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The Poacher's Daughter ...
Author: The Poacher’s Daughter
Author: Michael ZimmerPublisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 150472576X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won’t soon forget. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and Blackfeet. But the old ways of the hunter and trapper are disappearing as Europeans flood the ranges with vast herds of cattle. With an aging roan gelding named Albert as her closest friend, Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population, both native and white, as she stubbornly pushes back against the invading aristocracy.
POACHERS DAUGHTER;A WESTERN STORY
Author: MICHAEL ZIMMER.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781504725750
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Languages : en
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The Poacher's Daughter
Author: Margaret DickinsonPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529077974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
‘I’m going to live in that house, Dad. One day I’ll be mistress of Thornsby Manor . . .’ It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Young Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby estate. The land is owned by William Ramsey, a harsh and heartless man who is determined his only son, Byron, should marry well and produce an heir. Rosie is quick to learn the tricks of her father’s trade and it’s when she’s poaching fish from the estate’s stream that she meets Byron. They continue to meet in secret over the coming months and, as their friendship blossoms, they recognize that, despite their vastly different backgrounds, they are destined to be together. When William learns of their bond, he stops at nothing to ensure that they never meet again. As the years pass and the threat of war becomes a reality, Sam is involved in a tragic incident that will affect both his and Rosie’s lives more than they could ever have imagined. Life will never be the same in Thornsby, but will Rosie find the happiness she yearns for?
Poacher Panic
Author: Jan BurchettPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434290530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are recruited by their mysterious uncle Dr. Stephen Fisher, a famous zoologist, to rescue a Sumatran tiger from poachers.
The Poacher's Daughter
Author: Margaret DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780750550352
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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1910. Fourteen-year-old Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father Sam, in a cottage on the Thornsby estate on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The estate is owned by William Ramsey, a man determined that his only son Byron should marry well and produce an heir. Sam is well known as the local poacher, and Rosie is quick to learn the tricks of his nefarious trade. Rosie has seen Byron from a distance all her life, but encounters him properly for the first time when he finds her poaching fish from his father's stream. To her surprise, he helps her, and they continue to meet. But then William decides to retire his aging gamekeeper Amos, who had turned a blind eye to Sam's poaching. And when news of his son's activities reaches him, he deems Rosie unsuitable company, and forbids Byron from seeing her again...
Poachers
Author: Tom FranklinPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061856843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin’s Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River. Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin’s lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella, three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: “Jesus is not coming.” This terrain isn’t pretty, isn’t for the weak of heart, but in these deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human. “While he may occasionally wax sentimental about life in the impoverished South, Franklin’s style is often as laconic and simply spoken as his characters’ dialogue, sometimes close to Hemingway, but more often akin to Denis Johnson or Raymond Carver in its resonant ordinariness.” —Publishers Weekly
The Poacher's Daughter
Author: Mary NicholsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781844290659
Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Grace Year
Author: Kim LiggettPublisher: Wednesday Books
ISBN: 1250145465
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power. Survive the year. No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. “A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.” – Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author
Danny the Champion of the World
Author: Roald DahlPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101652977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Can Danny and his father outsmart the villainous Mr. Hazell? Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world.
