Books with author J. C. Stevens

Everything you thought you knew about sex, society and family is wrong and once you’ve stopped laughing at the 182 year old wizard who looks like a 26 year old kid, you might just realize you’ve learned something -- something more than whodunnit in the latest merry mystery of Thaddeus and Melda.They Call Me Merlin Sherlock is Thaddeus’ lament and an attempt to convert his fellow wizards from mockery of to admiration for his application of wizard’s lore to such mundane endeavors as the recovery of an English baronet’s stolen tea pot valued at half a million pounds. Along the way he acquires a skeptical American assistant and they meet enough English eccentrics to fill a loony bin or a conference of wizard’s, if anyone can tell the difference.

This restaurant's name was based on the The Rolling Stones song, "Ruby Tuesday", which was popular during the time of the first restaurant's inception. Ruby Tuesday offers primarily American cuisine, including all-natural chicken, pasta, pork ribs, soups, steak, and seafood. However, it is often recognized for its fresh ingredients and salad bar and hamburgers, which have been staples to the chain since its creation.Check out some of thes restaurant favorite recipes you will find recreated in this copycat cookbook. Ruby Relaxer Cocktail Legendary Long Island Iced Tea Ruby-Rita Bang'n Shrimp Tater Totchos Blackened Chicken Quesadilla Chicken Wings With Nashville Hot Sauce Blackened Tilapia New Orleans Seafood Cajun Grilled Shrimp & Rice Hickory Bourbon Salmon Chicken Fresco Hickory Bourbon Chicken Smoky Mountain Chicken Cajun Rib Eye Asiago Peppercorn Sirloin Babyback Ribs Crispy Chicken Mac & Cheese Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie Apple Crumble Skillet Chocolate Tall CakePineapple Upside Down Cake

It's the beginning of senior year and Yuki's psychic awareness of ghostly spirits is threatening to ruin her life. Her ability to sense spirits of the dead isn't glamorous like the ghost hunting on television. SHE SMELLS THE DEAD. The smell impressions are becoming stronger. Yuki is being visited in her dreams, and she suspects that her friend Calvin is involved in something strange. To make matters worse her crush on Garrett is going unrequited, Yuki's friend Emma is on a rampage against bee oppression, and annoying Calvin Miller mysteriously disappears. Will Yuki be able to focus her powers in time to save the lost soul who is haunting her? Meanwhile, who will save Yuki from following the spirits into the light?

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.

Samhain was scary, but graduation is downright terrifying. Yuki and Emma's recent brush with death has unexpected consequences. Until last winter Yuki could only smell the dead, but the touch of death's embrace has awakened latent powers. With the help of her friends, Yuki must face her new abilities. Will her psychic powers become the curse they all have feared? Curse or gift, Yuki's new vision begins leading her down an unknown path, but is it a road that only she can follow? Emma's close encounter of the death kind has her questioning her future as well. Until now she had it all; brains, beauty, conviction, fabulous friends, and a scholarship to Tufts Veterinary School. She knew exactly what she wanted and how to get it. Emma had a plan for everything, but she never bargained for her own traitorous emotions. When graduation comes, will Emma follow her dreams...or follow her heart? Brush with Death is the fourth book in the Spirit Guide young adult paranormal series by E.J. Stevens.

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.