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Thrown once again into the wild, Ellia is alone. She has betrayed those who trusted her so she can face her mother and stop the Church's terrible war tearing apart the countryside. She knows she's walking into a trap, but she can't sit by and watch the world burn.Kieva, sworn to protect Ellia, is trapped underground, forced to deal with the wrath of Seth, the mad leader of the Order, a group fighting against the Church. Wracked with guilt that he cannot perform his duty, he loses hope until Lorensa, a woman who remembers what the Order once stood for, gives him new purpose. Save the world.Ellia and Kieva must fight for what they believe in or at least die trying.Galileo's Ascension is the final book in the New Dark Ages Trilogy.

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." For Ellia McAllister, it couldn't be more accurate.Thousands of years after a devastating cataclysm, humanity lives in a new dark age. Technology and science are forbidden and a matriarchal church rules society. However, Ellia is ruled only by her curiosity. Defying the Church, she learns that all is not as it seems in the holy books and that humans once traveled to the stars and possibly beyond.Her knowledge and defiance will mean her death and the death of her family unless she escapes. When she meets the mysterious Kieva, a nomadic Rover, she soon learns that more is going on in the Church than she ever thought possible. Without his help, her life, the lives of thousands of others, and mankind's future are at risk. Can she set her own beliefs aside, her way of life, and trust a stranger? Even if trusting him might mean her death?

Always fascinated by magic, 11-year-old Charlie Wainwright buys a book of wizardry from the village hall car boot sale. It is an old book, written hundreds of years before he was even born and as soon as he takes the volume home he sets out to discover if the spells it contains really do work. They do, his cat can bark, his dog can meow and Charlie is having great fun; but when he has a visit from the book's author, the wizard - Argetlám, will his life ever be the same again? For someone, in the goblin and witch-infested Darklands of the Cumbrian Underworld, is watching him from afar. Watching him through evil and envious eyes. That someone is the wicked Witch Queen - Nemetona; the most beautiful of witches but by far the most evil. Nemetona will stop at nothing to get her hands on Charlie's book of spells and with this in mind dispatches a goblin familiar to the Overland (where humans live) to steal it. Caught by the goblin with the forbidden book, Charlie's cousin, Joanne, is kidnapped and spirited away into the terrifying dimension of the Darklands. Now, Charlie and the wizard must go after her. Firstly, to rescue Joanne, afterwards to retrieve the precious book of spells. It is now that Charlie's adventures really begin, as along with the wizard and his very peculiar friends, they battle goblins, dragons and witches as they continue their quest to find the lost works of the arch wizard - Argetlám.

Beth never imagined she would live to see sixteen, much less fall in love. Beaten and abused by her father, a World War II veteran, in 1960 rural Oklahoma, her future is grim. Her mother is already dead and her older brother, Jeff, is the only one who looks after her. But with a life and plans of his own, he can't always be there to help.Until the mysterious and dreamy Tilo, a German immigrant, walks into her life. A truck driver for an employer he'd rather not name, with cargo he'd rather not know about, he seems to be just what Beth needs. But a man with his own troubled past.Can they overcome their pasts and live for the future or will it catch up with them and destroy them before they discover how they really feel?

The Nineteenth Century Great Game for control of Central Asia was played along the mountains and in the deserts of Afghanistan. The “players” were British and Russian intelligence agents of great daring and fortitude. They spied and fought, often alone and sometimes in disguise, far from any hope of support and frequently in deadly danger. Long after their time, a new version of the “game” continued in the Cold War. This is a fictional account of an episode in the in the modern Great Game -- the story of an Anglo-American-Russian espionage venture in which a young American intelligence agent carries on in the spirit of the old Great Game. It is based on an intimate knowledge of the country and the people and on actual events. It makes a riveting tale.

Having earned his share of unwanted attention in the past, Jax Sheppard has learned some hard lessons: 1. Playing dodgeball with “Normals” is a surefire way to land you in detention. 2. Don’t drop a clown on your best friend if you want to keep him as your best friend. Now Jax prefers to blend in and go unnoticed—not an easy task for a scrawny thirteen-year-old with a chewed gum collection and the ability to leap a tall teacher in a single bound. When Jax joins his friends for a simple night of mischief at the local pool, it ends with the discovery of a broken fragment from an ancient, magical mirror and the tragic death of his brother. Jax resolves to find all seven fragments of the Kaptropoten, an amazing mirror with an incredible history, to harness its powers and bring back his brother. But before he does, he will need to uncover an unimaginable betrayal, discover the amazing truth about his super strength, and decide if he can live with the fatal consequences of using the mirror to resurrect his brother.

