*** Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite Silver Medal for YA Epic Fantasy*** An ancient prophecy, now an outlawed myth. A forbidden love, that could be deadly. A young girl, who was never meant to wield a magic amulet. Iskra is terrified of breaking the rules. So her world turns upside-down when a supposedly savage outlaw rescues her from a gang of deadly bandits. But as she learns more about the rebellious outsiders and...

The story is narrated by Olivia Thrift, a.k.a. the Manitoba based pre-teen super-heroine Captain Fantastic. After filling us in about her background, she then proceeds to speak about her first meeting with the members of the Canadian Consortium of Super-heroines, all of whom are her age or slightly older and based in different parts of Canada. She is particularly thrilled to meet her idol Gerda Munsinger, a.k.a. Muscle Girl, a...

Unlike many programming guides, this book has a direct approach and dives straight in, to get you writing reusable code from the start. Additionally, there is a lesson specific knowledge base on the accompanying website, for those who need more in-depth information to bring you quickly on track. Therefore, this book series is suitable for anyone from the absolute beginner to the more experienced programmer who wishes to ...