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Author : Madeline Baker
Publisher : Leisure Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0843941979
Romance writer Susannahs visions of Black Wind lure her across the years to complete the story of his past and to fulfill a love beyond time.
Author : Edward Hays
Publisher : Forest of Peace Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0939516306
Held by God....like a feather which...lets itself be carried by the wind: so wrote medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen. Edward Hays offers a mystical Manual of Flying Lessons for all those feather folk who desire to be carried aloft by the Wind of Heaven. To float like a feather requires freedom not so much from Earth's gravity as from grave attitude about life's problems. These brief reflections--designed for those short of time--promise a day's worth of insight for life's journey.
Author : Sally Grindley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408819470
Two children accompany their parents as they travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. As their parents work alongside international agencies, the children have their own thrilling adventures. Feathers in the Wind is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo's conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension When the Brook family travel to India for the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, Joe can't wait to buy his own kite at the night-time bazaar and get involved with the locals' celebrations. However, the festivities have a little-known darker side - the strings of fighter kites are glazed with shards of glass (so that they can cut down other kites) and these kite strings injure many birds as they become entangled in them. Joe's mother will be working day and night at a rescue centre as she aims to save every single injured bird, particularly the endangered vultures. Can Joe and Aesha pull off a daring rescue attempt of their own on the day of the festival? Sally Grindley is the author of bestselling and award-winning fiction for young readers. Here she brings to life a story of how humans and wildlife can live side by side, set in India.
Author : Debby Waldman
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551433325
In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, a boy named Yankel, who loves to tell stories, learns an important lesson.
Author : Michael Lawrence-Brown
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984502452
This book is a human and Australian story written in four distinct parts and tied together with the thread of the author’s life. It speaks for migrants who are driven by upheavals and rapid change, youth, adventure, and a desire to succeed; it is for those who arrive with hope and the countries that give them the chance of a better life. The essence is in the characters and the places, and the power is in the interaction of multiple disciplines. It tells of invention, of research and development, and of a device that saved lives, spared thousands the pain and suffering of major operations, and funded facilities and teaching. The feelings of the author are expressed in anecdotes with emotion, stark reality, tragedies, humor, failures, and achievement. Starting with Kenya and safaris in East Africa, the story moves on to migration, Australian culture in the sixties, and then medicine and invention in surgery. It involves peoples with multiple skills in different settings. Perceptions of training of surgeons have fired public curiosity, and this story is from the inside of medical school and ultimately about what makes a surgeon. The twentieth century saw unrivaled changes in technology, politics, and human relations; the collapse of the British Empire; and the dispersal of its colonials. This is the story of a colonial boy who was one of many who traveled like feathers on the wind of change that blew across Africa. The author was honored with the Award Officer of Australia (AO) for leading a team in research and development in vascular and endovascular surgery. The story is for the unsung diverse group of special individuals who made it possible. They convinced establishments, hurdled passionate special interest groups, negotiated institutional politics, and precipitated government actions to address new concepts.
Author : Cao Wenxuan
Publisher : Elsewhere Editions
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671855
A philosophical picture book from one of China's most celebrated children's authors and 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award-winner Cao Wenxuan. A feather is blown across the sky, meeting various birds along the way, and asking each one, "Do I belong to you?". Cao Wenxuan tells the story of a single feather who is swept away on a journey of discovery and belonging. Encountering a variety of birds, from a kingfisher to a magpie, Feather is hopeful of meeting the bird she belongs to. Again and again, she is dismissed or ignored. Only when she sees that there is also beauty in being close to the earth does fate offer a reunion... Feather is sure to charm young children with a plot at once compelling, meditative, and quietly moving. Roger Mello’s stunningly beautiful, dynamic illustrations will delight readers of all ages.
Author : Lillian M. Fisher
Publisher : Pocahontas Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0963569309
Anthropologist and archaeologist Lillian M. Fisher gives an account of the capture of two young pioneer girls by Apaches following the massacre of the girls' parents, and the girls' experiences in captivity; only Olive ultimately survived and returned.
