Plain Kate

Plain Kate

Author: Erin Bow

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0545328764

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A debut novel that's as sharp as a knife's point. Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call her "witch-blade" -- a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are hunted and burned in the square.


THE PLAIN MAN AND HIS WIFE

THE PLAIN MAN AND HIS WIFE

Author: Arnold Bennett

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9359951226

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Arnold Bennett's "The Plain Man and His Wife" is a transferring study normal lifestyles, love, and how complex relationships may be. Bennett is a grasp storyteller who units his memories in England inside the early 1900s and shows how complex both the everyday and the deep may be. The book is frequently approximately Mr. And Mrs. Baines's lives, who're said to be a normal couple going through the tough components of everyday existence. Bennett's short observations and sensible writing make the ordinary extra exciting through weaving together a web of feelings and stories. The characters struggle with social expectations, their own dreams, and the way their courting works, which creates a tale that feels real. Bennett catches the essence of the human spirit and celebrates the beauty discovered in simplicity, much like Baines' family is going through us and downs. The creator has a deep understanding of humans because of how nicely they describe the characters and the way they hook up with each different. "The Plain Man and His Wife" suggests how well Bennett can locate super which means in the ordinary. Through his stunning writing, he makes readers experience like they're experiencing the America and downs of the principle character and his spouse. This creates a limitless tale that covers commonplace themes of love, resilience, and the search for meaning in lifestyles.


Plainsong

Plainsong

Author: Kent Haruf

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-04-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0375726934

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National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.


The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines

The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines

Author: Philip Reeve

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1407195077

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It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. So begins Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, the first book in his epic post-apocalyptic series of giant motorized cities on wheels. But how did the world end up like this? What led to the downfall of our civilization, and to the rise of the Traction Cities that roam the Great Hunting Ground to attack and devour each other? Now, for the first time, discover the untold future history of Traction. This lavishly illustrated book contains incredible tales of fearsome Zagwan warriors riding war-zebras into battle, daring air-traders flying the Bird-Roads in search of adventure, and the mysterious plague-ridden wasteland of the Dead Continent that was formerly known as 'North America'. This definitive companion guide includes detailed maps, fascinating character profiles, and stunning colour illustrations from incredible artists, including Ian McQue, David Wyatt, Aedel Fakhrie, Maxime Plasse, Rob Turpin, Philip Varbano and Amir Zand. MORTAL ENGINES is soon to be a major motion picture.


Lords of the Plain

Lords of the Plain

Author: Max Crawford

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780806129082

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The U.S. 2nd Cavalry rolls into Texas in the 1870s with orders to keep the peace and persuade the fierce Comanches to move quietly onto the reservation.


A Plain Death

A Plain Death

Author: Amanda Flower

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1433676974

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Chloe Humphrey, 24, is a fish out of water as the computer whiz living in Ohio's Amish Country. She's stretched even further when a local accident turns to murder, and she's in a position to solve the case.


Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0679423907

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The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy