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Kit's discovery of a "secret" Japanese garden is the beginning of a healing process as her family disintegrates and new friendships add new, enriching dimensions to her life.

Still getting over the depression caused by her miscarriage, Gemma accepts the invitation of a married friend, Hazel Cavendish, to attend a cooking weekend in Innesfree, Scotland. Gemma thinks the misty, atmospheric landscape of the Highlands, where fine whiskey is distilled and the brogues of the natives ring like music in the air, will be just what she needs to complete her recovery. However, Gemma's hopes are soon dashed by Hazel's revelation that she has come to Innesfree to meet her former lover, Donald Brodie, a handsome distillery owner. When someone shoots Donald dead, Hazel becomes a prime suspect.

Eleven-year-old Gavin, devastated when his beloved grandfather suffers a massive stroke, recalls that Grandad had been speaking about the selkies--magical seal people--at the moment of his attack, and sets out to see if the selkies can help him reach his comatose grandfather.

Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.

The continuing saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship. Plus the further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her.

Presents the original text, side-by-side with an English translation, of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Macbeth and his ambitious wife plot to kill their king and his heirs, clearing the way for Macbeth to seize the crown of Scotland for himself, and includes a brief synopsis of the plot and action, character profiles, a cycle-of-death graphic, and discussion questions.

As a Christmas Eve blizzard blows through Scotland, several people from a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the lab, and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a secret.

Katie Morag's annual visit to her grandmother is disrupted by her wild and unruly Big Boy Cousins, who tempt her into joining them in a naughty game in the village when they should be doing chores.

In this companion volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining cousins.

On the Scottish island of Skua, a friendship develops between lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl and her brother as the threesome look for rare orchids, explore the island caves, and meet up with jewel thieves.