The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words.This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation's recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day. It covers a vast range of subject matter and demonstrates a remarkable variety of moods and tones, from the literary to the colloquial and bawdy. Packed with sharp observation and humour, it sounds other notes too. Meditative, triumphant, trag...

Scotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation's greatest writers have been influenced by the country's abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson all used Scottish folklore in their work.This book traces the roots and traditions of Scottish folklore and introduces all its key parts, combining a huge range of material from gypsy-lore and Arthurian legend to ...

Proverbs, once described as 'the wisdom of many and the wit of one', offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations.This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over 1,000 proverbs arranged in easily accessible A–Z format. Many have been commonly used for hundreds of years, but modern sayings are also included. The addition of a comprehensive glossary will help you fully appreciate these colourful and...

Off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, New Island was home to many things-among them stories of resilience and rebirth. New had been home to Zyon Hammond before depraved events of a long-ago night removed him from his home and the girl he loved.Sixteen years later, Zyon runs the family business New Corp in Ohio along with his cousins, Frayzer Guthrie and Warwick Noble. Work keeps Zyon from lingering in perpetual heartbreak over the fiasco with first and only love, Moira Croix...

Off the coast of Charleston, New Island was home to many things- among them stories of resilience and rebirth. New had been home to Warwick Noble before the depraved events of a long ago night removed him from his home and the girl he loved.Sixteen years later, Warwick runs the family business with his cousins and accepts that a life with Seela Desmond is forever lost to him. There is much to keep him occupied. The events on a neighboring island have unveiled atrocities no one coul...

かつて街から出て別の場所で働き、五年前から兄を頼って再び街の片隅で金勘定をしている私から見ると、街の外の変化に比べれば、この街の変化など微々たるものに過ぎない。もうずいぶん前に、夜と心中するような女はいなくなったし、今では男と心中するような女も少なくなった。表面だけ明るく、少し退屈になった街で、みんながごく個人的に病んでいく。群像8月号掲載の中編を単行本化。ホストクラブの受付で働く「私」、ホストにハマる幼なじみ。夜の世界を「生き場所」とする彼女らの蠱惑と渇望を描く傑作小説。

営業トークが苦手で、清潔感はあるけれど地味で接客下手――営業成績に伸び悩む高級ブランドの店員・涼(りょう)。ある晩、新宿の路地裏でカリスマホストのコウと激突!!　その瞬間、二人の体が入れ替わってしまう!!　仕方なく互いの店で働くことにするけれど、「俺のナンバー1の座は死守しろよ!!」平然と発破をかけるコウに、涼は蒼白。さらに体が元に戻るまで、コウの部屋で同居することになり!?　※口絵・イラスト収録あり

Get swept up in this classic romance story from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala.More than anything, Antonette Hatfield wanted a baby. But she’d long since given up on Mr. Right. He simply didn’t exist. So rather than marry a good man, Toni planned to bear a good man’s child. No strings attached. Then he washed ashore—the nameless answer to her every prayer…US Marshal Lane Monday had survived one close...

Connect more meaningfully to the cultural wisdom and occult knowledge of the rich and thriving Celtic world.Reclaim ancestral traditions and older ways of connecting with the earth and spirituality by going straight to the heart of mystical traditions. Celtic Mysticism explores the folk magic that has thrived in the British Isles for thousands of years. With this guidebook for both newcomers to magical practice and those searching for a concise reference t...

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates that Azusa's religious rituals and traditions rejected the racial norms and profit-driven practices that many white Christian communities gladly embraced.Thr...

After a devoted life to your Savior, you are falsely portrayed as a womanizer. Your life's stories filled with miraculous participation of your Savior are being misrepresented and told by a false witness that didn't even get your name right.Now, imagine none of these lies were told until centuries after you were dead and were published into the most read book in the history of man, the King James Translation of the Bible.Join me as we "search out" the truth about a womanize...

Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ...Mark 15:34 ... My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?.Was our Savior's Father forsake Him or was our Savior once again revealing prophecy of Himself as the Messiah, His Father's gift of Love to us?Nearly all the Hebrew nouns in the Bible were not translated, they were transliterated. How old were you when you learned that Jonah translated means "Dove", or Samson means "Sunshine", and Delilah means "...