Books with title The Horse Chronicles

Lia is fourteen and losing her best friend. When things don't seem like they could get any worse, Ryan disappears.Lia is one of only a handful of black kids in Coronado, her San Diego suburb. The only person she feels she can talk to is punk rock high priestess and frontwoman to a legendary LA band, Exene Cervenka. Reeling from Ryan's disappearance, Lia writes letters and poems to Exene every day. She can relate to Exene--but if they were to ever meet, would Exene be able to relate to her? With Exene and her band's searing soundtrack as her chief inspiration, Lia dives head-first into a dark and spiky counterculture rife with confrontation, shifting alliances, and unsettling insights into what Ryan was doing and what might have happened to her.Set against the backdrop of the 1980s heyday of LA punk rock, The Exene Chronicles sings of the coming of a new age for all girls in America who have been disenfranchised by the spaces they identified as their own. With lyrical prose and an unrelenting moral center, Camille A. Collins liberates the punk in all of us.

This complete epic fantasy story introduces you to the magical realm of Wilmurin. After being forced to flee as a child, Johan, the last Night Hunter, returns to Wilmurin. He comes to a land that is rich in beauty and peace. Upon his return, he soon meets the druids, a shape-shifting race of humans who now rule over Wilmurin following the extinction of the elves.All of that peace and beauty is about to be threatened by the evil vampire lord Darkool who is about to unleash an undead horde on the world. The druid clans must unite to battle the coming darkness or face complete annihilation. War is coming.Johan, along with newly found friends and allies must race against time to find a way to destroy the evil tyrant. The Night Hunter is about to discover he is far more important than any other being on Wilmurin. He arrives both green and unprepared for the perilous journey that is coming, secrets lay ahead that will shake even the strongest man to his core. H.J. Cronin brings you his complete debut story featuring friendship, death, betrayals and adventure which makes up the high fantasy novel that is The Druid Chronicles. Will the forces of good prevail over evil or is this the end of the land of the druids.

Kayla Dean, junior feminist and future journalist, is about the break the story of a lifetime. She is auditioning for the Lady Lions dance team to prove they discriminate against the not-so-well endowed. But when she makes the team, her best friend and fellow feminist, Rosalie, is not happy.Now a Lady Lion, Kayla is transformed from bushy-haired fashion victim to glammed-up dance diva. But does looking good and having fun mean turning her back on the cause? Can you be a strong woman and still wear really cute shoes? Soon Kayla is forced to challenge her views, coming to terms with who she is and what girl power really means.Narrated with sharp language and just the right amount of attitude, The Kayla Chronicles is the story of a girl's struggle for self-identity despite pressure from family, friends and her own conscience. Kayla's story is snappy, fun and inspiring, sure to appeal to anyone who's every questioned who they really are.

Three sisters learn that they have a predestined responsibility to cast out the Naughties (Villians) of mystical lands. Each adventure presents an opportunity to learn about bonding as sisters, problem solving, criticial thinking and moral obligations. Their powers are just developing as they are thrown into amazing new worlds to keep the scale of good and evil tilted to good. Mystical adventures are awaiting the three sisters soon to be known as Q3. They will endure magnificent challenges, and defeat unsuspecting villains. Alex, Faith, and Ellie Q must fight battles they didn't know existed before breakfast and still make it home in time for dinner.

Someone had made a terrible mistake twelve years ago and placed a homeless child in the care of Janet and Hugh Finklestein. This child's name was Sara. She knew nothing of her life before the Finklestein's, just that life with them was miserable. They didn't feed her, didn't love her and pretty much left her to fend for herself. Sara's life changes dramatically one day when she is transported to the Land of the Keepers, a strange place where nothing is quite what it seems, and danger is around every bend. Sara is told by the Keepers that an evil group called the Garren have been causing trouble in the land. People all over the land have been disappearing, those that are left have begun to change dramatically from kind and loving neighbors to hateful, violent bullies. Sara is told that she has special powers given to her at birth that will help save the people of this land. What the power is exactly they cannot tell her, but they do know that she will have to find two other children just like herself to help defeat the Garren. One child has the power to control people's minds, the other had the power to move objects with his mind. The tricky part is to find the other two with no help from the Keepers and no clue as to who they are or where they are located. All they can tell her is that she will know them when she sees them. And by the way figure out what your power is and learn how to use it. No problem right?

Teenager Noah Winston watched a boy die and crumble to dust in the street. That was his introduction to a bizarre mystery spanning from the early settlement of the Las Vegas valley to the present day. Uncovering the truth drove him deep into history and legend as he attempted to untangle fact from fiction and found himself falling in love with 19th Century Emma Samson along the way. Only during the brief window of dusk every night can her family enter the modern-day world of Las Vegas. Noah eventually discovers the full extent of the mystery surrounding the time stranded community, as well as a shocking destiny spanning over a century.

Following the disappearance of an unmanned spacecraft as it approaches dwarf planet Ceres, a new mission to Ceres begins, this time with a lone explorer, Captain Ron Graves, at the helm. What he finds on Ceres is shocking and very unexpected. What mysteries does he discover? Will he make it back home? Download this first installment in The Ceres Chronicles and find out!This short story is the perfect length for a quick read right before bed!