Chasing The Valley 2 Borderlands

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742759572
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Valley 2: Borderlands written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action-packed adventure continues in the second book of the Chasing the Valley trilogy! Danika and her crew of escaped refugees are seeking the safety of the Magnetic Valley – and trying to evade Sharr Morrigan, the king’s most lethal hunter. But the borderlands they must cross to reach the Valley are smugglers’ territory: lawless, wild and steeped in ancient magic. When one of the crew is badly wounded, Danika turns to the smugglers for help – and accepts a bargain that might prove deadly. It is Lukas, however, who hides the most dangerous secret. What has he seen through the eagle’s eyes? The answer can be found in an alchemy charm and a smuggler’s tale, and will lead Danika and her friends to an electrifying, unputdownable showdown. THE CHASING THE VALLEY SERIES: BOOK 1: CHASING THE VALLEY BOOK 2: BORDERLANDS BOOK 3: SKYFIRE PRAISE FOR BORDERLANDS: 'The ultimate blend of an oppressive rule, a post-apocalyptic landscape, adventure, survival and a touch of romance, beautifully woven into a heart-stopping storyline.' divabooknerd.com 'An epic sequel to the first novel, Chasing the Valley. Borderlands carries on with the story seamlessly and makes the reader feel like they never put the last book down. With themes of action, mystery and mild romance, this novel suits older readers who enjoy reading a good fight and tales of survival. This series is definitely, without a doubt, one of my favourites.' readplus.com.au

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857981730
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Valley 3: Skyfire written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you achieve everything you've dreamed of – and it turns into a nightmare? Danika and her crew of refugees finally reach the Magnetic Valley. Will it be the safe refuge and land of freedom they had imagined? When a runaway girl is shot down before their eyes, Danika and her friends realise that this new land is no paradise. They must try to fit in at all costs – even if revealing their secrets will mean a death sentence. The conclusion to the Chasing the Valley trilogy will reveal explosive surprises and terrifying new dangers. THE CHASING THE VALLEY SERIES: BOOK 1: CHASING THE VALLEY BOOK 2: BORDERLANDS BOOK 3: SKYFIRE PRAISE FOR SKYFIRE: 'I absolutely adore the Chasing The Valley series, it's an incredible fantasy dystopian fusion series that is not only engaging, but simply magical . . . I don't often completely and utterly fall in love with any book, not to mention an entire series, but Chasing The Valley is not only worthy, but it's simply phenomenal.' divabooknerd.com 'Wow, what an incredible conclusion. Honestly, Skyfire was everything I'd hoped it would be and more . . . Much more action, many more unpredictable twists, great character development and the perfect amount of feels. Get yourselves a copy, people. ASAP.' lookingforthepanacea.blogspot.com.au 'I have loved the Chasing the Valley series, an edge of the seat fantasy dystopian adventure . . . Each book in the series has been a ripping adventure with excellent pacing that never lets you go for a minute.' sallyfromoz.wordpress.com

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510712496
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hush written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chester has taken to the road, traveling from village to village desperately searching for his father, who has disappeared. One night while fiddling to earn a few coins, he accidentally connects to the Song—the music that fuels every aspect of the world, and that it’s illegal for him to interact with. He’s caught and sentenced to death for his crime. Only a licensed Songshaper can bend music to his will. But someone in the crowd—a member of the infamous Nightfall Gang—stages a daring rescue and whisks Chester into the Hush, a shadowy nightmare mirror-world where Music can be deadly and Echoes can kill. Susanna, the Captain of the Nightfall Gang has been watching Chester. She needs him to pull off an elaborate plan that will take down the governing body that keeps her an outlaw and made her the fragment she is. Susanna needs him to exact her revenge, even if he dies doing it. Combining complex stakes, shifting loyalties, nods to fairy tales, and a Western feel, The Hush is a lush and exhilarating fantasy perfect for fans of Catherine Fisher’s Incarceron and Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 029273588X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Terroir written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and “natural storyteller” (Times Literary Supplement). Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history—ecological, cultural, even personal—flavors every bite we eat. Whether it’s the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and memories of places that are evoked by taste, layers of flavor await those willing to delve into the roots of real food. In this book, Gary Paul Nabhan takes us on a personal trip into the southwestern borderlands to discover the terroir—the “taste of the place”—that makes this desert so delicious. To savor the terroir of the borderlands, Nabhan presents a cornucopia of local foods—Mexican oregano, mesquite-flour tortillas, grass-fed beef, the popular Mexican dessert capirotada, and corvina (croaker or drum fish) among them—as well as food experiences that range from the foraging of Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions to a modern-day camping expedition on the Rio Grande. Nabhan explores everything from the biochemical agents that create taste in these foods to their history and dispersion around the world. Through his field adventures and humorous stories, we learn why Mexican oregano is most potent when gathered at the most arid margins of its range—and why foods found in the remote regions of the borderlands have surprising connections to foods found by his ancestors in the deserts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. By the end of his movable feast, Nabhan convinces us that the roots of this fascinating terroir must be anchored in our imaginations as well as in our shifting soils. Includes illustrations

