Kerr: 550 books

Beaten Track authors present fourteen short summer reads filled with friendship, romance and, of course, enough heat to make your ice lolly dribble.Summer Bigger Than Others takes you away to your own private island of diverse stories that will make your summer days sweet, sizzling and sexy.From...

Andy Clarke is a kid from the wrong side of town. Except this town is where they used to make folktales. After years of decline they're finally making a new one and Andy gets his big break. Then an actor is murdered. Unwittingly Andy and his friend Beau are drawn into the corrupt underbelly of the folktale world. Everybody has something to hide and it leads all the way to the top.

Classic whodunit mystery in a fantasy world setting. Wolf Hill joins a merchant caravan to further his yearning to get away from home. A small group of varied travelers get separated from the main group. When isolated in a forest glade one of their number gets brutally killed. Wolf joins forces with...

Excerpts… … “these people have gone missing inside the computer. But they can’t be in the hardware – because they aren’t seeing the hardware. They aren’t surrounded by giant microchips and circuitry. And they can’t be in the software because that’s just instructions sending...

  One of the most difficult disciplines to master is to become persistent in prayers. I cannot possibly count the number of times I have renewed my vow to God, which includes making a fresh commitment to pray regularly. However, it seemed to me that no matter how hard I tried to seek the Lord...

Short horror story. Two kids get caught up in the desperate, occult life of the class bully. I think this is my favourite of my stories.

Berlin, 1933: Die Nazis kommen an die Macht. In letzter Minute reist Anna mit ihrer jüdischen Familie in die Schweiz. Vieles von dem, was zu ihrem Alltag gehörte, muss in Berlin bleiben - auch ihr rosa Kaninchen. Später flieht Anna nach England und glaubt nach sieben Jahren der Emigration, endlich...

All individuals process information culturally and this influences how learning takes place. Drs. Annita Kerr-D'Amico and René Rochester combine the fascinating field of brain science with real-life, academic, and classroom experience to explore the role and impact of culture on the brain. Using...

Having battled and succumbed to the mañana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca's Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations and triumphs of their initiation, Spain...

Escaping from a bad marriage is challenging in any age. It was fraught with danger in 17th century New France when a runaway bride could expect censure from society and Church, even if she found an honest way of earning a living. Adèle was among the young women sent from France to marry in the young...

Secrets are dangerous!Maya Cantescu, an art student in the San Francisco Bay Area, has more secrets than she can handle.  Some she keeps from herself, like her mysterious talent for sorcery.  Some she knows too well, like the rare disease that threatens to kill her -- or someone else.When...

The daughter of faith-healing Christians and the son of a TV evangelist are the stars of this lively cautionary tale about religion, family, faith, and love I start my story with the day I first saw Jesse Pegler. That was when my whole life first started changing. Sixteen-year-old Opal...

Their sounds never reach my ears. Muffled, hidden, yet free to breathe. Atop, soft and feathery without fears, A momma draped gently as a wreath In a delightful collection of essays and poetry, Eileen Kerr Blakeman transforms ordinary thoughts into amusing writings that encourage all of us...

"Emil und die Detektive" wäre auch dann Friedrichs Lieblingsbuch, wenn der Autor Erich Kästner nicht zufällig sein Nachbar und Freund wäre. Seit er es gelesen hat, träumt er davon, selbst Detektiv zu werden. Mit seinen Freunden Albert und Viktoria – die so klug ist, dass sie nur "Doktor"...