Author: Gary Thorp
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 9781550549720
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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One man's search for the elusive mountain lion and his unexpected discoveries along the way. Caught in Fading Light is a richly contemplative account of one man's quest to see a mountain lion in the wild hills and mountains of northern California, where he lives. In spare, elegant prose, Gary Thorp describes his adventures, from taking a one-day class on tracking animals to visiting a mountain lion in the zoo to following a rattlesnake's progress through the grass to encountering bobcats and eagles on his numerous forays into the hills by day and, increasingly, by night. Delicately weaving natural history, personal narrative and Zen Buddhism, Caught in Fading Light explores what it means to seek something you might not find, taking solace in the notion that the "value of any enterprise is in completely experiencing what happens."
Author: Rose Osterman Kleidon
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1632996111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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If you liked Patrick O’Brian’s epic Aubrey/Maturin series, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, or Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, you’ll love 1836. Europe, beautiful and cultured, is roiling in post-Napoleonic chaos… …the only way out is to cross a dangerous ocean. Can this desperate family reach the shores of America? In 1836, Europe is still haunted by the Napoleonic Wars, and battle-weary veterans get the worst of it. Reactionary rulers everywhere try to snuff out the very idea of freedom...and those who treasure it. One man, Niklas Kästner, knows they must go. But he and his mercurial Katrina must somehow make the journey safe for all of the family, including the children. To reach the sea. To find a ship. To survive the voyage. This is the story of the author’s immigrant ancestors, like those of millions of Americans, and the chances they took, the lives at stake. Read it now. “1836: Year of Escape pulls off a literary magic trick, weaving the sweeping movements of history around the gripping account of a single family’s desperate emigration to America.” —Pete Beatty, author of Cuyahoga “The tightly packed narrative unfolds like leaves on a family tree... The author creates a world that feels as if the reader walks as a witness to a real family's journey.” —Nancy E. Turner, NYT Bestselling Author, These Is My Words “Engrossing story, glowing prose, stunning imagery.” —Steve Vogel, NYT Bestselling Author, Reasonable Doubt
Author: Nick Cook
Publisher: Voice from the Clouds
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Nightmares are stalking the streets of London. With the Shade’s grip on the world strengthening as reality starts to break down, Jake and Chloe, genetically modified psychic warriors, must prepare to take on their greatest enemy once again. But with lives already sacrificed to the Zoom virus and the Awoken scattered across the globe, can they ever hope to overcome the Shade’s twisted plot, which stretches to the heart of a corrupted government? As a huge Shade-made storm swamps Britain and isolates London, Jake and Chloe have no choice but to risk everything as they travel from the Isle of Alderney to the capital city. Joining with more Awoken, they’re propelled on a desperate search to stop a new doomsday device that threatens the very existence of the city. With old enemies and new allies, this is a battle of light against dark. The Shade are coming, and only the Awoken can stand in their way.
Author: Jon Cleary
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1620648172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is in Berlin to trace her missing mother. As Europe plunges towards war, we become enthrallingly involved in Cathleen's story—and the story of Admiral Canaris, as he agonizes over a secret he has uncovered; of an English aristocrat who was once one of Hitler's favorites, and now tries to battle against her disillusion; of General von Albern as he plans to assassinate Hitler; of the General's son Helmut and his war-threatened romance with an English actress, Melissa Hayes. All this we see through the eyes of Sean Carmody, the boy from the Australian bush who has lost his innocence amidst the politics and ambitions of Nazi Germany.
Author: Amber Films
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Rebecca J. Manring
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199736464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Rebecca J. Manring offers a hagiographical treatment of Advaita Acarya, a fifteenth century leader in a new devotional school of Vaisnavism. She uses the Bengali material as a case study of how to read and understand hagiographical literature.
Author: Maarten Maartens
Publisher:
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Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Charlotte C. Davenport
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Lily Everett
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250074045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Celebrate Christmas on Sanctuary Island, where the love light gleams. There will be snow and mistletoe...and two lonely hearts yearning for love, family, and above all, home. Magazine columnist Libby Leeds has made a name for herself sharing heartwarming stories from her perfect life on Sanctuary Island. There's just one minor detail she's left out: she hasn't set foot on the island since her childhood. Orphaned and heartbroken, she departed years ago and never looked back-except in her fictional columns. Now a wounded war hero is returning to Sanctuary Island, and Libby's editor insists she cover the story by taking the long road back... HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Army Ranger Owen Shepard is a tall, handsome single father, and now a media sensation. He wants to reconnect with his daughter, Caitlin, and make up for lost time by giving her a Christmas to remember. When "America's Favorite Homemaker" Libby Leeds offers her help, he jumps at the chance. But the sweet, reclusive writer is more intriguing, and more tempting, than Owen could have imagined. Soon, Owen and Caitlin are spending their holiday with Libby, decorating trees, making gingerbread houses, and warming up by the fire. It's the closest Libby has come to love and family since she was a child-but until she and Owen admit what is in their hearts, the home they are creating together will be only in their dreams. "Sanctuary Island will live in your heart long after the book is closed." -Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author
