Böcker utgivna av Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Valentina and her younger brother, Santiago, are en route to a better life in the US, leaving everything behind them in their native Mexico. Their parents have been killed by a Mexican cartel, leaving them as orphans, but they are now desperate to build their lives on the American side of the border. They face a dangerous journey trying to avoid border patrol officers but Valentina is intent on starting a new life with her brother and is willing to risk everything for the dream of America. Next stop, El Paso.

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep: A Fairytale for Children with Insomnia is a short story by Alex Stephenson. Meet Jacob, a boy who never sleeps. No matter what he tries, he's always awake. However, after his mother reads him a very special bedtime story, Jacob discovers a hidden world that he never knew existed. Could his insomnia be a blessing in disguise?

'Ranger Heart: A Naturalist Learns How to Love After Loss' explores what it takes for a park ranger to get grounded after grief in a profession that encourages rootlessness. After losing her father at a young age and growing up in New York, she craved wide-open spaces and the healing embrace of nature. With determined courage and good humor, Woodland takes the reader on outdoor adventures with her colorful cohorts in some of the most stunningly beautiful places on earth including Zion, Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, and Yosemite National Parks. While she was determined to follow a career path that would lead into the heart of the wilderness, it would take years to understand that to heal from loss, her own heart would need to become as wide open as the natural world in which she sought refuge.Ranger Heart is a collection of personal essays that consider five different themes: Advice for Women with Grit, Constraints, Love and Loss, Art and Beauty, and Connection and Community.

The Croydon family reside in Hamilton, New Zealand. Their patriarch and matriarch, Winston and Sue Croydon, travel to Australia on holiday and Sue goes missing in mysterious circumstances. The Croydon siblings and their partners, also finish up in Australia to search for their precious mother, in tandem with the Australian police. As all else fails, the Croydon's employ a novel method of intensifying the hunt for their dearest mother. The mastermind of Sue Croydon's disappearance, the enigmatic, Hartley Hartstone, is a mixture of philanthropist and criminal. He incarcerates his victim at a location, he regards as impregnable and the perfect hideaway. Sue is put to work in captivity, to coordinate an enterprise that would be laudable in concept, were it not for Hartstone's staff recruiting methods and other illegalities. The story is based on family values and deals with various unique issues encountered by Winston and Sue's whole family.

The offer of a job over the closed winter season, taking care of The Chine, seemed the perfect escape Justyna needed. Leaving a violent breakup, this was the chance to start again, save money and distance herself from her past. She accepted the offer without hesitation, unaware that The Chine hid a dark, historic evil; one so sinister that the Church helped the estate owners hide for generations. Justyna soon made herself at home. Alone, she found solace in the free bar, helping her forget her violent past, her stupor making her oblivious to the disturbing events unfolding around her. Soon she became uneasy. Feeling she was not alone, she ventured out. She met Steven, the heir to the local estate, and innocently invited him hack to The Chine. This is when the true evil began to rise, angered by the intrusion of the family that condemned it so long ago. Now the pair must fight or die.

Three different stories but each with a link to England's second city, Birmingham.We have Dave, whose life after conscription in the army took him to Japan, Korea and Germany. Later he was paid to kill a high ranking Russian by a woman whose family he had destroyed.Then we have Charley, whose interest and aptitude in diamonds took him to northern Europe and eventually rich pickings in the Far East and Singapore in particular.Then we have Lionel whose police work led to various overseas trips including North America, Mexico and Canada.One other factor that has a common theme is that they are all hot shots when it comes to shooting...The cover photo of two Birmingham Corporation buses is thanks to Phil Ireland and comes from the Transport Museum Wythall.

World War Two and Captain Ty Lawrence waved goodbye to his wife, Natalie, and their young son, Jerrod, as they headed home to the States. Ty was about to embark on a dangerous mission. Would he see his young family again? His longing kept him going as he infiltrated enemy territory. Read 'The Moon Had It All' to join Ty and Natalie on their emotional and courageous journey.

John Fisher has recovered from the shot that might have ended his life when he was a police officer in New York. Now an officer in the Tribal Police, he has moved on and life is beginning to be good again.But the man who shot him reappears in his life unexpectedly and as their paths cross again, Ramon is hellbent on revenge.

