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Author : Geoffrey Keynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Watch of Nightingales written by Geoffrey Keynes and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liza Wieland
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025252
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Watch of Nightingales written by Liza Wieland and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public eye, burdened not just with the responsibilities of acting headmaster---a role she never wanted---but also with a potentially explosive political and religious controversy that tests parents' and school administrators' spirit of tolerance. When a Sikh student is caught wearing a ceremonial knife on school grounds, fear spreads among parents and the school board. Coming at the same moment as the disappearance of Mara's teenage daughter, the controversy quickly assumes a far more personal nature. Not just any student, the Sikh boy is both the son of a woman with whom Mara shares a complicated past and---as Mara soon discovers---her own daughter's boyfriend. As it moves back and forth in time between the school in contemporary Washington and a girls' boarding school in the British countryside in 1977, A Watch of Nightingales weaves a rich and textured exploration of fear and remorse, the mysteries of love, and the complicated tensions that ring down the generations from parent to child. "Conjuring the entwined lives of teachers and students in two schools (and two generations) on either side of the Atlantic, A Watch of Nightingales stands alongside The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Goodbye, Mr Chips as a testament to the responsibilities, rewards, and risks of teaching. This is a book of luminous insight and quiet but telling wisdom, about youth and maturity and the bridge of loss and remorse that connects them. Liza Wieland's is a mature and deeply moving vision, conveyed in prose that sings as sure and clear as the birds of her title." ---Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Praise for Liza Wieland: "[T]here is a nobility and boldness to her characters that lends them a heroism missing from much modern fiction and makes these stories wholly absorbing adventures of the heart." ---Ron Hansen, author of Exiles: A Novel "Liza Wieland understands down to the bone how loneliness and love compel her characters to make their impossible choices. Not only does she have a searing intelligence and wisdom, her prose is by turns graceful and astonishing." ---Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World Liza Wieland is the author of four previous works of fiction: The Names of the Lost; Discovering America; You Can Sleep While I Drive; and Bombshell, as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Author : Sam Lee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473577411
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Nightingale written by Sam Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL 'This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird's immortal song - balm for a troubled soul and a glimpse of paradise.' JOANNA LUMLEY ______________________________ Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. Throughout history, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. Here, passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird. ______________________________ 'Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted.' LILY COLE 'A wonderful book.' STEPHEN MOSS 'A magical marriage of the lyrical and practical: a book that makes us want to seek out the nightingale and then reveals how we can.' TRISTAN GOOLEY
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213806
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Not about Nightingales written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646718X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Nightingales in Berlin written by David Rothenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,—from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale’s song? It’s a strange and unsettling sort of composition—an eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, whistles, twitters, and gurgles. At times it is mellifluous, at others downright guttural. It is a rhythmic assault, always eluding capture. What happens if you decide to join in? As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg shows in this searching and personal new book, the nightingale’s song is so peculiar in part because it reflects our own cacophony back at us. As vocal learners, nightingales acquire their music through the world around them, singing amidst the sounds of humanity in all its contradictions of noise and beauty, hard machinery and soft melody. Rather than try to capture a sound not made for us to understand, Rothenberg seeks these musical creatures out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin—longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard—and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other’s sounds. Through dialogue, travel records, sonograms, tours of Berlin’s city parks, and musings on the place animal music occupies in our collective imagination, Rothenberg takes us on a quest for a new sonic alchemy, a music impossible for any one species to make alone. In the tradition of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Invention of Nature, Rothenberg has written a provocative and accessible book to attune us ever closer to the natural environment around us.
Author : Eugene McCabe
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140900290X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Death and Nightingales written by Eugene McCabe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN ‘Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel’ Hilary Mantel 'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín It is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family’s past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax.
Author : Helen Berhane
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1850789207
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Song of the Nightingale written by Helen Berhane and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and challenging true story of one woman's faith, so strong it could not be broken even in the face of imprisonment and torture. Song of the Nightingale is the true story of Helen Berhane, held captive for over two years in appalling conditions in her native Eritrea. Her crime? Sharing her faith in Jesus, and refusing, even though horrendously tortured, to deny him. A sobering, painful, heart-rending account of true faith in the face of evil, this book makes for uncomfortable and yet inspirational reading. Helen says, 'I want to give a message to those of you who are Christians and live in the free world: You must not take your freedom for granted. If I could sing in prison, imagine what you can do for God's glory with your freedom.' A real challenge for the church in the West.
Author : Susan Straight
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307488268
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Million Nightingales written by Susan Straight and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to escape. Inspired by a true story, A Million Nightingales portrays Moinette’s experience–and the treacherous world she must navigate–with uncommon richness, intricacy, and drama.
Author : Katherine Arden
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473582237
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Bear and The Nightingale written by Katherine Arden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _____________________________ Beware the evil in the woods... In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to the children of the family, tales of old magic frowned upon by the church. But for the young, wild Vasya these are far more than just stories. She alone can see the house spirits that guard her home, and sense the growing forces of dark magic in the woods. . . Atmospheric and enchanting, with an engrossing adventure at its core, The Bear and the Nightingale is perfect for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. _____________________________ Now with over 100 5* reviews, readers are spellbound by this magical story: 'This book stayed with me, I didn't want it to end' 'A beautifully written story' 'An entrancing story, which swept me up from the very first chapter' 'Full of magic' _____________________________ Make sure you've read all the books in the acclaimed Winternight Trilogy 1. The Bear and the Nightingale 2. The Girl in the Tower 3. The Winter of the Witch
Author : Chloe Rhodes
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782433171
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
Download or read book An Unkindness of Ravens written by Chloe Rhodes and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, but have you ever stopped to wonder where these peculiar terms actually came from?
Author : Philological Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Philological Society written by Philological Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members included in most vols.
Author : David Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement ... written by David Booth and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book An analytical dictionary of the English language written by David Booth and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
ISBN 13 : 9781427212672
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Nightingale written by Kristin Hannah and published by Macmillan Audio. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
Author : Daniel Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book An analytical Dictionary of the english language written by Daniel Booth and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697791
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Shroud for a Nightingale written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
Author : Ralph Steadman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147292505X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Nextinction written by Ralph Steadman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to save. These are the 192 Critically Endangered birds on the IUCN Red List, species such as the Giant Ibis, the Kakapo, the Sumatran Ground-cuckoo and the iconic Spoon-billed Sandpiper – these, along with a number of classic Steadman creations such as the Unsociable Lapwing, are the NEARLY-EXTINCT BOIDS. Woids are again by author, conservationist and film-maker Ceri Levy. Together, Ceri and Ralph are THE GONZOVATIONISTS.
