. . Thirteen year old Ephraim Wright suffers the depredations of war along with the white family who reared him. Raised with the family since he was two years old, he is never once required to call Jonathan Wright, his benevolent owner, "master." His speech, manners and outlook on life are more akin to his white "siblings than the other slaves in the community who chide him for being a "pet" and "talkin' like white folk." He is stranded between two worlds; that of free whites, and of enslaved blacks. His life is irreversibly changed when Confederate conscript officers take the family's oldest son at gun point and a bushwhacker gang guns down Jonathan Wright. The law forbids a slave to touch a firearm, because a “negro with a gun is a nervous thing to white folks.” But where his family is concerned, Ep is never one to care about what the slave laws say. By seeking to send men to hell, will Ephraim send himself there as well?Advance Praise for The Secret of Wattensaw BayouWhile reading the book my feelings of anger and resentment toward the institution of slavery and those who fought to protect such rights were sometimes overwhelming and required me to take a deep breath. Nevertheless, the story from a historical perspective, although it was a work of fiction, was masterly woven and I found myself with the urge to continue reading. . . The book is well written and the author provides a fascinating glimpse into the everyday existence of many Southern families during the Civil War. Commander Harold Barnes (US Navy, retired)

    He isn’t very good at building things, but he does his best to build a safe house to stay the night. Unfortunately, Creepers won’t let him keep his house in one piece, and are constantly destroying it every night.Tired of living on his own, Mark goes out to find a city where he can live in harmony with other players. And luckily, the server where he is playing has the perfect spot for what he needs: a small and nice village inside a jungle. The players living in the village are in balance with nature, and the place is the perfect residence for Mark who just wants to live a peaceful life.But unexpected events take place in the village, and Mark is kicked out of the place without having a chance to defend himself. Angry with the villager’s decision, Mark goes on a rampage and starts griefing and trolling the village.He is constantly pulling pranks and trolling the villagers with traps, and rumors inside the village are blaming Herobrine for those tricks. Mark takes advantage of Herobrine’s bad fame as a hoax, and uses his name to continue trolling the village.Mark doesn’t know yet, but there is someone else who has been watching him lately, and who wants to make him pay for his wrongdoings…Other books in this thrilling Minecraft seriesBook 2: Punished, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HOS74P4/Book 3: Redemption, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HORLV5O/Author’s Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft ®/TM & © 2009-2013 Mojang / Notch

    Nathan, his trainer, is a brave young soldier. Wolf is a war dog who's seen it all.Grey and Nathan soon become inseparable. Until the day a parachute jump goes tragically wrong...As the Second World War rages, Grey faces his most important mission yet: to find his best friend. With Wolf at his side, he must journey across France and behind enemy lines. His path is fraught with danger. Can he reach Nathan before it's too late?

    Without warning, life as we knew it ended.Husband and father Will Carter is an ordinary man plunged into an unthinkable situation. An attack has devastated America and everything changed in an instant. Now the Carters must stay alive and together in the face of an unknown enemy.The Carters embark on a rescue mission in a landscape that is no longer the safe haven they once knew. If they want to survive they'll have to rely on their determination, instincts and their strength as a family. Last Alive book 1 of the Last Days apocalyptic thriller series.

    The Animorphs have discovered two other warriors who have escaped from Ax's Dome ship, and they may be able to help fight the Yeerks But are they really Andalites, or is this just a cunning trap?

    Three privileged sons.Roman, Ethan, and Klay are dark, devilish, delicious, each in their own way.I shouldn't even be on their radar, but they've marked me. I don't know why.I can't remember the last two years. A mental breakdown, they tell me, after both my parents died.I just want a fresh start to my senior year, a normal life, a graduation. But those three untouchables own Marshall High, and they're fighting over me.Not in a pretty way. They want to own me, control me, use me for their twisted schemes.The last one is the worst. Cold, cruel, beautiful Klay.He doesn't want to win me. He wants to break me, and he won't stop until he succeeds.I should run.Call me crazy, but I can't stay away. Because I have a burning secret, a memory that I didn't forget.I remember him.And he doesn't want me to...Warning: This is a dark bully romance that may contain triggers and is intended for readers over 17. Hate to Remember ends in a cliffhanger and is the first in a finished two-part series with an eventual HEA.

