Download or read book Awchewa written by Nita Bauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a rainstorm spoils the first LaHoya family picnic of the summer, an angry swan suddenly flies out of the reeds and attacks fifteen-year-old Katie. As she falls in seemingly slow motion, Katie hears a voice that no one else can hear, chanting in a foreign language. Ya awchewa! Continuing to be troubled by nightmares, a swarm of neon stars on steroids, and episodic visions that start to come true, Katie is reluctantly swept off to the sticks of central Texas to stay with her quirky Grandma Rubythe only one who knows whats going on. As a chain of events leads Katie to unravel the secret her family has been protecting for centuries, Katie must confront the past and the future in ways she never imagined. When she is left with an agonizing choice between the safety of normalcy and accepting her destiny, Katie soon discovers that she will have to let go of who she believes she is in order to find her true self. In this coming of age tale, a self-conscious teen spending the summer with her grandmother becomes intertwined with a centuries-old secret and a deranged swan intent on bringing the awakening.

Download or read book Robin Hood written by J.P. Dold and published by Berchtold Publishing. This book was released on 1916-10-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story that has been told for hundreds of years is told again, this time from a first-person perspective that reveals a facet of the timeless outlaw that has seldom been explored before. With the king gone to war and local rulers grappling for power, the narrator finds himself on the brink of a war within his own lands. He and his few allies vie for the lives of a delusional people; a people who believe that the same leaders trying to destroy them are their saviors, and Robin Hood is no exception among those leaders.