Author: Richard Sparrow
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781726636575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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When a noble, orphaned farm boy discovers a magic sword in the woods one morning, he is forced by circumstance to embark upon a quest to liberate a kingdom, defeat a tyrannical king, and restore a princess to her rightful throne. You know... that old chestnut... Unfortunately, things go horribly awry when shortly after beginning his journey, a terrible accident befalls our hero, and he is unwittingly replaced by Griff: a hard drinking, foul-mouthed, adolescent goblin. Griff has a dream to become a famous minstrel and has zero interest in being a hero. Now, with his new role as main protagonist unwillingly thrust upon him, the fate of the realm is in Griff's hands. He must try to save the kingdom of Lohr from an encroaching evil that threatens mankind, despite the fact that he has every reason to hate mankind....
Author: Lisa Ann Sandell
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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This gripping addition to the Camelot canon -- written in beautiful verse -- has received glowing praise, and is an empowering story of rebellion and courage. Since the days of King Arthur, there have been poems and paintings created in her name. She is Elaine of Ascolat, the Lady of Shalott, and now there is a book all her own. The year is 490 A.D. and 16-year-old Elaine has a temperament to match her fiery red hair. Living on a military base with her father, brothers, and the rest of Arthur's army, Elaine pines for the handsome Lancelot, and longs for a female companion. But when the cruel, beautiful Gwynivere arrives, Elaine is confronted with startling emotions of jealousy and rivalry. Can Elaine find the strength to survive the birth of a kingdom?
Author: Alexis York Lumbard
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 1937786331
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Have you ever wondered why pine trees stay green all winter long and don’t lose their leaves like other trees? According to an ancient legend attributed to the Cherokee Indians, it was a simple act of kindness towards an injured little bird that earned pine trees this very honor. Retold by award-winning author Alexis York Lumbard, this story invites readers to experience a world where trees and birds speak and interact with each other, and which shows us that no act of kindness and sharing goes unrewarded. Featuring beautiful paintings by multiple award-winning illustrator Beatriz Vidal, you will never look at pine trees in the same way again!
Author: Sarah Moon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338032593
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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The story of a sensitive, gifted African American girl who tells us with mordant humor what it feels like to spend every day wishing so hard that you could fly away from it all Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience for her. It's made LIFE a lonely experience.But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she'd love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow's world unravels and she's found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt.With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it's here that she discovers an outlet in rock & roll music...
Author: Sálim Ali
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195621273
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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This is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest ornithologists. Sálim Ali traces his fascination with birds from early childhood, and recalls his close association with a host of famous figures: Nehru, Ghandi, and Sidney Dillon Ripley among them.
Author: Jason Heller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594745041
Category : Action and adventure films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For every would-be pirate who's wished to cast off the shackles of landlubber society, here is the official guide to taking up seagoing roguishness the right way--er, that is, the right wrong way--well, let's just say Jack's way. The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook gives you an insider's perspective on all the dirty tricks of the buccaneer's trade, helpfully arrrrrrrrrticulating such vital nautical information as: * How to Bury Treasure * How to Break a Curse * How to Fight a Tavern Full of Angry Men * How to Stay Alive When Your Ship Sinks * How to Cope with Mermaids . . . and dozens more crucial skills you'll want to master before hitting the high seas.
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0698145828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It’s been more than sixty years since that night, and she’s still sixteen, and she’s still running. They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom Prom Date. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Mostly she just goes by “Rose,” a hitchhiking ghost girl with her thumb out and her eyes fixed on the horizon, trying to outrace a man who never sleeps, never stops, and never gives up on the idea of claiming what’s his. She’s the angel of the overpass, she’s the darling of the truck stops, and she’s going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it’s not like it can kill her. You can’t kill what’s already dead.
Author: Bryan Fletcher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524624470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This science fiction adventure represents the ultimate survivor genre, a hero against all odds, against powerful special interests too-big-to-fail, a system controlled by ultimate insiders who often seem hell-bent on obsession, the last war, escalation, and world economic domination, to create a brave new world, another dystopia. And the story focuses on a black site scientist with an urgent mission: to reach the next underground bunker with unparalleled destruction and equipment that smolders, a place with sections that have damage beyond description, beyond all known languages from some unknown experiment, as the experiment may have fractured time or seriously damaged a local aspect of the universe. As people often say the most important trait is location-location-location, a real estate term regarding a vital place or vulnerable point. And in this case, the concern is about a weapon of mass destruction, a favorite human pursue since prehistoric times, and this weapon is not a mother of all bombs, not MOAB or the insidious neutron bomb, but a new age experiment that directed a complex particle beam at a universal pressure point in space, universal defect in spacetime or support aspect, well, similar to the way someone brings down a high-rise building by damaging the main support beam, and in this case to collapse the universal wave function, as the universe may represent a bubble, a supreme algebraic bubble, a supreme bulkhead. And this secret military experiment, one without checks and balances, appears to have punctured the universe with a special warp bubble pierce, and might initiate deflation at faster than light speed, to deflate the universe, as space can move faster than light, which in this case will quickly collapse the universe, to bring about the End of Days, eschatology, the final events of history, and the ultimate human destiny.
Author: T.T. Sutherland
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423132998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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In Book One of Legends of the Brethren Court, Captain Jack Sparrow must reluctantly rely on the help of his untrustworthy first mate, Barbossa, and a ragtag crew as they take on the Shadow Lord.
Author: Bryan Fletcher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524649791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description
This science fiction adventure represents the ultimate survivor genre, a hero against all odds, against powerful special interests too big to fail, a system controlled by ultimate insiders who often seem hell-bent on obsession, the last war, escalation, and world economic domination to create a brave new world; another dystopia. And the story focuses on a black site scientist with an urgent mission: to reach the next underground bunker with unparalleled destruction and equipment that smoldersa place with sections that have damage beyond description, beyond all known languages from some unknown experiment, as the experiment may have fractured time or seriously damaged a local aspect of the universe. As people often say, the most important trait is location-location-location, a real estate term regarding a vital place or vulnerable point. And in this case, the concern is about a weapon of mass destruction, a favorite human pursuit since prehistoric times. And this weapon is not a mother of all bombs, not MOAB or the insidious neutron bomb, but a new-age experiment that directed a complex particle beam at a universal pressure point in spaceuniversal defect in space time or support aspect, well, similar to the way someone brings down a high-rise building by damaging the main support beam, and in this case, to collapse the universal wave function, as the universe may represent a bubble, a supreme algebraic bubble, a supreme bulkhead. And this secret military experiment, one without checks and balances, appears to have punctured the universe with a special warp bubble pierce and might initiate deflation at faster-than-light speed to deflate the universe, as space can move faster than light, which in this case will quickly collapse the universe to bring about the end of days, eschatology, the final events of history, and the ultimate human destiny.
