Books with author J.T. Turner

Excerpt from Pioneers of the West: A True NarrativeIN presenting this volume to the public, the author offers it as a simple tale of every-day life on the Western Plains, told in the simplest manner. And dealing, as it does, largely with scenes and incidents pertaining to the opening and building up of a new Western country, it necessarily contains considerable local historical matter. And the author has, at the same time, endeavored strictly to guard against making any statements not drawn from his personal knowledge and experience.There is nothing fanciful or imaginary in the story. The narrative simply depicts some of the phases of frontier life necessarily involved in the settling up of a new Western country at the time of which it treats. And, although the author and his family are the chief actors, playing the principal parts in the actual life-drama, many phases of their experiences will apply equally to the early settlers in general. So, then, it is not fiction; but it is said that truth is stranger than fiction.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.

Clary Ferrie has escaped the clutches of the terrifying Unseelie and fled to the safety of the Seelie Empire. The merciless Unseelie, enraged by her flight to freedom, go after her best friend, Sam, in a bid to lure her back to Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, all Sam wants is to find out if his best friend is alive. With the help of a couple of most unlikely allies, he has come up with a plan to enable him to both find Clary and keep out of the way of the evil ones. Will the strange rock he picks up in their old teacher's house be able to help him? Or will it unleash a force that could cause the deaths of thousands? In Unseelie, only one person knows the truth: the dragons are not extinct...

Jacob is my friend and we’ve had lots of adventures together and eaten lots of potato cakes (although he eats more than me so that I don’t get too stout) and fought off the squeax and…well you’ll have to read the book if you want to know more. The Relevant Julie asked if I would write them all down for Jacob in case he forgets. "I wonder", she said, "would you do something else, for Jacob, and also a little bit for me?" She waited because I was finding it hard to say anything at all just then, I was sort of realising how patient I would have to be when Jacob didn't need me as much. Eventually I said, "What is it?" "Well, memories fade and change, and as you get older, it is harder to remember what happened where and when, and you get glimpses of things when you try to recall them. That is why people write things down in books, so they can remember better. Do you think you would mind, perhaps, writing down all of your adventures with Jacob, and things like the sign of the chicken, in a book, so when Jacob is older, he can read about them and share them with his children, and remember the special times you had when he and you had each other and all the time you needed to make memories?"There are so many stories that it’s too much for one book so I think I will be busy for a while yet. I hope that when he reads them he might remember the fun we had and smile so much that his ears touch behind his head, that’s a trick that Jacob can do. Maybe yours will too!Excerpt from “How Jacob outsmarted the Squox”I heard a rustle, then a squeak, and if Jacob hadn’t been holding my hand I would have run home fast. Then Jacob said, look at that and there it was, a reddy brown squox. I had never ever seen one before. Jacob said he had, and it was a squox for sure. It’s got foxy ears and a bushy tail and we saw it running up a tree. It sat on a high branch nibbling an acorn and looking at Jacob and then at me. That is when I found out that Jacob could speak squoxese. I thought the squox was squeaking and nibbling but Jacob told me it was talking and saying it liked this wood because of all the partridges. Partridges it seems are the squox’s favourite food, after acorns. But partridge and acorn stew is a squox’s very favourite food, Jacob told me, after he talked to the squox for a bit longer.

Having been tricked by Anges De’Ath into allowing the Unseelie back into his peaceful land, the King and the rest of Clary’s family are long gone. The land lies in ruins, its subjects ruled by fear, and Clary and her friend, Sam, live their lives in hiding.Now teenagers, living in such close proximity is beginning to cause problems for them both. So when Sam, protesting against Clary’s safeguarding rules, allows his pet dragon to fly outside of their safety zone, he unleashes a chain of events that he did not intend.Can Clary save her best friend, and in doing so, can she save Seelie itself?

Mason doesn't want to visit his grandparents this Christmas. His Grandad never appears until Boxing Day and Nanny says it's because he's too tired. But Mason doesn’t believe her—he thinks Grandad just doesn't like him. But this Grandad has a very particular secret - and secrets have a way of being uncovered. Especially when there is one curious grandson, one careless elf, and a whole lot more who are too sick to work...