Set against the remote and rugged terrain of the Highlands, The Sheltering traces a series of journeys to some of the country's most isolated and evocative places of shelter. From ruined scientific outposts and outlaw hideaways to hermitages, shielings, brochs and caves, The Sheltering explores the enduring resonance of wild shelters in our collective imagination and reflects on the many motivations-spiritual, creative, survivalist, rebellious-that have drawn people to th...

Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Award for Outdoor Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain LiteratureThere are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so many of these 'wild histories' unnoticed and overlooked? And what can they tell us about our own modern identity?From the high mountain ...

Story Iopeq has never questioned his world.Raised within a system built on belief, duty, and absolute truth, he has lived his life with certainty. His purpose is clear. His path is defined. And the rules that govern his world are not meant to be challenged.Anne has always challenged them anyway.Where Story accepts, Anne questions. Where he follows, she pushes. For as long as they have known each other, she has tested the limits of his certainty—pressing against the ...

Jenna has spent her life surviving.Raised in a world that offered her little kindness and even less mercy, she learned early how to endure—to keep going, no matter the cost. But survival is not the same as strength, and it is not the same as purpose.Everything changes when Jenna crosses paths with The Four.Legends in their own right, they are everything Jenna is not—capable, confident, and powerful beyond question. But more than that, they show her something she has...

Emily dreams of little more than becoming a baker. William is a young soldier preparing for war. Sandrene is certain she has captured a dangerous killer.Their lives have nothing in common.Yet each is confronted by a stranger who knows them far better than should be possible. Names are spoken that no one remembers. Impossible memories surface. Black lightning tears across the sky as the world itself begins to unravel.

The past is not so easily left behind.Risk has spent his life outrunning the place that made him, determined to become something greater than the streets that once defined him. But some memories refuse to fade, and some wounds are far too deep to heal with the passing of time.As old ghosts begin to stir and long-buried scars are forced back into the light, Risk finds himself facing a question he has never dared ask:...

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he attempts to reconstruct ...

Earth is on the brink of total annihilation. The only hope for survival is thirteen young individuals (one controller and twelve Essence protectors). They are linked through one core commonality- Selina, the Denarian supreme commander, who having fled from her depraved husband Alanius twenty-three years earlier, seeks refuge on earth, the remotest of planets in the vast expanses of the known galaxy. Here she marries a human, a game ranger named Gus, and gives birth to Jason, her firstborn ...

This book is a way for me to show kids that helping one another and not being a bully can go a long way. So if you need help or you are in a bad situation and the only person there is the person that you have picked on, dont you think they might not help you? So make good choices and help stop bullying.

Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui.

Fuzzy and his friends were enjoying a night fire when a storm came and put the animals to a test. It was not just any test. It was a test of teamwork, friendship, and care. Fuzzys friends were completing a task far more difficult than one animal could do. Their teamwork, friendship, and caring hearts came together to save the day.

Louis is a fourth grader who is moving into his grandmother’s house and is starting his first day at a new school. Louis’ father is absent from his life because he is in prison. Louis’ denial and disappointment in his father’s absence is displayed by his series of imaginative lies about his father’s whereabouts. Louis quickly learns he can only keep the lies going for so long and is forced to face the truth.