Books with author E J Stevens

Richard Sherlock is back on the case when his attractive, blonde assistant, Tiffany Richmond, takes a sip of a loaded cocktail putting her life into a complete tailspin. This sets off a chain reaction of twists, turns, and troubles, which only Sherlock, can untangle. Along the way, Sherlock discovers dirty money being laundered, drug deals going down, shots fired, an exploding club scene, and a kidnapping, where Sherlock is forced to go to McDonald’s for lunch. Add in a dead bartender, buffed bodybuilders, body-buddy bouncers, a Behemoth, a very bad basketball team, and Tiffany’s tipsy torment, and Sherlock not only has to figure out whodunit, but why they did it.

This story kicks off a new full-color series of unofficial graphic novels for Minecrafters! When quiet farm girl Pixel receives an acceptance letter from the prestigious academy for gifted students, Redstone Junior High, she is thrilled! And she works up the courage to leave her family and her beloved farm animals to become a Redstone student. The school prides itself on its safety record as much as its academics -- Mob-free for more than 100 years! boasts a sign on campus. Little does Pixel know that the school's long history of safety is about to take an unsettling turn. When zombies begin popping up on campus, the students begin to panic. Pixel, with the help of her new best friends, is the only one who can figure out why the zombies are invading -- but can she do it before the school becomes a battlefield? The adventure that unfolds will test Pixel's courage, reveal a unique and precious gift that she never knew she had, and change how she treats hostile mobs forever.

Connor is an adventurous and outgoing boy who discovers a miniature loon bird that is no bigger than Connor’s thumb in a nearby pond at his father’s cottage in Maine. The world around Connor quickly changes as he tries to catch this loon as he enters this magic pond. This book explores bravery, making new discoveries, and learning words of wisdom about being kind to others, persevering, having a strong foundation to grow upon to become happy and successful in life.

Thrown into a world with creatures of the Darkness, Kira finds her strength from her Taliesin friends, whom are ready to show her the new magical abilities she has as a Sade. Not just one of the regular folk anymore, Kira can now wield water energy and defeat the vicious, deadly foes that lurk outside city walls. There’s only one problem – she can’t remember her life before becoming a Sade. Not only must Kira learn to control her spells, she must find the missing memories of a shattered past and put her family back together.

What does preserve differ from jam in?These two names often perceive as the synonyms meaning one and too a dish. Actually, preserve and jam — two essentially different delicacies which differ not only in a cooking method, but also structure.The main difference of preserve from jam – berries or fruits in preserve don't crush, they keep the form. The final product turns out viscous and fluid. Process of preparation of preserve is much simpler, than at jam. Berries mix with sugar or sugar syrup. A classical ratio of sugar and berries 1:1 (that is on 1 kg. sugar take 1 kg of berries). Though for different berries this ratio, certainly, a miscellaneous. For currant and a honeysuckle of sugar, clear, it is required more.Preserve is the fruit and berry delicacy received owing to cooking of one type of fruit, berries, and sometimes and vegetables with sugar. Feature of jam is that ingredients have to be evenly impregnated with syrup. At the same time they shouldn't get out of the shape, and also it is important that components didn't boil soft and weren't wrinkled.Jam is the fruit and berry dessert received by method of boiling of ingredients to homogeneous jellylike mass. Initially ingredients for jam fray, and, unlike jam, several ingredients can be a part.

Excerpt from Red Ryder and the Secret of Wolf CanyonThe sun dropped low in the west, below the jagged edge of Wolf Canyon, playing its fading light on the lazy, cumulus clouds drifting high over the rugged landscape. Suddenly, as though a black cape had been whipped across the sky, pitch - black night covered all, but the stillness that accompanied it was fraught with a tense expectancy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Magic and adventure abound in this second book in the Dragon Lad trilogy.The Tale of the Talisman follows our young dragon-hatched hero as he seeks his parents, his past and his destiny in Roman-ruled Britannia. A boy without a history—at least one that he can remember—Dirk turns to his shape-shifting friends for help. They launch him on a quest involving the one clue he has to his previous existence: a magic talisman. The wizard Beldor gives Dirk a ring that allows him to re-enter the realm he thought he'd left behind. Armed with this ring and a magic map, he travels a trail leading to a raging dragon, a slippery mermaid, two grasping sorcerers and a legion of Roman soldiers. He also discovers a long-lost friend and powers he never imagined.Fast-paced and funny, Dragon Lad: Tale of the Talisman is a modern classic that can be read alone or as a companion to the first novel in the trilogy, Dragon Lad: The Thirteenth Egg.