Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424218417
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not five owl kingdoms, but six. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land, and they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. Chapter Book: 22 chapters.
The River of Wind
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424218417
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not five owl kingdoms, but six. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land, and they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. Chapter Book: 22 chapters.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424218417
Category : Conspiracies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not five owl kingdoms, but six. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land, and they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. Chapter Book: 22 chapters.
The Wind Is Not a River
Author: Brian Payton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062279998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062279998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands. Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.” There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is—and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.
The Wind and the River
Author: Wŏn-il Kim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Kim's primary subject is the tragic circumstances surrounding the division of Korea.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Kim's primary subject is the tragic circumstances surrounding the division of Korea.
Rivers of Wind
Author: Gary Penley
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589801974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association Gold Medal Gary Penley�s story of how his grandfather took hold of his boyhood is a welcome visit to that most mapless territory, the growing up years. His memories of ranch life on the plains of Colorado chime with any of us who were baptized in the west�s rivers of wind. --Ivan Doig, author of This House of Sky Rivers of Wind is a fine book in many respects. For one, it�s a well-written, true chronicle of everyday life in rural southeastern Colorado earlier this century. The book is also a top-notch character study of �Dad,� Penley�s grandfather who raised him, and gives a real feel for those who straddled time from the horse-and-buggy era to the age of airplanes. It�s a good read. -- Western Horseman It has hard times, good times, moments of absolute hilarity, rattlesnakes, bobcats and a crusty grandfather. -- Publishers Weekly, quoting Gayle Ray of Tattered Cover Bookstore This tender and affecting memoir of the author�s youth on his grandfather�s ranch on the Colorado plains in the 1940s and 1950s is a significant social document of an American way of life now almost vanished. When Gary Penley was four, he, his brother, and his mother went to live with her father, who would soon become known to young Penley as �Dad.� This memoir of growing up with a man who stood with the intensity of a coiled spring--a compact bundle of energy and fierce determination, whose piercing eyes challenged the world and whose stubborn jaw defied it--is also a tender elegy to the last era of the American frontier.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589801974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association Gold Medal Gary Penley�s story of how his grandfather took hold of his boyhood is a welcome visit to that most mapless territory, the growing up years. His memories of ranch life on the plains of Colorado chime with any of us who were baptized in the west�s rivers of wind. --Ivan Doig, author of This House of Sky Rivers of Wind is a fine book in many respects. For one, it�s a well-written, true chronicle of everyday life in rural southeastern Colorado earlier this century. The book is also a top-notch character study of �Dad,� Penley�s grandfather who raised him, and gives a real feel for those who straddled time from the horse-and-buggy era to the age of airplanes. It�s a good read. -- Western Horseman It has hard times, good times, moments of absolute hilarity, rattlesnakes, bobcats and a crusty grandfather. -- Publishers Weekly, quoting Gayle Ray of Tattered Cover Bookstore This tender and affecting memoir of the author�s youth on his grandfather�s ranch on the Colorado plains in the 1940s and 1950s is a significant social document of an American way of life now almost vanished. When Gary Penley was four, he, his brother, and his mother went to live with her father, who would soon become known to young Penley as �Dad.� This memoir of growing up with a man who stood with the intensity of a coiled spring--a compact bundle of energy and fierce determination, whose piercing eyes challenged the world and whose stubborn jaw defied it--is also a tender elegy to the last era of the American frontier.
Wind River
Author: Tom Morrisey
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441208356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A back-country expedition turns deadly in this powerful outdoor-adventure drama from a highly skilled writer.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441208356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A back-country expedition turns deadly in this powerful outdoor-adventure drama from a highly skilled writer.
