Download or read book The orphan and the crone written by Eilean L.M. Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Crone written by J. H. Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure of the Ice Age in which Shiva, a young orphan girl, is captured by the fearsome Barradik tribe. Magic, danger, courage. Sequel to S̀hiva'. 10 yrs+.

Download or read book The Orphan s Tales In the Night Garden written by Catherynne Valente and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up Readers Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us–to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time–a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page . . . Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet in the tapestry of her voice. Inked on her eyelids, each twisting, tattooed tale is a piece in the puzzle of the girl’s own hidden history. And what tales she tells! Tales of shape-shifting witches and wild horsewomen, heron kings and beast princesses, snake gods, dog monks, and living stars–each story more strange and fantastic than the one that came before. From ill-tempered “mermaid” to fastidious Beast, nothing is ever quite what it seems in these ever-shifting tales–even, and especially, their teller. Adorned with illustrations by the legendary Michael Kaluta, Valente’s enchanting lyrical fantasy offers a breathtaking reinvention of the untold myths and dark fairy tales that shape our dreams. And just when you think you’ve come to the end, you realize the adventure has only begun…. Praise for In the Night Garden “Cathrynne Valente weaves layer upon layer of marvels in her debut novel. In the Night Garden is a treat for all who love puzzle stories and the mystical language of talespinners.”—Carol Berg, author of Daughter of Ancients “Fabulous talespinning in the tradition of story cycles such as The Arabian Nights. Lyrical, wildly imaginative and slyly humorous, Valente's prose possesses an irrepressible spirit.”—K. J. Bishop, author of The Etched City “Astonishing work! Valente’s endless invention and mythic range are breathtaking. It’s as if she’s gone night-wandering, and plucked a hundred distant cultures out of the air to deliver their stories to us.”—Ellen Kushner, author of Thomas the Rhymer “Refreshingly original in both style and form, In the Night Garden should delight lovers of myth and folklore.”—Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters trilogy

Download or read book Children s Books and Their Creators written by Anita Silvey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.

Download or read book The Orphan King written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the Immortals is in the hands of an orphan My greatest fear was that they would find us and make of us a sacrifice beneath a full moon. Now you, Thomas, must help us destroy the circle of evil. The last words of a dying woman would change the life of young Thomas. Raised behind monastery walls, he knows nothing of his mysterious past or imminent destiny. But now, in the heart of medieval England, a darkness threatens to strangle truth. An ancient order tightens their ghostly grip on power, creating fear and exiling those who would oppose them. Thomas is determined fulfill his calling and bring light into the mysterious world of the Druids and leaves the monastery on an important quest. Thomas quickly finds himself in unfamiliar territory, as he must put his faith in unusual companions—a cryptic knight, a child thief, and the beautiful, silent woman whom may not be all she seems. From the solitary life of an orphan, Thomas now finds himself tangled in the roots of both comradery and suspicion. Can he trust those who would join his battle…or will his fears force him to go on alone?

Download or read book Bad to the Crone written by Amanda M. Lee and published by Spell's Angels Cozy Mystery. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scout Randall is more than a witch on a motorcycle. She's more than the magic she wields. She's also a woman with a secret past that she can't remember ... a sarcastic wonder who acts before she thinks.The one thing Scout knows with absolute certainty is that she's got a purpose in life ... and that purpose is fighting evil. That's why she joined the Spell's Angels, a biker group with offices all across the world. It's because of the group that she finds herself in northern Lower Michigan, in a place called Hawthorne Hollow, where magic is out in the open and Scout finds her powers are constantly on display.She was transferred to the town because they needed help, although no one will tell her what happened to the woman who held the position before her and she's constantly distracted by the local denizens, including Gunner Stratton, a shifter with a history he would rather keep to himself.Scout is determined to do her job ... even if it means taking on the congregation of a local church with murky origins. It seems the dead are rising in Hawthorne Hollow and it's up to Scout to figure out why.She's going to have to learn to trust her new co-workers - and a few random outsiders in the colorful town - on the fly because they're all going to have to come together to take down an enemy that is strong enough to wipe Hawthorne Hollow off the map.Get ready for adventure, because it's going to be nonstop from here on out.

