Download or read book The Teashop Terror written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hits a dead end when no wizard will take her on as an apprentice. Just because, despite being descended from two long and prestigious lines of witches, her attempts to actually perform any magic always fail. Often spectacularly. But no more college means no more dorm life. And no magical skills means no real job skills, at least, not in the witchy world. And a life spent moving from school to school every few months was a life without real friendships. She finds herself alone with nowhere to go. Then an uncle she barely remembers offers her a summer job, running his bookstore over the summer. The Weal and Woe Bookstore, located in a magical pocket world within a block of buildings just north of the old Mill District of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not exactly the pinnacle of all her hopes and dreams. But it's just for one summer, right? Or so Tabitha tells herself. But unbeknownst to her, the Weal and Woe Bookstore is about to change her life.
Download or read book Terror in Australia Workers Paradise Lost written by John Stapleton and published by A Sense Of Place Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost, by veteran journalist John Stapleton, is a beautifully written snapshot of a pivotal turning point in the history of the so-called Lucky Country. This book is a sidewinding missile into the heart of Australian hypocrisy. In 2015 there were well attended Reclaim Australia demonstrations in every major capital city, all protesting what the demonstrators saw as the growing Islamisation of Australia, along with countering anti-racism demonstrations. There were frequent violent clashes, hundreds of police were forced to form lines separating the demonstrators in Sydney and Melbourne, there were a significant number of arrests and injuries, and dozens of people were treated for the effects of capsicum spray. The terror alert was at its highest level ever, the country was engaged in an unpopular and discredited war in Iraq and Syria, and relations between the government and an increasingly radicalised Muslim minority had broken down. Despite the billions being spent on national security, authorities believed another terrorist attack was inevitable. A demoralised population, saddled with a history of grotesque overregulation, turned inwards, increasingly questioning the failed social creeds of the past. On the streets once vibrant entertainment districts were desolate, while closed and shuttered shops became a characteristic of many suburbs. An optimistic, freedom loving country with an irreverent, larrikin culture and a wildly optimistic view of its place in the world lost faith in its own story. Well documented, switching through multiple points of view, Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost is a sometimes frightening, sometimes intensely lyrical step inside a democracy in serious trouble.
Download or read book Assassination in the Glade written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfa lives two lives. In one she struggles to get by as a book illustrator in the tiny town of Runde on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. But in the other, she serves as a Norse witch, a volva, in the town of Villmark, where the descendants of a lost colony of Vikings hides inside a pocket dimension far from the reach of the modern world. Usually, balancing the needs of those two worlds dominate her time and energy. But this time, Villmark offers her trouble enough to consume her. Young men keep disappearing in the fields south of Villmark, a place of no danger in the past. The council tells her to leave it to the guardians known as the Thors. Then one of the Thors turns up with mixed up memories. And a missing brother. Now not even the council can stop Ingrid from getting to the bottom of this latest mystery. Because her own Thorbjorn just might be next.
Download or read book Bubbly Bicycles and Brides written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES showcases a collection of mystery and crime stories set in Minnesota in days past. “Long Night’s Moon” features romance and crime both, set on the first New Year’s Eve after the repeal of Prohibition. In “Tillie’s Big Race”, a young woman training for the big time gets caught up in a bank robbery when gangsters blow through her town. “The Elopement” tells the story of a gangster’s daughter on the eve of her dreaded wedding. “Dance Til You Drop” explores the world of marathon dance competitions and the poor souls willing to endure anything just for a chance at the cash prize. And “On a Cold Winter’s Night” goes further into the past for a darker kind of Christmas story. Five tales of bubbly, bicycles and brides, all guaranteed to delight you.
Download or read book Old World Charm written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nothing and no one holds you to the present, why not celebrate the new year 91 years ago?So think Amanda Clarke and the rest of the Witches Three. They head back in time to ring in 1928, drinking bootleg champagne with the wealthiest members of St. Paul society, honest businessmen and gangsters and those who dwell where those categories overlap.But when a surprise wedding engagement announcement becomes an even more surprising murder of the bride-to-be, the Witches Three find themselves wrapped up in yet another mystery.Because even if it's not your time era, when the chief suspect is your close friend, you don't opt out. Or so says Amanda Clarke."Old World Charm", Book 4 in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series. If you're a fan of Amanda M. Lee, N.M. Howell, or Amy Boyles, this mélange of magic and murder mystery is sure to charm you.
Download or read book The Witches Three Cozy Mysteries Books 4 6 written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the novels Old World Charm, Charm His Pants Off and Charm Offensive.
Download or read book The Elopement written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, at the height of Prohibition, Sarah Eckhart holds no illusions about how her father earns his money. She knows he runs a dangerous, illegal empire. Her wedding at their palatial summer home on the shores of White Bear Lake is the event of the summer. But the man her father hand-picked as her groom, his chief lieutenant, turns her stomach. She only has one last chance for escape, if she dares to take it. “The Elopement”, a short story of crime and tough choices, set during the height of Prohibition in Minnesota.
