New Releases by Robert Beatty

Twelve-year-old Sylvia Doe keeps running away from foster homes to return to the mountains of North Carolina, until a 100-year flood, a strange boy, and a cave that is a portal to other times and places, bring her back where she truly belongs.

Quem é essa garota querendo desafiar o mundo? Willa é uma garota da floresta que sai à noite para buscar mantimentos para o seu clã. Sua missão é entrar escondida nas cabanas das pessoas e pegar o que eles têm em excesso. É uma tarefa arriscada — se for apanhada será o seu fim. O povo do dia mata tudo o que não conhece, foi o que sempre ouviu. Numa noite, quando retorna para a sua comunidade, Willa começa a questionar aquele modo de vida, os furtos, a que era obrigada, e vai descobrindo que nem todas as pessoas do povo do dia são ruins e nem todos em sua comunidade são bons. Então muitos dos ensinamentos que recebeu desde a infância começam a desmoronar.

Wanda the wanderer, practitioner of the movable feast, barroom pick-up artist, skilled technician at electronics and seduction, is a sexual adventuress who works as a repair and installer technician for a major telephone company. At an earlier age, just at the physical developmental stage where she was entering into puberty and her hormones are starting to run away with her, while on a road trip with her parents, staying in her own room at sleazy motel, she overhears a couple going at it hot and heavy in the next room over on the other side from her parents room. As Wanda listens, captivated, she longs to join the couple in the next room in their thrashing orgasmic encounter. These experiences have transformed Wanda’s life. As the second stage of her life opens, Wanda is now a mature women in her early thirties. Wanda has become fully dedicated at and skillful in the art of seduction and the quick get away without complications. Electronics is her profession and seduction is her hobby - she is dedicated to excellence in both her profession and avocation. She has no desire or intention to fall in love or get married. Both would de-rail her chosen life pattern. She is fully aware that she might find herself alone at the end of her life but she does not care. Wanda is fully ready to end up alone at the end of her life. It is a price she is willing to pay to live her life the way she prefers and wants to live it. Wanda and Chuck met each other under an assumed identity. Chuck''s assumption and Wanda''s carefully crafted procedure to avoid complications are both blown apart when they meet the next day on the installation project. Chuck is pleasantly surprised to find his lover again. Wanda is totally rattled by the unexpected complication. Things go smoothly. The two grow to like each other. More than just like each other. They make love (on the top of the completed relay tower - fresh roof tar end up on their backs). Wanda violates her rule of not having sex with a man more than once. Chuck is falling in love with Wanda. This is the kind of complication Wanda wants to avoid. Though she likes Chuck enough to violate one of her cardinal rules, Wanda still doesn''t want to give up her lifestyle. Will Wanda give up her hedonistic lifestyle to be with Chuck forever? Will true and deeper love will emerge on Wanda''s part and whether she and Chuck will come to be together for life or will Wanda''s love of the open road triumph over love and take her away from real love and leave her on the road forever moving toward a horizon that keeps receding from her?

This enchanting companion to Robert Beatty''s instant #1 New York Times bestseller Willa of the Wood is perfect for any reader who cares deeply about the natural world. Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them. How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines?When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures, she comes to realize that it contains a terrifying force that seems to be hunting humans. Is unleashing these dangerous spirits the key to stopping the loggers? Willa must find a way to save the people and animals she loves and take a stand against a consuming darkness that threatens to destroy her world.Filled with a compelling mixture of history, mystery, and magic, Robert Beatty''s books are loved by readers from 8 to 108.Grow your middle grade fantasy collection with these best-selling fan favorites:Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert BeattyWilla of the Wood by Robert BeattyIf We Were Giants by Dave Matthews and Clete Barrett SmithThe Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick RiordanThe Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer

Samuel Martin is not afflicted with the wanderlust that teenage boys growing into young men in isolated areas in isolated times so often are. Samuel has no desire to break out of the isolation of the remote rural farm town he was born into and see the world. He wants nothing more than to be the third generation patriarch on the farm of his ancestors, living on the land he loves in company with the family he loves. He is just facing the problem of finding the one girl he wants to share his love and life with. He thinks he has found that girl in the form of the beautiful, enigmatic young prostitute girl who hides her early life and hides herself behind the flowery contrived name of Clarinda. The girl shares her body with him but never shares her real name. Neither does she share the love she is incapable of returning. Samuel loves the girl recklessly and beyond the point of caution. In the process he learns that loving recklessly and beyond caution can invert and disrupt your life the way following any passion recklessly can. He also learns that life is what happens to you when you had other plans.

