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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every summer, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned--cold, starving, and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive such a forsaken place of stone and sea?"--
Author
Series
The 44 Scotland Street volume 12
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small things such as a cup of coffee and a book, or major events such as Stuart's application for promotion and his wife Irene's...
44) Howl at the moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this adventure Tank the Great Dane's active imagination takes her and Haggis the Scotty on a airplane trip to Scotland, where they visit a castle, enjoy high tea--and get chased by a werewolf.
Author
Series
Edilean volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Scotland, 1766: The laird of the clan, Angus McTern, has everything he wants in life. That is, until he is captivated by Edilean Talbot. Breathtakingly beautiful and born of privilege, Edilean represents everything Angus despises. Still, she dazzles him, and when Angus can no longer hide his feelings, she rejects him, leaving him deeply wounded and humiliated. But when Edilean needs his help to reclaim the gold she inherited from her father, her haunting...
46) Cold earth
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young woman from 1945 who is swept back into 1743 continues. Claire and Jamie₂s relationship is tested by ruthless Redcoats, volatile clan politics, and a brutal witch trial, which force Jamie and Claire to escape to a new home.
Author
Series
Behind the legend volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This new nonfiction series looks at creatures and monsters throughout history and analyzes them through a scientific, mythbusting lens, debating whether or not the sightings and evidence provided are adequate proof of their existence. In The Loch Ness Monster, readers learn about all the sightings and "proof" of it, from the famous photograph to the huge "footprints" found by the Loch (both hoaxes!). It also discusses other history about the monster,...
Author
Series
Shetland Island volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he...
50) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Gillian, only a child when the cruel and ambitious Baron Alford killed her father and destroyed her home, grows to be a beautiful young woman, who with the help of Scottish chieftains Ramsey Sinclair and Brodick Buchanan, as well as her friend and ally Bridgid KirkConnell, plans her revenge.
51) Thief's mark
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped, thwarting their plans for ransom. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced. Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a break-in at the home of Emma's grandfather,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Claire Randall is a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743. She is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
53) The pearl thief
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
55) Three Junes
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2002-2003]
Language
English
Description
The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Told in three intertwined novellas, Three Junes spans Greece, Scotland, and New York to bring the reader into the fold of one memorable Scottish family. An astonishing first novel that traces the lives...
56) Thin air
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears--apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to investigate. Before she went missing,...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bring home the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! You will love the inspiring tale of Gobi, a lost dog who kept pace with an ultramarathon runner, Dion Leonard, across a vast desert. Follow their unlikely friendship through the challenges of an 80-mile race and Dion's struggle to bring Gobi home for good. Finding Gobi : The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey is the incredible true story of Dion Leonard,...
60) The other queen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the final years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who fled Scotland and sought sanctuary in the home of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife, only to find herself imprisoned.
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