Download or read book The Legend of the Blue Feather written by James F. Cline and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father James F. Cline was simply a man of faith. He loved the intersection of theology and the human condition; he was defined by his family and interpersonal relationships. He also as a brother, uncle, father, grandfather and great grandfather understood the role of God and trust in the midst of this human journey called life. He wrote many titled and untitled short stories, poems, humorous musings and reflective journaling over the years. My nearest sibling compiled many, I too have complied as much writings as could be found and reconstructed. As his son, it is my mission as his son to help continue my fathers legacy by introducing the world to many of his innermost thoughts about his love and reliance on God manifests itself through his writing.
Download or read book Bluefeather Fellini written by Max Evans and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Taos Indian and part Italian, Bluefeather Fellini walked in two worlds, with occasional direction from an enigmatic spirit guide. His search for life's greatest gifts takes the reader from the mines of the American Southwest to the trenches of World War II Europe in this magical, savage and passionate novel.
Download or read book Jimmy Bluefeather written by Kim Heacox and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (“with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in”), he’s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb’s senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue’s gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain’s THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and John Nichols’s THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in. It
Download or read book The Legend of the Royal Blue Mounties written by Anthony Miller and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s, when Alaska was still a territory, many came for the gold, abundant fisheries, and the fur trade—but some came to swindle, to take advantage, and prey on the innocent. Yukon was Canadian, Alaska was U.S. The two territories were intertwined, and dependent on one another. When circumstances dictated, men of a more Nobel character than most, took it upon themselves to make Right. Maintain The Right—a Canadian North West Mounted Police motto, also became known in Alaska. Some writers of history, have a tradition, an intent, to purposely slant truth, to portray certain characters or events in a more favorable light, or simply to hide the facts. They tend to treat the common man as though he didn't exist. Unmentioned are the true heroes, those who do not seek fame, but simply live their lives with purpose, then fade away, forgotten in time. In keeping with that tradition, I have inserted my characters into true events. Some historical figures you will readily recognize, others will surprise you. Locations still exist and can be visited today, Fort Whoop-Up in Alberta Canada, and the Davidson Ditch, north of Fairbanks are fine examples.
Download or read book The Feather Thief written by Kirk Wallace Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Download or read book The Legend of the Teenage Sages written by Jacob Cortez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six teenagers are on their way to an adventure of skill, truth, and love. Becca, Jake, Mike, and Toni have all been the greatest friends to each other longer than each of them could remember. When these teens stumble upon a cave, their adventure will finally ignite. Gifted with special powers, they will test their skills of spreading good. The four stumble upon two already gifted teenagers, and soon find that they had gained their powers from the same place. Met by Destiny, Rachel and Josh, twins by birth, join the others in a quest for survival and a quest to save their parents from the true evil that took them. Meeting Jasmine, Queen Guardian Angel of the Heavens, the teens now know they are Sages.chosen to send evil back where it belongs. But in order to do this they must unlock the door to the Temple of Destiny, built by the Ancient Sages in the Guardian Angel Heavens. They are now on a quest to find the hidden keys to unlock the door of truth and also unlocking the truth buried deep inside themselves. But at the same time, they have to bring someone back into the light, from the deep and sorrowing darkness. The teens are soon helped by the Ancient Protectors of the Sages who lead them in the right direction to succeed in their quest. They will learn much, and travel to many places, including mythical lands. They will meet many beings that they could never have imagined. They still have so many more secrets to uncover about and around them. The teens-the Sages-have a Destiny far greater than any, and far too long and unique to ever think of completing. But can they succeed? The fate of all beings may rely on them.
Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legend of Quincibald written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeper of the Land written by Shiloh Love and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameo realizes the time for war has come. Shook is under heavy attack by a ghost horse and living tattoo, and she longs to end his torment. The longstanding battle between Malika Rain and Feather Blue comes to a head. When the smoke clears, one question remains—will Cameo and Shook’s love survive as they’re pulled into two different worlds? No one is shatterproof! Even the strongest and most stable souls can fall off the edge in the blink of an eye.
Download or read book Son of Blue Feather written by Lois Nelson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garth Kingman is a hermit, has been for the past ten years and that's the way it is. Let them call him half-breed. That's what he is, isn't he, a half-breed spawned by a couple of drunks? But he'll show them. He'll show them a half-breed can own and run the model farm of the county. His life as a recluse shatters when hoodlums leave an elderly couple they have robbed, bound and gagged in front of Garth's farmhouse. He grudgingly offers the old couple haven for the night, not realizing Sarah and Henry Lomax will change his life forever. Jenny, a feisty young nurse, wants nothing but friendship from Garth as she bullies him into examing his values. Will Jenny wait until he recognizes his prejudice and accepts the future? As he experiences life and death, love and hate, courage and cowardice, he begins to see the life he desperately wants.
Download or read book The Sun Bride written by Charles Sanford Skilton and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a legend of the Pueblo Indians from the four-corners area of the United States, the libretto by Lilian White Spencer relates the story of the brave Bluefeather, who falls in love with the Bonita clan's Sun Bride. The plot also serves as a frame for the depiction of Indian ceremonies and games, which have their foundation on Skilton's research into Pueblo music and lore. The opera is presented in piano-vocal score, since it was most often performed in this way. The edition includes two plates, which juxtapose the piano-vocal score with the orchestral score.
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Download or read book Legend of Solitary Dream written by Ruo LiuMeng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had been living in the dream for a thousand years. He had come out of a dark forest called Death's End, so how could he, who knew nothing about this world, walk from an ignorant youth to the peak of the world? What exactly happened in the middle?
Download or read book The Legend of Dagad Trikon written by Grégoire de Kalbermatten and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Dagad Trikon is an action-packed fantasy which tells of the search for ten caskets containing prophecies hidden by the Avasthas, an enlightened race who vanished thousands of years ago, and the quest for the greatest prize mankind can attain.
Download or read book The Secret of Quaking Asp Cabin and Other Stories written by Zane Grey and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kokopelli written by Ekkehart Malotki and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kokopelli the flute player is one of the most popular icons that American culture has adopted from the Native peoples of North America. The Kokopelli name and image are everywhere, adorning everything from jewelry, welcome mats, T-shirts, and money clips to motels, freeway underpasses, nature trails, nightclubs, and string quartets. Kokopelli evokes mystery and wonder, ancient ceremonies andøspirituality, Mother Earth and the purity of nature. But what exactly is Kokopelli? Just how Native American is this ubiquitous flute player? In this fascinating book, the distinguished scholar of Hopi culture and history Ekkehart Malotki describes the development of the Kokopelli phenomenon in American mass culture from its beginning to Kokopelli?s present status as pan-Southwestern icon. He explores the figure?s connections with the Hopi kachina god Kookop”l” and Maahu, the cicada, and discusses how this rock-art image has been appropriated and misunderstood. Kokopelli sheds light on a little-understood aspect of Hopi culture and testifies to the continuing power of Native cultures to spark the popular imagination and interest of outsiders.
