New Releases by Susan Price

In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa''s fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead. A timeless and atmospheric tale of fierce magic.

"You love me, don''t you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You''d better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She''s in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I''ll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jonathan. But he''s already married. To a vengeful ghost. "I love you to death."

Elfgift''s father is the king but his mother was not the queen. She was a beautiful elf-woman: pagan and not even human. But the king, on his death-bed, leaves his kingdom to Elfgift, the ''elf''s-get.'' From that moment, Elfgift''s three royal half-brothers want him dead. Armed warriors arrive at Elfgift''s farm while he is away, hunting. He returns to find his home burned and his people slaughtered. Alone, he faces enemies who want his head. His only ally comes from the wood: Jarnseaxa, the Battle-woman, as Elvish as his mother. Can she help him gain revenge and a crown? Or is she as great a threat as his royal brothers? A Gothic, Dark-Age fantasy.

Game Changers have the skills, courage and power to change the world! Read about eight game-changing scientists who all shared the same motto in life: ''nullius in verba'' - ''take no one''s word for it''. They asked the questions and gathered the evidence that shaped our understanding of modern science. From Isaac Newton who established the laws of motion still used by engineers and scientists today, to Marie Curie, who won two Nobel prizes in recognition of her work on radiation and radioactivity, and Tu YouYou, the Chinese scientist who discovered a cure for malaria that has saved millions of lives. Game Changers: Super Scientists is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 10-11 years

Sarah''s Gran Gornal is a witch. So is her Uncle Bryan. Sarah''s parents won''t let her have a dog because of the cost of feeding it and taking it to the vet. Uncle Bryan says he''ll make her one that won''t need food or the vet. He makes her a bone-dog. Sarah finds she can make it do anything she wants. Even bad things that she knows she shouldn''t do... And Sarah starts to enjoy her new-found power...

Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal. A descendent of the god, Woden.His uncle is the King. Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess. But his uncle gave him to a monastery, to live and die as a Christian monk. Kenelm feels betrayed but is bound by his oath of loyalty to his king. So he digs the monastery''s vegetable garden and dreams of the life he might have had. Then comes a message from the king. He has a mission that only Kenelm can undertake. Kenelm must carry a royal message into the dark wood. To the Wolf Sisters As beautiful, fierce and terrifying as Nature itself. Originally published by Scholastic as part of their Point Horror series.

All life is sorrowful, but very, very sweet. Ice apples and firelight. Wolves, darkness and the road to the Ghost World. Ghost Spell, the fourth haunting book in the Ghost World Sequence. Under a freezing arctic sky, a wolf carries a dying baby to a village door. The villagers adopt him, naming him Vulchanok, ''Little Wolf.'' He grows to be a happy child but, by night, the wolf enters his dreams. She leads him to the Ghost World and makes him a shaman. The villagers begin to fear him. Vulchanok becomes a lonely man. By night he looks for visions in a spinning ice-apple. He sees a beautiful, red-headed girl who is also alone. Taking up his goshawk skin, he flies to her window. Hundreds of miles away, the penniless orphans, Glev and Kristiana, live in the Czar''s palace. Every day Glev searches for a nobleman to marry his sister and make them both rich while Kristiana remains alone in their room. A noblewoman must not be seen in public. Kristiana comes to love Vulchanok but to be with him she must shame and dishonour both herself and her brother. She must learn to work, though she has never lifted anything heavier than the page of a book. Can the love between Kristiana and Vulchanok survive Glev''s anger and Vulchanok''s enemies? If you enjoyed the Carnegie medal winning The Ghost Drum, then you''ll enjoy this story of ice, firelight, love and revenge.