Download or read book The Orphan s Tales In the Cities of Coin and Spice written by Catherynne Valente and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in the next book of Orphan’s Tales—an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday. . . . Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan’s eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers. Nothing is too fantastic, anything can happen, but you’ll never guess what comes next in these intimately linked adventures of firebirds and djinn, singing manticores, mutilated unicorns, and women made entirely of glass and gears. Graced with the magical illustrations of Michael Kaluta, In the Cities of Coins and Spice is a book of dreams and wonders unlike any you’ve ever encountered. Open it anywhere and you will fall under its spell. For here the story never ends and the magic is only beginning. . . .

Download or read book Sacral Grooves Limbo Gateways written by Keith Cartwright and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper—more rhythmic and embodied—signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge, kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency (such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma. Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others), Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing them to “swallow lye,” like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's “A Worn Path.” Here, literary study may open pathways to alternative medicines—fetched by tenacious avatars like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)—to remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.

Download or read book Sex and Stravinsky written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books when she can carve out time when she isn't caring for her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Gilbert on Barbara Trapido: "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert

Download or read book The Orphan Army written by Jonathan Maberry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers.

Download or read book The Griffith Project Volume 1 written by Paolo Cherchi Usai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works still awaits proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy' (1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.

Download or read book A Crone to Pick written by Amanda M Lee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scout Randall knows what she is, more than a witch, more powerful than she ever thought imaginable. She's only hit the tip of the iceberg on what she can do. Now she has to grapple with another problem.When her former partner Evan was believed dead in a vampire attack, she blamed herself, mourned, and tried to move on. Now he's back, and he's more than anybody ever imagined, too. Unfortunately, nobody can find him.When news reaches Scout that there's been a potential vampire attack in neighboring Hemlock Cove, she packs her bags and hits the parnormal tourist destination with her boyfriend Gunner as backup. She's not prepared for what she finds, including a gaggle of witches who like to cause trouble wherever they go.Evan is there, lurking in the shadows and struggling with an identity he didn't ask for, but death is stalking the town from multiple directions. Murder, mayhem, and monsters are afoot and Scout is determined to get to the bottom of it all ... even if her life is in danger in the process.The baddest motorcycle gang in the Midwest is about to meet the Winchester witches. The world will never be the same.

Download or read book The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Walkthrough - This massive strategy guide features everything you need to complete all quests, upgrade to the best gear, and craft the most powerful items. Discover Multiple Endings! Complete Bestiary - Detailed descriptions of every foe that Geralt will face on all of his adventures. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of every enemy to counter their attacks with lethal accuracy and dispatch them with cat-like grace! The Ultimate Guide For Your Journey - Discover every important destination in the game! Learn the location of every Witcher Class Item, Relic, Place of Power, Monster Nest, Hidden Treasure, and more!

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Download or read book Cut to the Crone written by Amanda M Lee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scout Randall needs answers on a past she can't remember ... and when an associate introduces her to an individual who claims to have known her family way back when, she believes those answers might finally be accessible. That falls by the wayside, though, when a tanned vampire lands in her backyard in the middle of the night ... and he has a magical teenager in tow. Sami Winters is all mouth and determination ... and she's looking for her parents. Scout wants to help, but handling a teenager like Sami isn't as easy as it looks on the surface. By the time her wayward parents catch up with her - including a mother who is rumored to be the most powerful mage in the world - Scout finds herself knee-deep in a new adventure.It seems female shifters in the area are going missing and rogue vampires from areas unknown are on the prowl. Sami Winters is a hybrid, part-wolf and part-mage, and she's a coveted ally in what's being described as a coming war. Scout has no choice but to join with the newcomers to figure out what's going on.Vampires and werewolves working together is unheard of, right? Maybe not. If the signs are right, it seems a new enemy is brewing, and Scout is going to need help taking down an entire army of paranormal foes.At the end of the day, she just wants to know who she is and where she came from. The answers might be closer than she ever imagined.

Download or read book Tritt Family History Ancestry life and times of brothers Hans Peter and Christian Tritt immigrants to Pennsylvania in 1739 and their children written by Harold Maurice Hegyessy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Peter Tritt, Jr., from Diedendorf in Alsace, came to Pennsylvania with his younger brother Christian, his mother, Veronica (Kern), & half-brother Marx in 1739. Hans Peter was born ca. 1715. Hans Peter was married twice, to Catharina (Bechtel?, Dietrich?) & Maria Barbara Dellinger. Christian married a lady named Catherine. Hans Peter died in March 1768; Christian, October 1801. Includes ancestry in Europe.

Download or read book Spring Wild Flowers written by Sir Daniel Wilson and published by London : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1875 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: