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Author: Paula Fox Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393318944 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".
Author: Paula Fox Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393318944 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".
Author: Walu Feral Publisher: Walu Feral ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 205
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In 1975, Ricky, a fourteen-year-old Caucasian boy from suburban Melbourne, escapes years of childhood abuse and hitch-hikes over four-thousand kilometres, to the town of Marble Bar, in the far Northwest of Western Australia. With a morbid fear of aboriginal people, after being told by his abusive, racist, father that they are cannibals, he is found living in a cave, alone, by remnant members of the Nyamal tribe, a small group, still living a nomadic existence. They forcefully remove him from the cave and take him into the desert where he is raised in their ancient ways for five years. Whilst there, he undergoes many sacred trials and rituals, along with learning the Nyamal dialect and customs, to become an official, initiated, Nyamal man at nineteen-years-old. Written in flashbacks and based on fact, with some enhancements and name changes, the book contains many dangerous, exciting, frightening, romantic and sometimes comical adventures out in the harsh Australian desert. Striving to become a man, Ricky stumbles his way, spear in hand, clad in a loincloth, from one coming-of-age trial to the next under the watchful guidance of Uncle Ronny, the tribal Chief, and the other tribal elders. He learns to hunt, read signs of nature in order to find the best places to gather food and where to find and collect fresh water from beneath the scorching desert sand. The first in a trilogy, "The one they call Feral," also contains several, rarely heard, 67,000-year-old dreamtime stories and ancient tribal practices and language.
Author: Beverly Blackman Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1635689112 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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What do you do when you receive an invitation from an alien? Simple, ignore it until they won't let you ignore it anymore. Braden and his brother Cade were trying to lead a normal life in their hill country home in Texas. They had helped their grandpa out on his ranch further north from them with three alien encounters-first when the aliens arrived at Christmas holidays (The Invader), once in the following spring (The Insider), and once last summer (The Intruder). No
Author: Pamela Nagami Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312318239 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 372
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We've all been bitten, and we all have stories. The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami has chosen to write about in this book take place all around the world, and throughout history. With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own career as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist, the author offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing. -- Publisher description.
Author: C S Churton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 334
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She didn't believe werewolves were real......until she was attacked.Can Jade come to terms with her new shifter life?For as long as she could remember, she wanted to go to Uni and study law. When she got bitten, everything changed. Jade's not ready to accept her new reality, but she had better come to terms quickly, because it's her only way out.There are rules at the shifter academy.They'll keep her locked up if needed.Facing the realities of her new life, her strange powers, and the fact that she's more prisoner than student, Jade has some tough decisions to make. What she doesn't know, though, is that there's something sinister going on.People are in danger.Another gets bitten.The adventure has just begun.You'll love this new Shifter Academy series, because every young woman has a hero inside of her she didn't know existed.Get it now.
Author: Doranna Durgin Publisher: Blue Hound Visions ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 319
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Suspense, romance, and a Celtic dog bundled into a contemporary fantasy setting. As a child, dog-loving Brenna Fallon naively invokes an ancient Celtic deity to save her beloved hound–and inadvertently anchors the new-found power at a spring on her family’s farm. She doesn’t know she’s also left an opening for a far more malevolent force. Years later, Brenna discovers the terrible potential of that gateway.With a devastating plague unfolding abruptly around her, she must depend on her wits, a stranger she doesn’t trust, and a mysterious stray dog who becomes more than just a faithful companion as she struggles to drive back the threat of a modern Black Death. Welded by a desperate sacrifice, woman, man, and dog face the feral darkness together. “The mystery and fantasy slowly draw together, bonded by supreme characterization, to make for a story which is almost impossible to put down.” –Reviewers Bookwatch “If you are looking for a book that has paranormal elements and some romance, is expertly written with wonderful characters and has a smooth pace that leads up to a climatic finish, A FERAL DARKNESS is the book for you and it is not to be missed.” –The Romance Reader’s Connection “This is a very smart, well-woven book, with an initially cranky but ultimately endearing hero and a thoroughly satisfying ending.” –Mary Jo Putney, bestselling author of the The Rake
Author: Michael Bright Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312981562 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 303
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This horrifying study of the world's most dangerous predators and their human trophies unleashes hundreds of gruesome true stories about bears, wolves, tigers, mountain lions, vampire bats, shark attacks, and baby-snatching hyenas and dingoes. of photos.
Author: Tristan Donovan Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1569761035 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 266
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We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people who try to manage them. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From feral chickens and carpet-roaming bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich shops and birds crashing into skyscrapers, Feral Cities takes readers on a journey through streets and neighborhoods that are far more alive than we often realize, shows how animals are adjusting to urban living, and asks what messages the wildlife in our metropolises have for us.
Author: Elizabeth Myles Publisher: Eight Oh Six/Tangential Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 279
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Why did all the good ones have to be undead? And staunchly opposed to dating the living? Seven weeks ago, Jessica Ramos was just a humble bookseller peddling paranormal romance novels in the Houston suburbs. She had no idea vampires actually existed. Now she’s met and fallen in love with one. His name is Nathan, and he’s perfect for her. Too bad he’s also got hang-ups about getting romantically involved with a mortal. He’s declared he won’t date Jessica unless and until he’s back to being human again. No sweat. Jessica’s convinced that she, her stake-toting best friend Lucy, and the rest of their new gang of supernatural-savvy friends can find a way to free Nathan from his vampiric curse. All they need is a solid plan—and the guts to go up against the vicious master nosferatu who turned Nathan in the first place. Can the gang hunt down a happy ending for Jessica and Nathan, or will fate turn everything upside down? Only one thing’s certain: they’re about to discover that even the best-laid plans can go awry when unexpected surprises pop up…and the past comes BACK TO BITE YOU. MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: Back to Bite You is a lighthearted, paranormal romantic comedy of approximately 87,000 words and is narrated in third person from multiple characters’ POV. It is Book 2 in a series and takes place after The Sharpest Kiss. Reader advisory: Back to Bite You includes mild cursing, alcohol consumption, vampire-related violence, and mild sensuality.
Author: Paula Fox
Author: Paula Fox
Author: Walu Feral
Author: Beverly Blackman
Author: Pamela Nagami
Author: C S Churton
Author: Doranna Durgin
Author: Michael Bright
Author: Tristan Donovan
Author: Elizabeth Myles
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