Books with author Tina Adams- Carter

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.Everyone is excited when the circus comes to Gizzleton. Deputy Rake asks Doc Tinkly to accompany him, hoping this could be his opportunity to declare his love to her. Tinkly, however, is more interested in setting Rake up with a nice girl that works in the big top. Meanwhile Bear’s own potential love, saloon owner Donna Belle, is having a difficult time convincing Bear to take the night off work so they can enjoy the experience together.As soon as the circus owner, Shana Cirque, sees a talking bear in a sheriff’s outfit she is determined to have him in her show and sets upon a fiendish quest to kidnap him.But there’s a stranger in town. Leo Manefire has made it his mission to kill Bear for crimes against his people and uses the circus as his means of sneaking into Grizzleton. A talking bipedal lion, Manefire holds the secrets to Bear’s past which have eluded him for so long.Rake, Tinkly, Belle and Bear … the whole of Grizzleton is forced to band together to foil the plans of the diabolical circus, prevent Manefire’s assassination attempt and uncover the answers to Bear’s past. If this blurb carries on much longer, though, you’ll find out the ending.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.On Christmas Eve, Doc Tinkly finds a wounded reindeer named Blitzen and fears this may ruin the big day. Bear and his deputies try to convince Tinkly that Blitzen is just a has-been actor, but Tinkly’s belief in Santa is just too strong.While they’re doing that, a polar bear named Percival appears in a Santa costume and no one knows what to think any more. Violent and voracious, Percival is surprised to find Bear in the town and his focus shifts from trying to eat Blitzen to trying to kill Bear. For Percival and Bear share a past the sheriff can’t remember, and are fighting over the woman back home who has won Bear’s heart.Six books in and we finally start to learn stuff about why Bear is a bear and why there are talking animals no one ever notices. Took long enough.

A dangerous bioweapon is being developed in a secret military base on Ceres, the dinosaur world. You are selected as the agent to infiltrate the facility and steal the weapon before it can be used.Getting to the facility won’t be easy, because first you have to navigate your way through the dinosaur-infested forest outside. Along the way you’ll encounter military outposts, deadly traps and dinosaurs hunting alone or in packs.It’s up to you to find the safest path, or to plough through the most dangerous. Failure will result in the completion of the bioweapon; millions of lives hang on the choices you make as you face the fearsome Forest of Fiends.A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.

The Second Battalion of Torbalia. Knights, thieves, barons, mercenaries … the Second Battalion is formed of unlikely allies. In each Knights of Torbalia game book, you take on the role of a different soldier. Can you master them all?Collected here are the first 5 Knights of Torbalia game books. Complete in and of themselves, these stories will set you against demon trees, thieves and horrific monsters from your past.You must determine your own course through the stories, deciding who to trust, who to fight and above all how to survive.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.Waking up to an abandoned town, Bear receives a call for help from young Doc Tinkly on one of those new-fangled infernal telephonic machines. Walking out into the desert, he finds himself lost in the strangest underground dungeon adventure ever.Taking the role of Sheriff Grizzly, you must make the decisions which shall reunite you with Doc Tinkly and hopefully explain all the weirdness going on … or maybe your choices will be bad ones and you’ll fall off a rainbow or something and die.Armed with your pistols, your badge and your own common sense (because Bear doesn’t have any), only you can defeat the dungeon and restore a little sanity to the Wild West wasteland.A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.When a bedraggled young woman named Miss Haldane stumbles into Grizzleton claiming to have been robbed by a thieving grizzly, Bear dons his hat and rides out alongside her to get her pearls back.Taking the role of Sheriff Grizzly, you must make the decisions which shall recover the pearls and put the bandit bear behind bars … or maybe your choices will be bad ones and you’ll get yourself run over by a train or something.Armed with your pistols, your badge and your own common sense (because Bear doesn’t have any), only you can solve the crime and serve justice to the Wild West wasteland.A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.

