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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. CARDBOARD CASTLES IN THE SKY: A Tale Where Magic Lives ForeverSeven-year-old twins Teddy and Shirley once believed the world was small enough to fit above their parents' candy store. But after a terrible accident leaves them orphaned, they are sent to live on a lonely Missouri farm with relatives who offer little comfort and even less kindness. Then, beyond the weeds and crooked stones of an old forgotten graveyard, the twins discover a hidden world beneath the earth-a place of glowing tunnels, painted skies, impossible rooms, and strange creatures who are not nearly as frightening as they first appear. There they meet Quasi, shy and gentle; Francis, a great silent figure with two hearts; Hi-Low, a bickering two-headed bird; Lucie, the red-faced chief with a tender soul; and Father Time himself. In this secret world, Teddy and Shirley find laughter, wonder, friendship, and something they thought they had lost forever: a family. But childhood is fragile, and magic has rules. When love breaks one of those rules, Teddy and Shirley must face a choice between the painful world above and the extraordinary family waiting below. Warm, strange, funny, dark, and deeply heartfelt, Cardboard Castles in the Sky is an old-fashioned children's fantasy about grief, imagination, belonging, and the hidden places where lonely hearts are finally seen. For every child who ever felt forgotten-and for every grown-up who remembers what it was like to believe. JR Friend's voice is warm, old-fashioned, and deeply sincere, with the feeling of a storyteller speaking directly to the child inside the reader. His style blends gentle humor, strange imagination, and emotional honesty. He has a gift for taking characters who might seem frightening or forgotten-monsters, orphans, lonely children, wounded souls-and revealing the tenderness hidden beneath their surface. His writing carries the charm of classic children's literature, but with darker emotional undertones: grief, abandonment, fear, cruelty, and the ache of wanting to belong. Rather than treating imagination as escape, JR treats it as a form of survival-a doorway through which children can find love when the ordinary world has failed them. There is an innocence in his storytelling, but not naivety. His worlds are playful and magical, filled with odd creatures, funny conversations, and impossible places, yet they are grounded by real emotional pain. That contrast gives his work its special power: the strange becomes gentle, the frightening becomes lovable, and the forgotten become family. The book's film value rests on several adaptation strengths: a memorable title, a compact and emotional central story, two child leads, a found-family ensemble of creature characters, comic set pieces such as Hi-Low and the baseball game, and a bittersweet ending with franchise potential. The final glimpse of another realm, a winged child, and a newborn silver dragon naturally opens the door to a broader Paladin Children's Universe without requiring the first story to feel incomplete. In tone, the ideal adaptation would be tender, strange, and emotionally sincere rather than loud or overly modern. The story should not be treated as a conventional monster comedy. Its magic comes from the contrast between sorrow and wonder: the children are not escaping reality because they are bored; they are entering imagination because the real world has failed them. That emotional truth is what could make the film memorable. For producers, the project may be positioned as a family fantasy with classic appeal, creature-driven visual identity, and cross-generational emotion. For readers and viewers, it offers something simple and lasting: the belief that forgotten children may still find a door, and that even monsters can become Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Two travelers. One forgotten mission. A journey older than memory.Two travelers awaken inside a dark vessel, unsure of where they are, where they came from, or why they were chosen.One calls himself the Boss. The other is his sharp-tongued co-pilot. Together, they drift through an unknown passage on a mission neither fully remembers, guided by a force they cannot see and a destination no chart can explain.As the vessel carries them through darkness, pieces of something larger begin to surface: old fears, strange memories, a black-and-white world, and the sense that this journey has happened before.They do not know what waits at the end of the trek.>But their passage takes a dangerous turn when they arrive on a black-and-white world ruled by a chilling figure known as the Counter - a cosmic official who counts casualties, classifies souls, and speaks of good and evil as if they are cargo to be distributed across infinity.Above that colorless world flies Boosta, a radiant creature of shifting light and impossible beauty, whose colors may reveal more than either traveler understands.