The Rising Rooks

Author : Celine Jeanjean
Publisher : Celine Jeanjean
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Rising Rooks by Celine Jeanjean Pdf

Dive into this fun steampunk fantasy featuring quirky characters, snappy banter, and set in a world that's a cross between Victorian London and the tropics. While Damsport is facing civil war, Longinus cuts Rory’s hair… Don’t miss the final instalment in The Viper and the Urchin series! The Rising Rooks, the Rookery rebels, are mounting an attack against Garrata that they hope will destabilise her enough to weaken her grip on Damsport. But not only does the mission fail, its failure causes a rift between the Rising Rooks and the rest of Damsport. Rory and Longinus find themselves retreating to the Rookery without support from the rest of the city and without resources. They’ll have to use all their ingenuity and inimitable style to somehow get to Garrata. Whether it’s cutting Rory’s hair, robbing a post office, or creating dastardly poisons, Rory and Longinus fight with everything they’ve got. Will they succeed, or will they fail to free Damsport? If they go down, at least they’ll be going down in style… Grab the final adventure in Rory and Longinus’s saga. The Rising Rooks is book 9 in a complete 9 book steampunk fantasy series. Other books in the series: #1 The Bloodless Assassin #2 The Black Orchid #3 The Slave City #4 The Doll Maker #5 The White Hornet #6 The Shadow Palace #7 The Opium Smuggler #8 The Veiled War #9 The Rising Rooks Keywords: Fantasy Books, Top Rated Books, Epic Fantasy Books, Epic Fantasy, Steampunk Books, Best Rated Steampunk Books, Fantasy action adventure, quirky characters, banter, snarky fantasy, fantasy humor, Strong female lead, fantasy steampunk, snappy banter, funny fantasy, fantasy with strong female lead, magic, original world-building, full length fantasy, humorous fantasy books, steampunk, gaslamp fantasy, historical fantasy, humorous fantasy, funny fantasy, quirky fantasy, quirky characters, Fantasy female lead, Fantasy female character, fantasy female protagonist, fantasy strong female character, unlikely friendship, banter, snark, snarky, humour, alchemist, fantasy assassin, fun read, fast read. Perfect for fans of: Lindsay Buroker, Terry Pratchett, Gail Carriger, Shelley Adina, Joseph Lallo, Tilly Wallace, CJ Archer

Author : Daniel O'Malley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316193276

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The Rook by Daniel O'Malley Pdf

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy. Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. "Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416949695

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The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Pdf

YA. An eleven-year-old boy searches for six magical signs in order to save the world from the threatening evil of the Dark.

Author : Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:097057349

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham Pdf

Author : Noliwe M. Rooks
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0813523125

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Hair Raising by Noliwe M. Rooks Pdf

We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. Hair Raising is that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416949657

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The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Pdf

On his 11th birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs of Light that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. This Newbery Honor Book is the first title of Cooper's Dark Is Rising sequence.

Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545676007

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Rook by Sharon Cameron Pdf

Who needs a wedding ring when you can pick up a sword? A remarkable and utterly inventive novel from Sharon Cameron, author of THE DARK UNWINDING, which USA TODAY called "spellbindingly imaginative." History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal?Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy's arranged marriage to the wealthy René Hasard is the last chance to save her family from ruin. But when the search for the Red Rook comes straight to her doorstep, Sophia discovers that her fiancé is not all he seems. Which is only fair, because neither is she. As the Red Rook grows bolder and the stakes grow higher, Sophia and René find themselves locked in a tantalizing game of cat and mouse. Daring intrigue, delicious romance, and spine-tingling suspense fill the pages of this extraordinary tale from award-winning author Sharon Cameron.

