Bøger af Nickolai Vasilieff

You're the guest of honor at a Presidential conference. Protestors show up-with guns? Who do you trust, the beautiful brown-eyed boy, the mystical spirit-child, or the grizzly bear you talked to on a hike?Fifteen-year-old Sammy Carlisle is hyperexcited. She will meet the President, spend several totally magical days in Glacier National park, and say a few words about saving wildlife and the environment. When whisked away on a fifteen-mile hike, everything goes sideways.On the trail, Sammy meets fascinating characters who trigger her empathic sensitivity and put her on alert. When protestors crash the conference, she is thrown into the center of a conspiracy filled with treachery and deceit.As the conference crumbles into a mad rush for survival, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, blur. "You are a puppet of the powerful," she is told, and for the first time, Sammy questions her loyalties and must make choices never imagined-the truth she once knew or the pull of her heart.

It's just a feeling, enigmatic and puzzling, yet it haunts her like a second self. "You have a special connection with animals," her mother told her. "You are an Empath-trust yourself." But how can fifteen-year-old Sammy Carlisle trust the peculiar feelings that make her different? When their mother dies, Sammy and her younger brother, Loren, are sent to live on a secluded island near Seattle, Washington with their Uncle Teddy, a handsome, single, bush pilot, in the San Juan Islands. Despite being surrounded by people who love her, Sammy is sad, angry, and isolated from everything, except the miraculous sea life around her. Life, however, leaves no time to grieve. From the moment, she climbs into Uncle Teddy's float plane, Sammy's world is turned upside down. Terrified (this is Sammy's first airplane flight) she is stunned to learn Uncle Teddy has also arranged to transport an injured six-hundred-pound sea lion back to the islands. When they pick up the sea lion, she meets a six-foot-tall Fish and Wildlife officer, who is a female Indiana Jones, and a petite doctor from Animal Crime Scene Investigation-two powerful women who begin to form her new family.>Sammy reports her concern about the sick seal to Uncle Teddy but is ignored. To console herself, she seeks refuge on a lonely beach where danger is not far away. On the beach, she finds another sick seal and is confronted by two young men who try to discourage her from learning more about the seal. But Sammy is stubborn and persists in her quest to learn the truth. Through the local boat-dock-store owner, Liz, Sammy meets a flamboyant marine biologist who believes Sammy's concern about the seals, and who knows a great deal more about Sammy's empathic sensitivity to animals. But special sensitivity is not necessarily protection, and Sammy's dogged determination creates enemies, especially with the fisherman who are killing seals and sea lions, and who will do anything to protect their Salmon fishing grounds. In a desperate attempt to keep her quiet, they kidnap Sammy, and her final adventure begins-she must fight for her life. Whether Sammy lives or dies depends on her courage, strength, belief in herself, and in her new family, both above and below the water's surface. "This story of Samantha, her life, the loss of her mother, and coming to accept and use her wonderful empathic gift, is a total treasure. I love this girl. I have no idea why the internet isn't on fire, talking about this wonderful story." -J.L. "This book was a fantastic, fun read! It was well written, had a great pace and kept me interested throughout the entire book ... can't wait for the second book." -B. "Exciting, inspiring, full of adventure and emotion ... Perfect." -C.A.T.

Think Katniss (Hunger Games) meets Nancy Drew (Girl Detective)- Now, meet Sammy - Only a week after their mother died, fourteen year old Samantha Carlisle and her younger brother, Loren, are shipped off to live with their Uncle, a float plane pilot in the San Juan Islands. Sammy's hidden powers emerge when she senses danger and harm being done to seals and sea lions. Her effort to protect them triggers a chain of events that lead to kidnapping and attempted murder. Only her strength, courage, and new found friends, above and below the water's surface, will determine if she lives or dies. "You are special," her mother told her. Now she finds out why. Overview Samantha Carlisle's world is turned upside down with the death of her mother. Her father, a gulf war veteran, is lost in anger and alcoholism. At fourteen Sammy is alone, frightened and abandoned. In her most desperate moment, she and her seven year old brother are sent to live with their Uncle Teddy, a float plane pilot, in the San Juan Islands. The adventure begins. Just two weeks in the Islands and Sammy's world transforms from absolute grief to an awakening that leads to a fight for survival and if she succeeds, saving her new found friends, and finding herself. Along the way she meets a federal agent who in her words, "looks like a female Indiana Jones," she meets a pathologist from the National Animal Crime Scene Investigation unit, meets a woman who, through experiencing a similar loss, becomes her emotional sister, and encounters a marine biologist whose southern drawl carries Sammy to the realization that she can do anything. Most importantly, Sammy discovers a special sensitivity to animals that opens doors to a new world. "You're special," her mother told her, and she now learns just how special she is. Sammy also finds plenty of trouble along the way. "There are pirates in these waters," Uncle Teddy told her, and she soon learns how dangerous modern day pirates can be. Thugs and killers might be a better description. Whether she lives or dies depends on her wits and courage, and on the new family, above and below the water's surface, she has gathered around her. Seals The Deal is fast moving adventure on the high-seas of the San Juan Islands. A must read for ten to fifteen year olds, and young hearted adults of all ages.

When the President of the United States calls, you answer, especially if you are the guest of honor at a summit of the twenty most powerful leaders in the world. Fifteen-year-old Sammy dreams of a three-day vacation relaxing in Glacier National Park. "I'll be treated like a queen," she thinks. Instead she is whisked off on a hike where she meets a handsome young brown eyed man, and a frighteningly funny flatulent grizzly bear. Little does she know, there are more than animals and handsome young men in the woods-there is also a band of terrorists bent on disrupting the conference and, as their leader says, "Cutting off the head of the dragon." To save the conference and the President, Sammy must choose between right and wrong, head and heart, activism or terrorism, hate or love, and engage in a fight for her life.