New Releases by Mary Jones

Advanced Biology is an accessible, full colour textbook from the same popular author team as the successful GCSE text Biology. It has been written for students starting from a double award GCSE base.

Mary Jones Polk was born in Tennessee, the daughter of Dr. William Julius Polk and Mary Rebecca Long Polk. Her parents were married at Mt. Gallant, in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1814 or 1818. They moved to Columbia, Tennessee, in 1828 or 1834, making their home on a plantation near town. She married Col. Joseph Branch in 1859 at Columbia. He was a widower with two sons. They had four children. They lived on his plantation near Helena, Arkansas, until after the Civil War when they moved to the plantation she inherited from her father in Tennessee. She tells of life in the south, before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. Her husband was murdered when he returned to his plantation in Arkansas on business in 1867.

There is someone new behind the closed door of Matron''s office. He has plans for Highgate, plans that will bring Adam''s world crashing down around his ears. Face to face with harsh reality, Adam feels as if his adventures in the fantasy world of Karazan happened a lifetime ago. However, a mistake made behind the distant walls of Shakesh will soon have consequences more terrible than he and his four friends can ever imagine. King Karazeel must be overthrown before it''s too late. There is only one person who can defeat him, Zephyr, the lost Prince of the Wind.