New Releases by Lisa Williamson

It's Ollie's turn to tell his story in the latest addition to the Bigg School series. Explores the pressure to fit in and be accepted and what it means to be a good friend with a light touch and lots of empathy Explores the pressure to fit in and be accepted and what it means to be a good friend with a light touch and lots of empathy. Jess Bradley's hilarious illustrations brilliantly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters.

Ann's life had been good until it wasn't. Taken from her home in a government sweep she thought she was being deported. Instead she died in a botched attack between two countries and wakes up in a white room. Her life goes from bad to weird as she finds herself reborn. Waking up in a cell with a collar around her throat she finds herself in a body very different from the one she remembers. Even before she came to terms with finding herself in a new body she is sold into a world filled with creatures that are straight out of fantasy. She is told she is a Siren, one of the many races that fill this world and one feared by most. The man who buys her is Damien Black, the head of the Black Dragon clan. She is to be a concubine and it is in his compound that she finds out just how different this world is. Filled with magic, intrigue and lies she must find a way to stay alive. More she must learn why she was put in this body in this place and just what the secrets surrounding her are.

Welcome to Bigg School, where the extraordinary lives of ordinary kids take centre-stage - like Cleo, whose obsession with popularity and perfection is about to collide with the new reality of having to wear... braces! Obsessed with being the prettiest and most popular girl at school, getting braces is the WORST thing that could happen to Cleo. And not only that, but Cleo is convinced that the braces are cursed. 'Warm, honest and hugely relatable' - Cath Howe

Ajay is scared of everything - spiders, heights, the dark - you name it, Ajay is scared of it! So when his two best friends persuade him to sign up for the year 7 trip to Merrywood Activity Centre, he knows he's about to be pushed WAY out of his comfort zone. Faced with the killer combination of outdoor pursuits, homesickness and getting teased by the popular and competitive Ollie, Ajay feels like a total failure. But when a twilight orienteering challenge goes horribly wrong, Ajay is forced to face his fears, proving that being brave when it counts is much more important than topping the laser tag leader board!

Once a Church Knight, then a straight edge reporter, Michael Dorogon, known as the Dragon he found his life taking a path he never thought it would. The night someone breaks into his uncle's tower office he is called to come in and catch them. Little did he know that a woman from his past, one he isn't sure he can trust would help him find the answer he was sent to find. Frey fell far when she was betrayed by her partner. Now she has the information needed to clear her name and hopefully find her missing family. When her former partner makes a play at a gathering of the rich and corrupt she is shocked to see a man who she once trusted. Why is he there and is he in on what happened years before? Book four of the Angel City Romances

Angela has spent the past five years living a quiet life, using her talent and raising her daughter in peace far from the land of her birth. When a stranger needs her help she does what she can. The secrets held for years come to light when she finds out he is from land land she fled from. Can Aiden protect Angela and her very special daughter from a man who wants to take the child and control their fate?

My name is Thomas Lionsey and I come from a long line of Guardians. My father was a guardian, my uncle was a guardian, my grandfather was one too. My cousin is Harry Lionsey, bearer of the family sword and the Guardian of the Gate city. I am the first of the Lionsey line since the inception of the guardians to be turned away from the Rites. Instead of following in the footsteps of my family I have taken on a different role. That of a Finder. In the Queen city there are children of all kinds who need my help. With the 'gift's my mother's blood gave me I track down the missing, abandoned and kidnapped children. I save them from those who do not have their best interests at heart. Most times I find them and help them heal up, sending them either back to their families or onto new ones who will protect and nuture them. Sometimes all I can do is get them justice. The city of Manchester has become a lawless zone after the death of the last Guardian. I do my best to help, heal and counsel those human and Other who need help when I am not Finding children, but this time an old enemy has been taking very special children and I may have to pay a cost to rescueing them. I'll pay it, because I am the son of a Guardian.

In the Guardians universe there arethose who help the guardians keep people safe. They are friends who lend aid to the Guardians as they can with skills that are outside of those the Guardians have. This collection contains stories of three such friends. Sheldon is a dragon with the title of Lore Keeper. He gathers information as his horde and he shares what he learns with Harry in the Gate city. James is a Knight of the Ways who came to Harry's world when he was forceably retired from his duties protecting the ways between the worlds. And lastly is the Alchemist, the secretive creator of medicines needed by those who protect the world and those who can't go to the human run doctors, pharmacies and hospitals. Together they are three of the many friends that Harry is glad to have in his life. Some of these stories are republished here in this collection and there are three complete new stories inside.

