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Congo
Michael Crichton
Mystery / Thriller / Science Fiction
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 signs, the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .
Forbidden Forest
Tenaya Jayne
Fantasy / Romance / Paranormal
Shape Shifter/Elf hybrid, Forest lives by the sword, fighting for respect in a world that hates her for being a Halfling. Assigned a black ops mission in a time of war, Forest must protect her enemy, the vampire prince, Syrus. Through the danger, Forest and Syrus learn how thin the line is between love and hate. But it doesn't matter what they feel. Forest is forbidden.Born in shame. Cast from society. Shape Shifter/Elf hybrid, Forest must fight for any respect she can get. Targeted in her youth by a vampire noble who placed an illegal slave mark on her, she is forced to obey him, no matter what.Slipping the grip of her master and abandoning the prejudice of Regia, her native world, Forest takes a job on Earth, guarding the portal, using her skills as a warrior to enforce Regia's laws. Now, called home for a black ops mission, Forest must put aside her own prejudice to transport the vampire prince, Syrus, through enemy territory in a time of war. Prince Syrus, mage and master of the Blood Kata, wants Forest more than he's ever wanted anything. In spite of their mutual mistrust, their attraction cannot be denied. Through the danger of their mission, and the secrets they both keep, it doesn't matter what they feel. Forest is forbidden.
Daughter of the Forest
Juliet Marillier
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Young Adult
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.
But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift-by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.
When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?
Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 3/10/2009 Pages: 320 Reading Level: Age 14 and Up
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
W. H. Hudson
Literature & Fiction / Outdoors & Nature
A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow... One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat
Children's / Young Adult / Historical Fiction
Children of the New Forest is a work by Frederick Marryat now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.
Forest Born
Part #4 of "The Books of Bayern" series by Shannon Hale
Young Adult / Literature & Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels
Rin has always been a quiet, helpful girl, but a secret has been eating away at her, and the solace Rin once could find among the tall trees surrounding her forest home has vanished. When she leaves home to join her older brother in the city, she finds intriguing answers to her questions, an adventure she doesn't expect, and a sense of self she never thought she would find.
Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 10/25/2011 Pages: 400 Reading Level: Age 12 and Up
Into the Forest
Jean Hegland
Fiction / Nonfiction
Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.
Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.
Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
The Forest House
Part #2 of "Avalon" series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Gay and Lesbian
The Forest House—prequel to The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s beloved and enduring classic—is a mesmerizing epic of one woman’s mythic role at a turning point in history.In a Britain struggling to survive Roman invasion, Eilan is the daughter of a Druidic warleader, gifted with visions and marked by fate to become a priestess of the Forest House.
But fate also led Eilan to Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood, son of the Romans sent to subdue the native British. For Gaius, Eilan felt forbidden love, and her terrible secret will haunt her even as she is anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to destroy the magic the Forest House shelters, Eilan must trust in the power of the great Goddess to lead her through the treacherous labyrinth of her destiny.
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Gossip From the Forest
Thomas Keneally
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
A gripping reimagining of the drama, ego, intrigue, and madness at work during the World War I armistice negotiations
In November 1918, after four long years of murderous conflict, six men gather in a railroad car in a secluded forest outside Paris, France, to negotiate an end to World War I. A pacifist, left-leaning diplomat with no military knowledge or experience, Matthias Erzberger has been selected by the German high command to represent their surrendering nation, for reasons as baffling to him as to anyone. He is joined by France’s aging, vindictive Marshal Foch and Britain’s unbending Admiral Wemyss in an attempt to bring peace to a war-torn world. In these claustrophobic quarters the future is to be decided by men driven by ego, prejudice, fear, exhaustion, vengeance, delusion, and, in Erzberger’s case, conscience. But the well-meaning diplomat’s futile efforts to secure lenient surrender terms will have devastating consequences for Europe, the Fatherland, and Erzberger himself.
Renowned for his enthralling fictional accounts of historical events, award-winning author of Schindler’s List Thomas Keneally once again brings the heart-stopping human drama of history to life, as he brilliantly envisions the earth-shattering events that transpired in the forest of Compiègne, setting the stage for the Treaty of Versailles and the rise of the Third Reich.
The Children of the New Forest
Frederick Marryat
Children's / Young Adult / Historical Fiction
Children of the New Forest is a work by Frederick Marryat now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Holly Black
Fantasy / Young Adult / Children's
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.
At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.
Until one day, he does…
As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?
The Cloud Forest
Peter Matthiessen
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia.
The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist, a voyage of exploration among the people, places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents.
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest
Matt Haig
Literature & Fiction
Aunt Eda's Rule #9: NEVER-UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES- GO INTO THE FOREST.
Samuel and Martha have just moved to Norway to live with their aunt Eda, and she's taking some getting used to. She has too many rules, no TV, and insists that they eat local delicacies like brown cheese and reindeer soup. And then there's the most peculiar thing about her-her irrational fear of her own backyard. Sure, Uncle Henrik hasn't been heard from since he disappeared into it ten years ago, but that can't be the forest's fault . . . can it?
Samuel is skeptical, until he disobeys Rule #1-Never go up to the attic-and finds an unusual book: The Creatures of Shadow Forest, which gives scary descriptions of the fantastic creatures supposedly living in the forest. So when Sam starts seeing strange things venture past the treeline after dark, he can't help wondering . . . could Aunt Eda be right, and what really happened to Uncle Henrik?
This highly inventive fantasy is full of amazing characters and unexpected twists that will elicit both laughter and chills.
A Clearing in the Forest
Gloria Whelan
Historical Fiction / Young Adult / Children's
An aging widow and a neighboring youth join forces to wage battle against a powerful company that threatens to destroy the northern Michigan woods where they live.
The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.
In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret.
This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
A Forest of Wolves
Chelsea Luna
Young Adult / Paranormal / Mystery & Thrillers
Prague, 1610
In a few short weeks seventeen-year-old Mila has gone from being Ludmila Novakova, pampered daughter of the High Chancellor of Bohemia, to becoming a traitor escaping the palace at midnight in her wedding nightgown. Her country is in chaos, an army is marching from Austria, and revolution is a breath away.
