Download or read book Stonebird written by Mike Revell and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 10-year-old Liam's family moves to be near his grandmother who is suffering from dementia, he's left to navigate his new neighborhood, school and grandmother's illness all by himself; His mom regularly looses herself in a bottle of wine, and his sister sneaks out to who knows where shortly after "wine o'clock"-as they've come to call it-strikes. Life it isn't easy. The one place he seems to find solace is a rundown church where he finds an over-sized gargoyle that keeps drawing him in. After learning that they were created to protect people from demons and evil spirits, he can't seem to shake the image of the old stone bird and its presence weaves itself into the stories Liam tells himself and others, so much so that Liam starts to believe that it might be alive. Shy Liam's only means of confidence during shared story time is to tell tales of the gargoyle. His classmate mock him at first but are soon are captivated by his storytelling, and his teacher's slight nods of encouragement fuel Liam's belief in the bird and lead him to think that she knows a thing or two about the old bird herself. As his home life gets harder and the bullies more relentless the gargoyle seemingly brings Liam's stories to life-swooping in to protect and defend him in the most unexpected ways. But is the old stone bird really alive, or is it just Liam's imagination finding ways to help him through a difficult time?
Download or read book Stonebird written by Val Goldenbrook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonebird is a historical fiction told through the eyes of a Genizaro Indian boy, who experienced the fallout of Texas' drive into New Mexico Territory from 1833 to 1841.
Download or read book The Stone Bird written by Jenny McCartney and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It might look like a pebble from the beach, but Eliza knows this is an egg. And one night when she hears cracking, she discovers the Stone Bird. It might still look like a stone to her mom, but Eliza knows it's alive. Step into the magical world of one child's imagination in this stunning debut by exciting new author Jenny McCartney, illustrated by luminary of children's books Patrick Benson.
Download or read book The Flight of A Stone Bird written by A D MOODLEY and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight of A Stone Bird is about the triumph of the human spirit over the adversities that defined ‘indenture’ and its legacy. In the struggle to unshackle their bondage, men and women scratched out niches with bloodied hands to write a chapter of their existence, a shared destiny and a common destination. From the fragments of a common past and a mutual predicament, another bond emerged – the ‘brotherhood’. Emotional, enduring and powerful, devoid of the vestiges of caste or religion, this bond, which became as intimate as real blood kinship, was cherished by men well into their twilight years as a memory of a shared ordeal and of solidarity against the antagonism and adversities of a hostile new world. We shall forever remember those who built the steps we take.
Download or read book Severe ME Notes for Carers written by Greg Crowhurst and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide with contributions from carers and those who are ill, from around the world, is packed full of practical tips, insights, guides and self-reflective exercises designed to raise awareness of how to care for someone with Severe/Very Severe M.E. Greg Crowhurst PgDip, Cert Counselling, Dip Life Coaching, MA, who qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1984, has spent over two decades caring for his wife who has Very Severe ME. In 2015 he was a finalist in the prestigious BJN Nurse of the Year Award, receiving a certificate in Clinical Excellence in Nursing. Greg is the author of ""Severe ME featuring Justice for Karina Hansen"" widely acclaimed as a book of ""immense value"" in describing what it is like to ""live a life as and with someone who is severely stricken with the devastating disease Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.""
Download or read book An Unsuitable Attachment written by Barbara Pym and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper ‘The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.’ The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar’s wife’s sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome? But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment for her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name... Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called: 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.
Download or read book Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis written by Sarah Myhill and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original edition published in 2017 by Hammersmith Books, London, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Soulflowing Fire written by Georgios Lygkas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Soulflowing Fire' is an anthology of twenty-five short and long stories. These are stories born in light and darkness, written on the tallest peaks but also in the deepest canyons of my last ten years. The reasons for writing them, were many and varied - from exercises in expression and personal depth fathoming, to a thirst to create new characters and new stories, inside worlds which for all these years exist in my mind, and which I want to capture on paper. These stories do have common themes but they penetrate genres, pertain to multiple worlds and ages, their order is unorthodox. Therefore, there is a degree of difficulty in reading this book. 'Soulflowing Fire' is the first release of CHTHON, and since it was completed under my personal responsibility, I am certain it will reward every careful reader.
