![]() I provide editorial services for authors and agents. ![]() ![]() I am a member of 12x12, a judge with Rate Your Story, and one of the founders of #ReVISIONweek. I love working with authors to help them polish their manuscripts until they shine! I treasure my critique groups and know that providing and receiving critiques has made me a stronger author. I offer editorial/critique services as well as ghost-writing services. I am represented by Deborah Warren with East/West Literary Agency. My books include themes of courage, flexible thinking, friendship, social emotional learning, foster care, seeing your strengths, sensory issues, and emotion regulation. I am the author of the Rosie the dragon and Charlie picture book series (Illustrated by Nate Wragg/Two Lions), HOME FOR A WHILE (Illustrated by Natalia Moore/Magination Press), and REMEMBERING SUNDAYS WITH GRANDPA (Illustrated by Nanette Regan/Beaming Books). ![]() I am a Jersey girl at heart who currently lives in Colorado with my husband, daughters, and rescue dogs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now Rho must embark on a high-stakes journey through an all-new set of Houses, where she discovers that there's much more to her Galaxy-and to herself-than she could have ever imagined.Īnd just when Rho has started to come to terms with the pain of losing Mathias, the stars deliver their most shocking surprise yet., Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance <Īnd just when Rho has started to come to terms with the pain of losing Mathias, the stars deliver their most shocking surprise yet. As a teen, Romina landed her first writing gigCollege She Wrote, a weekly Sunday column for the Miami Herald that was later picked up for national syndicationand she hasn’t stopped writing since. Then, unwelcome nightmare that he is, Ochus appears to Rho, bearing a cryptic message that leaves her with no choice but to fight. Romina Russell (aka Romina Garber) is a Los Angeles based author who originally hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. ![]() Paperback,, Orphaned, disgraced, and stripped of her title, Rho is ready to live life quietly, as an aid worker in the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn.īut news has spread that the Marad-a group of unbalanced Risers determined to overturn harmony in the Galaxy-could strike any House at any moment. Romina Russell: Wandering Star - Paperback ![]() ![]() ![]() She has illustrated numerous other books, including Karen Lynn Williams's Galimoto and the Gus and Grandpa series of books by Claudia Mills. The many challenges he faces introduce children to the environmental problems caused by deforestation and community efforts to replant. 16 A young boy plants a tree in honor of his sister. Khadra lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Ĭatherine Stock is the author and illustrator of Where Are You Going, Manyoni? (Morrow) and Gugu's House (Clarion). Circles of Hope By Karen Lynn Williams (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2005) 32 pp. by Karen Lynn Williams, Catherine Stock (Illustrator). Visit Karen Lynn Williams's personal website: Khadra Mohammed is the executive director of the Pittsburgh Refugee Center and has worked with refugees in the United States and abroad for more than twenty years. SELAVI, THAT IS LIFE: A STORY OF HOPE IN HAITI by Youme Landowne. ![]() Karen has lived in Haiti and Malawi, but now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ![]() Karen Lynn Williams has written several books about the difficult lives of children around the world, including Galimoto (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard), Tap-Tap (Clarion), and Circles of Hope (Eerdmans). As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem. ![]() ![]() ![]() The humor in this book reminded me of that same guy who said he liked reading Bob Ong. Often found myself giggling in amusement from what I was reading. I like that it was also told in a very humorous way. Our school life also plays a big role in how we become as we grow up and how we deal with things out there in the real world as adults. I learned a lot and I don’t just mean from my subjects. There are good memories from my school days. I studied in a private school but the stories he shared of his school life had a lot of similarities from my own.Īs someone who studied in one school from kindergarten until high school, I knew almost everyone by the time I reached secondary school. I thought this book was very much relatable. This local author’s book has been around for years and still very relevant. A retelling of his childhood life – elementary, high school, university life and finally his adult working life. This book seems to be an autobiography of local author, Bob Ong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They also worship their clan animal or tree. Clan members have tattoos to distinguish themselves from other clans. One nice thing about the book is that each person belongs to a clan (eg. Renn (one of the Ravens), helps him to evade the other clan members by concealing them in the Raven cemetary. But Torak does not wait to find out if they are going to sacrifice him or not, and escapes. Fin-Kedinn (the raven Clan leader) calls a clan meeting to decide what to do with their captive. The clan's mage (a wizard of sorts) says Torak is the 'listener' who will save the forest from the demon bear. He finds a wolf cub near a river and adopts him but soon after, Torak and Wolf are captured by the Raven Clan. Torak is alone, wounded and terrified after the death of his father by a demon bear. ![]() ![]() ![]() After being struck down by paralysis, apparently following a