The Way of the Wilderking

The Way of the Wilderking PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780805431339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
Aidan returns after three years away in Feechiefen Swamp to find--much to his dismay--that the only way to protect his country from the invading Pyrthens is to overthrow the tyrant King Darrow.

The Way of the Wilderking

The Way of the Wilderking PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780805431339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
Aidan returns after three years away in Feechiefen Swamp to find--much to his dismay--that the only way to protect his country from the invading Pyrthens is to overthrow the tyrant King Darrow.

The Bark of the Bog Owl

The Bark of the Bog Owl PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805431314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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In this fantasy/allegory, Rogers retells the life of biblical character King David.

The Secret of the Swamp King

The Secret of the Swamp King PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780805431322
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
King Darrow sends Aidan Errolson on an impossible quest, hoping he will never return, and although Aidan has enough friends to succeed on the journey, even he might not be able to defeat the powerful enemy that awaits him at its end.

The Charlatan's Boy

The Charlatan's Boy PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307458237
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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“I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud.” As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. With his adolescent accomplice, Floyd perpetrates a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier, such as the Ugliest Boy in the World act. It’s a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see young Grady perform as “The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp.” But what can they do? Nobody believes in feechies anymore. When Floyd stages an elaborate plot to revive Corenwalders’ belief in the mythical swamp-dwellers known as the feechiefolk, he overshoots the mark. Floyd’s Great Feechie Scare becomes widespread panic. Eager audiences become angry mobs, and in the ensuing chaos, the Charlatan’s Boy discovers the truth that has evaded him all his life—and will change his path forever.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey PDF Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593470958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Book Description
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

The Book of the Dun Cow

The Book of the Dun Cow PDF Author: Walter Wangerin
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626811032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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The timeless National Book Award-winning story of the epic struggle between good and evil. “Far and away the most literate and intelligent story of the year … Mr. Wangerin’s allegorical fantasy about the age-old struggle between good and evil produces a resonance; it is a taut string plucked that reverberates in memory” —New York Times “Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In a time when the sun revolved around the Earth, and the animals could speak, Chauntecleer the Rooster rules justly over his kingdom. But while peace reigns for Chauntecleer, evil is brewing across the river, as the monstrous Cockatrice pillages his own lands and people, preparing for the return of Wyrm. Imprisoned within the Earth to contain this ancient evil, Wyrm is determined to return, with the help of Cockatrice. Keeping Wyrm in his prison is a task too great for any individual animal, so it is up to Chantecleer to rally all of the animals, great and small, to work together to keep the Earth safe once again. “Good and evil were never seen more distinctly not pitted more ferociously than in this animal fable, reverberating with the righteousness of the Bible or a medieval morality play … The animals are not mere literary symbols but are invested with a humanness all their won.” —The Saturday Evening Post “Wangerin’s story functions as a frightening representation of modern evil … a parable for adults to ponder.” —The Christian Century “Wangerin has so fluidly woven all these legends together into one small gem.” —Washington Post Book World

The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic

The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic PDF Author: Jennifer Trafton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Book Description
Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge lives a boring life on the Island in the Middle of Everything, but she longs for adventure. And she soon gets it when she overhears a life-altering secret and suddenly finds herself in the middle of an amazing journey. It turns out that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the center of the island, is not really a mountain - it's the belly of a sleeping giant! It's up to Persimmony and her friend Worvil to convince the island's quarreling inhabitants that a giant is sleeping in their midst and must not be awakened. The question is, will she be able to do it?

Handbook of Chinese Mythology

Handbook of Chinese Mythology PDF Author: Lihui Yang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195332636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Book Description
Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.

The World According to Narnia

The World According to Narnia PDF Author: Jonathan Rogers
Publisher: FaithWords
ISBN: 9780446556927
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
A lively and engaging exploration of the many Christian themes in C.S. Lewis's widely-known and universally loved children's stories.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat PDF Author: Lynne Jonell
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466824662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days. She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . . Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.