Author: Julie K. Timlin
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ISBN: 9781910565469
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Sometimes all that s needed to oust darkness is a little light ... Fifteen year old Phoebe Wren had never been afraid of the dark, or the monsters and demons that inhabit its realms. But the dark creatures are learning to fear her ... Captain Schnither, fearsome leader of the Dark Army, knew full well that it would be more than his life was worth if he allowed Phoebe Wren and her loyal friends to gain the upper hand. The troublesome humans had outwitted him once too often, and it was time to put an end to their meddling once and for all. For a mere mortal to jeopardise evil s shadowy reign in the small town of Arles, Ireland, was unthinkable, even if the mortal was one of the Unspeakables a Light Bringer, tasked by the Atoner himself to bring an end to the dominion of darkness. Having dared to defy Schnither and his cronies once before, Phoebe knew that life back home in Ireland would not stay quiet for long. But she was not prepared for the ethereal struggle that was about to descend upon her and her loyal friends, Demetrius and Ella. With the help of Cosain, the fierce Captain of the angelic army and his brave warriors, Phoebe must risk everything as she takes on the wrath of Schnither and his dark hordes in a timeless battle of good versus evil.
Author: Julie K. Timlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910565407
Category : Young adult fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Sometimes all that is needed to oust darkness is a little light... Fifteen year old Phoebe Wren had never been afraid of the dark, or the monsters and demons that inhabit its realms. But the dark creatures are learning to fear her... Captain Schnither, fearsome leader of the Dark Army, knew full well that it would be more than his life was worth if he allowed Phoebe Wren and her loyal friends to gain the upper hand. The troublesome humans had outwitted him once too often, and it was time to put an end to their meddling once and for all. For a mere mortal to jeopardise evils shadowy reign in the small town of Arles, Ireland, was unthinkable, even if the mortal was one of the Unspeakables, a Light Bringer, tasked by the Atoner himself to bring an end to the dominion of darkness. Having dared to defy Schnither and his cronies once before, Phoebe knew that life back home in Ireland would not stay quiet for long. But she was not prepared for the ethereal struggle that was about to descend upon her and her loyal friends, Demetrius and Ella. With the help of Cosain, the fierce Captain of the angelic army and his brave warriors, Phoebe must risk everything as she takes on the wrath of Schnither and his dark hordes in a timeless battle of good versus evil. Here's what readers have been saying about the 'Phoebe Wren' series... "Phoebe Wren books make me read faster" - Ella, age 11 "Exciting!" - Jamie, age 13 "Couldn't put the book down" - Catherine, age 43 "I love these books, they're definitely on my 're-read' list" - Kathryn, age 17 "This author knows how to grab the readers' attention and never let go" - Ian, age 60 something "Best books ever... on my top ten best book list!" - Benjamin, age 12 "Books to be read by the whole family" - Debbie, age 30(ish) "Brilliant! I just can't read these books fast enough!" - Caitlin, age 13 "Absolutely riveting, couldn't put it down!" - Donna, age 40(ish) "I'm don't read an awful lot, but I really enjoyed the Phoebe Wren books" - Jack, age 16 "I can't wait for the next adventure!" - Abi, age 11 "Excellent!" - Dylan, age 14 "Brilliant books! Love the storylines and characters" - Jamie, age 13
Author: Julie K. Timlin
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781483159
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Fifteen year old Phoebe Wren and her parents Jack and Eva loved life in beautiful Africa, but everything was about to change with the fateful decision to return to their roots in Ireland. Phoebe's world is suddenly and devastatingly ripped apart, and she must choose whether to change the past and save her parents, or protect her future. What really happened on the family's ill-fated aeroplane journey home? Who are the strange angelic beings that come to Phoebe's aid? Can the past ever be rewritten, and what is the mysterious vortex of light which holds the key to unravelling the ethereal adventure in which Phoebe finds herself?
Author: Shea Ernshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982164824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In this “riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way” (Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author), three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders. Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis’s abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there’s a risk of bringing a disease—rot—into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn’t as safe as they believed—and that darkness takes many forms. “As spine-chilling as it is beautifully crafted” (Ruth Emmie Lang, author of Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance), A History of Wild Places is a story about fairy tales, our fear of the dark, and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind.
Author: Susan Meissner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 045147600X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark... Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides—and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
Author: Ellen Douglas Larned
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Christopher Reid
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0593320204
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by this storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today Poems of London covers a wide range of time and includes not only the pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot, but also tributes by notable visitors from all over, from Arthur Rimbaud to Samuel Beckett to Sylvia Plath, and contributions by an array of immigrants or the children of immigrants, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patience Agbabi, and recent Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo. All the famous sights of London, from the Thames to the Tower, are touched on in this vibrant collection, and denizens of its busy streets ranging from princes to pubgoers to pickpockets wander through these pages. The result is an enthralling portrait of an endlessly varied and fascinating place. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
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Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Lost Words by composer James Burton takes its inspiration and text from the award-winning 'cultural phenomenon' and book of the same name by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris: a book that was, in turn, a creative response to the removal of everyday nature words like acorn, newt and otter from a new edition of a widely used children's dictionary. Both the book and Burton's 32-minute work, which is written in 12 short movements for upper-voice choir in up to 3 voice parts (with either orchestral or piano accompaniment), celebrates each lost word with a beautiful poem or 'spell', magically brought to life in Burton's music. At its heart, the work delivers a powerful message about the need to close the gap between childhood and the natural world. Burton's piece was co-commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society for the Hallé Children's Choir and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piano accompaniment version was premiered at the Tanglewood Festival in 2019 by the Boston Symphony Children's Choir, of which Burton is founder and director. The Hallé Children's Choir will premiere the orchestral version of the full work in Manchester, UK, post-pandemic. Vocal Score Co-commission by Boston Symphony and Hallé Concerts Society for their respective Children's Choirs. Two versions - with orchestral or with piano accompaniment. The vocal score is the same for both versions. James Burton is a composer but also a conductor. He is conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and choral director of the Boston Symphony. The book The Lost Words, exquisitely designed, has won multiple awards and is an international best-seller. The vocal score includes Jackie Morris's beautiful imagery in its cover design.
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242153
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through “deep time”—the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present—he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of Norwegian sea caves to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, from Bronze Age funeral chambers to the catacomb labyrinth below Paris, and from the underground fungal networks through which trees communicate to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come. Woven through Macfarlane’s own travels are the unforgettable stories of descents into the underland made across history by explorers, artists, cavers, divers, mourners, dreamers, and murderers, all of whom have been drawn for different reasons to seek what Cormac McCarthy calls “the awful darkness within the world.” Global in its geography and written with great lyricism and power, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. Taking a deep-time view of our planet, Macfarlane here asks a vital and unsettling question: “Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth?” Underland marks a new turn in Macfarlane’s long-term mapping of the relations of landscape and the human heart. From its remarkable opening pages to its deeply moving conclusion, it is a journey into wonder, loss, fear, and hope. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
