Books with author J. Lucas

Bloodthirsty creatures. A vindictive Queen of Elves... And a fierce teenage girl, willing to take them all on.Andie didn't expect to be orphaned. Now she has no parents, no Nan, no one but Anne, the weird social worker who carries on conversations with old books and empty purses.Anne takes her to a small town in Texas to live with her new guardian, Celeste, an eccentric figure among many who seem to know something that Andie doesn't. One evening, the woods behind Celeste's house spirit Andie away, and she discovers a secret so incredible that she can scarcely believe it. Her destiny is to find the four Keys that will save the Tuatha de Danann from annihilation.Worlds collide when two of her new friends from school, the sweet, helpful Teagan and the rude bad boy Hunter, join her on her journey to reach the mysterious place known only as Finias in search of the first Key, The Sword of Light.As they flee the wicked Fomorians and battle with the Queen of Elves, Andie and the boys forge new alliances and make more adversaries. Will Andie and her friends rise to the challenge, or is the magical realm as good as gone already?

"...You must find the four Keys to keep our worlds from burning... "No one is who they seem...... Magic and mayhem are around every corner. Andie didn't expect to be orphaned. Now she has no parents, no Nan, no one but Anne, the weird social worker who carries on conversations with old books and empty purses. Anne takes her to a small town in Texas to live with her new guardian, Celeste, an eccentric figure among many there who seem to know something that Andie doesn't. One evening, the woods behind Celeste's house spirit Andie away, and she discovers a secret so incredible that she can scarcely believe it. Her destiny is to find the four Keys that will save the Tuatha de Danann from annihilation. Worlds collide when two of her new friends from school, the sweet, helpful Teagan and the rude bad boy Hunter, join her on her journey to reach the mysterious place known only as Finias in search of the first Key, The Sword of Light. As they flee the wicked Fomorians and battle with the Witch Freya, Andie and the boys forge new alliances and make more adversaries. Will Andie and her friends rise to the challenge, or is the magical realm as good as gone already?

Punk teen Hoss Ollinger is psychotic, but never knew it until two hulking henchmen tore him from his bed, ziptied his wrists, and hauled him to a mental institution in Happy Valley, Utah. On the outside, "Safe Haven" looks like a miracle-school for troubled teens. With an IQ of 146, though, it doesn't take long for Hoss to see "Safe Haven" institution for what it really is: a warehouse to exploit misled youth.The pampered life Hoss knew has been torn away and replaced with a vicious prison-rules melee. Gangs, bullies, psychopaths, and predators all vie for control whenever the guards heads are turned. His chance for retribution comes when he finds a decade-old anarchist's journal written by a patient known only as The Snick. With the gambits of this "Cookbook" and the help of a plucky group of underdog inmates, Hoss starts an underground mob bent on the destruction of the institution.However, as his personal wars rage, Hoss unwittingly exposes truths about the institution which make him worth more dead than alive. To survive, Hoss must turn to a vicious justice which blurs the ethics of good and evil to deliver himself from his enemies, his psychological demons, and the corrupt institution.

Bloodthirsty creatures. A vindictive Queen of Elves... And a fierce teenage girl, willing to take them all on.Andie didn't expect to be orphaned. Now she has no parents, no Nan, no one but Anne, the weird social worker who carries on conversations with old books and empty purses.Anne takes her to a small town in Texas to live with her new guardian, Celeste, an eccentric figure among many who seem to know something that Andie doesn't. One evening, the woods behind Celeste's house spirit Andie away, and she discovers a secret so incredible that she can scarcely believe it. Her destiny is to find the four Keys that will save the Tuatha de Danann from annihilation.Worlds collide when two of her new friends from school, the sweet, helpful Teagan and the rude bad boy Hunter, join her on her journey to reach the mysterious place known only as Finias in search of the first Key, The Sword of Light.As they flee the wicked Fomorians and battle with the Queen of Elves, Andie and the boys forge new alliances and make more adversaries. Will Andie and her friends rise to the challenge, or is the magical realm as good as gone already?

For fans of The Hunger Games and Harry Potter comes a fun, futuristic story...★ ★ ★ ★ "An entertaining read about friendship and the survival of hope, set in a vividly imagined world." –Examiner.com"Healthy doses of wonder, humor, and terrorizing fantasy creatures. A really enjoyable read, really well done!" –WritershipWelcome to Saharizona, the "poison sands" spoken of in the forbidden Prophecy Song, where only the strange survive. Gigantulas and cowyotes, buffalopes and attactus, biker gangs and Chinese cowboys...So when Cash and his friends set out in search of a mythical island in Calitopia, they know their chances are slim. What they don’t know is someone is following them. Some*thing*. The Red Enforcer – half man, half machine, no mercy. Determined to stop them, and put an end to the Prophecy once and for all.And as the relentless cyborg closes in, Cash is required to pit friendship against fate. But how can you choose between saving your friends or saving the future?

Excerpt from The Pleasures of a Pigeon-FancierTake the Flowers also. Are they not in comparably beautiful, as they tessellate the earth with a wealth of colour and cunning diversity of design A plainer vesture might have answered every material purpose of the flower's creation. There was no necessity for that blaze of colour if its only office was to feed the cattle or manure the soil. A common garment would have done for these common purposes. But because it was an ordained minister of God to appeal to the higher faculties of man, and bear its royal witness to the King of human hearts and lives, therefore was it clothed with a courtier's robes, and decked with the honours of heaven's am bassador.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.

"Healthy doses of wonder, humor, and terrorizing fantasy creatures. A really enjoyable read, really well done!" –Writership Welcome to Saharizona, the "poison sands" spoken of in the forbidden Prophecy Song, where only the strange survive. Gigantulas and cowyotes, buffalopes and attactus, biker gangs and Chinese cowboys... So when Cash and his friends set out in search of a mythical island in Calitopia, they know their chances are slim. What they don’t know is someone is following them: the Red Enforcer – half man, half machine, no mercy. Determined to stop them, and put an end to the Prophecy once and for all. And as the relentless cyborg closes in, Cash is required to pit friendship against fate. But how can you choose between saving your friends or saving the future?

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