Innocent Years
Author: Andreas Polydorou
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-05-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1847534368
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Author: Andreas Polydorou
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-05-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1847534368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of Cyprus in the 1950's.
Author: Deirdre Madden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 0571298060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen James proposes, it seems like an opportunity for Jane to leave her lonely past behind and become part of a family. But the presence of a woman in the cottage near their remote farmhouse threatens Jane's new-found happiness.This compelling novel by one of Ireland's finest writers won a Somerset Maugham Award.'Madden's achievement is to make partial revelations about obscure lives as gripping as a thriller. Her style is passionate, emotional, but never obvious and does not admit a single cliché or badly written sentence.' Observer
Author: Eldridge Eugene Fish
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 272
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernd Heinrich
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 054438640X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique encounters with wild birds from the acclaimed scientist and “a dedicated watcher happy to knock down the fourth wall of zoology” (The Wall Street Journal). In his modern classics One Man’s Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl. In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. There are countless books on bird behavior, but Heinrich argues that some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate. Heinrich’s “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” lead to fascinating questions—and sometimes startling discoveries (The New York Times Book Review). A great crested flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other flycatcher nearby. Why? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich’s cabin deliver the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest-cleaning. One of a clutch of redstart warbler babies fledges out of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below. It can’t fly. What will happen next? Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands-and-knees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing” (The Boston Globe). “An engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one’s own backyard.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author: T. F. Powys
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 057127904X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A village is like a stage that retains the same scenery throughout all the acts of the play. The actors come and go, and walk to and fro, with gestures that their passions fair or foul use them to... A country village has a way now and again of clearing out all its inhabitants in one rush, as though it were grown tired of that particular combination of human destinies, and shakes itself free of them as a tree might do of unwelcome leaves..' The action of T.F. Powys' blackly absorbing, deeply characteristic Innocent Birds unfolds in the English croft of Madder, an ostensibly sleepy and settled milieu where the local people, nonetheless, are prone to acting on impulses and urges that have the power to bring themselves (and others) to ruin. 'There is Mr. Bugby, who buys "The Silent Woman" because of the sinister coincidence that successive keepers of that tavern were speedily widowed. There is Maud Chick, an imbecile girl longing to have a baby, whom Mr. Bugby avoids after one experience; and Polly Wimple, prim Miss Pettifer's maid whom he does not avoid, to her great cost. A cormorant, far from the sea, that flaps and roosts arbitrarily at dusk whenever anything especially morbid or malicious is about to take place, is an apt metaphor for a shadowy flight of the author's imagination...' Time, June 1926
Author: Neltje Blanchan
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leander S. Keyser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-18
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 3752319569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. Keyser
Author: Louis de Bernieres
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0307424995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.
Author: Bill Thompson
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1610589653
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