Download or read book The Centaur written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron’s agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is “a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.”
Download or read book Daughter of the Centaurs written by Kate Klimo and published by Bluefire. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone after her village is destroyed by Leatherwings, young Melora and her father's horse, Sky, survive on their own with a herd of wild horses until she finds a new home with a civilization of centaurs.
Download or read book The Centaur s Wife written by Amanda Leduc and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived. But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting. At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.
Download or read book The Centaur in My Forest written by L. V. Lane and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centaur fantasy romance
Download or read book Dreams of the Centaur written by Montserrat Fontes and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1997 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dreams of the Centaur" brings to light for the first time in fiction the tragic enslavement of the Yaqui Indians by Porfirio Diaz's regime at the turn of the last century. Through the lives of the Ducals--a Mexican family who has created a ranch out of the desert--this "Western saga brimming with the heart and soul of Mexico . . . is an extraordinarily rich novel" ("West Coast Review of Books").
Download or read book Human Centaur Relations written by Jack Doe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody said that the centaurs were drunkards, bullies, and above all, just the stuff of myths. But ever since Bryce was a little boy, his grandfather told him what the centaurs were really like, and like his grandfather and many generations before him, he longed to meet mankind's long-lost friends and mentors. Now 19, he's beginning to believe that maybe his grandfather's stories were just that-stories to tell little kids. But little does he know that light-years away is a centaur, Anul'thek, who has dreamed of reuniting just as much as Bryce has, and more importantly, Anul'thek and his mentor have already embarked on a years-long voyage to do just that. Disbelief and fear give way to joy, love, and passion when at last they meet, but will Bryce be able to open up to the centaurs' exuberant lust for life, or will he miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime? Find out as worlds collide in a long-awaited homecoming thousands of years in the making.
Download or read book Eye of the Centaur written by Barbara Hand Clow and published by Bear. This book was released on 1989-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inner journey into the multiple landscapes of the creative unconscious, guiding us through twelve thousand years of human history, with in-depth experiences of initiations and sacred rites.
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 19 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of journeys for Himeno and her friends. A trip to Science City leads to a mysterious train ride through the mountains. Then there's the class trip to the ancient floating city of Kyoto. Meanwhile, it's time to start thinking about what to do after high school--a journey none of them are quite ready to take!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 1 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himeno is a sweet, shy little centaur girl. In her world, everyone seems to be a supernatural creature, and all her classmates have some kind of horns, wings, tails, halos, or other visible supernatural body part. Despite their supernatural elements, Himeno and her best friends, Nozomi and Kyoko, have a fun and mostly normal daily school life!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 11 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the start of a new year at Shin Kanata High School! Himeno and her friends are returning to familiar territory, but for their adorable underlings, it's completely new ground. The president is followed around by a draconid named Karasuba-san and one of the catfolk, Inuki-san, while Ayaka the centaur continues her long-standing admiration of Hime. Both old friends and new unite in the latest installment of A Centaur's Life!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 16 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war is over and there is finally peace between the mammalian humans and the Amphibianfolk. But now the two very different cultures must learn to live together. Back in Japan, Himeno and the other girls enjoy a bit of a break and explore the mysterious Mitama Shrine.
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 6 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hime and her friends meet an amphibian figure from the world of business. Meanwhile, they try to solve the mystery of a paranormal peeper! False gods interrupt a festival ceremony. Later, a shared dream only leads to more questions. This is A Centaur's Life!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 15 written by Kei Murayama and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIGHTING IN THE CLASSROOM! Himeno's world is full of all kinds of creatures, from angelfolk to dog people to centaurs like herself. But the various races don't always get along, as proven when a terrorist group takes over Shin Kanata High School! If Himeno and her classmates are to escape, they will have to put aside their differences and work together...
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 4 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hime and her classmates receive the shock of their lives when they meet the new slithery transfer student! Hime is forced to face an old phobia, while the new snake girl tries her best to fit in. Later, a visit with Hime's grandparents reveals some interesting family history. Welcome to A Centaur's Life!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 14 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls take a lighthearted field trip to an onsen, but elsewhere in the world, things are getting complicated! The Amphibianfolk's war is taking on some surprising turns, and while business may be booming at the Mitama shrine, it's all due to the looming threat of a kaiju. Global events are starting to hit closer to home in Volume 14 of A Centaur's Life!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 7 written by Kei Murayama and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centaur girl Hime and her adorable cousin Shino, along with their catfolk, angelfolk, and other friends, pose the following question: are the legendary weretigers truly extinct? In the meantime, a battle of the home-makers ensues, while some serious father-daughter time is in order. Plus: mysterious aliens have arrived!
Download or read book A Centaur s Life Vol 5 written by Kei Murayama and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOME CENTAURS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS! Even though Hime and her friends live in an enlightened era where equality among all sentient creatures rules the day, there are harsh reminders that things weren't always this way. As the girls struggle with their plans for the future, Shino-chan learns important lesson about empathy for a creature smaller than herself. A Centaur's Life continues!
