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Amantha le Pard, a young wizardess from London, transfers to the Sazerac School of Magick in New Orleans to be with her cousin Madelaine, who had been abducted by a wizardly serial kidnapper. Amantha encounters a rich, multicultural magick community with black, Creole, and Cajun influences, swamp monsters, and rival students from a gothic punk magick academy. A reign of terror grips the Sazerac. Hapless young wizards from prominent magickal...

Perhaps uniquely in all of literature, Alice in Wonderland has, over the years, lent itself to many different styles of interpretation. Whether straight imitation of the original, steampunk fantasy, gothic horror story, superhero comic book or detective adventure, it seems that there is room for every possible variation.   By contrast we are both lifelong students of the original stories and have firmly set our sights on producing as accurate ...

This collection of dialect stories from the Ozark Mountains includes tales of lost silver mines, whimsical Ozark monsters, Jesse James, Mark Twain, Yankee and Rebel soldiers, and other traditional legends along with a few original stories. The title story from the collection features a MOST remarkable ghost and an even more unusual ending. Alan Lance Andersen has been a professional story since 1970. This anthology includes many of his best ta...

The Mad Tea Party and Other Festival Skits offers schools and small theatre groups an opportunity to stage short humorous scripts that have been produced at Renaissance Faires and street festivals around Iowa and the Midwest. Alice in Wonderland was written for British readers in the 19th Century, and there are a number of things that modern Americans need to know if they are to capture the book's full wit and flavour. In The Mad Tea Party, au...

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan Doyle's adventures by writing "new" Holmes stories, yet these attempts frequently fail to capture the original flavor, because 2013 writers simply don't think or speak like Victorian...

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan Doyle's adventures by writing "new" Holmes stories, yet these attempts frequently fail to capture the original flavor, because 2013 writers simply don't think or speak like Victorian...

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan Doyle's adventures by writing "new" Holmes stories, yet these attempts frequently fail to capture the original flavor, because 2013 writers simply don't think or speak like Victorian...

The first novella-length Wizard Academies book relates fascinating tales of magickally-gifted kids at a school that isn't quite right ... Some wizard schools are highly-accredited and well-respected. Others are smaller but serve elite clientele with high academic standards. By way of contrast, Gallimaufriars Academy in Cumbria barely meets Ministry of Wizardry criteria. Corwyn Daniels faces problems a bit more challenging than most wizardlings...