To the Wren
Author: Jane Mead
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9781948579018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMead's poetry finds beauty in intense and often painful emotions, inviting the idea there is always light and strength within.
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Author: Jane Mead
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9781948579018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMead's poetry finds beauty in intense and often painful emotions, inviting the idea there is always light and strength within.
Author: Mary Watson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1681198606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrilling, atmospheric, and filled with ancient magic, this lyrically written YA debut is perfect for readers of The Raven Cycle and Wink Poppy Midnight. Once a year, Wren is chased through the woods near her rural Ireland hometown in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers belong to the judges, a group in control of an ancient, powerful magic they stole from her own people, the augurs . . . but they know nothing of her real identity. If they learned the truth, the game would surely turn deadly. Though she knows the risks, Wren also goes on the hunt, taking a dangerous undercover assignment as an intern at enemy headquarters, the Harkness Foundation. If she can uncover a long-buried secret, she can save her family and end the judges' reign once and for all. But as the web of lies, deceit, and betrayal thickens around Wren, she hurtles toward a truth that threatens to consume her and reveal who she really is. Not only has she come to the attention of powerful judge Cassa Harkness, but she is also falling dangerously in love with the one person she shouldn't. And she may need to decide which she'd rather lose, her heart or her life. This spellbinding YA debut from Mary Watson is part thriller, part love story and entirely captivating.
Author: Sherwood Smith
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780142401606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFantasy adventure. With the help of a prince and an apprentice wizard, Wren strives to rescue Princess Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king. 10 yrs+
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Published: 1994-11-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 1618241230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA GHOST OF A CHANCE A voice, an icy, whispering voice, came out of the darkness from all around her; from everywhere, yet nowhere. It could have been born of her imagination, yet Rune knew the voice was the Ghost's, and that to run was to die. Instantly, but in terror that would make dying seem to last an eternity. "Why have you come here, stupid child " it murmured, as fear urged her to run away. "Why were you waiting here For me Foolish child, do you not know what I am What I could do to you " Rune had to swallow twice before she could speak, and even then her voice cracked and squeaked with fear. "I've come to fiddle for you-sir " she said, gasping for breath between each word, trying to keep her teeth from chattering. The Ghost laughed, a sound with no humor in it, the kind of laugh that called up empty wastelands and icy peaks. "Well, then, girl. Fiddle, then. And pray to that Sacrificed God of yours that you fiddle well, very well. If you please me, if you continue to entertain me until dawn, I shall let you live, a favor I have never granted any other. But I warn you-the moment my attention lags, little girl-you'll die like all the others and you will join all the others in my own private little Hell." At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author: Stephen Moss
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-10-25
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1473560616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of The Robin: A Biography, Stephan Moss: The wren is a paradox of a bird. They are Britain's most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also thrive up and down Britain and Ireland: from the smallest city garden to remote offshore islands, blustery moors to chilly mountains. Yet many people are not sure if they have ever seen a wren. Perhaps because the wren is so tiny, weighing just as much as two A4 sheets of paper, and so busy, always on the move, more mouse than bird. However if we cast our eyes back to recent history wrens were a mainstay of literary, cultural and popular history. The wren was on postage stamps and the farthing, it featured in nursery rhymes and greetings cards, poems and rural 'wren hunts', still a recent memory in Ireland particularly. With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this fascinating bird that lives right on our doorstep.
Author: Jane Mead
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-10-21
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 194857957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Mead ... wrote clean, spare, often elegiac lines"—The New York Times This massive collection houses Mead’s life’s work: seven books spanning twenty-seven years. Follow chronologically through decades and become captivated by heartfelt muses on loss, madness, danger, grief, isolation, and self-identity. Her poems explore spaces we often try to ignore and finds a comfortable middleground. Mead candidly and openly weaves together pain and joy until it meshes into glimpses of humanity.
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Publisher: Scribble Us
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781950354665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780870499609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique interdisciplinary study, this book examines the British and European tradition of the wren hunt, in which a bird ordinarily revered and protected for most of the year was killed around the time of the annual solstice. In focusing on this ancient ritual, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence draws on her training in cultural anthropology and biology to cast a fresh light on the complexities of human-animal relationships.Following an introductory chapter on animal symbolism, Lawrence proceeds in subsequent chapters to describe the wren both as a biological entity and as the subject of numerous tales and legends, to delineate the details of the wren hunt ceremony and the various meanings ascribed to it, and, finally, to relate the ceremony to important contemporary issues in human-animal interactions and current attitudes toward the living environment. Whereas most other studies tend to concentrate solely on human perceptions of animals and fail to include the animal's role in the relationship, Lawrence's approach shows how the participation of both animal and human determines the symbolic status of the animal -- which in turn influences the treatment of that animal within a particular society.At a time when human destructiveness toward nature has reached tragic proportions, Lawrence contends, it is critical that we understand the processes by which certain cultural beliefs, in combination with observations about the natural history of a particular animal, result in emotional and mental responses that may ultimately determine the fate of that species. The author argues persuasively that the wren hunt -- with its ancient roots, associated beliefs, and complex meanings in thepreindustrialized world -- still has much to teach us.
Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613504652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor use in schools and libraries only. In this variation on the story of The Fisherman And His Wife, a young Ukrainian girl must repeatedly return to the wren she has rescued to relay her parents' increasingly greedy demands.
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1447271483
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