Books with author J.S.D. Johnston

What if you could choose a different reality?A buried secret . A mystical portal . A world-altering decision.During yet another move to another Marine Corps base, a browbeaten and dispirited fourteen-year-old yearns for the stability and solace of a settled and happy homelife. But when a pair of peculiar people in the new town confront him with secrets about his family’s past, his reality is threatened. To get to the truth and get back to normal, he’ll have to defy his father and enter an exotic, ancient world where the fantastical is the norm and danger is a way of life. Marked for Adventure is the first installment in Peyton Drake’s seven-part Mind the Portal story. The 25,000-word fantasy novella prepares readers to venture from 1974 California USA to the interdimensional Academy of Omniosophical Arts & Sciences. To find out what’s on the other side of the portal, continue with part two of the story, Destiny by Design, releasing March 21st, 2020. But be warned, once you go through, you may never want to come back.Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082BGNL1ZPaperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1661213812

Mythical creatures . Threats to life and limb . Rebel attacks . Just another day at the Ocademy.After plunging through a portal to the fantastical Academy of Omniosophical Arts & Sciences, fourteen-year-old Pete Drake fears he’s made a terrible mistake. Not only is life at the interdimensional school far more harrowing than he imagined, but a group of insurgents has infiltrated the campus, wreaking havoc and instilling panic.Pete’s not sure which he fears more—being stuck at the dangerous place with no way out or running the risk of going home only to find he is no longer welcome after running away. He has to make a decision, and he has to make it quick. Destiny is waiting. Destiny by Design is the second installment in Peyton Drake’s seven-part Mind the Portal story. The 31,000-word fantasy novella prepares readers to venture from 1974 California USA to the interdimensional Academy of Omniosophical Arts & Sciences. To learn how Pete ended up at the Ocademy, read part one of his story, Marked for Adventure.And to find out which element he ended up in, continue on to part three of the story, The First Crack, releasing 1 May 2020. Curious which element might suit you best? Take the ocademy’s Elemental Inclinations quiz.

What if you got everything you wanted, but it came in the wrong package?After getting through the grueling multi-day Appraisement Cycle at the Academy of Omniosophical Arts & Sciences without being cut from the program and sent home, fourteen-year-old Pete Drake is assigned to an element domain--but not the one he hoped. If his living assignment wasn’t bad enough, the dreaded rebels he’s heard mentioned make an appearance at Ocademy orientation. They also make their intentions known. Pete wants out and fast, but how? He’s committed to the boarding school for the next seven years!The First Crack is the third installment in Peyton Drake’s seven-part Mind the Portal story by ocademy plenipotentiary J.S.D. Johnston. The 25,000-word fantasy novella gives the first glimpse of the cracks in the pristine academy’s facade. To learn how Pete managed to make it through Appraisement in one piece, read part two of his story, Destiny by Design, available now.And to find out how he deals with his current conundrums and perils, continue on to part four of the story, releasing 21 June 2020. As always, if you’re curious as to which element might suit you best, take the Ocademy’s Elemental Inclinations quiz, that is, if you’re ready for your life to change, and aren’t afraid of rebels.

What if you got everything you wanted, but it came in the wrong package?Someone has made a big mistake! After getting through the grueling multi-day Appraisement Cycle at the Academy of Omniosophical Arts & Sciences without being cut from the program and sent home, fourteen-year-old Pete Drake is assigned to an element domain--but not the one he wanted! If his living assignment wasn't bad enough, the dreaded rebels he's heard mentioned make an appearance at Ocademy orientation. They also make their intentions known. Pete wants out and fast, but how? He's committed to the boarding school for the next seven years!The First Crack is the third installment in Peyton Drake's seven-part Mind the Portal story by ocademy plenipotentiary J.S.D. Johnston. The 25,000-word fantasy novella gives the first glimpse of the cracks in the pristine academy's facade. To learn how Pete managed to make it through Appraisement in one piece, read part two of his story, Destiny by Design, available now.And to find out how he deals with his current conundrums and perils, continue on to part four of the story, releasing 21 June 2020. As always, if you're curious as to which element might suit you best, take the Ocademy's Elemental Inclinations quiz, that is, if you're ready for your life to change, and aren't afraid of rebels.

