Download or read book Provenance written by Robert S Field and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lute of exquisite workmanship and beauty is crafted in Italy in the dark age of the mid 15th century by a master luthier, Francesco Ippolito da Cremona the Renaissance musician fated to play it to great acclaim, the bulk of his musical legacy composed upon it. But this lute is more than mere musical instrument; it is a memorial to love lost in a brutal tragedy. By the passion invested in it by its maker, and its embodiment of the relics of tormented love, it is imbued with the power to enchant, its enchantment released by the hands of its destined player. Against the evidence of history, the lute survives to the present day and along with a rare manuscript of Francesco Ippolito lute tablature, falls into the hands of Bob Roberts, an incurably romantic middle-class professional whose escape from a deeply unromantic life is to immerse himself in the lute music of the Renaissance. The lute is an unexceptional wreck when Bob acquires it, but he commissions its restoration and gradually its provenance is unveiled, the final revelation astonishing. The lute and Ippolitos music exert a powerful influence upon Bobs life that hints of deep unrest and a vague connection with lives long gone, as if lute and tablature combine in a conduit through which spiritual energy moves from past to present. This is a story of music across the ages, of obsession and betrayal, of destiny and, above all, of true love.

Download or read book Keeper of Scales written by Anne Mollova and published by Rose Leaf Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess with a secret. An ancient evil rising. A kingdom caught in the balance. Alyen, crown princess of Dúramair, has trained her whole life to be queen. She’s kept her faerie Sight a secret, trusting that the Keeper of Scales will find an apprentice soon—for surely one other candidate can be found. But when news comes from the north of dark magic returning to Dúramair, Alyen is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. A decision that could determine the fate of her kingdom. ​​​​Soon Alyen and her friends find that they are the last hope for Dúramair’s victory in a looming war. Forced to choose between love and duty, Alyen struggles to master her growing powers, knowing that if she fails, she risks destroying everything and everyone she loves.

Download or read book Hat Trick written by Alex Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the playoffs over, Devin and her seventh-grade friends decide to try out for a soccer travel team, but friendships are threatened because not everyone makes it on to the tough, competitive team, and in the mean time the girls are faced with a crisis--budget cuts threaten to eliminate the soccer program at the elementary school Devin's little sister attends.

Download or read book UNDERBELLY MIKKELSEN written by Dana Mikkelsen and published by Dana Mikkelsen. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Mikkelsen, niece of notorious killer, Vincent (Vinnie) Mikkelsen (as featured on Underbelly), An extraordinary story as it unfolds - detailing Dana growing up amongst violence and crime - moving regularly to escape police suspicion, having to change her name for her own safety and living on the street after being abandoned by her mother at the age of fifteen. In an attempt to maintain the ‘normal’ existence of a young girl her age, and with a firm belief that education might just be her saviour - she attends school. At seventeen she meets the very seductive school-chaplain and is soon putty in his hands. He brainwashes her and she spends 10 years in a cult. When she gets out he keeps her as his ‘sex-slave’. The deception is shocking with a calculated cunning plan. A plan of pure evil that keeps Dana trapped as his 'sex-slave', as the, 'girl in the closet' who no one knows about for some years… Whilst he continues to charm the Christian-community, get married and work as a Christian-leader. Not something to be expected from a school-chaplain, especially not the ‘Director’ of all school- chaplain’s within South Australia - Haydn Lush. The puzzle of her past finally comes together with the unsolved murder case of Brian Kane being re-opened by the police. The fear that terrorised her night and day as a child makes sense as she reflects back on her childhood and pieces together what really happened…especially, the link between the Kane brother murders and murderer. It is all too close to home for comfort.

Download or read book A Blink of the Screen written by Terry Pratchett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.

Download or read book Praises Offenses written by Aída Cartagena Portalatin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in the modern-day Dominican Republic. Translator Judith Kerman, who began the anthology as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most underserved group when it comes to English-language translations.” This anthology remedies that omission with poetry that is smart, edgy, and groundbreaking.

Download or read book A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest written by Charlie J. Stephens and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pulsing novel filled with so much love and tenderness.” —MORGAN TALTY, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez In 1980’s Oregon, Smokey is figuring out how to survive childhood with a young mom who is increasingly desperate in her search for love. As their mother's boyfriends come and go, Smokey aches for the comfort and safety their mother can never quite provide. When a dangerous new man moves into the house, Smokey seeks refuge in the nearby forests—finding comfort as they give themselves over to the strength and beauty of the natural world.

Download or read book Tattoo the Wicked Cross written by Floyd Salas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floyd Salas projects the reader into the slender body of his fifteen-year-old prize-fighter hero Aaron D’Aragon. We see through Aaron’s eyes the structured underworld of a California prison farm dominated by sadism operating under the protection of the no-squeal code of the victims.

Download or read book Halt s Peril written by John Flanagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone! The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing Halt's only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky. The international bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series turns up the tension in John Flanagan's latest epic of battles and bravery. Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Download or read book Weirdest Weekend Ever written by Wanda Coven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious fourth book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series that started with New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck tries to keep magic hidden when Lucy Lancaster comes to visit. Featuring black-and-white illustrations and doodles throughout and sparkly foil on the cover! It’s the annual Friends and Family Weekend at Broomsfield Academy, and Heidi is so excited for her best friend, Lucy Lancaster, to come visit! But opening the gates of the only school for witches-in-training to outsiders can get complicated… Mrs. Kettledrum warns the students that things might go haywire with the influx of extra energy from the visitors. Still, with guests wearing the charmed bracelets the students made, there’s no need to worry—right?

Download or read book Abuela Don t Forget Me written by Rex Ogle and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on—to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela’s red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don’t Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn’t yet know how to believe in himself.

Download or read book Dark Passion the Novel written by Tijuan-Th Warren Tijuan-Thomas Anderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Passion The Novel, is an Urban delight; Good times, parties and non-ending cash flows were the lifestyle DeMillo Sneed, and his friends grew up in and loved. Shortly after returning home from a visit with relatives in Kenya, Jamal a new type of boi enters their circle. DeMillo befriends him, but not with out warnings of his odd demon like behavior from his cousin Josh. After several contacts with Jamal, DeMillo and his friends notices their lives and most things around them are changing. Although they were sure he was not like them they still accepts an invitation to a party given by him and learn they have made the worst mistake of their young vibrant lives. DeMillo and his friends turns to Mogis, a professor of supernatural studies hoping for answers and truth, but everything goes wrong. They began to turn on one another, they are picked up and questioned for murders they did not commit, shadows and voices fills their homes followed by echoes of death and that horrible night of Jamal's party. They decide to go old school and play detective to find the underlying cause of things, and that is when their ride began. They do everything their young minds can think of to get help with their dilemma and when all hope was gone, they had to face Jamal and the reasons behind his visit, and they eagerly learn that their own sexuality holds the key.

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Download or read book Creeker written by Linda DeRosier and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain heritage. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world. DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes. No advance planning was needed for such trips. Residents of Two-Mile Creek were like family, and everyone was ""delighted to see each other wherever, whenever, and for however long."" Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way. Told with wit, candor, and zest, this is Linda Scott DeRosier's answer to the question familiar in Appalachia--""Who are your people?""

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Download or read book The Adventures of Baron Munchausen the Screenplay written by Charles McKeown and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete screenplay and credits with dozens of photos from the 1998 film. "A carnival! A wonderland! A weekend with nine Friday nights! Terry Gilliam's lavish dreams are beyond those of mere mortals." - Harlan Ellison

Download or read book Videomania written by Tim J. Kelly and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: