Author: Emily Martha Sorensen
Publisher: Emily Martha Sorensen
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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When Viola sprains her ankle, she thinks it's going to be a terrible week. But then she gets an icepack that gives her the sense of fairy temperature. A 12,000 word children's fantasy story.
Author: Johnathan Fontenot
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480856541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Oylara is a beautiful world made up of many different environments. It is abundant in natural resources and home to strange and wonderful plants and animals. Fairies protect the world from harm. They are the guardians who work to keep Oylara healthy and beautiful, and now, they are needed more than ever as the Pollutoids arrive with ill intent. An alien race, they have decided to hunt one of Oylaras most amazing animals. Lord Admiral Coaltus has focused the Pollutoids attention on a food source in the Arctic, namely the Great Ocean Leviathan. Kirstie is a young Arctic fairy. To survive the cold climate, she is covered in white fur and has wings that allow her to fly underwater and watch over her beloved beasts. When one gentle Leviathan is injured, Kirstie considers it a declaration of war. She will act to defend these majestic creatures and stop the evil Pollutoid agenda. This lone, brave fairy must put an end to the attack before both her Arctic home and the world of Oylara are destroyed. The Arctic Fairies of Oylara is an action adventure tale with strong female characters, a cunning and dangerous adversary, and a message about the environment for us all.
Author: Lesley M. M. Blume
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375854932
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2050
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A compendium of practical information and cautionary tales about fairies and other similar magical creatures that might be encountered in modern cities like New York, intended to help the child who may come into contact with them.
Author: Karen Routledge
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658013X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however—the one experienced by native Inuit and others who work and travel there—is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and mythology. Do You See Ice? presents a history of Arctic encounters from 1850 to 1920 based on Inuit and American accounts, revealing how people made sense of new or changing environments. Routledge vividly depicts the experiences of American whalers and explorers in Inuit homelands. Conversely, she relates stories of Inuit who traveled to the northeastern United States and were similarly challenged by the norms, practices, and weather they found there. Standing apart from earlier books of Arctic cultural research—which tend to focus on either Western expeditions or Inuit life—Do You See Ice? explores relationships between these two groups in a range of northern and temperate locations. Based on archival research and conversations with Inuit Elders and experts, Routledge’s book is grounded by ideas of home: how Inuit and Americans often experienced each other’s countries as dangerous and inhospitable, how they tried to feel at home in unfamiliar places, and why these feelings and experiences continue to resonate today. The author intends to donate all royalties from this book to the Elders’ Room at the Angmarlik Center in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.
Author: Taylor Instrument Companies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: George W. Delong
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582182817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Lieutenant George Washington De Long was an American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition gave evidence of a continuous ocean current across the Polar Regions. In July of 1879 he set sail from San Francisco taking the Jeannette through the Bering Strait and heading for Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of Siberia. On September 5th, the ship became trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island (now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel. With crewman George Melville’s engineering skill, the boat was kept afloat for almost two years until it was finally crushed on June 12, 1881. The crew, including De Long, escaped with most of their provisions and three small boats. Their destination, the Siberian coast, lay some 600 miles away. They endured extreme hardships for the next two months as they crossed the ice. After reaching open water, one of the boats and the men aboard were lost. The remaining two boats became separated. De Long's boat reached the eastern side of the Lena River delta, Melville’s, reached the western side. Melville's party was rescued, but De Long and his men died of exposure and starvation. Melville later led an expedition that found the remains of De Long and his party the following Spring. De Long's journal, in which he made regular entries until shortly before his death, was found a year later and published as The Voyage of the Jeannette (1883). Three years after the Jeannette was sunk, wreckage from it was found on an ice floe on the southwest coast of Greenland, a discovery that gave new support to the theory of trans-Arctic drift.
Author: Raymond Lee Newcomb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Also includes an account of the Jeanette search expeditions, their discoveries, the burning of the Rodgers, etc.
Author: Jessica Deen Norris
Publisher: St. Lucy Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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From the ashes of Firesight, the saga deepens with the chilling secrets of Frostsight. In a world ensnared by Shadows, Tiber and Luci race against time, chasing cryptic visions of an elusive dragon. After a daring escape from Emperor Skardin’s storm dragon, Tiber and his friends venture into the icy northern mountains in search of the legendary frost dragon. But danger follows, with old enemies hot on their trail and new threats lurking in the forests. Tiber and Luci are faced with the agonizing choice: forge ahead in their quest for the dragon or defend the people from the emperor’s rage. And deep within the black forest of the Dreadwood, whispers of power and glory tempt even the bravest of souls. The journey continues with Frostsight, the thrilling sequel to the award-winning Firesight, where the battle for dragons could extinguish the Shadows - or cast the realm into an endless night. Perfect for fans of Eragon’s epic heroes and Percy Jackson’s fast-paced adventures, the Dragon Guardian Chronicles proves that in the darkest of Shadows, the strongest Light shines from within.
Author: Frank McCourt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684845245
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.
Author: J. A. Clarke
Publisher: Uncial Press
ISBN: 1601740697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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In fairy tales, the princess always gets the prince. Or does she? When Max Anderson reluctantly responds to Samantha Hogan's distress call one morning, he is convinced trouble is brewing. An investor in her business and a long-time friend, Max finds himself strangely and unexpectedly attracted to Sam's latest hedgehog-hair-forest-nymph appearance. Before he knows it, he's dragged into trying solve the strange happenings at The Seven Dwarves, preserving his body parts from surprise attacks by her dog, and competing with Sam's newly acquired boyfriend, the heir to a local winery. The hardest part seems to be convincing Sam that he's not Grumpy, the dwarf, but a candidate for her lover and her heart. Sam is distracted and confused by the growing strength of the feelings Max arouses in her. Why don't her boyfriend's kisses make her break out in goose bumps the way Max's dark gaze does? He's interfering with her investigation, interfering with her relationship with her perfect boyfriend and definitely interfering with her heart. Her dog wants to bite him, her neighbor wants to disembowel him and she somehow keeps ending up in bed with him, despite her conviction and the evidence of years that he will never make the commitment she craves. A fairy tale princess never had so tough a choice.
