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Timefall
Being a single mom at 15 is tough! Biking along the creek, all Katie wants is a few moments peace away from her teething baby, her bratty brother, her nagging mom, and her callous classmates. Finding a quiet spot to reflect on the unfairness of it all, she sits on a rock—and falls out of the world.
Being the very last apprentice in a centuries-unbroken line is unthinkable! Mourning the death of his mentor, Iannik and everyone else knows he lacks the True Sight to take her place as Seer. Without a Seer to summon the T’laaure, the prophesies will go unfulfilled, and the last remnants of his people will face a bleak, directionless future.
Two worlds on the verge of ecological one already doomed by its lack of vision, the other by a vision unfulfilled. Can a group of teens find each other—and more importantly, themselves—in time to save at least one world?
Alison Lohans is an award-winning, internationally-published author of 26 books.
Being the very last apprentice in a centuries-unbroken line is unthinkable! Mourning the death of his mentor, Iannik and everyone else knows he lacks the True Sight to take her place as Seer. Without a Seer to summon the T’laaure, the prophesies will go unfulfilled, and the last remnants of his people will face a bleak, directionless future.
Two worlds on the verge of ecological one already doomed by its lack of vision, the other by a vision unfulfilled. Can a group of teens find each other—and more importantly, themselves—in time to save at least one world?
Alison Lohans is an award-winning, internationally-published author of 26 books.
- GenresFantasyYoung Adult
419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2018
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About the author
Alison Lohans
48 books30 followersAward-winning Canadian Alison Lohans has published 30 books with presses in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Many of her books have been finalists for awards such as the CLA Young Adult Book Award, three different categories of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the High Plains Book Awards, the Shining Willow Award, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Prix Aurora Award, and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award. This Land We Call Home (Pearson Education New Zealand/now Australia) won the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for YA Literature. Alison was named the 2012 Regina YWCA Jacquie Schumiacher Woman of Distinction for her many contributions to the arts in Regina, Saskatchewan, which has been Alison's home since 1976.
See also:
https://alisonlohans.wordpress.com/
and https://www.facebook.com/alisonlohans...
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October 2023 - TYLER EVANS THE GREAT, an early chapter book for readers aged 6-8 from Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, illustrated by Gretchen Ehrsam.
Tyler yearns to be a hero. But it's so hard to become one! Heroes don't get nosebleeds at school, or lose a shoe wile kicking a ball! Their older brothers don't call them "Brat", and they never let the class bully steal their lunch! Maybe a special magic potion will help?
https://www.ynwp.ca/books/222-tyler-e...
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May 2023 - the new print edition of GERMY JOHNSON'S STOLEN SKATEBOARD, the first book in the Germy Johnson Series for kids aged 7-9.
J.J. and his friends have been practising hard for the Slick Wheels Contest, and think they'll be able to win the 9-and-under category. Then J.J.'s new skateboard goes missing! How can he possibly find it in time?
https://www.amazon.ca/Germy-Johnsons-...
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Released spring 2023 is the new ebook edition of GERMY JOHNSON'S PIANO WAR, Alison's second chapter book for kids aged 7-9 in the Germy Johnson series.
Piano lessons! J.J. is horrified! Why did Mom sign him up for lesson, and right at the time of his favourite TV show? His friend Derek has to take lessons too, and he's not happy either. When J.J. gets a black eye at his first lesson, this means war!
https://www.amazon.com/Germy-Johnsons...
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Released June 1, 2022 is STRONG AS A PHARAOH, Alison's second contemporary romance novel with BWL Publishing.
Egypt! What better place to break free of painful ruts and crippling memories of two disastrous first marriages?
Megan, a blocked mystery writer, signs on for a tour of this ancient world of temples, pyramids and pharaohs, desperately needing to re-create herself in the aftermath of the suicide of her emotionally abusive husband. She no longer needs a man in her life…she thinks….
Daniel, a professor and church music director, signs on for a tour of Egypt at the end of his sabbatical in Oxford. He loved his mentally-ill ex-wife, and still can’t understand why she left him all those years ago, taking their daughter with her.
https://www.bookswelove.com/lohans-al...
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Released September 15, 2021 is Alison's fifth picture book THE 1-DOGPOWER GARDEN TEAM, illustrated by Gretchen Ehrsam, with Your Nickel's Worth Publishing.
Sophie loves her dog, Max. Max loves Sophie. But he also loves to dig. Can Sophie find a way to stop Max from digging up Mom’s garden?
Shortlisted:
The 2022 G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Children’s Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Finalist:
First runner up in the Animals/Pets category of the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.ynwp.ca/books/191-the-1-d...
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Released July 1, 2021 is CANINE CUPID, Alison's first contemporary romance novel, with BWL Publishing.
(Canine Cupid was originally set for February 2022 release under its working
See also:
https://alisonlohans.wordpress.com/
and https://www.facebook.com/alisonlohans...
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October 2023 - TYLER EVANS THE GREAT, an early chapter book for readers aged 6-8 from Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, illustrated by Gretchen Ehrsam.
Tyler yearns to be a hero. But it's so hard to become one! Heroes don't get nosebleeds at school, or lose a shoe wile kicking a ball! Their older brothers don't call them "Brat", and they never let the class bully steal their lunch! Maybe a special magic potion will help?
https://www.ynwp.ca/books/222-tyler-e...