The Second Battalion of Torbalia. Knights, thieves, barons, mercenaries … the Second Battalion is formed of unlikely allies. In each Knights of Torbalia game book, you take on the role of a different soldier. Can you master them all?A jewel is stolen from the palace and the king wants the culprit’s head. Unfortunately, you are the man who stole it. Your only hope of survival is to sneak back into the palace and return the jewel so the king will be fooled into believing the theft never happened. Only then can you avoid the hangman’s noose.Taking the role of Cycleph, you must determine your own course of the story, deciding who to trust, who to fight and above all how to survive.A game book of 56 paragraphs.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: he’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.Doc Tinkly is in tears. Having confessed her love for Deputy Rake, she watched as he changed from a clumsy but lovable fool to a dashing action hero – a hero who no longer remembered she existed. Now, the race is on to find Yarek the Snake – the only man who can revert Rake to his former bumbling self and bring the love-struck teenagers back together.While Bear and his two deputies search the badlands for Yarek, Tinkly is left behind in town. Keeping herself busy, she accidentally unleashes the horror of a giant ant soldier that’s been lying dormant under the sand for years. When help comes from an unlikely source, Tinkly discovers (most of) the truth regarding the war, Rake’s condition and all this animal nonsense that’s been building up since book 1.If Yarek can be located, everything can at last come out and Bear will be able to not only save Rake but finally uncover the truth that’s eluded him so long. The only trouble is, truth comes at a price; a price simply too high for Bear to bear.The penultimate Sheriff Grizzly adventure (sorry, there’s still one more after this).

Moving from place to place, world to world, the Circuit is a self-contained community of racers with its own laws and rules. Riding whatever animals they find, the Circuit broadcasts races to its fans all across the system. When the Circuit travels to the infamous dinosaur world of Ceres, Glory and her ex-husband Grease compete even more fiercely to be the greatest racers in history. With dinosaurs as their steeds, their viewing figures are like nothing ever known before.However, it is not long before accidents begin to happen and racers are injured. As the attacks continue it becomes clear there is someone on Ceres with a grudge against the Circuit. Glory and Grease are ordered to cease racing, but with the chance of reaching so many more viewers it is something neither wishes to contemplate.With the attacks increasing and the list of suspects growing, Glory and Grease strive to prove to the entire solar system just who is the greatest dino-racer of all time.The latest in a series of stand-alone stories set on the quarantined dinosaur world Ceres.

The first Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective gamebook.Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the London police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear … Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts. Charles Baronaire lives for the thrill of making the streets safe. But Baronaire has other things on his mind. He’s stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; he can focus his mind to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And he has an insatiable appetite for human blood.Now you can take control of Baronaire as he and his partner race across London searching for clues to bring down a murderer. You choose which directions the investigation will take and which witnesses to interrogate. Do you have what it takes to solve a murder, and can you keep your abilities secret in the process?A gamebook of 80 paragraphs.

Your name is Roark. For thousands of years, you have been conducting experiments on the human race. Immortal and immune to pain, you yearn to understand what it means to be alive, yet your constant quest seldom bears fruit. To this end, you have trapped five people (two knights, an old priestess, a young acolyte and a travelling musician) in a temple filled with traps and monsters. If they can find the exit, you have promised to set them free.Unlike other gamebooks, here you take the role of the villain. It is up to you to beset the heroes with problems, to send in monsters or create walls of fire. All the while, you must watch them and try to further your understanding of their simple species.Can the heroes defeat you, and can you keep them alive long enough to learn something from them?A gamebook of 61 paragraphs.

The second Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective gamebook.Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the London police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear … Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts.Charles Baronaire lives for the thrill of making the streets safe. But Baronaire has other things on his mind. He’s stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; he can focus his mind to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And he has an insatiable appetite for human blood.Now you can take control of Baronaire as he races across London in search of a murderer, while slowly uncovering the secrets of a bizarre cult rife within the upper classes. You choose which directions the investigation will take and which witnesses to interrogate. Do you have what it takes to solve a murder, and can you keep your abilities secret in the process?A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.