Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Pan Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Suanne Laqueur and published by Cathedral Rock Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Fish Tales comes the long-awaited second book in the Venery series. A Charm of Finches follows Javier Landes as he retires from escorting and invites love to be his friend. He meets an art therapist named Steffen Finch and what starts as casual deepens into a passionate relationship—everything Jav has ever wanted, and everything he fears losing. Stef’s business card reads Curator & Sailor. His creativity and insightful nature have made him into a talented therapist, the one to call for tough cases. His professional success can’t conceal a deep need to connect with someone, but Javier Landes is the last person Stef expected. Geronimo "Geno" Caan is Stef's most challenging case. To cope with his ordeal, he's allowed an alter-ego called Mos to make decisions, and now lives a double life within a web of lies. Under Stef’s navigation, Geno uses art to express what Mos forbids to be spoken aloud. But as Geno’s attachment to Stef gradually extends to Jav, the boundaries between professional and personal begin to blur. Over the course of a year, Jav, Stef and Geno form an unexpected and unconventional triangle, revealing how men make love in times of war and how love is a great wisdom made up of small understandings. A Charm of Finches is an epic tale of survival and secrets guaranteed to make you think and feel and remember.
Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Austin Maple and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doug Palmer was a sceptic when he came to The Finches to work on his Phd thesis but he is soon drawn into the world of a deceased schoolmaster and his pupils. The Finches has existed behind its high walls since the original convent on the site and so much of its dark history of ghosts and murder intrudes upon the present. Just what did happen on the site during the war and why does even time itself seem not to behave as it should? Doug can find no rest until he has sifted myth and illusion from reality and until he has peeled away the last layer of the onion and revealed The Finches Secret.
Download or read book A Charm of Finches Venery Book 2 written by Suanne Laqueur and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I swear. Give me one more chance and I will make the most of it."From the author of The Fish Tales comes the long-awaited second book in the Venery series. A Charm of Finches follows Javier Landes as he retires from escorting and invites love to be his friend. He meets an art therapist named Steffen Finch and what starts as casual deepens into a passionate relationship--everything Jav has ever wanted, and everything he fears losing.Stef's business card reads Curator & Sailor. His creativity and insightful nature have made him into a talented therapist, the one to call for tough cases. His professional success can't conceal a deep need to connect with someone, but Javier Landes is the last person Stef expected.Geronimo "Geno" Caan is Stef's most challenging case. To cope with his ordeal, he's allowed an alter-ego called Mos to make decisions, and now lives a double life within a web of lies. Under Stef's navigation, Geno uses art to express what Mos forbids to be spoken aloud. But as Geno's attachment to Stef gradually extends to Jav, the boundaries between professional and personal begin to blur.Over the course of a year, Jav, Stef and Geno form an unexpected and unconventional triangle, revealing how men make love in times of war and how love is a great wisdom made up of small understandings. A Charm of Finches is an epic tale of survival and secrets guaranteed to make you think and feel and remember.
Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Sheila Newberry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusha Carey is married at eighteen, but Dan's tragic death leaves her a widow at twenty-one. With a farm to work, Jerusha is on her own yet again - but the arrival of Joe Finch, an enigmatic traveller, may herald a new beginning.
Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Richard Stevenson and published by Ekstasis Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With A Charm of Finches Richard Stevenson continues the project he began with Hot Flashes: illuminating his own experience through the skillful use of Japanese poetic forms. Once again he distills the essence of a time and place through his own participation as witness and chronicler to an ongoing human story.
