Stubborn Bones
Stubborn Bones

Author: Karen Elizabeth Smythe

Publisher: Raincoast Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781551923642

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"Marta's not in mourning, she's in love." So begins the title story in this stellar first collection of witty, wry, darkly humourous writing. Like Marta, many of the characters swing between love and mourning, blurring boundaries with their stubborn hearts and bones. Set chiefly in Nova Scotia, the book begins and ends with trilogies of linked stories, the first about grief and death-the death of a father, the death of a mother, and the death of a relationship-and the last about family and "strange relations."Karen Smythe's stories are both startlingly contemporary and richly furnished with the desolation and consolation of memory. Stubborn Bones is a nuanced, wise, and witty debut collection by a remarkably accomplished writer.

Jake's Bones
Jake's Bones

Author: Jake McGowan-Lowe

Publisher: Ticktock Books, Limited

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848988521

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Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.

Lady of Bones
Lady of Bones

Author: Carolyn Haines

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1250833736

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Carolyn Haines's Lady of Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. It’s Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie’s new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a woman named Frankie, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter Christa, a young journalist. Christa had been investigating the disappearance of young women in New Orleans over a five-year period—one every year around Halloween. Now Christa herself is missing, and Frankie fears it may be connected to a cult based in the Garden District, called People of Eternity. People of Eternity are known to have far-reaching connections which Frankie worries may reach as high as law enforcement. Refusing to contact the authorities, she turns to Delaney Detective Agency as her only hope. Despite initial reservations, Sarah Booth accepts the case, which takes her on a journey to a secret underworld of beguiling cult leaders, witchcraft, and potentially human sacrifice. She’ll have to keep her wits about her if she wants to crack this case...and make it home alive.

The Curse of the Mughal Series - Book II - The Jhelum Betrayal
The Curse of the Mughal Series - Book II - The Jhelum Betrayal

Author: Niraj Srivastava

Publisher: StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9360707864

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The Jhelum Betrayal is the sequel to the award winning ‘Daggers Of Treason’, and unravels the dark secrets of Jahangir’s reign, dominated by the guile of Empress Nurjahan, and the rise, fall and resurrection of Prince Khurram as emperor Shahjahan. The specter of a disguised Anarkali haunts the reign of emperor Jahangir and the Mughal Kingdom, fostering death and treason in its wake, as emperor Jahangir is kidnapped by his own general – an interesting and factually true historical fact. This volume is steeped in the glory of a Mughal Court and besieged with the fear of sedition and rebellion amongst the royals, who treat every hour as a march towards ‘Takht Ya Taboot!’ ‘The Throne’ is for one … ‘the coffin’ lures many! This historical fiction brings alive the royals, courtiers, battlefields and the groaning forts as we travel with Khurram Shahjahan ‘Be-daulat’ in his quest to regain the royal affection of his father, manipulated and sedated by Empress Nurjahan and the treacherous court. A riveting read, the Jhelum Betrayal explodes with an uncanny insight into the steaming cauldron of sex, greed, fratricide, opulence and the drama of the Great Mughals.

Dragon Bones
Dragon Bones

Author: Patricia Briggs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-02-26

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1101133902

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes the first “thrilling”* novel in the Hurog duology. Most everyone thinks Ward of Hurog is a simple-minded fool—and that’s just fine by him. But few people know that his foolishness is (very convincingly) feigned. And that it’s the only thing that’s saved him from death. When his abusive father dies, Ward becomes the new lord of Hurog...until a nobleman declares that he is too dim-witted to rule. Ward knows he cannot play the fool any longer. To regain his kingdom, he must prove himself worthy—and quickly. Riding into a war that’s heating up on the border, Ward is sure he’s on the fast track to glory. But soon his mission takes a deadly serious turn. For he has seen a pile of magical dragon bones hidden deep beneath Hurog Keep. The bones can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and Ward is certain his enemies will stop at nothing to possess them...

Aerialists
Aerialists

Author: Mark Mayer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1635572169

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"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." --Marilynne Robinson Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash. The circus has always been a collection of American exaggerations-the bold, the beautiful, the freakish, the big. Aerialists finds these myths living in the everyday. Mayer's deftly drawn characters illuminate these small-scale spectaculars, and their attempted acts of daring and feats of strength are rendered with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace.

In Search
In Search

Author: Meyer Levin

Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

Published: 2014-08-06

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 1625670885

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The acclaimed autobiography of the Chicago journalist and author hailed as “the most significant American Jewish writer” of the mid-twentieth century (Los Angeles Times). Raised in the notorious Bloody Nineteenth Ward in Chicago, Meyer Levin landed a job at the Chicago Daily News at eighteen. He pursued reporting as a means to support his fiction writing, yet it was as a war correspondent that Levin found his voice. One of the first Americans to enter the concentration camps during World War II and record the horrors there, Levin also helped smuggle Jews from Poland to Palestine, capturing the events in his now classic film The Illegals. In this vivid chronicle, Levin traverses America, France, Spain, Eastern Europe and Palestine, incisively documenting some of the most important events of the twentieth century. Yet In Search is equally the story of Levin’s quest to define his Jewishness to himself and to the world. Both personal and universal, it affords a glimpse into a singular life and career and is, as Levin puts it, “more than a book about the Jews; it seeks to touch the human spirit.”