The book's three central themes are living with environmental change around the North Sea and the Atlantic; story-telling through history in these lands; reconnecting with nature and our ancient heritages so as to live well and responsibly.
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS - Names like Castro, Hussein and Gaddafi have all haunted the Western world, but none has invoked as much fear in the White House as Manuel Noriega. Unlike his fellow tyrants, the power of Panama’s most notorious criminal came not from brutality, but blackmail.
Offering reader much more than friendly advice, this collection - closely related to the world-famous Pancatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom features numerous animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. It also contains the compact version of King Vikrama's Adventures.
Jessie Malone, still contending with the loss of her husband, hopes to be one of the first folklorists to trace an urban legend back to its original source. She encounters one about a WWII veteran who never made it home to his wife. And as she tries to solve the mystery, she finds a Christmas miracle like no other.
Christmas is a season of secrets and miracles. It's also a season of mystery. Throughout their married lives, baseball star Gaspar Bethlen's wife gave him a lovingly crafted mystery every year for Christmas. Solving the clues led him to his present, but the mysteries themselves were the true gift. Now, Beth has died, leaving Gasper a wreck of a ......
"It's like . . . like a miracle. Like some kind of weird, freaky miracle." Christmas is a time when anything can happen . . . even if you think the entire idea of a holiday miracle is laughable. Janie Mason just wants to get through the season. She's under enormous pressure at work, her boss is brilliant but self-centered, and the holidays ......
Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a modern Renaissance Festival where people who don't always fit in . . . fit in, and where nothing is what it seems, not even love.Especially not love.Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a place of wild music and boisterous dance! Of theatre and pageantry! Of breath-taking duels and rapier-fast quips! Of roasting turkey ......
The Oracle of Atlantis picks up where Legacy of Atlantis left off. Fresh from saving the world from Rusha, the maniacal Lemurian vampire, and Arthur DeMarco, the deranged multi-billionaire, Charlie Thomas and his friends retreat to his Uncle Merl's castle in Scotland for a brief respite. But rest is not in the cards for Charlie. Distressed by ......
Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a place of wild music and unbridled, boisterous dance! Of theatre and pageantry! Of deadly duels and rapier-fast quips! Of roasting turkey legs and drinking bouts! Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a place of whispered rumors of unexplained disappearances. Of mystery, intrigue, and murder. Welcome to Blackthorne Faire, a ......
After a car accident claims his older brother Mitch's life, Mark Murphy's world is turned upside down. Despite the insistence of the adults in his life that he accept Mitch's death, Mark is undeterred. They don't know what he knows. They don't know the story of the Witch on Spook Hill.
The Adirondack Park is filled with a lore unlike anywhere else in the world. Maybe it's the beauty that surrounds the Park thanks to the thousands of mountains, lakes, and rivers within. Maybe it's the history of woodsmen struggling to survive in a place that's been aptly nicknamed, "dismal wilderness." Hard to say, really. But everyone who visits ......
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
Christmas is a season of secrets and miracles. It's also a season of mystery. Throughout their married lives, baseball star Gaspar Bethlen's wife gave him a lovingly crafted mystery every year for Christmas. Solving the clues led him to his present, but the mysteries themselves were the true gift. Now, Beth has died, leaving Gasper a wreck of a ......
Short-stories from a revered Libyan philosopher and writer Sadeq Naihoum who, although virtually unknown in the Western world, was a leading figure in Libyan literary circles and instrumental in the ongoing creative revolution against political repression.
After a car accident claims his older brother's life, Mark Murphy's world is turned upside down. The silence of their shared bedroom, the memories of Mitch's guidance, and his mother's drunken spiral are constant reminders of the cost of his absence. But Mark isn't ready to grieve. He isn't ready to accept that his brother is truly gone. Despite ......
A man needs a dog to catch long-legged rabbits, so he buys a hound with longer legs than the rabbits. It's the fastest dog he's ever seen--the fastest dog anyone has ever seen. The dog is so fast, in fact, the man takes on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in some friendly competition. Hilarity ensues.
IT BEGINS WITH THE SOUND OF A VOICE . . .Derek Nilsson is an elite programmer toiling away at BitJockey.com while he spends all of his available time in pursuit of an enigmatic and possibly world-altering trove of data that has disappeared off the grid. When a message comes through his computer claiming to have all of the answers Derek seeks, he ......
Katie Mason has come all the way to Alaska to make art and heal from a broken relationship. But she hasn't been able to do either. At least not until a dark-eyed stranger transforms her life. This mythic holiday gift will awaken the wonder of the season in you - and make you think of winter in entirely new ways.
If you know something about passion, and desire, and giving everything to live your dreams then leave your world behind for a while. Come with Janice to Dublin, in the mid nineteen-eighties when a better future beckoned and the past was restless, whispering in the shadows for the Old Ways. Janice has grown tired of her sheltered existence in ......
The women of ancient Egypt were the freest of any civilization on earth, until the modern era. In several dynasties of ancient Egypt the God's Wives of Amun stood tall, priestesses of wealth and power, who represented the pinnacle of female power in the Egyptian state. Many called The God's Wife of Amun second only to the Pharaoh in dominance.THE ......
The Pandavas believe they have completed the terms of their exile, though Duryodhana claims that they did not live unknown for the full thirteenth year, since Arjuna was recognized in the battle at the end of the preceding book, Virata. This volume constantly highlights the inevitability of conflict and the futility of negotiation.
Presents the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Kaurava army. This title deals with the war's seventeenth and penultimate day.
Offers a collection of animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, designed to instruct wayward princes. This title also contains the compact version of King Vikrama's Adventures, thirty-two tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne.
In one of the most famous passages in the Mahabharata, Duryodhana, the heroic but flawed king of the Kauravas, meets his end when he is dishonorably defeated in battle by his arch-enemy, Bhima.
The Pandavas believe they have completed the terms of their exile, though Duryodhana claims that they did not live unknown for the full thirteenth year, since Arjuna was recognized in the battle at the end of the preceding book, Virata. This volume constantly highlights the inevitability of conflict and the futility of negotiation.
Presents the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna - great hero and the eldest Pandava - leads the Kaurava army into combat.
The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists.