Download or read book Callum and the Mountain written by Alan McClure and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a quiet wee village, Skerrils. Not much going on. Shingle beach, pretty walks, peaceful library, exploding school, talking dogs, carnivorous monuments, interfering all-powerful nature spirits and a mountainous secret too baffling to tell… Callum Maxwell and his pals are in for the strangest, scariest, most exciting summer of their lives. Join them and you’ll never look at the natural world in quite the same way again. “A totally original story with genuine heart.” —Karen Campbell, author of The Sound of the Hours, Rise and This is Where I Am “Alan McClure’s Callum and the Mountain introduces a fresh voice, full of energy, humour and love of place. He writes with a performer’s instincts and an exuberant joy in language—an author we will be seeing more of.” —Joan Lennon, author of Silver Skin (shortlisted for the Scottish Teenage Book Prize) and Walking Mountain “We’re listening to a born storyteller, and he’s unpacking a great shaggy monster of a tale for us.” —Paul Magrs, author of Strange Boy, Lost on Mars and The Novel Inside You

Download or read book Callum s Compass written by Sara L. Foust and published by Silver Lining Literary Services-Sara L. Foust. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kat Williams's brother died in a gruesome accident in the mountains of East Tennessee. She blames herself. Ryan Jenkins's fiancée was murdered. He couldn’t protect her. With the death of her brother, Kat believes she is unworthy of love from anyone—even God. When a good friend elicits a promise that she will stop living in the past, then leaves her clues to a real-life treasure hunt, Kat embarks on an adventure chock-full of danger. To find the treasure, Kat will have to survive wild animals—and even wilder men. Can she rely on Ryan, the handsome wildlife officer assigned to protect her … without falling in love? Ryan swore off love when his fiancée was murdered, but feelings long buried rise to the surface around Kat. He volunteers to help with her treasure hunt, vowing to keep her safe. Together they venture deep into caves and tunnels … and even deeper into the depths of their unplumbed hearts.

Download or read book Hidden Lineage written by Robin Wickens and published by Rob's Books. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Hidden Lineage," embark on a thrilling journey alongside Rowan, the daring dragonrider, as he uncovers the secrets of his mysterious lineage. Set in a fantastical realm where dragons soar and magic pulses through the air, Rowan must navigate treacherous landscapes and face formidable foes to unlock the truth of his ancestry. With courage as his compass and his loyal dragon companion by his side, Rowan's quest promises pulse-pounding action, ancient prophecies, and unexpected alliances. Will he embrace his hidden lineage and rise to fulfill his destiny? Discover a world brimming with enchantment and danger in this mesmerizing adventure.

Download or read book Folk Tales For Children written by Robin Wickens and published by Rob's Books. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a world of wonder and imagination with "folk tales for children." Within the pages of this enchanting collection, you'll discover 50 short stories filled with magic, wisdom, and adventure. From humble villagers to mystical creatures, each tale transports young readers to far-off lands where anything is possible. Perfect for bedtime reading or storytime, these captivating folk tales will spark the imagination and warm the hearts of children of all ages.

Download or read book My Western Sky written by Suzanne Kozikowski and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance. Adventure. Courage. Suspense. Ashlee Brookes is an innocent and affable young woman who works as a veterinary technician, a part-time photographer, and a horse rescuer. She lives happily in a quaint New England town on a large ranch with her adoring husband, Hunter. One day, Ashlee receives the devastating news that would rock her world and the worlds of all those who love her. Ashlee's future has now been irrevocably changed that dark day. Many years later, their adult daughter will find herself desperate to find an organ donor for her mother, evade a stealthy assassin, and expose a human trafficking ring. Time is quickly running out for Ashlee. Her only hope now may be an impossible, mysterious stranger who could possibly save her life, in a way that Ashlee could never have imagined. Both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. My Western Sky is a story of love, hope, and loss. You won't want to put it down as you follow the twists and turns of the lives of Ashlee and Ivy and those they meet along the way. My Western Sky chronicles the wonder of just how far one might go to help someone they love - both in distance and in mental stamina. A tale of unwavering hope and determination with science and mystery mixed skillfully into the plot. My Western Sky will have you routing for a young woman desperate to do whatever it takes to save the person who had always been there for her. Profound and touching. Suzanne reminds us all that time is the most valuable currency and the only thing we can't get back. -J. Grise' Outstanding. My Western Sky's engaging characters harness the reader's attention right from the start. The engaging storyline is full of romance, intrigue, and suspense. It's a wildly adventurous and futuristic story that keeps the reader from putting the book down. My Western Sky will keep readers captivated for many years to come. -H. Garner Intelligent and great fun. My Western Sky is a delightful novel, well worth the read. A nice balance of something for everyone with its variety of personalities, all with their unique life experiences. A truly enjoyable reading experience that was hard to put down. I highly recommend this story. -J. Tallet

