Books with author Michael Blackthorne

Davibo Nayuda is a smart but very small eight-year-old boy who dreams of being a Stormrider. Stormriders are members of the Elemental Corps, bonded with powerful Elementals; and who protect the Three Kingdoms, though they are falling out of favor as their usefulness wanes.Angel Nayuda, Davibo’s father lost his legs in a wild Elemental attack, though the man still has his powerful Earth Elemental to command. Davibo’s older sister Lilliandra also called an Earth Elemental. But Davibo’s secret dream is to call a Stone Elemental, like the kind that cost his father his legs.The only problem is that Lilliandra hates Davibo and wants him dead. The young boy doesn’t understand why, but he can’t ignore the facts. The taunts, the bruising, the cruelty were all leading up to something far worse for the eight-year-old.Revealing her ultimate hatred for Davibo, twelve-year-old Lilliandra and her gang of adolescent A-Elementals kidnap Davibo and take him into the desert, giving him a choice: call a wild Elemental or die.But if Davibo calls before he is ten, the Elemental Corps will do worse than kill him—they’ll strip him of his only chance to be a Stormrider!

In Book One of the Stormrider series, The Littlest Stormrider, eight-year-old Davibo Nayuda survived his sister’s attempt to kill him by becoming the Littlest Stormrider. He discovered that he could learn Mage-craft when most modern Stormriders couldn’t, and that allowed him to activate the powerful keystone at Windswept Warren so that not only was he protected but so was his Magnetic Elemental, Spikefist.But now, in Book Two, Windswept Warren, the eight-year-old Storm-Master of Windswept must find a way to restore the ancient warren and build up the Elemental Corps before the rebel Stormriders or the Lightning Guild decide to strike again. But with only Shivram, the oldest Mage alive and the only other person besides Davibo who is both a Stormrider and a Mage, Davibo’s options are pretty slim. He had no money, no water and no recruits. That is, until a clan of nomads seeks shelter from a sandstorm and our eight-year-old hero decides to take matters into his young, inexperienced hands.Book Two of the Stormrider series by Michael Blackthorne introduces many of the problems that our littlest Stormrider must solve over the next several installments, if the Elemental Corps is even to survive. But will Davibo save the Elemental Corps or make it into something none of them will even want to be part of? Whatever the eventual outcome, Windswept Warren sets the stage for events that will rock the Stormriders through the choices that Davibo makes. Davibo may be the littlest Stormrider, but hopefully, his heart is big enough for the challenge when even his trusted Master Mage Shivram turns on him.

Eleven-year-old Edmond Spencer has been forced to live in a run-down warehouse along the Thames River after accidentally blowing up part of the Thystlewicke School for Vampires, but the Vampire Council has decided not to protect him. Can Bidion, an angry shadow-immortal keep Edmond safe from the vampires and other jealous immortals who want him dead? And how will the attacks on his new home affect his plan to get Hoshi Nakagawa back on the Bloodlust team? Even if Edmond lives, others will die!

Eleven-year-old, Edmond Spencer's situation at the Thystlewicke School for Vampires becomes even more chaotic when his best-friend Crichton hires an immortal to be his bodyguard. Hinder, the elephant-headed immortal, with four arms and the ability to shift through dimensions, agrees to keep Edmond safe even from the vampire Council! He can't imagine the trouble that will cause him. At least it is a minor distraction from the question of who his father is and whether or not the Council is going to make him a vampire as well. But around vampires, even a minor distraction can have deadly consequences.

This edition combines the first three books of the Thystlewicke School for Vampires series: Thystlewicke School for Vampires, Hinder's Promise, and Bloodlust. Edmond Spencer was an ordinary, eleven-year-old boy, living with his devoted mother, a doctor in London, England. The only complaint Edmond had, was that his mother worked nights and had a strict rule about never being disturbed during the day. True, Edmond was curious about his unknown father, but otherwise his life was wonderful! But then Edmond's world was turned upside down in a single night! First, he was dragged out of bed and brought to a strange, new school where classes ran only at night. Then, the friends he made, Neela and Crichton, turned out to be very strange. For one they drank blood but that was just the start of their quirks! It wasn't long before Edmond learned that all the students at Thystlewicke were more than they seemed. They were not just rich kids with strange tendencies. They were vampires! But what did vampires want with him? Making friends and getting good grades at the Thystlewicke School for Vampires were nothing compared to staying alive! And if the possibility of being drained of blood wasn't frightening enough, some of the last immortals in the world, including the most famous of the gorgon sisters, Medusa, were full time residents! A single well-meaning glance and he would be turned to stone--if the unfriendly vampires didn't eat him first! What was an eleven-year-old to do?

CONWIN: The Angel Who Gave Up His Wings is a spiritually positive and often uplifting picture-book to help younger people deal with the concept of Heaven and the After-Life. It also embeds many simple lessons about faith and choices we are forced to make. Even the ten-year-old angel Conwin must decide what to do with Heaven's Golden Gate in sight, but just out of reach.

Ballerina diet - is it safe? Rules and effects The ballerina diet is by definition a slimming diet. However, if you look closely at her diet, you can conclude that the ballerina diet is a very restrictive diet, which consists in starving, which destroys the body and guarantees the yo-yo effect. Nevertheless, some women, deluded by the vision of fast weight loss, are ready to sacrifice health in the name of a temporarily slim figure. Check what a ballerina diet is all about and what damage it can do to your body. The ballerina diet of most of us is associated with obtaining a very slim figure, for this reason a lot of women decide to use it. On the Internet and various types of magazines, there is a lot of information about diets such as "minus 5 kg in a week". It is a marketing gimmick and has little to do with rational nutrition. Unfortunately, the ballerina diet belongs to this type of diet. It mainly involves providing the body with a very low energy value, which causes the body to lose kilograms. However, 90% after the end of such treatment there is a yo-yo effect. Is it worth taking a chance and finding out about its effectiveness on your own skin? The ballerina diet is a 10-day slimming diet, which - theoretically - gives stunning results. It allows you to drop 10 kg. Even for a slimming diet, the rate of weight loss is very fast. All because the ballerina diet is really a half-elephant, which leads to a decrease in body weight at the expense of the body's wasting.

The Indian Territory, 1879--Two men are on a collision course. Bass Reeves, who wears a deputy marshal's star, has sworn to uphold the law. The other is Marion Michael Donovan, a ruthless killer who murdered his first man at age fourteen. In the Indian Territories to investigate a group of white men selling guns to the Indians, Reeves enlists the help of an Indian deputy, Walks as Bear. Donovan has taken over the town of Temptation and, using a stolen Gatling gun, plans to rob a train carrying a shipment of gold. After discovering that Donovan is responsible for the murder of some Texas Rangers, Reeves finds himself in a race against time to stop the killers and prevent another massacre.