Johnston: 1395 books

A collection of short stories and novelettes by the creator of Zorro.  

The Chimera are a race so old, the humans relegated them as a myth. The Gods feared the Chimeras powers, believing they were a deadly race with physical abilities beyond belief. So they split their race in half, condemning them to wander the earth searching for their other half to be complete. Without...

A few years ago, I started to occasionally write short stories and other creative works to vent creative expression, as my notepad and journal became cluttered I realized I needed a better medium to store my content. So, I made an amateur blog and posted anything half decent onto it without any desire...

In previous books of this series dealing with the achievements and adventures of the pioneers whose journeys led to the foundation of the British Empire beyond the seas, I have described the revelation of West Africa, the exploration of British North America, and the experiences of those who laid...

Will'm and Libby Branfield are young children who live with their Grandma Neal in the town of Junction. As the Christmas is approaching they find out that their father has remarried and that they need to leave Grandma Neal and go live with their new stepmother they fear. On Christmas Eve the children...

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a New and Circumstantial Account of the Battle of Long Island and the Loss of New York, with a Review of Events to the Close of the Year, Containing Maps, Portraits, and Original Documents This edition features • illustrations •...

A coming of age story set in a Scottish fast food restaurant: take a group of full time burger flippers and cash starved students, add a likeable geek with a love of political theory, and a passionately angry French anarchist, and you have a recipe for rebellion. Rife with dry British humor and working-class sensibilities.

When the body of young female environmental activist and science student, Laila Fanshaw, is found floating in Lake Burley Griffin, private investigator Sandra Mahoney's life is turned upside down, not least because her partner, Ivan, was in love with Laila. Ivan is a suspect and has no alibi for the...

Time is running out for Hecate, queen of witches; to live, she must find a suitable sacrifice and vessel for her soul. So when Elena miraculously survives the Black Death, she is plunged into a dangerous world of witchcraft and demons, where she must learn the skills of a warrior and the arts of a...

In the twenty-first century, the residents of Canterbury Hall gathered around a table to tell each other tales just as Chaucers pilgrims did on their way to Canterbury in the fourteenth century. Like Chaucers stories, these fifteen tales are contemporary to their times, and sometimes the account of...

PI Alex Mavros must navigate politics, corruption, and old-world vendettas when a crewmember disappears from a WWII film shooting in Crete. Movie star Cara Parks has arrived in Greece to film a WWII epic about the Nazi occupation of Crete. The presence of the film crew has been stirring up...

To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer in colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly...

Have you ever struggled to have faith in the midst of the chaos of life? The real world looks nothing like reality television. There’s no script to follow; there’s no editor to clean up the mistakes. No hair and make up. No stylists. The real world isn’t always pretty. It can get messy, it can...