The Magic Parcel: The Gathering Storm - Couverture souple

English, Frank

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908098147 ISBN 13 : 9781908098146

Editeur : 2QT Limited (Publishing), 2011

Synopsis

Second in the Magic Parcel Series. Following on from The Magic Parcel: The Awakening, how is Jimmy to escape this one? Miriel helped him and his brother to escape when Seth caught them in their last adventure in The Awakening. There's no one to save Jimmy this time, except, perhaps, for - Ursula. She is determined that her new friend will not become a lost friend. She has shown flashes of her raw and unrefined power, but how can she save Jimmy if she can't find him or control it? What would happen if she unleashed her power in its full force? Jimmy and Ursula are Otherworldlings, and not the only ones needing help in Omni. How would ordinary (and extra-ordinary) Omnians react to the emergence of a new and potentially more destructive threat not only to their stability but also to their very existence?

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a dilemma and no mistake! How is Jimmy to escape this one? Miriel helped him and his brother to escape when Seth caught them in their last adventure in The Awakening. There's no one to save Jimmy this time, except, perhaps, for - Ursula. She is determined that her new friend will not become a lost friend. She has shown flashes of her raw and unrefined power, but how can she save Jimmy if she can't find him or control it? What would happen if she unleashed her power in its full force? Jimmy and Ursula are Otherworldlings, and not the only ones needing help in Omni. How would ordinary (and extra-ordinary) Omnians react to the emergence of a new and potentially more destructive threat not only to their stability but also to their very existence? Is the answer on Omni itself, or in some other place? Ursula had been brooding for some time, pacing back and forth in her father's study. She stopped before the great map periodically to see if she might discern Jimmy's whereabouts, but to no avail. Her last vision of him had been that of a captive in an icy land, taken to incarceration in a grim, grey tower amidst a white wintry landscape - - She closed her lids slowly and gently, and as she relaxed, her breathing slowed until it had become almost imperceptible. As her mind cleared, random images of Omni swam into her head; images of places she had neither seen nor visited. Then there it was! Dour, black and threatening, the Watch Tower jerked into focus. Through the walls and into the corridors her images took her. She followed the corridor to one door of many, outside of which was gathered a menacing group of guards, key in lock, making ready to burst into the room. At this moment, Lucix entered Jimmy's head, Ursula exerted all her will, her considerable untapped power waxing within her, and the guards burst into the cell - A"

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in 1946 in the West Riding of Yorkshire's coal fields around Wakefield, he attended grammar school, where he enjoyed sport rather more than academic work. After three years at teacher training college in Leeds, he became a teacher in 1967. He spent a lot of time during his teaching career entertaining children of all ages, a large part of which was through telling stories, and encouraging them to escape into a world of imagination and wonder. Some of his most disturbed youngsters he found to be very talented poets, for example. He has always had a wicked sense of humour, which has blossomed only during the time he has spent with his present wife. This sense of humour also allowed many youngsters to survive often difficult and challenging home environments. Recently, he retired after forty years working in schools with young people who had significantly disrupted lives because of behaviour disorders and poor social adjustment, generally brought about through circumstances beyond their control. At the same time as moving from leafy lane suburban middle class school teaching to residential schooling for emotional and behavioural disturbance in the early 1990s, divorce provided the spur to achieve ambitions. Supported by his present wife, Denise, he achieved a Master's degree in his mid-forties and a PhD at the age of fifty-six, because he had always wanted to do so. Now enjoying glorious retirement, he spends as much time as life will allow writing, reading and travelling.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 2QT Limited (Publishing)
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908098147
• ISBN 13: 9781908098146
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Wood Chaz
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible