Ted Neill

Elk Riders has received starred reviews from Kirkus which called the series "grand," "brilliant," and "visionary." It has won the Jim Barnes Moonbeam Award for Children's Literature and a 5 STAR Review from Readers Favorite. In the Darkness Visible, Volume 1 of 5 in the Elk Rider SeriesWhen dark sorcerers come ashore spreading discord in her village, Gabriella Carlyle is thrust headlong into a deadly adventure to save her home's way of life. She will have to steal a flying airship only to be chased by demons and dragons, forcing her to turn to unexpected guides: an old man with a mysterious past and his companion Elk. Without ever meaning to, she will find herself on a quest with more interested parties, good and evil, than she ever imagined. The Voyage of the Elawn, Volume 2 of 5 in the Elk Rider series.Their airship pursued by a vengeful dragon and a hungry shadow demon, Gabriella Carlyle and her brother continue on their quest to reach a fallen city and retrieve a legendary treasure, all for the purpose of saving their home. With mounting danger, they must make allies with adversaries, before the dangerous sorcerer Sade and his cruel brother Vondales change their peaceful home forever. All the friends and foes walk paths that explore the bonds of family, the depth of faith, and the ever perilous road to adulthood, one balanced between good and evil; life and death. The Font of Jasmeen, Volume 3 of 5 in the Elk Rider series.Haille Hillbourne is a prince scorned by his people, even his own father, for his epilepsy. He will set out with his friend, Katlyn Barnes, on a bold plan to locate a mystical fountain that might heal him. Haille and Katyln tumble into a conflict among sorcerers, slave traders, ambitious nobles, and unruly mercenaries. What was the desperate wish of a boy, unravels into a crisis across a kingdom, leading to the brink of war. Yet, amongst the disparate people and places, an elk of unknown origin looks to be connected to it all. The Journey to Karrith, Volume 4 of 5 in the Elk Rider series.War has come. King Talamar heads south to aid the embattled Karrithians. His son, Prince Haille, and his unlikely band of friends must brave haunted forests and high seas to try to reach the king to help. With the help of Adamantus, a magical elk of unknown origin, they must unite broken communities and rally skeptical allies. Time is the enemy as much as the past as old grievances come to bear and creatures from darker ages begin to stir. The Magus, Volume 5 of 5 in the Elk Rider series.Prince Haille's world is shattered by loss while the kingdom descends into chaos. A single enigmatic mastermind-the Magus-emerges from the shadows as the figure behind it all. Dark magic casts a pall over the realm and ancient dangers threaten to reemerge. Haille's friends gather to help him put together the pieces of the mystery, the fragmented realm, and his own fractured life, before it is too late.

September 25, 2012, Ted Neill picked up a knife to cut his wrists open and kill himself. Post hospitalization and treatment for major depressive disorder, he wrote Two Years of Wonder, a memoir based on his journey towards recovery. In it, he examines the experience that left him with such despair: living and working for two years at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya. Neill interweaves his story with the experiences of Oliver, Miriam, Ivy, Harmony, Tabitha, Sofie, Nea, and other children, exploring their own paths of trauma, survival, and resilience. In prose that is by turns poetic, confessional, and brutal, Neill with the children he comes alongside, strive to put the pieces of their fractured lives back together as they search for meaning and connection, each trying to reclaim their humanity and capacity to love in the face of inexplicable suffering and loss. About the Author: In addition to his time living in Kenya, Ted Neill has worked for CARE and World Vision International in the fields of health, education, and child development. He has written for The Washington Post and published multiple novels. This edition has been updated to reflect the 2023 Washington Post investigation uncovering twenty years of child abuse that occurred at the orphanage.

This book changed my life.- Someone who the author definitely didn't pay to say that. This book is so good, it might be better than me.- Jesus. A love-sick Masai warrior, a princess turned scientist, and two cousins who have to save their families from illness, collide in a zany adventure with zebras, zombies, and Zambonis. (Okay, okay, there might not be Zambonis in East Africa, but you get the idea). Read the three interwoven stories that started the Snog Team Six adventure (and find out where Esmeralda the blind, East African, ninja assassin learned her fly moves).

When you're Black in America, time travel can be deadly. As a black college student in the rural West Virginia town of Selah Station, Kenia Dezy already feels out of place. But when an unexplained phenomenon starts transporting her back to pre-civil rights 1953, she finds herself woven into a tapestry of racial triumphs and tragedies. Kenia begins to unravel secrets that powerful men would rather keep hidden, even if it means massacring an entire town through an industrial accident. At the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege, Kenia must navigate a community wresting with its past and and present, to avert disaster. Current, relevant, and timely, The Selah Branch has received numerous award. Fans of N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okarafor, and Rivers Solomon will see their influence. But more than anything, readers of Octavia Butler will appreciate this homage to her classic, Kindred.