Mindfulness for a Happy Life is a beautiful guide to what insight meditation really is. Robert''s personable, funny, sweet, sad, and ultimately human and humane teachings are told in simple terms so that anybody, from the skeptic to the monk, can access the heart and truth of mindfulness practice. If you have never meditated and can''t understand why anyone would spend time on a cushion doing nothing, this is the book for you. You will find down-to-earth instructions that give you a direct experience of mindfulness as well as ways to measure the impact of your mindfulness practice. This book will inspire you to love life and to face everything that comes your way with grace, compassion, and wisdom. If you have meditated all your life, but not found awakening, this book is for you. This book will demystify and clarify the teachings of Buddhism so that you can better understand your own process. You will find instructions and stories that will change your practice. Instructions, exercises, and stories are used to give you an experience that can shift your perspective and transform your practice so that you access happiness through insight.

Una emocionante serie ambientada en un mundo mágico increíble. Muévete sin hacer ruido. Desaparece sin dejar rastro. Willa, una joven espíritu nocturno de las Grandes Montañas Humeantes, es la mejor ladrona de su clan, por su habilidad para colarse en las casas de las criaturas diurnas y llevarse objetos que nunca echarán en falta. Pero un día, por culpa de su curiosidad, Willa cae herida y atrapada en el mundo del día. Entonces descubrirá la verdad: no todas las criaturas diurnas son iguales. La magia que ha protegido a su clan está en peligro y solo ella, con su inagotable coraje, tiene el poder de salvarlo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From Robert Beatty, author of the award-winning Serafina books, comes this thrilling new #1 New York Times bestselling series. Set in 1900 in the Great Smoky Mountains, it's the story of an orphaned girl--gentle of heart, but brimming with the ancient forest powers of her people--who must struggle to survive in a changing world. Filled with the history, mystery, and magic of the Great Smoky Mountains, Kirkus Reviews describes WILLA OF THE WOOD as "A moving, atmospheric journey of hope." Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. To Willa, a young night-spirit, humans are the murderers of trees. She's been taught to despise them and steal from them. She's her clan's best thief, creeping into the log cabins of the day-folk under cover of darkness and taking what they won't miss. It's dangerous work, but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people. When Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in the day-folk world, she calls upon the old powers of her beloved grandmother, and the unbreakable bonds of her forest allies, to survive. Only then does she begin to discover the shocking truth: that not all of her human enemies are the same, and that the foundations of her own Faeran society are crumbling. What do you do when you realize that the society you were born and raised in is rife with evil? Do you raise your voice? Do you stand up against it? As forces of unfathomable destruction attack her forest home, Willa must decide who she truly is--facing deadly force with warm compassion, sinister corruption with trusted alliance, and finding a home for her longing heart.

Willa ist das letzte Kind des Waldes In den Tiefen der Wälder lebt ein geheimnisvolles Volk, die Faeran. Einst konnten sie sich mit den mächtigen Tieren und Bäumen verständigen und Pflanzen wachsen lassen. Doch nun ist die junge Willa die Letzte, die diese Waldmagie beherrscht. Die Faeran sind in großer Gefahr, denn die Menschen rücken immer näher. Willa muss sich entscheiden: Welchen Preis ist sie bereit zu zahlen, um das Überleben ihres Clans zu sichern? Ein spannendes Naturabenteuer voller Magie und Mystik.

Serafina and Braeden make an epic return in the fourth installment of Robert Beatty''s #1 New York Times best-selling series. Peace and tranquility have finally returned to Biltmore Estate after hard-won battles against encroaching darkness. But as time passes without signs of danger, Serafina finds herself questioning her own purpose. Who is she if not Biltmore''s protector? When deceptively dark and unsettling events begin to take place at Biltmore, is Serafina merely desperate to once again play the role of heroine? Or are her home and loved ones in terrible danger from a strange and sinister force?

Serafina a été enterrée vivante. Terrorisée, la jeune fille ne se souvient pas de ce qui s'est passé. Lorsqu'elle parvient à quitter son cercueil et rejoindre Biltmore, une grande fête a lieu. D'abord déçue de ne pas y avoir été conviée, la jeune fille se rend compte que personne ne la voit. Pire encore : son meilleur ami Braeden et son père la pensent morte ! Seule son ancienne ennemie Lady Rowena peut la voir et l'entendre. Serafina n'a pas le choix. Elle doit faire confiance à la sorcière pour contacter Braeden. Ce n'est pas simple, car le jeune homme est persuadé que Rowena a tué son amie. En réalité, le corps, l'âme et le chatamont de Serafina ont été éparpillés. Pour sauver Serafina, ses amis doivent réunir ces fragments. Waysa, Braeden et Rawena joignent leurs forces. Mais le temps presse : le maléfique Uriah cause des tempêtes et inondations qui menacent Biltmore...

