Download or read book The Night Bird written by Brian Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicide detective Frost Easton does not like coincidences, so when a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco--during which seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks--Frost looks for a connection that leads him to controversial psychiatrist Francesca Stein.
Download or read book The Night Bird written by Catherine Asaro and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment…and young Allegro is no different. But her life—and Aronsdale's independence—is threatened when Jazid nomads invade, carrying Allegro into the desert as a prized trophy…or worse. Until an unexpected ally falls under her spell. From the moment feared Jazid warrior Markus Onyx sees the alluring beauty, he knows he has found his queen. But even the promise of love cannot quell Allegro's determination to save her homeland. Summoning her powers, she casts herself north—out of passion's grip—and into the dark heart of conflict.…
Download or read book Nightbird written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, comes a beautiful spellbinding tale of magic, friendship and an ancient curse. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumoured to hide a monster - and it is these rumours of a winged beast which draw in as much tourism to the town as its famous apple orchards. Two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig’s family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, following the arrival of a new family in town, Twig may just have found her first true friend and an ally in vanquishing this ancient curse. It’s time to try and break the spell... but will everything change when the red moon rises? Be enchanted by this magical and endearing new story from highly acclaimed and widely adored Alice Hoffman, who has yet again created a beautiful novel that will bewitch its readers from the first page until the very last. Praise for Alice Hoffman: 'Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else' Jodi Picoult 'I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical. She does it here once again, in Nightbird. The book is like re-entering in a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember.' Lois Lowry 'Hoffman knows how to tell a good story' Sunday Times
Download or read book When the Night Bird Sings written by Joyce Sequichie Hifler and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming collection of brief essays, Hifler pays tribute to the simple blessings of daily life and shares the lessons she learned from those who nurtured her during her childhood in Cherokee County. In each small piece, she reflects upon a memory or incident from which she extracts fresh meaning. Planting beans, for instance, prompts a meditation on the unending story of creation.
Download or read book Can You Hear the Nightbird Call written by Anita Rau Badami and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected.
Download or read book Night Bird Calling written by Cathy Gohlke and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Cathy Gohlke, whose novels have been called “haunting” (Library Journal on Saving Amelie) and “page-turning” (Francine Rivers on Secrets She Kept), comes a historical fiction story of courage and transformation set in rural Appalachia on the eve of WWII. When Lilliana Swope’s beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn’t seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth’s estate and open a public library where everyone is welcome, no matter the color of their skin. Slowly Lilliana finds revival and friendship in No Creek—with precocious eleven-year-old Celia Percy, with kindhearted Reverend Jesse Willard, and with Ruby Lynne Wishon, a young woman whose secrets could destroy both them and the town. When the plans for the library also incite the wrath of the Klan, the dangers of Lilliana’s past and present threaten to topple her before she’s learned to stand. With war brewing for the nation and for her newfound community, Lilliana must overcome a hard truth voiced by her young friend Celia: Wishing comes easy. Change don’t.
Download or read book Speaks the Nightbird written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this “thoughtful” and “entertaining” seventeenth-century historical mystery from a New York Times–bestselling author (Stephen King). It’s 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She’s been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the traveling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favor of the beguiling young widow. Struck first by her beauty, Matthew believes Rachel to be too dignified, courageous, and intelligent for such obscene charges. The testimony against her is fanatical and unreliable. Clues to the crimes seem too convenient and contrived. A number of her accusers appear to gain by her execution. And, if Rachel is a witch, why hasn’t she used her powers to fly away from the gaol on the wings of a nightbird? God and Satan are indeed at war. Something really is happening in the newly established settlement—of that Corbett is certain. As his investigation draws him into the darkness of a town gone mad, and deeper into its many secrets, Corbett realizes that time is running out for him, for Rachel, and for the hope that good could possibly win out over evil in Fount Royal. From the award-winning author of Boy’s Life and Gone South, Speaks the Nightbird is an “absorbing historical mystery” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Night Bird written by Kathleen V. Kudlinski and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1993 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840 Night Bird, whose clan of Seminole Indians is fighting to preserve its traditional way of life in Florida, must decide whether to seek land and an unknown future in distant Oklahoma.
Download or read book The Obscene Bird of Night written by José Donoso and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader's mind -- Back cover
Download or read book Code of the Nightbird written by Mike Pratt and published by Kerry Michael Pratt. This book was released on 2022-04-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Julien Grant walks into the dentist's office one warm summer day, he expectsthe worst-cavities, a root canal, even oral surgery. But the doctor's orders are farmore terrifying: in order to have the surgery he needs, Julien will have to attend atwo-month-long conversion therapy program. His insurance provider, like most in2040s America, allows for carriers to pull coverage from those whose "lifestyle" goesagainst their religious beliefs. Faced with a ticking clock and no alternative, Julien findshimself at Galilee Baptist Church, an ostensibly beautiful property in coastal NewEngland with more than a few sinister secrets hidden below its pews.Galilee's director, known only as The Major, rules over the program with an iron fist;something that eventually pushes Julien to the limits of his sanity. At first, Julienwishes only to survive the program so his desperately-needed procedure can goforward, but when he develops feelings for Finn, another young man in the program,Julien must reevaluate everything.
