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Author : Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher : Greenwillow
ISBN 13 : 9780688046033
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and His Birds written by Mirra Ginsburg and published by Greenwillow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious old man wears a rich robe, hiding birds that cause the seasons to change.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Robert Ruark
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805026696
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and the Boy written by Robert Ruark and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Robert Ruark tells of the friendship between a young boy and his grandfather as they hunt and fish in North Carolina
Author : David Swartz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595416292
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and the Bird and Other Fictions written by David Swartz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six dark fictions with a cosmic scope and a delirious immediacy, these shorter pieces (2 novellas and 4 one-acts) are an aspect of Swartz's gift many will find welcome, others hugely unsettling. The Old Man and the Bird, the concluding sequence of a befuddled Harry Ricci, could be taken as a "neo-conservatively-grotesque" parable. From there it is a short stroll to Burt Spew in "Snappers," a madcap Armageddon of its own and parody of "Jaws." We have as well such oddities as "The Damnation of Winston Pollock," the saga of a disgruntled software wizard; "The Gift Horse and the Gift," the comic swan song of a disaffected shooter; "Off the Record," the threnody of "a pedophilic trans-racial hip hop" composer; and "Clippers," the outcry of a small-town American sub-literate, a latter-day, testosterone-laden barber "waiting for [his] Godot." All told, these tales are abundant reminder that it was possible to laugh before 9/11, and to chuckle, even roar, long after, en route to our current Abu Ghraibs or Guantanamos.
Author : Michael Baughman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870711541
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (115 download)
Download or read book An Old Man Remembering Birds written by Michael Baughman and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird watching is by far the most popular outdoor recreation in the United States. That makes perfect sense, because their freedom of flight makes birds accessible to virtually all people everywhere -- along ocean beaches, lakeshores, rivers and creeks; on remote prairies and urban golf courses; in mountain forests and parched deserts; on Times Square and apartment house roofs; and in back yards everywhere. But due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change, there are three billion fewer birds in America today than there were in 1970. The logical conclusion to be drawn from this sad fact is that we need even more bird-watchers, people who might care enough about these wild, lovely creatures to do whatever they can to reverse this appalling decline. In his 80-plus years around birds, Michael Baughman has learned one immutable lesson: As long as you remain alive and human, the closer you get to birds, the more time you spend among them, the more you love them.
Author : James McBride
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 1594486344
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner) written by James McBride and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.
Author : Adam Rubin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547007038
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Those Darn Squirrels! written by Adam Rubin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty text combines with quirky illustrations in this funny take on the classic man versus squirrel conflict over backyard birdfeeders. Full color.
Author : John Williamson
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760898791
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Old Man Emu written by John Williamson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This iconic Australian song tells the very funny tale of the emu and its many traits - good and bad: He can't fly, but I'm telling you, he can run the pants off a kangaroo! The story compares the emu to lots of other Australian birds (galah, cockatoo, wedge-tail eagle, kookaburra) and of course to the kangaroo, providing wonderful opportunities for hilarious illustrations. It's the song that launched John Williamson's career way back in 1970. John performed the song on the TV talent quest of the day, 'New Faces' and won first place, which led him to his first recording contract with Fable Records. It still remains one of John Williamson's most popular songs.
Author : Hans Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and the Bird written by Hans Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After he takes a pill to help him feel better, a sad bird grows bigger and bigger to the consternation of the old man and the townspeople.
Author : Carroll Seabrook Leatherman
Publisher : E P Dutton
ISBN 13 : 9780911491067
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Old Man-- and the Dog written by Carroll Seabrook Leatherman and published by E P Dutton. This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Miss One Dot, the 1979 Grand National bird dog champion, and her elderly trainer John Gardner
Author : Rachel Dickinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618806232
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Falconer on the Edge written by Rachel Dickinson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Dickinson profiles falconer Steve Chindgren, a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the sport that has ruled his life. Dickinson arrives at a sense of falconry’s allure: the unpredictable nature of the hunt and the soaring exhilaration of success. Further exploration unveils the enormous emotional cost to a falconer who establishes an extraordinary tie to his birds. When, in the space of two days, Chindgren loses two birds that he’d been training for years, he is plunged into a profound depression that is only deepened when Jomo, his best bird, slows down because of old age. In addition to this challenge, Chindgren faces the danger to falconry that the modern world presents. Grouse habitat is being degraded by mining, agriculture, and gas industry interests. And the number of falconers is dwindling--the corps is graying and has few acolytes. Falconry is a sport that requires persistence, stoicism, and sacrifice; in this captivating account, Dickinson illuminates a fascinating subculture and one of its most hard core personalities.