A thousand years ago, the dark sorcerers, the Kryen, were dethroned and entombed. The world has lived in peace ever since. Now their acolytes want to bring them back. Haille is a failure as a prince. Disliked and disregarded for his epilepsy, he is an unwanted reminder of the beloved queen, who died giving birth to him. Cast off by his father and resented by the masses, Haille's prospects are grim. Haille wants nothing to do with politics or royalty. He is a son who wants to be accepted by his father. With his friend, Katlyn, he embarks on a quest to find a spring that might cure his illness. Both stumble into a conspiracy to murder the king, destabilize the kingdom, and resurrect the Kryen. Haille and Katlyn reach out for help from two disgraced war veterans and an elk of unknown origin. What started as a quest for a spring, turns into a scramble to avert war, heal a kingdom, and avert the catastrophe of the Kryen's return. Elk Riders is high fantasy at its best. It's a story of underestimated misfits caught up in a fight on a scale they never expected. Beyond the numerous comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Elk Riders sits in a pantheon of classic and contemporary fantasy: Ursula K. Leguin's, Earthsea series; Madeleine L'Engle's, A Wrinkle in Time; Garth Nix's, Old Kingdom-Abhorsen Series; Joe Abercrombie's, Shattered Sea; NK Jemisin's, The Broken Earth; and a plethora of television gems from Willow to the Dragon Prince and Last Airbender.

A thousand years ago, the dark sorcerers, the Kryen, were dethroned and entombed. The world has lived in peace ever since. Now their acolytes want to bring them back. Gabriella just wanted her island village to remain the same. She wished for more friends and less time minding her brother, Dameon. When she sets out on a stolen airship to find a way to stop those who would change her home, she is swept up in a conflict between those who serve the Kryen and those sworn to stop them. It is a conflict that reaches far beyond the shores of Gabriella's home and deep into the mists of time-a conflict that raises armies, divides kingdoms, and shatters peace. With band of companions: an old man; a village outcast; and a mysterious elk, Gabriella will do her best to keep her village the same as it ever was. But to do so, she might have to change in ways she never expected. Elk Riders is high fantasy at its best. It's a story of underestimated misfits caught up in a fight on a scale they never expected. Beyond the numerous comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Elk Riders sits in a pantheon of classic and contemporary fantasy: Ursula K. Leguin's, Earthsea series; Madeleine L'Engle's, A Wrinkle in Time; Garth Nix's, Old Kingdom-Abhorsen Series; Joe Abercrombie's, Shattered Sea; NK Jemisin's, The Broken Earth; and a plethora of television gems from Willow to the Dragon Prince and Last Airbender.

A thousand years ago, the dark sorcerers, the Kryen, were dethroned and entombed. The world has lived in peace ever since. Now their acolytes want to bring them back. Haille is a failure as a prince. Disliked and disregarded for his epilepsy, he is an unwanted reminder of the beloved queen, who died giving birth to him. Cast off by his father and resented by the masses, Haille's prospects are grim. Haille wants nothing to do with politics or royalty. He is a son who wants to be accepted by his father. With his friend, Katlyn, he embarks on a quest to find a spring that might cure his illness. Both stumble into a conspiracy to murder the king, destabilize the kingdom, and resurrect the Kryen. Haille and Katlyn reach out for help from two disgraced war veterans and an elk of unknown origin. What started as a quest for a spring, turns into a scramble to avert war, heal a kingdom, and avert the catastrophe of the Kryen's return. Elk Riders is high fantasy at its best. It's a story of underestimated misfits caught up in a fight on a scale they never expected. Beyond the numerous comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Elk Riders sits in a pantheon of classic and contemporary fantasy: Ursula K. Leguin's, Earthsea series; Madeleine L'Engle's, A Wrinkle in Time; Garth Nix's, Old Kingdom-Abhorsen Series; Joe Abercrombie's, Shattered Sea; NK Jemisin's, The Broken Earth; and a plethora of television gems from Willow to the Dragon Prince and Last Airbender.

A thousand years ago, the dark sorcerers, the Kryen, were dethroned and entombed. The world has lived in peace ever since. Now their acolytes want to bring them back. Haille is a failure as a prince. Disliked and disregarded for his epilepsy, he is an unwanted reminder of the beloved queen, who died giving birth to him. Cast off by his father and resented by the masses, Haille's prospects are grim. Haille wants nothing to do with politics or royalty. He is a son who wants to be accepted by his father. With his friend, Katlyn, he embarks on a quest to find a spring that might cure his illness. Both stumble into a conspiracy to murder the king, destabilize the kingdom, and resurrect the Kryen. Haille and Katlyn reach out for help from two disgraced war veterans and an elk of unknown origin. What started as a quest for a spring, turns into a scramble to avert war, heal a kingdom, and avert the catastrophe of the Kryen's return. Elk Riders is high fantasy at its best. It's a story of underestimated misfits caught up in a fight on a scale they never expected. Beyond the numerous comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Elk Riders sits in a pantheon of classic and contemporary fantasy: Ursula K. Leguin's, Earthsea series; Madeleine L'Engle's, A Wrinkle in Time; Garth Nix's, Old Kingdom-Abhorsen Series; Joe Abercrombie's, Shattered Sea; NK Jemisin's, The Broken Earth; and a plethora of television gems from Willow to the Dragon Prince and Last Airbender.

Fortinbras is a city built in the aftermath of a religious war. Within its walls, religion is a disease. Residents are all that is left of humanity. The cold laws of logic and reason rule their lives. Sabrina Sabryia, a young police cadet, is a resolute enforcer of the law, until her loyalties are torn between her best friend Lindsey Mehdina, a charismatic spiritual leader, and her uncle Angelo D'Agosta, the head administrator of the city. The conflict drives Sabrina and Lindsey across a radioactive wasteland pursued by cyborg bounty hunters. The young women learn that what they took for truth in Fortinbras was not all that it seemed. Meanwhile terrorists plot a religious uprising that threatens millions of innocent lives. Sabrina and Lindsey must choose sides. Their choice pits friendship against family, war against peace, and eventually, faith against doubt.