The Prologue sets the scene for a bizarre state of events when the housekeeper of KELLY ROSS and the whole village of COURI on the West Coast of Scotland are secreted away to an island where they are held prisoner to work as slaves for the Russian Mafia.KELLY ROSS M17 agent is duped into returning to London from her assignment in Kenya East Africa and to arrive incognito only to be kidnapped and held prisoner in the basement of a Regents Park house where her childhood friend, and da...

A young couple are killed in a car crash in Inverness Scotland. A Mermaid leaves her labyrinth heading for Sandwood Bay with a Merchild she has borne with a human she rescued. The human now married to a woman who cannot have children seeks to find the Mermaid and finds her and a son unbeknown to him. They adopt it. The boy has a web hand and foot. A man arrives with a boy with similar features. He is there to find who killed the couple and at the same time to find the mysterious Aquatilis ...

In the 17th, century the Massacre of Glencoe laid the foundation for hatred between the Campbell's and the MacDonald's. Early in the 19th, century a young girl, Katriona Campbell, daughter of Sir Gordon Campbell, head of one of the clans in Northern Scotland, has romantic illusions about a young man she repeatedly sees on a hillside near a Loch, although never actually meeting with him. It is not till one day she falls from her horse, hitting her head on a rock, leaving her with loss of me...

A New York Times bestseller!Jonathan and Drew Scott, known for their wildly popular HGTV shows including Property Brothers and Brother vs Brother, follow up their New York Times bestseller, Dream Home, with a highly anticipated memoir. It Takes Two: Our Story shares never-before-revealed tales of the brothers’ childhood and rise to fame—from starting their first business at 7 years old, their years modeling and acting, to their first house purchase at the impressive young age of ei...

It Takes Two: Our Story shares never-before-revealed tales of the Scott brothers' childhood and rise to fame—from starting their first business at 7 years old, their years modeling and acting, to their first house purchase at the impressive young age of eighteen. They soon found their true passion in life, combining their natural gifts for entertaining with the skills they learned from buying, renovating, and selling homes.Complete with hilarious behind-the-scenes stories ...

A New York Times bestsellerJonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home, Buying & Selling, and Brother vs. Brother. The talented duo’s good-natured rivalry, playful banter, and no-nonsense strategies have earned the popular twins millions of devoted fans who have been anxiously waiting for a Scott Brothers book. Dream Home is a comprehensive source, cover...

Through a series of letters to college students, two former university presidents speak to the rich and varied purposes of college and how it prepares one to live a full and successful life.Letters to Students discusses the meaning of higher education for the individual and society, offering advice on navigating the college experience, on life and work, careers, the meaning of success, the role of creativity, leadership, citizenship, compassion, and leaving a legacy.

Scott Drew, head basketball coach of the NCAA National Championship-winning Baylor Bears, rebuilt a program mired in scandal by instilling a culture of putting Jesus first. The Road to J.O.Y. is packed with leadership and coaching lessons that can equip any leader to make their team a championship team.When Drew accepted the head coaching position at Baylor in 2003, the job was arguably the worst in all of college sports. The men’s basketball team had been...

It is impossible not to crack up while reading this all-dialogue bedtime story by Drew Daywalt, the New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit—featuring Scott Campbell's expressive illustrations to bring home the hilarity.Roderick hates going to bed, and the young boy has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick's loving parents—fed up with the distraction...

Scott Drew, head basketball coach of the NCAA National Championship-winning Baylor Bears, rebuilt a program mired in scandal by instilling a culture of putting Jesus first. The Road to J.O.Y. is packed with leadership and coaching lessons that can equip any leader to make their team a championship team.When Drew accepted the head coaching position at Baylor in 2003, the job was arguably the worst in all of college sports. The men’s basketball team had been...

The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery--plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life. Best known for finding the doomed ship Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime of stories about exploring the ocean depths. Now he gets personal, telling the stories behind his most exciting discoveries—including how a top-secret naval mission provided the opportunity for his Titanic discov...

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how animals have altered the cour...