From #1 New York Times best-selling author Robert Beatty comes a thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina. Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young night-spirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan''s best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won''t miss. It''s dangerous work-the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand--but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people. When Willa''s curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in the day world, she calls upon an ancient, unbreakable bond to escape. Only then does she discover the truth: not all day-folk are the same, and the magical foundations that have guarded the Faeran for eons are under attack. As forces of unfathomable destruction encroach on her home, Willa must decide who she truly is. To save the day-folk family that has become her own--and lift the curse that has robbed her people of their truth--Willa will meet deadly force with trusted alliance, violence with shelter, and an ever-changing world with a steady heartbeat of courage.

Depuis qu'elle a sauvé Biltmore de l'homme à la cape noire, Serafina n'est plus obligée de se cacher dans les sous-sols du manoir. Elle peut se mêler aux riches habitants de la demeure et passer du temps avec son ami Braeden. Une nuit, alors que Serafina rend visite à sa mère dans la forêt, elle voit surgir une calèche sans conducteur tirée par des chevaux. Bientôt, un homme muni d'un étrange bâton en sort, accompagné d'une meute de chiens sanguinaires. Serafina est convaincue que l'étranger n'était pas seul dans la calèche et qu'il a envoyé son complice à Biltmore...

The storms are coming.... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around. A mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, a force without a name, bringing with it violent storms and flooding that stands to uproot everything in its path. Serafina must uncover the truth about what has happened to her and find a way to harness her strange new powers before it''s too late. With only days to achieve the impossible, Serafina fights to reclaim herself as the Guardian of Biltmore, friend of Braeden, daughter of her Pa, and heroine of the Blue Ridge Mountains and all the folk and creatures that call it home. In the epic third installment of Robert Beatty''s #1 bestselling series, Serafina takes her rightful place among literary champions as she battles fiercely to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.

Nunca vá para as profundezas da floresta, há muitos perigos lá, tanto escuros quanto claros, e eles tentarão seduzir a sua alma. Serafina nunca teve motivos para desobedecer ao seu pai e se aventurar além da Mansão Biltmore. Há espaço de sobra para ser explorado naquela casa imensa, embora ela precise tomar cuidado para jamais ser vista. Nenhum dos ricaços lá de cima sabe da existência de Serafina; ela e o pai, o responsável pela manutenção das máquinas, moram secretamente no porão desde que a garota se entende por gente. Mas quando as crianças da propriedade começam a desaparecer, somente Serafina sabe quem é o culpado: um homem aterrorizante, vestido com uma capa preta, que espreita pelos corredores de Biltmore à noite. Após ela própria ter conseguido – depois de uma incrível disputa de habilidades – escapar do vilão, Serafina arriscará tudo ao unir forças com Braeden Vanderbilt, o jovem sobrinho dos donos de Biltmore. Braeden e Serafina deverão descobrir a verdadeira identidade do Homem da Capa Preta antes que todas as crianças... A busca de Serafina a levará ao interior da mesma floresta que tanto aprendeu a temer. Lá, descobrirá um esquecido legado de magia, que tem relação com a sua própria origem. Para salvar as crianças, Serafina deverá procurar as respostas que solucionarão o quebra-cabeça do seu passado.

In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.

Velká a ničivá bouře se blíží... Serafině se stalo něco zvláštního. Probudila se do temnoty a světa, kterému nerozumí. Biltmorské panství se tolik změnilo, její staří přátelé dělají nemyslitelné věci a zdá se, že nepřátelé jsou všude okolo. Biltmorem prochází síla beze jména, která s sebou přináší násilné bouře, jež smetou vše, co jim stojí v cestě. A Serafina musí přijít na to, co se stalo, aby mohla zachránit nejen sebe, ale i ostatní

"Ne va jamais dans la forêt. Il y a là-bas des forces mystérieuses et maléfiques que personne ne sait expliquer, des choses qui pourraient te faire du mal". Serafina n'a jamais désobéi à son père. Il y a déjà tant d'endroits à explorer dans l'immense manoir de Biltmore - même si elle doit faire attention à ce que personne ne la voie. Aucun des riches habitants du domaine ne doit savoir qu'elle existe. Elle vit donc avec son père, le mécanicien du manoir, dans les sous-sols, à l'abri des regards. Mais une nuit, elle assiste à la disparition de Clara, la fille d'invités des Vanderbilt - les maîtres de Biltmore -, enlevée par un homme portant une grande cape noire. Elle se lance à sa recherche et fait la connaissance de Braeden, le neveu des Vanderbilt. Tous deux se lient d'amitié et décident d'unir leurs forces avant que tous les enfants du manoir disparaissent. Les soupçons de Serafina se portent vite sur Mr Thorne, un ami de la famille. Elle lui tend un piège en l'attirant au coeur de la forêt, bravant sa peur et l'interdiction de son père. Elle découvre alors que les enfants disparus sont victimes d'un puissant sortilège, et que ce sortilège est lié à sa propre identité...