Excerpt from Diary Notes of a Visit to Walt Whitman and Some of His Friends, in 1890: With a Series of Original PhotographsThe following Notes, extracted from a Diary record of a visit to America, in July, 1890, were written at the time, mainly for a small group of friends, referred to as The Eagle Street College, and without any idea of publication.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.

A funny, butt-scratching adventure you won't want to miss!Lot Nobody is average - even his ears - and is so lonely that he's become invisible. But on his 16th birthday Lot truly starts disappearing - uprooted to a magical island, then sent back fully naked in the most embarrassing of situations.After befriending Ethan Longbow - a classmate who's about as street as a satsuma - Lot's insecurities start to peel away, an angry volcano begins to pulsate, and Lot Nobody goes toe-to-toe with the dastardly megalomaniac Hector Shady.Lot must now face his anxieties, save his new island friends, and discover why the hell his bum has been so itchy ...The Lot of a Nobody is author Dave Johnston's first novel, after his novella series "Sixty Minute Reads" reached the Top 10 short story list on both Amazon UK and USA

Advance Praise for The Hat“Wonderful story! Sure to be a favorite of all who read it.” – Hugh R. MacDonald, author of Trapper Boy and Us and Them“It’s a great novel that should be translated into French.” Claude DeGrâce, Managing Director, Société Promotion Grand-Pré."It's a wonderful book ... which reminds us that the majority of the people deported were children. This book will be enjoyed by both children and adults; it palpably makes one feel the horror and helplessness felt by the victims. Maddeningly for the boy, no one—not even his loving grandfather—could prevent the Deportation." Warren Perrin, Louisiana lawyer and champion of Cajun history and Acadiana A. J. B. Johnston holds the reader close in this moving novel about the Acadian Deportation from Grand-Pré in 1755. The main characters, Marie and Charles, are fictional, but the story is based on well-documented historical facts. "The Hat" is a fresh, 21st-century interpretation that is both poignant and filled with suspense. The story begins on a gusty August morning, when 14-year old Marie and her 10-year old brother Charles spot sails on the horizon. Not long after, foreign soldiers enter their village. Day by day, Charles and Marie—and everyone else in the village—live with building suspense. They watch with bewilderment, then deepening concern, as men-at-arms from another land take over the local church and build a fort. What is going on? With each passing day, the complications and troubles mount. Everything in the village is upended. Marie and Charles are only kids, but they have to find ways to deal with the difficult situations in which they find themselves. They have to be wise and brave beyond their years. A. J. B. Johnston is an award-winning Canadian historian and novelist. For his books on French colonial history in Atlantic Canada, France made him a chevalier of its Ordre des Palmes Académiques. His first foray into fiction was the Thomas Pichon Novels, which explore ambition, longing and betrayal in 18th-century France and England. His website is ajbjohnston.com. On Facebook he is at A J B Johnston, Writer. He also posts on Instagram.

A QUICK READ FOR ALL AGESA series of funny chat messages between SuperHeroes and SuperVillains, reimagined as children (The SuperBrats). Each page is a phone screen.STARRING:BatmanRobinHarley QuinnJokerBanePenguinClayfacePoison IvyCatwomanSupermanTwo FaceFlashRa’s Al GhulAquamanK CrocMr FreezeRiddlerTeacherComm. GordonSuperman’s MumClayface’s MumPenguin’s MumAlfredClayface’s DadSuperman’s DadRiddler’s MumJoker’s MumScarecrowScarecrow’s ManagerKCroc’s MumSladeObiWan Kenobi