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Author: Alisa J. Golden
Publisher: Union Square & Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600595875
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Author: Sofia Samatar
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1618731157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire — and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out. Sofia Samatar is the author of the Crawford, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy award-winning novel A Stranger in Olondria. She also received the John W. Campbell Award. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and many other publications. She is working on a collection of stories. Her website is sofiasamatar.com.
Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1609255216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Winged Bull is a tale of magic and sexuality. Down on his luck, Ted Murchison invokes the Winged Bull, a god of ancient Babylon, to come to his aid. Immediately, he is drawn into a vortex of weird events in which he is asked to rescue the daughter of an old friend from the clutches of a black magician.
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1938160053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."—Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s when his parents fled China's political turmoil for Indonesia. Along with many other Chinese members of the population, his family was persecuted under President Sukarno. Falsely accused and charged for crimes against the state, his father spent a year and a half in jail as a political prisoner, half of that time in a leper colony. While his entire family was being transported to a prison colony, they escaped and fled to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and back to Hong Kong where his father rose to prominence as an evangelical preacher. Eventually, the family sought asylum in the United States in 1962. When the author was six, they emigrated to a small town in western Pennsylvania where his father became a Presbyterian minister. This reissued edition contains a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos of the family from different stages of their journey. Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry that have garnered such awards as the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Author: Joseph J. Corn
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780801869624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring these early years of aviation, Joseph Corn describes the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became American heroes.
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Dutch boys find a way to help in the underground activities during the German occupation of Holland in World War II.
Author: Betsy Byars
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1480410659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVThere’s no such thing as a colt with wings—is there?/divDIV When Charles arrives at his Uncle Coot’s Texas ranch from back East, he’s sure that books have taught him everything he needs to know about horses. He wants to prove he’s a cowboy just like his uncle, a retired movie stunt rider, who knows Charles is out of his element. But when a neighbor’s mare gives birth to a miraculous colt with wings, Charles and Coot realize that they both have much more to learn. They grow to love the colt, named Alado, or “Winged One.” Still, it’s no easy feat caring for a mythical creature, especially when it can fly. Can Charles and Coot protect Alado—and each other?/divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0061807680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .
Author: Joan Grant
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1468307991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny "Far Memory," the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and rich detail. For Joan, these books were not works of the imagination but personal recollections of her previous lives. In Winged Pharaoh, Joan Grant tells the story of Sekeeta, the Pharaoh's daughter. The ancient Egyptians reserved the title of "Winged Pharaoh" for ruler-priests who possessed extra-sensory powers. When Sekeeta demonstrates psychic abilities, she is sent to the temple and trained to recall past lives. Upon the death of her father, she becomes a "Winged Pharaoh" - both priestess and Pharaoh - and leads her country with enlightenment. The most famous of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, this book brings the grandeur, beauty, and mystery of ancient Egypt to life. Upon Winged Pharaoh's original publication in 1937, the New York Times called it "an unusual book that shines with fire."
Author: Amelia Kinkade
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781481977944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrincess Penelope finds her way into an Inner Kingdom inside the earth where she discovers that all the beautiful things in the Outer World—color, good smells and tastes, dance, the rhythm of the seasons, the laws of the Universe like gravity, the ability to dream, and even the ability to heal—are all ruled by Elementals (fairy creatures) who initiate beauty, harmony, and grace in the Outer World. Her brother, Kam, is tricked into going into the Inner Kingdom with a magical gun that can actually destroy the elementals, convinced that he is the prophesized “Wing One,” a child of royal birth with magical powers. Penny has the ability to talk to animals and also these elementals. She goes into this Inner Kingdom to repair the damage her brother is heaping on the spirits because as he destroys the elementals, the Outer World starts to collapse. Through her journey she discovers that she has the powers within her to help every creature she meets on her pathway. Through her journey of learning about compassion, courage, intuitive communication, selfless generosity, unconditional love, and true friendship, she finds her own strength and in the process restores both the Inner and Outer worlds to a new level of beauty and harmony. The Winged One is, in short, a spiritual manual to help children find true meaning in life and discover their interconnectedness with Nature and how they can contribute to the world.
