Mountain Myth

Step into the Northwoods, where trees stretched taller than steeples, storms cracked louder than cannons, and laughter echoed across the rivers. Here lives Paul Bunyan — the mightiest lumberjack who ever walked the land — and his faithful companion, Babe the Blue Ox. From the moment Paul was born too big for his cradle, to the day he and Babe reshaped rivers, carved valleys, and cooked flapjacks on a griddle the size of a lake, their adventures grew into the tallest tales America has ever told. Taller than the pines, bigger than the mountains, funnier than a flapjack roof, this book ...

When our lives fall apart, we often feel broken, ashamed, and deeply alone. But what if you knew, as you experienced this descent, that it was mapped out in a myth thousands of years old? What if, despite the uniqueness of your own life and experiences, each stage of the process was universal? The journey of descent and rising is the core initiation of the feminine—the heroine’s journey—one traveled by billions of women before you.

Legends of Ukraine: Volume 2, presents a rich tapestry of Ukrainian literature, weaving together the threads of mythology, culture, and the beauty of the Ukrainian language. This enchanting collection delves deep into the heart of Ukraine's folkloric traditions, bringing to life tales that have been passed down through generations. Each story is a gem, reflecting the diverse landscape of Ukrainian mythology, from the creation of the world to the tales of guardians protecting the land, and the intertwining of destiny with everyday life. Rich in symbolism and steeped in cultural heritage, ...

For some, the only way to possess magic is to steal it from others. Born without magic, Davis is an outcast in his own shapeshifter family. Yearning for his father’s approval, he sets down a path that intertwines with Iris, a girl whose own ambitions are hindered by a mysterious illness. Their quest leads to Yuras, one of California’s smallest towns, unremarkable until they discover a cave of magic-transferring stones. Now they have a chance to change their fates. But they’re not alone.

Nature always fights back. Blackridge Summit Resort is expanding, and management refuses to let a forecasted snowstorm or wildlife warnings delay their multimillion-dollar schedule. They order the explosives detonated on the upper ridge to clear the way. The resulting blast triggers a catastrophic slide that buries the ski lift, crushes the communications tower, and leaves hundreds of guests trapped in a freezing, powerless hotel. But the detonators did not just break the snowpack. They collapsed the roof of an ancient, hidden cave system, exposing a den that has belonged to a clan of ...

"As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story about the Old West."—AudioFile The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling...

Amelia has been running a resistance clinic in a cave system for nine years on black-market suppressants and stubbornness. She's a nurse. She hasn't needed an alpha yet and isn't planning to start. Then her truck goes off a mountain road in chimera territory, her last suppressant shatters, and rebound heat starts counting down the hours until it kills her. Vex finds her stitching her own leg wound on his cave floor. Eight hundred pounds of tawny skin, feathered wings, three centuries of chosen solitude. He claims her because she's dying and he's the only alpha on the mountain. His body does...

The smoke found him before the memory did. Brian Timothy survived the Juniper Creek fire, but the blaze took his crew and his peace of mind. He retreats to the deep redwoods of Northern California to escape his past. The isolation is exactly what he needs until he finds the footprint. Eighteen inches long and pressed deep into the mud of a protected sanctuary. When a corrupt logging operation moves in to illegally harvest the old growth, they awaken something ancient and territorial. The giant beast does not tolerate intruders. Soon, the loggers start a massive forest fire to cover their ...

An ancient giant has awakened—one whose existence could rewrite the story of mankind. To keep the Nephilim from being captured, exploited, or unleashed upon the world, Heather and her team must escort the colossal being from the mist-shrouded mountains of Uganda to a hidden refuge in Tajikistan. But earning the trust of something that belongs more to legend than to history is no small task—and protecting it is even harder. Dustin “Cowboy” McCord holds the team together as bullets, exhaustion, and fear push them to the breaking point. Every step of their journey is shadowed by the ...

The power is dead. The dam is cracking. The countdown has begun When a catastrophic blackout plunges Mercy Ridge, West Virginia into total darkness, former lineman Owen Vale rushes into the storm. His brother, Logan, has vanished. Logan spent years being dismissed as a paranoid fanatic, obsessively documenting a chilling pattern: whenever infrastructure fails, an enormous, winged entity with burning red eyes appears right before the collapse. Now, the entire county grid is failing in a massive cascade. A multi-county blackout has isolated the valley, an upstream dam is fracturing under the ...

