Sela is assigned to be a private gardener for Theodore "Teddy" Woven's ancestral home. The young gardener soon finds her presence unwelcome as she slowly uncovers the truth about his family’s past. The greatest mystery of all lies not in the house, but with its owner.

It's Halloween weekend, and Sara and her friends decide to go out into the wilderness to stay at Blackthorn Campground. When they arrive the campsite is eerily quiet, and the only lodger living there is quite adamant that they should leave. Sara and her friends choose to stay at the camp site, forcing them to face the consequences of their own actions.

The history of Middlesbrough and Teesside goes back through millennia, from the foundation of its ninth-century priory to its huge growth in the Industrial Revolution. In this book author Steve Watson investigates the rich supernatural heritage of this town and the surrounding Teesside area, not only the well-known phenomena but also lesser-known hauntings from the past and present day including the ghost of Middlesbrough Town Hall, Dorman Museum and its many haunted pubs. The book also co...

Sunderland’s proud history encompasses its beginnings as a major centre of religious learning in the early medieval period and its growth into a major port and shipbuilding centre on the mouth of the River Wear. Today, the city and the surrounding Wearside area is a major centre of car manufacturing and other industries in the North East. In this book author Steve Watson investigates the rich supernatural heritage of this city and the surrounding Wearside area, not only the well-known phen...

The paranormal history of Cumbria is brought vividly to life in this guide to the haunted and uncanny sites of this most beautiful of counties. In this book psychical researcher Steve Watson travels from the county’s northern towns of Carlisle, Brampton and Penrith, through the beautiful Lake District, before finishing in the county’s southern seaside towns of Grange-over-Sands and Barrow-in-Furness, exploring the area’s often grisly past and its present-day hauntings so the reader can go ...

Newcastle, the largest city in the North East, has a long and proud history stretching back to Roman and Saxon times. Its position defending the mouth of the River Tyne gave it an importance in the medieval border wars with Scotland and by the sixteenth century it controlled the coal trade from Tyneside to the rest of England. The city became an industrial powerhouse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the legacy of civic buildings, industrial heritage and housing can still be ...

The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularization of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialization of events. However, despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts, it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the produc...

Julia führt ein scheinbar gesichertes Leben in London. Ihr Mann Hugh ist ein besonnener, verlässlicher Chirurg, ihr dreizehnjähriger Sohn Connor ihr Ein und Alles. Nur ihre jüngere Schwester Kate, die in Paris lebt, macht ihr mit ihrem unsteten Lebenswandel Sorgen. In der Vergangenheit sind Dinge passiert, die die Schwestern bis heute umtreiben. Da kommt die schreckliche Nachricht, dass Kate erschlagen aufgefunden wurde. Julia begibt sich auf eine gefährliche Suche - und gerät unaufhaltsam...

Gambling on hope, Evil Eddie and his bad guy friends, feed the hungry slot machines in a small town casino. Work for them is borrowing money by day and gambling by night. A sad story for a bunch of no-good-nicks, but that's all they have is hope... The hope of winning a "Big Jackpot" at the Casino.Fast forward to the year 2050! The casino has been torn down to make room for a Supermall. Not just any Supermall, but one with a very special wishing well. A wishing well filled with mag...

A Group Study Guide to David Gushee's Bestselling After EvangelicalismMillions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. As one of America's leading public scholars on these issues in religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and his book After Evangelicalism shines a light on th...

The Character Coach's Playbook is not just a book, it is a tool! With millions of athletes playing today, it is time to coach the coaches about coaching. Very few (Little League through high school) coaches have any training in the arena of character development. Every great coach from Lombardi to Bowden and Osborne to Wooden understood the importance of personal character. Steve and Huey have produced a practical guide to assist and train coaches in this most important endeavor. The playb...

This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it. It draws on contemporary thinking in human geography and heritage studies, and applies it to a sector of tourism that is both pervasive yet poorly researched in terms of the perspective of tourists themselves. In a series of lucid and tightly argued chapters, it traces the use of semiotics as an analytical tool from its theoretical origins in text, through the all-important ...