Mila is caught in the middle, between the man she loves—Marc, the son of a blacksmith and a leader of the rebellion—and the murderer the Church calls her husband. Even as she flees with Marc into the heart of the resistance, where the suspicions of angry citizens make her every palace-born habit a danger, she knows he hasn’t told her everything.
But Mila is keeping the biggest secret herself: she is the heir to the throne, the daughter of embattled King Rudolf and Princess of Bohemia. The truth will turn the fury of both sides against her, leaving Mila alone to win her country’s freedom—and her own . . .
Forest Mage
Part #2 of "The Soldier Son Trilogy" series by Robin Hobb
Science Fiction & Fantasy / History / Mystery
Plague has ravaged the prestigious King\'s Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of both cadets and instructors. Yet Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly robust recovery, defeating his sworn nemesis while in the throes of the disease and freeing himself—he believes—from the Speck magic that infected him. And now he is journeying home to Widevale, anticipating a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancée, Carsina, and a bright future as a commissioned officer.But there is no haven in the bosom of his kinfolk, for his nights are haunted by grim visions of treachery—and his days are tormented by a strange side-effect of the plague that shames his family and repulses the lady of his heart. And as the still-potent magic in his blood roars to life, Nevare realizes a terrible truth: that the enemy who seeks to destroy everything he loves dwells perhaps not without but within him.
The Bones of the Forest
Rachelle Reese
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories / Literature & Fiction
After Amanda's family leaves the safety net of the city for the Undiscovered Foothills, Amanda discovers a crumbling house in the woods. Inside the house, she finds the diary of the writer who lived there long ago before the terrorists were rounded up and the rural families migrated to the protection of the safety net. As Amanda reads the diary, she finds some surprising parallels with her world.One-sided love online is a story of one girl who fell in love with another girl who she met on a dating site turned rp site. This girl, Jaz, is a happy person turned anti-social/depressed due to bullying. She turned her focus and attention not into the real world but into a virtual one where she met this girl, Vae, who captured her heart eventually. The two became bestfriends and soon, Jaz fell in love with Vae who has someone else in mind and heart.
The Endless Forest
Sara Donati
Historical Fiction / Contemporary / Romance
A rich, passionate, multilayered portrayal of family strength and endurance from bestselling author Sara Donati
In the spring of 1824, in the remote village of Paradise on the New York frontier, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner celebrate a glorious reunion as their children return from far-off places: Lily and her husband from Italy, and Martha Kirby, the Bonners’ ward, from Manhattan. In the peace that follows a devastating flood, childhood friends Martha and Daniel, Lily’s twin brother, suddenly begin to see each other in a new light. But their growing bond is threatened when Martha’s estranged mother arrives back in Paradise. Jemima Southern is a dangerous schemer who has destroyed more than one family, and her anger touches everyone, as do her secrets. Has Jemima come to claim her daughter—or does she have other, darker motives? Whatever transpires, Martha, Daniel, and all the Bonners must stand united against the threats to both heart and home.
Forest of the Hanged
Liviu Rebreanu
European Literature / Romanian Literature / Classics
During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined the Austro-Hungarian army. But soon Romania itself entered the war, and Bologa found himself fighting his own people.
The Forest of the Hanged asks a fundamental question about war: namely, why does a man fight? Apostol condemns an officer to death for desertion and attempting to give information to the enemy. He watches the execution of the officer with satisfaction until he witnesses a fellow soldier's grief and pity for the dead man. At this point his world shifts. His growing self-doubt and uncertainty lead him to question beliefs he once held without question. Unprepared for his own reaction when he is once again called to sit on a court martial, he finds that he too must go to the forest.
This very rare, richly descriptive novel lays bare the inner conflict engendered by a total war, yet seldom expressed
Shifters - The Jade Forest Chronicles 1
Vivienne Neas
Fantasy / Paranormal
In Shifters, trouble is brewing within ‘In Caelum’ between the preternatural creatures who live in the secret reservation within the world of humans. Amber Vale is a young and beautiful fae, and with her sharp wits and keen intelligence she is chosen to be the arbitrator over a land dispute – a cemetery imbued with enormous magical power.A world within a world – a world within our world. In Shifters, the first book of The Jade Forest Chronicles, trouble is brewing within ‘In Caelum’ between the preternatural creatures who live in the secret reservation within the world of humans. Amber Vale is a young and beautiful fae, and with her sharp wits and keen intelligence she is chosen to be the arbitrator over a land dispute – a cemetery imbued with enormous magical power. Little does she know that this won't just be another job, or that another power will come into play here: the power of attraction.When she meets the strong, handsome and masculine werewolf Balfour, he is just as unprepared as she is for the intense desire and raw emotion that blossoms immediately between them. As the turmoil unfolds and grows, with witches and werewolves battling for supremacy in a conflict that looks like could become an all-out war, Balfour and Amber find themselves torn between their loyalties – Balfour to his pack, of which he will become the alpha, and Amber to the laws of the fae – and their love for one another.In this exciting, passion-filled paranormal romance, unexpected twists, betrayals, lies, passion and steaming hot romance will keep you turning pages from the first to the last, and you're guaranteed to develop an insatiable hunger for every book in The Jade Forest Chronicles series.
The Castle in the Forest
Norman Mailer
Nonfiction / Fiction / Poetry
No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.
The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.
A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.
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The Monarch of the Forest
Jonathan Brett
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Horror
A young man discovers that a story told by his grandfather may not just be family legend, but a modern legend with implications for the future of the old forest where his grandfather lives.The world grew up and left its legends behind, but Jason is soon to discover that his grandfather's big deer story may be the beginning of one of the world's legend's final chapter.Development threatens Jason's grandfather's house and his aunts and uncle are threatening to put their father in a nursing home. This may seem like an odd time to go hunting, but Jason's grandfather insists, begging him to bring the Monarch of the Forest to the front porch. As Jason takes to the changing and shrinking forest, he discovers that just because he's not a legend like his grandfather, he may be the one to bring a legend to an end.
