Books with author Austin Austen

MEDEA TURNS INTO A CAT AT NIGHT, due to her mother’s curse. In Undying Witch her mother, DIMA, found a shapeshifting stone. She is 130-years-old but appears to be 18, the same age as her two daughters. NIKKI works as a maid, rather than in the family witchcraft business of fortune-telling, seances, and other witchery-for-hire. She was born a Marilyn-Monroe lookalike. Despite her beauty, jealousy eats away at Nikki because her mother and sister have magic. Nor is Nikki allowed near the books of spells, enchantments, and potions Dima stole from Russian monks. Medea is tortured by a secret that can destroy the sisterly tie between her and Nikki. Unknown to her family, Nikki, is developing a magical gift which she cannot control, a sorcery that will threaten Medea and pit two powerful sisters against each other.SAMPLE CHAPTER at authorbelinda.com/sample.html(PLEASE NOTE: The books in the series, A Dysfunctional Family of Witches, can be read in any order. Each book comes to a conclusion, but the story of the Romanov witches continues through time. Book 2, Witch Daughter, and a Prequel, Undying Witch, are both now available.)REVIEWS of Undying Witch•GREAT book!!! “Dima and Medea are fascinating characters and mother-daughter dynamics are always interesting to read about. Medea's powers are not to be played with and I enjoyed how the book played out. It is well written and a total delight to read!” Janet Cousineau - London, ON, Amazon•Awesome! “Let me tell you this book did not disappoint.” Emmyjo, Amazon•a fast-paced enthralling read... “It is filled with so much action and magic that the book kept me hooked from the first page. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down until I had read the last page.” Nancy Allen (The Avid Reader), Amazon•Fantastic story!! “I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It is very well written, it flowed perfectly and I ended up caring about the characters. It is hard to find a book of this quality!” TashaS, Amazon •Its quirky and funny. "This is a fantastic tale. Its a quick and fun read." Paigelauren Forrester, Goodreads

Jupiter is a 12-year-old nerd and hacker with mostly online friends. She hacks using the handle, White-Rabbit. Then one evening, comes a lightning storm to end all storms, a storm that zaps the computer, freeing computer-gnomes. The gnomes escape the computer and surround Jupiter where she sits at the study desk. Using magic, the gnomes turn her into a tiny, digital girl and shove her through the lens of the camera and into the monitor. Now, Jupiter is lost inside the computer, in a digital world filled with dangers, a world that has a gateway to the internet where a digital girl could get duplicated and spread across the world-wide-web onto tablets, cellphones, videos, and well, cyberspace. Oh, heavens, the technology to turn a human being into a digital being is valuable and everyone seems to want a piece of Jupiter, including hackers who use avatars from the Wizard of Oz! How will she ever escape back to her world and become a real girl again?Time is running out as Jupiter struggles to break free of her prison.Digital Girl is a bit like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, only Wonderland is the computer. Digital Girl is a bit like Through the Looking-Glass, only the Looking-Glass is the monitor. A shrunken Jupiter falls down the camera hole rather than down the rabbit hole.

The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single issue―slavery―but on a web of assumptions, agendas, and commitments held collectively and individually by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and his colleagues.Allen carefully tracks arguments made by Taney Court justices in more than 1,600 reported cases in the two decades prior to Dred Scott and in its immediate aftermath. By showing us the political, professional, ideological, and institutional contexts in which the Taney Court worked, Allen reveals that Dred Scott was not simply a victory for the Court's prosouthern faction. It was instead an outgrowth of Jacksonian jurisprudence, an intellectual system that charged the Court with protecting slavery, preserving both federal power and state sovereignty, promoting economic development, and securing the legal foundations of an emerging corporate order―all at the same time. Here is a wealth of new insight into the internal dynamics of the Taney Court and the origins of its most infamous decision.