Having earned his share of unwanted attention in the past, Jax Sheppard has learned some hard lessons:1. Playing dodgeball with “Normals” is a surefire way to land you in detention.2. Don’t drop a clown on your best friend if you want to keep him as your best friend.Now Jax prefers to blend in and go unnoticed—not an easy task for a scrawny thirteen-year-old with a chewed gum collection and the ability to leap a tall teacher in a single bound.When Jax joins his friends for a simple night of mischief at the local pool, it ends with the discovery of a broken fragment from an ancient, magical mirror and the tragic death of his brother. He resolves to find all seven fragments of the Kaptropoten, an amazing mirror with an incredible history, to harness its powers to bring back his brother. Jax sets off on a journey around the globe that takes him to the glass island of Murano, the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Along the way, he escapes from a team of uptight secret agents, takes on a gaggle of Gorgs, and tussles with a French grandpa wielding a mean frying pan. Oh, and while he’s at it, Jax must stop a soul-sucking sorcerer who’s been pining for his long lost, evil girlfriend, and who also wants to get his hands on those darned mirrors. There’s only one problem: Jax is about as courageous as a pinky toe—which everyone knows is the least brave toe on the foot.In The Seven Mirrors, Jax will be pushed to confront his own anxieties and self-doubt in order to bring back his brother. But before he does he will need to uncover an unimaginable betrayal, discover the amazing truth about his superhuman strength, and decide if he can live with the fatal consequences of using the mirror to resurrect his brother.

‘THE WITCHES OF LEWTHAN MOUNTAIN’Reading age: 8-12Always fascinated by magic, eleven year old Charlie Braithwaite buys a book of wizardry from the village hall bring and buy sale. It is an old book, written hundreds of years before he was even born and as soon as he takes the volume home he sets out to discover if the spells it contains really do work. They do, his cat can bark, his dog meow and Charlie is having great fun; but when he has a visit from the book’s author, the wizard – Argetlám, will his life ever be the same again? For someone, in the goblin and witch infested Darklands of the Cumbrian Underworld of England, is watching him from afar. Watching him through evil and envious eyes. That someone is the wicked Witch Queen – Nemetona; the most beautiful of witches but by far the most evil. Nemetona will stop at nothing to get her hands on Charlie’s book of spells and with this in mind, despatches a goblin familiar to the Overland [where humans live] to steal it. Caught by the goblin in the act of reading the forbidden book, Charlie’s cousin, Joanne, is kidnapped and spirited away into the terrifying dimension of the Darklands. Now, Charlie and the wizard must go after her; firstly, to rescue Joanne, secondly, to retrieve the precious book of spells. It is now that Charlie’s adventures really begin, as along with the wizard and his very peculiar friends, they battle goblins, dragons and witches as they continue their quest to find - the lost works of the arch wizard – Argetlám. An ExcerptTHE WITCHES OF LEWTHAN MOUNTAINON THE MOUNTAIN OF LEWTHAN, IN THE PALACE CASTLE OF THE EVIL WITCH QUEEN – NEMETONA.Her head adorned with a solid gold, diamond-encrusted crown and wearing a long, flowing dress and cloak, both of which were made from the finest black-dyed silk, the queen seemed to glide, gracefully, down the Great Hall. Eventually, at the end of the vast, stone-vaulted chamber, she eased herself onto a golden, heavily jewelled throne and through dark, evil eyes, stared down at the trembling goblin who knelt, quaking with fear, at her feet. ‘Well?’ she asked, impatiently. ‘Have you found it?’The terrified goblin shook his head. ‘No Majesty,’ he replied, without daring to look into her eyes. ‘I’ve searched everywhere, ma’am, absolutely everywhere. For nearly a hundred years I’ve wandered across every inch of the Overland. I’ve peered through a million windows, sneaked inside ten thousand homes but___’‘But you’ve still not found my missing book!’ screeched the witch queen.‘No Majesty,’ said the goblin, who by now was shaking so much his teeth were beginning to rattle like an old vintage car.‘Then you’ve failed me!’ she screamed at him. ‘Failed your queen!’‘But Majesty,’ moaned the goblin. ‘Before you called me back to the Mountain of Lewthan I think I was, at long last, getting really, really close.’‘You lie, Fender,’ she spat at him. ‘Your kind will always lie to save your ugly, pathetic hides.’ ‘It’s the truth,’ protested the unhappy goblin. For the first time daring to raise his head and actually look at his sovereign. ‘I think it might be somewhere in the County of Cumbria, in the Overland, Your Majesty.’‘And what makes you think that?’ asked the queen, her temper suddenly beginning to cool a little. ‘Because, at the southern end of the Great Forest of the North, just before I left to report to Your Wickedness, I felt the slightest disturbance of the ether.’‘You did?’ she asked. Her eyes boring into those of the goblin’s.‘Yes Majesty, it was faint, short, but very, very powerful. As though someone, perhaps for the first time in centuries, had at long last opened the book to look inside it.’The witch queen stared down at the hapless goblin. ‘If you’re lying to me, Fender,’ she began, sinisterly. ‘If you’re simply spinning me a goblin’s tale, just to save your worthless skin, then I’ll turn you into a rabbit and have you st

Charlie Braithwaite is at home in his bedroom. It is a boring, wet afternoon, when suddenly, his old friend the archwizard Argetlám appears on his computer screen. At first delighted by the return of his friend, he soon discovers that the wizard has a job for him that is both extremely dangerous and possibly, crucially important to the freedom of everyone living in modern Britain. Argetlám explains to Charlie that Athelwan, an evil sorcerer punished for his wicked ways by entombment in a cavern, centuries earlier, has escaped. Furthermore, he has materialised during the Battle of Britain, in 1940s England. The sorcerer has taken the job of headmaster of the local school and Argetlám is convinced that he is trying to help Britain’s sworn enemy, the evil Nazis. Should he succeed in his scheme, Britain may well lose the battle and therefore, her freedom. The consequences of this re-writing of history being that even people as young as Charlie could be seriously affected, perhaps not even born. Our hero is therefore persuaded to travel back to September 1940, in the guise of a London evacuee. Once there, he is to enrol at Athelwan’s school, where the sorcerer has taken the name Benson, in order to spy on him.

