Bøker av Dave Johnson

One day in 1860, everything changed for everyone, everywhere. In Victorian London, in an age when steam and clockwork power is all-important, a series of events throws Oliver, Jake and Charlotte into conflict with the authorities. They come from very different backgrounds and join forces with an escaped slave, a street urchin and a prostitute to form an airship crew - The Rebel Runaways. With the country in the hands of the army and beset by street gangs, escape is their priority. When they realise the depths to which the corrupt government and a wicked industrialist are willing to stoop, they turn to face the enemy. Life will never be the same again for the crew and for the world, but unless the Rebel Runaways can succeed, society will slide into an abyss. Freedom Skies is the first book in "The Rebel Runaways" series. The series features adventure stories that blend fiction with actual places, creating an alternative history and spotlighting the period when Steampunk began. If you enjoy books like 'The Aeronaut's Windlass' by Jim Butcher, 'Perdido Street Station' by China Miéville or the 'Magnificent Devices' series by Shelley Adina, you will love this story.

Should they travel back in time? They know when but not why. If they stay or if they go, there will be danger! Two cousins enter the lives of the time-travelling Baxter children. Little do these kids from the rough side of town realise that this encounter will lead them to an extraordinary adventure. Can they escape their problems in the present as they travel back in history? Will they want to come back to an uncertain future? Janie and Lenny meet the Baxters for the first time at a family gathering. Before long, these two children, living a troubled life in the present, find themselves travelling to the past. The answers to a mystery lie in the past. Can they find the solutions with the aid of the Baxters and a time machine to ease their troubled lives? Stuck Between Two Lives is a stand-alone story and is the seventh book in the "Stuck" series. The series feature adventure stories that blend fiction with actual events and people to create an enjoyable and informative read full of drama with a sprinkling of humour. Like all of the books in the series, Stuck Between Two Lives can be enjoyed by children 8+, but adults will have a fun read too! If you enjoy books like 'The Secret Lake' by Karen Inglis or 'The Time Hunters Saga' by Carl Ashmore, you will love this story.

Travelling back to 1855 was just the start. There was another journey to come! Lucy Baxter is at the forefront of this standalone novella. She imagines she is simply going to take up the position of a companion to a young Victorian girl in genteel London but very quickly, events move out of her control, and Lucy finds herself on a journey she could not have imagined. She is shocked to find herself face to face with the horrors of the Crimean war and meets both Florence Nightingale and the Jamaican nurse, Mary Seacole. Separated from her brothers, Lucy is forced to make decisions based only on her own moral code and hope they will lead her to safety and success.

A brother with a mysterious life-threatening condition! The Baxters need to find their uncle for help, but he's lost in time. If they don't locate him, their brother might die.What started as a vacation with their uncle became an adventure these three English schoolchildren could never have imagined. Who would have thought Uncle Archie had built a time machine? If they don't learn how to work it, how can they find him because he has vanished and is somewhere back in 1940?Teamwork becomes all-important because an unforeseen event wrecks their plans when they finally arrive in wartime England, and they must cope with new lives as evacuees. Even worse, if they can't find their uncle, they will be stuck in the past forever, and one of them will certainly die!Stuck in Time is an adventure story set chiefly in rural England. It unfolds over an eventful Easter holiday when the Baxter children visit their Uncle Archie, only for him to vanish! When James develops an unusual, life-threatening condition, it becomes clear that Uncle Archie is the only one who can help. Their search for their missing Uncle finds the siblings transported back to 1940s wartime Britain and racing against time. They discover what it was like to be an evacuee and experience life at a 1940s village school.Stuck in Time is a stand-alone story and is the first book in the "Stuck" series. The series feature adventure stories that blend fiction with actual events and people to create an enjoyable and informative read full of drama with a sprinkling of humour.Like all of the books in the series, Stuck in Time can be enjoyed by children 8+, but adults will have a fun read too!If you enjoy books like 'The Secret Lake' by Karen Inglis or 'The Time Hunters Saga' by Carl Ashmore, you will love this story. This is the first stand-alone book in the 'Stuck' series blending adventure, history, and time travel.

Their brother is invisible; they must travel to Elizabethan times and find the key to saving him. If they don't, he will surely die. The three Baxter children know they must work together as a team when they go back in time to the Sixteenth Century, but after a series of dramatic events, they become separated - then stuck! How will they ever get back to their own time? Along the way, they meet several historical figures from the Elizabethan period, including the Queen of England, Robert Cecil and William Shakespeare. They all have a part to play in this exciting adventure story, but danger lurks all around! After all, the Elizabethans were renowned for hatching plots. This stand-alone story is the second novel in the 'Stuck' series. It blends actual events and historical figures with fiction to create an exciting adventure story featuring the Baxter children. Like all of the books in the series, Stuck 1595 can be enjoyed by children 8+, but adults will be engrossed too! If you enjoy books like 'A Traveller in Time' by Alison Uttley or 'Elizabethan Time Travel Series' by Morgan O'Neill, you will love this story.

THE JOURNAL SEEKS TO PROVIDE A FORUM: To encourage serious theological thinking and articulation by Pentecostals/Charismatics in Asia; to promote interaction among Asian Pentecostals/Charismatics and dialogue with other Christian traditions; to stimulate creative contextualization of the Christian faith; and to provide a means for Pentecostals/Charismatics to share their theological reflections.

Covers various Palm OS devices, including T|X and Tungsten E2, as well as third-party plug-ins. This guide helps to learn how to use the core Palm OS applications, take advantage of wireless features such as e-mail, Web, and phone capabilities, watch movies, listen to music, secure their devices, and much more.

If you're a fan of classic comic strips like "Bloom County," "Calvin and Hobbes," and "The Far Side," chances are you'll get a kick out of "Dog Complex." A man, his dog, and some guy named Monkey are just a few of the colorful cast of characters that hang out at the "Fuzzy Things Pet Shop." Get to know them all!

Features: how to download and rip music, organize tracks, play music in your car, stage live - DJ parties, and optimise, enhance, and troubleshoot your Dell DJ. This work gives basic tips, tricks, and advice on digital music management. It shows how to back up old LPs, cassettes, and other formats as digital files and copy over to your Dell DJ.

This guide aims to teach you everything you need to know about using your digital camera. It covers such topics as: how to get good pictures; how to evaluate and buy a new or used digital camera; how to enhance and improve existing images; and the best resources for digital photography hardware.