Author : Aaron Marquis,Adam Kovic
Publisher : Null+Void
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798985092608

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ROOK by Aaron Marquis,Adam Kovic Pdf

The year is 2090. Earth is a dystopian nightmare filled with lonely people seeking connection in virtual worlds while corporate conglomerates profit from war and secretly run every country's government. So, nothing's changed. Except there are more robots! Like the one the slovenly Null Lasker (he's your hero, unfortunately) controls from the comfort of his living room in order to fight for SKIRM® in a distant warzone. Think of SKIRM® as like Uber for war, except there are less benefits and the pay is somehow worse. Everything goes well until Null pushes the system too far and finds himself in a world of trouble — and on the run from his employer. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, the George Orwell estate, Olive Garden... these are just a few of the potential plaintiffs in lawsuits that could come from this book. Oh, and Uber now. One last thing: 10% of all book sales go to shatterproof.org — forever. For all time. Contributing to a charity was a huge part of this project and it goes towards a cause we're very passionate about. Enjoy.

Author : Celine Jeanjean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2492523160

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The Rising Rooks by Celine Jeanjean Pdf

While Damsport is facing civil war, Longinus cuts Rory's hair... Don't miss the final instalment in The Viper and the Urchin series! The Rising Rooks, the Rookery rebels, are mounting an attack against Garrata that they hope will destabilise her enough to weaken her grip on Damsport. But not only does the mission fail, its failure causes a rift between the Rising Rooks and the rest of Damsport. Rory and Longinus find themselves retreating to the Rookery without support from the rest of the city and without resources. They'll have to use all their ingenuity and inimitable style to somehow get to Garrata. Whether it's cutting Rory's hair, robbing a post office, or creating dastardly poisons, Rory and Longinus fight with everything they've got. Will they succeed, or will they fail to free Damsport? If they go down, at least they'll be going down in style... Grab the final adventure in Rory and Longinus's saga.

Author : Noliwe Rooks
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620976319

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Cutting School by Noliwe Rooks Pdf

2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization—and profitability—of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America "An astounding look at America's segregated school system, weaving together historical dynamics of race, class, and growing inequality into one concise and commanding story. Cutting School puts our schools at the center of the fight for a new commons." —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education—today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars—there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation's failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business. Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools. Rooks's incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of "segrenomics," showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gaps—including charters, vouchers, and cyber schools—rely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity. Rooks chronicles the making and unmaking of public education and the disastrous impact of funneling public dollars to private for-profit and nonprofit operations. As the infrastructure crumbles, a number of major U.S. cities are poised to permanently dismantle their public school systems—the very foundation of our multicultural democracy. Yet Rooks finds hope and promise in the inspired individuals and powerful movements fighting to save urban schools. A comprehensive, compelling account of what's truly at stake in the relentless push to deregulate and privatize, Cutting School is a cri de coeur for all of us to resist educational apartheid in America.

Author : Jane Rusbridge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408831359

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Rook by Jane Rusbridge Pdf

Nora, a cellist, returns home to the Sussex coast with memories she must banish in order to survive: a charismatic teacher; a mistake she cannot unmake. Her mother Ada is waiting: a fragile, bitter woman who distils for herself a glamorous past as she smokes French cigarettes in her unkempt garden. A documentary maker has arrived in the village to shoot a film about King Cnut and his illegitimate daughter, whose body lies beneath the flagstones of Bosham church. As he digs up tales of ancient battles, Ada and Nora find themselves face to face with their own carefully buried secrets.

Author : Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353023324

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The Inhuman Race (Commonwealth Empire #1) by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Pdf

The year is 2033. The British Empire never fell. Communism never happened. The Commonwealth flies the flag of the Empire. Many of the Empire's colonies are stripped bare in the name of British interests, powerless to resist. Upon this stage is Ceylon - a once-proud civilization tracing itself back to the time of the Pharaohs, reduced but not dead. The Great Houses of Kandy still control the most lucrative trade routes, since even dust and ashes can serve a purpose. In this surreal landscape, where technology and humanity intersect, we meet The Silent Girl - a survivor, an explorer.

Author : Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z171413701

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“A” Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham Pdf

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442412538

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The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Pdf

A Margaret K. McElderry book.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z178873006

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A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar by Samuel Johnson Pdf