English Forest

Cat-cafe owner Lauren Crenshaw and her cousin Zoe attend their first advanced latte-art class, excited to learn intricate designs. But when their world-famous instructor is murdered, they decide to investigate!

On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

It was Emily Carr (1871-1945), not Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo, who first blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of late Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art. Her boldly original landscapes are praised today for capturing an untamed British Columbia, and its indigenous peoples, just before industrialization would change it forever. In this novel, Susan Vreeland brings to life this fiercely independent and underappreciated figure.

When Josh Talbot moved from Los Angeles to Florence Oregon he never expected he would meet the woman of his dreams. Then he bumps into Julie, a local girl who seems to be the one he has been waiting for his whole life. But just when it seems that things can’t get any better, the nightmares begin. Now Josh must come face to face with the reality that things are not always as they seem, and that local superstitions may just be a little more than that. For something sinister stalks the shadows, hiding in the darkness, and hunting under the light of the full moon. Now, Josh must come to terms...

‘A revealing and well-researched insight into the origins of the legend and its traditional influences.’ – Robert White, chairman of the Worldwide Robin Hood Society We all have an idea of Robin Hood, England’s most famous outlaw: a handsome and hooded woodsman in Lincoln green emerges from the crowd, effortlessly looses his bow at his target and splits another arrow in two to the astonishment of the spectators. We can imagine Robin Hood, but why, and where have our ideas of the man actually come from? What is most surprising about the legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men is how ...

Before Elloren Gardner came to possess the White Wand of myth, the Wand was drawn to another bearer: Sagellyn Gaffney. Sage’s affinity for light magery, a rare skill among Gardnerians, makes her the perfect protector for the one tool that can combat the shadows spreading across Erthia. But in order to keep the Wand safe from the dark forces hunting for it, Sage must abandon everything she once knew and forge a new path for herself...a dangerous course that could lead to either triumph or utter ruin.

Denmark was supposed to be easy. City tours, good food, and not a single cursed forest in sight. But Samantha Moon’s vacation plans hit another supernatural snag when her teenage daughter, Tammy, strikes up a conversation with a literal goddess. Freya, Norse deity of war, death, and love, has been biding her time inside an innocent-looking statue, waiting for the right person to help her. Tammy’s powerful telepathy makes her the perfect candidate—and Sam is less than thrilled about her kid moonlighting as an oracle for an ancient being. When Freya reveals a crisis on Bornholm, the ...

One word changed Wes Lockhart's life forever. Cancer. Fighting for his life completely flipped his priorities, making him realize he wanted - no, needed - to use his billions to help others find the kind of second chance he'd been given. The first person he intended to help? The beautiful, caring, and dedicated oncologist who got him through his treatments and ushered him into remission. And what better time than the holidays to become her not-so-secret Santa?

The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world.

Real estate agent Cambria Baker needs to make a sale or she’ll be homeless. So when her broker asks her to do a showing on Mount Hood, Cambria jumps at the chance. The only problem? The buyer is as gruff as he is gorgeous, and not impressed with her or the dilapidated cabin. Tech billionaire Adam Zeile wants to build the perfect mountain lodge where he can forget about work and the women who are only interested in his net worth. He’s excited to see a property with a dream view, but the beautiful real estate agent’s eagerness to make the sale raises his suspicions.

From the depths of the Big Thicket, emerge five authors, drawn together by their passion for storytelling and their unique abilities to frighten innocent children and old women. Their Redneck Voodoo style of storytelling will carry you on journey through twelve tales, each written beneath the pines of East Texas. Inside this delightfully creepy collection of tales, readers will find the following twelve tales: Scarecrow Sheriff, Dog Murderer, and Blackbirds, by Tim Bryant. In the Forest, by Dawna Bowman Flowers. Flowers, by Blake Heath. A Teller of Quietus, and Wife in a Box, by David ...

HIDDEN GENIUS Frank Mann The Black Engineer Behind Howard Hughes by H. T. B r y e r and Paul Bryer Frank Mann had the deck stacked against him from the very start. A Black child born to an unwed mother in 1908 Texas didn't have much hope of becoming a success in life. But in 1919, on a dusty Houston airfield, young Frank met a kindred soul—a boy named Howard Hughes. It was the start of a lifelong friendship, and together, these two men would help revolutionize the world with their unique inventions and designs. However, because Frank was Black, he did not always receive the credit he ...

Now that his sister knows of the dragons, Jason doesn't feel as isolated in their small village. The connection to the dragons lets him protect his people along with the existence of the dragons. An attack on his home village forces Jason to go to Lachen and stop Therin for good. To do so, he'll need the help of all the dragon misfits, but can the forest dragon help him master the art of illusion in time for him to save his people?

Designed for readers beyond picture books, but not so advanced that fun and imagination are removed, Forest Trails and Fairy Tales fills that important niche. Reference pictures are included, but not enough to restrict a child’s reading practice and development at that next important level. Reading fun begins when Jack and Jill meet familiar nursery rhyme characters as they explore along a forest trail. They meet Humpty Dumpty, who often falls because he has a self-image problem. They also accompany Red Riding Hood as she visits her grandmother and finds that Granny is friends with B.B. ...

We, Yanamamo, only speak our stories. We never mark our words on paper like you nabas. These words from my mouth—if you are seeing them on paper, you must be a maba. Because you are a naba, there are many things I must explain, so you can understand the story of my people—Jungleman. So begins the riveting first person account of Jungleman, a shaman for the Yanomamo Indians. A fascinating and misunderstood people group, now for the first time, a powerful Yanomamo shaman speaks for his people.

In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu’s village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile—her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn’t been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human might be able to breach the cursed doors.

We’ve all seen or experienced something strange at one point and thought—nobody would believe this. Horror in the Pines is a well-collected anthology series of extraordinary events individuals have endured among the trees. From sightings and strange noises to unexplainable disappearances, people are emerging from the shadows to share their stories of the unknown.

“I fear not the dark ... but what may lurk within it” From the author of the bestselling series, Encounters in the Woods and What Lurks Beyond, comes a new series focused exclusively on the creepy, scary, and dangerous things that lurk in the deep forests. Ethan Hayes has been collecting firsthand encounters from people all over the world for years and in Fear in the Forest, he has saved some of his best stories for the pages ahead. From terrifying face to face encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch, to horrifying instances of being stalked by a Wendigo and Black Eyed Children; Ethan ...

We're still stuck on the prison planet, and I'm pregnant. I cycle between three states. Hungry. Horny. Weepy. I eat french fries dipped in vanilla pudding. I look like a beached whale. I'm also scared. No one knows what my child will look like or what species she’ll be. She could be human or Draekon, or...something else entirely. Something new. Daughter of Draekons. Daughter of Draekons is a short story set in the Dragons in Exile series. It does not not stand alone and should be listened to after Draekon Destiny.

A wolf shifter who wishes he was normal again. An independent bartender who won’t be hurt again. Emotions run deep and dark from their first meeting. Trevor Washington has hit a rough spot. His unit is his first priority but he’s having trouble even being with them. When he shifts these days, it’s a violent transformation and he doesn’t like how that aggression bleeds into every part of his life. He doesn’t have a clue what to do about it. Jane Strickland has shut herself away from any opportunity to get hurt. She’s done with shifters. In fact, she’s done with men. All of them...