Books with author Robert Kent

Fifth grader Ellicott Skullworth has always felt out of place at public school and now he's tested into the Archimedes Program at Latimer University. While in Latimer City, he’ll be living with his world famous and insane(ly) brilliant cousin, Banneker Bones, the eleven-year-old inventor of robots. The only problem: Banneker doesn't want to share his room. And he's got an army of robots to make Ellicott miserable until he goes home. When the boys are ambushed by robot bees as big as cars, Ellicott's only friend is carried off and held for ransom. To rescue him, Ellicott has no choice but to partner with his maniacal cousin. Ellicott doesn't know what's worse: facing a hive of giant robot bees or spending more time with Banneker Bones.BANNEKER BONES AND THE GIANT ROBOT BEES is a humorous, science fiction adventure for readers of all ages written in the spirit of a comic book.“Let me say at once that I think this is a most original and amusing piece of work. A reader is arrested at the outset by a paradoxical witticism and he goes on being arrested as the story gets into its stride. Ellicott Skullworth and Banneker Bones appear as characters about whom the reader wants to learn more, and soon he begins to be in no doubt about this.”--Richard Adams, author of WATERSHIP DOWNEllicott Skullworth turned back to Banneker Bones. “Well, anyway, thanks for letting me stay here.”“Not my idea,” Banneker said. “You have my mother to thank for that. But she’s been wrong before. She adopted a stray puppy once and put it in my room to,” he made a face to show his disgust, “keep me company. The puppy survived two days.”Banneker looked Ellicott up and down as though he were appraising something for purchase and deciding against it. “And now she’s adopted another stray, hasn’t she? We’ll just see how long you survive.”

Yea though we perish, yea though we die, we'll all be together in the sweet by and by..."ALL TOGETHER NOW: A ZOMBIE STORY is by turns disgusting, terrifying, funny, and heartbreaking. Fans of THE WALKING DEAD will eat it up like, well, zombies munching fresh brains. A stellar debut from a novelist to watch!"—Mike Mullin, award-winning author of ASHFALL, ASHEN WINTER, and SUNRISEFifteen-year-old Ricky Genero is writing a journal of the zombie apocalypse. His high school has burned to the ground, his friends are all either dead or shambling corpses roaming the earth in search of human flesh, and his best friend died saving his six-year-old brother Chuck from a zombie horde. When Chuck is bitten and infected with the zombie virus, Ricky must travel among the walking dead in search of a cure.WARNINGThis YOUNG ADULT novel is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. ALL TOGETHER NOW: A ZOMBIE STORY is a gruesome, repugnant tale featuring horrific acts of violence sure to warp young minds.They moaned in unison, the sound of each harmonizing with the moans of the others so I couldn't tell if the moans were coming from three zombies, or five, or ten. All I knew for sure is they were on the other side of the door.WHAM!!!At first I thought it was the sound of a gun, but then it happened again, just above me."Sh—" Michelle slapped a hand to Levi's mouth before he could say more.A corpse's palm smacked against the window glass, fell away, and smacked again.A second hand smacked the glass, closer to the entrance. Then a third hand started on the other side of the door, so all three hands were smacking in unison.Michelle bit the fingers on her left hand, but in her right hand our one gun was trained on the glass.I tightened my grip on my bat.WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!The glass wavered, rippling with each smack, but didn't break.Yet.WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!

At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, “. . . they looked hard—tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin.” When Roberts’s fishing companion curtly refused the strangers’ offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, “Who are these people?” The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts’s encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.

