Books with author D. R. Thompson

✔Funny ✔Girl next door ✔Light-hearted ✔Inspiring ✔Page Turner “That’s right. I was in love with my bully.” Having a best friend who has a cruel older brother is a recipe for disaster. It was double the trouble for Hope whose best friend had twins for older brothers who both loved creating a stir when they were kids. Fast forward to a few years, Hope found herself in a summer where the twins came home from college. She can no longer simply hide in her house since the twins were determined to ask forgiveness from the girl they have been cruel to.Will Hope ever reconcile with her bullies? Or will she be stuck harboring feelings for one of them? With over 12 Million reads on Wattpad, this young adult contemporary romance will take you in for a roller coaster ride.

"Remember the Titans." Three enigmatic words received in an anonymous email that will change fourteen year old Justin McLeod's life forever.Smaller and slighter than the other teens in grade nine, Justin is the perfect target for bullies. But their taunts and abuse don't bother him, because he has a secret. After an accident at the age of twelve left him unharmed, Justin realized that he had become almost totally immune to physical pain and damage.Now he wants to stand up for himself, prove that he isn't afraid. But his mother won't hear of it. She fears that if his unique gift is discovered, the government would take him away from her and use him for their own purposes. He thinks that she's just being paranoid.And then Justin receives that mysterious email. 'Remember the Titans'? What does it mean? He's intrigued enough to research these Titans online. Once that resource is exhausted, he heads for the local library. And there things take a turn for the worse.Justin is confronted by a menacing group of brown-suited men who follow him home. Terrified, he finds himself trapped in his apartment with his mother and the custodian, Mr. Wilson. And when the strangers begin battering down the front door, Wilson offers Justin his one chance to escape to safety...using his own bathtub.

What is the Earth Window? Who is Ck5? Where are the voices coming from? Driven by memories of her famous Astronaut father, Dorian Fox is on her way to the new Polaris Lunar Mining Base. It is only the beginning of her journey and nothing seems to unfold as planned. The Defense Alliance needs her help and she needs answers. With only fragments of family stories growing up Dorian hoped that going to the stars would help her to discover the parents that she never really knew. In many ways Dorian knew that she was exceptional, but she is also filled with normal doubts about meeting the challenges of the future. During her Polaris training she met Casey Adams, a self-assured and capable pilot astronaut. Adam helps Dorian to build her own confidence and strength. He is her rock and also the close relationship that Dorian never expected. Together they make discoveries that change the direction of their lives forever.Dorian, Volume One is the first in a series of stories that take us to the Labyrinth Nebula. It’s a fantastic place where alien life and civilizations demonstrate that we are not alone and we have a lot to learn. Facing a common threat these diverse worlds must put aside their differences and work together for the common goal of survival. Dorian’s future keeps pulling her further into the unknown; both wonderful and dangerous.

Neverland has always been their sanctuary—until now. Magic is dying in Neverland and only one pixie is brave enough to search the human world for someone to believe. Tink finds a desolate boy flying in the night, peering in windows, searching for the life he once knew. But can she convince him to abandon his quest and save Neverland?Discover the untold story of the boy destined to become Peter Pan.

Chris Wright ran away to live on the streets when his parents were killed only a few days apart. He had no family and didn't want to be left in the care of strangers. Three years later and now almost fourteen, Chris has discovered that he has the power to heal...and the power to harm.A gang of thugs who call themselves 'Talon' want to use Chris and his powers, but he refuses to be used, by anyone. Unfortunately, the gang won't take no for an answer and has tried to force him to join them. He escaped, barely, but now he realizes that he has to either run and hide or leave town to get away from them. And that's when he meets a man named Judge Hawkes who offers him protection...for a price.In return for a safe haven, the judge wants Chris to use his powers to fight the forces of evil. Chris is skeptical to say the least. But according to Judge Hawkes, the end of days is coming and Chris, and those like him, may be humanity's only hope of survival.So now Chris had to make a choice. Run from Talon and spend his life looking over his shoulder, waiting for them to strike, or join the judge and his crazy plan to stop the Apocalypse. Time is short and he has to choose now.

