Author: Marilyn Lazzari-Wing
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781465349316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot’s wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man’s land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn’t be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250213606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series. “Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.” Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines—a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem... A standalone Wayward Children story containing all-new characters, and a great jumping-on point for new readers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Author: Ron Fritsch
Publisher: Asymmetric Worlds
ISBN: 0615464513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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In Ron Fritsch’s four Promised Valley novels, prehistoric farmers inhabit a fertile river valley they believe their gods promised them in return for their good behavior and obedience. Their enemies, hunters roaming the mostly barren hills beyond the mountains enclosing the valley, believe their gods gave it to them. Promised Valley Rebellion, the first book in the Promised Valley series, is a story of forbidden love. The farmers’ king refuses to allow the marriage of the coming-of-age prince to the daughter of the farmer who saved the king’s life in the last war with the hunters. Her brother decides he has to help his sister and the prince, his boyhood friend, correct the flagrant injustice. That decision leads them and their allies into a youthful rebellion against the king and his officials, who rule the kingdom from their bluff-top town. The far more numerous farmers in the villages below, who despise the officials but not the king, and who admire the prince, are in a position to determine whether the rebels will succeed or face execution for treason. Kirkus says “the story encourages the reader to ponder the universal elements of the tale” and calls the prehistoric world of the novel a “strange, primitive world that feels winningly real.” The US Review of Books says the novel “is a good tale that feels real, with a strong promise and a good twist at the end,” and a “good book to read by the fire in wintertime.” Promised Valley Rebellion is the winner of the gold medal in the Literary Fiction category of the 2010 eLit Awards competition. Promised Valley Rebellion is the first-place winner in the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Fiction category of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards competition. Promised Valley Rebellion is the winner of the silver medal in the Historical Fiction category, and a finalist in the General Fiction category, of the 2011 Readers Favorite awards competition.
Author: Sara Jewell
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
ISBN: 1771084200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Reflections on country life on Canada’s eastern coast: “Gentle humor and prose as clear and lilting as the song of the hermit thrush at dusk.” —Deborah Carr, author of Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka Sara Jewell has lived at eighteen different addresses—but there was one that remained constant: Pugwash Point Road in rural Nova Scotia. She was nine years old the first time her family vacationed in the small fishing village about an hour from the New Brunswick border, and the red soil stained her heart. Life, as it’s wont to do, eventually took Jewell away from the east coast. But when her marriage and big-city life started to crumble, she wanted only one thing: a fresh start in Pugwash. Field Notes includes forty-one essays on the differences, both subtle and drastic, between city life and country living. From curious neighbors and unpredictable weather to the reality of roadkill and the wonders of wildlife, award-winning narrative journalist Sara Jewell strikes the perfect balance between honest self-examination and humorous observation—in a delightful memoir accented with original drawings by Joanna Close. “A born storyteller . . . her sharp-witted but kind-hearted portraits of country people, places, and customs make for a remarkable first book.” —Harry Thurston, author of A Place Between the Tides and the Deer Yard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Author: Ron Fritsch
Publisher: Ron Fritsch
ISBN: 1466038764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Promised Valley War is the second book in Ron Fritsch’s four-novel Promised Valley series set in prehistoric times. Blue Sky, the farmer’s son who led the rebellion in the first book, and Wandering Star, the young hunter who became his lover, realize they and their peoples will suffer for the high treason they knowingly commit every moment they spend together. They, along with the other individuals on both sides willing to treat their “eternal” enemies as their equals, nevertheless set the stage for what they’ve feared most: another horrifying war.
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Bugs2writes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244202397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A QUIET DAY ANTHOLOGY - 2, (a companion book to A Lazy Day Anthology - 1), contains a diverse collection of short stories and tales written by the enthusiastic and dedicated writers of Bugs2writes. The group's aim is to charm, engross and enthral its readers with a compilation which includes both harrowing and heart-warming stories. Here you can discover narratives which relate unusual supernatural tales. There are a few gentle stories of country life. Other narratives are whimsical, some uplifting and some hard-hitting. A few stories are sad and some are humorous. Some tales are short; some are long. There really is something to interest, captivate and entertain you whatever your mood. Bugs2writes is donating profits from all royalties totalling 100% of the publisher's proceeds from all copies of these books sold in the UK and the World to Action Medical Research. (Registered charity: 208701 and SCO39284.)
Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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