And they lived happily ever after…Caroline’s plan to live happily ever after has hit a snag. She’s spent months mapping the swamp, building tadpole nets, and kissing every wriggling frog she could get her hands on, and one has finally turned into a prince. Unfortunately, Prince Hal is not, as promised in the fairy tales, particularly handsome. In fact, he’s kind of dorky-looking.Hal himself isn’t very eager to marry a girl so obsessed with appearances, but ...

There’s only one thing scarier than slaying a giant, fire-breathing dragon…slaying the wrong giant, fire-breathing dragon.Sir Terry knows that as a valiant (but solidly middle-class) knight he doesn’t have a chance of winning the beauteous Princess Gloria’s hand in marriage… unless he kills the dragon on the far edge of the kingdom and claims her as his reward.But Prince Charming never had to contend with re-zoning. After Terry defeats the dragon, ...

First published in 1946, following on from Portrait of Elmbury, the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost foreign in its remoteness.Evoked with an unerringly accurate eye, Brensham Village contains a mixture of action and character, conveying the life of a country community in the halcyon period between the wars.Sentimental it is, but not so as to undermine the picture of a time when a life of landed gentry, squalid poverty and routine vill...

Old friends and new faces join the scholars, rogues and countrymen of Brensham with its crooked village street and crooked church spire.Among its rare individuals who share an obstinacy for making life a romantic andhilarious adventure are those lively landgirls, The Frolick Virgins, Dai, the hymn-singing postman, and William Hart who claimed to be descended from William Shakespeare and loved Pheemy, the young gypsy, not wisely but too well.

This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, The Brensham Trilogy, by John Moore.A wonderful and exuberant chronicle of an English market town between the wars, distinguished with a historic abbey, a winding river and bustling pubs with a cast of characters that could have stepped out of Hogarth or Shakespeare...

A Country town thrown into chaos and defiance by a summer flood that threatens the festival pageant; a quarrel of hot young blood over the charms of rival beauty queens, a fishing competition with a compassionate embezzler's fortune at stake; a real battle between York and Lancaster with the wrong side winning; a female Communist redhead, a teetotal publican, an insufferable baronet, a mountainous American ex-soldier; and a lot of other characters who are only life-size-here is indeed the ...

When a seemingly crazy, poorly dressed soothsayer tells you not to let a magical talisman fall into the wrong hands, take him or her seriously. DO NOT laugh it off and leave said talisman simply lying around on a side table; you might as well just end the world yourself. —The Handbook of Practical Heroics, p. 134The kingdom of Deserae is in the most direly perilous of dire perils. The realm’s precious magical talisman—Ancient Artifact Model Seven—is in the grimy h...

After the death of her mother, Kay hadn’t always made the best decisions. In spite of her big mistakes, she was still determined to become an interior designer. The young mother of two struggled, but seemed to be on her way when she met and married a corporate executive whom hands her a fairytale ending on a silver platter. Before long, the storybook ending marked the beginning of a nightmare, a nightmare that caused her to be criminally charged for the murder of her husband. What made her...

This sweeping poetry collection charts John Moore's experiences of travel and work in new places.Planning sixteen countries across five continents, his poetry breathes life into the reality of living under extreme conditions. From minus fifty degrees in Canada to plus forty-seven in Australia, the collection brings sharp focus to the wonderous but often inhospitable world we call home.

There’s always trouble in Illyria: dragons to slay, villains to fight, and one beautiful princess after another demanding to be rescued from a fate worse than death. It’s a full-time job for Charming, noble prince and professional hero. In fact, young Charming thinks he’s just about ready for a leave of absence.But you’re always on call in the Slay and Rescue business, and soon Charming is working overtime when he becomes embroiled in a plot involving an evil sorceress, an enchante...

Trying to break in to the world of web design, but overwhelmed by the massive amounts of information out there?Then Web Design 101 is for you. It provides a code-free, jargon-light overview of web design from the designer's perspective. So you'll get detailed intros to visual design principles, typography, color, and animation. Then you'll dive deep into the process, from the initial content planning all the way to your final, pre-launch checklist. And you'll even get an idea of ho...

The Knotted Tree is a contemporary fantasy story about a group of twenty-somethings as they navigate the complex paths of fear, courage, identity, and--maybe--heroism, in the face of some pretty wicked goings on. It's a monthly mouthful of magic and fighting and lore and immortals and other worlds and lots of cussing because some people just have potty mouths.