Books with author Joshua Williamson

A fun picture book about a messy girl and her dog trying to keep clean for her big performance!Molly is very messy, so she tries to practice keeping clean during the week to prepare for her big singing performance at her school on Saturday. But she puts on her dress and gets messy while eating spaghetti, being out in the rain, falling in the mud, baking a cake, eating ice cream, and playing in the grass. On Saturday, she works as hard as she can to avoid all the messes she encountered during the week. Molly makes it to the performance squeaky clean! Well, almost; she does have a few pawprints on her back from her dog, but no one can see them!

With the end of an era comes chaos and danger of the worst kind. The great stag who had led the roe deer of the deep forest to safety and peace so many years before is now nearing the end of his reign. Ulex, a stag with some very dangerous idea's is the only real contender for the job. His chance finally comes with the arrival of Buttercup and Fred, a cow and calf escaped from a local farm earlier in the year. Now as chaos breaks out the only hope for the herd is to find help and a worthy replacement before the herd pays the ultimate price. With impending battle you can be sure Sederic the surgeon seagull (from 'Awing to the wild') will be on hand to ply his very special trade. Only the greatest of great stags can unite the deer herds of the deep forest and return peace for the generation to come.

Darkness trembles.Achan steps into his role as Crown Prince and prepares for war. But war against whom? Could Esek still be alive? Has Lord Nathak taken Esek's place? Or is the mysterious Hadad the true enemy Achan must confront? Vrell has her own agenda of serving Prince Oren as a healer, but when she is stormed and lost to the Veil, Achan does all he can to bring her back. His conversations with her are strange, though, as if she has no memory of who he is. In a land consumed by Darkness, the fate of Er'Rets hangs in the balance as Achan endeavors to take the throne and end the reign of Darkness.

A loving look at what our feline friends really do all day, with heaps of humour and CATtitude. "I am a cat, and I have a busy, busy life. Looking after my family is a full-time job. They just couldn't do without me!" The hugely talented Jo Williamson has created a joyful picture book packed with peek-a-boo boxes, quick cat-naps, stretching on keyboards... and hating baths!

It’s 1802, and Jack finds himself surrounded by spoilt aristocrats in a mysterious training camp on the South coast of England. Once more he is drawn into an unexplained murder mystery, and with the dead man’s family baying for blood, someone is going to pay, regardless of their guilt or innocence. Could a mysterious French ship stalking the English coastline be in some way linked to the killing? Able to outrun anything the English navy puts against it, the need to catch this enigmatic vessel becomes vital to the war effort, its very survival highlighting England’s weaknesses. As the body count grows, the rules of both war and honour become secondary to the necessity to win at any price. As ever in the Major’s world, nothing is quite as it seems and everyone is expendable for the greater good. Jack is the ultimate underdog, with nothing to lose. A lowly peasant dragged into a dangerous world of spies and spy catchers, where the privilege of seeing a new day is a prize to be fought for.

A brand new, must read for all pirate fans. When the otter pirate, Black Whiskers sets sail for early retirement, he plans one last great adventure, to find the fisherman's gold. With his old enemy, Captain Silk in the race and the mysterious secret order determined not to let it go, the fur is sure to fly in this action packed twist on the old pirate stories that we all love so much.

Are you tired of run-of-the-mill devotions? Are they powerless, meaningless, and void of real intimacy? Are you just going through the motions? I was. So I had a frank conversation with God. And boy did He answer! This book is about three keys to real, intimate relationship with God. It's written in an easy-to-read, devotional format so the reader can easily digest the principles over thirty days. If your relationship with God is dry or not working, this is the book for you!

Judea has always been the crossroads and battlefield of contending nations. It is no less so in this biblical time of the Judges. Uriah Tarhund's Hittite home is destroyed by invading Greeks. His dying father tells him to go south to seek a Canaanite named Sisera. "He will help you. For my sake. . . ." Uriah is plunged into the tumult of an uneasy Judea. When he saves a young boy from being sacrificed to Moloch, he is given succor for a time by the Hebrews. Later, he finds Sisera and joins him in war against these same people. When the Canaanites are defeated, the young Hittite has the opportunity to come to peace with himself, the Hebrew people and their God.

Little white duck is the only duck on a small farm, life is lonely and uneventful, though the food is incredibly plentiful. Her only friends, the wild birds tell her such colourful tales of travel and adventure. Stories of amazing animals and far away places which remain an unobtainable dream until the day a new friend puts an overly ambitious idea in her head, to swim to Africa! It would be quite wrong to tell if she makes it or not but one thing is for certain, life will never be the same again for our hero or the friends she meets along the way. Join our feathered friend as she discovers some unexpected skills, incredible new friends and a terrible enemy, explores incredible wilderness and discovers the joy of family.Could it be that the birds and animals around us each have a story to tell just as exciting as any Hollywood blockbuster?

At a time when Humanity has identified itself as a destructive force to be eradicated, the minority continue the fight to bring balance against the obsessive, self destructive policies of the Returner movement, to fight for that most basic human right; the right to live.In the harsh weeks that follow the Dockling uprising, Shanks' glorious rebels slowly descend into a poorly led band of starving refugees, surrounded by two Returner armies and on the brink total defeat. With only the marshes to protect them, and time all but lost, those that would still fight take a desperate path and approach a dangerous new ally.