The first novella-length Wizard Academies book relates fascinating tales of magickally-gifted kids at a school that isn't quite right ... Some wizard schools are highly-accredited and well-respected. Others are smaller but serve elite clientele with high academic standards. By way of contrast, Gallimaufriars Academy in Cumbria barely meets Ministry of Wizardry criteria. Corwyn Daniels faces problems a bit more challenging than most wizardlings encounter: * How do you catch a Black Dragon? * What's a Pestheckler? * Where did the school's prized Sand Djinn Dervish go? * Why is Gwynn ap Nudd...
The first novella-length Wizard Academies book relates fascinating tales of magickally-gifted kids at a school that isn't quite right ... Some wizard ...
This collection of dialect stories from the Ozark Mountains includes tales of lost silver mines, whimsical Ozark monsters, Jesse James, Mark Twain, Yankee and Rebel soldiers, and other traditional legends along with a few original stories. The title story from the collection features a MOST remarkable ghost and an even more unusual ending. Alan Lance Andersen has been a professional story since 1970. This anthology includes many of his best tales -- which he tells with a Mark Twain style dialect.
This collection of dialect stories from the Ozark Mountains includes tales of lost silver mines, whimsical Ozark monsters, Jesse James, Mark Twain, Ya...
In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan Doyle's adventures by writing "new" Holmes stories; yet these attempts frequently fail to capture the original flavor, because 2013 writers simply don't think or speak like Victorians. Conan Doyle's contemporaries wrote about characters of their own invention; nevertheless they sound more like Conan Doyle than do any of his...
In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle wa...
