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Book The Lion   the Swan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michele James
  • Publisher : R. R. Bowker
  • Release : 2020-01-22
  • ISBN : 9781951055509
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Lion the Swan written by Michele James and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STAR CROSSEDA northern princess captured by pirates is sold into slavery and gifted as dowry to the cruel father of a prince betrothed to a woman he despises. So is the lot of Oona, the Swan, an exceptional singer and dancer, stolen from her father's ship along with her sister, the Dove. Of all the horrors that awaits them, including training to be pleasure women for the brutal king, Oona never would have believed his son, Asad, the lion, Prince Black Mane of the Southern Great Valleys, would capture her heart. Any contact or familiarity between her and the prince with the glowing amber eyes, guarantees a flaying, if not death, and Oona, grief stricken over the prospect of never again seeing the prince for whom she has fallen, must get her sister home, or the delicate Dove will surely perish at the hands of the despicable king.

Book The Lion  the Witch  and the Wardrobe

Download or read book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe written by C.S. Lewis and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Book Little Swan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan London
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780761455233
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Little Swan written by Jonathan London and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2009 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trumpeter swan family stays close together as the cygnets learn how to feed themselves, honk when predators are nearby, and develop flight feathers. Includes facts about the trumpeter swan, the largest waterfowl in the world.

Book A Wild Winter Swan

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  • Author : Gregory Maguire
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 0062980807
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book A Wild Winter Swan written by Gregory Maguire and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

Book Midnight in the Snow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Swan
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2021-10-14
  • ISBN : 1529006155
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book Midnight in the Snow written by Karen Swan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, from Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas at Tiffany's, Karen Swan. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley; a surfer and snowboarder as well-known for controversy as he is for winning championships. Involved in an accident that had devastating consequences for a bitter rival, Kit has never spoken about what really happened that day. Determined to find out the truth, Clover heads to the snowy wilderness of the Austrian Alps, sharing a romantic winter wonderland with a man who can’t stand her. But as she delves deeper, Clover finds herself both drawn to Kit, and even more convinced he’s hiding something. Is Kit Foley really as cold as he seems? *** What readers are saying about Midnight in the Snow: ‘Heartwarming, romantic, uplifting. Great writing that wraps you like a blanket’ ‘Real and wonderfully, subtly painted so that, yet again, her novel makes you stay up until silly o’clock’ ‘An amazing gift for taking you to fabulous locations & gradually unwrapping secrets about her characters’ ‘Glamorous, thrilling and unashamedly romantic’

Book The Other Side of Truth

Download or read book The Other Side of Truth written by Paul Kimball and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Other Side of Truth, filmmaker Paul Kimball crosses the Rubicon of the imagination to explore the idea that what we call the 'paranormal' is actually a form of artistic expression created by an advanced non-human intelligence to inspire us to think about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. Using his own journey of discovery as the starting point, Kimball presents the 'other side of truth' - the world not as we have been told it is, but as we are being encouraged to imagine that it could become.

Book The History of Signboards  from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Download or read book The History of Signboards from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Jacob Larwood and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gentleman s Magazine

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cheshire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1971-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780300095883
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Cheshire written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1971-03-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the architectural tourist, one of Cheshire's greatest delights is the use of timber. Chester, whose famous rows with their upper walkways are unique in medieval Europe, continues the timber-framed tradition in its riotous Victorian buildings but glories also in its Roman past.

Book Bunny

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  • Author : Mona Awad
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-06-09
  • ISBN : 0525559752
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Bunny written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Book The Swan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Moss
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2021-11-04
  • ISBN : 1473587123
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book The Swan written by Stephen Moss and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the renowned naturalist Stephen Moss comes the must-have gift for bird lovers this Christmas. 'Wherever there is a stretch of water for them to find food and make their nest, you will come across swans' With beautiful illustrations throughout, this eye-opening biography reveals the hidden secrets of one of Britain's best-known birds. The Mute Swan is not so much a bird, as a national treasure: the avian equivalent of Sir David Attenborough or the Queen. These huge and stately creatures are part of our urban and rural landscapes, a constant presence on lakes, rivers and ponds throughout Britain. Yet despite their familiarity, they are often misunderstood; and while many people love swans, others fear them. Swans also feature in myths and legends, art and literature, dance and music, not just in Britain but all around the world. Stephen Moss delves into the facts and fiction about these charismatic birds, describes their seasonal life cycle and examines their central role in our history and culture. He also includes stories about 'wild swans' - Whooper and Bewicks - that visit us in winter; and the Black Swan of Australia. 'A superb naturalist and writer' Chris Packham 'Moss has carved out an enviable niche as a chronicler of the natural world' Daily Mail