Meet Sophie Gold, an eight-year-old girl living in Queens with her parents and three sisters. As the third daughter, Sophie often feels on the outside: not the adorable youngest, like Jane (five), and not a teen like Amy (twelve), and Hannah (fourteen).When her parents get in a fatal car crash, causing her mother's death, her father is riddled with guilt and spends decades suffering from severe PTSD. Her grandparents move in to help care for the girls, but Sophie is acutely aware that the grown-up world around her is withholding something.Sophie tries a ballet class at the behest of her best friend and neighbour, Chloe. She's immediately hooked. At ballet Sophie immerses herself in fine tuning every shape shown. Every position becomes an opportunity to perfect her imperfect reality. An obsession is formed. A sanctuary found.

John never questioned why things happened around him the way they did -why everyone wore the same shade of grey, why every lawn was manicured to be exactly three quarter inches. He especially didn't seem to notice the small little detail that he, and everyone else in Meno for that matter, were always and without fault smiling, yet nothing significant ever occurred. That, however, was all about to change when a young, free-spirited woman ran into him at the Muni station. Who would have thought a stupid piece of paper containing a single sentence would change everything? A sentence that addressed a simple question that no one ever asked.In a world where questioning has been deemed harmful and happiness comes in a little white pill, John begins to find his smile quickly fading, to be replaced with the one thing Meno feared above all else - a need for answers.

The story follows the adventures of Hannibal, who unknowingly gets thrust into the alternate realm after naively accepting an agreement with an unknown entity named The Spider Queen. He discovers a world that allows time travel and the alteration of world history. Throughout his journey, Hannibal meets some renowned historic figures such as: Boudica, Sun Tzu, William Wallace, Saladin and others.

Elizabeth, a recent graduate, has an ill-fated love affair with a married Canadian diplomat in Bangkok. She returns to Montreal severely depressed, and resolves never to be taken advantage of again. She becomes a research assistant to a reclusive millionaire living in a mansion in Northern Quebec. She is subjected to a gauntlet of further ordeals.

It's as if history is repeating itself as Borna Didi¿ is caught in a whirlpool of merciless events, just like his grandfathers and the whole family before him. He knows their stories. After some events which convince him that his fate couldn't be any better, he leaves the lands of everlasting war, an unfortunate part of Europe known as the Balkans.Being thrown into a life of pretending to be someone else, he's trying to find peace elsewhere, changing his name several times until he finally settles down in Switzerland as one Archibald V Jones. During the day, he's a respected professional integrated into Swiss society. After sundown, he's an esteemed but mysterious figure in the Red Light District of the city, where he meets an astonishingly beautiful prostitute. He starts to live with her and everything seems to be perfect, but the burdens of the past lie heavy.

It was a hot, hot day, in an old, old house, when a thin, thin cat, saw a bold, bold mouse...Join the thin, thin cat and the bold, bold mouse on their fast-paced, adventures as they chase their way through the town, past a whole host of colourful characters, but beware!The cheese was all boiling and bubbling away.Hot cheese gets so hot on a hot summer's day...Will the thin, thin cat get the upper hand with his super, crafty plans or will the bold, bold mouse have the last laugh?Dive into the bubbling, fast flowing, River of Cheese and find out for yourself!

This is Book 1 of the Curlee Cool's UniverseTM series. It is about a yellow jazzy cat who uses his imagination and creativity to fly into outer space. Once there he discovers all sorts of new fictional planets full of wacky fun characters.Download our interactive books & games app at: CurleeCool.com

Nine years ago, Adam was kidnapped by love from the sunny shores of Melbourne, Australia and was taken to the sleepy English town of Bedford where he was ordered to live in a semi-detached house with a tiny garden surrounded by people who demand he be a father, a husband, and a provider. He's run the numbers and the only way he can escape into the dreamland of retirement is if he dies at fifty-eight.Less a journal and more a hilarious transcript of what not to do when you're a forty-something dad, Adam documents his thoughts, doubts and fears while attempting to answer suburban living's most pressing questions. The biggest being, how will he pay for it?

Bog The Green Frog is a book full of fun phrases that children can sing along to. It is a book that teaches children colour recognition and also teaches children that it is ok to get dirty as dirt is easy to wash off. I hope you enjoy this wonderful adventure of Bog The Green Frog and I look forward to writing about many more adventures.

Dedicated to the real Hank and Frank, Henry and Frankie, my dear son and our dog. As Henry grows up, together we work to move through challenges with a mindset of learning. When we face a hard moment, we think about what coping tools we need to practice to get through this moment. We normalize that growing up and learning is full of challenges and mistakes and that can lead to hard, messy, and beautiful moments. Together, Henry and I have come up with these Hank and Frank books to share some of our learning to help you move through the hard, messy, and challenging times in a more effective and healthy way. And to come out of those moments feeling empowered and resilient!