Download or read book Callum and The Other written by Alan McClure and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change has come to the village of Skerrils, and fourteen-year-old Callum is struggling to adjust. Important people have moved on; others have arrived. Even the Mountain, once the scene of an epic adventure for Callum and his friends, has vanished in the October mist. But its power cannot stay hidden for long, for in that mist lurks a terrifying new presence that wishes to destroy all that Callum has ever fought for. This presence is known only as ‘The Other’, and it will take alliances old and new to reconnect Callum with past magic if he is to stop it before everything is lost. *** “This has a wonderful, otherworldly atmosphere – like a fantastic film on a bank holiday afternoon. That’s how it feels to me. So much fantasy is nihilistic and dark, but this is delightful.” —Paul Magrs, author of Strange Boy, Lost on Mars and The Novel Inside You “McClure had me from the first four words! This is a story about change and loneliness and how we connect. What it is to be human. McClure has filled this sequel with the same vivid, vibrant, sometimes uncanny sense of place – a story for our strange and difficult times.” —Joan Lennon, most recently co-author with Joan Haig of Talking History: 150 years of world-changing speeches “Much anticipated, Callum and The Other doesn’t disappoint. Dare I say, this is the author’s best yet – it brims with the intrigue, lyricism and light humour now characteristic of Alan McClure’s novels. My kids and I want more!” —Joan Haig, author of Tiger Skin Rug

Download or read book The Keepers written by Jeffrey B. Burton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey B. Burton's The Keepers is the next installment of the Mace Reid K-9 series, featuring golden retriever cadaver dog Vira and her handler, Mason Reid. Mason “Mace” Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection—that is, he trains dogs to hunt for dead bodies. He calls his pack of cadaver dogs The Finders, and his prize pupil is a golden retriever named Vira. When Mace Reid and Vira are called in to search Washington Park at three o'clock in the morning, what they find has them running for their very lives. The trail of murder and mayhem Mace and CPD Officer Kippy Gimm have been following leads them to uncover treachery and corruption at the highest level, and their discoveries do not bode well for them . . . nor for the Windy City itself. The Keepers is an exciting, fast-paced mystery filled with courageous dogs you'll want to root for.

Download or read book A Young Queen written by Steve A. Hall and published by Steve A. Hall. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Princess Stasia and her royal realm begin to recover from the treacherous reign of terror by Prince Agis and his Order of Rebels, a new evil emerges. This new alliance of evil threatens to split the kingdom in two and destroy the peaceful relations which have existed with neighboring lands for decades. With her enemies intent on destroying both her rulership and personal life, Princess Stasia must use her extraordinary wisdom and the help of loyal friends like Sir Rackley of Limekiln, the peasant boy Stefan, and Chief Royal Knight Mathieu to save the land before darkness descends upon it once again.

Download or read book She Would Be King written by Wayétu Moore and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them. Moore’s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. “If she was not a woman,” the wind says of Gbessa, “she would be king.” In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. She Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author.

Download or read book The Caretakers written by William C O'Brien and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, famine, disease; just a few of the many evils with which we share our world and daily lives but never aware that they exist as physical forms, escaped from the prison world of Exilia. The key to Exilia, lost since before recorded history, has now been found. The entrance to the prison world has been discovered, and the story told to the children by the last of the caretakers is just the beginning of what will become a quest of daring, confrontation, humour and spine tingling terror. The world has been waiting for millennia for the key to be found, for the long awaited moment to arrive when the defenders of good would be freed from their own imprisonment to continue their fight against the evils. But in order to so, Gabby and the brothers must first enter the world of Exilia and fulfil their quest. Guided by the map on the key they must travel through a world where time itself doesn’t exist, where the extraordinary is the ordinary, the unbelievable is the believable, and nightmares are a reality. The creatures of evil must be confronted, battled or avoided. A future of peace and tranquillity, or pain and suffering, will depend on either success or failure. But can their quest be fulfilled - can they succeed?

Download or read book Terraforma written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, Gripping, Powerful. International Bestseller Connor Whiteley’s Terraforma explores the age-old science fiction trope in shocking new light. When Biologist Aaron Lawrence discovers a tense mystery on the only terraformed world in the Empire, Aaron fights to save everything he holds dear before disaster strikes. From its stunning writing to vivid landscapes to its tense conclusion, this imaginative, unputdownable science fiction book hooks readers immediately and holds them till the end. Readers will love this stunner of a book. BUY NOW!

