) Rim Rock
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I was 16 years old and alone on the rim rock, coming home for the yearly family reunion on the Box S called Boxes in the soon to be new state of Colorado. Coming down from the Mogollon Rim, I took the trail to one of the old line cabins. It should have been empty but someone had been there before me. I didn't think anything about it, my dad was always hiring new hands. They came and went as the seasons changed. I put up my horse and went fishing in...
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Arabia Kurbagh es una joven estudiante de enfermería que ha tenido que madurar antes de tiempo. Su vida da un giro cuando una noche lluviosa de octubre, de vuelta a casa, se tropieza con una persona que resulta ser uno de los hermanos de su mejor amiga. Está temblando por la fiebre y el frío, así que le pide que le acompañe a casa para que pueda resguardarse.
Jake Becker no está viviendo su mejor momento. Las peleas constantes con su padre,...
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After a tragic set of circumstances alters her life forever, Willow Flynn, named after the shady, weeping tree, finds herself transplanted, moving far away from the small Massachusetts town she grew up in. Willow loses her beloved father in an accident and she and her family have no choice but to accept her uncle's charity by relocating to his summerhouse, off the coast of Maine, on an island, in the middle of nowhere.Fifteen-year-old Willow leaves...
15) Meeting of Minds
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Could virtual reality be used to explore the galaxy? Dave and his friend Jon think so. When they decode an alien message they discover a three-dimensional environment populated by virtual aliens with an invitation to join the Galactanet. But Dave and Jon can only take up this offer by becoming virtual themselves.Things get more complicated as a hacker in the employ of a certain Dr. Werner infiltrates Dave's virtual reality system, causing mayhem....
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Join Splot, the Floating Pink Blob as he travels on adventures to fight evil! In this collection, he'll inspect a new café run by correction fluid, search for a hooligan hermit crab who pinched his cake, try out a new restaurant run by an absolutely quackers duck, prove his innocence to a serious business monkey who thinks he's a thief and take part in a treasure hunt challenge run by an astute albino crab. Does the young pink blob have what it takes...
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The Adventures of Jecosan Tarres trilogy tells a story of a young blacksmith's apprentice visited by a supernatural messenger and called to prevent a war between two powerful kingdoms.This Omnibus Edition contains all 3 books of the trilogy.THE JOURNEY - His warrior father killed and his mother dead by the time he was eight, Jecosan Tarres is young and poor. Yet he has things many men do not: a faithful heart, a strong spirit, and the knowledge of...
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Book Two of the Rivers of Time series. Aidan is in boarding school and to fund his term, he takes to the rooftops of London to rob high-rises but makes the mistake of breaking into the offices of one of the Queen's Council Barristers and is caught on CCTV. Detective Inspectors from the Yard track him down and to escape them, he flees out the window of his room only to lose his footing and fall to his death. He wakes in the year 1483 in time to rescue...
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In a European city where men rule the vampire underworld, a large, new female clan enters St. Viktersburg, a gothic metropolis. They are led by Lynette Borlandavic, a young, bold and arrogant queen who immediately challenges all rival factions for supremacy. However, a bitter and unexpected conflict with an old adversary erupts when a new generation of secret vampire hunters headed by Thomas Dikane, target them for extinction. The worlds of the living...