The remarkable true story of Margaret Anne Bulkley - aka Dr James Barry - a surgeon who lived as a man for their entire life Margaret Anne Bulkey desperately wants to be a surgeon - but only men can train as doctors. Fifty years later, Dr James Barry is famous, serving as Inspector General of Hospitals throughout the British Empire. A brilliant surgeon, bold reformer and prickly individual known for his fierce tempter, he fought a duel in South Africa and clashed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. But Dr Barry has a secret that he is determined no one should every learn...

Paramedic working for Other Medical Transport, an ambulance service that is called out for the nonhuman residents of Angel city. If a dryad needs dialysis or shifter needs to be transported to Jones EMS for treatment after an attack, Erika and her rookie partner are called in. She works hard, being one of the very few paramedics who can be reliably called on to deal with any of the many varied races living in and around Angel city. Her roommate, Rain Swiftwing is a hot Hunter, one of the secret police force that both protects and defends all races inside the city limits. Thanks to their schedules they rarely get to even say hello and goodbye but one night when Erika had fallen asleep in the tub after a double shift Rain comes home injured. She treats his injuries and they finally Angel City has over two million inhabitants, not all of them are human. Erika is a ptalk, learning that they both share an attraction. Will it go anywhere or will their lives and the danger growing in the city get between them before it can?

A new contemporary series from Lisa Williamson about an ordinary class of kids with extraordinary stories - teamed up with the hilarious and award-winning illustrator, Jess Bradley. The first book follows Lola going from primary to secondary school with her best friend.

When everyone thinks of shifters, they think of wolves, bears or even dragons. No one thinks of house cats. Sophie has spent the least ten years living in hiding. She helps the small fae and creatures who need healing, but she spends most of her time alone, flying under the radar of most people. That is until she one of her few friends is attacked by a thug. She breaks out of hiding to scare off the thrug and is hurt in the process. She wants to run, but she can no longer hide in plain sight. She just hopes that the man who killed her parents doesn't find her. The third book in the Guardians: Barrie Stories This book contains fantasy violence

Benjamin is the heir to the clan, but there are those wwho want him out. He manages to escape but finds himself far from where he intended. Yvette moved to her brother's old cabin up in the quiet mountains. It was the perfect place for her to run her animal rescue. During the big storm she heads out to check on her charges when he sees a man during a flash of lightning. Stopping just in time, she jumps out and catches him as he slumpss to the mud of the road. Just what is gong on she has no idea, but her quiet life is about to change in mysterious ways.

Enya was driving through bombs one moment and found herself sinking into water the next. The bright light was not a bomb esploding but a ate opening between one world and another. She finds herself in a world very different from the one she left. A world where you can't tell anyne yourtrue name or trust most beings you come across. Enya meets beings ofraces tht she neverdreamed existed and one that was right out of the legends her grandmother told her long ago. Randal isan actual elf, one much older than anyone on thi new world knows, or he remembers. Going by the use name of Damocles, he rescues Enya and gives her the use name of Athena. Together they work toward finding and rescuing people until an old enemy of Randal's raise his head. Can they survive the anicent enmity of Randal's Past? Thisbook is a drak fantasy and contains adult themes Trigger warning for abuseand sexual situations.

Knight Protector Yasha and vampiric Death Mage Hargon have been fighting a long standing battle . When last they were face to face Hargon destroyed what was previously pious to Yasha. Now they meet again. Hargon has kidnapped the Bard Elinor and plans to drain her of her bardic magic and her life. Yasha, with the mage Rener, the blade women Le name and Priestess Linelle race to her rescue, hopi g that this time the outcome will not be the same Trigger warnings: this book contains adult situations and fantasy violence

Meet DWAYNE 'The Rock' Johnson, the World Wrestling Entertainment phenomenon who turned his talents to movie acting and became a Hollywood megastar. Find out:- Why fellow high school students thought he was an undercover cop- Why his wrestler dad was dead against Dwayne following in his footsteps- And why he sneaked a fart machine onto the set of The Scorpion King.Get to know DWAYNE on First Name terms.

