Author: Lee McElroy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896213845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Eyes of the hawk is a tale of Texan rivalry. Thomas Canfield is a man of substance; a Texan by birth and heritage, he is both decent and hard. Branch Isom is only hard. A newcomer to Stonehill, texas, Isom has earned a fortune carting cotton to Mexican ports during the Civil War. As Isom's wealth and holdings in Stonehill grow, Canfield's suffer. Yet, despite his reversals, Canfield stubbornly holds on to every inch of his hard-won ranch. Antagonists from the first, Canfield and Isom find that their changing fortunes aggravate a long-smoldering enmity. An uneasy truce is maintained until a drunken escapade erupts into gunfire and a man's son is killed"--Page 4 of cover.
Eyes of the Hawk
Author: Lee McElroy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896213845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Eyes of the hawk is a tale of Texan rivalry. Thomas Canfield is a man of substance; a Texan by birth and heritage, he is both decent and hard. Branch Isom is only hard. A newcomer to Stonehill, texas, Isom has earned a fortune carting cotton to Mexican ports during the Civil War. As Isom's wealth and holdings in Stonehill grow, Canfield's suffer. Yet, despite his reversals, Canfield stubbornly holds on to every inch of his hard-won ranch. Antagonists from the first, Canfield and Isom find that their changing fortunes aggravate a long-smoldering enmity. An uneasy truce is maintained until a drunken escapade erupts into gunfire and a man's son is killed"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896213845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Eyes of the hawk is a tale of Texan rivalry. Thomas Canfield is a man of substance; a Texan by birth and heritage, he is both decent and hard. Branch Isom is only hard. A newcomer to Stonehill, texas, Isom has earned a fortune carting cotton to Mexican ports during the Civil War. As Isom's wealth and holdings in Stonehill grow, Canfield's suffer. Yet, despite his reversals, Canfield stubbornly holds on to every inch of his hard-won ranch. Antagonists from the first, Canfield and Isom find that their changing fortunes aggravate a long-smoldering enmity. An uneasy truce is maintained until a drunken escapade erupts into gunfire and a man's son is killed"--Page 4 of cover.
In The Eye Of The Hawk
Author: Rex Barton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781957220581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ride shotgun with Hawk as he continues to serve and protect the people. In The Eye Of The Hawk - Book 2, more harrowing stories are revealed by Hawk and his intrinsic belief that each life matters. Since the beginning of time, wars have plagued humanity and wiped-out our tribes and nations, often due to the color of skin. Days go by and things appear to be fine until someone or something comes into your life and changes the very essence of who you are. Everyday law enforcement officers see the carnage that is left in the wake of tragedy and despair. They may not know who you are, but law enforcement officers are there to answer the call for help and intervene. They see the harm done from disparaging words, bruises, wounds, accidents, or cruelty inflicted on another. Their job is never-ending as they work to prevent escalation of incidents, arrest perpetrators, attend to the hurts and pains of those in need, and restore order. In The Eye Of The Hawk - Book 2, you will see a twist where even Hawk himself ends up entangled in the hurt and pains of a broken system and society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781957220581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ride shotgun with Hawk as he continues to serve and protect the people. In The Eye Of The Hawk - Book 2, more harrowing stories are revealed by Hawk and his intrinsic belief that each life matters. Since the beginning of time, wars have plagued humanity and wiped-out our tribes and nations, often due to the color of skin. Days go by and things appear to be fine until someone or something comes into your life and changes the very essence of who you are. Everyday law enforcement officers see the carnage that is left in the wake of tragedy and despair. They may not know who you are, but law enforcement officers are there to answer the call for help and intervene. They see the harm done from disparaging words, bruises, wounds, accidents, or cruelty inflicted on another. Their job is never-ending as they work to prevent escalation of incidents, arrest perpetrators, attend to the hurts and pains of those in need, and restore order. In The Eye Of The Hawk - Book 2, you will see a twist where even Hawk himself ends up entangled in the hurt and pains of a broken system and society.
The Eye of Venus
Author: Lawrence Martin Cooper
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664108955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book, ‘The Eye of Venus’, is Book One of a trilogy. The other books are entitled ‘Twenty Years On’ and ‘The Return to Chiaros’. This series, set hundreds of years ahead from now, and on another planet, is what I call (soft) Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Science and history are background to the story. The story is of a quest for an emerald, a special emerald. The emerald is part of a device that was used for inter-realm passage. The main competitors are Satanic forces, and a secret Catholic Church organization known as Probono Dei.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664108955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book, ‘The Eye of Venus’, is Book One of a trilogy. The other books are entitled ‘Twenty Years On’ and ‘The Return to Chiaros’. This series, set hundreds of years ahead from now, and on another planet, is what I call (soft) Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Science and history are background to the story. The story is of a quest for an emerald, a special emerald. The emerald is part of a device that was used for inter-realm passage. The main competitors are Satanic forces, and a secret Catholic Church organization known as Probono Dei.
Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188356
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188356
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .
The Eye of the Mammoth
Author: Stephen Harrigan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477320547
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born. Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift—a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist—is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477320547
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born. Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift—a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist—is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.
Eyes of the Hawk
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786215492
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thomas Canfield's people were among the earliest settlers, carving their ranch out of the wild country around Stonehill, Texas. Branch Isom was a brash, violent newcomer who fought ruthlessly to build a fortune at Canfield's expense. They were two hard men, hurtling toward a bloodstained clash for power that would shake Texas to its roots.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786215492
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thomas Canfield's people were among the earliest settlers, carving their ranch out of the wild country around Stonehill, Texas. Branch Isom was a brash, violent newcomer who fought ruthlessly to build a fortune at Canfield's expense. They were two hard men, hurtling toward a bloodstained clash for power that would shake Texas to its roots.
