It's not every day that your roommate accidentally teleports you across time and space, but Jennifer MacDonald is not having an ordinary day. A chance encounter with a custom-built computer and an ancient pyramid sends Jennifer to a faraway land with six warring civilizations and an ancient prophecy that has a visitor from the stars at its heart. All she has to do is unseal one measly, missing god.Now the fate of an alien world is in the hands of a gal who's never landed a steady j...

A MOTHER'S WRATH KNOWS NO BOUNDSWatching my friends die was hard. Getting blown up right after was even worse. But that's nothing compared to waking up to the mother I never knew and finding out she's a monster far worse than anything I've faced so far.Now, not only is she trying to set me up with every eligible demon between here and Hades, but she's busy plotting the demise of my best friend Gary—setting us up on a collision course for a battle to the dea...

Hell is where the heart is.For five years my life has been a living breathing hell—literally. Worst of all, I don’t remember any of it. We're not talking some vague blackout here, no, this is full-on comic book levels of amnesia. But now I'm back, only to find the whole world managed to survive without me. Some hero I turned out to be.There's no time to wallow, though, not when I'm surrounded by pissed off dryads and vampires who've somehow figured out how ...

Silent But Deadly Hill: Jonathon Mason is going on a road trip with his dad. When their car veers out of control, Jonathon awakes alone in a cloud of fog. Can he find his drunk dad and escape Slewant Hill?G.I.R.L 2: Rob(erta) Hardlick and her sidekick Mich find themselves locked within a video game universe. To make matters worse, they may not be the only survivors from the last game to have made it over to this new one.Secret of the Old Cock: Whe...

Some family trees should be burned to the groundMy name is Jessie Flores and I thought I was done being jerked around by witches, dryads, and gods in my quest to become a real-life superhero. Turns out they were just getting started.My father's been kidnapped, a handsome vampire with a shady past won't stop shadowing me, and my best friend's family is actively trying to kill him.Fixing all of that won't be easy, though, since I've been cursed to com...

JESSIE FLORES IS HAVING THE ULTIMATE BAD HAIR DAY.Imagine going to bed with mousy brown locks and waking up with a headful of supernova scarlet. It's a hot new look for me—literally, because it bursts into flames whenever I'm threatened.My magical makeover is all Gary's fault. I knew there was something off from the moment he transferred to my school. Go figure. He's a wizard with a trust fund and an inferiority complex.Now, thanks to him, I've grad...

Aliens vs ASS: From the time Glubnub suddenly enters his life, Dougie's world will never be the same. Will they be able to outrun the agents of ASS?Thicker Than Blood: Bonnie led a fairly normal life until her mom accidentally drank vampire semen. Now it's up to her and her new BFF, a vampire named Amelia, to put an end to her mom's reign of terror.Action Kadabra: Armed with nothing more than a trunk of tricks and his skills as an illusionist, wil...

Jackin' the Beanstalk: When Jack trades his mom for a can of beans, he once again falls short of his father's expectations. But when those beans grow into an enormous magical beanstalk, he has a chance to redeem himself and take back the case of beer from the fat people who allegedly stole it.G.I.R.L.3: Girl in the Hood: Rob(erta) Hardlick has been living the good life within the game Penultimate Phantasm XIX. Or at least it is until Proturbo Corp traps Rob and he...

In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams.Why should you stop what you're doing and read a book?Reading is not an innate human ability. Many people can't read. Many people would rather read a newspaper, a magazine, a blog, a cereal packet, than a novel.But peop...

Twelve-year-old Duggie Bones might not be the most popular kid in school but he is magic.When the mysterious Professor Mosotho sends Duggie, lessons on ancient African wisdom, along with magic spells to give him confidence, Duggie thinks he may have found the answers to some of his many problems, including how to tackle,'The Baddies', bullies, Brooke, Madison and Clint Baddley.But is Mosotho really a professor and is it really voodoo magic he's offering? As Duggie's problem...

Revision sometimes seems more metaphor than real, having been variously described as a stage, an act of goal setting, a method of correction, a process of discovery, a form of resistance. Revising Moves makes a significant contribution to writing theory by collecting stories of revision that honor revision’s vitality and immerse readers in rooms, life circumstances, and scenes where revision comes to life.In these narrative-driven essays written by a wide range of writing ...

This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place. Bringing together chapters co-authored by academics and practitioners, it offers an overall conceptualisation of the rehabilitative endeavour within the realities of a probation service recently unified after the acknowledged failure of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms.Reimagi...