Bøger af Darby Karchut

"Readers won't find a dull moment in this modern-day, heroic adventure." -M.G. Velasco, CardslingerFor four hundred years, generations of the Family Del Toro and their battle-savvy warhorses have secretly guarded their corner of rural Colorado from all things monster. Now, thanks to a really bad move on twelve-year-old Matt Del Toro's part, the family can add vengeful witch to their list of Creatures That Want to Kill Us.When an opportunity arises for Matt to retrace his father's long-ago journey through the mountains along the legendary route known as The Hunter's Way, he is the first to saddle up. After all, there's nothing like an adventure in the wilderness to take his mind off his wicked witchy problems.That's when the wild in wilderness comes out swinging. With every mile, Matt and his family battle unexpected rock slides, impossible ascents, death-by-lightning storms, and worst of all: a clan of human-hating mountain gnomes known as tommyknockers. With the knockers determined to make the Del Toros food for worms-literally-the journey becomes a race from danger into more danger. Aided by the war stallion Rigo, Matt must use all his training, resources, and a twist o' Irish luck to save himself and his family.Mace and Hammer is book 3 in the Colorado Book Award-winning Del Toro Moon series.

2014 - RE-RELEASE All you need is one person who believes in you. Armed with the power to control the ancient elements of Earth and Fire, sixteen-year-old Griffin is determined to complete his apprenticeship and rise to the rank of Terrae Angeli. But first, he must overcome a brutal past if he is to survive in this world. Will the perseverance of his kindly Mentor and the love of a mortal girl give Griffin the courage he needs to face the monster still haunting him?

An old enemy returns. A new alliance is formed. And Griffin finds himself in the eye of the storm when an ancient racial hatred is set loose, jeopardizing the very existence of the Terrae Angeli. Once again, the teen guardian angel is forced to battle his worst nightmare. But this time, Griffin comes back swinging. With a vengeance. After all, an eye for an eye...

Don't take on the world without this book. Learn the essential money skills before you: hand over your credit card, take out a student loan, sign up for a car loan, start a new job, buy one more thing online. Practical, no-nonsense guide to managing your money so that you waste less and have more. This book offers real-life skills you can use right away, not fake promises to make you rich or to find "easy money". "I learned more about managing my money than I learned in school or from my parents." Learn how to avoid the money minefields awaiting you at every turn. Don't waste another dime on fees, sneaky retailer pricing games, and online come-ons. Master the essential money skills - not theory - and apply them right away. Endorsed by the Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, a non-profit coalition of public and private sponsors committed to furthering financial literacy for K-12 with chapters in 49 states.

Forced to become mortal, ex-teen angel Griffin has been banished from the Terrae Angeli. Struggling to adjust, he enrolls in the heaven-and-hell known as high school. In spite of his friends' support, Centennial High proves to be a battleground. And, to make matters worse, his Mentor, Basil, has been forced to take on a new apprentice, the gifted and egoistical seventeen-year-old Sergei, whose covert attacks makes Griffin's home life as bleak as a Siberian winter. Caught between school, Sergei, and a desperate secret, Griffin is certain of one thing: the only way to fight a Cold War is with Fire.

EIFLE award-winning authors Wes Karchut and Darby Karchut (Excellence in Financial Literature Education awarded by the Institute of Financial Literacy) have written this guidebook to your personal finance. Offering an alternative approach that respects your lifestyle choices, regardless of what those may be, you can improve your finances starting from where you are without sacrificing the things that make your life fulfilling. Successful personal finance is about making the right decisions at the right time - it's not about working harder. This is a guide for anyone who wants a simple and sustainable solution for their money management headaches.

Autumn: the season of endings. And beginnings.Especially for one young apprentice.At the annual Festival of the Hunt, thirteen-year-old apprentice goblin hunter Finn MacCullen and his master, Gideon Lir, join other Tuatha De Danaan to honor their people's heritage. But Finn soon realizes that there are some who denounce his right to attend due to his half-human bloodline.While he struggles to keep his place by his master's side, he finds himself embroiled in a decades-old grudge between Gideon and another Knight, bewildered (and beguiled) by a female apprentice with a temper as explosive as his own, and battling a pack of goblins determined to wipe out the entire camp in a surprise attack.It's going to take some fancy knife work, the help of a female Knight with a lethal bow, and one old pick up truck to defeat the goblins and prove to his people that his blood runs true-blue Tuatha De Danaan.

Just when Finn MacCullen thought fate couldn't kick him any harder after the events of the Festival of the Hunt, it does. Now, he must overcome a series of nearly impossible trials to prove his worth as an apprentice, or lose his place at his master Gideon's side.But Finn and Gideon, and their friends, are determined to boot fate right back. They're going to do whatever it takes to succeed, including teaming up with a sorceress and a certain teen angel. However, Finn's life has as many twists as a Celtic knot, and master and apprentice find themselves in their ancestral homeland of Ireland with only their wits-and a fair bit of the Black Hand's charm-to protect them from the vengeful Celtic goddess known as the Scathach.In this heart-stopping finale of the award-winning series, it's going to take every scrap of Finn's Irish luck and pluck to save himself, and his master, from death. Or worse.