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Book Synopsis The Cygnet and the Firebird by : Patricia A. McKillip
Download or read book The Cygnet and the Firebird written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip returns with the sorceress Nyx and her niece Meguet. Together, the duo must face down a pair of mysterious magicals: a mage hell-bent on stealing a hidden treasure, and a firebird who transforms people and objects into precious materials. Each dawn, the firebird transforms into the form of a man, able to disappear into the surrounding town. As they seek out the true identity of the firebird and try to keep the powerful mage from achieving its ultimate prize, Nyx and Meguet set out on an adventure that will take them through various enchanted and alluring realms.
Download or read book Cygnet written by Season Butler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel An utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering charisma, about a young woman resisting the savagery of adulthood in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth. “Season Butler has written an imaginative, atmospheric and original novel that lingers in the memory long after reading. She is a bright new voice in literature.” —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other “It’s too hot for most of the clothes I packed to come here, when I thought this would only be for a week or two. My mother kissed me with those purple-brown lips of hers and said, we’ll be back, hold tight.” The seventeen-year-old Kid doesn’t know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly, promising to return soon. That was months ago. Now Lolly is dead and the Kid is alone, stranded ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire on tiny Swan Island. Unable to reach her parents and with no other relatives to turn to, she works for a neighbor, airbrushing the past by digitally retouching family photos and movies to earn enough money to survive. Surrounded by the vast ocean, the Kid’s temporary home is no ordinary vacation retreat. The island is populated by an idiosyncratic group of the elderly who call themselves Wrinklies. They have left behind the youth-obsessed mainland—“the Bad Place”—to create their own alternative community, one where only the elderly are welcome. The adolescent’s presence on their island oasis unnerves the Wrinklies, turning some downright hostile. They don’t care if she has nowhere to go;they just want her gone. She is a reminder of all they’ve left behind and are determined to forget. But the Kid isn’t the only problem threatening the insular community. Swan Island is eroding into the rising sea, threatening the Wrinklies’ very existence there. The Kid’s own house edges closer to the seaside cliffs each day. To find a way forward, she must come to terms with the realities of her life, the inevitability of loss, and an unknown future that is hers alone to embrace. Season Butler makes her literary debut with an ambitious work of bold imagination. Tough and tender, compassionate and ferocious, understated and provocative, Cygnet is a meditation on death and life, past and future, aging and youth, memory and forgetting, that explores what it means to find acceptance—of things gone and of those yet to come.
Download or read book The Cygnet written by Brenda Hiatt and published by Brenda Hiatt. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divided heart Though ostensibly in London for her debut, Miss Deirdre Wheaton is far more interested in meeting celebrated poets than eligible bachelors. In fact, her deepest, most secret desire is to have her own poetry published someday . . . until she meets the Marquis of Wrotham. Once Cupid’s arrow strikes, Deirdre can think of nothing but the handsome nobleman. Determined to give the poets’ most exalted emotion, love, a fair try, she goes about transforming herself from the “ugly duckling” of the family into an elegant woman of fashion in order to catch Lord Wrotham’s eye. But no sooner does she succeed in attracting his notice than she learns that her intended apparently has an aversion to her first love—poetry! A prize worth pursuing Though long averse to matrimony, the Marquis of Wrotham is now in a position where he must, after all, choose a bride for the succession. In Miss Deirdre Wheaton, Lord Wrotham believes he has finally found a woman who unites beauty, breeding, humor and intellect. When she suddenly grows cool toward him, he is at a loss to explain it. Can he convince the lovely Miss Wheaton that he is her perfect mate after all? Originally published as The Ugly Duckling. Book 2 of Brenda Hiatt’s bestselling Hiatt Regency Classics collection.
Book Synopsis The Sorceress and the Cygnet by : Patricia A. McKillip
Download or read book The Sorceress and the Cygnet written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain. The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love become trapped in an unearthly swamp beyond the reach of time, he dares to cross a forbidden and forbidding threshold, to enter a dark house that should not exist, to meet with a tinker who is also a king, and to embark on a quest for the one long-lost treasure that may free his people: the heart of the Cygnet. The Cygnet is a figure of myth and legend, like the Gold King, the Blind Lady, the Dancer, and the Warlock. Once Corleu had thought these beings to live only in the stars and in children's rhymes. Now he knows that they are as real as himself, and that it is the Cygnet that holds the others at bay. To find the heart, he must walk paths he never imagined: apprentice himself to a beautiful sorceress of uncertain motives, brave the Fire Bear in its lair, catch the Blood Fox by its shadow, and elude a valiant woman warrior whose destiny is strangely linked to his own. More, Corleu must also wrestle with his own conscience. For if he fails in his quest, those he loves are lost forever to timeless limbo. But if he claims the heart, then the Cygnet falls and so do all who live...
Book Synopsis The Handsome Little Cygnet by : Matthew Mehan
Download or read book The Handsome Little Cygnet written by Matthew Mehan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A swan must waddle before a swan can fly! Manhattan's Central Park seems an unlikely place for a family of swans to raise their baby cygnet, but family life is full of surprises, happy mistakes, and mysterious joys. Join Father and Mother Swan and their Handsome Little Cygnet as they paddle through four beautifully illustrated seasons in Central Park. Smile a lot--and cry just a little--as you follow the journey of a baby swan who grows up to learn what and who he really is. From best-selling author and illustrator team Matthew Mehan and John Folley, this wonderful and surprising revision of the Ugly Duckling will please the whole family with beautiful prose and page after page of lush watercolor illustrations. Even enjoy a seek-n-find in the back of the book, learning about the landmarks and wildlife of Central Park, among other amusing mysteries.
Book Synopsis Yachts and yacht building by : P. R. Marett
Download or read book Yachts and yacht building written by P. R. Marett and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Cygnet and the Firebird by : Patricia A. McKillip
Download or read book The Cygnet and the Firebird written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The firebird came at night - a magnificent creature whose magical cry seemed to transform objects at random. Gifted with powers of her own, Meguet tried to reach out to the bird. But at moonrise, the firebird became human, a prince cursed by dark magic. Meguet bowed to help him. But then the mystery carried her away, on alien winds, to a land far from her home... At the edge of the world, the Luxor Desert awaits - a barren land where a sorcerer's war rages. Where invisible dragons cast shadows over ruined castles. And where Meguet's own fate depends upon a secret locked away in a tower for centuries...
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Book Synopsis The King's Ships by : Halton Stirling Lecky
Download or read book The King's Ships written by Halton Stirling Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The National Geographic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buccaneers of the Pacific by : George Wycherley
Download or read book Buccaneers of the Pacific written by George Wycherley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Naval Mutinies of 1797 by : Conrad Gill
Download or read book The Naval Mutinies of 1797 written by Conrad Gill and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia by : Royal Society of South Australia
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated by : Royal Society of South Australia
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia by : Royal Society of South Australia
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
