Download or read book A Firefly in the Dark written by Shazaf Fatima Haider and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'By turns terrifying and amusing, this is not a book you want to read before you go to sleep. Or maybe you do...'--Jerry Pinto Sharmeen's life is disrupted when, after an unexpected tragedy, she moves into her Nani's rambling ancestral bungalow with her family. She hates this new life: her mother, Aliya, and Nani fight constantly; her new schoolmates bully her; and the family retainer, her loving Aziz Bhai, suddenly becomes dominating. The only place where Sharmeen finds solace is the world of Nani's fantastical stories: tales of Jinn, shapeshifters and other dastardly creatures. But slowly, unseen forces that had lain dormant for centuries start to awaken. Sharmeen meets her own personal Jinn, the prankster Jugnu, who reveals her family's history, a pact one of her ancestors made with the Jinn-world, and also some not-so-good news--and Sharmeen realizes that it is up to her to rescue the adults in her life... Mysterious, magical and moving, A Firefly in the Dark is a page-turner and a work of fantasy and soaring imagination that will delight readers of all ages.
Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you—and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
Download or read book Fireflies in the Dark written by Susan Goldman Rubin and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Download or read book Firefly Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-close and uniquely personal, like never seen before, this exquisite fine art book showcases the glowing beauty of fireflies, as seen through the lens of the award-winning nature photographer, Radim Schreiber, who spent nine years creating this stunning body of work.This is a collection of hauntingly beautiful photographic portraits of fireflies, lightening bugs, glow worms, and other bioluminescent creatures in their natural environment captured in Iowa, the Smoky Mountains National Park, and other locations around the United States.Firefly Experience takes the viewer into mysterious realms, offering marvelous photography on every page. The images are accompanied with informative detail and personal anecdotes.Discover more atwww.FireflyExperience.org
Download or read book Good Night Firefly written by Gabriel Alborozo and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina is afraid of the dark. Luckily she has a nightlight, but one night the power goes out. So Nina traps a firefly to keep her company. She has a jolly time with her new friend, until she soon realizes that the firefly doesn't feel the same way, and she must let it go. This irresistible bedtime story has stunning black-and-white illustrations accented with glowing spots of color-as magical as fireflies themselves!
Download or read book Firefly Rain written by Richard Dansky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jacob left home for a new life, he pretty much forgot all about Maryfield, North Carolina. But Maryfield never forgot him. Or forgave him. After a failed business venture in Boston, Jacob Logan comes back to the small Southern town of his childhood and takes up residence in the isolated house he grew up in. Here, the air is still. The nights are black. And his parents are buried close by. It should feel like home—but something is terribly wrong. Jacob loses all his belongings in a highway accident. His car is stolen from his driveway, yet he never hears a sound. The townspeople seem guarded and suspicious. And Carl, the property caretaker with so many secrets, is unnervingly accommodating. Then there are the fireflies that light the night skies . . . and die as they come near Jacob’s home. If it weren’t for the creaking sounds after dark, or the feeling that he is being watched, Jacob would feel so alone. He shouldn’t worry. He’s not. And whatever’s with him isn’t going to let him leave home ever again.
Download or read book A Firefly Named Torchy written by Bernard Waber and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little firefly is unhappy because his light is so bright all the plants and animals think it is daytime.
Download or read book The Magnificent Nine written by James Lovegrove and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Jayne tries to persuade the Serenity crew to join the fight, but it is only when he offers Vera, his favourite gun, as collateral that Mal realises he's serious. When the Serenity crew land at a hardscrabble desert outpost called Coogan's Bluff, they discover two things: an outlaw gang with an almost fanatical devotion to their leader who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Temperance is singlehandedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after Temperance and Jayne broke up. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud...
Download or read book It s a Firefly Night written by Dianne Ochiltree and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm summer night, a young girl and her daddy catch fireflies, put them in a jar to admire for a brief time, and then release them back into the moonlight. Includes facts about fireflies.
Download or read book Fireflies in the Dark written by Annie Chandy Mathew and published by unisun publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 23 short stories, it sets off the darkness of guilt, exploitation, pain and hatred against the redemptive power of love, hope and the courage to care.
Download or read book PLANET EROPMANOP beings of a dark star written by Lou Baldin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creators of humans, animals and bizarre beasts existing on planets throughout the cosmos make themselves known to a man turned spirit being who ends up becoming entangled by the affairs of Reptilian super beings and masterminds behind much of creation in the physical realms inside of star systems nesting in galaxies.