Blood in the Forest, Part 1 of Shadows of the Heavens
Gareth Lewis
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories / Mystery & Thrillers
A scholar's murder in an unimportant village threatens to ignite political tensions in the empire. Village enforcer Adajo must accompany the city examiner investigating the death, navigating an alien landscape of intrigues and unfamiliar masks.An 11000 word fantasy novelette.A scholar's murder in an unimportant village threatens to ignite political tensions in the empire. Village enforcer Adajo must accompany the city examiner investigating the death, navigating an alien landscape of intrigues and unfamiliar masks.An 11000 word fantasy novelette.Shadows of the Heavens Not even half-way into its first century the empire is riven by strife hidden behind a polite facade. With political factions vying for imperial influence, regional politics subverting imperial law, and society still recovering from recent wars, how much is due to mythic beings many no longer believe in? A scholar's death triggers a series of events which could unravel the tenuous empire, drawing into the deadly game a young enforcer searching for his childhood friend; an examiner who desperately wants to avoid politics; a masked woman whose curiosity could cost her everything; and a prince with nothing better to do.
The Lost Forest
John Francis Kinsella
Ennis had no illusions about the risks of such ventures; he sought no challenge, no proof of his own mortality by leaving his body to rot in a dark corner of the humid rainforest. His justification was more down to earth; the search for rare tribal art and antique heirlooms to be sold at a profit in his Paris gallery. But what he discovers in Borneo will shake the science of human origins.Coping with the traumatic experiences Ava endured with the Kakos is more challenging than she ever imagined it to be. She finds herself struggling to remember the details of her time kept away with Damien Kakos and when the memories assault her mind, she is plagued with crippling fear. There is something in the back of Ava’s thoughts screaming at her, telling her that the fight with the devil’s brood has not yet ended.Newly married, Ava and Ari deal with issues involving trust, honesty and faith in one another and as they plot their course for a new life together, they discover that their individual wants and needs don’t exactly match. Ari’s promises to Ava begin to break. Some of the Alexander’s family secrets are revealed and Ava realizes that she needs to keep her friends close, and her enemies even closer.A Broken Fate, the second novel in The Beautiful Fate Series, dives further into Ava and Ari’s nail-bitter of a story and adds even more suspense, mystery, romance and thrills. This series is impossible for any reader to resist.
The Portal in the Forest
Matt Dymerski
Science Fiction / Horror
A few miles deep in Virginia woodlands, there lies a portal that goes to a new universe each day. It's a fantastic opportunity to explore, certainly, but there are two problems: the destinations are all dead worlds that have suffered unique and terrible apocalypses… and the portal is getting bigger.From the author of Psychosis, Matt Dymerski, comes a new reality-bending tale of horror and adventure. THE PORTAL IN THE FOREST This neighborhood has a secret - while the adults work multiple jobs to make ends meet, the children trade around strange trinkets and famous books with odd misprints. It seems that, without supervision, they've gotten into something extremely dangerous: another universe. One adult is not working. One adult notices. One adult discovers their secret - a portal a few miles deep in Virginia woodlands; a portal that goes to a new universe each day. It's a fantastic opportunity to explore, certainly, but there are two problems: the destinations are all dead worlds that have suffered unique and terrible apocalypses… and the portal is getting bigger.
The Forest Lover
Susan Vreeland
Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction
In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who, more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo, blazed a path for modern women artists.
Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and its indigenous peoples just before industrialization changed them forever. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists studios in pre World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.
Forest of Wonders
Linda Sue Park
Children's Books
Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, every leaf has the potential to unleash a kind of magic. If only Raffa's cautious father would allow him to experiment freely, Raffa knows he could discover miracles.
When an injured bat crashes into Raffa's life, he invents a cure from a rare crimson vine that he finds deep in the forest. The powers of the vine are stronger than Raffa could have imagined. His remedy saves the animal but also transforms it into something much more than an ordinary bat, with far-reaching consequences. Raffa's experiments lead him away from home to the forbidding city of Gilden, where troubling discoveries make him question who he can trust . . . and whether exciting botanical inventions, including his own, might actually threaten the very creatures of the forest he wants to protect.
This enchanting new series from Linda Sue Park, recipient of the Newbery Medal for A Single Shard, richly explores the links between magic and botany, family and duty, environment and home.
Three Trees Stood in a Forest
Richard McCormack
Three trees stood in a forest: one was rushed through his life, forced to play the roll he didn't want. The other was scarred, abused, and stained always living with the memory. Finally, their was the youngest who was insulted and never given the chance to be someone. All three represent some part of us--rushed, abused, insulted, yet who we are is never determined by our circumstance, but by JesusNot all of us are scarred, abused, and stained, but some of us, because of a decision we made early in life, are destined to play a part of life we do not wish to play. Then again we might be living a life of contradiction. A life that we live only because we were never given a chance. We were called names and told we would never amount to anything. We were told this so often that we finally believed it was true and have given in to the lie. Then there is the life that shows the marks of anger, bitterness, and rage. This life does not diminish the other two lives, this life simply shows the scars, the battle wounds, and the ugliness of life. All three lives are scarred and abused. All three carry with them the hurt and anger of years. All three touch each of us in some way. But it need not end there.
Stanley Stickle Hates Homework
Trevor Forest
Children's Books
Stanley Stickle hates homework and he'll do almost anything to get out of it.Stanley gets a shock when he discovers that every pupil in the school is to be given EXTRA homework in preparation for the BIG TEST. Stanley is appalled at this assault on his human rights and will do just about anything to avoid the extra work. Stanley thinks up a cunning plStanley Stickle hates homework and he'll do almost anything to get out of it.In this, the first short book in the series, Stanley gets a shock when he discovers that every pupil in the school is to be given EXTRA homework in preparation for the BIG TEST. Stanley is appalled at this assault on his human rights and will do just about anything to avoid the extra work. Stanley thinks up a cunning plan, a master plan, the best plan that anyone ever planned...ever. Only it doesn't quite work, so it's on to Plan B... then Plan C...
