Books with author Griffith

Three Hundred Years Hence is a utopian science fiction novel by author Mary Griffith. It is the first known utopian novel written by an American woman. The novel was originally published in 1836 as part of Griffith's collection, Camperdown, or News from Our Neighborhood. The novel concerns a hero who falls into a deep sleep and awakens in the Utopian states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Writers of utopian fiction generally need to set their imagined societies either in a remote place (as in Sir Thomas More's original Utopia and many imitators), or in a different time. Griffith was the earliest American writer to project her protagonist into the future to encounter a vastly improved social order.

Muniamma’s heart was heavy as she thought back over the past year. So much had happened. The flood had started it, sweeping away her home and family. Sparky, her dog, was all she had left. And then there was Kali, the goddess that had more to do with fear than love. How could Mu- niamma get away from her? Now she was ill, so Grandmother was going to take her to the temple. But it was not from that strange place that healing was going to come.

George Griffith (1857-1906) was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as "Pearson's Magazine" and "Pearson's Weekly" before being published as novels. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, though he failed to find similar acclaim in the United States, in part due to his revolutionary and socialist views. A journalist, rather than scientist by background, what his stories lack in scientific rigor and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution. Although eternally overshadowed by H. G. Wells, Griffith's epic fantasies of romantic anarchists in a future world of war dominated by airship battlefleets and grandiose engineering provided a template for steampunk novels a century before the term was coined. The influence of books such as "The Angel of the Revolution" and the character of Olga Romanoff on British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock is striking. The concept of revolutionaries imposing "a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth," at the center of Angel of the Revolution, was taken up by Wells many years later, in "The Shape of Things to Come." Though a less accomplished writer than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling or H.G. Wells, his novels were popular in their day and foreshadowed World War I and the Russian Revolutions and the concepts of the air to surface missile and VTOL aircraft. He wrote several tales of adventure set on contemporary earth, while "The Outlaws of the Air" depicted a future of aerial warfare and the creation of a Pacific island utopia. Sam Moskowitz described him as "undeniably the most popular science fiction writer in England between 1893 and 1895."

Two sisters lost in a fantasy world alone and afraid surrounded by magic and mayhem. The journey is to get their kin back together surrounded by a magical land full of strange creatures only a breath away from their home in Wales.The journey becomes a quest and a fight to get her sister back. The witch and the warrior become the saviours of this strange land. In a land full of children where the adults are far and few between. The orphans need someone to look up too and the eldest sister becomes their hope and shinning light in the dismay of a crumbling world around them.Below, beneath withinthe magic is Celtina.

May I introduce you to two little seven-year-old girls who lived in the year 1957? Meet Becca... She's worried! The first day of school is tomorrow. Will it be all right? Will everyone think she's 'dumb' because she has trouble reading? See what her first day is like, as one crazy thing after another happens. And Annie? She's worried too. Being a new girl, in a new class, in a new school is hard. To make things worse, the class has a bully-and the bully is a girl! The other children are afraid of her, and Annie is too. Can things possibly get any worse for either of them? Find out what happens when Becca and Annie meet each other for the first time, and discover what it really means to be friends... in the autumn of 1957

Would you like an adventure on another planet? This is just one of the questions Lara and her sister, Eva, must answer one sunny day in their garden. They wonder how will they return to Earth in time for lunch? And how will they get there when the aliens’ spaceship is so small? When it’s only big enough for ants!But their help is needed on the planet Zeegrazzalo-Jeewoppza so off they go – into the unknown. Their feelings of helplessness only start to fade after a flight across the planet's Outerlands, in Kweezy Capolza's hummingcraft. Maybe, just maybe, the sisters can find some solutions to the aliens' problems. However, they think they might need their mother's help and she is back on Earth!

Emily and her older brother Oliver find a dog tied to a park gate. They take him to the police station but feel very sad about leaving him there. When they go home they can not forget about the dog and they tell their parents how unhappy they are. They really want to rescue him. To their delight their parents agree to go and collect the dog if nobody has claimed him. At the police station they are told that he has been taken to a dog pound. They go there, and happily take him home, and call him Buddy. The following day something frightening happens to the two children, and it is only through their new friend Buddy, that they are saved.So, one good turn deserves another.(Every download of this book helps an abandoned dog find a kind home)

This is a series of bedtime stories told over the years to our grandchildren. Our regular major characters in the adventures are our pets: Moxie and Mollie – Long Haired Miniature Dachshunds, Rupert and Cooper – Pembroke Welch Corgis and Monet the white cat, who sometimes thinks she is a dog too… In these adventures, we introduce Rosie; Rupert’s Corgi girlfriend. The clash of the two cultures is evident as Rosie goes to the mid-west country to visit Rupert and he then heads out to visit Southern California cities and beaches.

Muniamma has run away again - this time from her father and his partner who are scheming to arrange a marriage she does not want. She is determined to give her life to ‘the God who made the sunrise’... but they are equally determined to stop her. Rushing away in the darkness, Muniamma runs into a low branch of a jacaranda tree and cuts herself. Once again her friends come to the rescue. Slowly she begins to discover the mysterious meaning of the new scar on her face. Muniamma is growing up - can it be that she is also outgrowing her childhood fears and finding her real Father at last?

Muniamma was hiding in a banana grove on the hillside above her grandmother’s house. The pain of losing her mother and brothers was still there. Her sorrow mingled with fear as she thought of Grandmother’s religion—devotion to the mysterious goddess Kali. Living for Kali involved strange happen-ings. Not like the God that her aunt and uncle had dis-covered, ‘the God who made the sun rise’. But where could he be found? And what would Grandmother do if Muniamma went looking for him?