Meet the young activist who stood up for her rights—and changed millions of lives Before Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in Pakistan. Growing up, Malala’s father encouraged her to be politically active and speak out about her educational rights. When she did, she was shot by a member of the Taliban and the story received worldwide media coverage. Protests and petitions from around the world helped to pass an educational-rights bill in Pakistan, and Malala used this platform to continue her activism and fight for women’s rights. Inspiring and moving, Malala Yousafzai tells the story of one girl’s bravery in her fight for equal rights. It includes a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index.

Meet MALALA Yousafzai, the brave and brilliant activist who survived being shot in the head aged 15 to keep fighting for all girls to receive and education.Find out:- How an earthquake literally rocked her world,- Why everyone forgot her twelfth birthday- And how she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Get to know MALALA on First Name terms.

Bonnie. Never Mum or Mummy or Mother. Just Bonnie . . .When it comes to flying under the radar, Ro Snow is an expert. No friends. No boys. No parties. And strictly NO VISITORS.It may be lonely, but at least this way the truth remains where it should - hidden.Then Tanvi Shah, the girl who almost died, comes tumbling back into her life, and Ro finds herself losing control of her carefully constructed lies.But if Ro's walls come crumbling down, who's going to take care of Bonnie . . .

The Breakfast Club meets One Day in Floored, a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood. When they got in the lift that morning, they were strangers. Sasha, who is at the UK's biggest TV centre desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's by far the richest – and best-looking – guy in the lift; Velvet, who regrets wearing the world's least comfortable shoes to work experience; Dawson, who isn't the good-looking teen star he was and desperate not to be recognized; Kaitlyn, who's slowly losing her sight but won't admit it, and Joe, who shouldn't be there at all, but who wants to be there the most. And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year . . .

Every culture has some type of figure of Death. The Grim Reaper who collects souls as they lie dying. For some he is the cruel face of an end come too soon, for others a gentle healer of life lived too long.But there is another face to this spectral figure. Death walks through the world, helping those souls that linger between this world and the next, those trapped by circumstance, wish, desire or loss.So many souls linger needing but a gentle voice and hand to help them move past the final moments of their lives.This collection contains 15 tales of beings who either know not that they are dead or just how to move on.This book collects together 14 previous published short stories and includes one totally new story.

Erotic tales can be loving, sweet and hot. These short stories are a moment in time when loving couples come together. Filled with passionate loving, these tales are not for the reader under 18.

« La voilà, l’occasion pour moi de tout déballer. Cinq petits mots : Je. Veux. Être. Une. Fille. Une phrase qui refuse de sortir. Qui me réduit au silence. Maman s’attend certainement à ce que je lui dise que je suis gay. Il y a sans doute des mois qu’elle se prépare à cette conversation. Sauf qu’elle et papa ont tout interprété de travers. Je ne suis pas gay. Je suis juste une fille coincée dans un corps de mec. » Traduit par Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon.

Mia's two sisters are pretty much perfect, but Mia's life is a series of disasters.Fuelled by alcohol and insecurities, she betrays one of her best friends in the worst way imaginable.But will her little sister going missing finally make her realise making everything All About Mia just isn't going to cut it any more?It's time to grow up and face reality.

This "wonderful" young adult novel about the friendship between two British transgender teens "brings a fresh perspective in contemporary LGBTQ drama" ( VOYA, starred review). David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long, and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means. "A welcome, needed novel." — Kirkus Reviews "An important addition to collections for its first-person perspectives on the experiences and inner lives of transgender teens." — School Library Journal

Una història sobre la lluita per la normalitat de ser diferents. Què significa, per a tu, ser «normal»? En el seu primer dia de curs, en Leo només té un objectiu: passar desapercebut i que ningú s'assabenti del seu passat. Però les coses es compliquen: la noia més guapa de la classe s'enamora d'ell i, a més a més, comença a fer-se amic d'en David, el raret de la classe. Els secrets, però, són difícils de guardar...

Elves are a people of clans, tribes, and nations. Their lives are filled with family. When her village ended and her parents where killed and her revenge cost her the last of her family, Loralil was cut loose of the ties that bind elves to life. Karleen and Levy have managed to keep her from death wishing and pulled her back from her inner darkness, but she refuses to speak. Out of concern they hit the road again to bring her to the last known enclave of Grey Elf healers. They can only hope those mystical healers can help her find a fragile peace.

Drabbles are flash fictions of exactly 100 words. Growing explosively in popularity they are all over the net. Collected together here are drabbles written since 2014 based on images, web prompts and contests. These tales in short are snapshots of inspiration and reflections of meaning.