This tale about memories and families' begins with a lovely cottage in the Ukraine where lives a little girl 'poor of money but rich of soul.' But all too soon the Monsters come. And everything changes forever.

Scotty was happy to now stand atop this castle of castles, Edinburgh Castle, and survey the city below. But first, you have to get up there. The castle is enormous and has a whole hilltop to itself, and it towers, or looms, over the city. And whenever they had seemed to finally arrive at the main fortress, there were yet more sloping courtyards with more buildings above them. Why so many buildings? Well the castle began as a stronghold against the dastardly English.

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Equipped with her probability parasol, her very special pet rats and her affinity with the mysterious properties of metals, Emmeline Muchamore hangs firmly on to her bonnet.

“Facing Africa had me quietly rooting for a sweet outcome beneath all that blazing sky and swirling dust” – Henry Roi About Facing Africa Fuerteventura, 1901. The island, just off the coast of Africa, is in the grip of a severe drought. As merchant and journalist Javier Morales campaigns to reforest the island, Famara, the […] Facing Africa Click on the above to read more about this book. You can see my reviews and details of more of Isobel Blackthorn's books right here on this web den.

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Dan's stories, to different degrees, float in half lights and shadows where things may not be what they seem. Perhaps somewhere in the obscurities of moon light, twilight, dusk, and shadows all of us are able to become more acutely aware of alternative lives that we could be living had we made other choices. Perhaps those alternative 'I's sometimes merge with and partially morph into the "I' that we think we own.

I think we will all want to see more tales in this light! Oh, and there are 'morals' in these tales for princes too, for instance, that wearing glasses and loving books is perfectly fine, and that waiting about on a lily pad in a murky pond hoping a princess will turn up is perhaps not the best way to go forth in life.

Her dream of making her own way in the world as a female musician in medieval times takes orphan Alina with her brother from Provence to the court of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.