A prequel to a new book coming out in March 2013 called Dreamweaver. The tree introduces you to the town of Stale and a character called David.Recently single and depressingly lonely, Sylvain Jones finds himself spying on his best friend, whose wife suspects him of cheating. But a seemingly simple task has shocking results, and leads Sylvain to question whether the person he has known for thirty years is hiding a horrific secret behind his façade as a boring, middle class lawyer. As he tries to find the truth, he starts to realise that he is in the middle of a conspiracy so huge it threatens everything he has ever understood and believed in. Can he find the courage and the will to fight it, or will he allow it to destroy his loved ones, his sanity, and ultimately, take to a truth that is far more sinister than he could have imagined?

A short story. Paul is curious when a new family moves in next door. The Grubbs have a boy his own age, and he hopes he can make a new friend. But the Grubbs have a terrible secret.A man professing to have stronger willpower than anyone on earth searches the world over for an addiction he cannot overcome. A billionaire without heirs uses an amnesia drug to see who is worthy to inherit his fortune, by seeing how people behave when they have forgotten who they are. An inventor creates a can of instant 'love spray,' but is shocked at the unexpected results when he starts to use it. In eight bizarre fables the reader is taken on a journey through the valley of stupidity, to see what love really is (and isn’t), why addictions and pride are so deadly, the need for moral values, and how judging ourselves positively may be the best judgment we ever make.Come along on an adventure in stupidity, if you dare …

Captain Avery needs to get out of piracy. There have been too many close calls and time spent in jail (which was for gambling and not piracy). Nevertheless, he has to make it good. A change of career is required, a Bounty Hunter would seem more reputable. This was his chosen career path, until a chance meeting with an old friend, Captain Phillips in the notorious bar Bariki, in Diso City.Captain Avery is looking forward to his retirement from the space lanes of the Milky Way Galaxy, when a chance meeting with on old friends sends his life spinning off in a new direct. A fast paced adventure story set in the distant but technologically advanced past sees the Solar System and the galaxy in a new and interesting perspective, with rival factions vying for control and influence, when in reality The Council of Intelligence is controlling everyone in the background.This is a time when man existed, but not on Earth, when dinosaurs still ruled. Spies for The Council are everywhere, mankind feels threatened by the existence of robots and of course pirate. Of course, The Council want to get rid of these pests to development and trade, but could their abilities be put to better use for the Council ends? Threats from the Empire have always bothered them, and their seems no other option than to employ pirates in the job of keeping their ambitions at bay. And then, there is the small issue of what to do with Project Earth, how can that planet be set up so it benefits the whole Universe?

Jordan Weston never felt alone with a basketball in one hand. Then she got hurt. The roar of the crowd faded away and so did the friends. Her lonely, small town world is blown wide open by the arrival of a breath of fresh air called Taylor Reeves. Gorgeous, wild...confusing.Bouncing from one town to another in the wake of her father's ministry, Taylor has learned to keep her wildest outlets a secret—especially her history with other women. She knows why the naïve Jordan is wary but can't seem to stay away.Is there any point to starting something that can never last?

She thinks it's her world. Unfortunately, we have to live with her.Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of too many, too much, and too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from a fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father.In the screenplays for the fabulous first season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast while her father works towards correcting her surly, racist, and rude behavior with a combination of tough love, humor, and life lessons.Along with the first three episodes from the internationally popular sneak preview eBook, The Fabulous First Season includes:13 complete episodes from the fabulous first season in the proper screenplay format.Extras Including:Screenplay BasicsTV Episode BasicsCharacter descriptionsAuthor notesPresented like a DVD box set with pages, All about Nikki- The Fabulous First Season is a book designed to show Young Adult and independent readers who watch cable sitcoms on Disney and Nickelodeon how to write their own screenplays.

A Winter Book
Selected Stories by Tove Jansson_ Translated from the Swedish by Kingsley Hart, Silvester Mazzarella and David McDuff.

