The Burning Island

Author : Hester Young
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399174028
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Island written by Hester Young and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest haunting mystery from the beloved author of The Gates of Evangeline, featuring Charlie Cates, a headstrong heroine who must confront her unwanted supernatural gift and bring dark secrets to light if she ever wants to leave the Big Island . . . Journalist Charlie Cates has always believed in facts, in what can be proved--her career depends on it. Which is why she has never truly accepted the supernatural visions that guide her to children in danger. After her work on a high-profile missing-child case brings unwanted fame, she reluctantly flees to the lush Big Island of Hawaii with her best friend, Rae. Determined to avoid her disturbing visions, Charlie begins writing what seems to be a harmless interview of a prominent volcanologist, Victor Nakagawa. But her hopes for a peaceful vacation are soon dashed by haunting dreams of a local girl who went missing six weeks earlier. In the small and sleepy town of Kalo Valley, Charlie and Rae come to realize that even paradise has its ugly secrets, and the Nakagawa family is no exception. In order to find the missing teenager and stop a dangerous predator from striking again, Charlie is forced to embrace the gift she has always tried to conceal. Meanwhile, someone is watching her every move, and the closer Charlie gets to the truth, the more distant her chances of ever leaving the island alive. With a deliciously eerie and fast-paced story told in vivid prose, all with an overlay of supernatural suspense, The Burning Island is a pulse-pounding mystery perfect for fans of Jennifer McMahon and Kate Atkinson.

Author : Jock Serong
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925923525
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Island written by Jock Serong and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father’s obsession, a daughter's quest

Author : Pamela Frierson
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341730
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Island written by Pamela Frierson and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westerners—from early missionaries to explorers to present-day artists, scientists, and tourists—have always found volcanoes fascinating and disturbing. Native Hawaiians, in contrast, revere volcanoes as a source of spiritual energy and see the volcano goddess Pele as part of the natural cycle of a continuously procreative cosmos. Volcanoes hold a special place in our curiosity about nature. The Burning Island is an intimate, multilayered portrait of the Hawaiian volcano region—a land marked by a precarious tension between the harsh reality of constant geologic change, respect for mythological traditions, and the pressures of economic exploitation. Pamela Frierson treks up Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, and Kilauea to explore how volcanoes work, as well as how their powerful and destructive forces reshape land, cultures, and history. Her adventures reveal surprising archeological ruins, threatened rainforest ecosystems, and questionable real estate development of the islands. Now a classic of nature writing, Frierson’s narrative sets the stage for a larger exploration of our need to take great care in respecting and preserving nature and tradition while balancing our ever-expanding sense of discovery and use of the land.

Author : Suzanne Goldring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838881788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning Island written by Suzanne Goldring and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Panzo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110198810X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Isle written by Will Panzo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young mage Cassius has just arrived on the jungle island of Scipio, a haven for outlaws, pirates, and exiles. But trained on the Isle of Twelve, Cassius is no ordinary spellcaster, and his goal is not simply money. And on a treacherous island where the native gods are restless, anything can happen...

Author : Jock Serong
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774031
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preservation written by Jock Serong and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preservation, based on the true story of the wreck of the Sydney Cove, sees master storyteller Jock Serong turn his talents to historical narrative.

Author : Hester Young
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784750298
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gates of Evangeline written by Hester Young and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For fans of Tana French and Gillian Flynn, THE GATES OF EVANGELINE is the addictive first book in a fantastic new crime series, that will have you guessing until the very end. When grieving mother and New York journalist Charlie Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children after her only son passes away, she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet she soon realizes these are not the hallucinations of a bereaved mother. They are messages and warnings that will help Charlie and the children she seesuif she can make sense of them. The disturbing images lead her from her home in suburban New York City to small-town Louisiana, where she takes a commission to write a true-crime book based on the case of Gabriel Deveau, the young heir to a wealthy and infamous Southern family, whose kidnapping thirty years ago has never been solved. There she meets the Deveau family, none of whom are telling the full truth about the night Gabriel disappeared. And as she uncovers long-buried secrets of love, money, betrayal, and murder, the facts begin to implicate those she most wants to trustuand her visions reveal an evil closer than she could have imagined."

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439165289
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Soul written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from The wrath of angels.

Author : Alaya Johnson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1932841458
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning City written by Alaya Johnson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delving deeper into the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice. Lana, the heroine, has become the black ange l —a harbinger of destruction unheard of in the islands for 500 years. Nui'ahi, the sleeping volcano of the great city Essel, has erupted. In the chaos, the city is reshaping itself and violence threatens from all corners. A rebel movement has formed in the destroyed heart of the city, determined to oust Kohaku, the mad Mo'i of Essel. Lana wants no part of the rebels' cause — the death spirit still chases her, and the great witch Akua has kidnapped Lana's mother. But the more Lana looks for her mother, the more she is drawn into the city's political conflicts. As Kohaku descends deeper into madness, determined to subdue the city by any means necessary, his wife has run away to the fire temple, where she too is slowly converted to the rebel's cause. When long-running tensions spill over into civil war, Lana must make her hardest decision yet: her mother's life, or a city's freedom?

Author : Claire Messud
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635031
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Girl: A Novel written by Claire Messud and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —Chicago Tribune Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality—crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence. Claire Messud, one of our finest novelists, is as accomplished at weaving a compelling fictional world as she is at asking the big questions: To what extent can we know ourselves and others? What are the stories we create to comprehend our lives and relationships? Brilliantly mixing fable and coming-of-age tale, The Burning Girl gets to the heart of these matters in an absolutely irresistible way. The Burning Girl was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Financial Times, Town & Country, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Refinery29, and Literary Hub.