Download or read book Youtopia a Passion for the Dark written by Dagmar Reinhardt and published by Freerange Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youtopia A Passion for the Dark celebrates architecture at the intersection of Digital Processes and Theatrical Performance. 'Youtopia' pursues dreams: of other spaces and times; of outrageous and fascinating experiences; of the glamour and lights of the Sydney Festival. The book reviews design conversations between architectural practice, architectural theory, audio and acoustics, digital fabrication, interaction and mediation, structural engineering, theatre and performance studies, and cultural research. It parallels an exhibition that showcases ephemeral and captivating interactive landscapes, theatre installations, iconographic architectural objects, heterotopias and performative spaces. These speculative projects are developed by advanced design processes in 3D modelling and scripting environments, and by the production of prototypes through structural analysis and digital fabrication. Edited by Dagmar Reinhardt, with interviews and essays by Dirk Anderson, Eduardo Barata, Joseph Buch, Densil Cabrera, Bill Harris, Lindy Hume, Alexander Jung, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, William L Martens, Luis Miranda, Patrick Nolan, Harry Partridge, Dagmar Reinhardt, Chris L Smith, Michael Scott-Mitchell, and Simon Weir.
Download or read book Dark Variations written by AJ Parnell and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fate may indeed have had plans for me, but in my opinion, destiny is an option." Assigned the task of solving a string of brutal murders, Detective Braydon James is in over his head. Thwarted at every turn, Brayden enlists Alayna Sage, a gifted psychic, who leads him into a dark world of death, mystery, and hidden dangers. What they discover will have dire consequences—if it can be proven. Brayden’s well-honed instincts tell him that he is on the trail of an infamous killer who has been thwarting law enforcement for decades. Will they be the ones to finally put a stop to the murders?
Download or read book A Flicker in the Dark written by Stacy Willingham and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” —Karin Slaughter When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.
Download or read book Dark Wonders written by Mark A Reynolds and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to enter a realm of unimaginable terror, a place of shadow and darkness, where a young boy searches desperately for his missing girlfriend who has disappeared from her grave where a Halloween trick or treater brings an old man face to face with the monsters of his youth where the new man on the job learns the secret to one truck driver's special delivery where redemption from evil comes from the most unlikeliest source where two boys discover that cemeteries are for the dead-or are they? Let author Mark Allan Reynolds guide you through this realm of fear and dread as he delivers twenty-five bone-chilling tales guaranteed to make you squirm. These are his Dark Wonders.
Download or read book The Dark Between Her Stars A love that was never meant to be written by Sabrina M. Crosse and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the dark was a person? And what if that person was the one she was falling for? In a world beyond human reach, a world long abandoned, rested five islands, each bearing strange names. Drystan Isles, The Elysian Reef, Vanilla Springs, and Bellcove Bay encircled one lone island – the mightiest of them all – The Enclave. Cheryl Cassidy, an unusual fairy with her own set of peculiar traits, charted her road to success. She always kept her eyes forward, blind to the adversities that tried to push her down. She lived under the care of her aunt, Maeve Heath, and worked with a company that held the key to her dreams. Everything in her life flowed seamlessly until the Grand Blowout when a mysterious blonde-haired immortal arrived from Drystal Isles. Ever since him, disturbing things began cropping up behind her. To worsen the situation, rumours of the return of The Dark were rambling throughout The Enclave. And there were secrets and lies lurking in every dreadful corner. How would Cheryl Cassidy deal with her upturned life? How would her sudden backward story end?
Download or read book Unsailable Sea Book Two of Tricky s Tales a dark parnormal fantasy series written by Miranda Kate and published by Purple Queen Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Robin Hobb and Philip Pullman comes the second book in the Tricky's Tales series. Tricky by name, Tricky by nature A kidnapping. A conversation with a cat and a flock of birds. A journey into danger. Is Tricky rescuing a friend, or being led to her death? Buggeration! Without knowing it she’d been recruited into unearthing Carter’s bloody network, just as The Baron wanted! When Lucien Dufray’s cat and flock of birds turn up at Tricky’s cabin, she knows something’s wrong. But when her crystal ball shows her one thing and Adric tells her another, Tricky becomes suspicious – which might be her natural state, but there was nothing natural about Dufray’s disappearance. Adric wants her to find him, but has Dufray been kidnapped or has he turned traitor? Between her mother’s jade calling to her in the forest of Ferriston, The Rabble, an untrustworthy fae collective directing her to the Unsailable Sea, and her spy glass showing her Dimitry Stanislav, one of her mother’s murderers, Tricky is confused. The only witnesses to Dufray’s exodus were his menagerie, so Tricky recruits an old friend, Nathan Rothschild, who can communicate with cats, and Annie’s ex-girlfriend, Safa Odeh, who can communicate with birds, and together they try to piece together what happened that night. What they uncover is a plot deeper than the network’s underground bunkers. Will Tricky be able to find Dufray or will she risk capture? Either way she needs to keep her wits about her and remember she’s the tricky one. Tricky’s Tales are a series of dark paranormal fantasy novels set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates has decimates the population and the land, life on the remaining landmass has returned back to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.
