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Joshua Appleby and the ruby dragon
In 1960’s England Earth Magic is hidden.
When a circus led by an eccentric ringmaster arrives in town, a new dark magic emerges, resulting in a terrible culmination of betrayal of family and friends.
Joshua & Milly Appleby have the power of Earth Magic but Milly hides a secret; will she fall into darkness and her magic would be bound and lost forever.
Delvera Mooremarsh has returned; a thief and murderer. Practicing Dark Magic, she has two things on her mind; Steal the Ruby Dragon and find eternal life. Manipulating events with unimaginable consequences, will Mooremarsh be thwarted again doing battle with Joshua and Milly Appleby, or will they fail against Mooremarsh’s newfound dark power?
Joshua Appleby and the Ruby Dragon will enchant teens, adults, and anyone who enjoys magic and adventure.
When a circus led by an eccentric ringmaster arrives in town, a new dark magic emerges, resulting in a terrible culmination of betrayal of family and friends.
Joshua & Milly Appleby have the power of Earth Magic but Milly hides a secret; will she fall into darkness and her magic would be bound and lost forever.
Delvera Mooremarsh has returned; a thief and murderer. Practicing Dark Magic, she has two things on her mind; Steal the Ruby Dragon and find eternal life. Manipulating events with unimaginable consequences, will Mooremarsh be thwarted again doing battle with Joshua and Milly Appleby, or will they fail against Mooremarsh’s newfound dark power?
Joshua Appleby and the Ruby Dragon will enchant teens, adults, and anyone who enjoys magic and adventure.
348 pages, Paperback
Published February 4, 2022
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Kim Langley
5 books65 followersKim Langley: The Unvarnished Truth
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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