Download or read book A Small Hotel written by Suanne Laqueur and published by Cathedral Rock Press. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SMALL HOTEL A new novel from Suanne Laqueur, author of The Fish Tales An American Family. A World War. A First Love. A Small Hotel. It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a Swedish-Brazilian guest named Astrid Virtanen. But the affair is cut short and the young lovers permanently parted, first by Astrid’s family obligations, then by America’s entry into the war. The rigors of military life help dull his heartache, but when Kennet’s battalion reaches France, he is thrown into the crucible of front line combat. As his unit crosses Europe, from the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, Kennet falls into a different kind of love: the intense camaraderie between soldiers. It's a bond fierce yet fragile, vital yet expendable, here today and gone tomorrow. Sustained by his friendships, Kennet both witnesses and commits the unthinkable atrocities of warfare, altering his view of the world and himself. To the point where a second chance with Astrid in peacetime might be the most terrifying and consequential battle he’s ever fought. With her signature blend of soul-stirring prose and emotional complexity, Laqueur takes readers on a journey through events that shape an American family’s weakest moments and finest hours. A Small Hotel illuminates the experience of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances, and their once-in-a-generation camaraderie, courage and resiliency. It’s a novel for the world, a heartbreaking, uplifting story of family, love and human endurance.
Download or read book A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns written by Matt Sewell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charm of goldfinches, an ascension of larks, a school of dolphins, a cloud of bats, a murder of crows. All these and more are portrayed in this enchanting new book by much loved artist Matt Sewell, playing on the theme of collective nouns for animals. Illustrated with Matt’s inimitable watercolours, and imbued with a love of his subjects that will resonate with people everywhere and of all ages, this book is a great gift for nature and art lovers. Accompanying each illustration is a playful, quirky description of each groups' personality that readers cannot help but smile at. Sewell's unique witty take on the subject, and delicately vivid illustrations make for a lovely addition to his collection of pocketable books.
Download or read book An Exaltation of Larks written by Suanne Laqueur and published by Cathedral Rock Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We're so alike, you and I. It's no wonder we kept finding each other." September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartment window as Santiago, Chile falls to a military coup, destroying his family and his childhood. Arriving alone in America, he’s taken in by the Larks: a prominent family in the town of Guelisten. Though burdened by unresolved grief for his disappeared parents, he becomes fiercely loyal to the Larks, eventually marrying one of their daughters, Valerie. September 11, 2001: Javier Landes watches from his apartment window as New York City falls to terrorism. As one of Manhattan’s top-paid male escorts, this professional lover has never lacked for company and is loyal only to himself. But in the wake of 9/11, Jav is named guardian for an orphaned nephew in Guelisten and must open his carefully-guarded heart to pain he's long suppressed. Alex, Valerie and Jav meet first in their twenties, with a sudden attraction each finds strange and compelling. When they meet again in their forties, they discover not only is their bond still strong, but their life experiences are strangely similar. All have been shaped by separate 9/11's, and their unfinished business from the past will change everything they know about love, loyalty and friendship. "Life has rules. You cannot come in the middle of the night and take what we agreed isn't yours." Across three decades and two continents, Suanne Laqueur's fifth novel explores the unpredictability of sexual attraction, how family ties are forged, torn and mended, and how love's downfall can turn to exaltation.
Download or read book An Exaltation of Larks written by James Lipton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully unexpected, lovingly curated ode to the unique collective nouns that adorn our language, from “a leap of leopards” to “a murder of crows” and beyond, from the inimitable voice behind Inside the Actors Studio “I am madly in love with collective nouns! They make language so colorful and ticklish. . . . [An Exaltation of Larks] possess[es] an embarrassment of riches (wink wink!).” —Lupita Nyong’o, The New York Times For those who have wondered if the familiar “pride of lions” and “gaggle of geese” were merely the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided a definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, often poetic terms he has unearthed and collected into one exhaustive volume. Over years of painstaking research, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a “slouch of models,” a “shrivel of critics,” an “unction of undertakers,” a “blur of Impressionists,” a “score of bachelors,” a “pocket of quarterbacks,” and many more. Witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt, An Exaltation of Larks is a brilliant compendium of more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that ever-evolving species, the English language.
Download or read book A Charm of Finches written by Suzanne Rogier Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a northern landscape-both harsh and beautiful-Suzanne Rogier Marshall's poems are deeply rooted in the earth, the interconnection of self with the natural world and its greater rhythms. This collection begins with an opening poem in the voice of a maple tree, spreading its roots into six sections, weaving themes of endings and new beginnings, of leaving and coming back, of home. Her poems speak to the human in all of us and to our place within nature.