Download or read book Tillie s Big Race written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tillie shares a name with the famous “Tillie the Terrible Swede”. She also shares an ambition with that woman from Chicago. She longs to break all the records on her bike. But her home deep in the farmlands of northwest Minnesota offers few opportunities to test her. Then a car full of city folks blows into her town. City folks in a fancy city car, carrying very city weapons. Their target? Her town’s bank. But when their getaway puts her grandfather in danger, Tillie and her bike ride to the rescue. “Tillie’s Big Race”, a short story featuring gangsters, Tommy guns, and a lone young woman on a bike.
Download or read book Third Time Is a Charm written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookseller Blunder written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabitha Greene knows more about magic than most. She might not be able to cast a workable spell to save her life, but she has read every magical tome and text in existence. Or so she thought. But then she hears of another book. A rare volume delineating an even rarer type of magic. A type of magic that just might be Tabitha’s real calling. But when she tracks down the magical bookseller who owns the only known copy, she finds only a dead shop owner and no sign of the book. Maybe a random robbery gone wrong, but Tabitha doubts it. But either way, if she wants that book, she has to find the murderer first. With the help of her friends, she intends to do just that. But if the thief who stole the book killed the bookseller in order to hide the truth the text contained, Tabitha and all her friends face a dangerous threat.
Download or read book Work Like a Charm written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Clarke knows she's a witch. She unleashed unstoppable magic to save her friends and catch a murderer. But she only did it the one time. And now? Back to powerlessness.Her friends insist that all she needs is proper training. Sophie wakes her before dawn for meditation and workouts designed to channel magic. Brianna buries her under books, so many books.Amanda longs for a distraction. But when the woman who lives next door to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies turns up dead, and the murder weapon dates back to Prohibition, she gets more of a distraction than she bargained for.But who in 1927 would want her neighbor dead in 2018?
Download or read book The Entrepreneur Enigma written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabitha Greene feels blessed by so many things she lacked before. Friends, including a new boyfriend. Family, including a brother she never even knew about. And now she knows her job in the Weal & Woe Bookshop remains hers even when her uncles return from their trip abroad. She learns more every day about her innate chaos magic, training with her brother and his magic of order. Even Houdini, her little black dog that is secretly a dragon, learns more about his own ancestry when the perfect book finally turns up. But all of that happiness ends when one of her closest friends is found comatose in his apartment. And beside him lies his equally comatose black Siamese cat, Miss Snooty Cat. Tabitha refuses to rest until she learns just who would harm her friend. Perhaps someone who knew the secret of Miss Snooty Cat?
Download or read book The Witches Three Cozy Mysteries Books 1 3 written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Box set collecting the first three books in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series.
Download or read book Dance Til You Drop written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, the cash prizes offered for dance competitions lured hundreds of young people to literally dance until they dropped. Alice and Henry traveled to Fargo determined to outlast all the other couples, dancing for days without more than momentary rest breaks. Alice’s old nemesis Dorothy strives for the same goal. But that many people killing themselves to get that much money? Guaranteed to draw cheats and con artists with their eyes on the prize too. “Dance Til You Drop”, a story of endurance and pluck set in the Great Depression.
Download or read book Charm School written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there. But then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will. Now Amanda packs a bag and heads to the big city, to Miss Zenobia Weekes' Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies. And it's not in just any neighborhood. No, she finds herself on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, a street lined with gorgeous old houses, the former homes of lumber barons, railroad millionaires, even the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why, Amanda can practically hear the jazz music still playing across the decades. Scratch that. The music really, literally, still plays in the backyard of the charm school. Because the house stretches across time itself. Without a witch to protect this tear in the fabric of the world, anything can spill over. Like music. Or like murder. "Charm School", Book 1 in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series. If you're a fan of Amanda M. Lee, N.M. Howell, or Amy Boyles, this mélange of magic and murder mystery is sure to charm you.
Download or read book Body Under the Caf written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfudottir lives in two worlds at once. The first, Runde, lies on the banks of Lake Superior, a town of northern Minnesotans who descend from Scandinavian immigrants, fishermen and farmers both. In that world she barely exists, just an unknown aspiring book illustrator who occasionally sells a little art at the local café.The other, Villmark, lies hidden from the rest of the world by ancient, strong magic. The people of the village descend from colonists who fled their homeland in Norway centuries before. In that world she bears great responsibilities. As a volva, a Viking witch, the protection of her people always comes first in her life.These two worlds overlap in just one place: her grandmother's mead hall. After sitting abandoned for months, Ingrid and her grandmother open it again to much celebration in both communities.But then everything goes wrong. The illusions and protections remain despite their efforts at the end of the night. And Ingrid can't get back to Villmark.Then someone dies, a murder. As if Ingrid didn't have enough on her plate.
Download or read book The Salon Spa Scandal written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabitha Greene loves her new life. Working at her uncles’ bookstore, hanging with her friends, cuddling with her dog Houdini. When he allows it. Everything would be perfect. If only she could control her magic. But her bad luck with spells plagues her, setting off random sparks and triggering too many accidents. Her friends support her in her attempts to get it all under control. But her other neighbors around the Square display much less patience with having an actual jinx around. Especially as they plan the biggest party of the year. When Tabitha’s bitterest nemesis turns up dead, no one thinks she did it. At least not intentionally. But not even Tabitha is sure she didn’t cause it by mistake. The only way to be sure? She and her friends have to get to the bottom of what really happened the night of the party. Even if it means that Tabitha’s worst fears come true.