The Forest Game
Mitchell Bryan
Children's Books / Historical Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers
When a new video game takes the world by storm, a new player is profoundly moved by the beauty and wonder that the game holds. But under the breathtaking exterior is a dark secret that threatens the sanity and lives of the players.In developed countries, social cohesion has been sacrificed on the altar of individual gratification. Individuals wanted more and better. Inventors and entrepreneurs rallied to serve our desires. We progressed – pulled along by our hunger for improvement. This strategy worked well for centuries. Survival rates benefitted more from technological advances than from recognising individual social contributions. But the paths of ‘what we want in the short term’ and ‘what is good for us in the long term’ diverged. As we moved forwards, we increasingly abandoned non-commercial activities – regardless of their contribution to social wellbeing.We’ve now reached point where the benefits of technological advances are becoming outweighed by the disadvantages. New consumer inventions make us less active. Improved food production is turning us fat. Social media is stopping us socialising. Even medical advances will become less important to the majority – focusing, quite rightly, on a shrinking minority of ill people or providing more years of relative infirmity for the very old.The wellbeing of the majority during the majority of their lives can now be improved more by positive social interaction than by technological advances. To do this, we need to amend our reward system. We need to provide additional motivation for carrying out beneficial social activity. Although many already help others altruistically, there’s no moral reason why they shouldn’t receive further tangible rewards. And tangible rewards might encourage even more people to help one another. This would deliver additional social benefits – thereby improving general wellbeing.
Paradise in the Forest
Jessica Cambrook
A truly heart-warming short story detailing the life of Friend, the wisest of sun harvesters, and her struggle to understand love, life and Paradise. This tale will leave you soul searching and questioning your own views about what it truly means to exist."Wuthering Heights" is one of the great classics of English literature, yet many readers find it difficult to finish. This edition has shortened the book to two-thirds of its original length, and slightly simplified it, whilst preserving the book's character. It offers readers with good English a more approachable version of this famous novel.
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The Adventures of Elmwood (The Green Forest)
T.R. Jensen
Romance / Womens Fiction / Chick Lit
Follow the first of Elmwood’s adventures as the young Chipmunk suddenly finds himself hopelessly lost in a strange and foreboding forest. Travel with him as he meets both danger and uncertainty, quickly learning that there are times when nothing can be more valuable than the friendship of others.All Henry has ever known is the fact that it is his destiny to save his kingdom. A child of royal birth, with magical powers at his disposal, Henry is the prophesied saviour of Mythesti. Learning what he needs to fulfill that role is a difficult path to tread, and the pressure to succeed is enormous. Can Henry survive his training, or will his need to be perfect be his undoing?This novella accompanies the Pursuing Victory trilogy, providing the backstory for the last of the King's Assassin antagonists.
Forest Wisdom
Dan Moore
Sequential Art / Graphic Novels / Nonfiction
Living green requires more than recycling. The people of the forest were set in their ways. They had strict rules and believed in harsh punishment. When two children go astray, judgment is pronounced, but who is guilty? The answer will make you think again about living green, and seeking a sustainable lifestyle.“I didn’t discover the plot to murder me until it was too late. I never saw it coming.” –Regina RothSince she was a child, fifteen year old Regina Roth has been the victim of disturbing reoccurring nightmares of a house, and a murder. In the summer of her sixteenth birthday Regina leaves her posh life in New York for her mother’s hometown in Texas to bury her mysterious grandmother. Life takes a tumultuous turn for Regina the moment she arrives in Lee. Regina discovers the small town of Lee is literally the scene of her nightmares. Haunted by a vengeful ghost and the lies told by her parents, Regina has no choice but to accept her new life in Lee. After a shocking incident leaves her shaken with fright, Regina is forced to discover the secret behind her dreams. With the help of Linguistics professor, Dr. William Greer, Regina uncovers the horrifying answer.Regina is a terrifying tale of the horrors that lie inside our loved ones and the lengths they go to hide their secrets. And a plan created long ago by an evil family is finally set into motion.
A Dark and Starless Forest
Sarah Hollowell
When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest—and the growing darkness in herself—in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.
Road and Forest
John Stevenson
Fiction / Poetry / Horror
Nicholas travels to places far beyond even those he has heard talk of, where friendships old and new are revived; wondrous sights are seen, and a whole new history is revealed. Now he has to make the choice to join in the rebellion or stand by as his world changes yet again.After the interest created by his recently published ebook The Onion Peeler,as promised is the first of two volumes of what the author describes as street poetry,after the style of that great Australian Poet Banjo Paterson. Most of these poems are in a humerous vein and a number are love letters to his beloved City of Nottingham and its people,the remaining poems are a reflection of the darker side of life,human nature,and various events.
The Forest God's Favor
AT Lander
FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE FICTIONBook one in the Of Gods and Men seriesCan the love of a man heal the heart of a god?Fertility god Anthos, a shy and gentle three-hundred-year-old virgin, has grown up in the shadow of his brutal older brother Dryas and spent his life hiding from mortals, no matter how much his nature draws him to them.Cleon, a humble farmer who always has room in his heart and his bed, knows that Lord Dryas is angry. The crops aren't growing, and his family is going to starve if he doesn't give the god a worthy sacrifice—his own body. But when he reaches the shrine, he finds a very different god, the sweet, untouched Anthos.Eager to satisfy Anthos' curiosity, Cleon shows him what sex is...and what a relationship between them could be, with their instant attraction blooming into love. But when Dryas returns with a vengeance and Cleon's life hangs in the balance, Anthos is forced to make a...
