Books with author Logan Marshall

"The International Appalachian Trail runs north from Mount Katahdin seven hundred miles to the end of the Gaspé Peninsula. Inspired by Basho, Ian Marshall hiked it for six summers, probing the poetics of haiku while exploring a vast and beautiful wilderness little known in the US. Marshall is an engaging trail companion and a superb story teller, with a self deprecating wit and sharp intellect that spice up his observations and ideas. Like Basho, he finds the miraculous in the common and elevates the humble walk into a spiritual practice, sprinkling his narrative with lovely original haiku that seem to have condensed in the moment, like droplets of dew. Backpackers will appreciate his pungent descriptions of life on the trail, and ecocritics will savor his abundant insights on poetry, nature, and culture. This lively book serves up a classic blend of high adventure, literary pilgrimage, and self discovery. It tastes as tart and fresh as wild rasp­berries."―John Tallmadge, past-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and author of The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City (John Tallmadge)

Adopted at birth, fourteen year old Erica never knew her real parents. Growing up, she has always been boringly ordinary - that is, until she accidentally discovers that she possesses the power to pause the world and everyone in it. At the same time as her power emerges, so too does an enigmatic stranger who has answers to Erica's questions. But when her friends and family begin to fall prey to an ancient, vicious creature called The Night Mare, Erica finds herself on a bizarre mission in which she must use her extraordinary gift to try and save them all. (YOUNG ADULT)

Ellen, Mae, Kat, Quinn and Rose are five very normal, very bored siblings with nothing to do when Romin the elf first visits them with the insane news that they are needed to save the world. Of course as modern kids they're skeptical, but since there's nothing else to do -- and hey, he is an elf -- they agree to follow him to his own world. After all, anything is better than boredom. But things soon go completely mental as the siblings find out that they have powers they never knew existed: faerie magic reaching far back into the hazy beginnings of human history when Adams the evil sorcerer first tried to wipe out mankind. In the face of this great threat, the humans and fae got together and created The Elementals -- half human and half faerie warriors with the powers earth, air, fire and water -- to defeat him. And defeat him they did, banishing the sorcerer to the darkness of The Great Empty for his crimes. Now Adams is plotting a new demise for his fellow humans, and as the direct descendants of the original Elementals, it's up to the siblings to save the day. Will they uncover the secret of the fifth Elemental before it's too late, or will Adams turn their powers against them to destroy mankind forever?

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