Books with author Gil Garcia

Every kid looks up in the sky and asks what's up there? Now you have "Cool Facts About Our Solar System" to help! This book is a fun awesome book that has pictures about our solar system. Comes with some unique facts about each planet. Mind you, there are tons of information out there about our solar system. More complex information like planet size, mass, or gas structure are part of a series that's in the works. I chose to help our little readers try to understand what separates one planet from another. As a father myself of two beautiful girls, I decided to create a book that gave interesting facts about what makes each planet different from one another. Did you know that one planet has over 150 moons and moonlets? My family and I were amazed of this! Have you seen Jupiter's Giant Red Spot lately?Hopefully your kids enjoy them as much as mine did.!

From #1 New York Times–bestselling author Kami Garcia comes a red-hot young adult romance that will break your heart and put it back together again. Her heart has to break before it can open.When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend’s dark secret, she confronts him―and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton’s knee―and maybe her dream of going pro―is shattered. Everyone is talking: Was she pushed, or did she fall? Peyton knows the truth, even if no one believes her. He has to let someone in before it’s too late.With her future on the line, Peyton goes to stay with her uncle in a small Tennessee town to focus on her recovery. Dating is the last thing on her mind―until she meets sweet, sexy Owen Law. But Peyton doesn’t trust her heart, especially when she senses that Owen is hiding something. When their secrets are finally exposed, Peyton has to decide if love is worth fighting for.An Imprint Book "Garcia’s suspenseful romance will keep readers turning pages, eager to find out if Peyton is vindicated and ends up with the right guy. Amid steamy moments and swoony descriptions of falling in love, Garcia (The Lovely Reckless) tackles a serious issue head-on." ―Publishers Weekly“A slow burn that squeezes your heart so tightly you can’t breathe . . . until it explodes, and you’re left with a beautiful story that will draw you back again and again.”―Abbi Glines, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Field Party series and the Rosemary Beach novels

The Tom Sawyer of South Central is the best way to describe this little guy who manages to find himself in impossible one of a kind situations that will leave you smiling as he visualizes for you, and so descriptively beautiful, a neighborhood's panorama of life as seen through eyes of a child.Gil's parents, his warring brothers, two sisters, a Dutch priest, and a English Sheepdog make up the cast of characters in this entertaining collection. It's Gil's parents' love for one another that shields this family through tragedy and the hardest of times. Memories fade, then blend into the next, and a delightful narrative begins to emerge that reminds the audience of the exuberance of youth.Be prepared to fall in love with this boy, for these forty-four charming short stories will warm your heart and leave you laughing out loud.

Meet the family who, over the course of forty-four charming short stories, will warm your heart and leave you laughing out loud! From the titillating joy of discovering girls to the devastating effects of the polio virus, this earnest collection provides a glimpse into a time when the exuberance of youth seemed able to overcome the struggles of life. Feel the unbreakable bond of family, even as an exasperated mother lays down an ultimatum that she’ll later hilariously regret. What an exceptional gift Gil has created not only for his family-but for the rest of us and for generation to come. You will enjoy every story and every description he wrote with such vivid details and heartfelt warmth, emotion and humor. He offers the reader not only a personal glimpse into his family history but also a wonderful and lively panorama of an entire generation. He has created a priceless homage to his parents and, for the rest of us, a wonderful story that we will not soon forget!

Wizards live a long time and collect a lot of stuff. They're the hoarders of fantasy literature. However, that doesn't mean that they just collect junk. Due to reasons explained later, they don't always keep their valuable possessions where they actually live. This is the story of Otho who is employed to guard a cave where a wizard's valuable objects are kept. Otho has been guarding the same cave for many years, and has become bored as no one has ever tried to enter. This changes when Prince Landon arrives on a quest to retrieve what is inside the cave. This is also the first of my short stories that feature Prince Landon.

Doctor Vanderburg is a snake oil salesman. He's also dying on the side of the road. As chance would have it, Cyrus runs into him and his wagon of wonders and is presented with a gift. Of course, it's got a bit of a curse on it.Last Halloween, I had a party. One of the things I wanted to do was to have guests tell ghost stories around a fire. This was a great idea in my head, but then I realized I needed a ghost story to tell. I did the usual Google search, but didn't find anything I was happy with. Most of what I found were urban legends and things that I was aware that the people that I would be telling the story to had probably already heard. I realized that I was just going to have to write my own ghost story. I only had a week before Halloween, but I locked the basic story down and gathered up some props for a theatrical telling which culminated in me throwing a ring into the fire...an action that would probably make sense after reading the story.

Inspired by my love for H.P. Lovecraft's writings, this short story is my addition to the mythos. The old ones can live well beyond our lifetimes, but what do their followers have to show for a lifetime of servitude? What about the ancestors of their followers who unwittingly become the keepers of their secrets? Friends revisit a childhood mystery upon the death of Wesley Miller's grandmother. What they find is far more dangerous and terrible than they could have imagined.