    Mary and her younger brother Peter set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an Aboriginal boy on walkabout, who teaches them to find food and water in the wilderness, but whom Mary can’t bring herself to trust. Though on the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, darker themes lie just beneath. Peter’s innocent friendship with the Aboriginal throws into relief Mary’s no longer childish anxiety, and together raise questions about how Aboriginal and Western culture can meet. And in the vivid descriptions of the natural world, we realize that this story—a deep fairy tale in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal—must also be a story about the closeness of death and the power of nature.

    So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the ship the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he had ever imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it s hard to know who's a friend or foe. As he learns the language of the Algonquin Indians and observes Captain Smith's wise diplomacy, Samuel begins to see that he can be whomever he wants to be in this new land.

    but I kissed him anyway, and now I'm here. My fault.Oh, where's here? It's definitely not the Blind Raccoon, one of Seattle's grungiest, dirtiest, most prestigious dive bars. No, that beautiful stranger at the bar is the reason I'm plucked out of the human world, where most things make sense, and brought to a place called Arcadia - the world of the Fae.A world of monsters.He brings me to a mansion called Emerald Hall, and while it's breathtakingly pretty, I'm a prisoner here, stuffed into a cell and warned not to be seen by the other Fae. I have to try to get out of here, using every trick I learned growing up, but I can't help wanting to know more about the man who stole me from my home and brought me all the way to his.You know, after he tried to kill me.There's something about him, about this place, and about me. Secrets just waiting to be unraveled, if only I cared to pull the threads. But who has time for that when there's escaping to do?

    Key Features An integrated approach to the development of all four language skills. Notions and functions. Vocabulary presentation and practice. Variety of reading, listening and speaking tasks. Grammar presentation in context. Activities encouraging critical thinking as well as web research. Writing sections containing models and development of writing skills & Writing bank. Realistic pairwork and groupwork activities. Pronunciation and Intonation sections. Study Skills to help students become autonomous learners. Practical English sections preparing students to use the language in real-life situations. Culture sections & CLIL sections for each module. Language Review. Grammar Reference section. Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Software. Interactive eBook. Writing Books that help students practise and improve their writing skills. Public Speaking / Presentation Skills booklets to help learners become effective communicators and competent public speakers.

    

    It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages, the deaths of friends, and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.

    Other children go missing just as a strange man named Abram Harsich appears in town. He dazzles the townspeople with the promises of a rainmaking machine. Only Matthew’s older brother Robert seems to be able to resist Abram’s spell, and to discover what happened to Matthew and the others. A Governor General’s Award for Children’s LiteratureAn ALA Best Books for Young Adults From the Hardcover edition.

    When Adina and her family are forced to flee Cologne to escape the vicious menace of German invasion in 1938, leaving their luxurious lifestyle is painful. Harder still is finding herself a refugee in a foreign country. But Adina is a compassionate and determined girl and as they settle into a new life in the Midlands she finds the strength to survive. However, her brother and sister aren't so lucky and their family ties are stretched to breaking point. And then Adina runs the risk of losing her family forever when she is drawn towards the one man she should never fall in love with...

    But Frank is too young, skinny, and weak, and is left behind with his mother and grandparents. Life in Mississippi was simple before the war between North and South. Now Frank’s boyhood is gone forever, along with his dreams of heroic battles. The shortages and horrors of war reach his home as he scrounges for food and water, and sees both Confederate and enemy soldiers at their worst. As time goes by and Frank’s friendship with Buck, the family slave, grows, he questions more and more who is the enemy and why the terrible war is being fought.