Books with author A. Bennett

Eleanor always dreamed of meeting a magical creature – she just never imagined it would happen when she was sweating her way up Castle Hill with her parents and her brother.When he asked her to step through time with him she didn’t hesitate. Everyone knew when you stepped through time with a magical creature – even one called Ralph – you’d save the world, win the heart of at least one handsome prince, then ride off into the sunset on a white horse.She wasn’t counting on the first eligible prince she met pulling her into his Underwater kingdom, enraged because she’d dared to drink some of his precious water without asking. She wasn’t prepared for him to steal her first kiss either. Of course he denied kissing her, said he was just taking her breath away so she could breathe in his world, but she wasn’t about to believe anything he said. Although Darius was undeniably the most beautiful man she’d ever seen, she’d never met anyone more despicable.Unlike Prince Nicholas, who she decided within moments might be the one. She even liked him more than Jarvis Rolleston, the boy from her own time who’d been pulled into the Desert kingdoms by desperate men and women who needed the DNA of strangers to allow them to access the other kingdoms.She hadn’t expected Ralph and Nicholas’ father, King Bruce to be the reason she was there either. How did you save someone from dementia? In fact, nothing in that world or her own was turning out as it should.Concerned about her absences her parents had grounded her, and her best friend was so jealous of Jarvis she’d stopped being friendly. Life at home seemed unbearable, yet every time she stepped through time she was risking her future.Not even Prince Ralph knew the when, where or why of it, but most out-of-timers found themselves unable to cross sideways through time somewhere in their late teens, early twenties. Eleanor was only sixteen.Too young to get married – though the only reason she’d agreed to marry Darius was because he’d plied her with spiced fish eggs that were so inebriating they made her feel sounds.Too young to give up everything for love.Even a Darius should realise that every girl deserves to make her own choices. But how much choice does a girl have, and if she makes the wrong one will she regret it for the rest of her life?

Marcella Rolleston didn’t realise she had an older sister until the night she met her cousin. According to Madison, Roxie walked up the hill behind their house one day and never returned. The house belonged to Marcy’s brother, Ashleigh now. Marcy had spent her life travelling the world with her father. She’d thought she was travel fatigued until she stepped sideways through time, to a world where Roxanne the Restless was legendary. A world where her mother was known as Eleanor the faithless, her father Jarvis the stud. A world where they still sang her Uncle Milo’s songs.The songs didn’t impress Madison. Although she was the illegitimate daughter of Miles Dorchester she’d never met him. She never wanted to either. But she was glad she’d met Marcy. Well at least until Marcy took to wearing those too-short shorts. No wonder Jack couldn’t keep his eyes off her legs. Darius too, truth be told. Not that she had anything to worry about. Marcy wasn’t that kind of girl.Things were sweet until Darius left Madison with her half-sister, Dahlia. Dahlia and her brothers were the only surviving descendants of the Ocean kingdoms. They had tails - fluorescent tails - and were pathologically obsessed with creating more of themselves. This all seemed kind of cool, until Madison discovered they could only reproduce with another of Harrison’s descendants.There was nothing sweet about being hauled through the ocean by your hair. Fortunately unlike Jack or Darius, the mermen preferred Marcy, something Marcy lost quite a bit of sleep over. What was wrong with her? Why did Jack take ten minutes to give Madison’s breath back yet had barely ten seconds to spare on her? Was she only attractive to freaks?And why couldn’t she fall in love with Grayson? He was the coolest guy she’d ever met. Sure, he talked way too much and his shirts could use a good clean, but she’d never met anyone she’d felt so comfortable with.Then Marcy found out what had happened to Roxie and falling in love no longer seemed quite so important. Harrison’s DNA had the power to create Gods or Monsters. Harrison’s DNA was growing within Dahlia’s womb, Jack’s wife Angelica’s too.Were they the reason the birds had all died? Were they the reason the flying lizards had returned? Or was it something else. Something to do with Illyissia pronouncing Marcy to be the harbinger of change.Besides Marcy wasn’t that kind of girl, was she?

