Download or read book The Glass Swallow written by Julia Golding and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain, a stained glass designer despite laws banning women from that craft, and Peri, whose family of falconers are untouchables scorned by all, join forces and hope their love will keep them safe from prejudices and looming disaster.
Download or read book The Glass Hotel written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
Download or read book Dragonfly written by Julia Golding and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult fantasy about a teenage couple who are forced to marry to join their two kingdoms
Download or read book Swallow This written by Mark Phillips and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swallow the Ocean written by Laura M. Flynn and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn't long, however, before Sally's fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura's parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sally's symptoms bloomed in earnest while Laura and her sisters united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother taught them so that they might deflect the danger threatening their fragile family. Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is redolent with place. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood had Laura and her sisters not been resilient and determined enough to survive their environment even as they yearned to escape it.
Download or read book The Glass Casket written by McCormick Templeman and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death hasn't visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders' bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal. Rowan's village was once a tranquil place, but now things have changed. Something has followed the path those riders made and has come down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village. Beast or man, it has brought death to Rowan's door once again. Only this time, its appetite is insatiable. A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick [STAR] "With stylish prose, richly developed characters and well-realized worldbuilding, Templeman plumbs archetypes of folklore to create a compelling blend of mythic elements and realistic teen experience."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred [STAR] "This has both the stylish beauty of those [classic fairy] tales and the chilling darkness that makes them timeless."-The Bulletin, Starred “The legion of Maggie Stiefvater fans out there ought to look this way.”-Booklist
Download or read book The Glass Piano written by Alix Sobler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Alexandra thought her life would never change, living in the castle with her father King Ludwig, her maid Galstina, and glimpses of her mother as she runs from the stables to the rose bushes. And of course, there's the matter of the grand piano made of glass that she swallowed as a child, sitting inside her at all times. But then Lucien Bonaparte arrives, and suddenly anything seems possible... Laced with dry humour, Alix Sobler's smart play will transport you to the 19th century Bavaria to find four characters trapped by their situations, and prevented from fulfilling their dreams of love.
Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Sea of Tranquility written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads “One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
Download or read book Station Eleven written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold! One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
Download or read book Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy written by Lynn S. Wolf and published by Psychological Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to feeding problems. Ms. Wolf and Ms. Glass assist the feeding specialist in acquiring the knowledge and skills to take an active and effective part in the process of assessment and management of infant feeding. James F. Bosma, M.D., says, "This unique book describes the insights and skills in evaluation and care of dysphagic infants that are being demonstrated by a growing number of occupational, physical, and speech therapists and nurses." Book jacket.
Download or read book Orofacial Myology written by Marvin L. Hanson and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete chapters are included from profacial myologists and dental specialists from four continents. The authors state there is alot to know in preparing for clinical work with orofacial myofunctional disorders.
Download or read book Chad Tu written by Kelsie R. Gat es and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ten year old boy is lost from a wagon train headed west. Saved by an Indian from starving. The Indian having lost his own son and family in a massacre raises him as his own giving him the name Chadtu. A few years later the Indian dies and Chadtu is captured by a gunslinger while trying to steal his horse. The gunslinger, and also a gunsmith teaches Chadtu the ways of the white man, along with how to use a pair of colt 44s. Later he is talked into becoming sheriff of Tombstone by the articulate Mayor. Almost shot by Indians he makes friends by speaking with his Indian tongue. He falls in love with his friends sister. On an exploration of the Black Mountains He discovers the place to build their ranch. He marries his love Jaydeen and they settle and start a cattle ranch in a large valley of the Black Mountains in Indian territory. One day he discovers a wolf pup abandoned by its mother. With care and love it grows into a huge grey wolf. They named him Track. They are wondrously happy until Chadtu returns one day to find her gone, abducted by unknowns. He sets out to save his wife from a fate for which he has no idea. Angry and out for revenge he rides on their trail followed by Track. Born in the early 1930s in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a depression era baby. Raised in Oklahoma City and spent the summers on the farm in Hammond Oklahoma, until the age of ten, when I was transplanted to Bakersfield, California. Where I now live with my dog. A grey male hybrid wolf.
Download or read book Thinning the Herd written by Kevin J. Ryan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local detective moves to the suburban police force to get away from the brutal crime scene seen by him as a Philadelphia homicide detective. Shortly after his arrival, there are a series of seemingly unrelated murders in the quiet middle-class township. Unbeknownst to the detective, there is a serial murderer afoot, who is both clever and brutal in his attacks. Four murders go unsolved followed by the death of an earlier victim who survived the attack initially. As the detective believes he is closing in, he is badly injured when a truck, laying in wait for him, crashed into his car on his way home from work. A clever scheme by the detective and local law enforcement to catch the murderer in a trap backfires.
Download or read book Eyes of Raven written by H. n. Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Areciba has a secret... A drought is killing the tiny water planet of Areciba, and only through the activation of an ancient sphere can the planet be saved. On the night of her tenth birthday, princess Sageria Ravenwolf witnesses the brutal murder of her father. Twelve years later she is banished from the planet by her malicious stepfather whose all-encompassing goal is to obtain the power of the ancient sphere. Years later it is realized that only she had the key that can either save or destroy the planet. From the rough caverns of the Oni's, to the deadly jungles of Feil, the action races across the galaxy as two forces seek to bring the rogue princess back to Areciba. With her tatooed face and surly attitude, she has become a force to be reckoned with, yet, in the end, she still must make a choice; save her people, or save herself. The fate of a planet waits...
Download or read book Spiritual Shackles written by Okeyo A. Jumal and published by Griot. This book was released on 2005 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curse Within written by La' Motta Roundtree and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense vivid story... It is temping to believe that karma is the leading cause to all life problems, you heard the phrase \"Karma a bitch\". The Curse Within creates a platform, \"What will have become of the woman if she had of been created by men\". Men who\'s desires are base only for love, sex, money, and power. The true story hidden within life, no one is born in a curse within were all born from sin and from our sin we give birth to curse within a bloodline in-heritage called a generational curse. Roundtree vividly researched true lifestyle stories of women from different walks of life who became caught up in a fast fantasy lanes of drugs, sex, money, and control. Curse Within exposes one compelling tales of lies and deceptions that are force among so many childhood daughters who just only wanting to just be loved, not in all the wrong places. Her name is Lisa a child born to parents who were caught up in the fast lane of life destruction. Her father a high crime drug dealer and a undercover child molester, A mother who\'s addictive to heroin, and a woman who turned to alcohol the bottom of the bottle find to her courage to deal from my father domestic violent abuse, Trap within Lisa soul lying dormant Curse Within sits waiting for that day Lisa steps into control, her decision, now she taking control and calling all the shots over her own life now. Lisa find herself caught up in a world of heartaches, pain, and suffering. Disturbed from all the childhood abuse she has render, at the age of 17 she venture out on her own causing her pass to become a reality in her present that destroys her future.