Download or read book A Great Place to Die written by Sean Connolly and published by Hardscrabble Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sojourners seek sense, stability, & survival in a novel of cosmic quests & comic answers.
Download or read book The Stone Bird written by Al Purdy and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANY OF PURDY'S FAMILIAR THEMES ARE HERE--HIS EMPATHY FOR FOREIGN PLACES AND DISTANT TIMES, HIS AFFECTION FOR LOSERS AND OUTSIDERS, HIS FASCINATION WITH PRE-HISTORY AND THE FRAGMENTED RECORDS OF DEAD CIVILIZATIONS.
Download or read book Underwater Eden written by Gregory S. Stone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dying off at an alarming rate, victims of ocean warming and acidification—and their loss threatens more than 25 percent of all fish species, who depend on the food and shelter found in coral habitats. Yet in the waters off the Phoenix Islands, the corals were healthy, the fish populations pristine and abundant—and Stone and his companion on the dive, coral expert David Obura, determined that they were going to try their best to keep it that way. Underwater Eden tells the story of how they succeeded, against great odds, in making that dream come true, with the establishment in 2008 of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). It’s a story of cutting-edge science, fierce commitment, and innovative partnerships rooted in a determination to find common ground among conservationists, business interests, and governments—all backed up by hard-headed economic analysis. Creating the world’s largest (and deepest) UNESCO World Heritage Site was by no means easy or straightforward. Underwater Eden takes us from the initial dive, through four major scientific expeditions and planning meetings over the course of a decade, to high-level negotiations with the government of Kiribati—a small island nation dependent on the revenue from the surrounding fisheries. How could the people of Kiribati, and the fishing industry its waters supported, be compensated for the substantial income they would be giving up in favor of posterity? And how could this previously little-known wilderness be transformed into one of the highest-profile international conservation priorities? Step by step, conservation and its priorities won over the doubters, and Underwater Eden is the stunningly illustrated record of what was saved. Each chapter reveals—with eye-popping photographs—a different aspect of the science and conservation of the underwater and terrestrial life found in and around the Phoenix Islands’ coral reefs. Written by scientists, politicians, and journalists who have been involved in the conservation efforts since the beginning, the chapters brim with excitement, wonder, and confidence—tempered with realism and full of lessons that the success of PIPA offers for other ambitious conservation projects worldwide. Simultaneously a valentine to the diversity, resilience, and importance of the oceans and a riveting account of how conservation really can succeed against the toughest obstacles, Underwater Eden is sure to enchant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver.
Download or read book Stormwalker written by Mike Revell and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since his mother died, 11-year-old Owen has felt lost. He's drifting apart from his dad, his grades are dropping, and the only thing keeping him sane are the soccer trials coming up. Then, in the middle of school one day, he is sucked out of real life and thrown into a desolate alternative world, a largely deserted wasteland where a menacing storm of Darkness plagues the city, threatening his life and the lives of the people who dwell there. Terrifying as this new world is, Owen recognizes it--his dad is an author, and this is the setting of his new novel. Fueled by his grief over the loss of his mom, Owen's dad has conjured a world so real and so fraught that Owen is transported to it every time his dad sets pen to paper. And he has to live out every word in the story. But each jump devours chunks of his real life. Owen misses days of school, and even a key soccer game that threatens his chances of having a shot at appearing in the tryouts at all. Owen desperately wants these events to stop, but doesn't want to plunge his dad any further into the well of unhappiness that threatens to drown them both. With social services threatening to ship Owen off to his aunt's house and his school career spiraling out of control, what if finishing the story and battling the Darkness is the only way Owen can save himself . . . and his dad?
Download or read book The Michigan Digest Annotated written by George Foster Longsdorf and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost Factory written by Jenny McCartney and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Download or read book An Unsuitable Attachment written by Barbara Pym and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in St Basil's, a North London parish, Barbara Pym's novel is full of high comedy. Her depiction of characters begins with Mark the vicar, and his wife Sophia who is quite obsessed with cats, as is Daisy Pettigrew, the vet's sister.
Download or read book Driving Under the Cardboard Pines and Other Stories written by Colleen J. McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
