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Book Synopsis Pull of the Yew Tree by : Pauline Toohey
Download or read book Pull of the Yew Tree written by Pauline Toohey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull of the Yew Tree is a literary piece of intrigue and love set in Ireland during The War Of The Roses. Based on the great Geraldines, the Earls of Kildare, the charismatic characters take the reader on a journey through a world fraught with death, dishonour and betrayal. Unlike the English rulers of the time, little about the Fitzgeralds has been produced in fiction novel format, until now. This is the first book in the Crom Abu series and ends in the aftermath of the Battle of Barnet, a battle fought during a period which came to be known as The War Of The Roses.
Book Synopsis Errors of Speech and of Spelling by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Download or read book Errors of Speech and of Spelling written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad by : Roger Boylan
Download or read book The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad written by Roger Boylan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, face all manner of chaos in this comic novel from an author “capable of spinning a fabulous yarn” (Minnesota Daily). After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists the help of a lawyer, Tom O’Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer’s real gig is selling missiles to an IRA splinter group, and he plans to use his clueless client as a patsy. O’Mallet also hoodwinks Anil, an Indian waiter who has found himself the unlikely target of a manhunt. What Tom doesn’t know is that his lucrative weapons are destined for a massive terrorist attack on the Pint-Pulling Olympiad, and that Anil’s sexy cousin Rashmi—a sweatshop worker turned intelligence operative—is hot on the bombers’ trail. With a wink and a nudge, Roger Boylan’s pyrotechnic prose brings to life Ireland at its manic extremes, proving the author a dazzling and distinctive talent in American fiction.
Book Synopsis The Silver Bough by : Florence Marian McNeill
Download or read book The Silver Bough written by Florence Marian McNeill and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Stewart Sanderson. This book, the first and most popular of four volumes, is a marvellous and indispensable treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophecies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures. The Silver Bough involved many years of research into both living and recorded folklore. Its genesis lies perhaps in the author's need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in her Orkney childhood, with the sophisticated modern world she later entered. This much loved and highly regarded work remains a classic of literature. 'If you are looking for an insight into the Celtic mindset, or interested in the background of Scottish literature or in Scottish folklore for its own sake . . . I know of no other single volume I could so unreservedly recommend to you.' Books in Scotland
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Wizard edited by : paul gruzalski
Download or read book The Reluctant Wizard edited written by paul gruzalski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's fiction. Age range from 7-13 years. A fanasty about a father with three children who discovers that he is a wizard.
Book Synopsis Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Download or read book Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Under the Yew Tree by : John Charles Hall
Download or read book Under the Yew Tree written by John Charles Hall and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-warming WW2 Dystopian novel perfect for those readers who loved SSGB.What-if the South East of England had been occupied by German forces during WW2. The people of Sussex find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled and even in the villages the stifling presence of the German army is felt.Joseph and Julia are part of a small village and farming community, young lovers caught up in the horrors of war. To the occupying forces and the outside world, Joseph appears to be just the son of a farming family; to the few that know; he is the youngest member of the Resistance.Living with the enemy tests the character of every individual. The close-knit and resilient community needs to carry on with their work lives regardless of the challenging factors around them... but their daily lives are filled with betrayal, collaboration, resistance and death.
Book Synopsis Silver Bough Volume 1 by : F. Marian McNeill
Download or read book Silver Bough Volume 1 written by F. Marian McNeill and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver Bough is an indispensable treasury of Scottish culture, universally acknowledged as a classic of literature. The author, F Marian McNeill, succeeded in capturing and bringing to life many traditions and customs of old before they died out or were influenced by the modern era. The Silver Branch of the sacred apple tree, laden with crystal blossoms of golden fruit, is in Celtic mythology the equivalent of the Golden Bough of classical mythology - the symbolic bond between the world we know and the Otherworld.This, the first volume of The Silver Bough, deals with Scottish folklore and folk-belief. There are chapters on the ethnic origins of the national festivals, the Druids, the Celtic gods, and the slow transition from Druidism to Christianity. There are accounts of magic, the fairy faith, second sight, selkies, changelings and the witch cult, including tales of "e;witches"e; being hung, or worse. There are old familiar rhymes and a wealth of information on the Scotland of old, now gone for ever, where the people feared witches and "e;faeries"e;. Readers are bound to find something fascinating about somewhere in Scotland they didn't know before. The book is attractively illustrated, with many interesting relics reproduced for the first time, including a witch's cursing bone, hair rope and corp creadh (clay image) and some well-known amulets and charms. The subsequent three volumes deal with the origins and traditions of Scottish national and local festivals. As man makes greater and greater advances in the understanding and control of his physical environment, the river between the known and the unknown gradually changes its course, and the subjects of the simpler beliefs of former times become part of the new territory of knowledge. The Silver Bough maps out the old course of the waterway that in Celtic belief winds between here and beyond, and reveals the very roots of the Scottish people's distinctive customs and way of life. 1938 character count(extra section to be added where possible)The Silver Bough is a large and important work which involved many years of research into both living and recorded lore. Its genesis lies, perhaps, in the author's subconscious need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in childhood with the sophisticated modern world she later entered. "e;I do not believe that you can exaggerate the importance of the preservation of old ways and customs, and all those little things which bind a man to his native place. Today we live in difficult times. The steam-roller of progress is flattening out many of our old institutions, and there is a danger of a general decline in idiom and distinctive quality in our Scottish life. The only way to counteract this peril is to preserve jealously all these elder things which are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. For, remember, no man can face the future with courage and confidence unless it is solidly founded upon the past. And conversely, no problem will be too hard, no situation too strange, if we can link it with what we know and love"e; F Marian McNeill
Book Synopsis Morgan and Yew by : Stephen Cosgrove
Download or read book Morgan and Yew written by Stephen Cosgrove and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sheep wishes for a horn like his unicorn friend has, but it costs him more than he can bear.
