Author: Robert Brown Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0578140853 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century. The key is in a strange, century-old map of the stars carried by a drifter traveling with a young bison named Bill who is more than he appears to be. In this fusion of legend and history, a narrator recalling his 12th birthday chronicles what followed the drifter s appearance a series of events from opposite ends of the earth that evolved in extraordinary ways to shape his coming of age. When the racing prowess of the bison endangers his life, he and the boy escape together on a final, desperate journey across the plains.
Author: Ralph Abernathy Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 9781569762790 Category : African American clergy Languages : en Pages : 0
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The number-two manin the civil rights movement, Abernathy poignantly recalls his life from his poverty-striken childhood, his cofounding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and march to freedom at the side of his close friend Martin Luther King to his current fight for dignity and human rights worldwide. Illustrated.
Author: Darius V. Daughtry Publisher: ISBN: 9781733536103 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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In his debut collection, writer and educator Darius V. Daughtry, provides an introspective poetic memoir and sweeping cultural critique.Equal parts praise dance and eulogy, And the Walls Came Tumbling is full of vulnerable, introspective poems that explore societal constructs - race, class, gender - and questions their existence in our lives. Drawing inspiration from and paying homage to emcees and crooners, alike, these poems move with a rhythmic language that makes heads nod and hearts skip beats. Darius' poems are "mirrors in the morning," forcing the reader to confront both their own beauty and the ugliness in their worlds. The outcome: a shout that causes the walls' first cracks.
Author: Stefi Doucette Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524553174 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 23
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Little Star always wanted to be a wishing star for little boys and girls. He becomes very special after mother superior gives him some light to fall out of the sky and wished upon by two little boys. He becomes their special wishing star.
Author: Peter S. Beagle Publisher: Tachyon Publications ISBN: 1616962836 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 333
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“What a treasure trove!” —Sarah Beth Durst, author of Queen of the Blood Unicorns: Not just for virgins anymore. Here are sixteen lovely, powerful, intricate, and unexpected unicorn tales from fantasy icons including Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia A. McKillip, Bruce Coville, Carrie Vaughn, and more. In this volume you will find two would-be hunters who enlist an innkeeper to find a priest hiding the secret of the last unicorn. A time traveler tries to corral an unruly mythological beast that might never have existed at all. The lover and ex-boyfriend of a dying woman join forces to find a miraculous remedy in New York City. And a small-town writer of historical romances discovers a sliver of a mysterious horn in a slice of apple pie.
Author: Bruce Coville Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152052164 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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They live! -- in the heart of every true believer, in the untamed wilds of the imagination, and in the pages of this collection of stories and poems from master unicorn chronicler Bruce Coville. A thief braves a deadly maze to steal healing waters from a unicorn's well... A princess must choose between her love of a silver colt and her love of her father, the king... A young unicorn is given a mission to heal a girl who is not sick, but who has decided to die... Bringing together the singular talents of Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Yolen, C. S. Lewis, Myra Cohn Livingston, and many others, The Unicorn Treasury reminds us that as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns. Book jacket.
Author: Naomi Mitchison Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1847675123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 671
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Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, an Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in turn rescues Tarrik from near death and so breaks the enchantment that has bound him. And so begins for Tarrik a Quest – a fabulous voyage of discovery which will bring him new knowledge and which will reunite him with his beautiful Spring Queen. ‘This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.’ Ian Rankin
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