>Twin Trek: As Memory Takes Flight explores what might exist between lives - and what the soul may carry forward when the mind forgets.Strange, funny, philosophical, and emotionally intimate, this novelette asks one haunting question: What if love is the one memory the universe cannot erase .Twin Trek: As Memory Takes Flight is a metaphysical science-fiction novelette about memory, reincarnation, cosmic mystery, sibling connection, and the possibility that love may survive even when everything else is forgotten. JR Friend's voice is plainspoken, philosophical, humorous, and deeply searching. His storytelling feels like a late-night conversation with someone wrestling honestly with the biggest mysteries of existence: love, death, memory, reincarnation, war, God, fear, and why we are here.His style blends: - working-class directness with cosmic imagination;- humor and banter with spiritual unease;- big metaphysical questions with accessible, everyday language;- science-fiction wonder with emotional vulnerability;- strange worlds with deeply human concerns.JR does not write cold, technical science fiction. His work is soul-driven sci-fi - curious, restless, sincere, and often funny even when facing dark questions. He writes as if the universe is not something to be explained from a distance, but something to argue with, question, fear, laugh at, and love from the inside. In Twin Trek: As Memory Takes Flight, his voice moves between comedy, cosmic dread, tenderness, and philosophical reflection. The result is a story that feels unusual and intimate: a metaphysical adventure where the greatest mystery is not space itself, but what memory, love, and the soul may carry across lifetimes. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A unique sci-fi twist about two space explorers heading towards their next destination to start their new life. On their long voyage together, they began contemplating and reflecting on a variety of topics, such as reincarnation and the meaning of life. On their way towards their destination, they accidentally landed on an unknown planet that explains to them the infinite war between "good vs. evil." Where do all the souls go or come from? How life began? Where they themselves are heading into. A fascinating quick read This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What would you do if you were in her situation? That level of anguish and grief would drag any mother down into the depths of hell, where one's fear begins to fade and be replaced with the excitement of anticipation to see the look of death in the eyes of her murderers! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. CARDBOARD CASTLES IN THE SKY: A Tale Where Magic Lives ForeverSeven-year-old twins Teddy and Shirley once believed the world was small enough to fit above their parents' candy store. But after a terrible accident leaves them orphaned, they are sent to live on a lonely Missouri farm with relatives who offer little comfort and even less kindness. Then, beyond the weeds and crooked stones of an old forgotten graveyard, the twins discover a hidden world beneath the earth-a place of glowing tunnels, painted skies, impossible rooms, and strange creatures who are not nearly as frightening as they first appear. There they meet Quasi, shy and gentle; Francis, a great silent figure with two hearts; Hi-Low, a bickering two-headed bird; Lucie, the red-faced chief with a tender soul; and Father Time himself. In this secret world, Teddy and Shirley find laughter, wonder, friendship, and something they thought they had lost forever: a family. But childhood is fragile, and magic has rules. When love breaks one of those rules, Teddy and Shirley must face a choice between the painful world above and the extraordinary family waiting below. Warm, strange, funny, dark, and deeply heartfelt, Cardboard Castles in the Sky is an old-fashioned children's fantasy about grief, imagination, belonging, and the hidden places where lonely hearts are finally seen. For every child who ever felt forgotten-and for every grown-up who remembers what it was like to believe. JR Friend's voice is warm, old-fashioned, and deeply sincere, with the feeling of a storyteller speaking directly to the child inside the reader. His style blends gentle humor, strange imagination, and emotional honesty. He has a gift for taking characters who might seem frightening or forgotten-monsters, orphans, lonely children, wounded souls-and revealing the tenderness hidden beneath their surface. His writing carries the charm of classic children's literature, but with darker emotional undertones: grief, abandonment, fear, cruelty, and the ache of wanting to belong. Rather than treating imagination as escape, JR treats it as a form of survival-a doorway through which children can find love when the ordinary world has failed them. There is an innocence in his storytelling, but not naivety. His worlds are playful and magical, filled with odd creatures, funny conversations, and impossible places, yet they are grounded by real emotional pain. That contrast gives his work its special power: the strange becomes gentle, the frightening becomes lovable, and the forgotten become family. The book's film value rests on several adaptation strengths: a memorable title, a compact and emotional central story, two child leads, a found-family ensemble of creature characters, comic set pieces such as Hi-Low and the baseball game, and a bittersweet ending with franchise potential. The final glimpse of another realm, a winged child, and a newborn silver dragon naturally opens the door to a broader Paladin Children's Universe without requiring the first story to feel incomplete. In tone, the ideal adaptation would