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Wicked Lovely

Author : Melissa Marr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061975095
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Lovely written by Melissa Marr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black won’t be able to resist the world of Melissa Marr's #1 New York Times bestselling series, full of faerie intrigue, mortal love, and courtly betrayal. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight—and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost—regardless of her plans or desires. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom, her best friend Seth, her life—everything.

Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Desert Tales

Author : Melissa Marr
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780062287564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Desert Tales written by Melissa Marr and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the world of Melissa Marr's bestselling series and discover how the events of Wicked Lovely set a different faery tale in motion. . . . Originally presented as a manga series and now available for the first time as a stand-alone novel, Desert Tales combines tentative romance, outward strength, and inner resolve in a faery story of desert and destiny. The Mojave Desert was a million miles away from the plots and schemes of the Faerie Courts—and that's exactly why Rika chose it as her home. The once-mortal faery retreated to the desert's isolation after decades of carrying winter's curse inside her body. But her seclusion—and the freedom of the desert fey—is threatened by the Summer King's newfound strength. And when the manipulations of her trickster friend, Sionnach, thrust Rika into a new romance, she finds new power within herself—and a new desire to help Sionnach protect the desert fey and mortals alike. The time for hiding is over.

Desert Giant (pb)

Author : Barbara Bash
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781578050857
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Desert Giant (pb) written by Barbara Bash and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its armlike branches reaching fifty feet into the air. From a distance it appears to be completely still and solitary--but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, this giant tree of the desert is alive with activity. Its spiny trunk and branches are home to a surprising number of animals, and its flowers and fruit feed many desert dwellers. Gila woodpeckers and miniature elf owls make their homes inside the saguaro's trunk. Long-nosed bats and fluttering white doves drink the nectar from its showy white flowers. People also play a role in the saguaro's story: each year the Tohono O'odham Indians gather its sweet fruit in a centuries-old harvest ritual. In this first volume of Sierra Club Books' Tree Tales series, a simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of this amazing cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support. Readers will come away with a better understanding of and a lasting respect for this accomodating giant of the desert.

Desert Tales of the Emirates

Author : Farah Sharida
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9948787994
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Desert Tales of the Emirates written by Farah Sharida and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Tales of the Emirates is a very inspiring, illuminating, and exciting story which educates the reader about the history of the UAE. It is a journey through the UAE's heritage and culture revealing how the Emirates evolved over time. The story is based on the evolution of life in the UAE, recognizing the importance of peace, love, diversity, and excellence accomplished at each stage.

Desert Tales

Author : Maria Eitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478716181
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Desert Tales written by Maria Eitz and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the terrible drought that gripped East Africa in the 1980s, squeezing her people, animals, and the very landscape dry, Maria Eitz took a group of medical people to help a nomadic tribe in Sudan battle for survival. For generations, the Hadendowa have traversed in small groups, with their camels and goats, through the arid land from the Eritrean Mountains to the Red Sea. They rest along ancient water sources and camps their forefathers established, waiting out the season of sandstorms. As Marias medical team settles into village life, they begin to learn from the Hadendowa how best to teach each other what they need to know. Marias responsibility is to negotiate contracts, agreements, and permits with Sudanese government officials. She collects morbidity and mortality statistics compiled by her teammates for the World Health Organization and other agencies and organizations involved in the effort to bring relief to people in the drought-stricken countries of East Africa. Maria is often free to wander among the Hadendowa as they go about their daily tasksand the stories in Desert Tales are inspired by her time with these remarkable people. It is a stunningly beautiful collection that will take the reader through a gamut of emotions, from tears to laughter to simple wonder.

Tales from the Queen of the Desert

Author : Gertrude Bell
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780944160
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Queen of the Desert written by Gertrude Bell and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria, and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. This is a unique collection of her work.

The Low Desert

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640095268
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Low Desert written by Tod Goldberg and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called "gloriously original" by The New York Times Book Review. With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con men, of do-gooders breaking bad and those caught in the crossfire. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several desert towns trying to escape the unexplainable loss of an adopted daughter; a drug dealer with a penchant for karaoke meets a talkative lawyer and a silent clown in a Palm Springs bar. Witty, brutal, and fast-paced, these stories expand upon the saga of Chicago hitman-turned-Vegas-rabbi Sal Cupertine--first introduced in Gangsterland and continued in Gangster Nation--while revealing how the line between good and bad is often a mirage.

Tales from the Geronimo

Author : Scott Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Geronimo written by Scott Frank and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel, essay & philosophical poem, the novel offers a desolate & lucid assessment of totalitarianism, by an author who witnessed its horrors first hand.

Desert Tales

Author : Melissa Marr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062238280
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Desert Tales written by Melissa Marr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the world of Melissa Marr's bestselling series and discover how the events of Wicked Lovely set a different faery tale in motion. . . . Originally presented as a manga series and now available for the first time as a stand-alone novel, Desert Tales combines tentative romance, outward strength, and inner resolve in a faery story of desert and destiny. The Mojave Desert was a million miles away from the plots and schemes of the Faerie Courts—and that's exactly why Rika chose it as her home. The once-mortal faery retreated to the desert's isolation after decades of carrying winter's curse inside her body. But her seclusion—and the freedom of the desert fey—is threatened by the Summer King's newfound strength. And when the manipulations of her trickster friend, Sionnach, thrust Rika into a new romance, she finds new power within herself—and a new desire to help Sionnach protect the desert fey and mortals alike. The time for hiding is over.

