Bird Of Another Heaven

Author : James D. Houston
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307388085
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird of Another Heaven written by James D. Houston and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown tale. Nani, a shy girl from a remote Indian village, met the Hawai'ian king, David Kalakaua, on his grand progress by train across the United States in 1881, eventually returning with him to Honolulu. There, as his young ally and protégée, ever more assured and charming, she played an integral role in his attempt to revive the monarchy and spirit of his people and, eventually, witnessed the mysterious circumstances surrounding his downfall. Deeply engaging through its vivid portrayal of California and Hawai'i at the end of the nineteenth century, Bird of Another Heaven is a masterful portrait of an era long past.

Author : Raquel Cepeda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635877
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.

Author : Howard A. Norman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152019822
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Heaven and Earth written by Howard A. Norman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creators of The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese provide an illustrated collection of folktales from around the world, all of which have a bird as a main character.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374199449
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of Heaven written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, the enormous spans of cranes' migrations have encouraged international conservation efforts.".

Author : Susan Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442429917
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falcon in the Glass written by Susan Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleven-year-old Renzo must teach himself to blow glass with the help of a girl who has a mysterious connection to her falcon"--

Author : James D. Houston
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141635
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Queen's Journey written by James D. Houston and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unfinished novel about the last Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani. and her attempt to prevent annexation of her homeland by the United States. A forgotten bit of history and the choices she made.

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429988223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowl of Heaven written by Gregory Benford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374301964
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061829838
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Bird of Heaven written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the remarkably successful "New York Times" bestseller "The Gravedigger's Daughter," Oates is back with this dark, romantic, and captivating tale set in the Great Lakes regions of upstate New York.

Author : Parsa Peykar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781729174920
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bird from the Kingdom of Heaven written by Parsa Peykar and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be free? It is one thing to be rescued, another to be free.Freedom, in its original form, is the most costly state to be reached and accomplished in our human experience. To be rescued is one thing, to be free is another; one can be done by a hand of others, the other needs to be discovered within oneself by realizing the Truth. In one side, there is a cage with a wide-open door giving access to liberty and sky- on the other, is a slaved bird, not being able to fly due to its damaged mental state. When it comes to freedom, what is the cost to be set free? Is it by the result of a revolt or a change of heart? In the real sense, the greatest revolution, young or old, is in the transformation of one's heart into its original form and the choice lies in where we decide to stand. I have collaborated this book with two inmates from the Twin Tower Correctional Facility Jail in Los Angeles who helped me with the illustrations and the cover.The Bird from the Kingdom of Heaven is meant to take you to our original state, freedom and love.