Bøger udgivet af Diane Martin

One reckless action. A desperate journey. A race against time.In this thrilling series opener, Murphy Tulley knows he's no hero. But when the magical Gem of Nashel is stolen from his mining town, its protection is lost, bringing illness and potential death to all in Airinton. While still grieving the loss of his father, the town's last Gem Keeper, it's up to Murphy to retrieve the missing gem. He sets off alone to find it, guided only by a mysterious internal connection. When he is joined by an unlikely group of friends and creatures, they learn to work together in a race against time.As Murphy pushes past his own doubts and fears, he realizes heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Can he summon the courage to save the day? Follow Murphy in his high-stakes quest to rescue his village and claim his destiny as the next Gem Keeper.Recommended as a read-aloud for families or an independent middle-grade fantasy read, this first book of The Illusia Chronicles functions as a standalone novel while also being an introduction into the six-book series. ¿¿¿Full of daring escapes, unlikely allies, and thrilling self-discovery, this epic middle-grade adventure illuminates the bravery that can be found in the most unlikely of heroes.

Somebody Else's Baby reveals the demise of humanity and indicts a community whose silence has killed more children than bullets. This story is a disturbing and emotional diary of tragedy and fear. Tijani Khalan Owens (TKO) is a young Black male trying to survive the "war" that has erupted in the streets of Chicago. He represents every child who must live every day in fear - in a community that they call home. Tijani doesn't want to become a statistic - another victim, but fate puts him in a situation where he learns that some choices, good and bad, will have grave consequences. In the end, whatever the choice, lives will be changed and we will be forced to take inventory of ourselves and of a growing problem that plagues us all.

"Some Murderers are born...others are made." Human beings are considered the most treacherous animals on the planet. Capable of committing the worst crimes against their fellow man, human beings kill not out of a need for survival, but simply because they can. Paul is one of those human beings. In the beginning, he kills because he just wants the pain and the harassment to stop, but something happens that turns his need to kill into an insatiable thirst for blood that only the thrust of an axe can quench. They say that our eyes are the windows to our soul. Behind Paul's eyes there is an undercurrent of evil that won't rest until he receives the reparations that he believes that he deserves. Can anyone stop him? Only the love of a child can save us from his wrath. A man can only be pushed so far before he turns and pushes back.

This ain't no Cinderella story...Families are a construct, created by God, that are supposed to provide its members with three basic things: love, happiness, and security. It is not hard to believe that if our basic needs are met then often times, we will grow into well-rounded happy individuals who will love ourselves and those around us. But often times, there is a forfeiture in our roles and responsibilities to one another that causes those needs to go unfulfilled. As a result, love is replaced with pain, happiness with sadness, and security with fear. Peaches knows that world all too well. Born to two of the most loving parents in the world, she couldn't escape the clutches of their evil offspring. Twins, Regan and Raven, and Ivy the middle child, were her older sisters - determined from the very beginning, to erase her existence. In spite of all of their attempts, she breaks the chains to start life anew only to find that no matter how hard she tries, they will never let her go. In this story, we learn that "blood" is not the only thing that is holding this family together.