Author : Susan Moore
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0857639595
The third riveting story about orphan heiress, Nat Walker, and her robot dragon, Fizz. Nat has faithfully followed the clues her father has left her from beyond the grave, and she is closing in on the prize. Soon, all will become clear and her future path determined. But it will be a dangerous one, and not for the faint-hearted... A page-turning story that brilliantly combines action and adventure with a search for family and knowledge. Completely gripping!
Author : Shatha Ghanem
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1543741568
Since the advent of time, man has been subjected to all the forces that surround him and has been prone to the evil in all dimensions, attacking him, turning his world upside down andsowingchaos beyond repair. However, man has also created some tools to defend himself and has beengiftednaturallyin many other ways for the same. The magical stone, Marine, is one of the rarest gemsin the known world andholdsthepower to help its master out ofany difficult situation or crisis. Themanner in which it does so is very unique, to say the least. In essence, the stone brings backan extinctanimalspecies into the world, a species that hasthe capability to help the owner of the stoneresolve theirproblems. The story oftheLava family,the atrocitiesthey face, and the bonds of family,isonethat serves as the perfect metaphor formanyreal world scenarios. The help of extinct animals, each one of them in a distinct manner according to the abilities they possess and according to the need of time, is something to ponder over. Marine Stone is a journey from Belle Island to the village of Chess Squares, and everything in between. The extinct animals come and go as they are needed and each one of them leavesan indelible markon the hearts of the Lava men, changing them and their lives forever.
Author : Mary R. Bullard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820327419
Cumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natural beauty. With a thoroughness unmatched by any previous account, Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists. Author Mary Bullard, widely regarded as the person most knowledgeable about Cumberland Island, is a descendant of the Carnegie family, Cumberland's last owners before it was acquired by the federal government in 1972 and designated a National Seashore. Bullard's discussion of the Carnegie era on Cumberland is notable for its intimate glimpse into how the family's feelings toward the island bore upon Cumberland's destiny. Bullard draws on more than twenty years of research and travels about the island to describe how water, wind, and the cycles of nature continue to shape it and also how humans have imprinted themselves on the face of Cumberland across time--from the Timuca, Guale, and Mocamo Indians to the subsequent appearances of Spanish, French, African, British, and American inhabitants. The result is an engaging narrative in which discussions about tidal marshes, sea turtles, and wild horses are mixed with accounts of how the island functioned as a center for indigo, rice, cotton, fishing, and timber. Even frequent visitors and former residents will learn something new from Bullard's account of Cumberland Island.
Author : SR Summers
Publisher : ShieldCrest Publishing
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911090933
The First book in the Infinity Squared Series. Don't think. Just run. When what lies ahead is less fearful than what lies behind, and west-coast unknowns less terrifying than east-side tragedies, there is no choice other than the one through the window at the end of a third-floor police station corridor. Without another thought, the girl runs. Her jump will take her to the street below, to encounters with humanity that will both shock and save her, to the girl she becomes the one who knows how to fight, but also survive, even shine, in the darkest places. She does not go unnoticed. The mob boss, the ruler of Vegas, has seen her. But she is not ready to be seen. And this time there is no corridor, and no window.
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Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category :
ISBN :
Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
Author : Andre Agassi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307592804
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time “Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career.
Author : Shiloh Love
Publisher : eXtasy Books
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1487437730
Forget Santa…the only man Sasha wants in her chimney is Master Swann, the dashingly handsome, irresistible music teacher with a voice smoother than fine wine and richer than liquid gold. When Nash Swann chooses Sasha as the newest member of his a cappella group for an upcoming Christmas concert, they hit high notes that leave the shy working girl living a euphoric dream. In his quest for a soulmate, Master Swann utilizes his skill as a music teacher to find his queen. When classes end for the year, Swann makes his move. He must ease his chosen love interest into a new world—his world, then risk losing her as the final step. What awaits them if they succeed is sheer paradise. Suspended between fantasy and reality, Sasha struggles with her attraction to a man who dominates her thoughts and her body. Falling in love with her voice instructor will ruin everything! When the master mysteriously vanishes after a night of unbridled passion in which he declared Sasha his queen, she sadly moves on. Will the nightmare before Christmas knock Sasha off key? Or will the master surprise her with the most incredible gift of all? Fame and fortune challenges true love in this warm fuzzy romance hot enough to melt ice off the rooftops.
Author : Michael Molasky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824823009
Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a propitious time. Although Okinawa Prefecture comprises only one percent of Japan's population, its writers have been winning a disproportionate number of literary awards in recent years--including the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for fiction, which was awarded to Matayoshi Eiki in 1996 and to Medoruma Shun in 1997. Both Matayoshi and Medoruma are represented in this anthology, which includes a wide range of fiction as well as a sampling of poetry from the 1920s to the present day. Modern Okinawa has been forged by a history of conquest and occupation by mainland Japan and the United States. Its sense of dual subjugation and the propensity of its writers to confront their own complicity with Japanese militarism imbues Okinawa's literary tradition with insightful perspectives on a wide range of issues. But this tradition is as deeply rooted in the region's lush semitropical landscape as in the forces of history. As this anthology demonstrates, Okinawan writers often suffuse their works with a lyricism and humor that disarms readers while bringing them face to face with the region's richly ambiguous legacy.
Author : Mildred Maiorino
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0595364268
Butch was an interesting cat when he was alive. Now that he's dead he's even more so. In his feline-humanoid form-he plays the guitar and often talks to his former mistress, the writer he calls Sweet Lady. He also takes her and Ginger, the channel, on the most amazing adventures in dimensions beyond normal sight-but no less real for all of that. Once incarnated on earth to study humans, Butch is now back on "the other side" at his own "pad" as he calls it (Butch is definitely something of a Beatnik). Over there, he is recognized as a Bhagawan or spiritual Master. Sweet Lady has chronicled her dream time travels with Butch-with edits from Ginger who perches atop her monitor when she writes. She introduces us to fascinating people, shares the deeper meaning of life she discovers, and whisks us along through the wonderful realms of her imagination. But why does it seem so real? Could it be that it is the true reality she describes? "We-e-l-l-l," Bhagawan Butch would say, "that's what you gotta decide." -Laren Bright Laren Bright is an Emmy nominated and award winning writer who has spent years in helping business, authors and self-published authors provide sparkling promotional text.
Author : Laura Frantz
Publisher : Revell
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493434128
It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life. Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. But when the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty. Will a war and a cache of regrets keep them apart, or can their shared vision and dedication to the colonial cause heal the wounds of the past? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz whisks you away to a time fraught with peril--on the sea and in the heart--in this redemptive, romantic story.
