Books with author Clare Williams

Shh! Can you keep a secret?In wild medieval Britain thirteen-year-old Wynn Hoppringle has a big secret of the smallest kind. She has discovered a miniature village hidden close to her family home of Smailholm Tower. When tales of merciless border raiders reach the small folk, they realise they are in danger and must seek a cure to their strange predicament. Can Wynn help her tiny friends or will the scheming King quog have other ideas? Heroes, it seems, come in all sizes.“A spellbinding tale of adventure, magic and friendship”– V.F.Sharp, author of The Forest of Arrows

Can you recognize and name all 50 states of America? Easy to use. Study the map segment and name the state from its capital and nickname. Handy list of states, capitals, and postal abbreviations included. This illustrated interactive quiz enables you to learn, test and improve your knowledge of States and Capitals of the USA .Plus original poem "Remember the 50 States". Details of a free download pdf worksheets included.EffectiveEnjoyableExciting

Parents - Do you want your children to realise there is also a world away from their console? If you have to surgically remove the controller from their grasp, you'll love this book.Kids - Don't worry, you'll also love this book. It's absolutely hilarious.For some kids, playing their game console was a matter of life and death... But for ten-year-olds Luke and Conor, it was more important even than that!In fact, the topic of conversation on every boy’s — and even a fair few girl’s — lips was the latest shoot-em-up survival game called Hundred-to-One.The prospect of competing in the Hundred-to-One world championship tournament, with untold riches in prize money and international bragging rights, was simply irresistible.The only thing standing in Luke and Conor’s path to victory was the Isle of Man regional heat they’d have to win. Oh, and the fact that every kid in every school everywhere had exactly the same dream they did. So, yeah, there was that as well.But Luke and Conor wouldn’t let anything stand in their way! Well, okay, apart from homework, maybe, and the school bully, and a younger boy with a watery eye and a gammy leg... and along, of course, with their mums’ rubbish insistence that they set the game controller down and (*gasp!*) venture outside for fresh air on occasion. The lads were determined, though. And their obsession for gaming glory in a virtual world, as it happened, could also open up the possibility of new friendships and new adventure in the real world. A hilarious, feel-good book that's genuinely one for the whole family.

The Buck Stops HereGrowing nations need great leaders. America has been fortunate in times of trial to find men of character and courage to lead the nation. There have been forty-five presidents. Can you name them? This illustrated interactive quiz enables you to test and improve your knowledge of the Presidents of the USA.The answers are multiple-choice if you get one wrong you are taken back to base and start again. This reinforces learning and teaches you to be careful.

When it comes to reproduction, gymnosperms are deeply weird. Cycads and co- fers have drawn out reproduction: at least 13 genera take over a year from polli- tion to fertilization. Since they don’t apparently have any selection mechanism by which to discriminate among pollen tubes prior to fertilization, it is natural to w- der why such a delay in reproduction is necessary. Claire Williams’ book celebrates such oddities of conifer reproduction. She has written a book that turns the context of many of these reproductive quirks into deeper questions concerning evolution. The origins of some of these questions can be traced back Wilhelm Hofmeister’s 1851 book, which detailed the revolutionary idea of alternation of generations. This alternation between diploid and haploid generations was eventually to become one of the key unifying ideas in plant evolution. Dr. Williams points out that alter- tion of generations in conifers shows strong divergence in the evolution of male and female gametes, as well as in the synchronicity of male and female gamete development. How are these coordinated to achieve fertilization? Books on conifer reproduction are all too rare. The only major work in the last generation was Hardev Singh’s 1978 Embryology of Gymnosperms, a book that summarized the previous century’s work. Being a book primarily about embry- ogy, it stopped short of putting conifer reproduction in a genetic or evolutionary context.

Awakening is the first book in the Jenson Chronicles series. It is futuristic, dystopian, suspenseful, and has a strong female lead. If you enjoy the Divergent, Maze Runner, or Hunger Games series, you will love Awakening!Synopsis: When their new planet is on the brink of self-destruction, Shayne Jenson and her family are brutally murdered in an act of terror. A separatist group known as the Glerick have claimed responsibility, but they haven’t stopped there. As Shayne soon discovers, her life didn’t really start until she died. And as the Glerick will soon discover, there’s more to Shayne than meets the eye. How will Shayne survive her new life as a prisoner? Or perhaps the better question is, how will everyone else? Find out in Awakening.

The author, William Williams, became pastor at Upton Chapel, Lambuth, in 1877. He was a close friend of C. H. Spurgeon. In his introduction to the book, Williams stated, “I do not propose to write another life of Mr. Spurgeon. I propose writing of the great preacher as I knew him, and as I saw him, under a great variety of circumstances and conditions; giving, I trust, no offence in anything, that this ministry be not blamed. I hope in the ensuing chapters each reader may participate to some extent in the joy I experienced when in company with one of the master minds and most gracious characters of this or indeed of any age.” Williams also complied a book of sermons: Upton Chapel Sermons. A Centenary Memorial, which was published in 1885. Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote the Foreword.

Suppose Scotland's national poet Robert Burns' had used a magic typewriter to write his greatest works. What if someone discovered it and put it to work today? What would the poetry be like? No need to wonder – it has happened – this book is the result.A varied collection of readable verse in Scots suitable for a wide age range – if you like Burns' poems you will enjoy these. Subjects range from clootie dumplings through Nature to scary kirkyards. Humour and pathos in carefully metered verse makes for ease of recitation. Wull keep weans an' big yins spellboon fur 'oors. Aye, gie it a go the noo.

Twis the Nicht Afore Christmas is a version of Clement Clarke Moore's well-loved poem Twas The Night Before Christmas. His seasonal poem delighted generations of Americans and won fans around the world. If you are from Scotland or have Scottish ancestry, you will recognize that I have translated it into the Scottish vernacular — the language of Robert Burns and Billy Connolly.To make it more interesting, I composed an original melody to enhance the words. The e-book is interactive — you tap the icon, and the tune plays. You are probably familiar with the standard version, but the use of Scots adds a new dimension. Ideal for Christmas and Hogmanay (New Year).

Isolated in a crumbling world that has long forgotten magic, Elsie's life is inexorably altered when she meets Fletcher, an elf with the penchant for the fantastical.But as she unravels the compounding lies of her reality, a dark and deeply contorted picture is painted.Teddy is unwilling to admit he's more than he appears, and Sam remains tangled in a web of sordid secrets. And atop it all, the Commissioner has promised her power beyond reckoning. When they all become embroiled in illicit magic connected to a string of murders in the Valley, Elsie's life hangs in the balance after she becomes the target of political and personal ploys for power.