Books with author Thomas G. Thrum

In this children's chapter books for ages 6-8, nine year old Jessie and her seven year old brother Ethan are the new kids to arrive on John's Island in South Carolina. Their family just moved into a 100 year old farmhouse that has a mysterious attic full of old toys and a magical wooden chest! When Jessie and Ethan open the old wooden chest they see four items inside. After Jessie touches a gold pocket watch inside the chest a note written in enchanted words on old parchment paper suddenly appears floating inside the chest. Jessie and Ethan read the magical words on the note and in an instant the children disappear from the attic. Travel through time and space on an adventure with Jessie and Ethan into the 1950's as they meet an exciting and brave new friend and learn the mystery behind the gold pocket watch in book one of The Magic Chest Book Series: Sands of Time.

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Sequel to The Well of TearsThe Town of Superstition: Book ThreeThaddeus Cane has finally reached the foot of Wraith Mountain. He hopes to find his mother—changed into a dragon by the witch Isadora many years ago—and bring her back to Superstition to live with him and his father. With Teofil, his garden gnome boyfriend, and Teofil’s mother, sister, and their new elf friend, Thaddeus discovers that getting to his mother will not be as easy as they’d hoped. They are forced to shelter in the small town of Iron Gulch where Thaddeus’s father takes a job to secure the equipment they need to climb the mountain. The longer they stay in Iron Gulch, the more Thaddeus comes to believe things in the town are not as pleasant as they appear. When a new and vicious enemy reveals itself, Thaddeus and his group are thrust into a fight not only for their lives, but for the lives of the Iron Gulch residents. As the battle rages, they discover Thaddeus’s mother and struggle to free her and end Isadora’s tyranny once and for all.

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(Re-edited in 2016) It was just a normal school day…until the accident. However, when the four bus-mates wake, stranded on another world, with two of their friends injured, even stranger events begin to happen. Rescued by a lone traveler, who is a magic student, he takes them in search of elfin healers, but on that trip Lauren and Logan, fraternal twins, are adopted by divine benefactors, giving them both knowledge and powers. Eventually, they find themselves in the dwarven mine of the Ironhouse clan, and once there, the mysteries begin to unfold, including the biggest of them all; why would four-foot tall dwarves forge a six-foot long sword? Here you will find a fresh, fast-paced adventure, with unique characters, odd circumstances, unusual events, with an exceptional and original story line.

The Town of Superstition: Books One and TwoThaddeus Cane is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--and learn a lot about himself along the way.It begins with another move to a new town, a place called Superstition that more than lives up to its name. From his bedroom window, Thaddeus watches his attractive new neighbor tending a magical garden. When curiosity and attraction compel Thaddeus to meet the young man, he discovers Teofil is a garden gnome. And that's just the first of many secrets to come to light in The Midnight Gardener.Thaddeus and Teofil's quest continues in The Well of Tears, when Thaddeus learns he is the son of a powerful witch and wizard. He has never known his mother--who was cursed when he was a baby--and he sets out to find her, accompanied by his boyfriend, Teofil. They encounter magical beings both benign and deadly, and when Thaddeus's father is injured, he is forced to make an impossible decision.

Your children kidnapped—a parent’s worst horror! Unless you saw them disappear into the portal—then it becomes a nightmare! You can’t tell the police—as they will never believe you, nobody will. So what do you do? You pray! And that is what Lauren did after her arrest. With insufficient evidence and released from jail, those who would believe her gather to provide support: her husband Ryan, her brother Logan, and friends Eric and John, who had all returned from the magical lands of Calicon four years earlier. The place she desperately needed to get back to—because that was where her triplets were presently located. Just as the abduction had been unanticipated, so was their exit from this world, which also caught Steve, the arresting detective, by surprise. Once in the enchanted lands, greeted by Mirtza, a new plague of mysteries waits for them, but so do magic, friends, and allies. Then, in a land filled with surprises so amazing, it will yield the greatest one yet, and the promise of hope. Can they formulate a plan to push back the shadows: to find the triplets, to win the day? What happens when the evil unleashed is great, and it has a plan—a better plan? What happens when chaos threatens to birth horrors unimaginable? This fast-paced, suspenseful epic is filled with twists and turns that will both surprise and entertain you like no book before. When done, your introduction to The Gray-Matter Chronicles continues with Book two, Reset, which has also been published for your enjoyment. • “I feel the characters evolved from the earlier volumes in a logical progression.”• “The new characters were great additions and provided a good contrast and at times a foil to the heroes. Challenging, questioning and driving the plot forward. ”• “Book was well paced - I liked the build up at the end.”• “Great sequel - I think your writing is developing well. Your POV is better and the characters are able to have complex discussion without the reader losing the plot line. ” • “The plot is unique and draws the reader in.” • “Overall great book - thanks for letting me read it.”• “This book was a "Wow!" for most of it. Thank you. ”• “Yes. All the characters stayed true to what I knew and what I expected. ” • “…I laughed and was saddened several times…”• “Yes, you made the end chapters intense. So much so that I forgot this was a beta book and went to Amazon to see if there was a second book. During the end chapters my husband had to get up in the middle of the night to ask if I planned to go to bed. I told him that I'd wait to finish the book. ”

This is an anthology of Hawaiian folklore, including pieces by Thomas Thrum and other writers. This includes many articles which were originally published in difficult to obtain journals and now-rare books. All were written in the late 19th or early 20th century, and are mostly based on first-hand oral traditions. Chapters cover topics such as resemblances to Biblical stories, myths of the gods and goddesses such as Maui and Pele, historical legends, topographical folklore, and the folklore of fishing.Of interest to the general reader will be the tales of the Menehune, the 'little people' of Hawaii, who resemble in some aspects the fairies of Europe. The Menehune are credited with numerous earth-works such as fish ponds and stone platforms. This is reminiscent of European folklore which attributes the construction of megalithic monuments to the fairies. Could the Menehune be based on a short-statured pre-Polynesian indigenous Hawaiian culture? Or, could this be a post-contact European folklore import, as some recent researchers have suggested?Hawaiian Folk Tales is one of a number of excellent period books available on this subject, and with a few exceptions, does not attempt to overly romanticize or impose western narrative structure. It makes entertaining reading both for visitors and residents of the Hawaiian islands. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the AuthorNathaniel Bright Emerson (1839 - 1915)Nathaniel Bright Emerson (born July 1, 1839 Waialua, Oahu, died July 16, 1915, at sea) was a medical physician and author of Hawaiian mythology.He attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and served in the First Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, during which he was wounded

Sequel to The Battle of Iron Gulch The Town of Superstition: Book Four Thaddeus and his family and friends have returned from Iron Gulch and Thaddeus's summer of magical awakening to a very different life. For one, he has both his parents for the first time, though his mother is still haunted by terrors and powers she can't yet control. Teofil, Thaddeus's gnome boyfriend, is consumed with finding Thaddeus's evil uncle Lucian and answers about what happened to his brother, and he spends his days sequestered in Leopold's library, pouring over the old wizard's journals. When Thaddeus starts school and makes friends Teofil doesn't like, there's tension between them for the first time ever. Thaddeus's problems don't end there. It's harder and harder for him to conceal his magic, especially when facing the school bully. He's lost, confused, and lashing out, and for once, he finds no solace in those closest to him. His enemies are hiding in plain sight, biding their time, until the Bearagon reappears and instigates a fight not everyone will walk away from.