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Pendred Noyce
Pendred Noyce is a USA Science & Engineering Festival Featured Author. April 28–29, 2012, Washington DC.
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We know how crucial e-books are to the industry, and so we are giving all our readers the chance to get our books for less. All Scarletta Press backlist titles are now being offered for the great price of $4.99 (or less!) when you buy electronically. But if your prefer pages to screens, try picking up copies of our books from your local independent bookstore.
FALL 2012 — Coming Soon!
The Ice Castle
An Adventure in Music
Lexicon Adventure Series Book Two
By Pendred Noyce
Illustrated by Joan Charles
The return to Lexicon begins when thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne find their Aunt Adelaide deathly ill. Leaving their aunt to rest, Ivan and Daphne accidentally let their younger cousin, Lila, in on their secret world of Lexicon.
Lila disappears through the frozen landscape to the Land of Winter where social status and freedom is determined by how well one sings. Fortunately for Lila, her musical talent lands her in the most favorable place. The three cousins must escape their own imprisonments before they reunite, provoke a revolution, and restore spring to the Land of Winter.
Knives on the Cutting Edge
The Great Chefs’ Dining Revolution
By Bob W. Macdonald
A respectful yet unvarnished tribute to the greatest chefs in Europe and the United States who over the last two decades have led a revolution unlike any in the history of dining.
Knives on the Cutting Edge is a culinary pilgrimage that examines the several current and important megatrends such as the rise of celebrity chefs, the healthy eating movement, and the growing emergence of bolder flavors in gourmet foods.
“Putting serious food into perspective necessitates a complete and total comprehensive understanding of the way the world of fine dining works; it requires a serious palate, an educated approach, a personal connection to food and a globalist sensibility. Bob has all that and more … in a world of poseurs he is the real deal.”
— Andrew Zimmern, the host and creator of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre World, and Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
“This lover of our art, presents what we, actors of the gastronomy will never be able to see: An in depth experience of the upscale world of international cooking around the world, and way above that, a vision for tomorrow”
— Michel Bras and family, Michelin 3 Star Chef, Bras (Laguiole, France)
Fall 2011
Lost in Lexicon
An Adventure in Words and Numbers
Lexicon Adventure Series Book One
By Pendred Noyce
Illustrated by Joan Charles
When thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne go on a treasure hunt in the rain one summer day, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world where words and numbers run wild.
With new friends, strange meetings, baffling concepts, and deepening perils, the cousins must find a way to solve the mystery of the dancing lights in the sky and return the lost children of Lexicon to their homes.
“… Lost in Lexicon breaks new ground in the adventure genre. This rollicking, often tongue-in-cheek novel will appeal to young readers who need a break from their computer games and long to journey into the woods of learning.”
— ForeWord Reviews
“It’s the setup to many a great story. There’s a secret portal in the barn and it leads to a strange and beautiful world of grammatical and mathematical troubles.”
— Teresa DiFalco, Parents’ Choice
A Celtic Childhood
Once and Future Celt Trilogy, Book One
By Bill Watkins
The lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller, Bill Watkins weaves a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.
A Celtic Childhood vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family. The fleádh nights with his family bring forth a rich understanding of young Bill’s place in Celtic history. The tales of Watkin’s boyhood as a good-natured miscreant find him disrupting weddings while dressed as a gangster, illegally operating a ham radio, and getting kicked out of Ireland for “vagrancy” while on a minstrel trail in search of his Celtic spirit and manhood.
“Deserves to be read for its own brilliance … laugh-out-loud funny … Watkins’ tales make for pure reading pleasure.”
— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish
Once and Future Celt Trilogy, Book Two
By Bill Watkins
The lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller, Bill Watkins weaves a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.
Rich and colorful, Bill Watkins deftly mingles Celtic poetry, history, and song with true and tall tales of his high-seas adventures and explorations of the Scottish highlands. After realizing his childhood dream of becoming a wireless operator at seas, Watkins takes his readers to the places he visits, the people he meets, and the work and predicaments he gets into.
Tackling his rugged surroundings with humor and smarts, Watkins recounts the magic of his younger years of soul-searching exploration in animated detail, giving Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish the rare quality of equaling its predecessor.
“Stuffed full of mischief and yearning, and all manner of whimsical absurdity that bedevils the soul of the dispossessed Celt.”
— Erin Hart, author of Haunted Ground, Lake of Sorrows, and False Mermaid