Due to her mother's curse, MEDEA TURNS INTO A CAT AT NIGHT. DIMA has a shapeshifting stone. She is 130-years-old but appears to be 18, the same age as her two daughters. NIKKI works as a maid, rather than in the family witchcraft business of fortune-telling, seances, and other witchery-for-hire. She was born a Marilyn-Monroe lookalike. Despite her beauty, jealousy eats away at Nikki because her mother and sister have magic. Nor is Nikki allowed near the books of spells, enchantments, and potions Dima stole from Russian monks. Medea is tortured by a secret that can destroy the sisterly tie between her and Nikki. Unknown to her family, Nikki, is developing a magical gift which she cannot control, a sorcery that will threaten Medea and pit two powerful sisters against each other.PLEASE NOTE: The books in the series, A Dysfunctional Family of Witches, can be read in any order. Each book comes to a conclusion, but the story of the Romanov witches continues through time. Book 2, Witch Daughter, and Book 1 The Witch with Nine Lives, are both now available.)REVIEWS of Undying Witch: Prequel (A Dysfunctional Family of Witches)-GREAT book!!! “Dima and Medea are fascinating characters and mother-daughter dynamics are always interesting to read about. Medea's powers are not to be played with and I enjoyed how the book played out. It is well written and a total delight to read!” Janet Cousineau - London, ON-AmazonAwesome! “Let me tell you this book did not disappoint.” Emmyjo-Amazon A fast-paced enthralling read... “It is filled with so much action and magic that the book kept me hooked from the first page. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down until I had read the last page.” Nancy Allen (The Avid Reader)--Amazon Fantastic story!! “I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It is very well written, it flowed perfectly and I ended up caring about the characters. It is hard to find a book of this quality!” TashaS- Amazon Its quirky and funny. "This is a fantastic tale. Its a quick and fun read." Paigelauren Forrester, Goodreads

Kat Brown thinks she is an ordinary teenager, just like any other, until she reaches her sixteenth birthday. On that day strange things begin to happen to her. At first she thinks she has something wrong with her eyes or that maybe she is going mad because she starts to see unusual things, nothing she can put a fix on, just like, when you see something out of the corner of your eye but when you turn your head there is nothing there!She is about to have to learn to accept unimaginable truths, that will change her life forever, there will be no going back, she must complete the quest. She must seek the magical maps that are projected from the most beautiful, transparent, wings; she must find them all before it is too late!Kat has help in doing this from both old friends and new, a secret magical, order called the Elcaro, it is a journey of discoveries in every way imaginable. As friendships are forged and love stories begin between the friends, their quest becomes as much a journey of self discover as it does the biggest adventure of all their lives!

#1 game for improving attention, memory and concentration skills!Get your copy of the most challenging eBook game and play "Spot the Difference" on your kindle device NOW! ** FREE COLORING BOOK INSIDE **Playing this game will help your kids to develop and enhance skills that crucial for their future success in the real world:Attention - by practicing to spot the most little and subtle differences in the pictureDetermination and Persistence - by finding all the differences in the imageVisual memory - Contrary to printed books it is impossible to make notes on kindle device, therefore the kids would be driven to memorize the differences they have already foundAnd most important... This game is really FUN to play! Ready for the challenge?16 colorful pictures with answers are waiting to you inside the book.10 differences on every picture3 levels of difficultyThe book is correctly formatted to match Kindle devices of all types.

"When I grow up…" - Educational children's picture book for ages 2-5FREE BONUS: Creative game insideChildren's education book with colorful and charming illustrations, designed specially for children. The book will enrich children's knowledge about the word around in a humorous and entertaining manner. Your little ones will discover 15 types of workers and learn about their professions.With this book you will receive a free gift. An educational and funny game packed into a creative kit. With this creative kit your little ones will follow up with the book by playing a funny and joyful game.Enjoy,James & Jane

Jupiter is a 12-year-old nerd and hacker with mostly online friends. She hacks using the handle, White-Rabbit. Then one evening, comes a lightning storm to end all storms, a storm that zaps the computer, freeing computer-gnomes. The gnomes escape the computer and surround Jupiter where she sits at the study desk. Using magic, the gnomes turn her into a tiny, digital girl and shove her through the lens of the camera and into the monitor. Now, Jupiter is lost inside the computer, in a digital world filled with dangers, a world that has a gateway to the internet where a digital girl could get duplicated and spread across the world-wide-web onto tablets, cellphones, videos, and well, cyberspace. Oh, heavens, the technology to turn a human being into a digital being is valuable and everyone seems to want a piece of Jupiter! How will she ever escape back to her world and become a real girl again?Time is running out as Jupiter struggles to break free of her prison. Digital Girl is a bit like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, only Wonderland is the computer. Digital Girl is a bit like Through the Looking-Glass, only the Looking-Glass is the monitor. A shrunken Jupiter falls down the camera hole rather than down the rabbit hole.