A Flock Of Crows

Author : Anne Bishop
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101637944

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Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop Pdf

Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s world of the Others—where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules… After winning the trust of the Others residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murder of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about blood and black feathers in the snow, Simon Wolfgard—Lakeside’s shape-shifting leader—wonders if their blood prophet dreamed of a past attack or a future threat. As the urge to speak prophecies strikes Meg more frequently, trouble finds its way inside the Courtyard. Now, the Others and the handful of humans residing there must work together to stop the man bent on reclaiming their blood prophet—and stop the danger that threatens to destroy them all.

Author : Denji Kuroshima
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0824829263

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A Flock of Swirling Crows by Denji Kuroshima Pdf

Why is education potentially subversive? How does ethnocentrism facilitate an oppressive status quo? Who actually benefits from war? Questions such as these were integral to the work of writer Kuroshima Denji (1898-1943), one of modern Japan’s most dedicated antimilitarist intellectuals. Kuroshima was wholeheartedly committed to fundamental change and produced numerous literary works expressing his passionate opposition to armed force as an instrument of imperialism. His only full-length novel, superbly translated here as Militarized Streets, was censored by both Japan’s imperial government and the U.S. occupation authorities. The present volume comprises much of Kuroshima’s most highly acclaimed work for the first time in English.

Author : Chris Tullbane
Publisher : Murder of Crows
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1733482415

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See These Bones by Chris Tullbane Pdf

There are many words to describe necromancers, but superhero isn't one of them. 18-year-old Damian Banach's only talent is the power that's driving him insane. Yet somehow Damian just became the Academy of Heroes' newest student. Accompanied by his mom's ghost, he'll have to survive the Academy (and his fellow classmates), while battling the insanity that doomed every Crow before him. Superhero school just got scary.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409067955

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An Unkindness Of Ravens by Ruth Rendell Pdf

The thirteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol of a militant feminist group... Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. He certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide. Rodney Williams was neither handsome nor wealthy – but he had an unerring eye for a pretty girl and when he disappeared and two other men were later attacked by a young woman, Wexford couldn't help wondering if there was a connection. If there wasn't, where was Rodney Williams and why had he vanished? He had committed no crime – apart from telling his wife the occasional lie...

Author : John Marzluff,Tony Angell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439198742

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Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff,Tony Angell Pdf

Offers insight into crows' ability to make tools and respond to environmental challenges, explaining how they engage in human-like behaviors, from giving gifts and seeking revenge to playing and experiencing dreams.

Author : Juliana Berners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Falconry
ISBN : CHI:22910141

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The Boke of Saint Albans by Juliana Berners Pdf

Author : John M. Marzluff,Tony Angell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300135268

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In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff,Tony Angell Pdf

“Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well. John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic—a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows and Ravens illuminates the entwined histories of crows and people and concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship and how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory.

Author : M Jonathan D. Garzillo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469114316

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A Flock of Crows by M Jonathan D. Garzillo Pdf

A Flock of Crows begins with the death of Andrew Hawkins, who has suddenly lost faith in any meaning or value to his life. The novel explores the concepts of responsibility and purpose by offering brief moments in the lives of a sequence of people. The novels chain of events begins with Andrew Hawkins death, and becomes a journey that introduces the reader to a chain of characters who struggle to discover their answer to Andrew Hawkins belief that his life, and any life, has no meaning or purpose.

Author : James Lipton
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Humor
ISBN : PSU:000013620110

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An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton Pdf

A collection of "terms of venery," collective nouns. The origin of some of the terms is explained, and more than 250 of the terms are illustrated with engravings by Dürer and Grandville and others.

Author : James Viscosi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557162017

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A Flock of Crows Is Called a Murder by James Viscosi Pdf

A real estate developer's clash with a local eccentric who doesn't want him constructing a new shopping plaza on the site of a mysterious old building escalates into something much more sinister after a dark spectral force is awakened from its sleep.

Author : Samuel Fanous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1851244093

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A Conspiracy of Ravens by Samuel Fanous Pdf

A Conspiracy of Ravens presents readers with a compendium of collective bird nouns from the distant and not-so-distant past. This book collects more than one hundred of the best and most imaginative expressions and illustrates them with charming woodcuts by the eighteenth-century artist and naturalist Thomas Bewick.

Author : Ronald Orenstein
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770853201

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Ivory, Horn and Blood by Ronald Orenstein Pdf

Meticulous research, chilling facts.... an important and much needed book. -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute If it is understanding you seek, turn these pages. -- Virginia McKenna, OBE, Founder, The Born Free Foundation If you care about elephants and rhinos, and the poaching onslaught that threatens their extinction in the wild, this is the book for you. -- Ian Redmond, OBE, Ambassador, UN Great Apes Survival Program As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Over sixty percent of Africa's Forest Elephants have been killed by poachers since the turn of the century. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese One-horned Rhinoceros and the Western Black rhino have become extinct in the last decade, and the Northern White Rhinoceros, the largest of them all, barely survives in captivity. This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the traffic in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn has far-reaching implications not only for these endangered animals, but also for the human victims of a world-wide surge in organized crime, corruption and violence. Since the worldwide ban on commercial ivory trade was passed in 1989, after a decade that saw half of Africa's elephants slaughtered by poachers, Ronald Orenstein has been at the heart of the fight. Today a new ivory crisis has arisen, fuelled by internal wars in Africa and a growing market in the Far East. Seizures of smuggled ivory have shot up in the past few years. Bands of militia have crossed from one side of Africa to the other, slaughtering elephants with automatic weapons. A market surge in Vietnam and elsewhere has led to a growing criminal onslaught against the world's rhinoceroses. The situation, for both elephants and rhinos, is dire.

Author : Andy Charman
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783529117

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Crow Court by Andy Charman Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 'Clever, elegantly constructed, utterly convincing' Daily Mail 'As gripping as Hilary Mantel and as convincing as Sarah Perry ... debut novels shouldn't be this perfectly formed' Ben Myers 'Clever, page-turning, original ... beautifully written' Jane Harris 'Exactly observed, densely textured and richly flavoured ... Crow Court is throbbing with life' Rick Gekoski Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will reverberate through the community for years to come. So begins the chronicle of Crow Court, unravelling over fourteen delicately interwoven episodes, the town of Wimborne their backdrop: a young gentleman and his groom run off to join the army; a sleepwalking cordwainer wakes on his wife’s grave; desperate farmhands emigrate. We meet the composer with writer’s block; the smuggler; a troupe of actors down from London; and old Art Pugh, whose impoverished life has made him hard to amuse. Meanwhile, justice waits...

Author : DeAnna Knippling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502839040

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A Murder of Crows by DeAnna Knippling Pdf

Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the MacabreA collection of short horror, ghost, and dark fantasy stories for adults, woven together by a flock of crows, telling stories to entertain a girl trying to survive a tragedy...A storytelling crow named Machado strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young girl who tells herself stories. Without mate or chicks, he finds in her the daughter he never had. Then one day, evil erupts at the girl's house.The flock of crows abduct the girl, carrying her to a secret hiding place while all hell breaks loose at home. To comfort her, they tell her stories of ghosts, horror, and hauntings-none of which are as heavy as the story she contains within herself...

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476794563

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Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich Pdf

Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1989.