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May 2023 - the new print edition of GERMY JOHNSON'S STOLEN SKATEBOARD, the first book in the Germy Johnson Series for kids aged 7-9.
J.J. and his friends have been practising hard for the Slick Wheels Contest, and think they'll be able to win the 9-and-under category. Then J.J.'s new skateboard goes missing! How can he possibly find it in time?
https://www.amazon.ca/Germy-Johnsons-...
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Released spring 2023 is the new ebook edition of GERMY JOHNSON'S PIANO WAR, Alison's second chapter book for kids aged 7-9 in the Germy Johnson series.
Piano lessons! J.J. is horrified! Why did Mom sign him up for lesson, and right at the time of his favourite TV show? His friend Derek has to take lessons too, and he's not happy either. When J.J. gets a black eye at his first lesson, this means war!
https://www.amazon.com/Germy-Johnsons...
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Released June 1, 2022 is STRONG AS A PHARAOH, Alison's second contemporary romance novel with BWL Publishing.
Egypt! What better place to break free of painful ruts and crippling memories of two disastrous first marriages?
Megan, a blocked mystery writer, signs on for a tour of this ancient world of temples, pyramids and pharaohs, desperately needing to re-create herself in the aftermath of the suicide of her emotionally abusive husband. She no longer needs a man in her life…she thinks….
Daniel, a professor and church music director, signs on for a tour of Egypt at the end of his sabbatical in Oxford. He loved his mentally-ill ex-wife, and still can’t understand why she left him all those years ago, taking their daughter with her.
https://www.bookswelove.com/lohans-al...
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Released September 15, 2021 is Alison's fifth picture book THE 1-DOGPOWER GARDEN TEAM, illustrated by Gretchen Ehrsam, with Your Nickel's Worth Publishing.
Sophie loves her dog, Max. Max loves Sophie. But he also loves to dig. Can Sophie find a way to stop Max from digging up Mom’s garden?
Shortlisted:
The 2022 G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Children’s Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Finalist:
First runner up in the Animals/Pets category of the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.ynwp.ca/books/191-the-1-d...
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Released July 1, 2021 is CANINE CUPID, Alison's first contemporary romance novel, with BWL Publishing.
(Canine Cupid was originally set for February 2022 release under its working
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February 23, 2021
An intriguing story about a link between the present and future that brings contemporary problems into focus. The interesting characters and their stories kept me turning the pages. It's a Young Adult Novel that is good for adults too.
March 15, 2019
Katie is a single mom at 15 – mother to Tyler who is an infant in diapers. Seeking some peace away from her single parent mother and her bothersome kid brother and the classmates who don’t understand her situation, she heads out on her bike to a quiet spot in a park and falls out of the world (although her phone still oddly works at times) and into the future.
In the timefall, she meets Iannik who is also having problems as he is the last apprentice in his own world and also lacks the True Sight needed to save his world and to repopulate it. Iannik is forced to seek the T’laaure (a kind of messiah) in order to save his people. To do this he must also timefall into the past.
Two messed up teens with a common mission – to save themselves and their futures. Unfortunately, the plot of this well-intentioned fantasy is particularly convoluted and chock full of coincidence that beggars belief even in fiction. There are a lot of characters who are very difficult to keep track of in the almost four hundred pages, comprised of four major sections and 48 chapters.
Sometimes it feels like the author is making it up as she goes along, adding plot features at will, as well as all sorts of environmental/ecological destruction in both worlds. She also uses the device of allowing some of the various characters to inhabit each other’s thoughts and dreams and expends a great deal of wordage exploring the curse or blessing of this particular power.
There’s a good story somewhere in this book but it gets lost in all the additional ephemera that Lohans seems compelled to include. Additionally, she makes a great fuss throughout the book about Katie’s physical appearance – her double chins, the remaining baby fat from her pregnancy, etc. – which seems really inappropriate in a book which is intended to celebrate the strength and resilience of teens.
In the timefall, she meets Iannik who is also having problems as he is the last apprentice in his own world and also lacks the True Sight needed to save his world and to repopulate it. Iannik is forced to seek the T’laaure (a kind of messiah) in order to save his people. To do this he must also timefall into the past.
Two messed up teens with a common mission – to save themselves and their futures. Unfortunately, the plot of this well-intentioned fantasy is particularly convoluted and chock full of coincidence that beggars belief even in fiction. There are a lot of characters who are very difficult to keep track of in the almost four hundred pages, comprised of four major sections and 48 chapters.
Sometimes it feels like the author is making it up as she goes along, adding plot features at will, as well as all sorts of environmental/ecological destruction in both worlds. She also uses the device of allowing some of the various characters to inhabit each other’s thoughts and dreams and expends a great deal of wordage exploring the curse or blessing of this particular power.
There’s a good story somewhere in this book but it gets lost in all the additional ephemera that Lohans seems compelled to include. Additionally, she makes a great fuss throughout the book about Katie’s physical appearance – her double chins, the remaining baby fat from her pregnancy, etc. – which seems really inappropriate in a book which is intended to celebrate the strength and resilience of teens.
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