A Forest of Corpses
Part #2 of "Geography of Murder" series by P. A. Brown
Homicide detective Alexander Spider isn’t afraid of anything or anyone. Drug-dealing gangs, execution-style murders, and drive-by shootings on the mean streets of sunny Santa Barbara only make him more determined to find justice for the dead. But the idea of a week of hiking and camping in the beautiful mountains of the Los Padres National Forest is enough to make him cringe. There is only one person in the world who can make Spider consider such an outlandish idea—Jason.Jason Zachary is building a new life—he’s clean and in college, is reconnecting with his family, and is living with the man whose passion and control he craves. But the shadows of the past still haunt Alex, plaguing him with doubts, and Jason misses the man he fell in love with. Maybe a vacation is just what they need to explore the dynamics of their relationship and find themselves again.But when their sexy wilderness adventure becomes a harrowing nightmare, Jason and Alex find themselves in a life-and-death struggle. Hunted by vicious killers and forced to separate to save each other, they must face their fears and discover their strengths if they are to survive. And in this deadly race, one of them is running out of time….
Guardians of the Forest
Graham McNeill
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A human knight is plunged into a strange, mystic realm when he joins forces with wood elves who are fighting to defend their forest homeland from marauding beastmen. As the forces of magic run wild, can wood elves and humans put aside their differences for long enough to defeat the evil forces of Chaos?
The Beast of Harwood Forest
Dan Smith
What's hiding in Harwood Forest? When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure – just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings are out of bounds but strange screams come from the surrounding forest at night. Mystery shrouds the events that took place at the institute during the war, so Pete and his friends make it their mission to find out the truth. But the forest is hiding a sinister secret, and the trio could be in real danger ... Are some mysteries best left undisturbed?
Shinney Forest Cloaks
Part #3 of "Royce Madison Mystery" series by Kieran York
In the third Royce Madison Mystery, Sheriff Madison and her deputies are searching for a missing woman. A newcomer to Timber County disappears without a trace. When there is the murder of that woman's brother, the plot most certainly thickens.Royce not only has her hands full with this crime, but there is also a planned protest against the burial of a homosexual solider.
In addition, her personal life seems to be falling apart. Royce's fifteen year relationship is ending. The sheriff is now facing her midlife crisis and she fears her life will never again be happy. She longs for the return of tranquility in her Colorado mountain town. As well as tranquility's return to her life.
The Guardians of the Forest: Book Two
Kelly Napoli
Young Adult / Fantasy / Fiction
Kiethara, a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest, is forced to face her mother’s killer and the greatest threat magic has ever faced: Gandador. As she fights to hone her skill and control her emotions, the fate of the forest—and the world—faces the most peril it has since the dawn of time.Are you ready? Kiethara considered chiding the voice for breaking her concentration, but the annoyance that should have been there was missing. Then, pausing in her climb, she considered the question.It seemed…so familiar. She felt that someone had asked her this before. Was she ready? Prepared? Kiethara pursed her lips at the wave of déjà vu. Well? she demanded.Kiethara shrugged and pulled herself up another foot. She did not remember what she was supposed to be ready for.The voice's anger at her ignorance and lack of interest was so strong that it shook Kiethara. The potent emotion was like a slap in the face, sparking her own emotion and memory.Are you ready…Ready for Gandador? Ready for the fight? Ready for…This.At the sound of the voice, Kiethara was thrown off the cliff face. She had been right. As she fell, the images around her shattered like glass, breaking into rugged pieces.Right before she hit the ground, she heard the voice whisper:Are you ready for the end? ***Kiethara, a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest, is forced to face her mother’s killer and the greatest threat magic has ever faced: Gandador. As she fights to hone her skill and control her emotions, the fate of the forest—and the world—faces the most peril it has since the dawn of time.
Among the Forest People
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Children's
A charming series of nature stories for young children, including tales of red squirrels, great horned owls, rattlesnakes, and bats. No one can read these realistic conversations of the little creatures of the wood without being most tenderly drawn toward them. Within the context of each story children learn many entertaining facts about the lives and habits of these little people of the forest. Ideally suited for children ages 5 to 7.
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The Falcon in the Barn (Book 4 Forest at the Edge series)
Trish Mercer
Christian / Young Adult / Fantasy
The problem with everyone, Perrin concluded, was that they couldn't see what he did. Shem said his mind was confusing him. Mahrree said it was nightmares. His children said nothing. But he knew he was surrounded by Guarders, masquerading as cats. But an army is also assembling--in the forests and wearing green and brown--because they have their own plans for the wounded falcon in the barn.The problem with Shem, Mahrree--with everyone, Perrin concluded--was that they couldn't see what he did. Shem said his mind was confusing him. Mahrree said it was nightmares. His children said nothing. But he knew the truth: he was surrounded by Guarders, masquerading as cats. Perrin is right: the Guarders are closing in. But on the edges of the forests another army is assembling, wearing green and brown mottled clothing. Because they have plans of their own for the wounded falcon in the barn.
Taming The Wolf (Crystal Lake Forest Wolf Shifters Series Book 2
Part #2 of "Crystal Lake Forest Wolf Shifters Series" series by Ovidia Pike
Assigned to protect her from the mysterious killer of our pack, I’m worried she’ll need protection from my animal instincts. When Nathaniel gets assigned to watch over a group of human women who have moved into the shifter village deep in the Crystal Lake Forest, he’s stunned to see his old lover Lily among the group.His first love, Lily revealed long ago just how powerful Nathaniel’s passion could be – and how dangerous. When she had to flee his animal instincts back then, she did so with a broken heart that still aches for Nathaniel.When they see each other again, the attraction is just as strong as ever – and just as dangerous. While trying to resist her attraction to Nathaniel, Lily is surprised to learn that she too carries paranormal powers. The more she learns, the more she fears she’ll never be with Nathaniel.Is there a way for these two lovers to be together? Is love enough to risk everything for – even their lives? Or are the women in Lily’s new family who claim it will only end in tragedy right?
