Far Away Hills
Far Away Hills

Author: Jean Debney

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781909477421

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In the waning age of the nineteenth century, Sal McBride has been separate from her pioneering husband for years. But the time has finally come for her to escape the poverty stricken hovels of Glasgow and rejoin her lover in the vast wilderness of the Canadian prairies. The physical and emotional journey will be a tortuous one. Strong and determined, yet fully alone on the brink of her greatest task ever attempted, Sal will come face to face with the ultimate cruelties of life as her quest exacts its harsh and thankless tolls. Based on the author's own ancestral history, Far Away Hills traces the ups and downs of a young, fragile family struggling to make their way through an unforgiving world. Though the pioneer story has long been thought to be the province of men, Jean Debney's tale of courage, grit, and resolve will prove once again that history's women are far more complex and powerful than records have ever shown.

Over the Hills and Far Away
Over the Hills and Far Away

Author: Els Boekelaar

Publisher: Floris Books - Floris Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780863157301

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A revised color edition of a collection of forty stories from around Europe about gnomes, dwarfs, leprechauns and fairies.

Over the Hills & Far Away
Over the Hills & Far Away

Author: Chris Conover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780374380434

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A skillful piper makes people happy as he goes about playing music that lightens their burdens and makes them want to dance.

Over the Hills and Far Away
Over the Hills and Far Away

Author: Elizabeth Hammill

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0763677299

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A spectacular treasury of 150 classic nursery rhymes and new discoveries, featuring a star-studded roster of seventy-seven illustrators. Nursery rhymes have entertained and comforted children for centuries. Over the Hills and Far Away is a unique collection of rhymes and verse from across the globe—rhymes from the English-speaking world as well as verse that entered English from Chinese, Latino, African, and other cultures. With illustrations from seventy-seven artists, many celebrated throughout the world, and some just emerging, this volume is truly an adventure in language, image, and imagination. A magnificent gift for little ones hearing these verses for the first time as well as a wonderful book for family sharing across generations.

Over the Hills and Far Away
Over the Hills and Far Away

Author: Matthew Dennison

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1784975621

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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this short biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work.

Fire in the Hills
Fire in the Hills

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780142412008

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It?s been two years since fifteen-year-old Roberto was kidnapped and forced to work in a German labor camp. After finally escaping, he?s made his way back to Italy. Roberto is desperate to return to the safety of his family, but how can he turn his back on the war while so many people are suffering? Roberto joins the resistance movement, and smuggles guns and secret information to rebel fighters. Every mission takes him closer to home, but every mission is even more dangerous than the last. Will Roberto survive and make his way home?

Viva Jacquelina!
Viva Jacquelina!

Author: Louis A. Meyer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0547763506

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Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.

The Hills of Faraway
The Hills of Faraway

Author: Diana Waggoner

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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A study and bibliography of modern fantasy novels and stories, concentrating on books that have taken on somewhat classic proportions, but examining others as well. Chapter one defines fantasy as a type of modern literature, establishing certain set subgenres, using terminology derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Chapter two is a historical overview of fantasy from George MacDonald and William Morris to the present. The bibliographical guide consists of approximately one thousand annotated entries, evaluating the works and placing them in their appropriate subgenres ... Four appendices list fantasies by subgenre, by year of appearance, and by awards given to them. There is also a discussion, with examples, of the current state of fantasy illustration.

Running for the Hills
Running for the Hills

Author: Horatio Clare

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0743274288

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Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.

Between the Forest and the Hills
Between the Forest and the Hills

Author: Ann Lawrence

Publisher: Bethlehem Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1883937396

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A humorous fantasy tale set in ancient Britain. Iscium, an isolated Roman town in the west of Britain, is cut off from the collapsing Empire. Most of the town senators and officials are primarily concerned with keeping a low profile with the neighboring barbarians and renovating the city baths--with the exception of the crotchety old bishop. But when young Falx runs away, and finds a lost barbarian girl, things begin to happen. The children are brought back by a one-eyed merchant who returns them to an Iscium quivering with the possibility of a barbarian invasion. The mysterious merchant has a plan--involving two talking ravens and The Hallelujah Chorus--and life is never quite the same again, for either the Romans or their invaders. A zany mix of history, humor, and the miraculous--in the satisfying tradition of Don Camillo. Ages 14 and up.