Books with author Alexander Calder

The saga of the Dark Corps continues! Timmy Barnes and his five armored friends of Bear Company have certainly been in some strange and dangerous situations, but none quite as strange and dangerous as this one. Together with General Leo and the rest of Corps Command, Timmy and the bears find themselves sitting on top of a huge force of the Dark for an entire day while the shadowy creatures hide in the basement and wait for night to come. If that wasn’t bad enough, among them is Total Dark, the leader and most powerful of all the Dark. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the Dark are holding Timmy’s best friend Anna hostage in the basement. General Leo, however, has a plan to call in the four big, brutish members of Armor Division. Together with Bear Company and Corps Command, they’ll form a strategy to win this battle and take out the Dark’s leader. But Total Dark has plans of his own, and the cunning shadow has several tricks up his sleeve to get Timmy once and for all.

Book #4 in the Dark Corps Series. Ages 6 and up.Into the woods to fight the Dark!Young Timmy Barnes and his friends find themselves lost in a vast forest. Luckily, they’re with Bear Company, five stuffed bears turned armored guardians, whose job is to protect Timmy on his long journey to reunite with his missing father. But as night approaches, a thick dark fog covers the entire forest, separating the bears and children and keeping them from finding each other. Enter Forest Guard: a unit of armored woodland creatures who have come to help. If Forest Guard can get Timmy to the river, they’re sure he can escape to safety. But the Dark responsible for the fog is a clever and dangerous enemy...and if that wasn’t bad enough, Timmy’s former nanny is hot on his trail, determined to finally catch him. The Forest Guard will do all they can to escort Timmy and his team to the river… But will they all make it that far?Never be afraid of the Dark!

Book Six of the Dark Corps Adventures! Reunited with the armored toy warriors of Bear Company, Ten-year-old Timmy Barnes and his friend Anna travel to an important rendezvous point—one they hope will be their last. Timmy finally meets the mysterious General Leo and the members of Corps Command, the unit that leads the entire Dark Corps. But where is Timmy's father, Dr. Peter Barnes, creator of all the armored animal teams that protect Timmy? And who is the mysterious young man who arrives at the secret base claiming he was sent to find Timmy and warn Corps Command about the Dark--the shadowy forces that plan to rule the Earth? According to the General, Timmy is safe…but how can ANYONE be safe now that the towering shadow known as Total Dark is on the move, leading the armies of the Dark straight towards Timmy and his friends.

Winters in Bern are long and cold and deep. On winter nights, when the snow is falling, Pippa goes to sleep knowing she’ll wake up to tracks in front of her farmhouse. The tracks are small, and they come from the woods—those same woods that her mother says are full of witches and elves and trolls, and her father says are full of wolves and bears and demons. But these tracks are the Tompte’s, and he is a friendly creature. Or at least that’s what Pippa hopes. . . The Tompte borrows and mends things, he takes and he sometimes leaves things, and such is life on a farm at the edge of the realm. Her mother calls it tradition. Her father calls it a curse. And when things start going missing and trouble comes their way, Pippa’s not sure what to believe. Soon enough, she'll have no choice but to go into the woods to find out. . . Winter comes and north wind blows,And with it comes the winter snow. Through the pines, he leaves his track,Over hill and here and back.The Tompte he looks after land,With quiet feet and silent hand. He comes from woods, alone and weary,On winter nights, dark and dreary.Through the farm, he peeks about, Checking in, and on and out. Taking gifts and leaving tokens, Mending bits that have been broken. His beard is long, his feet are small, He’s like a child, about as tall, But Tompte is old and wise as well, And deep in forest is his dell.So, on winter nights when you’re asleep, Along comes Tompte in silence deep, On quiet feet, with food to share, With quiet hands, and traded fare. Winters come and Autumns go, And with it comes the Tompte through snow.Always watching, never seenLeaving tracks of where he’s been.

Dawn of LackmagicThea is now at the Ivy League school, Amford, but she senses something isn’t quite right. It has put her in a bad mood – and soon she learns what it is. Something has gone terribly wrong. Thea and other mages sense it – magic is slowly draining away from the world.Faced with Lackmagic, Thea and her friends set out with the only quad-Elemental mage ever to exist, Nikolai Tesla, and Corey the Trickster, to find the source of magic. But,what they find may change humanity’s future forever...

Ever since the beginning, Timmy Barnes has had the protection of his five armored guardians, Bear Company, to help him on his journey. But now, as he and his friend Anna head down a dark river, they have only two of the bears with them. After being separated in a dense fog, Timmy had the difficult decision of leaving without Mother, Blue, and Bruiser. The River Patrol, a collection of aquatic animals, is there to help them along, but a powerful Dark is hot on their trail. At the same time, the other bears have not yet given up on their chances of finding Timmy again as they race towards his location, even though catching up will be very difficult. If all that isn’t bad enough, one of the bears is not who they think he is! With everyone separated and very little hope to go around, things seem very bleak—unless Timmy can find hope again, and help the others do so too.

The Eighth Adventure in the Dark Corps Series. While a dangerous battle with the Dark raged on, Timmy Barnes and Bear Company escaped in the night. With the help of Armor Division, they cross into the desert, searching for a secret cache of supplies so they can repair their damaged armor. There they find Desert Troop, a bizarre assortment of creatures that just might be a little crazy. Desert Troop tells them about strange animal behavior in the area—like spiders riding on birds, and snakes eavesdropping on conversations. But at least the Dark won’t find them way out here in the desert…right? As they say, the best-laid plans often go awry, and there just might be something lurking about in the desert—a dangerous new villain who has set her sights on Timmy and his friends.

“The Fall of Free Will begins at sundown. The Generals of Destiny will rise at the height of the Winter Solstice. Come, King of Light, to the place where you allowed true love to perish, and bear witness to the end of Free Will.”Danny Elikai is a teenage boy who lost his family in a devastating car accident. He finds himself in a swirling depression in the mystical city of Grenoff as horrific events begin to unfold. He learns of an ancient conflict between the two philosophies that seek to rule humanity: the individual liberties of Free Will, and the predetermined peace guaranteed by Destiny. The agents of Destiny have risen, and threaten life as we know it. Danny must choose to find the King of Light and to fight for Free Will, or to leave humanity to the iron grip of the Emperor of Darkness. The Final War is coming, and soon we will need to pick a side. Will you fight for the freedom of choice offered by Free Will, or the harmony promised by Destiny?

"Couples therapy sessions slowly morphed into solitary therapy sessions. My therapist kept coming back to the question of my passions, and where I was headed. I knew it was writing. So I wrote. I wrote my pain of loss. I wrote my confusion about the existential questions that plagued me as someone who grew up in the bible belt, but had a hard time swallowing the bigotry I saw. I wrote my struggle through heartbreak and single life. I wrote my triumphs in self-confidence, and ultimately I wrote a new love story, with a new person. Ultimately, it's not about meeting the right person; instead, it is about finding out that you are quite capable of loving yourself, and anyone else loving you is just a wonderful sprinkle on top."