Download or read book The Bird of Night written by Susan Hill and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1976-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In de stilte van zijn levensavond denkt een oude man terug aan zijn vriendschap met een begaafde dichter, wiens wankele geestesgesteldheid de koers van hun beider leven jarenlang bepaalde.
Download or read book The Night She Went Missing written by Kristen Bird and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great new voice in suspense...Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies who thrive on stories of deceit in the suburban world.” —J. T. Ellison, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Her Dark Lies "Pitch perfect suspense...The best debut I’ve read this year.” --Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author An intriguing and twisty domestic suspense about loyalty and deceit in a tight-knit Texas community where parents are known to behave badly and people are not always who they appear to be. Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children—and each other’s—for answers to questions they don’t want to ask. Each mother is sure she knows who is responsible, but they all have their own secrets to keep and reputations to protect. And the lies they tell themselves and each other may just have the potential to be lethal in this riveting debut.
Download or read book Night Parrot written by Penny Olsen and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued existence. Protected by spinifex and darkness, the parrot attained almost mythical status: a challenge to birdwatchers and an inspiration to poets, novelists and artists. Night Parrot documents the competitiveness and secrecy, the triumphs and adventures of the history of the bird and its followers, culminating in the recent discovery of live birds at a few widely scattered locations. It describes what we are now unravelling about the mysteries of its biology and ecology and what is still left to learn. Complemented by guest essays, illustrations and photographs from a wide variety of sources, this book sheds light on Australia's most elusive bird.
Download or read book Early Bird written by Toni Yuly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early bird wakes up and begins a search for breakfast.
Download or read book Speaks the Nightbird written by Robert R. McCammon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade, the "New York Times" bestselling horror novelist returns with a new two-part series set in 1699 in a small Carolina settlement where citizens think there's a witch among them.
Download or read book Chasing the Nightbird written by Krista Russell and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave young protagonist must rely on his wits and his friends to navigate dangers and escape an unwelcome fate in this action-packed historical novel. As the son of famous Black Jack Valera, the best whaler on the eastern seaboard, thirteen-year-old Cape Verdean Lucky Valera has led a charmed life. Then his father dies and his estranged half-brother Fortuna, kidnaps him. Lucky's hopes of joining the crew of the Nightbird are dashed as Fortuna forces him into servitude at a textile mill. When Lucky meets Emmeline, a spirited girl with abolitionist sympathies, and Daniel, who has escaped from slavery, his dream to return to his old life once again seems within reach. That is, if he and his new friends can outwit and outrun Fortuna and an enraged slave trader, both of whom will stop at nothing to get back what they believe is their rightful property. Krista Russell has created a fast-paced historical adventure that will keep readers hooked. Rich with historical detail, Chasing the Nightbird offers readers a glimpse into the past during a period of tremendous social and political upheaval, touching upon industrialization, the whaling industry in New England, and slavery.
Download or read book Can You Hear the Nightbird Call written by Anita Rau Badami and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? Tells The Stories Of Three Women, Linked In Love And Tragedy Over A Span Of Fifty Years, Sweeping From The Partition Of India And Pakistan To The Explosion Of Air India Flight 182 Off The Coast Of Ireland In 1985. There Is Bibi-Ji&Mdash;Who Steals The Heart Of Her Sister&Rsquo;S FiancÉ And Goes With Him To Vancouver, Where They Become Pillars Of The Sikh Community&Mdash;Who Is Haunted By The Subsequent Disappearance Of Her Sister During The Violence Of Partition; Her Neighbour Leela&Mdash;Trying To Get On With The Business Of Living In This New World Of Opportunity&Mdash;Who Feels Herself Always A &Lsquo;Half And Half,&Rsquo; A Newcomer Struggling To Find Her Way In The Colourful &Lsquo;Desi&Rsquo; Community Of Vancouver; And Nimmo, Orphaned By The Devastation That Engulfed India After Partition, Who Tries To Rebuild Her Life In Delhi. But For All Three, The Conflicts Of The Past Re-Emerge With Shattering Results. Rich With Anita Rau Badami&Rsquo;S Warmth And Humanity, And The Daily Sights, Scents And Sounds Of Both India And Canada, Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? Also Shows The Tumultuous Effect Of The Past On New Immigrants, And The Ways In Which Memory And Myth, The Personal And The Political, Become Heartrendingly Connected.
