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Book Synopsis The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys written by Scott William Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While bullies are beating up Charlie, his ex–bestfriend Jake pulls up in a bright red ’67 Mustang—the principal’s car—and tells him to get in. It’s a choice between a broken nose and the risk of a lifetime, and Charlie, a self-described straight-A student and grade-A geek, decides to take a chance. Now the two teens are on a mission to find Charlie’s absent father and avoid arrest for car theft. An eventful journey puts Charlie in the middle of a court case 1,000 miles from home. And in the courtroom, he will have to make the ultimate choice of his life.
Book Synopsis Wooden Bones by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book Wooden Bones written by Scott William Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pino and his father, Gepetto, face grave danger when they are forced to go on the run after villagers learn that a puppet made by Pino to represent Gepetto's dead wife can move as Pino, himself, did before becoming a real boy.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Made No Mistakes by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Man Who Made No Mistakes written by Scott William Carter and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you had the power to rewind time? Make a scene in a restaurant, give your boss the finger, rob a bank just to see how it feels - you could satisfy any whim, fulfill any desire, make any wish you'd ever had come true. The man who wanders into Father Holder's Las Vegas confessional says he has just such a power. The ultimate in wish fulfillment, he calls it. And if something goes wrong? No problem. He just rewinds. He's the man who never makes mistakes. Until, in a moment of weakness, he succumbs to the darkest impulse he's ever had - and can't find a way to undo it. This remarkable tale leads off Scott William Carter's latest short story collection. A dragon addicted to eating humans, a robot on a devastated planet with a spellbinding story to tell, Abraham Lincoln in a world of one-eyed dragons and drafty castles - hopping across time and space, genre and style, Carter offers up eleven provocative tales that are sure to please his growing number of fans as well as win him new ones.
Book Synopsis A Desperate Place for Dying by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book A Desperate Place for Dying written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Castle on the Hill at the Edge of the World by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Castle on the Hill at the Edge of the World written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If everybody would just leave Sam alone, she'd be perfectly happy hanging out in The Land Between, the undeveloped forest at the end of the street where she can pretend, at least for a little while, that life is much better than it really is. Then a strange boy moves in next door and all her problems get a lot worse. Rob (or does he go by Bobby?) insists that his parents are prisoners in a mysterious castle in another world. Others claim the truth of his past is far more tragic. When her new friend vows to rescue his parents or die trying, Sam must make a fateful choice that will change both their lives forever — and reveal just how thin the line between imagination and hope can really be.
Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Giants by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book A Tale of Two Giants written by Scott William Carter and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be tall to be a giant. They meet on a rainy night, penniless and alone, both of them without a friend in the world. He's a disgraced, down-on-his luck giant, short for his kind, banished forever from his tribe. He just wants to be left alone - and pity the poor person who annoys him. She's a stubborn human girl whose mother has been kidnapped by an evil dictator - and she's determined to get her back. No matter how long it takes. No matter who gets in her way. Together they take on an empire. Grade 4-9; In this intriguing fantasy about two outcasts on a remarkable journey, Carter offers up a riveting adventure that should appeal to fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series or Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. Although this book stands on its own, readers may want also want to try Carter's first foray into his Lost Lands of Rymadoon series, Drawing a Dark Way.
Book Synopsis A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ask Hagan written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask Hagan anything. Anything at all. Even how to outwit a madman … Once a promising young novelist with big literary dreams, John Winsley wakes up on the other side of forty as a third-rate hack with a perpetual hangover. Fueled by bitterness, he creates an obnoxious online persona as something of a lark—a funhouse version of Ann Landers named Hagan T. Stone with mad eyes, a black beard shaped like a spade, and an irreverent wit. The Ask Hagan advice column becomes a surprising worldwide hit. And it makes Winsley a very rich man. Wracked with guilt about the wife and daughter he abandoned, Winsley feels conflicted about his anonymous success … until an imposter claiming to be Hagan T. Stone shows up to reap all the rewards. Now Winsley only has to answer one question: How far will he go to get what he deserves? This taut, suspenseful tale kicks off Carter's latest collection. From a mysterious elevator in an Iowa cornfield to a crowded superstore where android spouses are bought like toasters, these six provocative forays into Carter's wide-ranging imagination never fail to surprise.