Download or read book A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Wild Gatherings written by Matt Sewell and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most groups of wildlife can be described as a flock, herd, or shoal—but where is the fun in ending there?" — from the Introduction Whether you're an animal lover or a grammar geek, illustrator Matt Sewell has the perfect menagerie of beasts (and beast-related terms) for your reading pleasure. Along with fifty-five gorgeous color illustrations, Sewell presents the unexpected collective nouns used to describe groups of animals on land, in the air, and in the water. Discover the secret behind a "sleuth of bears," keep your eyes open for a "watch of nightingales," and learn something new about a "school of whales." Illustrated in inimitable watercolor, this book makes a great gift for nature and art lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Evidence of Things Unseen written by Russell Connor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence of Things Unseen By: Russell Connor The Invisible Hand and Wrath of the Sun-God strive to penetrate hidden worlds that seem intent on preventing the characters from taking control of their lives. In Manifest Content and The Engels Angle, the spirit world seems to want to transmit important information to the visible world. The dreams in Manifest Content were actually dreamt by the playwright.
Download or read book In This Waning Light written by Elizabeth C. Burgess and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Burgess was lucky enough to have Dr. J.J. Van Noppen for English at Appalachian State Teachers College. (now University) He encouraged her to write. She did not take writing seriously until the early 1980’s when she returned from teaching in Baumholder Germany and was selected to attend The Writing Project at UNC-Pembroke. The project was based on the Berkeley, California Model. She received the Most Improved Award at the end of the project. This spurred her to write poetry and short stories and since her retirement from teaching she has written 3 novellas, 2 poetry collections, 1 childrens book with another in the works. She taught her 1st & 2nd graders to write stories. She believes we are never too young or to old to write for pleasure or publication.
Download or read book Blogger s Route To A Saner World written by Gary Ross and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how the author dealt with a life that, as far he was concerned, had been challenged spiritually and ethically. He left a successful and prestigious job in Oxford and subsequently walked for thirty two days across Spain in 2004. Blogs written from 2007 follow a life teaching abroad for eight years after 2005. But dates do not figure so much in the memories of stories which are primarily autobiographical and happened at any time in the past. For example, The Incredible Story of Nobby and The Frenchman took place in Spain in 2004, while on The Camino walk in Spain - some 850 miles - was written three years later in 2007. Biographies, also feature such as, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon a classic book written by Rebecca West. Yet even here there remains some autobiographical component since it is not just a book review but an account of travels in the region by the author. There are many stories which explore thoughts on events either from the past or present. For example, The Moon landing looks back at an old story and how it is sometimes viewed today. Alternatively, a Cultural tsunami was written at the time of the Arab Spring and explores the impact this had on being a teacher in Oman at that time. Likewise, Schools out in Oman. Other stories, however, are told direct from the classroom such as, Boys played loudly.Opinions also feature in blogs written recently and usually have a political context such as Economical with the truth. The reader is, of course, free to agree or disagree, as they may with ideas formulated in The origin of ideas - and other blogs related to this theme - which explore Darwin's ideas and Darwinism and the impact of this thinking on society and culture today.The author hopes the reader will experience an informative, engaging and original blog autobiography that is often perceptive and entertaining.
Download or read book Crucible written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book about a magical land called Valdemar would be the beginning of a fantasy masterwork series that would span decades and include more than two dozen titles. Now the voices of other authors add their own special touches to the ancient land where Heralds “Chosen” from all walks of life by magical horse-like Companions patrol their ancient kingdom, dispensing justice, facing adversaries, and protecting their monarch and country from whatever threatens. Trained rigorously by the Herald’s Collegium, these special protectors each have extraordinary Gifts: Mindspeaking, FarSeeing, FarSpeaking, Empathy, Firestarting and ForeSeeing, and are bonded for life with their mysterious Companions. Travel with these astounding adventurers in these original stories.
Download or read book Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1987, a young author from Oklahoma published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. This modest book about a magical land called Valdemar was the beginning of a fantasy masterwork series that would span decades and include more than two dozen titles. Now readers can take a journey to the world of Valdemar-including Tanya Huff, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Fiona Patton, and Judith Tarr-each adding their own special touches.
