Fantasy Bridge is thrilled to present this Urban Fantasy Anthology from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories transport you to versions of Earth like you've never seen before. Places where dragons roam the streets and where magic is as common as cell phones. The exciting stories in MODERN MAGIC will thrill, inspire, and keep you up all night wishing you too were a magician."First Blood" by Aimee Easterling"Trinket" by Anthea Sharp"Silver Tempes...

Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond.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.Over a period of three centuries, many thousands of people left the islands and wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. In this new edition of his acclaimed bo...

This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, The Making of the Crofting Community has attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controv...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover Scotland's forgotten revolution...Longlisted for the Highland Book PrizeWhen 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. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as people's basic foodstuff.

By: The James Hunter Chapter, NSDSAR of Madison, NC, Pub. 1977, reprinted 2022, 184 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-274-3. To complete this book, the publication committee of the James Hunter Chapter NSDAR used information from DAR applications for members of their chapter who descended from soldiers or patriots in this area. Most of the research on the families in this book was based on original records or publications of original records such as estate records, division of land,...

Winner of Saltire Scottish 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, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men an...

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...

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 ...

Imagine if you suddenly died and God transmigrated you to another world. What if Gods and Goddesses watched and commented on your adventures? And what if you could communicate with them?During his martial arts training with his father, Xiao Ming, grandson of the Ruler, falls off a cliff and believes he has died.To his surprise, he wakes up in a parallel world where monsters and powerful individuals rule the land. Fortunately, one of the goddesses bestows upon him a system t...