Of Betrayal and Ruin: A wolf shifter fantasy romance (The Forest of Denae)
Alexa Michaels
ENTERTAINMENTTimeless, Quick-Witted, and Tender—Here are the 125 Greatest Shakespeare Quotes! JANUARY 22, 2022 – 2:57 PM – 0 COMMENTS25By KELSEY PELZER @kelseypelzer(iStock)"To be, or not to be?" That's a question many of us are familiar with and can recognize right away as one of Shakespeare's many classic lines. But this beyond-talented writer, poet, and playwright provided plenty of other quotable gems—after all, he wasn't called the "Bard of Avon" for nothing! The 125 best William Shakespeare quotes will refresh your memory with some of his best lines, and surprise you with others that you didn't even realize were written by him!From Romeo and Juliet to King Lear to Macbeth to all of his stunning sonnets and other works, William Shakespeare's top spot in the literary world has been solidified for centuries. Although his work is well-covered in many schools, famous Shakespeare quotes do not only belong in English courses for study. We can all appreciate his tongue-in-cheek observations about society and individuals' behavior, as well as gain inspiration and wisdom from his quick-witted quips and smart sense of humor. Not only that, he can help us find beauty through language—including an appreciation for vulnerable declarations of love.So, whether you're interested in funny Shakespeare quotes, classic lines about life, or Shakespeare love quotes, we've got the all-time best William Shakespeare quotes for you!125 Best Shakespeare Quotes1. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."Top Articlesby ParadeREAD MOREREAD MORENetflix June 2022: All the New Movies and TV ShowsComing to Netflix In June2. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."3. "Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."4. "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."5. "
The Forest Grimm
Kathryn Purdie
A spellbinding romantasy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Purdie, where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists."Tell me again, Grandmère, the story of how I die."The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical book—Sortes Fortunae, the Book of Fortunes—with the power to reverse the curse on her village and save her mother.Years ago, when the villagers whispered their deepest desires to the book, its pages revealed how to obtain them. All was well until someone used the book for an evil purpose—to kill another person. Afterward, the branches of the Forest Grimm snatched the book away, the well water in Grimm's Hollow turned rancid, and the crops died...
Shifters of Black Forest Ridge
Sedona Venez
My fated mate is the heir to the Hunters who killed my family. Never once did I imagine finding my mate to be a newcomer to the Ridge and heir of my natural-born enemy. Nova's just now learning the truth about her shifter father after living among humans. The instant my eyes locked with hers, I knew she was mine. Mine to worship. Mine to protect. My desperate need to protect and claim her can't change the cruel twist of fate that she comes from a long lineage of Hunters on her mother's side. We hate each other - even if I want to tear her clothes off, making her mine. Fate is cruel because I'll go feral without her.
The Girl from the Hidden Forest
Hannah Linder
The nightmares may free her...but destroy the man she loves. Enjoy another Gothic Style Regency from Hannah Linder. Eliza Ellis has stayed hidden in Balfour Forest for as long as she can remember. Perhaps her only friends are the trees, or her little dog, or her story-telling father called Captain. But at least she is safe from the cruel world outside, a world Captain has warned her against and protected her from. That is, until a handsome stranger named Felton Northwood invades her quiet forest and steals her away. Why does he tell such lies? Why does he insist that her name is Miss Eliza Gillingham, daughter of a viscount, who disappeared fourteen years ago after the murder of her own mother? A murder Eliza is said to have witnessed. When Felton returns Eliza to Monbury Manor and reunites her with a man who is told to be her father, all she remembers are the strange nightmares that have plagued her since childhood....
The Lady in the Forest
Jeanne Olivier
Sebastian had been able to see things more clearly ever since he could remember. A very rare eye condition enabled him to distinguish colours that to other humans appeared to be identical. He has to choose between life as a normal student and falling in love with his class mate Mia or following his destiny to serve a greater purpose with Fiona Raine.Sebastian had been able to see things more clearly ever since he could remember. A very rare eye condition enabled him to distinguish colours that to other humans appeared to be identical. It motivated him to explore the profusion of his visual ability and exceptional talent by taking him on an exhilarating ride through the possibilities of painting. The beautiful Professor Fiona Raine had a similar ability and was the first person who ever shared this secret with him. Sebastian is about to discover that their abilities and connection are much more significant than sharing a love for painting. He has to choose between life as a normal student and falling in love with his class mate Mia or following his destiny to serve a greater purpose with Fiona Raine.
Protected by the Rogue Wolf
Part #3 of "The Real Werewives of Sawtooth Forest" series by Kristen Strassel
My mate could be the she-wolf that destroys me.Tensions are high in Sawtooth Forest as the cameras roll on season two of The Real Werewives. Some wolves aren't happy that our way of life will be put on the national stage, and they'll do whatever it takes to call cut.My job is to keep an eye on those wolves.When I get blindsided by Willow, a gorgeous she-wolf who's questioning everything—her place in the pack, and whether or not she has what it takes to be a Real Werewife, my wolf can't think of anything but how to make this woman my mate.But Willow has ties to the wolf I've been hired to kill. Cutting those ties could cost me much more than my place in the Sawtooth pack. And I know all too well what it's like to lose. To win Willow over, I must redefine what it means to be pack.
Trained by the Rogue Wolf
Part #2 of "The Real Werewives of Sawtooth Forest" series by Kristen Strassel
Chasing my dream could cost me my mate.For seven years, I've been on the run. The only thing that kept me alive was the dream of playing pro football. When I walked onto the AlaskaBloodhounds practice field, I expected to leave in handcuffs, not with a contract. I've got one shot to prove myself, and I don't plan on wasting it. That dream brought me to Jessica. My mate. She hasn't shifted yet, but I can feel her wolf is close. I show her how to be a wolf when I've spent so much time denying who I am? When my past catches up with me, it could cost me everything. Football. Jessica. I've spent my whole life training for this moment. I won't let any wolf take it away from me.
Now That I've Found You
Kristina Forest
Kristina Forest's Now That I've Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma in all the wrong places.Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted . . .Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actress—her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty years. Days before Evie plans to present her grandma with an honorary award in front of Hollywood's elite, Gigi does the unthinkable: she disappears.With time running out and her comeback on the line, Evie reluctantly enlists the help of the last person to see Gigi before she vanished: Milo Williams, a cute musician Evie isn't sure she can...
