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Princess Power is a series of children’s books by American author Suzanne Williams. The series is targetted at children from 8 to 12 years old. The series combines standard fairy tales with spunky heroines and encouraging messages about values.

Heroes in Training is a series of children’s adventure books by American authors Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams. The series follows young versions of legendary heroes like Zeus, Hera and Poseidon on adventures they were on before they were full-grown.

The Goddess Girls is a series of children’s fantasy books by American authors Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub. The Goddess Girls are various Greek goddesses in the childhood. The girls are all students at Olympus Academy on Mount Olympus. The girls are immortal, although they have no problems befriending mortals. Their principal is Zeus, the […]

Joan Holub is an American author of children’s books. After graduating from college with a degree in fine arts, she freelanced as an art director for eight years. During this time, Joan would dream of writing children’s books, so she moved to NYC to become an associate art director at Scholastic. She started mailing her […]

Suzanne Williams is an American author of children’s books. She co-authors two series with Joan Holub – Goddess Girls and Heroes in Training – and also writes her own series like Princess Power and Fairy Blossoms. She doesn’t remember a time when she wanted to be a writer, she just happened to love reading. She […]

Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was an American author of literary fiction and non-fiction. His novels The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were adapted into Academy Award-nominated films. His fiction is based on his real-life experiences, such as being a military brat and growing up with an abusive, domineering father. Despite the fact that it […]

Alexia Tarabotti is the central character in a steampunk paranormal romance series known as the Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger. The series also falls into several other sub-genres, including historical fiction, as the books take place in an alternate Victorian England where werewolves and vampires are known to walk among the humans. Gail has no […]

Gail Carriger is an American author of steampunk, science fiction, urban fantasy and mystery novels. She is also an archaeologist. She is the author of the Parasol Protectorate series, featuring Alexia Tarabotti. She considers P.G. Wodehouse, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to be her main influences.

Roy Johansen is an American author of suspense novels as well as a screenwriter. He often collaborates with his mother, Iris Johansen. As a screenwriter, he has written projects for He has written projects for Disney, MGM, United Artists, Universal, and Warner Bros. His screenplay Murder 101 was produced for cable TV and won Edgar […]

The Books of Abarat is a series of YA fantasy by English author Clive Barker. The series is set on the Abarat, an archipelago made up of 25 islands. Each island represents an hour of the day, with one extra. The heroine of the series is Candy Quackenbush, a 16 year-old with different coloured eyes […]