Books with author A.J. Bennett

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.

My name is Jack Wilde and up until recently, I had the perfect life. This all came crashing down around me in epic proportions when I discovered an antique compass. It turns out, the compass has a mind of its own and decided that moment was a good time to return home, taking me along with it. Now I am in an insane new world called Feira, where magic and monsters are very real. I shouldn’t have been able to get here in the first place and my only hope of getting home is to find the most powerful artifact in this world, the Sana Artifact. The only clue is the riddle written on the back of the dumb compass that brought me here. To make matters worse, the ruler of northern Feria, King Sephtis, has discovered the compasses existence and dispatched his bloody left hand, Lord Wrath, to acquire it by any means necessary. At least I have a few new friends to help keep me out of trouble.Dove is a mysterious Healer, with the ability to heal any ailment or injury. Her vast knowledge of spell work and the Old Language is worth her weight in gold, but I can’t shake the feeling she is hiding something is. Then there is Soren, a vengeful sailor with a magical ship and crew. He is an Omni, a class of magic specializing crafting objects imbued with magical abilities. Soren is searching for something and there is no limit to how far he will go.This is the ultimate treasure hunt and we each have our own need for the Sana Artifact, but one thing is for certain. . . I will do whatever it takes to get home. I just hope to remain the same person in the process.

Tom Baxter and his wife, Sarah, have decided to leave England and retire to the peace and tranquillity of a remote, run-down, hill farm on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries. What should have been a relaxed and stress-free retirement rapidly turns into a nightmare of epic proportions when the volcanic ridge underneath their new home begins to erupt, and threatens to trigger a mega-tsunami with the potential to wipe out every city on the Atlantic coast of North America. With the spotlight of global media attention focused on their island home, the couple are soon caught up in a rapidly changing set of deadly events which ultimately transforms their lives, and the lives of many tens of thousands of people in the Canary Islands and beyond. "'WHEN THE TIDE GOES OUT' is a thrilling and tense read and if you love films like '2012' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' you will certainly love this book." - Sarah Hardy, By the Letter Book Reviews

This notebook provides the empty pages needed for the reader of the Norma Jean Mystery Series to create their own story...observations, clues, plot ideas, storyboard, and drawings. The lined pages have a NJ quote at the top, and the sketch pages have corner artwork from the NJ artist. Every creative mind should carry a notebook. Always be prepared—one never knows when an idea may come or when a mystery may present itself!

Top 100 Books Master Skylark - A Story of Shakspere's Time by John Bennett There was an unwonted buzzing in the east end of Stratford on that next to the last day of April, 1596. It was as if some one had thrust a stick into a hive of bees and they had come whirling out to see. The low stone guard-wall of old Clopton bridge, built a hundred years before by rich Sir Hugh, sometime Mayor of London, was lined with straddling boys, like strawberries upon a spear of grass, and along the low causeway from the west across the lowland to the town, brown-faced, barefoot youngsters sat beside the roadway with their chubby legs a-dangle down the mossy stones, staring away into the south across the grassy levels of the valley of the Stour. Punts were poling slowly up the Avon to the bridge; and at the outlets of the town, where the streets came down to the waterside among the weeds, little knots of men and serving-maids stood looking into the south and listening. Some had waited for an hour, some for two; yet still there was no sound but the piping of the birds in white-thorn hedges, the hollow lowing of kine knee-deep in grassy meadows, and the long rush of the river through the sedge beside the pebbly shore; and naught to see but quiet valleys, primrose lanes, and Warwick orchards white with bloom, stretching away to the misty hills. But still they stood and looked and listened. The wind came stealing up out of the south, soft and warm and sweet and still, moving the ripples upon the river with gray gusts; and, scudding free before the wind, a dog came trotting up the road with wet pink tongue and sidelong gait. At the throat of Clopton bridge he stopped and scanned the way with dubious eye, then clapped his tail between his legs and bolted for the town. The laughing shout that followed him into the Warwick road seemed not to die away, but to linger in the air like the drowsy hum of bees--a hum that came and went at intervals upon the shifting wind, and grew by littles, taking body till it came unbroken as a long, low, distance-muffled murmur from the south, so faint as scarcely to be heard.

“An atmospheric, multilayered, sex-positive romance.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately.Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel. In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where Birdie waits for the early morning ferry after work. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and he’s stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer—never before seen in public—might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel. To uncover the writer’s puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell…discovering that the most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is Daniel.

This is the first book to argue for the study of classical divinity in biological terms. Introducing the H bond theory, this book will make you wonder whether cancer may be a condition of hydrogen bond deficiency, how intracellular communication might be affected not only by environmental radiation but also by subatomic radiation, and when the promising experimental results of so-called alternative medicine will be factored into our national health insurance models.Using grade school science, the H bond theory produces logical arguments for policy reform that are compatible with every religion on the planet. This book will make you believe in love.

Roger heard that “middle school isn’t for wimps,” and that scares him! Since he’s just eleven, mixed-race, short for his age, as well as new to the school, he's worried that the other kids might think he’s just a wimp. Maybe they’d be right — maybe he is a wimp!It doesn’t help one bit that two of the meanest bullies in the school single him out as their number one target. He also has the strictest teacher at school, and at home, he has to put up with his bratty kid sister. He hopes his new friends, Reeves Boggs (nicknamed Booger) and Theresa Montaigne, the new girl at school who has a secret, can help him survive the challenges of being in 6th grade – dealing with bullies, racial and transgender prejudices, and discovering who the “Halloween witch” who lives in his neighborhood really is.