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16 Kara Bentley - The Ivory Owl 16 Kara Bentley - The Ivory Owl www.theivoryowl.com CALL OF ADHARA CALL OF ADHARA : For most people, leaving home is a tremendous undertaking but for Holly Kenzington it was all about returning to a life that she had left behind. A cryptic presence appears and begins tugging at Holly's precious memories as she is unknowingly drawn from her home in England to a small town in southern Ontario. Ultimately, unknowingly, she is answering a call.Shortly after her arrival in Canada, Holly discovers that a mysterious old house and town with hidden secrets are slowly eating away at her desire for a normal life. Painful memories resurface around the property as Holly and her friend Valerie find themselves in the middle of a treacherous historical event.Holly soon learns the importance of compassion and acceptance and finds that through time, helping others in need can truly be a source of healing. THE UNEARTHLINGS THE UNEARTHLINGS : Canadian Paleontologist Dr. Emma Sullivan has come to Nebraska to do fieldwork for the summer. In the hopes of finding a dig site worthy of discovery, she instead finds the fossils of a lifetime. Unaware of such similar finds around the world, she and her team of graduate students believe that there is something very unearthly about this discovery. Unbeknownst to Emma and her team, these newly found fossils not only have a mind of their own, but also a long awaited score to settle. An unidentified threat soon presents itself, preying on a defenseless and unsuspecting world. As death and devastation begin to escalate to levels unforeseen, Emma Sullivan becomes alarmingly close to the menace itself. Emma is soon thrust into a world of danger, as she becomes part of a small rescue team that must travel to the source of the threat in a perilous attempt to stop it. Along the way she learns the truth of betrayal, trust and survival and how the most dangerous predator of all was closer than she ever imagined. THE SIAMESE MUMMY THE SIAMESE MUMMY : Celebrated Vertebrate Palaeontologist Jenna Matthews is at the top of her field. Her colleagues respect her for her groundbreaking work on fossil cats and her strong work ethic.Back from a conference presentation in Niagara Falls, ON, Jenna settles back into life at home in Wichita, Kansas, where she is a much-loved professor at the state university, only to find that her past is coming to hunt her down-like prey.Jenna relives her experience as a 16 year old to save those in her community and to re-write history. Through bewitching intoxication, Jenna has to fight between legend and reality to find the answers to a multi-layered tale of power and suspense into which she has, initially, been inexplicably been drawn. KARA BENTLEY KARA BENTLEY has a B.Sc. from Brock University, and a post-graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Niagara College. In 2005, she graduated from the Geology department at the University at Buffalo with a M.S. in Vertebrate Palaeontology. As a graduate student, she traveled to Oberlin, Kansas where she and her professor Dr. William Korth began excavating a small fossil quarry. What started out as an ordinary dig, turned into an interesting and unusual discovery. Excavations revealed two rhinoceros (Teleoceras fossiger) calves and a single claw of a horned rodent. 2004, she presented her research at the Geological Society of America conference in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2005 she presented her research at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Geological Society of America conferences in Denver, Colorado. Her research peaked the interest of the Senior Editor, Sciences, Office of News Services at the University at Buffalo where Kara and her professors were interviewed. The story first ran in the Wichita Eagle and then went on to The Associated Press national news wire ww.theivoryowl.com where it was later picked up and shown on CNN's news scroll. - w www.theivoryowl.com w w w . t h e i v o r y o w l . c o m w w w . t h e i v o r y o w l . c o m