Greek mythology has a hundred books in English. Norse has Neil Gaiman. Japanese has a shelf of its own. Korean mythology? Almost nothing. Korea has one of the oldest and richest mythological traditions on earth. Five thousand years of creatures, spirits, and supernatural beings preserved in shamanistic chants, Buddhist temple records, and stories that grandmothers still tell. In English, the shelf is nearly empty. Korean Monsters fills that gap with fourteen chapters, each dedicated to one creature: Shape-shifters: the nine-tailed Gumiho and the weeping Jangsan Beom Tricksters: the Dokkaebi...

The Korean Cinderella is drowned, returns as a creature, and is killed again. This is the version Disney never told. Every culture keeps a Cinderella, a great flood, a daughter who sacrifices everything for her father. Korea's versions are among the oldest and least known in English, and they were never softened by Victorian editors or studio animators. Here the stories kept their bones. Korean Legends retells fourteen of Korea's foundational tales as full, immersive narratives, with the darkness and the moral weight left intact. These are the stories Koreans have told for centuries to ...

Every October, the mountain town of Ash Pitch, West Virginia, lights lanterns to keep the Hollow quiet. At the edge of the old strip mine stands a corn-stalk effigy, a glowing miner’s lamp burning in its chest until dawn. Folks say the ritual keeps the balance between the town and whatever stirs in the dark soil. This year, when the lantern is stolen in a Halloween prank, the flame dies—and something wakes. Crows circle but will not land. People start coughing up husks. The effigy collapses in the night. Sara Hale, a local librarian, her retired-miner father, a shaken teenager, and a ...

Every culture that has ever existed has worshipped the sun. Not one human society, in the long record of our species, failed to raise its face toward the morning and acknowledge the bright thing that warmed it. Some named the sun. Some made the sun a god. Almost all of them, when they began to tell stories about it, told the same story: a story about something the sun must overcome. This book is about ten of those stories. Ten cultures. Ten suns. Ten radically different answers to the same impossible question: what is that bright thing in the sky, and what must be done to make sure it comes...

The illustrated guide to every monster Odysseus met on his way home. A cyclops with a single eye. A whirlpool that swallows whole ships. Six-headed Scylla. A nymph who turns sailors into pigs. A floating island where the four winds live as four people. The Odyssey is full of strange creatures, and this is the first illustrated bestiary that gathers them all in one place for young readers. Twenty-one short chapters, twenty-one double-page illustrations. Each creature gets its own portrait, a clear quick-fact box (kingdom, family, special trait, danger to sailors), and a retelling that keeps ...

The official report blamed exposure for Brooke's disappearance. The nineteen-inch footprints told a different story. Armed with her sister's cryptic journal, Leanna leads a desperate expedition deep into the unforgiving wilderness of Colter's Gap. She expects to find answers. Instead, she leads her team straight into a hunting ground. Something massive is stalking them through the old-growth forest. It watches through their cameras. It leaves territorial markers in the trees. And terrifyingly, it mimics the voices of the lost to lure searchers into the dark. Trapped in a burning valley, ...

Caleb and Jenna Rourke are driving through the pitch-black mountains when their navigation fails entirely. They stumble upon Gallow's End, an isolated settlement that does not appear on any map. What begins as a simple search for a landline and a safe place to wait out the night quickly devolves into a desperate struggle to stay alive. The terrifying silence of the empty streets remains unbroken until the massive iron bell in the decaying church tower begins to toll. The couple soon discovers the horrifying history of the mining collapse that buried dozens of men alive beneath the very ...

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

Some legends aren't meant to be found. Some are meant to stay buried in the dark. Nora Vance was looking for the perfect upload. As an investigative content creator with a dying channel, she needed a viral hit. The remote, isolated town of Black Hollow promised local folklore and cheap clicks. But the town is hiding a secret older than the mountains. When dusk falls, the valley becomes a warzone between two ancient, warring species. On the high timber ridge, an aggressive pack of apex predators guards the perimeter. Deep beneath the earth, something colder, paler, and infinitely hungrier is...