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  • Rogue Wave: A Blue Portal Novel

    V. A. Purcell

    language (Royal Oaks Publishing A division of Value Improvement Associates (Canada) Ltd., June 19, 2017)
    When the Blue Portal opens, mysterious things begin to happen.A ghost caught between our world and the next.An artist with everything to lose.A stranger with a secret that could change their destiny.Alma Sinclair always dreamed of being an artist, but life got in the way. When her grandmother’s will gives her the opportunity of a life time, Alma doesn’t think twice. But things aren’t working out the way she expected. Nicholas Denyes is a ghost bent on revenge. He’s trapped between our world and the next, waiting for the right person to release him. When Alma finds an old medicine bottle washed up on the beach, she gives him the chance he’s been waiting for.Haunted by strange messages and eerie blue lights, Alma is drawn in to the dangers and intrigue surrounding his death.Buy Rogue Wave today and cross over into the Blue Portal world.
  • We Are Bhutan: Young Writers from the Land of the Thunder Dragon

    Evan Purcell

    language (, Aug. 23, 2018)
    The children of Bhutan want to be heard.This is a collection of stories and poems written by high school students in Bhutan, the small kingdom high up in the Himalayas. Some of their writing is funny. Some of it is sad. Some of it has time machines and bee mutants. This book is for anyone who is at all curious about what it's like to grow up in the happiest country on Earth. You might be surprised by how these young writers view the world. For many, Bhutan is a mysterious and isolated place, and its youth want to be heard. These are their stories.
  • Trafficked

    Kim Purcell

    Hardcover (Viking Books for Young Readers, Feb. 16, 2012)
    A gripping thriller, ripped from the headlines! Hannah believes she's being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs force Hannah to work sixteen-hour days, won't let her leave the house, and seem to have a lot of secrets - from Hannah and from each other. Stranded in a foreign land with false documents, no money, and nobody who can help her, Hannah must find a way to save herself from her new status as a modern-day slave or risk losing the one thing she has left: her life.
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  • Scary Stories from Bhutan

    Evan Purcell

    language (We Are Publishing, Dec. 14, 2018)
    Bhutan is a beautiful place, full of majestic mountains and rambling rivers. Its culture is rich and authentic, and the people are some of the happiest in the world.And yet…There are shadows here. And strange noises. And hidden dangers. Bhutan can be a scary place, too. If you’re not careful, you may find yourself at the mercy of a hungry yeti or a ghost in disguise.Scary Stories from Bhutan is written entirely by the students at Jakar Higher Secondary School. Their writing is full of twists and turns, of dark moments and lurking dangers.The stories are fiction. They’re completely made up.Or are they?
  • Dido and Aeneas: Vocal Score by Henry Purcell

    Henry Purcell;

    Paperback (Novello & Co Ltd, March 15, 1800)
    Excellent Book
  • Happily Destroyed

    Evan Purcell

    language (, June 7, 2016)
    Welcome to THE HAPPILY, a paradise dimension where everyone is royalty… where every meal is a feast… where your loyal subjects burst into song at pre-scheduled intervals… where you can never, ever return. Rose and her sisters live a life straight out of a fairy tale. Well, the crappy first-half of a fairy tale, anyway. They work and sweat and go about their days, always hoping that something terrible will happen. Maybe a troll will steal them away. Maybe a sorcerer will turn them to stone. Heck, maybe a beast will whisk them off to his dark, nasty castle. Wouldn’t that be great? You see, if something bad happens, that means that someone will rescue them. And if someone rescues them, that means they just bought a one-way ticket to THE HAPPILY. Bing bang boom. Paradise. Slowly, the sisters get into trouble. Slowly, they get rescued. Slowly, they achieve their happily ever after. That just leaves one sister: Rose. She’s too spunky and independent. She’ll never get rescued, which means she’ll never transition into THE HAPPILY. She’s stuck in the real world, with all the witches and ogres and dragons. But what if she sneaks into THE HAPPILY? And what if she gets caught? Or worse, what if THE HAPPILY isn’t as great as everyone says? Well, there’s only one way to find out…
  • Crazy Stories from Kazakhstan

    Evan Purcell

    language (StudyRoom Language Center, March 10, 2020)
    Over 100 students came to StudyRoom Language Center for our first ever story competition. These are the best of the bunch. Some are scary. Some are funny. All of them are deeply creative. If you want to see how students in Kazakhstan view the world, check out Crazy Stories from Kazakhstan!
  • Bone China

    Laura Purcell

    Paperback (Raven Books, Sept. 19, 2019)
    The new historical chiller from the author of The Silent Companions and The CorsetConsumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.
  • First Dictionary

    Susan Purcell

    Hardcover (Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd, June 13, 2019)
    This wonderful learning resource contains simple definitions of more than 400 words for children to learn and explore. Every entry is accompanied by a colourful illustration to appeal to young readers who are using a dictionary for the first time. The headwords have been chosen to encourage creativity and increase vocabulary.
  • Survival in the Sewers

    Evan Purcell

    language (, June 7, 2016)
    Yuuuuck! There’s a stink in your new house—a horrible, horrible stink—and you have to figure out where it’s coming from. Even though your mom tells you no, you sneak outside and discover the entrance to the sewers! You really, really, really don’t want to go down there… But then you hear a voice! “Help me!” someone says. Who is it? Why is she alone in the sewers? Why is she screaming for help? You decide to go down there to check it out. Perhaps you’ll be a hero! At the very least, you’ll find out what’s causing that horrible smell. You sneak into the sewers, but there are so many tunnels down there. So many choices. Where do you go? What will you find? Will you search for cursed treasure with a pirate and his albino parrot? Will you hunt down the world’s biggest alligator? Will you race through the muddy streets of an ancient city full of giant rats?YOU make the choices. But be careful: not all choices lead toward a happy ending. And that giant alligator is looking awfully hungry…