The Book Of Guardians

Author : Derek Neale
Publisher : Salt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781907773297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Guardians written by Derek Neale and published by Salt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detective story set in 1980s Shrewsbury and Toronto. A social worker, Philip Eyre, searches for the father of a baby girl and finds himself obsessed by the girl’s mother who ends up in psychiatric hospital after trying to commit suicide. While investigating the case, Philip comes to question his own life – his own fathering and father.The case apparently solved, Philip takes a job in Toronto as a researcher but becomes haunted by his own past. He returns to England, and a new obsession with the case gathers pace. Is the baby related to him? Are they connected by some strange literary provenance – Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre? By now he is randomly switching from one possibility, one bizarre plot about orphans and illegitimacy, to the next. He suffers a breakdown; the pursuit of an answer has turned back in on him; now he is the one who feels pursued. The Book of Guardians is a haunting novel that leaves readers wondering whether it is possible to recall and know your own past with any degree of certainty.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593129989
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guardians written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A classic legal thriller—with a twist. • "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice.” —Associated Press In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought.

Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199570485
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guardians written by Susan Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--

Author : Ana Castillo
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812975715
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guardians written by Ana Castillo and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and with an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel’s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo’s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Though their journey is rife with challenges and danger, it will serve as a remarkable testament to family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience Praise for The Guardians NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE “An always skilled storyteller, [Castillo] grounds her writing in . . . humor, love, suspense and heartache–that draw the reader in.” –Chicago Sunday Sun-Times “A rollicking read, with jokes and suspense and joy rides and hearts breaking . . . This smart, passionate novel deserves a wide audience.” –Los Angeles Times “What drives the novel is its chorus of characters, all, in their own way, witnesses and guardian angels. In the end, Castillo’s unmistakable voice–earthy, impassioned, weaving a ‘hybrid vocabulary for a hybrid people’–is the book’s greatest revelation.” –Time Out New York “A wonderful novel . . . Castillo’s most important accomplishment in The Guardians is to give a unique literary voice to questions about what makes up a ‘family.’ ” –El Paso Times “A moving book that is both intimate and epic in its narrative.” –Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148141836X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guardians written by John Christopher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where two nations rule all, Rob must find a way to live among them both in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series. In the future, the world has been divided into two societies. One is the Conurb—a sprawling, modern city where technology rules and people live with only the bare minimum they need to survive. The other is the County—a land of green fields and beautiful mansions, where the people have turned back the clock to a pristine past. Rob has always lived in the Conurb, but after he is sent to a terrible boarding school, he decides his only option is to take a chance and cross the Barrier into the unknown world of the County. There he meets another boy who introduces Rob to the very different society, and all the wondrous things that come with it. But even though Rob wants to believe that the County is a utopia, he begins to learn about the darkness that lurks beneath the smiles of his new family and friends. And when sinister secrets are revealed, Rob is forced to make a choice: stay in the County, where everything is a perfect lie, or return to the Conurb, where life is hard, horrible, and real.

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982144475
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Valley written by Dean King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * “We see through this book the immense power of language…to change the minds of lawmakers and tourists alike.” —The New York Times Book Review * “A poignant portrait of an era when mere words could change the world.” —San Francisco Chronicle * The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to save Yosemite is “a rich, enjoyable excursion into a seminal period in environmental history” (The Wall Street Journal). In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course of the rest of his life. Upon their arrival the men are confronted with a shocking vision, as predatory mining, tourism, and logging industries have plundered and defaced “the grandest of all the special temples of Nature.” While Muir is devastated, Johnson, an arbiter of the era’s pressing issues in the pages of the nation’s most prestigious magazine, decides that he and Muir must fight back. The pact they form marks a watershed moment, leading to the creation of Yosemite National Park, and launching an environmental battle that captivates the nation and ushers in the beginning of the American environmental movement. “Comprehensively researched and compellingly readable” (Booklist, starred review), Guardians of the Valley is a moving story of friendship, the written word, and the transformative power of nature. It is also a timely and powerful “origin story” as the towering environmental challenges we face today become increasingly urgent.

Author : Laura Geringer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442430486
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King written by Laura Geringer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget naughty or nice; this is a battle of good and evil. Luminary Joyce and co-author Geringer deliver the first book in a new series. Before Santa was Santa, he was Nicholas St. North--a daredevil swordsman whose prowess with double scimitars was legendary. Illustrations.

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545509807
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of a Legend (Guardians of Ga'Hoole) written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky takes flight once more with a brand-new Guardians of Ga'Hoole novel! An owlet hatches out onto Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe. Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007215177
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capture written by Kathryn Lasky and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A young Barn Owl named Soren lives peacefully with his family. After he is pushed from his nest by his older brother, his idyllic world transforms into one of confusion and danger, as he is captured by evil chick-snatching owls and taken to the St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls"--Goodreads.com.

Author : Calvin Miller
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Singreale written by Calvin Miller and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A huge diamond with marvelous powers is the sought-after prize in each part of this engrossing fantasy-adventure trilogy, which brings alive through metaphor three biblical events: the Fall of man, war in heaven and the Peaceable Kingdom." -- Publisher's description.