Books with author Lowell Coleman

Sandy doesn’t fit in. Not with the Good Works programme of the family who adopted her. Not with the smug superiority of the other evacuees who’ve come north to escape the Blitz. Certainly not with the Braeside children who view the ‘Vaccies’ with suspicion. No. She’s on her own, same as always. Not a part of any group. Not wanting to be a part of any group. Because, somewhere her real family is waiting, and when she finds them - right now she dreams of them living in some wonderful cavern - well, when she finds her own family, she won’t have to put up with all the stupid people she despises, will she? Except that she doesn’t despise Chrissie who rescued her from the Village Hall Committee – and she doesn’t despise Pa because he’s a horse whisperer and actually quite scary - and she definitely doesn’t despise Hillend Cottage because it’s the nearest thing to a home she has ever found. But then she hears about the cave and nothing will do but she must go in search of it. And once she has proved her bravery and become a Servant of the Horse, and joined Rab and Malcolm and Tommy in their underground search for the Tower Passages, her life takes on a whole new meaning. Pit ponies and trapped miners and a river blackened by coal dust – Sandy’s adventures at Braeside have only just begun. Servant of the Horse is the first book in the ‘Braeside’ series. It’s a real place – a historic village in the centre of Scotland - though Braeside is not its real name. Nell Coleman now lives in Canada, but is delighted to be going back there – if only in her memories – as she continues the series with ‘The Secret People’, coming soon to both CreateSpace and Amazon Kindle. See you in Braeside?

THE LISTENERThe Osmids have more or less given up on understanding human nature through children. (Much too complicated and illogical!) This time, they are targeting a man who is so far out of touch with the world that he seems to be uncorrupted by it and they believe he will be able to open up the way into the Earth Mind for them. They have found Marcus through his renovation and use of an old Sound Mirror on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, UK. Fortunately, Marcus has realized the danger and cut the connection and now the Osmids are searching for him. They have created another ‘changeling’ to find him. A girl this time. Elsa. Also on the Island are Zack, a boy from Toronto, and Gavin, the heir to a noble family. ‘Secrets’ are also things not understood by the Osmids – and on Portland there are plenty of them! The mystery of the Isle itself. Its history. The Labyrinth. The hidden house. The nature of Zack’s father’s work. Marcus himself …But, once again, human nature proves triumphant. It even manages to ‘turn’ Elsa!What will the Osmids think up next?

PLAN C EARTH BOY This time, the Osmids have created another, better type of boy. Kram (did I say that the Osmids have no imagination?) has an Earth Body and an Earth Mind with quite a lot of the learned facts about Earth in it. And he is connected to the Super Brain which can evaluate and explain the things he doesn’t yet know. A great plan! But … Once again, the Osmids have failed to grasp the complexities of life on Earth. To control Kram, they need him to be near a powerful radio mast. The fact that this new ‘Pagan Type’ mast is in the grounds of Kentwell Hall means nothing to them. Nor do they realize that Kentwell holds their famous historical re-enactment there every summer. Poor Kram wakes up in a Tudor World - something he has definitely not been prepared for – and it is only his friendship with Cat that helps him to survive there. It also teaches him about love and relationships so that, when he eventually returns to A-os, he takes something of Earth with him.

Have you ever had the feeling that you didn’t belong? Mark thinks that the planet with the four suns is Earth – but he is not sure. Brighton seems to be as he remembers it – but not quite. His everyday life seems OK though. There is the Mother and the Father, and he goes to school with his friends Martin and Phil and they seem to think that everything is all right! But when he first wakes up and his mind is clear, Mark knows that it isn’t. For one thing, there’s Monk. Monk is his toy monkey. Old and brown and shabby. The only thing in this whole world that is not bright and gleaming-new. Once, Monk must have been new. Once he must have had silky fur and two eyes. Perhaps yesterday? But what is yesterday? And why does it disappear as soon as he swallows the pill the Mother brings in with his orange juice? Is it the pill that makes everything all right? Makes everything as it should be? Home. School. Picture show. Football … Until the morning when he accidentally drops the pill! And then things really get confusing! Luckily, he meets Col. Col is a Watcher. Not the easiest person to get along with. But at least he explains about A-os … and the Osmids … and how Mark is just the other half of a Changeling program … part of an Osmid experiment to help them take over first the Earth – and then the Universe! So Mark decides that he has to get back home. To warn his own people. But first, he has to get rid of The Osmid Version.

PLAN CEARTH BOYThis time, the Osmids have created another, better type of boy. Kram (did I say that the Osmids have no imagination?) has an Earth Body and an Earth Mind with quite a lot of the learned facts about Earth in it. And he is connected to the Super Brain which can evaluate and explain the things he doesn’t yet know. A great plan! But …Once again, the Osmids have failed to grasp the complexities of life on Earth. To control Kram, they need him to be near a powerful radio mast. The fact that this new ‘Pagan Type’ mast is in the grounds of Kentwell Hall means nothing to them. Nor do they realize that Kentwell holds their famous historical re-enactment there every summer. Poor Kram wakes up in a Tudor World - something he has definitely not been prepared for – and it is only his friendship with Cat that helps him to survive there. It also teaches him about love and relationships so that, when he eventually returns to A-os, he takes something of Earth with him.

This book presents the remarkable story of one tireless farmer, rural entrepreneur, and banker. The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered.Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it was - or predicting that it would become - the 'Land of Opportunity' were yet to be conceived. Coleman's early years were shaped by the Great Depression, by a family ethic that dictated working as long as there was sunlight in the day, and by a region bordered on the west by Oklahoma's Dust Bowl and on the east by the mighty - sometimes vengeful - Mississippi River. Told in his own words, this is a genuine American Horatio Alger story of hardscrabble beginnings, working longer and harder than today's youth might be able to imagine, and plain dealing from cotton fields to board rooms.

The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered. Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it was―or predicting that it would become―the “Land of Opportunity” were yet to be conceived. Coleman’s early years were shaped by the Great Depression, by a family ethic that dictated working as long as there was sunlight in the day, and by a region bordered on the west by Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl and on the east by the mighty―sometimes vengeful―Mississippi River. Told in his own words, this is a genuine American Horatio Alger story of hardscrabble beginnings, working longer and harder than today’s youth might be able to imagine, and plain dealing from cotton fields to board rooms.