The Hawk Eternal
Author: David Gemmell
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345486137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
“Gemmell’s great reading—the action never letsup. He’s several rungs above the good—right into the fabulous!”—Anne McCaffrey While the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land. Only Caswallon—loner, warrior, and thief—realizes the true extent of the danger and the mayhem that his people will come to face. As Taliesen tries to discover Sigarni’s purpose, Caswallon must attempt to unite the clans to overcome their greatest peril. “For anyone who appreciates super heroic fantasy, David Gemmell’s offerings are mandatory.”—Time Out London
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345486137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
“Gemmell’s great reading—the action never letsup. He’s several rungs above the good—right into the fabulous!”—Anne McCaffrey While the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land. Only Caswallon—loner, warrior, and thief—realizes the true extent of the danger and the mayhem that his people will come to face. As Taliesen tries to discover Sigarni’s purpose, Caswallon must attempt to unite the clans to overcome their greatest peril. “For anyone who appreciates super heroic fantasy, David Gemmell’s offerings are mandatory.”—Time Out London
The Evil Eye
Author: Frederick Thomas Elworthy
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465573194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465573194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Good Hawk (Shadow Skye, Book One)
Author: Joseph Elliott
Publisher: Walker Books Us
ISBN: 1536207187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who patrols the high walls of her island home. She takes pride in her duties, though some in her clan whisper that she has only been given them to keep her out of the way, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime, thoughtful and anxious, is an Angler, but he hates the sea. To make matters worse, he's been chosen for a duty that has been outlawed by the clan for generations: to marry. The elders won't say why they have promised him to a girl from a neighboring island, but there are rumors of approaching danger. When disaster strikes and the clan is kidnapped, it is up to Agatha and Jaime to travel across mainland Scotia, a land devastated by a mysterious plague, where forgotten magic and dark secrets lurk in every shadow..."--Page [2] of cover.
Publisher: Walker Books Us
ISBN: 1536207187
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who patrols the high walls of her island home. She takes pride in her duties, though some in her clan whisper that she has only been given them to keep her out of the way, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime, thoughtful and anxious, is an Angler, but he hates the sea. To make matters worse, he's been chosen for a duty that has been outlawed by the clan for generations: to marry. The elders won't say why they have promised him to a girl from a neighboring island, but there are rumors of approaching danger. When disaster strikes and the clan is kidnapped, it is up to Agatha and Jaime to travel across mainland Scotia, a land devastated by a mysterious plague, where forgotten magic and dark secrets lurk in every shadow..."--Page [2] of cover.
Chasing the Hawk
Author: Andrew Sheehan
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0440333946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction. Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still. I know he is the key to my freedom.” To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru — the country’s “greatest philosopher of sport.” But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation’s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son. The events that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to bestselling author and media magnet began at the depths of what we would now call a midlife crisis, when he rediscovered an old love — running. Twenty-five years after his days on a high school cross-country team, he remembered how running made him feel free, and began beating a solitary path down his suburban streets. With running as his new religion, the formerly quiet, withdrawn man became an unlikely evangelist, converting a sedentary nation to the theology of fitness, and in the process becoming an internationally known figure. But the freedom he found in running was not enough, and one day he left his family, having decided that life was “an experiment of one,” and it was time for him to start living it. Angry and disillusioned after years of enduring his father’s self-absorption, and hurt by his apparent indifference, Andrew had long since begun the search for his own version of freedom, looking first to drugs and later to alcohol. By his twenties he was a confirmed alcoholic. By his thirties his marriage had fallen apart and he was drinking more heavily than ever. It was at that moment that his father threw him a lifeline. Although he was struggling with the cancer that would eventually end his life, Dr. Sheehan was the first to notice his son’s pain, and to reach out to him. In this stunningly candid book, Andrew Sheehan describes the process through which these two men carefully and lovingly rebuilt their relationship. And in the effort to understand and forgive the dark side of his father’s psyche, Andrew shows how he came to understand, and to transcend, his own. A gracefully written paean to the healing power of forgiveness, a memoir that will resonate with any “fallible” parent or child, Chasing the Hawk traces the arduous steps that carry father and son down the hard road to resolution, healing, and love.
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0440333946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction. Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still. I know he is the key to my freedom.” To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru — the country’s “greatest philosopher of sport.” But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation’s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son. The events that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to bestselling author and media magnet began at the depths of what we would now call a midlife crisis, when he rediscovered an old love — running. Twenty-five years after his days on a high school cross-country team, he remembered how running made him feel free, and began beating a solitary path down his suburban streets. With running as his new religion, the formerly quiet, withdrawn man became an unlikely evangelist, converting a sedentary nation to the theology of fitness, and in the process becoming an internationally known figure. But the freedom he found in running was not enough, and one day he left his family, having decided that life was “an experiment of one,” and it was time for him to start living it. Angry and disillusioned after years of enduring his father’s self-absorption, and hurt by his apparent indifference, Andrew had long since begun the search for his own version of freedom, looking first to drugs and later to alcohol. By his twenties he was a confirmed alcoholic. By his thirties his marriage had fallen apart and he was drinking more heavily than ever. It was at that moment that his father threw him a lifeline. Although he was struggling with the cancer that would eventually end his life, Dr. Sheehan was the first to notice his son’s pain, and to reach out to him. In this stunningly candid book, Andrew Sheehan describes the process through which these two men carefully and lovingly rebuilt their relationship. And in the effort to understand and forgive the dark side of his father’s psyche, Andrew shows how he came to understand, and to transcend, his own. A gracefully written paean to the healing power of forgiveness, a memoir that will resonate with any “fallible” parent or child, Chasing the Hawk traces the arduous steps that carry father and son down the hard road to resolution, healing, and love.