Five White Egrets
Five White Egrets

Author: Margaret Allan

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 059528454X

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Alone now in his little house on the island the old man imagines the five white birds that fly by daily as his family who have also flown from the nest. Things are seldom what they seem and he is convinced that what, in his mind should be, is. It is well that he does not know, that murder, baby trading, adultery and many of the sins condemned in the Good Book walk with his children as they journey through life.

White Egrets
White Egrets

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1466880511

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A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language. White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century—a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and—perhaps most surprisingly—getting older.

How to Know the Birds
How to Know the Birds

Author: Ted Floyd

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1426220030

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"In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

The Darkling
The Darkling

Author: R. B. Chesterton

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1453298541

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The “spellbinding tale” of an Alabama family and a troubled teenage orphan: “eloquent evidence that Southern storytelling is indeed a very special art form” (The New York Times Book Review). In the 1940s, Coden, Alabama was a hideaway for movie stars—an isolated playground tucked among live oaks and placid bay waters where pleasure and vice could be indulged. By the summer of 1974 Coden's glamour has faded, but it doesn't bother Mimi Bosarge, who is just happy to have a job as a live-in tutor with the wealthiest family in town, the Hendersons. When the Hendersons generously open their arms to Annie, a troubled teenager with no recollection of her past, Mimi's greatest concern is creating a curriculum for the family's new ward. But it soon becomes obvious that something is wrong. Annie seems suspiciously savvy for her young age, and Mimi can't quell the unnerving sense that there is something malicious about the waiflike beauty.

The Music Room: A Memoir
The Music Room: A Memoir

Author: William Fiennes

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0393338789

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Describes the author's childhood in an ancient family home with an epileptic older brother whose illness influenced the rhythm of the family's life, in an account that explores such topics as consciousness and the sensory existence of indoor and outdoor life.

New Zealand Wildlife
New Zealand Wildlife

Author: Julian Fitter

Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781841622729

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A comprehensive overview of New Zealand's natural history, with details of where to go to see them, along with recommended tramping tracks.

Floater on the Reef
Floater on the Reef

Author: Joe Race

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1425179649

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Teenager Julie Larsen was a part-time hooker found floating on the reef. Detectives 3D and Trish uncover a mixed bag of customers, relatives and politicos who wanted her dead!

The Names of My Mothers
The Names of My Mothers

Author: Dianne Sanders Riordan

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 146021871X

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"The Names of My Mothers" is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering her daughter for adoption, she returned to her life in Johnston County, North Carolina. She never married and never had another child of her own. This powerful and moving memoir speaks of the profound need for connection. It is a story about identity, the hunger we feel for a sense of belonging and the ineffable significance of blood.