The Spring

Author : Annie Connole
Publisher : Chin Music Press
ISBN 13 : 1634050266
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Spring written by Annie Connole and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac tale of death, love, rebirth, survival, and resilience.

Desert Lake

Author : Mandy Martin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643108394
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Desert Lake written by Mandy Martin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan and Billiluna. This is a story of water. When Sturt Creek flows from the north, it creates a massive inland Lake among the sandy deserts. Not only is Paruku of national significance for waterbirds, but it has also helped uncover the past climatic and human history of Australia. Paruku's cultural and environmental values inspire Indigenous and other artists, they define the place as an enduring home, and have led to its declaration as an Indigenous Protected Area. The Walmajarri people of Paruku understand themselves in relation to Country, a coherent whole linking the environment, the people and the Law that governs their lives. These understandings are encompassed by the Waljirri or Dreaming and expressed through the songs, imagery and narratives of enduring traditions. Desert Lake is embedded in this broader vision of Country and provides a rich visual and cross-cultural portrait of an extraordinary part of Australia.

Cold Iron Heart

Author : Melissa Marr
Publisher : Melissa Marr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold Iron Heart written by Melissa Marr and published by Melissa Marr. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to escape fate? In this prequel to the international bestselling WICKED LOVELY series (over a million copies sold), the Faery Courts collide a century before the mortals in Wicked Lovely are born. Thelma Foy, a jeweler with the Second Sight in iron-bedecked 1890s New Orleans, can see through the glamours faeries wear to hide themselves from mortals, but if her secret were revealed, the fey would steal her eyes, her life, or her freedom. But when the Dark King, Irial, rescues her, Tam must confront everything she thought she knew about faeries, men, and love. Unbeknownst to Tam, she is the prize in a centuries-old fight between Summer Court and Winter Court. To protect her, Irial must risk a war he can’t win--or surrender the first mortal woman he's loved. "What a delight to discover how much I loved being back in the Wicked Lovely world, discovering details about beloved characters that made me want to race back for a series reread. This is Irial's story set in 1890s New Orleans, brimming with faerie court drama and steamy romance. Can we. and should we, outrun fate? And if so, are we prepared for the consequences? I could not put it down." --Angela Mann, Kepler's Books, Menlo Park CA "Set 100 years before the events in Wicked Lovely, Cold Iron Heart finds Irial, the king of the Dark Court, in New Orleans and entranced by a mortal. Is his interest in Thelma Foy just a passing fascination, or could it change the course of her life and the world forever? Melissa Marr masterfully rises to challenge of writing a prequel by both expanding on the mythology of the original series while telling a story that exists wholly on its own. Fans of the series will inhale this delicious glimpse into Irial’s past.”--John McDougall of Murder by the Book, Houston TX

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Smells Like Rain written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Palm Springs Noir (Akashic Noir)

Author : Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617759384
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Palm Springs Noir (Akashic Noir) written by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California’s Noir Series arena. “Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn’t require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in the Coachella Valley’s fragile crown . . . For all the playfulness of the genre and the location, the wisecracks and the kidney-shaped pools, there is an unmanageable darkness waiting to seep in, like so much blood in the pool water.” —Los Angeles Times Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Janet Fitch, Eric Beetner, Kelly Shire, Tod Goldberg, Michael Craft, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Rob Roberge, J.D. Horn, Eduardo Santiago, Rob Bowman, Chris J. Bahnsen, Ken Layne, and Alex Espinoza.

Desert to Dream

Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
ISBN 13 : 1597020265
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Desert to Dream written by Barbara Traub and published by Immedium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a photographic record of the annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada, from its beginning as a performance art exhibit to its current status as a pop culture destination.

Built to Burn

Author : Tony "Coyote" Perez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734965902
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Built to Burn written by Tony "Coyote" Perez and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, and how he came to lead a ragtag band of circus runaways, freaks and geeks that would become its Department of Public Works. In 1996, Tony was making a decent living as a musician, but his creative juices had run dry: one night onstage, he realized he'd just played an entire sax solo while thinking about his laundry. So when a wild-at-heart friend invites him to something called "Burning Man," he grabs his backpack and hops in the car, unaware that the experience ahead will not only turn him inside out, but alter the course of his life. An essential Burning Man origin story, BUILT TO BURN chronicles the wild uncertainty and creative chaos of the early days in the desert, when the event's future was under constant threat and the organizers were making everything up as they went along. It's a tale of struggle and survival, of friends made and friends lost, as Coyote and his misfit crew battle raging storms, crazed livestock, angry townsfolk and each other, locking horns with the real-life cowboys, Indians, outlaws and outcasts of Nevada's high desert frontier.Told with wry humor and a bit of cowboy philosophy, BUILT TO BURN invites the reader to experience Burning Man as it was before it got civilized, when it was as wild and untamed as anything out of the Old West.