Wind River Cowboy
Author: Lindsay McKenna
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420141791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Two veterans reunited at a Wyoming ranch reignite their passion for each other—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Wind River Undercover. Kira Duval was part of a Special Forces team that got caught in an ambush—leaving only two wounded survivors: herself and Weapons Sergeant Garret Fleming. Losing her team was traumatic, and in the chaotic aftermath, as the Army moved them from hospital to hospital, she lost Garret too. But she never lost her secret yearning for him. Finally, she gave up trying to track him down back in the States. But as she settles in at the Bar C cattle ranch in Wyoming, a place where veterans can find a home and a place to heal, she’s introduced to her sandy-haired, hazel-eyed housemate: none other than Garret Fleming. They’re a long way from Afghanistan—and a long way from the people they used to be before tragedy changed their lives. But as Kira earns her keep by caregiving for the ranch owner’s bedridden, alcoholic father—a task that sometimes feels more challenging than any black ops mission—she finds that even in peacetime Garret still has her back, and that in this warm, welcoming place, the passion she resisted in the heat of battle may finally have a chance to flourish… Third in the series! Praise for Wind River Cowboy “Sensitive, powerful… McKenna has carefully interwoven the devastation of trauma with the power of healing love.”—Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420141791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Two veterans reunited at a Wyoming ranch reignite their passion for each other—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Wind River Undercover. Kira Duval was part of a Special Forces team that got caught in an ambush—leaving only two wounded survivors: herself and Weapons Sergeant Garret Fleming. Losing her team was traumatic, and in the chaotic aftermath, as the Army moved them from hospital to hospital, she lost Garret too. But she never lost her secret yearning for him. Finally, she gave up trying to track him down back in the States. But as she settles in at the Bar C cattle ranch in Wyoming, a place where veterans can find a home and a place to heal, she’s introduced to her sandy-haired, hazel-eyed housemate: none other than Garret Fleming. They’re a long way from Afghanistan—and a long way from the people they used to be before tragedy changed their lives. But as Kira earns her keep by caregiving for the ranch owner’s bedridden, alcoholic father—a task that sometimes feels more challenging than any black ops mission—she finds that even in peacetime Garret still has her back, and that in this warm, welcoming place, the passion she resisted in the heat of battle may finally have a chance to flourish… Third in the series! Praise for Wind River Cowboy “Sensitive, powerful… McKenna has carefully interwoven the devastation of trauma with the power of healing love.”—Publishers Weekly
Wind on the River
Author: Laurie Lawlor
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613369046
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, where he confronts his prejudices and learns what heroism re
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613369046
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, where he confronts his prejudices and learns what heroism re
The Golden Tree (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #12)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545283434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of Books 1-6, must train a new king. Old friends, new adventures!Coryn, Soren, and the Band preside over a new Golden Age of the Great Tree under the subtle influence of the Ember. All seems well, but beneath the prosperity of peace Coryn is tortured by the suspicion that his evil mother, Nyra, is a hagsfiend and that his own blood carries the haggish taint. He wanders afar searching for the truth from hagsfiends themselves - putting the Great Tree in danger. Soren & the Band follow their new king to strange parts to guard him from the consequences of his obsession.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545283434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of Books 1-6, must train a new king. Old friends, new adventures!Coryn, Soren, and the Band preside over a new Golden Age of the Great Tree under the subtle influence of the Ember. All seems well, but beneath the prosperity of peace Coryn is tortured by the suspicion that his evil mother, Nyra, is a hagsfiend and that his own blood carries the haggish taint. He wanders afar searching for the truth from hagsfiends themselves - putting the Great Tree in danger. Soren & the Band follow their new king to strange parts to guard him from the consequences of his obsession.
Buffalo Bill's Dead Now
Author: Margaret Coel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101581441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the latest Wind River novel from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley are witnesses to history—and murder… After more than 120 years, the regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show were supposed to be returned to his people. But the cartons containing the relics were empty when they arrived at the Arapaho Museum. Collector Trevor Pratt had them shipped from Germany and believes thieves must have stolen them en route. Vicki and Father John suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he’s telling—a suspicion that’s confirmed when they find him murdered in his home. To find the killer, they must first uncover the truth about a blood feud between two Arapaho families—and the original theft of Black Heart’s possessions dating back more than a century…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101581441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the latest Wind River novel from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley are witnesses to history—and murder… After more than 120 years, the regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show were supposed to be returned to his people. But the cartons containing the relics were empty when they arrived at the Arapaho Museum. Collector Trevor Pratt had them shipped from Germany and believes thieves must have stolen them en route. Vicki and Father John suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he’s telling—a suspicion that’s confirmed when they find him murdered in his home. To find the killer, they must first uncover the truth about a blood feud between two Arapaho families—and the original theft of Black Heart’s possessions dating back more than a century…
She Explores
Author: Gale Straub
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452167672
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452167672
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.