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Author: Wendy Orr Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1952534364 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's Fiction WINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There are two ways of looking at Aissa's story. She's the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she's the cursed child who called the Bull King's ship to the island. The firstborn daughter of a priestess is cast out as a baby, and after raiders kill her adopted family, she is abandoned at the gates of the Great Hall, anonymous and mute. Called No-Name, the cursed child, she is raised a slave, and not until she is twelve does she learn her name is Aissa: the dragonfly. Now every year the Bull King takes a tribute from the island: two thirteen-year-old children to brave the bloody bull dances in his royal court. None have ever returned - but for Aissa it is the only escape. Aissa is resilient, resourceful, and fast - but to survive the bull ring, she will have to learn the mystery of her true nature. A riveting, mythic Bronze Age adventure from award-winning author Wendy Orr.
Author: Erin Richards Publisher: Midnight Muse Publishing ISBN: 1943800049 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 319
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To be a normal teenage girl. To forget about the past. To fall in love for the first time. Is that too much to ask? Sixteen-year-old Allie Bailey just wants a break—a break from her overly-protected life. And Dragonfly Meadows summer camp is the answer. A summer away from her parents in the California Sierras with her best friend is exactly what she needs. But once at camp, Allie notices that things are a little off. Paid excursions are cancelled and staff is replaced with shady new people. When the camp's founder goes "missing," Allie starts to worry. Unable to let it rest due to her past, she starts to investigate, enlisting the help of Logan Montgomery, her best friend's older and adorably geeky brother. When hauntingly familiar flowers appear in Allie’s cabin, she’s not sure what to think—has her past caught up to her? Yet, after Allie stumbles across a murder conspiracy and chases down the truth, she becomes a target. Pushing through her paranoia and fear to find strength, it’s up to Allie to save herself and the campers from a deranged killer before it’s too late.
Author: Philip Dacey Publisher: ISBN: 9781945063084 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. Philip Dacey published many books of poetry in his lifetime. This posthumous collection of poems is his gift to poets and poetry readers, to his many friends and admirers. How fitting that the title of this book alludes to an act by the poet Walt Whitman, a small act of kindness fronting the large inevitabilities of fate.
Author: Bing Xu Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262536226 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 129
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A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.
Author: Wendy Orr Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 1952534364 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's Fiction WINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There are two ways of looking at Aissa's story. She's the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she's the cursed child who called the Bull King's ship to the island. The firstborn daughter of a priestess is cast out as a baby, and after raiders kill her adopted family, she is abandoned at the gates of the Great Hall, anonymous and mute. Called No-Name, the cursed child, she is raised a slave, and not until she is twelve does she learn her name is Aissa: the dragonfly. Now every year the Bull King takes a tribute from the island: two thirteen-year-old children to brave the bloody bull dances in his royal court. None have ever returned - but for Aissa it is the only escape. Aissa is resilient, resourceful, and fast - but to survive the bull ring, she will have to learn the mystery of her true nature. A riveting, mythic Bronze Age adventure from award-winning author Wendy Orr.
Author: Yoshindo Yoshihara Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462909965 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 592
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In The Art of the Japanese Sword, master swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara offers a detailed look at the entire process of Japanese sword making, including the finishing and appreciation of Japanese blades. Japanese sword art stands out in many ways: functionality as a weapon, sophisticated metallurgy and metalsmithing, the shape of the blade itself--all contribute to the beauty of these remarkable weapons. The Art of the Japanese Sword conveys to the reader Japanese samurai sword history and Japanese sword care, as well as explaining how to view and appreciate a blade. With 256 full-color pages, this sword book illustrates in meticulous detail how modern craftsmen use traditional methods to prepare their steel, forge the sword and create the unique hardened edge. By gaining a good understanding of how a sword is actually made, the reader will be able to appreciate the samurai sword more fully. Topics include: Appreciating the Japanese sword History of the Japanese sword Traditional Japanese steelmaking Making the sword Finishing the sword
Author: Akhilesh Mehra Publisher: Partridge Publishing ISBN: 1482870231 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Three Insects One snail shell And An Age Old Prophecy Cocooned from the world is a strange flower. But see, I never expected to find it in my garden. As soon as you touch it, you can experience being a Lilliputian of Gulliver in Lilliput by becoming an INSECT. Oh, yeah, you heard itan insect. I became a dragonfly (horrible, eh?) That is when my fantastic adventure begins. Im handed a tricky task; to help a girl/grasshopper reach her home safely. But do you think that I would be able to survive this dangerous adventure? Being swallowed by a pitcher plant, getting stuck in cobwebs and a battle with a LARGE dog? But that is the least of my troubles. The real question is, was I able to change back to a NORMAL sized HUMAN? Or did I stay like that forever?
Author: Blair Nikula Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 9780316816793 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 160
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A pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, simple-to-use guide to dragonflies, containing dozens of full-color photographs that enable readers of all ages to identify the most common species; range maps; tips on attracting dragonflies, information on habitat needs, life cycle, food preferences; and much more.
Author: Selene Simone Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483451348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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Juliette Danetree, sole heiress, has settled into the family home of Greyfriars. She grew up in the bayou mansion, but the small Southern Louisiana town of Petit Coeur is far from the fast paced world she created for herself as an attorney in New Mexico. Torn between liquidating all assets and selling the property, or re-establishing herself in her hometown, she is uncovering more evidence that leads her to believe Greyfriars has called her back to stay. Handsome green-eyed Honore Francois Darden and the intriguing Henderson sisters have quickly become instrumental in keeping her at Greyfriars. When an old family trunk is opened, letters, journals, and confessions are unleashed like ancestral specters that will haunt Juliette's day dreams and nightmares. She is tangled in her family's questionable past, trying to make sense of misdeeds committed long before she was born. Let the dragonflies guide you through moss and moonlight
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