Rainbirds

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795315077

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Rainbird's Revenge by M. C. Beaton Pdf

The conclusion to the delightful series set in a London townhouse, from the New York Times–bestselling author! The house at 67 Clarges Street in fashionable Mayfair has seen many guests, all looked after by the quirky staff of servants. When the house’s owner, the Duke of Pelham, finally returns, he is grimly determined to find a suitable wife—but completely unprepared for what the season has to offer. The duke’s title alone has always brought him more than his share of feminine attention, and while he claims to not believe in love, he has never been spurned by a lady. The duke’s self-imposed search is soon disrupted by the arrival in London of Miss Jenny Sutherland, a spoiled but beautiful country girl whose vanity is her tragic flaw. According to her guardian Aunt Letitia, lack of competition has made Jenny put on airs; in London, she will get the set-down she sorely deserves. Indeed, at her first important London party, Jenny’s blatant disdain for the duke leads to disaster. But no one has counted on the intervention of John Rainbird, the house’s shrewd and resourceful butler. The result is a mischievous scheme that will insure Jenny’s social success and determine the fate of the close-knit family of servants at 67 Clarges Street . . .

Author : Clarissa Goenawan
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616958565

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Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan Pdf

Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent death. Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for this desolate place years ago. But then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching position at a prestigious local cram school and her bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his crumbling relationship there in order to better understand his sister’s life and what took place the night of her death. As Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren realizes that Keiko Ishida kept many secrets, even from him.

Author : Nadeem Aslam
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678018

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Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam Pdf

The first novel by the author of Maps for Lost Lovers: a powerful and exquisitely written story set in a small town in Pakistan after the murder of a corrupt and prominent local judge. When a sack of letters that were thought to have disappeared in a train crash nineteen years earlier reappears under mysterious circumstances, the inhabitants of a secluded Pakistani village wait anxiously to see what secrets may come to light. Could the letters hold any information about Judge Anwar's murder? As Aslam traces the murder investigation over the next eleven days, he explores the impact that these two events have on a variety of people in the town--from the surviving family of the judge to a journalist reporting on the delivery of the mail packet. With great attention to detail and beautiful scenes that explore the daily rhythms of life in Pakistan, Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world whose traditional rituals are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes, and religious tensions.

Author : Harriet McKnight
Publisher : Black Incorporated
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Victoria
ISBN : 1760640662

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Rain Birds by Harriet McKnight Pdf

When Arianna's personal demons start to overwhelm her and risk undoing everything, an unexpected connection changes the course of her life.

Author : David Metzenthen
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0734408862

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The Rainbirds by David Metzenthen Pdf

A stunningly illustrated story about a city child s relationship with nature and the natural world, the trust that children can place in their parents, the responsibility adults have in looking after children and the environment they will inherit. Features collage based illustrations which will appeal to children and adults alike. Price: $28.95 each HB Ages: 4+

Author : Rabia Gale
Publisher : Rabia Gale
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Rainbird by Rabia Gale Pdf

She’s a halfbreed in hiding. Rainbird never belonged. To one race, she’s chattel. To the other, she’s an abomination that should never have existed. She lives on the sunway. High above the ground, Rainbird is safe, as long as she does her job, keeps her head down, and never ever draws attention to herself. But one act of sabotage is about to change everything. For Rainbird. And for her world.

Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Inheritance and succession
ISBN : 9781416507338

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The Golden Chance by Jayne Ann Krentz Pdf

Author : Clarissa Goenawan
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641291200

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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda who harbored unrequited feelings for Miwako, begs her best friend Chie to bring him to the remote village where she spent her final days. While they are away, his older sister, Fumi, who took Miwako on as an apprentice in her art studio, receives an unexpected guest at her apartment in Tokyo, distracting her from her fear that Miwako’s death may ruin what is left of her brother’s life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman’s careful façade, unmasking her most painful secrets.

Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139463942

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The Archaeology of Islands by Paul Rainbird Pdf

Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.

Author : Jan Brokken,Jan C. Brokken
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070694364

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The Rainbird by Jan Brokken,Jan C. Brokken Pdf

A kaleidoscope of adventures and anecdotes, THE RAINBIRD is a compelling account of Dutch travel writer Jan Brokken's journey to Gabon in Central Africa as he follows in the footsteps of famous Europeans such as Schweitzer and Stanley. Brokken's account brilliantly chronicles the encounter between Europe and Africa as it was acted out on a side-street of history.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668009925

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Firestarter by Stephen King Pdf

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture! Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

Author : Noel D. Williams
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173002190069

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The Crying of Rainbirds by Noel D. Williams Pdf

Torn between despair over 'the rancid taste of life on the island' and attachment to the 'irresistible, green island days', the characters in these short stories inhabit a Caribbean they find it impossible to live in, yet impossible to live without. They dream of being inviolable and whole, but live in situations which are frequently on the edge of disorder and personal threat. Yet there is nothing wearily pessimistic about the tone of this collection. Williams's stories, like his characters, are intensely alive. Their individual voices button-hole us and won't let us go. Their tales are sad, but what passion they have in their pursuit of meaning! "In Williams' brilliant final story... the urge to find release and return is given mystical and memorable expression..." Liberation N.D. Williams is Guyanese and lives in New York. In 1976 his novel Ikael Torass won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002669268

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English Patents of Inventions, Specifications by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Byrne Leicester Warren (3rd baron De Tabley.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600056926

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Ropes of sand, by W.P. Lancaster by John Byrne Leicester Warren (3rd baron De Tabley.) Pdf

Author : Patrick Ainley,Helen Rainbird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135370374

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Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning by Patrick Ainley,Helen Rainbird Pdf

In the light of changes the government has launched as part of its welfare to work initiatives, this text explores apprenticeship. The authors set the historical context and discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills for competence.