miscarriage, she remade herself yet again, this time as a popular writer who was also admired by the leading intellectuals of the day. Never one to pass up an opportunity, she later used his ardent and numerous love letters as blackmail. ![]() On her release, Mary rose to become one of the London theater's most alluring actresses, famously playing Perdita in The Winter's Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. ![]() His dissipation landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry, gaining her the patronage of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. After being abandoned by her merchant father, who left England to establish a fishery among the Canadian Eskimos, Mary was married, at age fifteen, to Thomas Robinson. This Thoroughly Engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson-darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "a woman of undoubted genius." One of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson led a life that was marked by reversals of fortune. ![]() ![]() Everyone everywhere hates the Patriots, and Evil Little Bill. ![]() One commonality unites all the Seven Kingdoms, and the lands beyond. Nobody anywhere knows what a 'Texan' is, but a few Dornishmen might support them anyway, just to be perverse. In Volantis, the tigers are Bengals backers the elephants are rooting for whoever plays the Bengals. At the Citadel of Oldtown, the archmaesters and the Conclave are all about the Ravens, but across the narrow sea the khals and Dothraki horselords are screaming and whistling for the Broncos. The butchers and tanners of King's Landing and Oldtown are behind the Packers, the smiths and armorers are with the Steelers. The High Septon and all the septa and septons and devout of the realm are for the Saints. The Lannisters are cheering on Detroit, even if the lion is the wrong color, but some of the smallfolk of Lannisport on its western bay are fond of those 49ers. ![]() But in the Vale of Arryn and the Mountains of the Moon, they're Falcons fans. The wildlings and the men of the Night's Watch and even some northmen are all pulling for the Giants, of course. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “If we’re to survive this, you need to stay put.” “I should be up there, shoving steel between ribs,” I say, “not hiding like some helpless whelp.” “Two more down, Captain,” Mandsy, my temporary first mate, says from where she peeks through the trapdoor. The ship rocks from the blasts of cannons. Whether they tire and drown or get claimed by the sea life. They deserve whatever fate comes to them. Two more jumped overboard as soon as they saw the black flag of the Night Farer on the horizon.ĭeserters. Such precautions are necessary when one’s being invaded by pirates. And the smell! You’d think men did nothing but roll around in dead fish guts while smearing their own excrement on their sleeves. The clothing is awkward as it hangs loose in all the wrong places. My sword is strapped tightly to the left side of my waist, a pistol undrawn on my right. My hair is bound on the top of my head, secured in a bun underneath a small sailor’s hat. The cotton shirt is too loose, the breeches too big, the boots too uncomfortable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A scientific expedition sets out to explore a mysterious plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The author told his editor, ‘My ambition is to do for the boy’s book what Sherlock Holmes did for the detective tale.’ Anyone who had read this gripping novel would have to agree that Doyle achieved his ambition.Īs with all such stories, the plot is both highly original and yet simple. Rider Haggard’s dedication to King Solomon’s Mines – ‘to all the big and little boys who read it’.ĭoyle’s sentiments are most apt for this most exciting boy’s own tale which is a fine mixture of science fiction and rousing adventure. ![]() In dedication to his novel, The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: ‘The ordinary laws of adventure are suspended… Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.’ The Lost World David Stuart Davies explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world of prehistoric beasts. ![]() ![]() The Eldest Curses (2019-): A trilogy focusing on Alec Lightwood and Magnus Bane.Set in 2012, it follows young Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs as she investigates and avenges her parents' deaths. The Dark Artifices (2016-2018): A sequel series to The Mortal Instruments.In 1878, Tessa Gray arrives in London to visit her brother, but is instead introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters where she discovers her mysterious heritage. The Infernal Devices (2010-2013): A prequel series, set in Victorian London.Beginning in 2007, it follows the adventures of teenager Clary Fray, who discovers her powerful Shadowhunter heritage just as a war brews between Earth's Shadowhunters and invading demons led by the mysterious Valentine. The Mortal Instruments (2007-2014): The first series of novels.The universe consists of the following books: ![]() They keep normal people (known as mundanes) safe from demons and Downworlders, which are various mythological and fantastic creatures like werewolves, faeries, and vampires. The titular Shadowhunters are an ancient order of Demon Slaying humans with angel blood. ![]() It is part of the larger The Shadowhunter Chronicles media franchise, which includes a film and TV adaptation, among other things. ![]() The Shadowhunter Chronicles is a shared universe consisting of various books written by Cassandra Clare, spun off from her Young Adult novel series The Mortal Instruments. ![]() |