Time traveling corporate raiders target 16th-century Scotland--and face the legendary Sterkarm warriors--in this "enthralling . . . brilliantly imagined" series (Philip Pullman on The Sterkarm Handshake). James Windsor--leader of FUP, the twenty-first-century megacorporation that created a tunnel back to the past called the Time Tube--has no intention of giving up his plan to pillage resources from pristine sixteenth-century Scotland. Unfortunately for Windsor, the Sterkarm clan, who will do anything to protect their lands from invaders, continues to stand in his way. But if Windsor''s modern-day mercenaries, with their technology, rifles, and rocket launchers, can''t beat the primitive Sterkarm warriors, who can? And who could possibly understand the wild Scottish moors and the clan''s brutal ways better than the Sterkarms themselves? When FUP opens up a new portal, two universes of Sterkarms are pitted against each other, but anthropologist Andrea Mitchell--originally sent back in time by FUP to study the clan--will risk her life to save Per, the warrior she loves, and the community she has grown to call home. And when both sets of Sterkarms become wary of the twenty-first-century "Elves," who shake on promises of friendship with one hand and commit murder with the other, they know there is only one way to protect their futures: join with the Grannams, and with each other, to destroy the tunnel, preventing the Elves from returning ever again. Perfect for fans of Outlander and Vikings, A Sterkarm Tryst is the epic conclusion to Susan Price''s award-winning Sterkarm Trilogy.

This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages display a range of constructions equally compatible with the suggested pattern of possibilities resulting from the general constraints proposed. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this “brilliantly imagined” time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain’s mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company’s representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms’ welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future—and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping “Elves” begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called “enthralling” by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price’s Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called “dazzling,” “exciting,” “memorable,” “thought provoking,” and “a thumping good page-turner.”

Little Billy Goat Gruff says, "Some of our words and letters have fallen out of our book! The colour has been lost too! Please, can you help us? Colour us in again and put all our words back together. Thanks! This activity book accompanies the retelling, by Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price, of the old favourite ''Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' First, enjoy reading the story, with its funny illustrations and repeated phrases. Then open this book and colour-in the illustrations - and see if you can help the goats by filling in the missing words and letters. While small people will enjoy being read the story and colouring-in large letters spelling ''Eat him!'' they won''t appreciate, as bigger people do, how much they''re learning. Learning to listen and absorbing the pattern of stories is highly educational. Listening is a learned skill, and these old stories teach empathy as they increase vocabulary. Closely observing the shape and grouping of letters in order to copy them into the blank spaces - with loving help from adults, of course - prepares children for both reading and writing. It makes children comfortable with books and pens, while the repetition of the task helps them memorise letters and spellings. Research* has shown that children who are read stories at home before starting school, and who are encouraged to draw and colour-in and do such simple ''missing word'' exercises, start school with the equivalent of two years advantage in education. * See the work of Dr. David Rose.

Paul loves beautiful girls and he loves poetry. He''s a pub poet - courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell''s Angels in the Hailstone Inn. So when Zione, a beautiful black girl - and a real head-turner - appears in his audience at the Old Crown, Paul is well pleased. When she asks him to go outside with her, he doesn''t hesitate. When they''re alone, in the darkness of the pub''s yard, Zione calls up green fire and, for Paul, everything goes away... He wakes up in a strange bed, not knowing where he is - which, for him, is nothing new. Then the luke-warm hot-water bottle nips him. It''s a dragon. A small dragon, but still a dragon. It turns out, Zione is a sorceress. The sorceress of Dragonsheim. Where Paul now is. Paul cheers up when he finds that poets are far more respected in Dragonsheim than in his own world. Everyone is glad to see him - and keen for him to meet the biggest poetry lover of all. A very big poetry lover who has devoured most of the Oxford Book of Poets. In the most literal possible sense. When Paul performs for this poetry-lover, he finds his work examined and criticised as never before. When this critic rips you apart, you stay ripped. It''s extreme lit-crit. Can Paul''s ego survive it? Can he survive it? And get back to his beloved lost world of pubs, pints and crisps? A light-hearted fantasy of poets, sorceresses, dragons - and wrapping paper.