Book Synopsis The Art of Illumination by : A.M. Hamilton
Download or read book The Art of Illumination written by A.M. Hamilton and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Of Illumination is a spellbinding book that transports one into a world of wonder, mystery, and divine empowerment. It weaves a tale of long lost wisdom and sprinkles it at the feet of the reader like gorgeous pearls. I cannot recommend it highly enough. A fantastic read. Sonia Choquette, NYTimes best-selling author of The Answer Is Simple. Love Yourself. live Your Spirit The Art of Illumination is the stunning tale of one mans journey into the deepest realm of the soul. A compelling mystery propels this luminous exploration of the human experience of the divine. A wise and beautiful book, it grabbed my heart from the first chapter and never let go. Its a remarkable story, written with startling vision and grace by a promising new author. It will leave you awed, moved and hungering for more. Maureen Boyd Biro, author of Walking With Maga and Voices of the Valley, First Press. This book is amazing - I picked it up just to check a few lines and couldnt stop reading. I felt as though it was educating me, and I could imagine everything as if I was watching a movie. There wasnt one part of the book which did not make me want to quickly turn to another page. June Dally Watkins, Education and Training | Business Finishing College. The year is 1097. Britain has been politically unstable for an age, and it doesnt seem as though things will be settling down any time soon. It isnt just political issues that threaten the population, however. Without an understanding of the nature of pestilence or the knowledge of how to treat it, disease runs rampant through the population, affecting everyone in its path. While tragedy rampages unchallenged, one place stands apart from the events afflicting the world at large. Hidden away in a corner of the land stands the large, stone monastery that serves as a shelter from the terrifying world. It is here that one man finds himself on a journey he never expected he would take. He discovers the art of illumination, not only in the creation of beautiful manuscripts, but in illumination of the soul. In the process, he also uncovers a secret that will propel him into a world he never expected to find.
Book Synopsis The Rings of Saturn by : W. G. Sebald
Download or read book The Rings of Saturn written by W. G. Sebald and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Download or read book A Monster Calls written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
Book Synopsis Finding the Mother Tree by : Suzanne Simard
Download or read book Finding the Mother Tree written by Suzanne Simard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
Book Synopsis A catalogue of the houshold furniture, and other effects of Edward Younge, Esq., lately deceased ... which will be sold by auction, etc by : Edward YOUNGE (of Little Durnford, near Salisbury.)
Download or read book A catalogue of the houshold furniture, and other effects of Edward Younge, Esq., lately deceased ... which will be sold by auction, etc written by Edward YOUNGE (of Little Durnford, near Salisbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Buried by Earth written by Jemma Weir and published by Jemma Weir. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam has spent the last decade hiding her magic. If anyone found out she was an Earth Elemental, she would lose everything, including the land that relied on her. Hale has been the Highland Rift Pack Alpha for the last seven years, and his priorities are his pack, the rangers, and keeping the Highland Rift Scar monsters in check. When a full moon hunt ends with Hale stung by a Rift scorpion and stuck as a wolf, Sam is forced to allow him to stay on her land. Something her land is ecstatic about. Her, not so much. Though she tries to avoid him, it's not long before another attack puts Hale’s life in the balance. Sam is left with a difficult decision: keep her secret and lose Hale, or risk everything and use her magic to save him. Can Sam and Hale trust each other, or will their mistrust bury them? Find out in this enthralling paranormal romance novel, Buried by Earth, the first in the Highland Rift Pack series.
Book Synopsis The Dire: Shiloh Shepherd Series by : A. Scribe
Download or read book The Dire: Shiloh Shepherd Series written by A. Scribe and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of all rests in the hands of three outcasts. Elves are at war with Men all because of the act of a single elf one-thousand years ago. A band of nefarious elves known as The Dire now threatens to overthrow the Land of Elvendore. Tarren - a hot-blooded boy - has sworn to kill every elf he meets. Silliss - an exiled elf with a price on his head - has a burning hatred of humans. Shiloh - a ranger with a mysterious past - has a hidden agenda of his own. These three unlikely companions set out on an adventure that could end in either peace or the destruction of Elvendore. Follow Shiloh, Silliss, and Tarren as they travel into forbidden forests guarded by sentient trees; get captured by slavers; delve into dwarven mines; escape The Dire; stumble across hidden civilizations; and tangle with dangerous dragons.
