Callum HayesThe first time I witnessed death was my mother's when I was eight years old. It devastated me. The second was at sixteen when I stumbled on my stepfather's body after he was brutally murdered. That one screwed me up in a different way.Since then, I've kept my shadows at bay, my secrets locked up tight. That is, until Stone Wakefield joins my college hockey team.Five years ago, he saw something I meant to take to my grave. He saw me weak,...

Peter Pan verliet Neverland.En nam al het licht mee.Een laag ijzel daalde neer over het eiland, de Jolly Roger bevroor in het ijs, maar ik ben nog niet bereid om dit perfecte, Peter Pan-loze Neverland op te geven.Totdat een duistere schaduw het eiland verslindt — en Peter Pan de enige is die het kan stoppen. Dus ga ik hem zoeken, ook al verafschuw ik hem met elke vezel in mijn lichaam.Wanneer ik hem vind, stuit ik echter op ...

Bloomsbury presents River Secrets by Shannon Hale, read by Chris GainesIn this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's b**eloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern,** Razo must become the unlikely hero his country needs.Razo has never considered himself anything but ordinary--and certainly not a great soldier. So he's sure it's out of pity that his captain asks ...

In "Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria," Samuel Hannaford invites readers into an enriching exploration of the natural landscapes of Victoria, Australia. The book is characterized by its lush descriptive prose and keen observational style, capturing the interplay between the land and the sea. By weaving personal anecdotes with detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and geographical features, Hannaford situates his narrative within the broader tradition of nature writing, echoing the immers...

Edward Everett Hale was one of America’s most famous writers during the 19th century. He was also a theologian and acclaimed historian. A table of contents is included for this compilation of 8 of his more popular stories, including the following:CRUSOE IN NEW YORKALIF-LAILA.A CIVIL SERVANT.NICOLETTE AND AUCASSIN.THE LOST PALACE.THE WESTERN GINEVRA.MAX KEESLER’S HORSE-CAR.THE MODERN PSYCHE.

Outlaw Birch Hamilton was born Birch Kent, a bastard boy who was thrust into a life of crime at the age of sixteen. Now he was attempting to do the near impossible - break out of Yuma Territorial Prison. Once out, his plans are two-fold: to return home to see his beloved mother and to be reunited with the woman he has loved since his youth. He also intends to settle a score with the meanest man he ever knew - his father. But with bounty hunters and the law on his trail, and his outlaw part...

The Fall of the Stuarts and Western Europe from 1678 to 1697 is a classic overview of a tumultuous period in England's history. A table of contents is included.

Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share.

Horatio Hale was an American scholar of native culture. Much of his studies concerned the history of the Iroquois Confederacy, and was tutored in their oral history by Iroquois Chiefs. The Iroquois Book of Rites , published in 1883, was in part the result from his study of wampum belts.

Cord McQueen rides home from Fort Laramie to be met by the sight of three fresh graves on the hillside and a hail of bullets delivered by outlaws occupying the McQueen ranch on the Tongue River. Believing that his parents and young brother have been murdered, he rides to the Bighorn foothills where trapper Pierre Monet lives with his daughter.

Unhappy in her life and relationship, Francesca is inspired by her sighting of a mermaid swimming away to freedom, to leave her lover and uproot her life. She moves to Lewes to stay with Agnes Potts, her loving, eccentric friend. Francesca begins to paint again with Agnes's encouragement and when her painting of the mermaid is seen by Henry, a local potter, he takes her into his employment and plans to organize an exhibition of her art. When Agnes suffers an accident, Francesca must become...

Sir Matthew Hale SL (1 November 1609 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited his faith. In 1626 he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, (now Hertford College) intending to become a priest, but after a series of dist...