Author: Kate Novak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140121308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Bonds of Stone
Author: S. D. Reeve
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781076730800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
For the first in human history, one man presides over an empire. His status as overlord is unchallenged, until he and his tribe hunt down two brothers who are all that remain of a once proud and noble species, the Neanderthals. This encounter leads to a power shift that could spell the demise of a tribe hundreds of miles away. The only person capable of preventing this annihilation is Arcan, a banished tribesman. Now the head of a loving family, Arcan must decide whether to risk everything by helping the clan he once belonged to.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781076730800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
For the first in human history, one man presides over an empire. His status as overlord is unchallenged, until he and his tribe hunt down two brothers who are all that remain of a once proud and noble species, the Neanderthals. This encounter leads to a power shift that could spell the demise of a tribe hundreds of miles away. The only person capable of preventing this annihilation is Arcan, a banished tribesman. Now the head of a loving family, Arcan must decide whether to risk everything by helping the clan he once belonged to.
Cutting for Stone
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184001754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184001754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Azure Bonds
Author: Kate Novak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140121308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140121308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Daughters of the Stone
Author: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429918527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429918527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
The Stone Gods
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547416261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (The Washington Post Book World). On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they’re assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike’s flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past—“Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.” What will happen when their story combines with the world’s story? Will they—and we—ever find a safe landing place? Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The Stone Gods will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves. “Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A book] that you don’t so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we’re in.” —Los Angeles Times “A vivid, cautionary tale—or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of Changing Planes
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547416261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (The Washington Post Book World). On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they’re assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike’s flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past—“Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.” What will happen when their story combines with the world’s story? Will they—and we—ever find a safe landing place? Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The Stone Gods will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves. “Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A book] that you don’t so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we’re in.” —Los Angeles Times “A vivid, cautionary tale—or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of Changing Planes
The Zero Stone
Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504025474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A gem trader and a feline mutant unite to find the truth behind a mysterious stone rumored to be the key to all the power in the universe. Apprentice gem trader Murdoc Jern lives on Angkor, a thriving hub of interstellar trade. One day, a furtive visitor brings him a ring discovered on an alien corpse. It’s made of age-pitted metal surrounding a dull and lifeless stone. Yet it exerts a powerful hold on Murdoc. And when his father is killed, Murdoc begins a quest, taking with him his only legacy, the mysterious ring, which he knows is the key to his dad’s death. Accompanied by Eet, a feline mutant with paranormal powers, Murdoc hurtles through space, where he’s pursued by a religious order called the Green Robes. His journey takes him to distant planets and once-great armies marooned on vanished worlds. In a desperate battle to learn the ultimate meaning of the Zero Stone, Murdoc must bargain for his freedom—and his life—and confront the fate that befalls seekers of knowledge.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504025474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A gem trader and a feline mutant unite to find the truth behind a mysterious stone rumored to be the key to all the power in the universe. Apprentice gem trader Murdoc Jern lives on Angkor, a thriving hub of interstellar trade. One day, a furtive visitor brings him a ring discovered on an alien corpse. It’s made of age-pitted metal surrounding a dull and lifeless stone. Yet it exerts a powerful hold on Murdoc. And when his father is killed, Murdoc begins a quest, taking with him his only legacy, the mysterious ring, which he knows is the key to his dad’s death. Accompanied by Eet, a feline mutant with paranormal powers, Murdoc hurtles through space, where he’s pursued by a religious order called the Green Robes. His journey takes him to distant planets and once-great armies marooned on vanished worlds. In a desperate battle to learn the ultimate meaning of the Zero Stone, Murdoc must bargain for his freedom—and his life—and confront the fate that befalls seekers of knowledge.
American Edition of the British Encyclopedia
Author: William Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
House of Stone
Author: Anthony Shadid
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547134665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Culture and institutions.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547134665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Culture and institutions.
The British Encyclopedia
Author: William Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Omen of Stones (Anniversary Special Edition)
Author: Casey L Bond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When witch Prince River Nautilus leaves the sanctuary of the Kingdom's magical border, he's kidnapped by witch hunters, only to be saved by a girl who wields stones like daggers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When witch Prince River Nautilus leaves the sanctuary of the Kingdom's magical border, he's kidnapped by witch hunters, only to be saved by a girl who wields stones like daggers.