Serafina''s defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: she''s too wild for Biltmore''s beautifully dressed ladies and formal customs, and too human to fully join her kin. When a mysterious series of attacks test Serafina''s role as Biltmore''s protector, she finds herself torn from the side of her best friend and only ally, Braeden Vanderbilt. Heartbroken, she flees. Deep in the forest, Serafina comes face-to-face with the evil infecting Biltmore-and discovers its reach is far greater than she''d ever imagined. All the humans and creatures of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in terrible danger. For Serafina to defeat this new evil before it engulfs her beloved home, she must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that has always awaited her.

Serafina y el bastón maligno es la segunda novela de una trilogía protagonizada por una chica excepcional. Una saga juvenil de suspense y misterio que conquistó las listas de The New York Times nada más ver la luz y que está destinada a convertirse en un clásico. No son las batallas que ganamos o perdemos las que nos definen, sino aquellas que estamos dispuestos a librar. Serafina ha derrotado al hombre de la Capa Negra, pero le esperan nuevos peligros. Ahora que los habitantes de la casa Biltmore saben de su existencia, deberá apañárselas en el luminoso y vibrante ambiente de la alta sociedad, con sus elegantes y extrañas costumbres. Pero Serafina siente que tampoco pertenece a este mundo. La llegada de un siniestro visitante presenta una nueva amenaza: un terrible poder se está apoderando de la mansión y del bosque que la rodea. Serafina deberá encontrar el lugar al que pertenece para detener a este poder maligno... antes de que engulla su hogar. Reseñas: «Inquietante. La narración tiene un ritmo trepidante, suspense y una imaginería preciosa.» Goodreads «Niños y adultos seguirán con entusiasmo a Serafina a un mundo de despertares, justicia y nuevas amistades.» Kirkus Reviews «Una historia que raciona el suspense gota a gota, envolviendo a los lectores en la narración con la misma facilidad con la que el hombre de la capa negra envuelve a sus víctimas. La amistad de Serafina con Braeden es conmovedora y verosímil.» Library Journal

In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.

Serafina''s defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the cat¬amount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: she''s too wild for Biltmore''s beautifully dressed ladies and formal customs, and too human to fully join her kin.Late one night, Serafina encounters a strange and terrifying figure in the forest, and is attacked by the vicious wolfhounds that seem to be under his control. Even worse, she''s convinced that the stranger was not alone, that he has sent his accomplice into Biltmore in disguise.Someone is wreaking havoc at the estate. A mysterious series of attacks test Serafina''s role as Biltmore''s protector, culminating in a tragedy that tears Serafina''s best friend and only ally, Braeden Vanderbilt, from her side. Heartbroken, she flees.Deep in the forest, Serafina comes face-to-face with the evil infecting Biltmore—and discovers its reach is far greater than she''d ever imagined. All the humans and creatures of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in terrible danger. For Serafina to defeat this new evil before it engulfs her beloved home, she must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that has always awaited her.

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate.There''s plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate''s maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember. But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is:a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore''s corridors at night. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore''s owners. Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak''s true identity?before all of the children vanish one by one. Serafina''s hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught to fear. There she discovers a forgotten legacy of magic, one that is bound to her own identity. In order to save the children of Biltmore, Serafina must seek the answers that will unlock the puzzle of her past.

Floodgate Companion is Robert Beatty''s debut monograph, a cosmic and immersive collection of artwork from the renowned album cover artist.

"Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse más allá de los confines de la mansión donde se esconden. Hay much que explorar en sus sombrios pasillos, aunque tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean. Pero cuando empiezan a desaparecer niños, solo ella sabe quién es el culpable: un terrorifico desconocido envuelto en una capa neigra que recorre la mansión al caer la noche. La búsqueda de la verdad la llevará junto a sus nuevos amigos al corazon del bosque, donde deberá encontrar las respuestas a su priopio enigma: ¿Quién es Serfina?"--Page [4] cover.

In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina''s Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner''s young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.