Pearl

After effectively proving physical time travel cannot possibly exist, Professor David Melville goes to bed one evening and wakes up in his childhood bedroom, surrounded by familiar things.So far, his quiet life has been dominated by a secret he has kept hidden for the past thirty-five years. But he's about to embark on a journey where he will see and do things he never dreamed would be possible in his lifetime, one of which is running up a flight of stairs without dying from a heart attack.Abducted by aliens (although they consider this a mere technicality), he is shown technology that in the wrong hands could spell disaster for humanity. Unfortunately, they have lost control of it and need David to retrieve it for them.One of the aliens thinks David is the right man for the job, the other one thinks he's an idiot

Meet Pearl. She is a magical unicorn. But, Pearl doesn't quite know how to use her magic. With the help of her friends, Tweet and Olive, can Pearl believe in her magical self? And, what happens when Pearl and her friends stumble upon three naughty, stinky gobble-uns!

Pearl the Flying Unicorn is the second in Sally Odgers' three-book chapter book series where the magical unicorn Pearl and her friends take on some of life's tough lessons with humor and heart... Pearl and her friends Olive (an ogre) and Tweet (a bird) are on the hunt for glitter feathers! But they've blown all the way over to Gull Island. They use Olive's ogre-boat to reach the island, but rowing quickly behind them are three mean and stinky pirate gobble-uns! Can Pearl use her magic to save her friends in time?

The story of Simon Caldwell and how he came to be in the possession of an unbelievably powerful alien artefact, they simply call The Pearl.His journey from innocent young boy growing up in 1980s Brooklyn to becoming a monster or – some may say hero – fighting an outrageous injustice in the abduction, persecution and ridicule of the defenceless.Combined with the tragedies that have dogged him throughout life caused by the very same establishment responsible for these injustices, he is prompted to carry out a wild social experiment. As the story unravels, we accompany him on his journey of moral outrage and personal revenge.