be tender, strange, and emotionally sincere rather than loud or overly modern. The story should not be treated as a conventional monster comedy. Its magic comes from the contrast between sorrow and wonder: the children are not escaping reality because they are bored; they are entering imagination because the real world has failed them. That emotional truth is what could make the film memorable. For producers, the project may be positioned as a family fantasy with classic appeal, creature-driven visual identity, and cross-generational emotion. For readers and viewers, it offers something simple and lasting: the belief that forgotten children may still find a door, and that even monste Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The world remembers Jack the Ripper.The world remembers wrong. In the fog-choked streets of Whitechapel, a black carriage moves after midnight. Four dark horses. A silent driver. A passenger hidden behind a man's face.By morning, another woman will be dead.London believes a monster is loose. The newspapers give him a name. The police chase shadows. Fear spreads from pub to alley, from alley to Parliament, until the city begins whispering the secrets powerful men need.But the killer is not a man.And the murders are not what they seem.Katherine is a ghost in government records, a woman paid to erase problems that cannot survive daylight. Sent across the ocean with no name, no address, and no certainty, she must turn panic into information before the true target disappears forever.Somewhere in London, a woman carries a secret dangerous enough to disgrace an empire.Beside Katherine sits Keinch-Way-Chang, her silent protector and the only man who understands the work behind the mask. He has served her for fifteen years. He has watched her become widow, lady, killer, and legend.But this contract is changing everything.The longer the hunt continues, the more dangerous the lie becomes. The police are closing in. The city is watching. The target is still breathing. And the one thing Katherine was never meant to want-peace-may be the thing that gets them both killed.To finish the contract, Katherine must give London a monster large enough to hide the truth.To survive it, she and Keinch must outrun the legend they created. A dark alternate-history historical mystery of murder, conspiracy, gothic atmosphere, forbidden love, and the black carriage that carried the truth through the fog.Perfect for readers who enjoy: Historical murder mysteriesJack the Ripper reinterpretationsGothic historical suspensePolitical conspiracy thrillersMorally gray assassinsDark romantic tragedyCase-file mysteries with atmosphere, secrets, and bloodLondon kept the legend. History kept the monster. But the truth rode in the black carriage. JR Friend's voice in Shangri-La: The Case of the Black Carriage is dark, cinematic, and deliberately noir. The prose moves through fog, silence, blood, memory, and moral consequence with a rhythm built for atmosphere and tension.The style blends historical noir, gothic mystery, political conspiracy, and tragic romance. Its repetition is intentional: fog hides truth, silence protects survival, questions invite danger, wealth disguises sin, and names reveal who people are beneath the masks they wear.JR's strongest writing lives in contrast. London is wet, corrupt, claustrophobic, and predatory. Greece is bright, open, and almost impossible to trust. Violence is controlled rather than excessive. Tenderness is restrained rather than sentimental. The emotional force often comes from what characters refuse to say.Kate is written as both myth and wound: killer, lady, ghost, asset, and woman reaching for peace. Keinch/Lincoln is written through discipline, loyalty, observation, and silence. Their relationship grows not through grand speeches, but through service, trust, withheld desire, and the slow courage to want something beyond blood.In Shangri-La, JR Friend's prose has a clear signature: old-world, atmospheric, morally dark, and emotionally restrained. It reads like a case file soaked in fog, a confession hidden behind violence, and a love story trying to survive inside a murder legend. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When the Comancheros ride, towns burn. Families vanish. And mercy dies.James Bishover only wanted a quiet breakfast on the trail - until a hardened Texan named Ben Worthington stepped out of the desert with a story soaked in blood. "They killed my whole family." That single confession pulls James into a brutal hunt across the Southwest, where the Comancheros leave nothing behind but ashes, bones, and nightmares.As the two men track the gang's trail of slaughter - burned towns, murdered settlers, children taken or destroyed - their mission collides with Marshal Daniel Thompson of Tucson, a lawman feared by outlaws and revered by the innocent. Thompson is raising an army of volunteers to end the Comancheros once and for all.But justice in the frontier is never simple. And not every man is who he claims to be.When the final showdown erupts in the abandoned mining town of Chimayo, the truth detonates: betrayal, madness, and vengeance twist together in a fight so savage it becomes legend. In the aftermath, a new frontier town rises - Lionsburg - and James Bishover is offered a badge that will change his life forever.Gritty, relentless, and unapologetically Western, No Fear. No Mercy. delivers frontier justice at its rawest - where men choose who they are in the fire of violence, loyalty, and redemption.Perfect for readers of Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, and Dark Western frontier tales.CONTENT WARNINGThis story contains graphic depictions of and references to violence, murder, torture, sexual assault, harm to children, racial hostility, and coarse language. Reader discretion is advised. CONTENT WARNINGThis story contains graphic depictions of and references to violence, murder, torture, sexual assault, harm to children, racial hostility, and coarse language. Reader discretion is advised. