Books with author V. J. Mortimer

Would you rather walk on hot coals or swim in the Arctic Ocean? Learn to fly a helicopter or learn to perform open-heart surgery? Be frozen and then thawed out in the future at the age you are now or live forever? Welcome to the book of choices, where every answer brings you one step closer to discovering your hidden self. Want to find out your ideal career? The country that best suits your idea of the good life? The species of your inner animal? Through in-depth exploration and analysis of the inner workings of your mind, we'll peel you back layer by layer and you won't even realize it. Psychologist, comedian, and youth motivational speaker Dr. Matt Bellace dissects your answers and reveals things you didn't even know we were assessing in this hysterically fun quiz book. Each vividly colored page is so exciting, fun, and revealing that you will want to share with your parents, friends, and yes, even your brother and sister. So stop wasting your time trying to discover the true you--let us do it for you!

This compilation of witty mysteries captures John Mortimer's deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. Rumpole and the Angel of Death offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system. The Third Rumpole Omnibus promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (The Boston Sunday Globe).

What if everything you ever knew about your parents – everything you ever knew about yourself – turned out to be a deception? Who would you trust? Who COULD you trust? For Niamh and Grady O’Connell a simple and easy country life comes to an abrupt halt late one Autumn day when they encounter a Phoenix in a forest – a Phoenix who knows them by name. The meeting sets them off on an adventure and takes them to a world they could only dream existed but never imagined they could visit – Nearworld. After being forced to abandon their old life by the evil powers of a dark wizard they must learn how to survive in a magical world peopled by Vampires, Elves, Banshees, Leprechauns, and Weresetters (like Werewolves but infinitely more lovable). Their new home in a castle, and their school at Rookwood Hall wraps them in a deceptive safety net. Detentions don’t always turn out to be the drudgery they expect, and lunchtime games take on a whole new meaning when wands are involved. With the help of new friends, a dangerous dragon, and their combined wits, the children face a danger they could never have foreseen, and discover they are linked in a way that takes them beyond the bonds of family and friends. The future of two worlds depends on their choices. Azraels twins is the first book in the Nearworld tales and will be followed soon by Azrael’s Twins and the Circle of Stone.

Would you rather walk on hot coals or swim in the Arctic Ocean? Learn to fly a helicopter or learn to perform open-heart surgery? Be frozen and then thawed out in the future at the age you are now or live forever? Welcome to the book of choices, where every answer brings you one step closer to discovering your hidden self. Want to find out your ideal career? The country that best suits your idea of the good life? The species of your inner animal? Through in-depth exploration and analysis of the inner workings of your mind, we'll peel you back layer by layer and you won't even realize it. Psychologist, comedian, and youth motivational speaker Dr. Matt Bellace dissects your answers and reveals things you didn't even know we were assessing in this hysterically fun quiz book. Each vividly colored page is so exciting, fun, and revealing that you will want to share with your parents, friends, and yes, even your brother and sister. So stop wasting your time trying to discover the true you--let us do it for you!

Banshees, dragons and evil wizards should have been enough to make life difficult for Niamh and Grady O’Connell. But their new royal life in Avalon is about to get a lot more complicated when the secrets of Morrigan’s Lake begin to reveal themselves. The second book in the Nearworld Tales brings the magical siblings face to face with family mysteries they could never have suspected. Just how much have their parents been hiding from them? And who is the lady in red that haunts the forests of the lake? Just to make things even tougher, their new found powers are starting to take over their lives in strange and frightening ways. If the voices inside their heads don’t kill them first then the forces trying to unite the power of two worlds just might. Azrael’s Twins and the Circle of Stone – Sometimes even magic isn’t enough…

Native Floridian, Stephanie Mortimer is a work-from-home author/illustrator, wife to Scott and mother to, Emmy and Wyatt. She loves all things creative: writing stories, painting pictures, drawing, sewing, costuming, and music. With her background in art and education, she also homeschools her two children full time. Stephanie hopes to share her stories with children of all ages and encourage her readers to realize their amazing worth and unique gifts!

Excerpt from Confessions of a Book AgentWhy it was called The Rookery I never learned, and I am still at a loss to know, as I never saw crow or rook within fifty miles of it; in fact the only birds I ever did see near it were sparrows which were sadly off color, and pigeons against which Noah would have shut his dove cote in dis gust, if they had attempted to board the ark, with or without evidences of dry land.The dusky hue of the building itself may have had something to do with its nomenclature, per haps, but any self-respecting rook would feel deep chagrin at the comparison.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.