The Forest's Keeper
E. E. Hornburg
Rose never imagined sitting on a throne, but with her sister Eira still in the mountains warding off a curse, she's stuck playing ruler. All she wants is to track down the former queen Amelia and get Eira her crown back, so she can have a sword in hand again and explore the blossoming relationship with her best friend, Cal. When a mysterious wolf shape-shifter tracks her down and reveals there's trouble in the magical Eral Forest, Rose is confident the former queen Amelia is behind it. Armed with a set of ancient and enchanted weapons, she and Cal travel with him the wolf to seek out the sorceress and set things right. But while on their quest, Rose and Cal are captured by a clan of ogres, determined to settle a years old grudge against Rose's family. Discovering there's more than sorceresses and ogres lurking in Eral who want revenge, their relationship is pushed to the limit. The fate of Eral lies in Rose's hands, will...
Bob Evans & Chris Dulabone
The Forest Monster of Oz (epub)
Mystery, Suspense, History, Gothic, Literature, Books, Arts
Logan McKenna Mystery 02-Forest Park
Part #2 of "Logan McKenna Mystery" series by Davisson, Valerie
There’s a killer on the loose in Portland and no one is safe. Blocked at every turn, newly widowed Logan McKenna must uncover the truth before more innocent lives are lost.It’s been two years since the fatal car accident that changed Logan’s life forever. She’s recovered most of her health, forged a new career, and even ventured into a new relationship. Combining business and hopefully pleasure, she’s enjoying a much-deserved trip to Portland, OR. When a violent explosion destroys a Vietnamese food truck just steps away from Logan’s downtown hotel, she is horrified to realize she not only knows the owner, but the elderly woman who was trapped inside and died in the blaze.The police suspect all the wrong people, including Logan’s new friend, Thanh, the owner of the food truck, and a Vietnam vet just getting his life back together. Accident, arson, or murder? What was the motive? And who was the intended victim?While peeling back layers of secrets and lies to bring long-buried truths to light, Logan's personal life suffers an explosion of its own, threatening to derail her new and still fragile relationship.With no authority or access to the police investigation, Logan must decide who to trust, while racing to find the real killer before more innocent lives are destroyed.
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Forest Hills
Michael, Sofia and Sophia
Mystery / Crime
The perfect communityChris Heron is a witch who loathes the holiday season. What’s even worse is getting expelled from private coven school on Halloween and having to attend public magic school, where Santa’s son is visiting and has all the girls in a frenzy. Fairies, mermaids, elves, even the trolls are swooning over Kris Kringle Jr. All except for one girl, and she’s a North Pole mystery that has Chris intrigued. Will he be able to put his prejudices aside in time to see the true magic all around him?
The Last Woman in the Forest
Diane Les Becquets
The national bestselling author of Breaking Wild delivers a riveting and haunting thriller about a woman who fears that the greatest threat to her survival could be the man she loves...Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes her to northern Alberta, where she falls in love with her mentor, the daring and brilliant Tate. But after a tragic accident, Marian discovers growing and disturbing inconsistencies about Tate's life, and begins to wonder if the man she loved could have been responsible for the unsolved murders of at least four women.Desperately hoping to clear Tate's name as a serial killer, she reaches out to a retired forensic profiler who's haunted by the open cases. Marian relives her relationship with Tate, but as she circles ever closer to the truth, evil stalks her every move...
Bones by the Forest Road
Cate Martin
ngrid Torfa finds herself on the road with two of her closest friends, Kara and Nilda Mikkelsen. Not a hiking and camping trip for pleasure, but a mission of the utmost importance. The Thors disappeared months ago along with their mentor Frór. On a mission to protect Villmark, the village on the North Shore of Lake Superior where they still live like Vikings, hidden from the modern world, the Thors traveled far into the north of this magical realm. Dangers lurk there, things not seen in the modern world in centuries, if ever. Now Ingrid and her friends are desperate to find out what happened to the Thors. Strange folk haunt the northern roads. The three seek an old ally, but find instead another murder, one with ties to Villmark itself. And if Ingrid doesn't find the killer first, all of Villmark stands in jeopardy.
The Dome in the Forest
Paul O. Williams
More than one thousand years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people of Pelbar conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes now settled peacefully around the citadel of Northwall. Not all agree with the changes, however, and long instead for the old times of conflict and rigid order. Igniting the tension is the discovery of a mysterious subterranean shelter, where the descendants of survivors of the long-ago nuclear war live. A young woman from the shelter and the shocking revelations she brings precipitate a crisis that will profoundly affect the futures of plainsmen and citadelfolk alike. The Dome in the Forest is the third volume and one of the most exciting tales in the Pelbar Cycle, a classic series of seven postapocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar.
The Man from Shadow Valley
Regan Forest
Do You Have a Secret Fantasy?Small-town waitress Ellen Montrose has dreams--lots of them. She dreams of the Whitfield mansion and its ghost and of a very special man who knows all of her secrets. A man who loves her. Unfortunately, her nighttime fantasies don't hold up to the cold light of day. The reality of growing up poor on Pebble Street, of being a truck-stop waitress. But Ellen has been planning her escape for years--studying and saving--when the man from her dreams arrives in town. And Cody Laird in the flesh holds an even bigger surprise....
