The Elf Boogie

In this interactive board book, with rhyming text, the reader is invited to boogie with the elves getting ready for Christmas.

Nate Scott is a fifth grader whose only goals in life are to snag the hottest girl in elementary school and hopefully make the football team. When his family journeys to Wisconsin to spend Christmas with his grandmother, Nate is looking forward to good food, a snowstorm, and his grandmother’s wonderful stories without any idea of the secrets he is about to uncover. Through dancing abominable snowmen, mystical spells, and his grandmother’s ability to scour rummage sales, the mysteries begin in a dark basement as the family’s fate intertwines with twin elf brothers, Elrond and Oropher Lúinwë. After a spell goes awry and transforms Elrond into a gingerbread man cookie, he must convince Nate and his sister to help him win the battle against Oropher who is determined to seize control of Santa’s Workshop. But with a gingerbread army standing in the way, their mission will not be easy. As Nate becomes embroiled in the unusual battle, all he knows is that this Christmas is turning out to be one exciting holiday. In this thrilling fairy tale, a fifth grader and his family are propelled into the real story behind St. Nicholas’s operations and the two brothers on track to cause a major uproar at the North Pole.

The Reindeer Chronicles: The Legend of Twoshoes - Discover how Twoshoes became the person that he is. Who was he in the beginning? What role did he play in bringing about all of the wonderful things that happened once upon a time in the Christmas Village? Did he really teach reindeer how to fly? Elf twins with halos, a crystal light prism, red snow, chartreuse reindeer - who ever heard of such things? The explanation of these unique phenomena and many others is revealed in The Legend of Twoshoes. Also available: The Reindeer Chronicles: The Great Candy Cane Caper - Two innocent young reindeer, PJ and Zipper, fall into the clutches of the twisted elf, Dr. Baddey Twoshoes, who has a sinister plot to destroy all that they hold dear. Outsiders are given a rare glimpse into how things really work in the Christmas Village, including the unusual effect candy cane has on reindeer. The antics of the reindeer and elves will delight the reader and leave everyone wondering if there is any way to unravel the sinister plot of Twoshoes and save Christmas. Coming soon: The Reindeer Chronicles: The Curse of Idylfar - A fascinating story of mythic proportions that exposes life in realms beyond the Christmas Village. Follow the lives of elves as they work through events and circumstances set in motion eons ago that culminate in the forces of good confronting an overwhelming armada of evil which seeks to change the fate of all life in the universe. The ending of The Curse of Idylfar will leave you breathless and uplifted. Author Contact: Internet: www.triplebraid.com E-mail: [email protected] Mailing Address: Joe C. Watson P.O. Box 9047 Chesapeake, VA 23

The Reindeer Dog is the authors gift to all children and adults who believe in the magic of Christmas and Santa Claus. The setting for the story is the North Pole and a little village in the Liguria region of Italy called Alpicella. Alpicella is the village where the authors grandfather, Nonno Antonio, was born. When she was a little girl, her nonno, Italian for grandfather, would tell her stories about his village. As a child she thought this village must be a magical place to live. In the story The Reindeer Dog, Santa is on his customary flight on Christmas Eve. He arrives on the rooftop of a home in Alpicella where he discovers a very special gift. This story wraps within it the history of Liguria, customs celebrating Christmas in different parts of the world, and a touching story of an unexpected gift for Mrs. Claus. The author welcomes families from all different backgrounds to share and gather together to read her story of love.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hotly anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10; to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. David Mitchell's new novel is the story of Utopia Avenue and its age; of riots in the street and revolutions in the head; of drugs and thugs, schizophrenia, love, sex, grief, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don't; of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. Do we change the world or does the world change us? Utopia means 'nowhere' but might it be somewhere, if only we knew how to look?

Santa finds himself in a stitch of trouble in the tenth in the series from the national bestselling author of The Stitching Hour... Marcy is busy helping her customers make hand-crafted ornaments at her embroidery shop, the Seven-Year Stitch. But despite the yuletide bustle, when her friend Captain Moe asks for her help, she can’t refuse—especially when the favor is to play the elf to his Santa for sick children at a local hospital. Despite the ridiculous outfit, Marcy finds herself enjoying spreading cheer—until the hospital’s administrator is found murdered. Although the deceased had plenty of people willing to fill her stocking with coal, evidence pins the crime on Moe. Now it’s up to Marcy, with the help of her police officer boyfriend Ted and her Irish Wolfhound Angus, to stitch together the clues to clear Moe’s name—before someone else winds up crossed off Santa’s list for good...