Author : Crystal Chan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442450908
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Bird written by Crystal Chan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrenched secrets, mysterious spirits, and an astonishing friendship weave together in this extraordinary and haunting debut that School Library Journal calls “a powerful story about loss and moving on.” Nothing matters. Only Bird matters. And he flew away. Jewel never knew her brother Bird, but all her life she has lived in his shadow. Her parents blame Grandpa for the tragedy of their family’s past: they say that Grandpa attracted a malevolent spirit—a duppy—into their home. Grandpa hasn’t spoken a word since. Now Jewel is twelve, and she lives in a house full of secrets and impenetrable silence. Jewel is sure that no one will ever love her like they loved Bird, until the night that she meets a mysterious boy in a tree. Grandpa is convinced that the boy is a duppy, but Jewel knows that he is something more. And that maybe—just maybe—the time has come to break through the stagnant silence of the past.
Author : Agnes Ravatn
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1910633364
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Bird Tribunal written by Agnes Ravatn and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a disgraced TV presenter takes up the role of housekeeper on an isolated Norwegian fjord, she develops a chilling, obsessive relationship with her employer ... an award-winning, simply stunning debut psychological thriller from one of Norway's finest writers. ***As heard on BBC Books at Bedtime*** ***WINNER of the English PEN Translation Award*** ***Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*** ***Shortlisted for the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year*** 'An unrelenting atmosphere of doom fails to prepare readers for the surprising resolution' Publishers Weekly 'Unfolds in an austere style that perfectly captures the bleakly beautiful landscape of Norway's far north' Irish Times _________________ Two people in exile. Two secrets. As the past tightens its grip, there may be no escape... TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough... Haunting, consuming and powerful, The Bird Tribunal is a taut, exquisitely written psychological thriller that builds to a shocking, dramatic crescendo that will leave you breathless. _________________ 'Reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith – and I can't offer higher praise than that – Agnes Ravatn is an author to watch' Philip Ardagh 'A tense and riveting read' Financial Times 'Crackling, fraught and hugely compulsive slice of Nordic Noir ... tremendously impressive' Big Issue 'Beautifully done ... dark, psychologically tense and packed full of emotion both overt or deliberately disguised' Raven Crime Reads 'Ravatn creates a creeping sense of unease, elegantly bringing the peace and menace of the setting to vivid life. The isolated house on the fjord is a character-like shadow in this tale of obsessions. This is domestic suspense with a twist – creepy and wonderful' New Books Magazine ' The Bird Tribunal offers an incredible richness of themes ... The atonement for the past sins and the titular bird tribunal carry powerful messages, as well as questions of morality and humanity...' Crime Review ' The Bird Tribunal is suffused with dark imagery from the ancient Eddas, creating a foreboding atmosphere that gets under the skin and stays there. Like a lunar eclipse, each revelation is another form of darkness' Crime Fiction Lover 'Chilling, atmospheric and hauntingly beautiful ... I was transfixed' Amanda Jennings 'Intriguing ... enrapturing' Sarah Hilary 'A masterclass in suspense and delayed terror, reading it felt like I was driving at top speed towards a cliff edge - and not once did I want to take my foot off the pedal' Rod Reynolds 'A beautifully written story set in a captivating landscape ... it keeps you turning the pages' Sarah Ward
Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374714932
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Strange Bird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology—satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans—all of them now simply scrambling to survive—who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home. With The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel Borne. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne—a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world. Praise for Borne *“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead “VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing, one fixed destiny, but as either peaceful or catastrophic, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates—for these are our children, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created. This coming-of-age story signals that eco-fiction has come of age as well: wilder, more reckless and more breathtaking than previously thought, a wager and a promise that what emerges from the twenty-first century will be as good as any from the twentieth, or the nineteenth.” —Wai Chee Dimock, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949338
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Tiny Beautiful Things written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
Author : Yei Theodora Ozaki
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387097458
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Japanese Fairy Tales written by Yei Theodora Ozaki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.... In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority...
Author : Mirra Ginsburg
Publisher : Greenwillow
ISBN 13 : 9780688046040
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and His Birds written by Mirra Ginsburg and published by Greenwillow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious old man wears a rich robe, hiding birds that cause the seasons to change.
