The Night Jar

Author : Deborah Hewitt
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250239818
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nightjar written by Deborah Hewitt and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt is a stunning contemporary fantasy debut about another London, a magical world hidden behind the bustling modern city we know. Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an ‘aviarist’: capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. When her best friend is hit by a car, only Alice can find and save her nightjar. With Crowley’s help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden, magical alternate London to hone her newfound talents. But a faction intent on annihilating magic users will stop at nothing to destroy the new aviarist. And is Crowley really working with her, or against her? Alice must risk everything to save her best friend—and uncover the strange truth about herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Joey Jones
Publisher : Callahan
ISBN 13 : 9781948978071
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Date Night Jar written by Joey Jones and published by Callahan. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unlikely friendship. An unforgettable love story. When Ansley Stone writes to the estranged son of her patient, she only intended to bring joy to a lonely old man. Soon, she finds herself drawn to Cleve's date night jar stories. When Ansley returns the jar to Cleve's son Mason, a new love story inspired by the date night jar develops.

Author : Deborah Hewitt
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 125023980X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rookery written by Deborah Hewitt and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to a magical alternate London as Deborah Hewitt continues the Nightjar series with The Rookery. After discovering her magical ability to see people's souls, Alice Wyndham only wants three things: to return to the Rookery, join the House Mielikki and master her magic, and find out who she really is. But when the secrets of Alice's past threaten her plans, and the Rookery begins to crumble around her, she must decide how far she's willing to go to save the city and people she loves. "Superb, darkly charming.... It's a delight to explore the Rookery..." --Publishers Weekly starred review At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Louise Peterkin
Publisher : Salt Modern Poets
ISBN 13 : 9781784632168
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Jar written by Louise Peterkin and published by Salt Modern Poets. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vernon R. L Head
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771063
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rarest Bird in the World written by Vernon R. L Head and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part detective story, part love affair, and pure adventure storytelling at its best, a celebration of the thrill of exploration and the lure of wild places during the search for the elusive Nechisar Nightjar. In 1990, a group of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar in Ethiopia. On that expedition, they collected more than two dozen specimens, saw more than three hundred species of birds, and a plethora of rare butterflies, dragonflies, reptiles, mammals, and plants. As they were gathering up their findings, a wing of an unidentified bird was packed into a brown paper bag. It was to become the most famous wing in the world. This wing would set the world of science aflutter. Experts were mystified. The wing was entirely unique. It was like nothing they had ever seem before. Could a new species be named based on just one wing? After much discussion, a new species was announced: Nechisar Nightjar, or Camprimulgus Solala, which means "only wing." And so birdwatchers like Vernon began to dream. Twenty-two years later, he joins an expedition of four to find this rarest bird in the world. In this gem of nature writing, Vernon captivates and enchants as he recounts the searches by spotlight through the Ethiopian plains, and allows the reader to mediate on nature, exploration, our need for wild places, and the human compulsion to name things. The Rarest Bird in the World is a celebration of a certain way of seeing the world, and will bring out the explorer in in everyone who reads it.

Author : Michael SIMMs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933974439
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightjar written by Michael SIMMs and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly imagined collection of poems, Michael Simms draws inspiration from history, psychology, biology, and astronomy, yet at heart he is simply a man with stories to tell. A poet returns home from the funeral of his parents to find that the language of grief is inadequate to describe his complicated relationship with his father, so he invents new words to describe his feelings. An autistic boy on a family vacation to Carlsbad Caverns descends deep into the earth, and breathing the darkness, he becomes a bat. A high school performance of Euripides's The Trojan Women becomes a terrifying prediction of what will happen to one of the girls after graduation. A conversation between two old men about Schubert's Death and the Maiden recalls accusations of sexual harassment one of the friends faces. And in a humorous ars poetica, Simms dreams of kidnapping Charles Bukowski and spiriting him to an AA meeting where Buk slings insults, jumps out the window and flies to the nearest bar on black wings, leading Simms to realize that American poetry needs its misfits and outlaws, and in fact, he prefers poems with a little dirt on them. Simms is a poet who writes as easily about the microfauna in a compost bin as about the complexities of love. He explains the hermeneutics of suspicion as adroitly as a visit to a dog park. He describes an old couple at the seashore through the eyes of an artist drawing them and the climate crises from the perspective of a bronze age king watching his city crumble. Gifted, smart, and flawed, frank about his alcoholism and other personal failings, Simms gives us poems that twist and turn and yet always remain clear in their intent. His empathy is all-embracing, and he challenges the reader's expectations by elegantly expressing abstract ideas through wildly creative, wholly original imagery. These poems keep returning to their central concern of how love can endure in a world that is collapsing. In language both musical and vernacular, Michael Simms stretches the limits of poetic autobiography until personal anecdote rises to the level of timeless myth.

Author : Jane Bahk
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620148310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juna's Jar written by Jane Bahk and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Juna's best friend moves away, Juna, an imaginative Korean American girl, goes on magical adventures by way of her special kimchi jar.

Author : Lindan Lee Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547528213
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream Jar written by Lindan Lee Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One little girl, with the help of her sister, discovers The Secret for turning bad dreams into good ones. Original, quirky, and rich illustrations complement this sparkling story that deals with the very real problem of children’s nightmares. Discover the Dream Jar and the power of your imagination—and turn your terribly horrible dreams into dreamy ones.

Author : Nigel Cleere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightjars of the World written by Nigel Cleere and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all 135 known species and contains over 580 photos.

Author : Linda Michelin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054705663X
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry's Night written by Linda Michelin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry cannot sleep, he takes the night jar and tries to capture the song of the night bird.