A crime a day keeps the injustice away.31 very short tales of crime and criminals, from Aggravated Assault to White-Collar Crime, for those days when you need to escape from law and order......and through the loopholes to the dark side of justice.From a high-school sewing club that has taken up some illegal classic patterns, to a wealthy clique with a strange Halloween celebration. From a tour guide who knows where to find a timely shovel, to a serial killer with multi-purpose luggage. From good-luck charms that only a shoplifter can love, to a literary money-laundering scheme.31 twisted tales of revenge, racketeering, and resetting other people's passwords.

A rollicking new adventure story from the creator of Rip Haywire!Rip Haywire thinks he's got it made. Instead of going to bed early, doing fractions and eating Brussels sprouts, he gets to accompany his soldier-of fortune dad on laughably dangerous international missions. He's the only 12-year-old in the world with a working knowledge of the Seven Most Common Booby Traps Used by Ancient Civilizations to Protect Their Precious Treasures. It sure beats school, right? But Rip's life is about to change when his dad, in a sudden fit of responsibility, assigns Rip his toughest mission yet: a historically all-girls summer camp. Will Rip learn how to get along with his feminine camp mates, most of whom have never even seen a flame thrower, let alone used one to fend off a pack of rabid hyenas? Can Rip solve the mysteries that surround the camp and one intriguing girl in particular? Readers will follow Rip's misadventures in his whimsically illustrated journal, helping him to solve puzzles and beat the bad guys, as he learns that friendship can be more valuable than ancient treasure, and more powerful than a well-placed land mine.

Thirteen year old Christopher Wright was a kid from the streets. When word got out that he could heal with a touch, a gang known as Talon tried to recruit him. When Chris turned them down, the gang attempted to take him by force. On the run, Chris met Judge Hawkes, the head of a mysterious group known as the Angelic Dominion. The judge informed the skeptical teen that he was one of a group of young people who had been born with the souls of angels. They had been sent to Earth to stop the forces of Hell from bringing about the Apocalypse.To escape Talon, Chris reluctantly accompanied the judge back to his home to learn that he had, in fact, been telling the truth. He met others like himself and discovered that he wasn't simply the bearer of an angel's soul. His was the soul of one of the very first archangels: Sariel, brother of Michael and Lucifer.Doomed to dwell in Purgatory and guard the Gates of Heaven, Sariel is determined to stop his Fallen brother's forces here on Earth before they can destroy humanity and march on Heaven itself.

Practice what you preach!It was easy to tell his son he should have compassion for the less fortunate, but when a homeless man shows up on Collin’s doorstep, that’s an entirely different story. After much deliberation, the Russells invite the beggar to move in with them on a temporary basis. It’s only after the man takes over their son’s bedroom that they learn he was previously accused, but not convicted of performing a heinous act on another young boy.Evicting the man would be the simplest route to follow, but the Russell family doesn’t want rumors to cloud their judgment. For all they know, the guy could be perfectly innocent. Instead of kicking him to the curb, they enlist themselves as amateur detectives.Discovering the truth will be harder than they could ever imagine as they come face-to-face with threats, assaults, kidnappings, and murder.Is Brock responsible for the madness? You won’t know unless you snag a copy of “Hidden in Harmony” today.Hidden in Harmony is a new adult clean Christian mystery. Although people from all walks of life should enjoy this book, it will especially be enjoyed by those looking for clean Christian mysteries for teenage boys.

"They are still alive somewhere." Ben Thomas is desperate to become the best online gamer in the world to earn enough money so he can take his family away from Goldstone Street - a part of town that fighting never stops and where he works on Saturdays in the market with his best friend, Fez. Everything changes one day when he’s given a prehistoric fossil in an antique shop. After discovering that the artefact has an incredible secret Ben and Fez wind up on an epic adventure that takes them to a land untouched since ancient creatures walked the earth. In this world, the friends get themselves in the middle of a struggle between good and evil. The fate of this world as old as time hangs in the balance with every move they make. Big Ben in The Badlands is a thrilling, jaw-dropping YA adventure fantasy by R.P.Thompson that takes another view of a Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton but one which you will love just as much.Discover how Ben and his best friend Fez try to help with a struggle, not unlike the one that they face back in their world. Categories for Big Ben In The Badlands- dinosaurs fiction books - interest in Palaeontology - books about tyrannosaurus rex- info on Jurassic coast and Isle of Portland - nature and the natural world adventure books