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The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
by Lisa Mannetti   
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Category:  Fantasy
Publisher: Shadowfall Publications

ISBN-10:  1936457091

Type: Fiction

Pages: 252

Copyright: 
July 15, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781936457090


Twain's classically humorous characters, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are reincarnated in the 21st century and are the feline familiars to a witch who runs an inn in Rhinebeck, New York.

Twain's Tom and Huck ( and he loved cats and twins) are reincarnated as the feline familiars to a witch--and although they are thrilled to have some magical powers, they also long to be "boys" again.

The witch they belong to, Lady Bastet, runs a Bed and Breakfast in Rhinebeck in New York along with a couple of mild werewolves named Ted and Earle.

It's an homage to Twain, it's humorous, witty, and also has some dark and very poignant moments. Tom Sawyer is the narrator of this witty tale.

People who love Mark Twain's work, cats, stories about witchcraft, humor, well-crafted books (or some or all the aforementioned) will find the book irristably delightful and impossible to put down.

It's also available for Kindle and all other E readers; and, a milder version for young adults will be available soon in print and E formats.

 Visit the tie-in website, a virtual haunted house: The Chancery House which has had over 4 million visitors to date!



Excerpt

"Huck always said it was a powerful lot of trouble to write a book, and if he’d a known it ahead of time, he wouldn’t a gone through with it. That’s his version of the truth, anyhow. And it’s a lot more work than anyone bargains for when they sit down to write—but you add writin along with me and Huck comin back as twin brothers and the feline familiars of a twenty-first century witch—and you got even more trouble. A whole cauldron-full more. Anyhow, this time I guess it’s me that has got to tell our story."





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The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn by Lisa Mannetti
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FINN by Lisa Mannetti
What would happen if the wily, willful Tom Sawyer and big-hearted, street-smart Huckleberry Finn were reincarnated into contemporary times as a pair of white cats? As Mark Twain first imagined them, Tom and Huck were adventurous young cohorts who just couldn’t stay out of trouble, and their reincarnation as cats hasn’t changed that at all! The boys return as twin white felines in contemporary New York State, where they become the familiars of a modern witch named Lily Blum and help her run a haunted bed and breakfast inn called the Chancery House. All manner of spooky doings occur at the Chancery House, and Tom and Huck have plenty of time to dream up mischief and hijinks in their tree house lair. Halloween is time for celebration at the inn, and the grand Witch’s Ball becomes the focus of the season. Witches, vampires and werewolves gather to celebrate, but such a mixture of magical folk can cause problems, particularly when Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are in the middle of things. The seasons move through Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, holidays filled with joy, magic, mystery…and murder. The boys figure that they can use hoodoo to make themselves human again, but using magic can be very troublesome, particularly for these wayward souls. A wild séance brings the story of Tom and Huck full circle, a perfect coda to an entrancing and fanciful tale of magical white cats. Funny, dark, engaging and heart-warming, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FINN is written with a scholar’s eye for history and an artful reader’s ear for the cadence of Mark Twain’s writing style and use of language. Available in full-sized soft cover and Kindle editions. Be sure to visit the splendid web site inspired by this novel at www.thechanceryhouse.com, and, for more about the Bram Stoker Award winning author, click on www.LisaMannetti.com.



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