An American journalist named Jason Wycott, full of literary ambitions, sits alone and a little drunk, in a Copenhagen bar, contemplating the means by which he will go about consummating the first great betrayal of his life, abandoning his family in the United States to stay on in Europe after many an inappropriate and wild interlude of love-making with an illicit girlfriend who is also the wife of his best friend. And how does he escape the attention of another young and tempting lass who ...

Here is devil worship, drugs, Satanism, witchcraft, reincarnation and other fanciful practices taking place right under the nose of the late Jerry Falwell, a biblical fundamentalist of unequaled intelligence and vast political judgment. Here also is a supernatural romance between a young reporter and a lovely professor whose age is never certain, yet whose beauty is never questioned. She first bedevils him with a wild siege of love and later, on little more than a whim, decides to destroy ...

The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.

War is headed to Dentarius and Stacy and Kane are caught right in the middle, add to the mix Kane's ex wife, his father and crazy brother and you have a mix for chaos, trouble is brewing and Stacy is the key to it all.A lot has happened in the year since Stacy arrived in Dentarius and she is finally happy and finding her feet, however The Everlands and happiness are never really ready to go hand in hand, but this time it's up to to Stacy to save the realm, the problem is no one is ...

After the great Dragon War, the Everlands has finally begun to heal, however in the new world the realms healer is killed to unsettle the balance, with a loss in direction a new face is brought to the realm to help bridge the vacuum of power, it also up to to her to help repair the damage done by both the wars and the past to help build a new future for the once profitable realm.A New World for the first time in 10 years adds new characters to the established world of the Everlands...

"An extraordinary intellectual voyage" through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today ( The Herald).Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, a...

A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and res...

On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752, a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent traveling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell's killer evades capture, but Britain's rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organizing resistance to Campbell's takeover of lands long held by his ...

This true story of a mass eviction in nineteenth-century Scotland is "a moving, gripping, definitive account of a struggle for survival ( Scots Magazine).A Saltire Society History Book of the YearThey would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were—thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned.Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode inv...

The author of On the Other Side of Sorrow gives a detailed account of the causes and effects of the Scottish potato famine that began in 1846.When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands, a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Farther east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso protested the cost of the oatmeal that ...

The Darkling City has fallen, but its final Stronghold remains.With the Reality Editor in hand, Jack thought the assault on Skalahólt would be a short victorious war, but his army has been stopped cold, and worse, someone close to him has been taken by the Overmind of Death. Every second counts if Jack wants her back alive, but to even have a chance, he'll have to leave his troops behind and dive into Thanatos's twisted game within a game.Stranded behind en...

An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series!In this Warriors Super Edition, delve into the backstory of one of the most beloved cats in all the Clans—before she joined ThunderClan, before she became a medicine cat, before Warriors #1: Into the Wild began. . . .Yellowkit can't wait to fight for her Clan. But when she earns her warrior name, Yellowfang, she realizes that her true destiny is to become a healer. As a loyal medicine c...