Ghost Tiger

Author : T. E. Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ghost Tiger's Lament by T. E. Waters Pdf

As a child, Ashne swore two oaths. With her adopted sister Zsaran she made a pact: one would never die without the other. To their mistress, the queen, who plucked them both out of the inhospitable marshlands, she vowed eternal loyalty. When a tiger spirit from a rival kingdom kidnaps the queen's only daughter, Ashne, now a trusted bodyguard, follows in pursuit despite knowing that her sword will be of little use against the ancient magic steadily reawakening across the land. But it is her human adversaries who prove more dangerous as she navigates the shifting political landscape in a kingdom still recovering from a decades-long war: a foreign sorcerer, an eccentric apothecary, an ambitious bandit chief — perhaps even Zsaran, who has long awaited a chance to achieve freedom for both herself and Ashne. Soon Ashne can no longer reconcile her love for her sister and her devotion to the women they have both served since childhood. Yet she must bring back the princess regardless. If not for love and duty, for her people's continued survival against the encroachment of powerful foreign conquerors, before whose ravenous ambitions the squabbles of two tribal kingdoms amount to dust. The Ghost Tiger's Lament is the first book of a historical fantasy series set in a world based loosely on the cultures of late Bronze Age China, during the time of Confucius and Sun Tzu.

Author : D.R. Johnson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780986608339

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Ghost Tigers by D.R. Johnson Pdf

Liz Allister is ambitious. She wants to buy a fast car, move to the Far East, make a movie, write country songs and address the U.N. on the status of young girls. In the endless corridors and dark corners of her eccentric house, Liz learns that the world has even more in store for her than even she imagined. She finds a secret that will send her on a colossal adventure where she will be required to risk everything including her life.Liz's quest takes her across the colorful backdrop of Duura, a land of lost tribes, ugly sticks, bed snakes, tidal sand, bouncing bartles, assassins, evil armies, fortified cities and a personable blue war elephant. It is a place where danger lies around every corner and in every stranger's smile. Finding the way into Duura was difficult but finding the way home may be impossible.

Author : David L. Pearson,C. Barry Knisley,Charles J. Kazilek
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195181555

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A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada by David L. Pearson,C. Barry Knisley,Charles J. Kazilek Pdf

A color-illustrated field and natural history guide that treats 107 tiger beetle species found in North America above the Mexican border. This work includes biological accounts that emphasize points for identification, behavior, and habitat. Distribution maps show where various species and subspecies can be found.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692134964

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Ghost of the Gulag by Anonim Pdf

Set in a fictional post WW2 Russia, an Amur Tiger lives alone in a forgotten prison camp. One eye was destroyed by the whip, the other branded and scarred with a sickle and hammer. Though blind, the Tiger learns how to see with the aid of his friend, a raven. The Tiger is unwittingly drawn into a larger conflict over the control of the Taiga (the great northern forest of Russia). The Tribe of the Wolf and the Clan of the Boar both vie for control and the Tiger becomes the tipping point and must choose the fate of the Taiga.

Author : Yin SheLangJun
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649487544

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Ghost Painter by Yin SheLangJun Pdf

My name is Li Mu, and I'm a Yin Painter. When I was eighteen, I received the first person who came to draw a Yin. She was a beautiful young woman at the prime of her youth, and originally, I thought that my first Yin Painting was so perfect. [

Author : Yangsze Choo
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250175441

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The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo Pdf

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.” —Kirkus (starred review) An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever. As the days tick relentlessly by, a series of unexplained deaths racks the district, along with whispers of men who turn into tigers. Ji Lin and Ren’s increasingly dangerous paths crisscross through lush plantations, hospital storage rooms, and ghostly dreamscapes. Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love. But anchoring this dazzling, propulsive novel is the intimate coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible. "A work of incredible beauty... Astoundingly captivating and striking... A transcendent story of courage and connection." —Booklist (starred review)

Author : Yer J. Thao
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786427499

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The Mong Oral Tradition by Yer J. Thao Pdf

In 1975, after years of struggle, Communists seized control of the government of Laos. Members of the Mong culture who had helped the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in their quest to halt the spread of Communism were forced to move to America as political refugees. The Mong, with their strong culture of oral traditions and beliefs, were plunged into a multicultural society where the written word was prevalent. As a result, their oral customs are now being slowly eroded and replaced with a written tradition. Desperate to hold on to their cultural identity and continue the traditions of their ancestors, the Mong still struggle with the dilemma this change in literary perception has caused. Compiled from numerous interviews, this volume explores the lives of 13 Mong elders. With emphasis on their unique oral tradition and cultural practices, the book discusses Mong rituals, tribal customs, religious beliefs and educational experiences. The main focus of the work, however, is the lifestyle the elders maintained while living in the mountains of Laos. In their own words, they describe their childhood, communities, religious rituals and cultural traditions as well as the ongoing struggle of adjustment to their new homeland. The work also delves into the Mong perceptions of industrialization and the generational conflict that immersion into a literate society has caused. The author himself is a member of the Mong culture and brings a personal perspective to preserving the oral traditions of this unique ethnicity. The work is also indexed.

Author : Samantha Mabry
Publisher : Algonquin Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781643750545

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Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry Pdf

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award–longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves a magical, romantic, own-voices novel about three sisters shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house.

Author : Patrick Newman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786472185

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Tracking the Weretiger by Patrick Newman Pdf

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style. Fundamental to the book is the evocation of a long-vanished world. When a man-eater struck in colonial times, people typically said it was a demon sent by a deity, or even the deity itself in animal form, punishing transgressors and being guided by its victims' angry spirits. Colonials typically dismissed this as superstitious nonsense but given traditional ideas about the close links between people, tigers and the spirit world, it is quite understandable. Other man-eaters were said to be shapeshifting black magicians. The result is a rich fund of tales from India and the Malay world in particular, and while some people undoubtedly believed them, others took advantage of man-eaters to persecute minorities as the supposed true culprits. The book explores the prejudices behind these witch-hunts, and also considers Asian weretiger and wereleopard lore in a wider context, finding common features with the more familiar werewolves of medieval Europe in particular.

Author : Ye XiaoZi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636666662

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Ghost Silver by Ye XiaoZi Pdf

I am an antique dealer, earning money from the living and earning money from the dead. In the past few years of roaming the world, he had seen all kinds of bizarre things...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10618102

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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780679436379

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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Among the best loved of all children’s classics, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of India, where Kipling was born and grew up. Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned “man cub,” a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle. Other well-known stories in the collection include “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” the tale of a heroic mongoose who outwits vicious cobras in order to save his human benefactors, and "Toomai of the Elephants," the story of a ten-year-old elephant-handler.This edition includes black-and-white illustrations by Kurt Wiese and William Henry Drake.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175000859234

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Kim. c1900. The naulahka. c1891 by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWECKW

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From sea to sea and other sketches. Letters of travel. 2 v. in 1 by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754062940964

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The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Seven Seas Edition: The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf