Mud Puddles And Mockingbird Feathers And The Sky Is Crying

Author : George D. King
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728330297

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Mud Puddles and Mockingbird Feathers and the Sky Is Crying by George D. King Pdf

Mud Puddles and Mockingbird Feathers Camelia Ledbetter has lived in Fort Walton Beach for over a hundred years across the Sound from Okaloosa Island that she fears more than anything else. Her heart and mind should be filled with rage, but her vigilant faith and determination shield her from the disaster that occurred seventy-five years ago, and the loneliness of her empty bed and a hatred of the war that tore her life apart. The La Mancha may never be the same after the three four-year-old ‘soldiers’ invade it. Their innocence will lead them to the ultimate danger for all three of them, for the psychotic killer is still on ‘campus’ as the Prof calls the place. Twists of fate, both in the war and on Okaloosa Island, create a maze that the boys and Miss Camelia struggle through. The Sky is Crying Miss Camelia Ledbetter’s story ends with Mud Puddles and Mockingbird Feathers, but her Great Grandson, Zathan, has a dream where she tells him that Evil is on its way to Chanticleer Lane, the street where she lived for over a hundred years. Enter, Elmer Carter, his wife Balance, and their daughter, Bunny Jo. Elmer, a conniving schemer and vicious alcoholic, will get what he wants by any means—scams or bloody violence.

Author : George D. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524610097

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Death Doesn't Vacation on Okaloosa Island by George D. King Pdf

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Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061804816

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Pdf

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Author : Mabel Osgood Wright,Elliott Coues
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Birds
ISBN : UOM:39076002720105

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Citizen Bird by Mabel Osgood Wright,Elliott Coues Pdf

This classic and widely influential work brings together the talents of the greatest American ornithologist of his generation (Coues), a pioneering nature writer/editor/ornithologist (Wright), and a young artist whose contribution to the American tradition of bird illustration proved to be second only to Audubon's own (Fuertes); this book features the first substantial body of his work. Directed at the general public, especially children, and written in an entertaining and fanciful fiction style, the work imparts solid scientific knowledge while inculcating conservation values. It exemplifies the extensive literature of popular yet scientifically-grounded ornithology which nurtured the national passion for birds in this era, thereby fostering some of conservationism's most vital and widespread grass roots. Women were particularly well-represented in this literature, often--like Wright--combining literary gifts with serious scientific knowledge (Wright was elected to membership in the American Ornithologists' Union) to bridge the widening gap between professional science and amateur nature-study, and often--as in this work--confirming contemporary expectations of gender roles by directing their writings particularly toward children.

Author : Велимир Хлебников
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674140451

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Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and theoretical writings by Велимир Хлебников Pdf

Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured. This first volume of the Collected Works, an edition sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation, will do much to establish the counterimage of Khlebnikov as an honest, serious writer. The 117 letters published here for the first time in English reveal an ebullient, humane, impractical, but deliberate working artist. We read of the continuing involvement with his family throughout his vagabond life (pleas to his smartest sister, Vera, to break out of the mold, pleas to his scholarly father not to condemn and to send a warm overcoat); the naive pleasure he took in being applauded by other artists; his insistence that a young girl's simple verses be included in one of the typically outrageous Futurist publications of the time; his jealous fury at the appearance in Moscow of the Italian Futurist Marinetti; a first draft of his famous zoo poem ("O Garden of Animals!"); his seriocomic but ultimately shattering efforts to be released from army service; his inexhaustibly courageous confrontation with his own disease and excruciating poverty; and always his deadly earnest attempt to make sense of numbers, language, suffering, politics, and the exigencies of publication. The theoretical writings presented here are even more important than the letters to an understanding of Khlebnikov's creative output. In the scientific articles written before 1910, we discern foreshadowings of major patterns of later poetic work. In the pan-Slavic proclamations of 1908-1914, we find explicit connections between cultural roots and linguistic ramifications. In the semantic excursuses beginning in 1915, we can see Khlebnikov's experiments with consonants, nouns, and definitions spelled out in accessible, if arid, form. The essays of 1916-1922 take us into the future of Planet Earth, visions of universal order and accomplishment that no longer seem so farfetched but indeed resonate for modern readers.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375843174

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The Alchemyst by Michael Scott Pdf

Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And his secrets aren't safe! Discover the truth in book one of the New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. The truth: Nicholas Flamel's tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. Nicholas Flamel is the greatest Alchemyst to ever live. The records show that he died in 1418, but what if he's actually been making the elixir of life for centuries? The secrets to eternal life are hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed, and in the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. There is one hope. If the prophecy is true, Sophie and Josh Newman have the power to save everyone. Now they just have to learn to use it. “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel has everything you loved about Harry Potter, including magic, mystery, and a constant battle of good versus evil.”—Bustle Read the whole series! The Alchemyst The Magician The Sorceress The Necromancer The Warlock The Enchantress

Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537141961

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Pdf

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425284698

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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Pdf

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller “Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong. Publishers Weekly’s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 • Winner of the Southern Book Prize • If All Arkansas Read the Same Book Selection This edition includes a new essay by the author about shantyboat life.

Author : George D. King
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546208228

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Sweetest Revenge by George D. King Pdf

When Launie Sandersons trial abruptly ends with bloodshed, and two mighty explosions rip through the Sound, costing millions of dollars, the Prof and his friends at the La Mancha start to believe that this season will be worse than the previous two. Two daring and unexpected rescues are made from the explosions which will lead to two deathsone with pure sadistic pleasure, and one with final consent. One resident of the La Mancha is not so certain the drug running on Okaloosa Island is over, which leads to a surprise death and a grisly murder. JC Blevins, the Florida State police sergeant, is about to throw in the towel as nothing fits together, and clues are tightly hidden from him. There is romance and humor in the air as the relationship between Ester Haynes and JC grows; her three-year-old, Little Mitch, thinks its yucky! A stranger is nosing around Ollies grave and asking the wrong questions. The Prof is visited by a character who scares the daylights out hima character who cannot possibly be walking the beach or sitting on the low perimeter wall in front of Jonathan L. The only certainty is that the mighty Gulf will continue nudging at the beach, or back off, and really thrash it.

Author : Kathi Appelt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416998587

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The Underneath by Kathi Appelt Pdf

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten’s one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O’Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love—and its opposite, hate—the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

Author : The Onion
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780316133234

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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge by The Onion Pdf

Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.

Author : John Burroughs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015064544797

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Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs Pdf

Author : Harold Keith
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006447030X

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Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Pdf

Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired. And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a dark secret on his soul. This is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history; in its details so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there; in its dozens of different people, each one fully realized and wholly recognizable. It is a story of a lesser -- known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramat-ic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Beagle Expedition
ISBN : BL:A0022100492

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Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H. M. S. Beagle by Charles Darwin Pdf

Author : Barbara Smucker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143187899

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Underground To Canada by Barbara Smucker Pdf

There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free ...... Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them .....