Here are nine powerful stories written by acclaimed, award winning author, Susan Price. Voices whisper in a graveyard... ''Who weeps on my grave, who keeps me from sleep? - Is it you who unearths me to this cold rain, this dark, this wind and all its grief?'' A lost sister speaks in a dream... ''She said,"I''m on Mow Top. But you won''t find me now. Don''t look. Forget me." A supermarket is haunted by a murdered baby... Footsteps climb the stairs of a darknened cottage... A voice whispers in a museum... Nine short, haunting stories of the supernatural, of loss and longing, of those who walk between this world and the next... Review ''...The opening tale is...creepy, to the extent that the words crawl like cold fingers down your back. ''Mow Top'' is heartbreakingly sad... This is how it works in real life. Children see ghosts and tell us. We reassure them, and ourselves, that there are no such things... ''The Familiar'' is all about the cost of power, and cuts deep. The final story, ''Overheard in a Museum'', is a thing of beauty, like the ship itself. You can feel the swell of the sea beneath you as you read. It speaks of a distant era and reminds us that objects so often outlast people by a long, long time. Except that the ship is not an object - it''s the spirit of an age. - Rosalie Warren on " Awfully Big Blog Adventure Reviews"

People have told stories since the world began - and everybody has a story. Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories. He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid''s grandmother, from an old soldier, and from a dying woman. Late one night, as he walks home past a churchyard, he''s joined by a large black dog, a Churchyard Grim, which leads him out of this world to Heaven''s Gate - and tells him a story to pass the time as they walk. And in Heaven, the Virgin Herself pours the tea and tells a tale... From the beginning to the end, we tell stories. Everybody has a story. The Story Collector is a collection of folk-tales, retold by the acclaimed writer, Susan Price. Here are old stories, wise stories, funny and sad stories, of life, death and rebirth; of loss and love.

When children face physical or emotional challenges, what do they need to heal? Recovery and redirection are often mysterious, filled with uncertainity and doubt. It''s me! As good as I can be had its origins in the real experience of the author''s son. It presents a vivid interpretation of the healing process. Invoking the powers of love and friendship, as well as an extravagant dose of magic, this story illuminates Zachary''s journey and the special friends who helped him become as good as he can be.

A story based on a North American tale about a fox who tricks a bear out of his tail.

This is the English edition of the classic Russian textbook designed for parents to teach their children "all the fundamental points of the Orthodox Christian faith and way of life." Because children are growing up quickly in a society that raises serious and agonizing questions the author does not teach in naive stories that remain stories only. It offers an overview of the whole of the Old and New Testaments as well as instruction on prayer, worship and what it means to live by the teaching of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. Lavishly bound and made to last. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and icons.

Discusses cooperative agreements between or among school districts under CGS 10-158a.

Discusses liability protections for Connecticut volunteers.

Discusses the use of telemedicine and telehealth to deliver health care services.

Discusses laws making cyberstalking a crime represent state and congressional efforts to keep pace with stalking in the digital age.

Discusses whether there were any senior transportation programs for residents of Union, Connecticut.

Compares Oklahoma''s Kelsey Smith-Briggs Child Protection Reform Act with Connecticut''s child protection laws.

Discusses child support in Connecticut.

Discusses a bill currently before the New York Assembly''s Committee on Codes making criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds a felony punishable by imprisonment for three to seven years.

Discusses Kerrigan v. Dept. of Public Health, 289 Conn. 135 (2008), the recent state Supreme Court case holding it to be unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.

This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the caliber of Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe, this is a truly chilling anthology.

Analyzes recent Superior Court decision regarding finders'' fees and summarizes current law.

Discusses the small, gender-specific therapeutic group homes, housing four to six children and youth with complex behavioral health and other needs who need clinical and other support services to transition to family settings or independent living, which the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) contracts out.

When Ketil and Ottar sail away with a Viking band to join the Great Army, they dream of famous victories. But the boys are ill-prepared to survive a bloody and brutal battle with the Saxons. Courage and friendship alone must win the day in this sweeping, dramatic adventure.