Yea though we perish, yea though we die, we'll all be together in the sweet by and by... "ALL TOGETHER NOW: A ZOMBIE STORY is by turns disgusting, terrifying, funny, and heartbreaking. Fans of THE WALKING DEAD will eat it up like, well, zombies munching fresh brains. A stellar debut from a novelist to watch!" —Mike Mullin, award-winning author of ASHFALL, ASHEN WINTER, and SUNRISE Fifteen-year-old Ricky Genero is writing a journal of the zombie apocalypse. His high school has burned to the ground, his friends are all either dead or shambling corpses roaming the earth in search of human flesh, and his best friend died saving his six-year-old brother Chuck from a zombie horde. When Chuck is bitten and infected with the zombie virus, Ricky must travel among the walking dead in search of a cure. WARNING This YOUNG ADULT novel is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. All Together Now: A Zombie Story is a gruesome, repugnant tale featuring horrific acts of violence sure to warp young minds. They moaned in unison, the sound of each harmonizing with the moans of the others so I couldn't tell if the moans were coming from three zombies, or five, or ten. All I knew for sure is they were on the other side of the door. WHAM!!! At first I thought it was the sound of a gun, but then it happened again, just above me. "Sh—" Michelle slapped a hand to Levi's mouth before he could say more. A corpse's palm smacked against the window glass, fell away, and smacked again. A second hand smacked the glass, closer to the entrance. Then a third hand started on the other side of the door, so all three hands were smacking in unison. Michelle bit the fingers on her left hand, but in her right hand our one gun was trained on the glass. I tightened my grip on my bat. WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! The glass wavered, rippling with each smack, but didn't break. Yet. WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!

Eleven-year-old cousins Banneker Bones and Ellicott Skullworth are back in their second adventure. Picking up where BANNEKER BONES AND THE GIANT ROBOT BEES left off, our heroes are soaring through the air on jet packs, as they do, when they spot a half man, half alligator that’s all terrifying. Naturally, they follow the alligator person deep into the sewers and are nearly eaten for their trouble.Worse, no one believes the boys were attacked. Not the kids at school, not their parents, not even Banneker’s faithful robot butler. Banneker and Ellicott must prove the existence of alligator people to both vindicate themselves and once again save Latimer City from certain destruction.For as Banneker warns TV reporter Chip Lieberman, "I don't want to alarm your viewers, Chip, but we may all die. This is the start of the alligator people apocalypse!"BANNEKER BONES AND THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE is a humorous, science fiction adventure for readers of all ages written in the spirit of a comic book.It was dark, so Ellicott saw more of a shadow outline than an actual figure, but he saw enough. The creature had two thick legs and two arms, lean with leathery muscle like a dinosaur’s arms. He too was the size of a large man, but there was nothing human about his face.He raised his hideous head and opened his mouth wide, wider than any person ever could. In that long crack Ellicott glimpsed the jagged points of sharp teeth. The creature snarled and shook his snout.Something thick and scaly rose behind the creature’s back and whipped to the right, smashing another pane of glass the size of a four-story house.“He has a tail,” Banneker said, a grin spreading across his face. “Cool.”The first two security robots rolled into the street, each the same height as the creature. Their eyes lit up flashing red as they spoke. “Attention citizen, you’re vandalizing private property.”The creature roared, deep and guttural, and twitched his muscular tail. Now Ellicott could see he was dark green and looked more like an alligator walking upright than a dinosaur. The alligator person rounded on the robots, preparing for a fight.“This is going to be awesome!” Banneker cried.Ellicott groaned. “Why didn’t I stay in bed?”

At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, “. . . they looked hard—tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin.” When Roberts’s fishing companion curtly refused the strangers’ offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, “Who are these people?” The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts’s encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.

All her life, Arteura has been raised in the cruel, oppressive culture of the Empire of Brynslæd. A culture based on fear and ritual. A culture that took her brother Tristan’s life.Five years have passed since his death, and though she is a young woman with a tainted family name, she is also a warrior at heart, and the possessor of an ancient, forbidden magic called Sigquaya. After all this time, how can she hide who she truly is? And, should she?Ultimately, she must choose her path of destiny, even at the risk of her abilities becoming known to the Empire, and especially to the Elder of the Temple—a man with many secrets of his own.Arteura’s brother Tristan was the firstborn of the Denaeus family, and just a boy when he was offered as a sacrifice to Brynewielm—the god of fire and harvest. Yet, he survives; secretly raised by a colony of survivors in the hidden community of Cierra. Even so, he still yearns to return to his family in Brynslæd. And like his sister, he struggles with the choices thrust upon him as he faces the treacherous journey back through the same passages that brought him to Cierra. But in doing so, he threatens the discovery and certain death of the very people who once saved him.Family bonds, friendship, and human endurance are all tested in this coming of age tale set against the backdrop of gods and monsters, fear and suspicion, discovery and magic, in this, the first book of The Cierran Series.