Download or read book The Living Climate written by Luigi Morelli and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the causes of our current environmental and ecological crises? Is the enforcement of international 'net zero' carbon strategy the best solution to the problems we face, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? Rejecting the view of the earth as an isolated or 'closed' system – as in conventional computer modelling – Luigi Morelli argues that our planet is an 'open' system – a living entity that maintains a dynamic equilibrium within its own kingdoms and the wider solar system. Humans, however, still have a pivotal role to play. Building on the pioneering work of Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, Viktor Schauberger and others, Morelli expands our view of the climate, from the oceans and atmosphere to the sun, and from the last 150 years to the history of our climate over millennia. In doing so, he exposes the weakness of the prevailing fixed narratives around our undoubtedly changing environment – in particular, the conventional hypothesis concerning carbon emissions. Such 'consensus science' is often at the mercy of established economic interests, who have largely co-opted academia and scientific institutions. In a thoroughly researched and accessible study, The Living Climate explores the intricacy and wisdom of an untold variety of cycles in nature and the critical and overlooked role of water within the 'greenhouse gas' model. Challenging mechanistic representations of the global ecosystem, Morelli's holistic, scientific review offers potential solutions to seemingly intractable problems. 'Morelli takes the reader on a hero's journey through the entrenched theories of climate change into the deeper, holistic causes of – and potential solutions to – this confounding, highly politicized reality.' – Robert Karp, social entrepreneur 'The author should be commended for compiling this timely and well-researched book. It will be of great value to all who are looking for a better understanding of troubling weather phenomena and a beacon of hope for those who have been disappointed with the inability of conventional climate science to explain them'. – Branko Furst, MD, author of The Heart and Circulation 'A very important contribution to the ecological crisis we humans currently face. Through the lens of Schauberger's work, the reader is called to take a very wide, encompassing view of nature. Morelli convincingly demonstrates that in the current climate change narrative we desperately need such an outlook and the kind of approach that Schauberger developed.' – Elisabeth Chomko, filmmaker

Download or read book The Suspect Culture Book written by Dan Rebellato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspect Culture was Scotland’s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009. Based in Glasgow, it was formed of a core group of associate artists who collaborated in making groundbreaking, high quality new work which gained an international reputation. Over the course of its 16-year history the company worked with some of the most respected artists and organizations in the UK and internationally, and made a significant contribution to the British theatre scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. Described by the Scotsman on Sunday as ‘Scottish theatre’s major creative powerhouse’ and by The Times as ‘the most adventurous, most in-tune-with-the-times theatre company in Britain’, Suspect Culture have had a quietly decisive impact on British theatre. This book surveys the company’s history and ideas and includes an overview of the Company by David Greig; co-founder, writer, dramaturg and sometime actor with Suspect Culture and the perspective of the Company from Brazilian director and writer Mauricio Paroni de Castro, one of Suspect Culture’s many international artistic associates. Also included here are the previously unpublished playtexts of three of its most celebrated shows, Timeless, Mainstream and Lament (all created by the company with text by David Greig).

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Download or read book Callum s Spellbook The Dragon Prince written by Tracey West and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hit Netflix show from the head writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender, this humorous, in-world notebook has everything a fan needs to know about the magical world of The Dragon Prince! It all started when Callum and Ezran met a Moonshadow elf and discovered the egg of the Dragon Prince. So much has happened since then! The trio is on a quest to return the Dragon Prince to its mother in Xadia, Viren seems to have evil plans, and, oh yeah-Callum's learning magic!There's a LOT to keep track of, so Callum is writing about (and drawing!) all the things he learns in this book. Things like:•Stats on the ELVES, DRAGONS, and other creatures they've met on their journey •All the cool places they've been in KATOLIS and XADIA•Funny things that happened! •RUNES, SPELLS, and other stuff Callum needs to know about PRIMAL MAGIC (and DARK MAGIC, too) And MUCH, MUCH MORE, including whatever Ezran, Rayla, Claudia, and Soren add when they steal this notebook from Callum! Features original concept art not found anywhere else-a must-have for any fan of the show!

Download or read book The Dragon s Baby written by Violet Jessamine and published by Radish Fiction. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored, and sick of being a broke college grad, on a whim Briala Maddox accepts a job as a maid for the multi-million dollar Bane family on their palatial estate. It’s a fairytale come true as she quickly falls head over heels for the castle...and the family’s resident bad boy, Callum. Their attraction is instant and explosive, dangerous and almost inhumanly hot. When they finally give in to their instincts and spend one scorching evening together, Briala wakes the next morning to see that Callum has dragon wings. Coming to terms with sleeping with a dragon shifter and realizing she’s falling for more than just a man is one thing, but now Briala is also pregnant with the dragon’s baby.