INTRODUCED BY ALI SMITH Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith.

The Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, The Sculptor's Daughter (1968) plus 7 of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time. With afterwords by Philip Pullman, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Esther Freud.

There was a lot going on in the lives of the praise team members at Renaissance church; and worship pastor Mark was starting to find out how messy the lives of church people could be. As their stories intertwine and collide, will their passions and addictions destroy the team and the church, or will their faith bring them (and Mark) through the fire?Mark Flanders was the worship pastor at Renaissance church, and was responsible for the upcoming Christmas special. There was a lot going on in the lives of his team members though; and Mark was starting to find out how messy the lives of church people could be. As their stories intertwine and collide, will their passions and addictions destroy the team and the church, or will their faith bring them (and Mark) through the fire? When all is said and done, will they be singing a dirge of regret or a song of joy?

Poetry from the mind, most of the poems in this collection were written whilst travelling.When two boys visit an elderly woman in the village, they are treated to a goose bump inducing ghost story. However, when they return home, they are unexpectedly encountered with the events of the story they'd just been told.

Tom Angleberger's latest, loopiest middle-grade novel begins when M'Lady Luggertuck loosens her corset (it's never been loosened before!), thereby setting off a chain of events in which all the strict rules of Smugwick Manor are abandoned. When, as a result of "the Loosening," the precious family heirloom, the Luggertuck Lump (quite literally a lump), goes missing, the Luggertucks look for someone to blame. Is it Horton Halfpott, the good-natured but lowly kitchen boy who can't tell a lie? Or one of the many colorful cast members in this silly romp of a mystery.

Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in End of the World House, a thought-provoking comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris that will hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during a ceasefire in a series of escalating world conflicts. One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day...

The scientists are trying to create a perfect digital copy of human mind. What if they succeed...and lose control over it?Deep in the wildwood a shining blue meadow appears, the birthplace of forest spirits with varying forms, all determined to destroy the people who live nearby. Deyant and her sister Mrinda are among the few of their folk with the power to walk the hidden paths that lead to the meadows. They alone have the ability to twist the connection between the wildwood and its spawn, killing the creature before it can emerge.But Deyant and Mrinda have grown apart as Mrinda prepares for her wedding to Johnah. Mrinda has embraced her fiance’s faith, a faith that disapproves of the magical work that has been the focus of Deyant’s life. And Mrinda has another secret that she has not shared with her sister, a secret that could put them both in danger as they walk the paths that lead to the meadow where the forest spawn awaits its birth.Will the sisters come together to defeat their ancient enemy? Or will Deyant’s anger and Mrinda’s secret bring disaster upon them both? Find out when you read this new fantasy short story by Jennifer Powell, a Clary Books presentation. (4100 words)"a truly original and enjoyable piece."

Three works, each as different in tone as it is in style. A work of flash fiction taking place at a wedding, a free-verse poem dedicated to someone special and a short story about couple's therapy. Love, humor and a bit of drama can all be found in this debut collection.The monastery of Sindalar used to be famous for its fighting monks, and for its dragon. But the monks are few and far between and nobody sees again the girls and boys taken to feed the dragon, so they are hidden away when the monks come calling. Bandits are rife and the capital is far away as the the Ancient Kingdom of Sung fades into a backwater.Wu Gui changes matters when she meets a monk. She helps him recruit more children, and eases their fears of being eaten. Until they get to the monastery.A look at the Chinese countryside of yesteryear, portrayed in the fantasy world of Harrhein which is pretty much like earth and with similar peoples and cultures.

The journey through M. R. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" (Kirkus) — a world in which nature has turned against us — continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy.The earth wants to swallow us whole...Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival. And it's not just Koli's life that is threatened. Whole villages just like his are dying out. But Koli heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. If he can find it, there may still be a way for him to change his own fate - by saving the lives of those who are left.The Rampart...