The Ghosts of Badger WoodThe story, which is suitable for all children from the age of 8 to 80, is one of old-fashioned decency confronting an extremely evil group of far from decent, modern thugs. It doing so, it tells of a most unusual joint venture between the police service and a bizarre group of long-forgotten war heroes, men who most certainly bring a whole new meaning to the newly-coined phrase – ‘The Big Society’. In BriefThe Carrington children are on holiday in the Lake District when they discover an injured badger cub lying in a ditch. The animal is cared for by their host, the owner of their holiday home and a former vet. When the injured beast is at last ready to be returned to the wild, the children learn of a plot by badger-baiters to dig out the local sett and use the animals in their violent, evil and extremely gruesome pastime. Immediately the children try to warn people, but few adults believe their story. Even those who do assure them nothing could ever happen to the badgers for no one has dared to bother the residents of Badger Wood for nearly a century. Why? Because the wood, and all the peace-loving creatures that dwell within it, are guarded by the ghosts of the long-dead soldiers of the village of Merethwaite – well – they are – aren’t they?

'Drop Zone' by R.M. McLeodAnticipated reading age: 8-11Length: circa 20,000 words.Set in the English Lake District, Abigail, Imogen and Ross, the young heroes of the story, are enjoying a well-deserved holiday when they accidentally become involved with a group of drug smugglers. The smugglers, a far from friendly group of men, have a hideout in the workings of a long disused copper-mine and the trio are set to have some hair-raising adventures, and put themselves at considerable risk, as they find themselves fighting for their lives whilst trying to bring the criminals to justice. If you want old-fashioned adventure, a book that is going to appeal to the most reluctant of readers, that is not too long, has suspense and lots and lots of nail-biting excitement, then R.M. McLeod’s 'Drop Zone' is definitely for you.

‘THE TIME FLYERS’ A Novel by R.M. McLeodSci-fi adventure novel. Reading age 9-13Henry Harrison is twelve years old and something of a minor tearaway. He is also, quite incorrectly, the prime suspect of the armed robbery of a market trader and, as the novel begins, on the run from the law. Anxious to clear his name, he finds midnight sanctuary, illegally, in the home of a retired professor of physics, but rather than immediately hand him over to the police, the professor listens to his trespasser’s tale with some sympathy and even offers to help Henry clear his name. This he does by allowing him to use his newest, most secret and prized invention – the ability to travel in time.'The Time Flyers' is a combination of the good old ripping yarns Henry’s grandfather might have read and a modern adventure story, with modern boys, and featuring some of the latest hi-tech gizmos to hand. It is a fast-moving, often very funny, seat-of-the-pants ride across time and space and therefore a must-read for everyone who likes suspense, a little sc-fi and nail-biting drama. Oh yes – readers must be able to cope with hungry sabre tooth tigers, thieving, prehistoric cavemen from the last ice age and a 2,000-year old, far from friendly, Roman patrol somewhere near Lake Windermere, the largest lake in England. For, when the kindly professor is kidnapped by terrorists, Henry and Razi’s exploits (Razi is the professor’s grandson) as they try to rescue both him and a world leader taken hostage with him, their most unusual adventures are guaranteed to leave the reader gasping, literally, for breath!So, if it is high adventure you are after download 'The Time Flyers', fasten your seatbelts, and hang on for grim death! ExtractWhilst Razi and Henry had been impersonating tiger food and talking to the professor, something very, very big was happening in the kitchen. Some three minutes after the traumatised kidnappers had screamed their way into the body of the house, a rather large pair of tusks appeared through the walls of the now, much lower, cone. The tusks, which were curved and around five metres long, were followed by a massive, high-peaked, knob-like head, which looked around the kitchen with little interest and apparently, complete bafflement. Almost instantly bored by the uninteresting, twenty-first century kitchen; the four metre tall woolly mammoth slowly turned itself around. Then, after trumpeting twice, wiggling its bottom and stamping its great feet on the floor of the cone, the kindly creature bestowed, upon the lucky occupiers of Fellgarth Towers, the quite extraordinary gift of a large, unbelievably smelly deposit, of extremely rare, prehistoric mammoth dung. In conclusion, with a final trumpeting farewell and a proud, concluding glance at the now almost completely overloaded and steaming kitchen table, the giant, lonely beast, wandered off; returning nonchalantly and happily, to the dying days of the last, great, ice age.