Author : Steve Burrows
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459740823
As Inspector Domenic Jejeune searches for his missing brother in Wood Buffalo National Park, back in Saltmarsh, his estranged girlfriend Lindy is kidnapped by a dangerous foe, and it falls to his colleague Sergeant Danny Maik to rescue her.
Author : Meg Howrey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307949826
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate’s, but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home. Alone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she may have played in her sister’s collapse. As we follow her on an insider tour of rehearsals, performances, and partners onstage and off, she confronts the tangle of love, jealousy, pride, and obsession that are beginning to fracture her own sanity. Funny, dark, intimate, and unflinchingly honest, The Cranes Dance is a book that pulls back the curtains to reveal the private lives of dancers and explores the complicated bond between sisters.
Author : Clare Cooley
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781566400787
For Cooley the cranes are something beyond curiosity, perhaps familiar, yet inexplicable. To learn about the cranes, she went to the International Crane Fdn. in Wisconsin (the only place where all 15 species exist). There she walked among them and interacted with them. For 60 million years, cranes have flown over practically every continent. They can fly at altitudes of up to 30,000 ft. and can migrate over 5,000 miles. This book shares the magnificence of these creatures and helps their survival. For each species of crane, Cooley offers a page of poetic description accompanied by a watercolor illustration. A beautiful work of art with a gorgeous slipcase.
Author : Steve Burrows
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786075768
A trail of a murder leads Domenic Jejeune across a vast continent… Newly estranged from his girlfriend, Lindy Hey, Inspector Domenic Jejeune returns to Southern Ontario, where he receives news that his brother, Damian, has gone missing in Wood Buffalo National Park while conducting research on Whooping Cranes. Domenic immediately heads out to try to find him. Back in the U.K., Jejeune's plan to protect Lindy has failed, and she has been kidnapped by his old foe, Ray Hayes. Jejeune's trusty sergeant, Danny Maik, tracks down Lindy, but there is far more to the situation than he anticipated. With Lindy in imminent danger, Maik is forced into a desperate rescue attempt. Will either of them survive? And if so, can they find their way back to each other?
Author : Steve Burrows
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0861541766
On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of arson attacks in Norfolk. When a corpse is discovered in a bird hide, Danny’s investigation escalates. It appears the body links the two enquiries, but the men are unable to share information. As they attempt to unravel a twisted web of leads involving Antarctic researchers, uncompromising climate scientists and billionaire philanthropists, Jejeune is forced to decide how much he is willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of truth. Praise for the series ‘One of the most delightful mysteries of recent years.’ Daily Mail ‘A most entertaining read.’ The Times
Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620407027
Presents the story of Philip Benjamin, a young man haunted by images of his staid, middle-class parents and frightened by the thought of revealing his homosexual identity to them.
Author : Aida Salazar
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338343904
From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees. Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.Then one day, Betita's beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?
Author : Jeannette C. Armstrong
Publisher : Dancing with the Cranes
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781894778701
Dancing with the Cranes gives an understanding of birth, life and death. Chi's momma is soon to have a baby, but Chi is having a hard time being happy about it. Chi misses Temma (her grandma), who has passed away. Chi's momma and daddy help ease the pain of losing Temma and help Chi to understand life and death as a part of nature. Chi soon finds herself feeling comforted, knowing Temma will always be a part of her and looking forward to the new baby who will be a part of their lives.
Author : Veronika Martenova Charles
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Cranes (Birds)
ISBN : 9780773757189
Feeling that the arrival of a new baby has stopped her parents from loving her, Yoshiko goes to live among the cranes, whose magic transforms her into one of their young for a while.
Author : Christy Yuncker-Happ
Publisher : Pocket Naturalist Guide Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Cranes (Birds)
ISBN : 9781583556900
Renowned for their elaborate mating displays, sandhill cranes also use body language to announce intent, establish dominance, show arousal, preserve the nest territory and bond male and female pairs. This beautifully photographed reference guide - the result of years of field research by Christy and George Happ - provides a handy dictionary to the meanings of their complicated displays.