Book Synopsis Books That Teach Kids to Write by : Marianne Saccardi
Download or read book Books That Teach Kids to Write written by Marianne Saccardi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wealth of read-aloud titles and related activities that provide busy teachers with the tools to help students in grades K–12 become successful writers. Teachers can always benefit from new techniques that allow them to teach writing in a more engaging and enjoyable manner, and a resource that identifies a plethora of excellent children's books that help students become successful writers would also be helpful. Books That Teach Kids to Write introduces busy educators to the finest in children's literature in all genres, appropriate for readers in grades K through 12; and provides effective ideas for using those books to stimulate and improve student writing. This book discusses language use and other critical components of good writing, showcasing the children's books and specific activities that can help both primary and secondary school students. Included reproducibles for the writing exercises make lesson planning simple, while the sheer number of titles discussed and the extensive bibliographies provided minimize the time teachers must spend researching books to use with their students. An appendix includes more writing instruction resources, such as children's books, websites, and professional texts.
Book Synopsis The Ghost Who Said Goodbye by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Ghost Who Said Goodbye written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the dead can die. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen innocent people to early graves. Then, suddenly, the murders in the panicked city of Portland, Oregon, stopped—and the Goodbye Killer got away. Myron Vale remembers it well. Long before a fateful bullet cursed him with the ability to see ghosts, he was the young son of the city’s most esteemed detective. The case changed Hank Vale, haunting him with a single glimpse of the killer’s otherworldly face. He was never the same man again. Or the same father. Now a new victim points to the Goodbye Killer’s return. And when the most powerful forces on the other side of the great divide approach Myron desperate for help, he uncovers a terrifying truth. It’s not just the living who should fear for their immortal souls ... even the dead can die.
Book Synopsis Dead-Eyed Drifter by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book Dead-Eyed Drifter written by Scott William Carter and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former FBI agent turned full-time drifter, Karen Pantelli pursues a promising lead on her long missing mother to Orcas Island, Washington. Toiling as a hotel maid, she reaches a dead end until an encounter with an eccentric math professor raises a gruesome possibility. Her mother may have been murdered by a serial killer, the work of a cunning monster who has claimed hundreds of lives and evaded detection for decades by camouflaging his kills as accidents, suicides, or random acts of violence. Aided by recent advances in artificial intelligence, the professor believes he can finally predict the killer's pattern. But then a stunning twist changes the game, propelling Karen across thousands of miles on a desperate mission to save innocent people before the trail goes cold forever.
Book Synopsis A Cold and Shallow Shore: An Oregon Coast Mystery by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book A Cold and Shallow Shore: An Oregon Coast Mystery written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gage hates birthdays. So when his daughter throws him a surprise party on the coldest night the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs has seen in years, Gage finds himself in an equally frosty mood. And when a police cruiser stops him as he trudges along Highway 101, minding his own business, he can't imagine the night could get any worse. Oh, but it does. For the cranky private investigator with the bum knee, it can always get worse. When the cops collar one of the people closest to Gage for murder, the desperate hours ahead become a frantic push to right a presumed injustice. Add in a daughter’s secret life, a bad boy Hollywood star, and a troubled new police chief with something to prove, and the night doesn't just get worse. It forces a quickly unraveling Gage to choose between cold, uncomfortable truths—about himself, about someone he loves—and shallow but comforting deceptions.
Book Synopsis A Deep and Deadly Undertow: An Oregon Coast Mystery by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book A Deep and Deadly Undertow: An Oregon Coast Mystery written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after his wife dies in a mafia hit gone wrong, Garrison Gage finally pieces together a life for himself in the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs. Some days the cranky private investigator with the bum knee and the caustic wit could even call himself content. Maybe even happy. But marrying again? Never. Yet not long after quirky Rita Rodriguez enters the scene, Gage can't imagine life without her. Unfortunately, when dark secrets violently emerge—involving first loves, tragic loss, and, strangest of all, a Spanish galleon that sunk in 1642 loaded with treasure—their relationship enters turbulent waters. Worse, the same deadly undertow that drags Gage into the darkness also threatens everyone around him. His friends. His enemies. Even the town itself . . .