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Ken Roberts’ The Cedar Choppers leads us on a fascinating journey to the heart of this legendary Texas subculture.”— Steven L. Davis, PEN USA–winning author and past president, Texas Institute of Letters “Meant first for general audiences but badly needed by scholars, the work brings a neglected group into the southwestern history canon . . . a readable, conversational narrative.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “The best Texas book I’ve read of late was The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing by Ken Roberts. It doubles as one of the most instructive books about Austin’s history and culture.”—Austin American StatesmanNumber Twenty-four: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Commerce

Fifth grader Ellicott Skullworth has always felt out of place at public school and now he's tested into the Archimedes Program at Latimer University. While in Latimer City, he’ll be living with his world famous and insane(ly) brilliant cousin, Banneker Bones, the eleven-year-old inventor of robots. The only problem: Banneker doesn't want to share his room. And he's got an army of robots to make Ellicott miserable until he goes home. When the boys are ambushed by robot bees as big as cars, Ellicott's only friend is carried off and held for ransom. To rescue him, Ellicott has no choice but to partner with his maniacal cousin. Ellicott doesn't know what's worse: facing a hive of giant robot bees or spending more time with Banneker Bones.BANNEKER BONES AND THE GIANT ROBOT BEES is a humorous, science fiction adventure for readers of all ages written in the spirit of a comic book.“Let me say at once that I think this is a most original and amusing piece of work. A reader is arrested at the outset by a paradoxical witticism and he goes on being arrested as the story gets into its stride. Ellicott Skullworth and Banneker Bones appear as characters about whom the reader wants to learn more, and soon he begins to be in no doubt about this.”--Richard Adams, author of WATERSHIP DOWNEllicott Skullworth turned back to Banneker Bones. “Well, anyway, thanks for letting me stay here.”“Not my idea,” Banneker said. “You have my mother to thank for that. But she’s been wrong before. She adopted a stray puppy once and put it in my room to,” he made a face to show his disgust, “keep me company. The puppy survived two days.”Banneker looked Ellicott up and down as though he were appraising something for purchase and deciding against it. “And now she’s adopted another stray, hasn’t she? We’ll just see how long you survive.”

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A bomb explodes inside a Coeur d'Alene women's health care clinic, and a young woman stands before a vengeful crowd, accused of a crime she didn't commit. Yet guilt and innocence play no part when a community's lust for vengeance is at stake and only one man stands between her and the wrath of an unforgiving crowd.A flash of green on a roadside sign, a brilliant white arrow pointing into the distance--an exit sign, no different than any of the others they’d passed in the last ten hours. Yet taking this off-ramp forces Nick Lassiter to confront the questions and doubts that he thought he'd locked away years ago.Can life be a spark for protest?Can violence be a catalyst of redemption?Moral conflicts, a clash of beliefs, and a spiritual war as old as time itself, all come to a thrilling climax in "The Path of Judgment", the first book in the electrifying spiritual suspense, Drifter Series!

What if you awoke to find you could see into the spiritual world?Kaitlynn Havens thought it was a drug-induced hallucination gone wrong. But it was true--a truth she may not be ready for. Along the way, she joins Laura and Nick on the run from a media mogul hell-bent on retrieving what he feels has been stolen by the Drifter and his companion following the death of his son.In the spiritual realm, the angel, Eirin, is driven by his ambition and pushed to the edge by his frustration under the command of his arch, Suriyan. His thoughts turn to revenge, and his mind clouds with questions, doubt, and anger--both with his superior, and with his role in the war of good vs. evil. After all, what is good? What is evil? And which one is best served by our God given desires and ability?In the vein of Frank Peretti’s “Darkness” novels of spiritual warfare and Christian suspense comes the 2nd book in Kent Roberts’ The Drifter Series ~ “The Plague of Grace”