Books with author James Donnelly

The Mind Splinters story continues, with all the twists, turns and mind bending mysteries you've come to expect from Max Daely and his menacing band of foes. In this action-packed adventure, Max finds an ancient journal left behind by a powerful telekinetic from the golden age of telepathy. The journal sets off a furious tale, featuring Max's inimitably annoying sister Freyia, a Mind Splinter-tracking robot, and the return of the baddest man this side of The Joker, Jakob Wicksin. In what's quickly becoming a Mind Splinters signature, the fast-paced action culminates with a huge finish. Will Max and company prevail over Jacob Wicksin and his twisted ways? You'll be thrilled to find out in this worthy sequel.

Emily Murphy was one of Canada's great feminists. A woman of tremendous wit, versatility and compassion, her career included journalism, social reform, politics and the law. Emily Ferguson was born in Ontario and educated in Toronto where she met her husband, Minister Arthur Murphy. Together they travelled through rural Ontario and industrial England. These travels aroused Emily's social conscience, which she expressed through her famous Janey Canuck books. When the Murphy's moved to Manitoba and later Edmonton, she continued writing and became involved in reform movements. Her first political efforts resulted in the passage of Alberta's Dower Act of 1911. She would later be appointed a judge in Alberta, making her not only Canada's first woman magistrate, but the first female magistrate in the British Empire. In 1921, Murphy publicly questioned the law that kept women from the Senate. Women were not considered persons by law, and could therefore not become Senators. Her tireless campaign in this "Persons Case" led to women's legal recognition as "persons" and their eligibility to the Senate. Murphy herself was never appointed to the Senate, but her work in all facets of law and social reform paved the way for generations of Canadian women.

The battle with the Morrigan may be over but Jack Flint's quest is only just beginning—Jack, Kerry, and Corriwen step into a second fast-paced fantasy adventure As the three adventurers struggle against Morrigan, she hurls Corriwen Redthorn through a gateway into an unknown world. Jack and Kerry know they must find her, and when they step into Eirinn, the land seems held in the grip of an everlasting winter. Aided in their search by friendly leprechauns, a gentle giant, and a troupe of traveling players with magical powers, they soon discover that others are hunting Corrie too. They're up against Dermott, the much feared Wolf Lord, and his Spellbinder, Fainn, who have stolen the legendary silver cauldron of plenty and the golden harp which keeps the seasons in check. It has been foretold that Dermott will meet his fate at the hands of a fighting woman with red hair—could Corriwen be his nemesis? He's desperate to destroy her and anything, or anyone, who gets in his way. Meanwhile, Jack's adventures in Eirinn reveal clue after clue that might lead him to his father.

In the third and final breathless installment Jack, Kerry, and Corriwen face terrifying monsters, all-powerful witches, and mysterious magical creatures Continuing Jack's quest to find his father, Jack, Kerry, and Corrie have passed through the gate into the peaceful summerland of Uaine. Hoping for a period of respite after all their adventures, they quickly discover that they have work to do. The power-hungry spellbinder, Bodrun, has stolen the copperplates—protective magical talismans—and released the terrifying nightshades into the world. These creatures stalk the night, searching for a way to break through to other worlds and wreak havoc. They will do anything to get their claws into the heartstone. With the Book of Ways to guide them, Jack and his friends must travel deep into Bodrun's lair, facing gargoyles, giant spiders, walls of fire, and shrieking all-consuming nightshades, before a final confrontation with the evil spellbinder himself. As Jack finds himself in the midst of this nightmare, he is forced to face what really happened to his father so long ago.

The first installment in the Jack Flint trilogy combines myth, magic, and danger as a boy searches for his long-lost father when he stumbles into a Celtic legend that has come to life Jack Flint is 13. He's never known his mother and has—literally—lost his father. On a stormy Halloween he steps from his humdrum world of school, chores, and getting by, into a maelstrom. Scaling the dark-walled coppice known as Cromwath Blackwood, he and his best friend, Kerry Malone, find a mysterious circle of 13 standing stones—stones that almost seem to be breathing, pulling the boys to a place of myth and mayhem, the legendary world of Temair. Here Celtic myth comes to life as Jack, Kerry, and Corriwen Redthorn, the orphaned daughter of a Temair Chief, face the terrifying cunning of goddess of death Morrigan, along with her servants—the Scree, and the cruel, black-feathered Roaks. As they embark upon their fast paced and furious quest, Jack realizes they are not just saving their own lives, but finding clues that might lead him to his father.