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A collection of unknown, untold stories that will stir the souls of fairy tale lovers everywhere. Each tale is carefully woven together with a silver thread of starlight and a sprinkle of magic, with the golden melody of music from the Boy with the Nightingale’s Voice. Will Leo Byrd, a reckless but valorous Whistler, save the kingdom with his superlative voice? Through the forest, a magical procession is witnessed by a boy who later receives a mysterious and dangerous message. What became of the orphan girl who ate too many apricots and left none for anyone else? When Coira discovers ...

Who is God? If we want to love God and make him the center of our lives, we would do well to settle this question at least in some small way. This audiobook serves as a starting point for understanding what Christians mean when they say ''God", and to whom they are referring when they use this name. This audiobook addresses three major concepts - the nature of God, the Trinity, and the Incarnation - so that we may strengthen our faith and our ability to communicate it to other people.

Elizabeth Klein, assistant professor of theology at the Augustine Institute, leads us through a soul-inspiring exploration of Catholic teaching on angels and saints and why they matter to us as individuals and to the Church. Throughout the book, Klein answers common questions about the angels and saints in order to give us a deeper understanding and appreciation of the role they play in our lives, the Mass, and in the life of the Church.

These light-hearted short stories are perfect to read at bedtime and focus on the funny situations that happen to Max Nutt, a young mouse who lives in a hole in the wall of a barn. Max is clever, headstrong and adventurous. He wants to invent the cleverest invention, write and publish a book and explore the Wild Bushes, a place the fairies call enchanted. But what happens when he meets a dragon there and becomes lost? Who will save him?

Some books should never be left open, not ever! Long ago, a book was discovered in a tin box in the garden. No one suspected it had a powerful life force until many years later when inexplicable events beset the tiny sea-side town of Petticoat Bay. Are there really monkeys, enormous biting insects and red-eyed wolves haunting Goblin Wood? Annabelle Fox discovers the terrible secrets surrounding her new house, Jade Meadow, which is cursed according to the locals. Annabelle and her brother, Marcus, go in search of the truth from the previous owner, Pandora, but she appears to have her mind ...

Surviving venomous plants and a turbulent journey downriver pursued by black wolves, Dougray, Robbie and Belle arrive at Syone, the fabled sanctuary of Healers. It offers warmth and welcome, and a respite from the ravages of the untaming. Or does it? As Dougray and Robbie discover their parents may still be alive, they also uncover a dark truth about the healing sanctuary. When its walls are breached by monsters, they are forced to flee under the mountain. Narrowly escaping ravenous arthropods, they are captured by a self-appointed tyrant and taken to Wychwyre as his prisoners. Here they ...

Surviving a disintegrating planet. The aftermath is even worse. After earthquakes nearly destroy the sky cities, a small colony of sky-born migrate to the drought-stricken surface of Tara, where each day is a struggle just to stay alive. They try and eke out a semblance of a normal life, but they haven’t factored in the dangers lurking on the surface, as well as a hostile race of earth-born living nearby, whose presence creates trauma for some in the colony. The story explores the challenges of surviving with little or no water and food, and attacks by unknown creatures in a hostile ...

Wars. Now plagues. Strange shape-shifters roaming the countryside. The age of peace that has reigned across Galfane is now ended and blood-sworn oaths that once created a barrier of safety against invasion have collapsed. Morgran’s armies are cutting a bloody swathe wherever his terrible magic is wielded by the unsuspecting. As Princess of Gallenbreigh, a kingdom still standing firm against Morgran’s advances, Mistrelle Evanspay shirks her responsibilities and goes horse-riding instead. When she is overtaken by a storm, her frightened horse throws her and she is discovered by the ...

When Jock McLock sees something bright flash across the night sky, he's certain an alien spacecraft landed in Orion Field on the other side of town. In true spy fashion, he goes to investigate. Strange noises come from the deserted factory nearby and there are scorch marks on the ground, all indicating an alien crash site. After Jock locates a hole in the fence, he sneaks through to get a better look. Spooked by the sight of silver-suited beings with waving tentacles on their heads, he tries to escape, only to get caught on the fence wire. He is saved by Doctor Awaja, a scientist who once ...

A dystopian sci fi fantasy set in a divided world. A teenage boy wandering alone through a drought-ravaged wasteland, witnesses a fight one night between two sky-born. Against all reason, he saves the life of a badly-injured girl who is left for dead. His own desperate struggle for survival ramps up a notch when he is forcibly taken by her people to one of the great sky cities for questioning over the incident. For all its opulence, the city is not without its own problems when a series of inexplicable earthquakes strike and the outbreak of civil war forces him to flee. Sought by assassins,...

