Books with author Robert Wiles

Tales from a Second-Hand Wand Shoppe (Book 2): Gnomes, and Halflings, and Assassins! Oh My! Aution lay in ruins. Charred, smoldering ruins. The Gnomes, Rat, and Nulu make their way out to Big Julie’s School of Magic. They’re looking for a place to hide out until things cool down. News hasn’t spread about Grimbledung being responsible for the town-wide fire and they want to keep it that way. The gang decides that a new town is in order, and it will be built around Julie’s school. Julesville is founded and everything seems to be moving along smoothly. Until a certain newly-unemployed werewolf, and a newly-put-out-of-business Haberdashery owner show up. With Akita and Pozzuoli in town, things aren’t looking good for Grimbledung. Fortunately for him, the impending Halfling invasion gets everyone’s attention. Mostly. Bent on revenge against Grimbledung for cheating them out of the fun of razing Aution, a group of Halflings arrive in Julesville and declare Martial Law. Meanwhile, the Army of the Lord High Priest of Halflings masses on the other side of the Anti-Ogre Wall. Prost Garrison and Frank's Keep prepare for the inevitable attack that they fully expect will wipe them out. Working together, thanks to Grimbledung, the gang tricks the Halflings into leaving Julesville (intact even), repels the Halfling invasion, and restores peace to the lands. Well, not really those last two...

In the 1800s, the young Clarence King was an icon of the new America: a man of adventure and intellect, a flash-in-the-pan celebrity who combined science and exploration with romanticism and charm. Robert Wilson’s biography, The Explorer King, vividly depicts King’s daredevil feats including his journey to the highest peak of the Sierra Nevada, and uncovers the reasons for the shocking decline he suffered after his days on the American frontier.Through King’s own rollicking tales, some true, some embroidered, of scaling previously unclimbed mountain peaks, of surviving a monster blizzard near Yosemite, of escaping ambush and capture by Indians, of being chased on horseback for two days by angry bandits, Robert Wilson offers a powerful combination of adventure, history, and nature writing, he also provides the bigger picture of the West at this time. Ultimately, King himself would come to symbolize the collision of science and business, one of the sources of his downfall. Fascinating and extensive, The Explorer King movingly portrays the America of the nineteenth century and the man who—for better or worse—typified the soul of the era.

It is a time of celebration as Julesville plans a Victory over Halfling Day. The V-H jubilee planning committee does Not need Grimbledung's help. Across town, Big Julie is having a theft problem. Wands are disappearing at an alarming rate from her students. At wit's end, she hires Grimbledung to go undercover at the school as a transfer student to ferret out the thief. Grim Noir is on the case! It doesn't go as planned. Love is in the air! Chéri settles down with her long lost love. Akita sets his eyes on the mysterious Elf, Maca. Then, just when there couldn't (or shouldn't) be more romance- two Dwarfesses arrive in town. They're interested in Grimbledung and Drimblerod. Really, really interested. Of course that probably isn't what it seems. However, as Akita says "Every pot has its lid", so maybe it will work out in the end. Spoiler Alert: It doesn't.

What will tomorrow bring? The Greek and Romans were as curious about the future as we are today. The gods spoke and told the future at special sites, called oracles, and through individuals, called Sibyls. This teacher's resource provides a concise account of Michelangelo’s five Sibyls: Libyan, Cumaean, Delphic, Persian, and Erythraean, as well as a rich background on the evolution of the oracle through time. Reproducible masters include word searches, charts, diagrams, and maps, as well as internet and group activities. Contemporary tie-ins include a student analysis of the Farmers Almanac.

Because it all seems so improbable-so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library-I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know I shall never have the courage to tell the truth about the matter-not from fear of ridicule, but because I myself shall soon cease to credit what I now know to be true. Yet scarcely a month has elapsed since I heard the stealthy purring of what I believed to be the shoaling undertow-scarcely a month ago, with my own eyes, I saw that which, even now, I am beginning to believe never existed.

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