Bücher veröffentlicht von MARIE JONES

Monsters are real...and they live in The Dim.Bobby Vega's little sister Sally is missing. She is #12.When a mute handyman, Joe White Eagle, is accused of the disappearances of several local children, Bobby knows something is amiss. Even Detective John Redbird can feel it in his bones that Joe is innocent. Joe reveals the truth about where the children are, trapped in a shadowy realm called The Dim, an alternate world Joe barely escaped as a child. A world only children can enter. A world where monsters are real, and children are their victims.To find his sister, Bobby must enter The Dim and navigate a deadly maze of doors and rooms that all lead to the Wiggle Man-the interdimensional ruler of The Dim, who feeds on the souls of innocents. During his narrow escape, Bobby frees some children but learns hundreds more remain trapped, and their time is running out.Now, with the help of Joe and Detective Redbird, Bobby must return to The Dim with a handful of child warriors and some unusual allies to battle the Wiggle Man. Can they rescue the remaining children and close the door between worlds, or will they be lost forever?

A mysterious stone etched with animal shapes...A white swan with a broken heart...A black wolf with dreams of freedom...And a shy zookeeper who discovers his destiny.Zookeeper Noah Hartman spends most of his life at Cloverdale Zoo tending to the wild creatures he loves, especially a sickly white swan named Lyra. His only human friends are fellow keeper Calvin Hobbs, and his sweet next-door neighbor Jennie Gordon, who is secretly in love with Noah. His mother is dying in a nursing home, and his sister is too busy being a Hollywood star to pay him any attention.Then Noah finds a velvet pouch left by a mysterious old woman. Inside is a stone etched with animal shapes, and a spell that turns animals into humans. Noah tries the spell on Lyra and she emerges from the pond a beautiful, heartbroken woman pining for her lost love, a black swan named Onyx who was taken to another zoo.Noah vows to reunite Lyra with Onyx, but his plans are derailed when he and Calvin discover their shifty zoo director is illegally selling wildlife for canned hunts. Noah needs proof fast, for his newest black wolf, Alec, is next to be sold. Noah rounds up his animal allies in human form and they concoct a dangerous plan to save Alec.Some will live, some will die, some will find freedom, some will find true love, but all will be forever changed because of the stone, the spell, and the courage of one man who follows his destiny.

A revised and updated comprehensive examination of the supervolcanic eruption of Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia over 75,000 years ago, and how it changed human genetic history by causing a population bottleneck, written by best-selling author Marie D. Jones and her father, the late geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino, Ph.D. The book describes what a supervolcano is, how they form, where they are located across the globe, and which ones may be ready to erupt. Will Yellowstone be next? Features a fictional scenario of an actual eruption at the Long Valley Caldera in California, and what happens in the days, weeks and months to follow. Are we prepared for the apocalyptic devastation known as a supervolcano?