Jabberwock

The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the first book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere, USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career-best in Jabberwock — a tale that will keep you up all night turning pages. Nower County was never a hard place to leave. But now, leaving is impossible. When drunk teenagers add letters to the Welcome to Nower County sign, making it Welcome to NowHerE County, nobody repaints it. Why bother? Everyone knows they live in the middle of nowhere. Children’s book author Charlie McClintock and her three-year-old daughter, Merrie, return home to settle Charlie’s recently deceased mother’s affairs. It’s the first time since high school that she and childhood friends Sam Sheridan and Malachi Tackett have been reunited. A beat of happiness before Charlie experiences an unexplainable disaster. A bizarre storm blows through the Appalachian Mountains and literally wipes Nowhere County off the map. The outside world forgets the tiny town ever existed, and no one can leave. Anyone who tries wakes up in the Dollar General Store parking lot with blinding headaches, gushing nosebleeds, and no clue what happened to them. Locals name the shimmering mirage on the county line that imprisons them the Jabberwock. Abby Clayton thinks it's Charlie’s pet. Desperate to bring her baby home from the hospital across county lines, Abby is the only person who has dared to “ride the Jabberwock” more than once. She believes it spoke to her. Brain-damaged, barely able to walk from her injuries, Abby hatches a deranged plot to force Charlie to make the Jabberwock set them free. Will Malachi manage to stop her and save Charlie and Merrie in time? And can Abby survive one more ride on the Jabberwock? ★★★★★ "I am gob-smacked! I love this book and will probably read it again. The characters are all my friends now, and I can't wait to read the next book. It isn't a quick read, but I was done before I knew it, before I was ready. Thank you again, Ninie, keep them coming!!" -- mj ★★★★★ "Move over, Stephen King! Ninie has outdone herself with this thriller! Stay on the edge of your seat as characters just disappear and then reappear elsewhere. What’s causing this? The government? Aliens? Can help come or will they, too, be swept away to Nowhere?" -- Judy ★★★★★ "Wow, just WOW!! This one had me on the edge of my seat and I can’t wait to see where it goes from here. I have read several of her books and I think this is the best by far but I probably would have said that about the others as I finished them. She is an author not to be missed if you like Stephen King. Do not miss out! Very highly recommended!!" -- Terrie Guin ★★★★★ "Ninie Hammon always delivers a story that has never been told before. Nowhere USA opens with a bang that promises a great series. I loved Jabberwock." -- Reader of the Pack Jabberwock is the first book of Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere. Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will love settling down to spend some time in Nowhere USA.

One-act play based on the poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the looking-glass.'

A dragon on the run. A clever curse. And a Queen desperate for power. Alice didn't ask to come to Wonderland, and she certainly didn't ask to be tasked with breaking a curse. But thanks to a snarky cat on a mission, that's what she'll have to do if she wants to return home from this magical world. Alice has always been embarrassed about growing up in the notorious slums of turn-of-the-century London, but it did teach her to be resourceful. She's going to need all her wits to defeat the Queen, break that curse, and restore the crown to its rightful heir. Can Alice succeed without losing her head- or her heart? Follow Alice down the Rabbit Hole to find out in Jabberwock's Curse, first in the YA fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland.

Twas brillig--and Albert is vacationing with his family in The Valley of Enchantment in Redwoods National Park in California when something goes very, VERY wrong. Albert suddenly finds himself without cell phone service, and is forced to deal with slithy toves, mome raths, borogoves, and a pretty girl named Alice. The only way that Albert can ever return home, he's told, is by slaying the Jabberwock, the monster featured in Lewis Carroll's classic poem, "Jabberwocky"; and then getting into the cave of a snark, which is, unfortunately, a boojum. Wonderland was never so much fun--or so dangerous! This modern-day sequel to Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books is a middle-grade novel for kids--and for adults who can still remember when they were kids. Great fantasy adventure!

In the small town of Carmel City, it's just another Thursday night for longstanding editor and Lewis Carroll aficionado Doc Stoeger as he puts his weekly newspaper to bed. Of course there isn't any real news in the Carmel City Clarion, but then there never is, and Doc wishes that for once something would happen on a Thursday evening to give him a hot story to break. Before the night is through, Doc's wishes come true and he gets tangled up in a bizarre series of events that would make for sensational reading the next morning. But will he survive to put it into print?

No good deed goes unpunished. After risking her life to defeat Wonderland’s treacherous queen and break her curse, Alice thought the rightful heir would be wearing the crown — and she’d be home by now. It’s been a long time since she could trust a garden hedge to stay put or get a moment’s peace away from the incessant chatter of the local fauna. But what she didn’t know is that breaking the Queen’s curse triggered a clever trap that has tied Alice to the Prince’s future. Now, she faces an impossible choice - marry a man who doesn’t love her or enter the labyrinth to win back his throne. And if she waits too long to decide, she’ll die. Tired of being a pawn on the political chessboard of a world that isn’t her own, Alice decides to change the game and play by her own rules. But destiny is determined to get what it wants — and destroy anyone who stands in its path. Join Alice on a new adventure in Jabberwock’s Champion, the second book of the Looking Glass Chronicles — a fairytale retelling of Alice in Wonderland for YA readers.

Includes 38 nonsense verses and parodies: "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "Father William," "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Hiawatha's Photographing," "The Mad Gardener's Song," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," and many others.