Author : Timothy P. Bowman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494141
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Oranges written by Timothy P. Bowman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mexicans in the region to rank among the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest demographic in the country. The key to this development, Bowman finds, was a “modern colonization movement,” a process that had its roots in the Mexican-American war of the nineteenth century but reached its culmination in the twentieth century. South Texas, in Bowman’s words, became an “internal economy just inside of the US-Mexico border.” Beginning in the twentieth century, Anglo Americans consciously transformed the region from that of a culturally “Mexican” space, with an economy based on cattle, into one dominated by commercial agriculture focused on citrus and winter vegetables. As Anglos gained political and economic control in the region, they also consolidated their power along racial lines with laws and customs not unlike the “Jim Crow” system of southern segregation. Bowman argues that the Mexican labor class was thus transformed into a marginalized racial caste, the legacy of which remained in place even as large-scale agribusiness cemented its hold on the regional economy later in the century. Blood Oranges stands to be a major contribution to the history of South Texas and borderland studies alike.

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742759564
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Valley 2: Borderlands written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danika and her crew of escaped refugees are seeking the safety of the Magnetic Valley - and trying to evade Sharr Morrigan, the king's most lethal hunter. But the borderlands they must cross to reach the Valley are smugglers' territory: lawless, wild and steeped in ancient magic. When one of the crew is badly wounded, Danika turns to the smugglers for help - and accepts a bargain that might prove deadly.

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143780166
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Nomad 1: The Eleventh Hour written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Palladino was a normal fifteen-year-old, at a normal school, about to face a normal maths test. Now her codename is Nomad, and she's training to become a secret agent for HELIX. No one can know that sorcery exists. No one can know that HELIX protects humanity from the Inductors. And no one can know that Nomad is a Witness, with a dangerous magical gift. The Inductors are hunting her. If they find her, they will kill her. But there's a traitor inside HELIX, and only a Witness can identify them. The problem is, Nomad hasn't mastered her powers. She can't levitate, fight or wield magic like her fellow recruits. If she's the only hope to stop a sorcerous bomb being detonated, the world is in trouble. The eleventh hour is coming . . .

Author : Skye Melki-Wegner
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143780395
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Nomad 2: Deadly Magic written by Skye Melki-Wegner and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red sky at night, sailor's delight. After their mission in London, Nomad, Riff, Phoenix and Orbit are back at HELIX, training to master their magic. But things have changed. Nomad's secret is out. Her peers know she is a Witness; a sorcerer with the rare ability to read others' magic. This causes ripples at HQ, especially when it means that Steel, the most popular cadet in her class, is no longer the centre of attention. But there are greater threats than new rivals. When the cadets are sent to New Zealand to investigate a top-secret case, they find themselves in more danger than they bargained for. With no one to trust and time running out, it's a race to stop the Inductors before they have enough power to destroy HELIX for good. Red sky at morning, sailor's warning . . .

Author : Frederick R. Gehlbach
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890965665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Islands and Desert Seas written by Frederick R. Gehlbach and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging personal narrative, biologist Fred Gehlbach describes the stability and changes of the past century in the Borderlands' climate, landforms, and natural communities and in its distinctive plants and vertebrates.

Author : Peter Eichstaedt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613749325
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Kill Your Family written by Peter Eichstaedt and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard's slender body as he wipes away tears.&” For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps. The leader of the rebel army is the rarely seen Joseph Kony, a former witchdoctor and self-professed spirit medium who continues to evade justice and wield power from somewhere near the Congo~Sudan border. Kony claims he not only can predict the future but also can control the minds of his fighters. And control them he does: the Lord's Resistance Army consists of children who are abducted from their homes under cover of night. As initiation, the boys are forced to commit atrocities—murdering their parents, friends, and relatives—and the kidnapped girls are forced into lives of sexual slavery and labor. In First Kill Your Family, veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt goes into the war-torn villages and refugee camps, talking to former child soldiers, child &“brides,&” and other victims. He examines the cultlike convictions of the army; how a pervasive belief in witchcraft, the spirit world, and the supernatural gave rise to this and other deadly movements; and what the global community can do to bring peace and justice to the region. This insightful analysis delves into the war's foundations and argues that, much like Rwanda's genocide, international intervention is needed to stop Africa's virulent cycle of violence.