Book Synopsis Looking for Little Red by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book Looking for Little Red written by Scott William Carter and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy night at a tiny Oregon college, a shadowy figure at the back of the hall interrupts Bullwick Farley's mythology lecture: "Little Red Riding Hood has done something terrible," he says, "and I desperately need your help before it's too late." Just another story in a class all about stories? A myth, a fable, a tale told and retold? The students might think so. But ten years after leaving a life where even the strangest stories turn out to be true, Farley faces a choice. Stick with his comfortable, if lonely, life as a professor. Or risk it all to go looking for the woman who broke his heart. A mystery with a twist, a touching love story, and a new take on a time-honored fairy tale, Looking for Little Red provides rare insights on the power of stories to shape our lives, and the importance of memories, even painful ones.
Book Synopsis The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2016-10-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead do not dream. A week before Christmas, John and Laura Ray storm into Myron's office, desperate to find their missing daughter. Money? They don't have any. Clues? They have few. Plagued by mounting bills and a skull-crushing migraine, Portland's only ghost detective wants nothing more than to show them the door. But defying his conscience always proves tougher to Myron Vale than saying no, and he soon finds himself embroiled in one of the strangest cases of his career. The more he learns about this unique little girl and all of her extraordinary abilities, the more he feels a kinship to her. Who took Olivia Ray? And why? The answers propel him toward a tantalizing solution to all of his problems — and a violent clash with a powerful personality, one who can cause irreparable harm to not just Myron, but everyone he loves.
Book Synopsis A Cosmic Christmas 2 You by : Hank Davis
Download or read book A Cosmic Christmas 2 You written by Hank Davis and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve new stories of Christmas in very unusual circumstances, ranging from vampires to robots, from the hills of Appalachia to a high orbit space station, all celebrating the holiday in their own, off-beat ways. Features tales by New York Times best seller Larry Correia, Darkship series creator Sarah A. Hoyt, Sapphire Award Winner for urban fantasy, Wen Spencer--and much, much more! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About A Cosmic Christmas 2 You: _This creative and sprightly Christmas science fiction anthology spins in some surprising directionsãA satisfying read for cold winter evenings, this anthology is a great stocking stuffer for SF fans.Ó¾Publishers Weekly About A Cosmic Christmas authors: _If you love monsters and action, youll love [Larry Correia]. If you love guns, youll love [Correia]. If you love fantasy, and especially horror fantasy, youll love [Correia].Ó¾Knotclan.com "[Sarah A. Hoyt writers] first-rate space opera with a moral lesson. You won't be disappointed."¾Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com _[Wen] Spencer's intertwining of current Earth technology and otherworldly elven magic is quite ingenious.Ó _Booklist
Book Synopsis The Dragon Lottery by : Scott William Carter
Download or read book The Dragon Lottery written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win the lottery? Congrats! You get to fight the dragon—to the death! Each summer, the kingdom of Dunbury holds a lottery. The prize? The right to face the Black Dragon in a fight to the death. Nobody ever returns. Widespread hunger. Banned Books. Harsh royal decrees to keep the citizens in line. After nearly fifty years, the poor, downtrodden people in the isolated country between the mountains and the sea have lost all hope. Somehow, mysteriously, the cruel King Goodheart controls the dragon. And with the dragon, no one dares defy him. Until thirteen-year-old Lucky Grayblock, the clumsy, gangly, decidedly unlucky assistant in the dusty old library, finally becomes eligible for the dragon lottery … and discovers one last chance to turn everyone’s luck around. “Scott is one of those rare writers who can and does cross genres, and do it well. You never know what kind of story you’ll get from him, but you do know that it’ll be good.” — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo Award-Winning Writer and Editor