Author : Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101981627
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Author : Joan P. Howard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452030005
A Feather In The Wind is based on travels I've never experienced and places I've not seen. The story is but a figment of my imagination. It is about one of five children who come from a wealthy Southern family. She is the neglected child who has had everything money can buy, but feels neglected, mainly because of the loss of her mother, but also because of the lack of attention of her father, who travels extensively and seems to devote his attention to everything and everyone but her
Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : HMH
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780156035187
Beyond Audubon: A quirky, “lively and illuminating” account of bird-watching’s history, including “rivalries, controversies, [and] bad behavior” (The Washington Post Book World). From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; and the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as Alexander Wilson (a convicted blackmailer) and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Naturalist Scott Weidensaul also recounts the explosive growth of modern birding that began when an awkward schoolteacher named Roger Tory Peterson published A Field Guide to the Birds in 1934. Today, birding counts iPod-wearing teens and obsessive “listers” among its tens of millions of participants, making what was once an eccentric hobby into something so completely mainstream it’s now (almost) cool. This compulsively readable popular history will surely find a roost on every birder’s shelf. “Weidensaul is a charming guide. . . . You don’t have to be a birder to enjoy this look at one of today’s fastest-growing (and increasingly competitive) hobbies.” —The Arizona Republic
Author : Emily Wu,Larry Engelmann
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307484727
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to unending humiliation and abuse. Wu recounts this hidden holocaust in which millions of children and their families died. Feather in the Storm is an unforgettable story of the courage of one child in a quicksand world of endless terror.
Author : Sofia Lundberg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328473011
The global fiction sensation--publishing in 32 countries around the world--that follows 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come...
Author : Emma Rose Sparrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 1500664685
This is one of a series of books for dementia patients (or those with Alzheimer's), disguised as a "real" book. What the Wind Showed to Me offers self-esteem and self-confidence to former bookworms who now struggle with "normal" books. You'll know that you're buying a book that is perfect for a dementia or Alzheimer's patient, but the reader will only know that he/she is receiving a beautiful book that is eye-catching and easy to follow. Neither the title nor any text on or in the book states that the book is for dementia or any type of memory/cognitive problems. It is truly concealed so that the reader is not insulted. If your loved one is overwhelmed by 'normal' books but spry enough to feel offended with books labeled as dementia books or by being a children's book, this is your answer. This book is formatted with: A lovely "easy read" story without condescending childlike words. Perfect, slightly larger text (16x font). Short chapters. Short paragraphs. One extra space between each sentence to encourage the mind to take pause. One or two vivid color photos per each short chapter to give a visual clue to the subject matter without distracting the read. What the Wind Showed to Me is the story of what one woman discovers while following the floating path of a beautiful feather caught in a breeze. It is a pleasant, comforting and interesting story. Offer not only a book to be cherished, but also the gift of self-pride.
Author : Kate Carlisle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698411067
In this novel in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series, San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright’s latest project is for the birds, but it may have her running for her life. . . . Brooklyn’s friend runs the Covington Library, which is hosting an exhibit featuring John James Audubon’s massive masterpiece, Birds of America. During the gala celebrating the book, she is approached by Jared Mulrooney, the president of the Bay Area Birdwatchers Society, to repair a lesser known book of Audubon drawings. At the same party, Brooklyn is flying high after she’s asked to refurbish a rare copy of Poor Richard’s Almanack when Mulrooney’s body is discovered in the library. Soon more troubles ruffle Brooklyn’s feathers. Her parents pop in for a visit with an unsavory friend in tow, and there’s a strange man on her tail. With danger beginning to circle Brooklyn’s every move, it’s clear she must find answers before things really go south. . . .
Author : Sita Singh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593116463
Differences are gorgeously illustrated in a heartwarming picture book about a colorless peacock who learns to love himself in a jungle full of color. Mo has always felt a little different. While all the other peacocks grew bright, bold, beautiful feathers in rich greens and vibrant blues, Mo's feathers grew in a snowy white. And even though Mo's friends try to include him in their playtime, Mo doesn't like to be reminded that he's different from his friends. But when a storm threatens to ruin the group's annual celebration, Mo must learn to stand tall, strut his stuff, and shake his brilliantly glowing tail feathers--in a way only he can--to help his friends and set things right. From debut author Sita Singh, and brought to life by Stephanie Fizer Coleman, comes a story about finding strength in the things that make us different, and beauty in all its forms.