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. RANGE RIDER is a gritty, character-driven Western in the spirit of Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, and the frontier legends of old.A nameless orphan escapes a brutal childhood and rides south into an America being carved by outlaws, drifters, ranchers, and men chasing their own myths. Armed with nothing but a stolen pony and a fierce will to survive, he enters the frontier at the moment it is becoming both a battleground and a birthplace for legends.On the open range, the boy becomes Eric Redman-quick with a gun, quicker with his wits, and determined to build a name no one will forget. From dusty cattle towns to wide Wyoming plains, Eric's journey cuts through the heart of a violent, changing West where every choice can turn a man into a hero, a villain, or something far more complicated.But the frontier is more than gun smoke and grit. It is also a place where a hardened soul can find unexpected mercy, honest work, and the fragile beginnings of a life worth keeping. As Eric grows from fugitive to ranch hand, from loner to family man, he discovers that the hardest battles are not fought with a revolver-but with the past he carries and the future he hopes to claim.Perfect for readers of Lonesome Dove, The Sisters Brothers, and Louis L'Amour's frontier sagas, Range Rider delivers a sweeping Western tale of survival, identity, and redemption-reimagining the frontier through the eyes of a boy determined to rewrite his fate. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Three brutal Western novelettes. One frontier universe forged in blood, justice, and legend. In the Paladin Western Universe, the Old West is not a place for the weak. It is a land of broken families, ruthless killers, corrupt men, and innocent people waiting for someone brave enough - or dangerous enough - to stand between them and the darkness. In Paladin, Beatrice "Bee" Maris survives unimaginable cruelty and rises from victimhood into legend, while the mysterious Jay Aar and the Paladin Detective Agency deliver swift frontier justice to those who prey on women and children. In No Fear. No Mercy., two riders track the murderous Comancheros across the Southwest, only to uncover secrets, betrayal, and a brutal reckoning that will change the fate of an entire frontier town. In Range Rider, a runaway orphan escapes a life of abuse and sets out to become something more than the world ever allowed him to be - a feared rider, a survivor, and a legend shaped by pain, loyalty, and hard-won honor.Gritty, violent, emotional, and mythic in scope, Paladin Western Universe: A Frontier Justice Collection brings together three hard-edged tales of revenge, survival, sacrifice, and the unbreakable will to protect the innocent. For readers who like dark Western justice, frontier legends, outlaw violence, and stories where mercy is earned - not guaranteed. JR Friend's Western style stands apart from the classic frontier tradition by blending old-school moral certainty with a raw, emotionally charged sense of justice. Where Louis L'Amour often writes with clean frontier discipline, honor codes, and rugged landscapes, Friend leans harder into trauma, vengeance, survival, and the personal cost of violence. His stories carry the campfire rhythm of traditional Western storytelling, but with a darker, more mythic edge-closer to a revenge ballad than a standard trail adventure. Compared with Zane Grey's sweeping romanticism and L'Amour's lean, masculine frontier realism, JR Friend's voice is more direct, visceral, and emotionally exposed. His characters are not merely riding through the West; they are fighting their way out of wounds, secrets, betrayals, and moral reckonings. Justice in Friend's world is rarely clean or polite. It is fierce, personal, and often final. Friend's dialogue has a plainspoken, rough-edged quality that evokes campfire storytelling and oral legend. His heroes and antiheroes speak in blunt truths, hard warnings, and gallows humor. The result is a Western voice that feels less polished by literary distance and more like a story told by someone who lived close to pain, rage, loyalty, and survival. In the tradition of Western authors who turn violence into myth, JR Friend builds legends around wounded people who refuse to stay broken. His work shares the moral backbone of classic Westerns, but pushes into darker emotional territory-where the frontier is not only a place of cattle trails, gunsmoke, and lawmen, but also a proving ground for trauma, redemption, vengeance, and the question of whether justice can ever truly heal what evil has taken. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…