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Joshua Appleby and The Flaming Sword
Joshua looked into the deep amber eyes of the white wolf and knew his life would change forever.Earth Magic is real. And its power can be frightening.Joshua Appleby has always felt ordinary, but everything is about to change. As his thirteenth birthday approaches, he is tormented by nightmares and starts seeing animals that no one else seems to notice. He soon discovers the reason for this is that he has Earth Magic. Joshua enters a secret world that he does not understand. He is watched over by the Elders and guided in the ways of Earth Magic by a white wolf, and a blue hare, in the hope that he will stay on the right path. The Elders warn Joshua he must understand magic before confronting evil. But when a Dark Magic practitioner steals a priceless chalice and a sacred magical sword. Joshua enlists the help of his twin sister and two friends to track down the stolen items. … Little do they realize; the worst kind of evil awaits them.
320 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2020
About the author
Kim Langley
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A package arrived from California (a mythical land to a girl from Pittsburgh) when I turned eight. Aunt Viola Buehler had mailed Louis Untermeyer’s The Golden Treasury of Poetry. When not being told to get off the couch and get my nose OUT of that book, I was reading the good stuff over and over, everything from nonsense verses, to ballads, and of course The Highwayman. From The Highwayman I learned that the moon could be “a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas”. The rest was history.
Fast forward 30 plus years, and I am leading poetry circles for mindful conversation. Over and over people entered with their shoulders hunched up around their ears, cowering and fearful that they wouldn’t get it. “I don’t understand poetry. I just came because my friend brought me.” Then 2 hours later they exit wheedling the date of the next gathering from me and asking “When can we do this again!?”
Because I am not entirely clueless, my heart could not help but notice the joy of participants integrating parts of the self, and finding words for thoughts and feeling that they had been unable to express.
Finding myself at a conference on using poetry in ministry, I was sitting with strangers around the lunch table when someone asked-- “What brings you here?” I rattled on about poetry circles and the alchemy that happens there, and she popped the question: “Do you have any poems about grief?” Do I have any poems about grief! One of the lame jokes among poets is that every poem ever written could be lumped under five themes, and one of those is grief. So yes. She turned out to be a representative of Paraclete Press.
That’s when Send My Roots Rain was born.
Kim lives in Ohio with her family of teachers, a librarian and business owner, a software engineer.
When not leading poetry circles through www.WordSPA.net, or chained to the laptop, she’s self employed as a speaker and coach at www.KimLangley.net.
She enjoys a good workout in her huge flower garden, and sneaking treats to Tucker, the doggie who wooed and won her heart.
A package arrived from California (a mythical land to a girl from Pittsburgh) when I turned eight. Aunt Viola Buehler had mailed Louis Untermeyer’s The Golden Treasury of Poetry. When not being told to get off the couch and get my nose OUT of that book, I was reading the good stuff over and over, everything from nonsense verses, to ballads, and of course The Highwayman. From The Highwayman I learned that the moon could be “a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas”. The rest was history.
Fast forward 30 plus years, and I am leading poetry circles for mindful conversation. Over and over people entered with their shoulders hunched up around their ears, cowering and fearful that they wouldn’t get it. “I don’t understand poetry. I just came because my friend brought me.” Then 2 hours later they exit wheedling the date of the next gathering from me and asking “When can we do this again!?”
Because I am not entirely clueless, my heart could not help but notice the joy of participants integrating parts of the self, and finding words for thoughts and feeling that they had been unable to express.
Finding myself at a conference on using poetry in ministry, I was sitting with strangers around the lunch table when someone asked-- “What brings you here?” I rattled on about poetry circles and the alchemy that happens there, and she popped the question: “Do you have any poems about grief?” Do I have any poems about grief! One of the lame jokes among poets is that every poem ever written could be lumped under five themes, and one of those is grief. So yes. She turned out to be a representative of Paraclete Press.
That’s when Send My Roots Rain was born.
Kim lives in Ohio with her family of teachers, a librarian and business owner, a software engineer.
When not leading poetry circles through www.WordSPA.net, or chained to the laptop, she’s self employed as a speaker and coach at www.KimLangley.net.
She enjoys a good workout in her huge flower garden, and sneaking treats to Tucker, the doggie who wooed and won her heart.
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November 11, 2022
Really enjoyed this book. Liked the idea of Earth Magic and the mystery. It was a purchase for a teenager and I read it after they had finished it. I liked the story and the characters.
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