The Cormorant and The Killing Ground

The Cormorant and The Killing Ground

Author: Bernace Charles

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-01-28

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1456858246

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The Cormorant and The Killing Ground is a novel about the pressures of teaching and about two people who believe they have found true love. Eight male high school faculty members spend many of their summer holidays playing at paintball. The game turns deadly when one member Randolph Blake learns that another member much like a brother to himself Michael Fenell has sexually blackmailed the woman Josey Valchos into bed with himself. Josie is also a member of the high school faculty where Randolph and Michael teach. But what has Michael learned about Josey that is so alarming that she actually takes him to bed to keep him from telling Randolph? The book ends with Michael and Randolph coming to one last violent game played out on the island called “The Killing Ground” where they play paintball. Only Josey and Michael know the reason for the island’s name, the story travels back and forth in time showing the history of Michael and Josey's tie to each other. It shows why Josey has changed her name, has had plastic surgery, has changed her hair color and why she hates Michael as deeply as she does. Amid her scheming she never expects to fall in love with Randolph.


The Traitor Baru Cormorant

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Author: Seth Dickinson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0765380722

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms meets Guns, Germs, and Steel: A young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy


The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

Author: Seth Dickinson

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1466875143

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Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with the “literally breathtaking” (NPR) The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain. Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself? Baru's enemies close in from all sides. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path—a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize. If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Double-Crested Cormorant

The Double-Crested Cormorant

Author: Linda R. Wires

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0300187114

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Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-first century.


The Seal-islands of Alaska

The Seal-islands of Alaska

Author: Henry Wood Elliott

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-05-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3385458986

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.


The Seal Islands of Alaska

The Seal Islands of Alaska

Author: Henry W. Elliott

Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1582180482

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Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) was a renowned naturalist and an accomplished artist. In 1872, he was sent to the Alaska territory by the U.S. Treasury department to report on the fur-seal harvest on the Pribilof Islands. He lived on one of the islands and conducted his own study of the animals. Keenly observant and with an artist's eye, he recorded what he saw in both his journals and his artwork. Elliott was appalled by the rapidly declining fur seal population and the wholesale slaughter taking place each summer. The Seal Islands of Alaska is Henry W. Elliott's groundbreaking report as it was published in 1884. He recommended managed hunting to preserve both the species and the industry. He was a tireless wild life advocate and may have saved the fur seal from extinction.