Jamie: 1874 books

The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density...

It's 1979 and Morgan O'Reilly, a dispirited CIA desk officer, is desperately trying to bury his memories. Sent to Cambodia as a Marine and then as a CIA operative during the Vietnam War, he had been given the unlikely task of pulling together a secret spy unit of orphaned street children. At the end...

In the first installment of the Hairy Tail Series, Hannah needed a project to get her through the long summer. Signing up at the local animal shelter, she finds exactly what she needs in the sad, lost dog Basil. She sets her sights on finding his owner, promising him he would be reunited with...

He prepared their family for every natural disaster known to man-except for the one that struck. When Nicole Reed's father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern conveniences, it's too much too handle for her mother, who abandons them in the...

Please note: This is a novelette. Shorter fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel. Melrose Morgan was your typical teenager, flipping burgers and surviving high school the best she could. Yet all that changed after a chance encounter took her face to face with the world’s...

Wisp has a learning problem: he can't read stars. For a juvenile nighthawk bursting with wanderlust this means trouble, with his peers, his parents, and the starving colony that tries to fence him in. So he ditches everyone, striking off on a forbidden migratory journey from the Amazon to the Arctic,...

After spending many years living with the disguise of a mortal, Lin is happy to be in a town of open and practicing witches and wizards, Blackthorn.Despite her being magical, like them, she has a secret about her heritage that could cost her her life.As Lin struggles with hiding her...

In this sequel to ‘Anais of Brightshire’, Anais, a fourteen-year-old girl living in the Great House of Brightshire acts as an apprentice to the house scribe while secretly practicing blood magic. After using her magic to heal the lord’s eldest son, she's forced to flee the city with the lord’s children. As they struggle to survive on their journey, the ties that bind them deepen.

I never had a problem with ghosts, with anything paranormal. It’s part of the teen angst that frames my life. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not hung up on some romantic gothic cliché. I’m not even trying to say I have supernatural powers. I just see what you can’t. Hear what you can’t.My...

What is meant to hurt us can become our greatest weapon. Which is exactly what Aden intended to create. When he found a lavender beauty standing before him asking if he remembered her Aden wasted no time proving that he did.Their first kiss ignited the greatest challenge of his life. A taste so...

She was raised to fear them. Now she's become her own worst enemy… America, 2055. Cass is equal parts excited and nervous to leave her Sapiens Movement enclave. Stepping away from her technologically-conservative family for the first time, she sets off for college with dreams of saving humanity....

Bakky Finport is an unusual name for an unusual boy. He has strange, vivid dreams that seem to be warning him. But what are they warning him about? Then “The Man” comes into his life and he is drawn into a world where the past and the present merge into one.While visiting his ancestral home in...

Grizzliness is out there. Every child has the makings of mischievousness, and can be lured into committing dastardly deeds. The six stories in each of the Grizzly Tales books show the rise and hard fall of vile and villainous children. We have completely reinvented Grizzly Tales for today's readers...

"Do you see him?"When war came, twelve-year-old Ruth Imker knew better than anyone that nowhere was safe: not Oud Beijerland, not Heleen's house - not anywhere. She knew the Germans would keep coming. She knew they would never stop. The Germans had followed Ruth all the way from Vienna...