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Author: Peter Hobbs Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 1770892117 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 121
Book Description
A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches. Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. His ravaged body tells the story of fifteen years of brutality. Just one image has held and sustained him through the dark times -- the thought of the young girl who had left him dumbstruck with wonder all those years ago, whose eyes were lit up with life. A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.
Author: Peter Hobbs Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 1770892117 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 121
Book Description
A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches. Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. His ravaged body tells the story of fifteen years of brutality. Just one image has held and sustained him through the dark times -- the thought of the young girl who had left him dumbstruck with wonder all those years ago, whose eyes were lit up with life. A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.
Author: Peter Harrison Publisher: Authors On Line Ltd ISBN: 9780755200634 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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The swallows have always feared Winter. For them it is a time of dying and decay. A time they have always fled from, seeking the warmth and safety of the southlands. But this year is to be different. The swallows' wise and venerable leader, Creakwing, announces that he is now too old and infirm to undertake the epic journey across thousands of miles of land and sea. He intends to remain in the northlands during the cold dark months of Winter and try to survive alone. Knowing that for him this will mean almost certain death, a group of young swallows devise a daring plan to rescue their leader. Many other birds are enlisted to help in the plan. Among them, the thieving jackdaws, a captive yellow bird, a brilliantly ingenious blue tit, a wise old owl who is not as wise as he thinks he is.... and finally, out in the icy wastes of ocean the mysterious storm petrels. There will be triumph and tragedy during the long and dangerous journey, an epic Crossing about which the bardic swallows will tell tales and sing songs for generations to come. 'Creakwing's Crossing' is a stirring tale in a literary tradition stretching from Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in The Willows' to 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams in the present day. It is also a tale to remind us that though the boundaries created by Man continue to create tensions and conflict, the natural world observes no frontiers, and the swallows continue to move through the sky as freely as they have always done, in the ancient mystery of migration.
Author: Peter Hobbs Publisher: ISBN: 9780571217175 Category : Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Following on from the success of Peter Hobbs's debut novel 'A Short Day Dying', this is a collection of comic, heartfelt, grotesque, other-worldly and fantastical stories.
Author: Henry Williamson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 113
Book Description
"The Lone Swallows" by Henry Williamson is HW's second published book. The book is a collection of nature essays, most of which had already been published in newspapers and magazines: they are HW's first attempts to 'describe the common sights and sounds of the English countryside', as he stated in his own 'Compiler's Note' that fronts the first edition.
Author: Alan E. Walter Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 270
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Stay under Your Hat is not only a book title, but also a principle of living. Alan Walter, the author, first understood the principle while leading a dual diagnosis group for the Department of Community Supervision (state probation) in Northwest Georgia. As God further developed the principle in Alan’s mind and heart, it has grown into a book that will likely involve sequels. Stay under Your Hat is a call to those who believer in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This book seeks to call Christians to return to the one basic purpose for our lives. That purpose is to effectively model God through the surrender of our identity, security, and reason for living to God the Father. While reading this book you’ll have the opportunity to see some of the simplicities and the glory of how God created, outfitted, and redeemed us to model Him well. My hope is that you will realize that the most natural, safe, and secure place for you to be as a Christian is to stay under your hat!
Author: Lisa Lutz Publisher: Titan Books ISBN: 1785656287 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
A blistering, timely tale of revenge from the bestselling author of The Passenger GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt to her students at Stonebridge Academy. When their answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going on at the school than anyone will admit. She finds the few girls who've started to question the school's 'boys will be boys' attitude and incites a resistance that quickly becomes a movement. As the school's secrets begin to trickle out, the skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal – and potentially fatal – consequences for everyone involved.
Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent Publisher: ISBN: Category : Birds Languages : en Pages : 996
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This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176. This bulletin deals with the Order Passeriformes, specifically the Family Cotingidae (Cotingas); Family Tyrannidae (Flycatchers) ; Family Alaudidae (Larks) and Family Hirundinidae (Swallows) of North America
Author: Peter Hobbs
Author: Peter Hobbs
Author: Peter Harrison
Author: Peter Hobbs
Author: Peter Hobbs
Author: Henry Williamson
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Author: Alan E. Walter
Author: Henry Williamson
Author: Lisa Lutz
Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent