Books with author andrews-jackie

Nominated for Best Self-Published Novel in Booknest's Fantasy AwardsTomkin Thornhewn, youngest son of the Duke of Marshwell, has a problem: he’s not heroic. Regardless of his aspirations, the bookish, untrained young man is better suited to recording the deeds of heroes than being one himself. Which becomes an obvious problem when he finds himself clinging to a ledge above a sleeping dragon. And instead of wielding his family’s great sword with valor and skill, he drops it—onto the dragon.The problem grows immeasurably worse when Tomkin himself falls off the ledge—also onto the dragon.And his problem reaches its peak when Tomkin, after being captured, discovers a maiden locked in a tower. But this is no sweet damsel. Not only does she refuse to be rescued, she refuses to even admit she’s in distress.It’s too bad for the people of Marshwell that Tomkin is the only thing standing - or falling - in the dragon’s way.JA Andrews introduced the world to the magic-wielding, world-saving, story-telling Keepers in A Threat of Shadows. Now you can enjoy one of the Keeper’s most beloved tales: The Story of Tomkin and the Dragon, in this engaging, lighthearted novel.Pick up your copy today and see why Tomkin's story is so well loved.

Circumstances have forced sixteen-year-old Gil Vichezny to leave Par and search for the father she’s never met, or even wanted to. She knows nothing about him except he was once Captain Halford Avers, dishonourably discharged from Space Force and now a notorious space pirate called the Phantom, with a huge price on his head.Disguised as a boy, with forged ID, Gil starts her journey as purser’s clerk on the Marakova, a merchant space vessel rumoured to deal in contraband and owned by the Cortez family. But from day one she makes a vicious enemy of Moses, one of the Cortez sons, and barely survives by her wits and combat training.When the Marakova is hijacked by the Phantom and his crew, Gil finally confronts her father, but it is not the reunion she imagined.

Mother Nature unfolds some of her most precious secrets. She tells about amber, about the dragon-fly and its wonderful history, about water-lilies, how the Indian corn grows, what odd doings the Frost Giants engage in, about coral, and starfish, and coal mines, and many other things in which children take delight. Ages 7-10 “You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous “old woman who lived in the shoe,” has so many children that she doesn’t know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how strong she is, and how active; how she can really be in fifty places at once, taking care of a sick tree, or a baby flower just born; and, at the same time, building underground palaces, guiding the steps of little travellers setting out on long journeys, and sweeping, dusting, and arranging her great house,–the earth. And all the while, in the midst of her patient and never-ending work, she will tell us the most charming and marvellous stories of ages ago when she was young, or of the treasures that lie hidden in the most distant and secret closets of her palace; just such stories as you all like so well to hear your mother tell when you gather round her in the twilight.” CONTENTS. THE STORY OF THE AMBER BEADS THE NEW LIFE THE TALK OF THE TREES THAT STAND IN THE VILLAGE STREET HOW THE INDIAN CORN GROWS WATER-LILIES THE CARRYING TRADE SEA-LIFE WHAT THE FROST GIANTS DID TO NANNIE'S RUN HOW QUERCUS ALBA WENT TO EXPLORE THE UNDERWORLD, AND WHAT CAME OF IT TREASURE-BOXES A PEEP INTO ONE OF GOD'S STOREHOUSES THE HIDDEN LIGHT SIXTY-TWO LITTLE TADPOLES GOLDEN-ROD AND ASTERS

Dear children, I have heard of a wonderful ball, which floats in the sweet blue air, and has little soft white clouds about it, as it swims along. There are many charming and astonishing things to be told of this ball, and some of them you shall hear. In the first place, you must know that it is a very big ball; far bigger than the great soft ball, of bright colors, that little Charley plays with on the floor,—yes, indeed; and bigger than cousin Frank's largest football, that he brought home from college in the spring; bigger, too, than that fine round globe in the schoolroom, that Emma turns about so carefully, while she twists her bright face all into wrinkles as she searches for Afghanistan or the Bosphorus Straits. Long names, indeed; they sound quite grand from her little mouth, but they mean nothing to you and me now.