Download or read book Under the Heron s Light written by Randi Pink and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by stories about the real-world Great Dismal Swamp, this acclaimed fantasy explores alternate history, a family’s supernatural connections to the swamp, and the strength that comes in knowing your roots. ★ "A fierce, loving, and exquisite humanity-centered book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "Mesmerizing storytelling. . ." —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Four thousand six hundred forty-two steps in,” Grannylou interrupted. “You remember that now, Baby. Four-thousand six hundred forty-two steps to paradise.” On a damp night in 1722, Babylou Mac and her three siblings witness the murder of their mother at the hands of the local preacher’s son—so Babylou kills him in retaliation. With plantation dogs now on their heels, the four siblings breach the treacherous confines of the Great Dismal Swamp. Deeper and deeper into Dismal they delve, amid the biting moccasins and pitch-black waters, toward a refuge where they can live freely within the swamp’s natural—and supernatural—protection. Three-hundred years later, college student Atlas comes home to North Carolina for the annual Bornday cookout and hog roast: a celebration of the fact that she and her three cousins were all born on the same day nineteen years ago, sharing a birthday with their Grannylou. But this Bornday, Grannylou’s usual riddles and folktales about a marvelous paradise deep in the Great Dismal Swamp start to take on a tangible quality. Change coming. When Dismal calls, sucking Grannylou in, it’s up to Atlas and her cousins to uncover the history that the black waters hold. Centuries of family tension, with roots all over Virginia and North Carolina, are about to be dug up. Because Babylou and Grannylou are one and the same, and the power she helped cultivate hundreds of years ago—steeped in Black resistance, familial love, and the otherworldly mysteries of the Great Dismal Swamp—is bubbling back up. But so is a bitterness that runs deep as the swamp’s waters. And some are ready to take what they feel they’re owed.
Download or read book Herons and Their Allies written by Ronald G. Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eye of the Heron written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny. When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.
Download or read book The Herons Handbook written by James Hancock and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's herons. This book on herons and bitterns is an authoritative summary of what is currently known about this diverse and fascinating worldwide family of wading birds. It is the result of extensive studies carried out over many years by its distinguished authors on both sides of the Atlantic. The plumages, feeding and breeding behaviour, and ecology of each of the recognised species is illustrated in full-colour with paintings meticulously researched by Robert Gilman and Peter Hayman. A distribution map, based on the latest available information, also shows the range of each species. Because of the widening interest in wading birds, considerable attention is paid to identification in the field. Four identification plates, especially prepared by Robert Gillmor, show all the plumages in each stage of every species and race, of white herons and egrets. This information - invaluable for ornithologists and birdwatchers - has never before been brought together in one volume. References to all the relevant literature on herons and bitterns is included for those who want to make a deeper study of these birds, and the authors have contributed their own considerable experiences gained in the field. The definitive handbook on herons, this book will not only provide the basis for future research and conservation but will also be a source of interest and enjoyment for both birdwatchers and ornithologists.
Download or read book The Place of the Herons written by Patricia Herington and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing a true parent does not always produce the hoped-for, happy outcome.Attempts to form a relationship can flounder without the security of the familiar. Disappointment is a possibility and also the opposite - a euphoria that can develop into an intensity of feeling difficult to cope with. When Alex erupts, totally unexpectedly into his mother's life, the obsession which takes hold of them both, fractures her marriage and his. People around them are deeply affected. Dramatic changes are inevitable. The reader is left with the fragile hope that something may yet be salvaged fromjthe damage.
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sex Determination of Eagles Owls and Herons by Analyzing Plasma Steroid Hormones written by Michael P. Dieter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Zoologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Herons written by Helen Shipton and published by London and New York, Macmillan and Company. This book was released on 1895 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Herons Return written by David Nelson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his wife in Europe Jamie Jordon returns to New Zealand to discover his grandparent's apple orchard has become an abandoned quarry. The laid-to-waste landscape is a disgrace that Jamie vows to remedy. Hard-nosed businessman, Terry McKechnie, is responsible for this environmental vandalism. He and Jamie's ex-girlfriend, Liz Lawrence, have a marriage of convenience, but Terry wants more and becomes violent when Liz refuses. Jamie decides to restore the worked-out quarry and turn it into a top-class resort and country club, and when Liz leaves Terry he offers her employment. Suspecting the pair have become more than work colleagues, Terry's drunken retaliation backfi res and Liz's hopes for a better life are shattered.
Download or read book Under False Pretences written by Adeline Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Birds Eggs written by Chester Albert Reed and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrating the eggs of nearly every species of North American birds.