From the moment Roxie had been old enough to step sideways through time she’d been best friends with Angel, Dominic and Darius.Even though they aged two years to her one, and Angel and Dominic’s parents were undiagnosed psychopaths – who but a psychopath would force their people to chant to serve is to obey, to obey is to serve – her friends had always seemed more stable than her family.Her mother, the infamous Eleanor the faithless, had already loved and fought her way through three marriages and countless failed relationships. Roxie and her three brothers never knew if they’d have something other than pizza for dinner each night, let alone who their mother would end up with next. The most stable man in all their lives being the also infamous, Jarvis the stud, the one man her mother refused a serious relationship with.It wasn’t until the year Angel became engaged that Roxie found out why. Neither her mother nor Jarvis had ever told her they’d travelled to the future – her future – when they were sixteen. That Jarvis was the father of Angel’s unborn child. That her mother had made out with Roxie’s boyfriend, Milo. That her mother had bewitched Darius, changing him forever from friend to something quite different.They didn’t tell her Angel would instigate an uprising either, or that the birth of the child she’d conceived with Jarvis would destroy the world – something Darius and his mother, Queen Daria were determined to do anything they could to prevent.Nope, when Roxie’s world began to cave in, Eleanor the faithless and Jarvis the stud headed North to lie in the sun and frolic on the beach leaving Roxie to make the biggest decision of her life.Should she sacrifice everything for love as the crushed gemstones she’d smoked in the Underground kingdoms had advised? Could you love someone who’d betrayed you? And if she gave up her family, her dreams of the future – would it be enough to save her friend? Or would she be doomed right alongside them.

This carefully crafted ebook: "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book, written by Arnold Bennett in 1910, is part of a larger work entitled How to Live. In this volume, he offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day. The book has the following chapters: - The Daily Miracle - The Desire to Exceed One's Programme - Precautions Before Beginning - The Cause of the Trouble - Tennis and the Immortal Soul - Remember Human Nature - Controlling the Mind - The Reflective Mood - Interest in the Arts - Nothing in Life is Humdrum - Serious Reading - Dangers to Avoid Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer. After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist. He later turned to the writing of novels, including his most famous Clayhanger and Anna of the five towns.

And that weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just as much as the other man’s, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may prevent you from employing the whole of your “h.p.” upon it. There remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings a week. You tell me flatly that you are too tired to do anything outside your programme at night. In reply to which I tell you flatly that if your ordinary day’s work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted. A man’s powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day’s work. What, then, is to be done?

Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the initiatives of the national curriculum with performing, composing, listening and appraising being an integral part. The material in the Fortissimo! Student's Book covers a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures. At regular intervals throughout the book, there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimulus material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising.

(Music Sales America). Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune a Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrument technique for a new generation of musicians. A New Tune a Day books have the same logical, gentle pace, and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD with actual performances and backing tracks will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. The DVD shows you the basics from how to set up your instrument to playing your first notes. It takes you through the first few pages of the book ensuring you get off to a good start. Plus, excellent advice and tips from a professional player. Each book contains: advice on audio equipment * instructions for effective technique and comfortable posture * explanatory section on reading music * easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages * an audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examples * great music including duets and rounds * tests to check progress and comprehension * useful pull-out chart giving all fingerings * and a DVD, authored for Zone 0, to help you get started on your instrument.

H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in the English fashion". He was, of course, speaking for his own generation, and a hundred years later the opinion may seem somewhat exaggerated. However, there is no doubt that The Old Wives' Tale is a superb novel of its kind, and it is still as readable and enjoyable as ever. First published in 1908, it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the lives of the sisters from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of the Staffordshire Potteries to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris. It was fascinating to learn from Bennett's journal how he saw an old lady in a cafe and was inspired to think of how her life might have been lived, how she must have once been young. The plot of the novel came to him fairly promptly, and, as they say, the rest is history. This novel was serialized on British television with great success circa 2000.