The Guardians of the Forest: Book One
Kelly Napoli
Young Adult / Fantasy / Fiction
Kiethara is a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest since the dawn of time. She prematurely took the place of the previous guardian after she was defeated by a man known as Gandador; now, young Kiethara is forced into a position of power and danger. Wickedly dark yet extremely moving, this novel explores the demands of a legendary duty.Kiethara is a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest since the dawn of time. She prematurely took the place of her mother—the previous guardian—after she was defeated by a man known as Gandador; now, young Kiethara is forced into a position of power and danger. The Spirit of Aaron, the forest's first guardian, awakens to train her legendary powers, all the while hiding unknown truths and secrets of her past. When Gandador returns to destroy the reign of the guardians and rule the forest himself, he brings into the forest a whole new world, and Kiethara must keep in check her overwhelming emotions and experiences in order to control her magic and save the forest.Wickedly dark yet extremely moving, The Guardians of the Forest explores the burdens of responsibility and the prospects of failure. Kiethara must protect the world's source of power while developing her own, but guarding it becomes difficult when she finds herself kidnapped and taken out of the forest she is bound to protect. This YA novel draws true-to-form parallels with a normal fifteen-year-olds life. Readers experience how Kiethara bears the weight of an entire world on her shoulders in a humorously sarcastic tone, relying on the friends she makes and the love she discovers to ease the fear of failure to deliver what she has been born to accomplish.
Magic Burned
Part #1 of "Shadow Forest" series by Eliza Grace
Never do magic.Never even think about it.Not even once.Ever since Matilda's mother moved them away from their hometown, these are the rules Matilda lives by. They are rules she believes she's mastered. Then one day, the past returns and her world burns. She loses everything… and still, somehow, she keeps breathing.Now broken beyond repair and filled with the spark of magic, Matilda goes to live with her aunt in the woods. There she befriends monsters, learns dark spells, and tries to survive high school (plus a massive crush on her physical therapist).All the while, the evil that took everything from her promises it can give it back… for a price. But after Matilda's already lost so much, what more could she have to give? And will she burn her world again, just for a chance to change her fate?MAGIC BURNED is the first installment in the 'Shadow Forest Trilogy'.Book 1: MAGIC BURNEDBook 2: SPELL TRICKEDBook 3: CURSE KISSED
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
Charles de Lint
Fantasy / Young Adult
In this whimsical, original folktale written and illustrated throughout in vibrant full color by two celebrated masters of modern fantasy, a young girl's journey becomes an enchanting coming-of-age story about magic, friendship, and the courage to shape one's own destiny.
Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest, a magical, rolling wilderness that she imagines to be full of fairies. The trouble is, Lillian has never seen a wisp of magic in her hills--until the day the cats of the forest save her life by transforming her into a kitten. Now Lillian must set out on a perilous adventure that will lead her through untamed lands of fabled creatures--from Old Mother Possum to the fearsome Bear People--to find a way to make things right.
Forest of the Pygmies
Part #3 of "Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar" series by Isabel Allende
Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Alexander Cold and Nadia Santos reunite for their final adventure in Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy. This time they are heading to the blazing plains of Kenya, where Alex's grandmother Kate is writing an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared.
As the group investigates, they discover a clan of Pygmies and a harsh world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia must trust in the strength of their totemic animal spirits as they launch a spectacular struggle to restore freedom to the Pygmies and return leadership to its rightful hands.
Imperious Realm: Reign of the North Forest, Book 1
Athene Z. Adam
Adults are slowly dying off and children are becoming "Antisenent"—not aging, confined to their young bodies. Unable to reproduce, the population will soon reach a standstill. This is the dismal fate of the people of the planet Eiyesa. For Sergen, his inability to age holds a darker reality. He and his mother are restricted from leaving their home by his father, Erek. A powerful political figure, Erek may be combating a harsh political regime and its misguided ideologies but he is the opposite at home, secretly violent with his family. Sergen's only visitor is his healer, who mends their wounds but is otherwise powerless to help them. Surely, there must be a way out of Sergen's tragic circumstances?
Blood Forest
Part #1 of "Blood Forest" series by Geraint Jones
Gladiator meets Platoon in this spectacular debut where honour and duty, legions and tribes clash in bloody, heart-breaking glory'A blood-soaked page-turner' Mail on SundayTwelve Roman legionnaires have been massacred. A bloodied individual is found among the dead. He has no idea who he is, or where he's been. Only that he is a soldier.Forced to join Governor Varus's army - fifteen thousand seasoned legionnaires - he heads north to subdue the hostile Germanic tribes. The army marches deep into enemy territory, a densely forested land of deadly traps and merciless foes. As battle begins, Varus's army is swiftly destroyed. Trapped in the forest, the soldier must band together with a small group of survivors who neither trust nor believe in him. If they fight together they have a slim chance of staying alive. But which side is the soldier on? And is it the right one?
***'A bloody page-turner' Mail on Sunday***
**They call him Felix. A lost soldier without a memory and now a brutal battle to win. **
**For fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden, a spectacular debut where honour and duty, legions and tribes clash in bloody, heart-breaking glory . . . **
AD 9. Fifteen thousand battle-hardened Roman legionaries strike deep into dense forest. Awaiting them are deadly, hostile Germanic tribes. In a clearing they find twelve massacred and strung-up legionaries.
Is this a threat, or a warning?
There is just one bloodied, broken survivor. He has no idea who he is. Only that he is a soldier.
And now he must fight. As the legions are mercilessly cut down, the nameless soldier joins a small band of survivors trapped in the forest. If they fight together they have a slim chance of staying alive.
**But whose side is the soldier on? And is it the right one?**
**'Gives Rome's legionaries a contemporary voice - brutal, audacious and fast paced'** Anthony Riches, author of Empire series
**'Historical fiction written by a real war veteran who knows all there is to know about blood and bonding in battle. An earthy and powerful read'** *Sport*
**'Blood and guts, but also a clever exploration of the moral ambiguity of war and loyalty to a flag'** *Mail on Sunday*
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### About the Author
Geraint Jones has been deployed on three tours of duty to Iraq and Afghanistan. For his actions in Iraq, Geraint earned the General Officer Commanding's Award for Gallantry. Following Afghanistan, he was selected for the Reconnaissance Platoon, the elite unit within the battalion. Upon leaving the military, Geraint worked to protect commercial shipping against Somali and Nigerian based piracy. Blood Forest is his first novel.
Forest of Shadows
Kamilla Benko
All-new original middle grade novel that bridges the events of Frozen with Frozen II