Book The London Gazette

Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swan s Braid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tanya Huff
  • Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
  • Release : 2013-06-03
  • ISBN : 1625670389
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Swan s Braid written by Tanya Huff and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new short story collection from Tanya Huff. You can't belong to the Thieves' Guild if you can't break into the Thieves' Guild. When Terizan dropped out of the secret passage, past the net, and into the Inner Sanctum, she was astonished to discover that no one else had ever made it that far. Unfortunately, neither Terizan nor the Guild are thrilled about the sudden perception that she's the best thief in Oreen – the title comes with expectations and the Guild only ever expects the worst. In these five tales, mercenary captains, murderous royal families, ghosts, gods, and wizards prove that while it may not always be lonely at the top, it's definitely annoying. Good thing half a dozen gods owe Terizan a favour.

Book The Swan s Nest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura McNeal
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Release : 2024-03-12
  • ISBN : 1643756044
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Swan s Nest written by Laura McNeal and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen. “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,” Robert Browning wrote, “and I love you too.” Elizabeth Barrett was ecstatic. She was famous for her poetry but completely cut off from the kind of international travel that Browning used to fuel his obscure, unsuccessful, innovative poems, one of which was written from a murderer’s point of view. They began an affectionate correspondence, but Elizabeth kept delaying a visit. What would happen when he saw her in person? What was Robert really like? Could she persuade her father and brothers that he was honorable, even though she had never met his family? And what would happen if she gave in to Robert’s wild proposal that they go to Italy and see if the sun could cure her? McNeal brilliantly tells the story of how Robert and Elizabeth fell in love with each other’s words and shocked her conservative, close-knit family and the literary world. Sensitively and lyrically written, as rich as the lovers' own poetry, The Swan's Nest will sweep up readers in the triumphant story of two people forced to choose between a safe, stable life and the love they felt for each other.

Book Shadow of the Lions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Swann
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2017-08-01
  • ISBN : 1616207671
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Shadow of the Lions written by Christopher Swann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn’t just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me.” How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a literary thriller set in the elite—and sometimes dark—environs of Blackburne, a prep school in Virginia. When Matthias Glass’s best friend, Fritz, vanishes without a trace in the middle of an argument during their senior year, Matthias tries to move on with his life, only to realize that until he discovers what happened to his missing friend, he will be stuck in the past, guilty, responsible, alone. Almost ten years after Fritz’s disappearance, Matthias gets his chance. Offered a job teaching English at Blackburne, he gets swiftly drawn into the mystery. In the shadowy woods of his alma mater, he stumbles into a web of surveillance, dangerous lies, and buried secrets—and discovers the troubled underbelly of a school where the future had once always seemed bright. A sharp tale full of false leads and surprise turns, Shadow of the Lions is also wise and moving. Christopher Swann has given us a gripping debut about friendship, redemption, and what it means to lay the past to rest.

Book The Hungry Swan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tava Manickam
  • Publisher : Notion Press
  • Release : 2018-04-03
  • ISBN : 1642496936
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Hungry Swan written by Tava Manickam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hungry Swan, a work of fiction, flows along the life of Jay. Jay is born into an affluent family and has a chirpy and carefree life. However, inspired by a book that he accidentally finds in his grandparents’ attic, he sets out in search of the ultimate Truth; ‘Self-realisation’. The Hungry Swan does not carry names of places, nor is it time specific; the narrative is around the life journey of Jay and the purpose is to stress on the fact that there are as many paths to realise the Truth as there are people. Everyone’s perspective is unique and the only fuel is, of course, the hunger. Life helps by giving several hints to find appeasement of that hunger. Such hints are woven into the fabric of life, so intricately, that one almost always misses them! One has to go in search of it; Jay does too. But does he make it? Let The Hungry Swan take you out along with Jay, into the sky of the limitless!!