Eat Like a Local–Reno-Tahoe by Elizabeth Klein offers the inside scoop on food in the Reno-Tahoe area.

Armies are gathering from distant lands. In the midst of imminent war, two orphaned brothers, Dougray and Robbie, and their travelling companion Belle, have sought shelter with the elves. But even in their idyllic world, peace is short-lived when monstrous shrieks are unleashed into their treetop homes and destroy everything in their paths. The brothers are forced to flee with Navarre, the healer that once knew their parents. On the way to Twendlemark to obtain horses for their journey, they are given a cryptic prophecy about their future and narrowly escape Morgranus, an evil demon hunting...

This story can be summed up as a boy's adventure in all its quirky day-dreaminess and fascination with spies, flamboyant villains who own islands and wear white suits and a mutinous, but very dead pirate. When half of a treasure map ends up in a box of books at the local fete, Jock McLock decides to visit the donator. He's heard plenty of strange tales about her from the kids at school, but it's nothing like meeting Mrs Trelawney in the flesh. It's all connected to his mother winning a holiday to the Bahamas, which turns out to be full of perils for poor Jock, a wild treasure hunt with ...

Evil hunts brothers Dougray and Robbie as they seek the invisible Citadel of Gallenbreigh for the next crystal. Traps await them and time is slipping away. Soon all the demons will overrun Galfane as Morgran grows more powerful. Will they find the Citadel in time and escape the clutches of a lethal demon pursuing them which is poisoning everything in its wake?

Against his will, Sam Flynn is sent on a crazy mission by a bumbling fairy godmother to save a colony of mermaids. Instead, a group of pirates capture him and force him to become a member of their motley crew. To top off his bad luck, he’s snatched away in the middle of the night by a hideous beast and carried off to its castle. It’s a story that sounds all too familiar to Sam, except for the part where the daughter of a rose thief promised to the beast falls in love with him instead. Will he survive the Beast’s wrath long enough to save the mermaids?

With the arrival of mysterious Aunt Maude on Christmas Day, young Samuel Flynn learns that his innocent removal of two objects from the fairy tale world has thrown it into turmoil which only he can resolve. Upon his return, he is captured by Rumpelstiltskin and he meets Rose, a fellow-captive. Working together, they escape and flee to the sanctuary of a quirky village overrun by white rabbits. They are invited to a strange tea party where they are befriended by Fred Bassett, a hound with a very odorous problem who later accompanies them. Sam soon learns that the spell of the sorcerer’s ...

Demons are swarming everywhere and no place is safe. With insurmountable odds stacked against them, the trio attempt to fulfil ancient prophecies and release Bethloria and Galfane from Morgran’s evil grip. But all hope seems lost when Morgran captures Dougray, and Belle and Robbie are under siege. This powerful, fast-paced fantasy series will leave you aching for more. Oracle of the Dragon is the seventh volume in Elizabeth Klein’s Bethloria fantasy series which began with the award-winning Firelight of Heaven.

Dreamscape: Looking for Altheda is a psychological fantasy quest entwined with a wide range of traditional stories and themes that’ll be sure to evoke some genuine scares in young readers. Amid the absurdity of negotiating a fairy tale world that exists inside a wooden chest, the young protagonist, Samuel Flynn, unspools an impossible adventure with heart-racing perils that unfold in the land of Dreamscape. The story takes many turns with humorous situations that’ll surely make readers giggle and gasp right up until the climax when Sam battles it out with an evil queen and saves not ...

Everything hinges on the success of Dougray and Robbie, orphaned brothers and fugitives, to lead King Morgran’s soldiers on a wild goose chase to the Groaning Rocks, a place of demented souls. Attacked by a black dragon, they are rescued and given shelter by Alysam, an exile from Alpinia. But all is not well. Dougray is infected with dragon venom and begins to turn to stone. A desperate race for survival begins as the dragon pursues them through the underground passageways. Found by Navarre, last of the Healers, Dougray is restored to health and the brothers are then offered a place of ...

Immerse yourself in ten, exciting short stories with memorable characters that will enthral and entertain you. From an enigmatic stranger in black who rids the town of monsters, to a dragon whose night out hunting backfires in an unexpectedly horrible way, or a gathering of gnomes who select an unlikely candidate as their new king, this book is a must for lovers of fantasy adventures.