Wild Hands Toward The Sky

Author : Ray Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Hands Toward the Sky written by Ray Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age story of the time during and after World War II, Wild Hands Toward the Sky introduces young, fatherless John Walter McElligott as he grows up -- lonesome and longing -- in a rural Illinois farm community. He and his mother now live with his aunt and uncle, but he is inescapably drawn to the other men of the area who served in the war and returned -- especially his older cousin, Sam, who was injured during the D-Day invasion and fought on through Europe until the end of the war. Out of their own respect for John Walters father, who was killed on Guadalcanal, these veterans treat the boy with a calculated deference and are compelled to teach him their hard-earned lessons about life, responsibility, duty and honor.

Author : Gary Ferguson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312200084
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shouting at the Sky written by Gary Ferguson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Ferguson recounts the experiences he had while spending two months in the Utah wilderness with a group of troubled teens.

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2G/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War is Kind written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1984823035
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ladder to the Sky written by John Boyne and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky “Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.”—NPR “Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair

Author : Leslie Bustard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941106242
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Things and Castles in the Sky written by Leslie Bustard and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Things and Castles in the Sky: A Guide to Choosing the Best Books for Children gives the reader over 40 essays that examine specific types of children's books and offer suggestions in each category. Among the topics covered are: imagination, faith, classic literature, middle school books, race, fantasy, contemporary children's books, Shakespeare, art history, Newbery books, young adult novels, poetry, and more. Curated and edited by Leslie and Carey Bustard with Théa Rosenburg (a mother-daughter team and a children's books blogger), Wild Things and Castles in the Sky will encourage and envision parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends--to know the power of a good story and to share it with a child they love.

Author : Laurie McBain
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492608084
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bells to the Wild Sky written by Laurie McBain and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thought her love for him was unrequited, but when they meet again, she may just find that she's the one he can't forget West Indies, 1571. Shipwrecked on an island for most of her young life, Lily Christian is rescued by the dashing sea captain, Valentine Whitelaw. On the voyage back to England, Lily falls hard for the sun-bronzed man, but her love is not returned. Back among the glittering halls of court, Valentine tries to forget the young beauty he plucked from the Caribbean. But when he discovers innocent Lily is caught up in a treacherous plot to murder the queen, he will do everything in his power to protect Lily and save his liege. Thrust together into perilous adventure, Valentine and Lily have only each other to trust...and to love. Praise for Laurie McBain: "Lush and evocative."—Publishers Weekly "Wonderfully romantic."—Romantic Times

Author : Lisa Fiedler
Publisher : Razorbill
ISBN 13 : 0451480821
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Walked the Sky written by Lisa Fiedler and published by Razorbill. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.

Author : Lexi Rees
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838591931
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WILD SKY written by Lexi Rees and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Non-stop adventure with an exciting blend of magic and dystopia. Sinister villains, strange magic and thrilling adventure. I loved it!” - Claire Fayers, author of The Accidental Pirates series, Mirror Magic and Storm Hound “Raging seas, snowy lands, fortresses and monasteries - the quest for the relics continues at an exhilarating pace. You won’t put it down!” - Jude Lennon, author of the Hal series and other books After delivering the pearl, Finn and Aria thought life would return to normal. But with the survival of the clans still in peril, they must continue their quest. Can they find the next relic before the forces of evil? Not everyone is who they appear to be And time is running out ...

Author : Ivan Southall
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922148857
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Wild Sky written by Ivan Southall and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Australian Children's Book of the Year, 1967 No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn't keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just flew on and on as though he wanted to fly away to another world, almost as though he didn't want to go down, almost as though he didn't know how to go down. When the Egret's pilot dies suddenly mid-flight six teenagers, the only passengers on board, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but he has never flown alone, and he has never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. Will they find a clear landing place? Could they land in the sea? If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way back to civilisation? Ivan Southall's To the Wild Sky is a breathtaking adventure - real kids facing a very real danger with no one but themselves to rely on. Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year on three occasions. An icon of Australian children's literature, he wrote over sixty books in his lifetime and has been published in twenty-three different countries. He died in 2008. 'The book that shines brightest is Ivan Southall's To the Wild Sky. This was a proudly Australian story and the first novel to utterly confound me by denying the usual happy-ever-after...That was the moment I first understood the magic an author has in their hands.' Tim Pegler, author of Five Parts Dead

Author : Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher : Suzanne Brockmann Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Sky written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Suzanne Brockmann Books. This book was released on 2019-07-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Sky Night Sky Series # 2 Young Adult Paranormal with romantic elements First published 2015 Skylar, Calvin, Dana, and Milo are back, but now their unlikely Destiny-fighting team includes... Garrett Hathaway...? When Garrett’s friend Jilly goes missing, Coconut Key Academy’s most “popular” bully and all-around douche approaches Sky and Calvin to ask for help. From Garrett’s description of the missing girl’s telekinesis, it’s likely that Jilly is a Greater-Than like Sky and Dana—a girl with rare super-powers. And it’s highly likely that Jilly’s been kidnapped for her valuable blood—an essential ingredient in the dangerous, addictive street drug called Destiny, which makes users young, healthy, beautiful—and profoundly evil—before it kills them. When Skylar and her team finally track down Jilly, the girl oddly refuses to be rescued. In the struggle that ensues, Calvin—who’s been in a wheelchair since he was nine—is accidentally injected with Destiny. For the short-term, he can walk again, but the drug willeventually kill him. After it turns him evil... Unless Sky can find a way to save her best friend’s life... Wild Sky is the second book in a YA series set in the same dark future as Suzanne Brockmann’s Born to Darkness, the first installment in her Fighting Destiny paranormal romance series. The Night Sky YA series has the same mix of suspense, romance, humor, and the paranormal, and deals with many of the same themes, including society’s relentless exploitation and devaluation of females, and the empowerment that comes when women and girls recognize their strength and intellect, and stand up, fight back, and save the day. (119K words or 436 pages) Don’t miss... Night Sky Series # 1: Night Sky Night Sky Series # 0.5: Dangerous Destiny (When Skylar Met Calvin)