The Ice Swan

Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 2021-07-06
ISBN : 0785248439
Pages : 400 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (785 users)

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Download or read book The Ice Swan written by J'nell Ciesielski and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it. 1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in Paris with her mother and sister. But the city is buckling under the weight of the Great War, and the Bolsheviks will not rest until they have erased every Russian aristocrat from memory. Svetlana and her family are forced into hiding in Paris’s underbelly, with little to their name but the jewels they sewed into their corsets before their terrifying escape. Born the second son of a Scottish duke, the only title Wynn MacCallan cares for is that of surgeon. Putting his talents with a scalpel to good use in the hospitals in Paris, Wynn pushes the boundaries of medical science to give his patients the best care possible. After treating Svetlana for a minor injury, he is pulled into a world of decaying imperial glitter. Intrigued by this mysterious, cold, and beautiful woman, Wynn follows Svetlana to an underground Russian club where drink, dance, and questionable dealings collide on bubbles of vodka. Out of money and options, Svetlana agrees to a marriage of convenience with the handsome and brilliant Wynn, who will protect her and pay off her family’s debts. It’s the right thing for a good man to do, but Wynn cannot help hoping the marriage will turn into one of true affection. When Wynn’s life takes an unexpected turn, so does Svetlana’s—and soon Paris becomes as dangerous as Petrograd. And as the Bolsheviks chase them to Scotland, Wynn and Svetlana begin to wonder if they will ever be able to outrun the love they are beginning to feel for one another. “The Ice Swan is a ray of light in the middle of a Europe that was sinking into darkness. Ciesielski’s talent for storytelling from the heart is a feast for the readers’ eyes.” —Mario Escobar, international bestselling author of Remember Me and Children of the Stars Adventurous World War I historical romance For fans of Kate Quinn, Beatriz Williams, and Aimie K. Runyan Full-length, stand-alone novel (approx. 120,000 words) Includes discussion questions for book clubs

People of the Swan

by Hubert J. C. Schuurman

Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2007-03-21
ISBN : 1412079624
Pages : 652 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (412 users)

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Download or read book People of the Swan written by Hubert J. C. Schuurman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swan ballets on the river Sanctus drew Elves, Fairies, and many other visitors to town. Life flowed joyously. None heeded the Dwarves' warnings. They always talked gloom and doom!

Swan

by Frances Mayes

Publisher : Crown
Release Date : 2002-10-08
ISBN : 0767913930
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (767 users)

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Download or read book Swan written by Frances Mayes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Under Magnolia In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In Swan, her first novel, she has created an equally intimate world, rich with striking characters and intriguing twists of fate, that hearkens back to her southern roots. The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. As Swan opens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: The body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years before, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, the Mason children grapple with the profound effects of their mother's life and death on their own lives. When a new explanation for Catherine’s death emerges, and other closely guarded family secrets rise to the surface as well, Ginger and J.J. are confronted with startling truths about their family, a particular ordeal in a family and a town that wants to keep the past buried. Beautifully evoking the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the deep South while telling an utterly compelling story of the complexity of family ties, Swan marks the remarkable fiction debut of one of America’s best-loved writers. Now with an excerpt from Frances Mayes's latest southern memoir, Under Magnolia

Monster Hunter Legion

by Larry Correia

Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Release Date : 2012-09-01
ISBN : 1618249533
Pages : 384 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (618 users)

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Download or read book Monster Hunter Legion written by Larry Correia and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert. A not-so-friendly wager between the rival companies turns into a race to see who can bag the mysterious creature first. Only there is far more to this particular case than meets the eye, and as Hunters fall prey to their worst nightmares, Owen Zastava Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into a literal hell on earth. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey

by Geological Survey (U.S.)

Publisher :
Release Date : 1978
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (324 users)

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Download or read book Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific notes and summaries of investigations in geology, hydrology, and related fields.

Harlequin Historical August 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

by Bronwyn Scott

Publisher : Harlequin
Release Date : 2019-08-01
ISBN : 148804967X
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (488 users)

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Download or read book Harlequin Historical August 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2 written by Bronwyn Scott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! Captivated by Her Convenient Husband Allied at the Altar by Bronwyn Scott (Victorian) Avaline hasn’t seen her husband for seven years, after he was presumed dead at war. Now he’s back in her life—and her bed—she’s cautious. Why is he so different from the selfish soldier she married? Reclaimed by Her Rebel Knight by Jenni Fletcher (Medieval) Matthew Wintour has finally returned and he’s a valiant knight! He and Constance hadn’t even had a wedding night all those years ago. Now she must reach out to discover her husband beneath the armor… The Governess’s Scandalous Marriage by Helen Dickson (Regency) Governess Linnet Osborne is tempted to explore beyond the fleeting kisses she’s had with Christian, Lord Blakely… But that would mean scandal…or they’d have to wed! Look for Harlequin® Historical’s August 2019 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

The Secret Life of the Savoy

by Olivia Williams

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-06-01
ISBN : 1643137395
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (643 users)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of the Savoy written by Olivia Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations—and one hundred years—of glamour and high society. For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot high birthday cake. In three generations, the D'Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco. Following the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D'Oyly Carte family, The Secret Life of the Savoy brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world.

Search Party

by Valerie Trueblood

Publisher : Catapult
Release Date : 2013-07-01
ISBN : 1619022230
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (619 users)

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Download or read book Search Party written by Valerie Trueblood and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching," and so we discover each story here to follow the arc of a search, just as each also contains a rescue. What is immediately apparent is that it will be impossible to guess the form this rescue will take or even who it is who'll require it. Instead, the astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the reader, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid, 19–year–old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes. In these thirteen stories linked by a common transcendent human genius, the writing is confident and clear and original, and often drop–dead stunning, as if the stories are being told by the most casually eloquent among us.

The Poem Itself

by Stanley Burnshaw

Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2015-09-24
ISBN : 9781610753081
Pages : 337 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (753 users)

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Download or read book The Poem Itself written by Stanley Burnshaw and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again for a new generation, this classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages and brilliantly illuminated by English commentaries.

Gabriella the Snow Kingdom Fairy

by Daisy Meadows

Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 0545106141
Pages : 161 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (545 users)

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Download or read book Gabriella the Snow Kingdom Fairy written by Daisy Meadows and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Frost steals three magic tokens from Gabriella the snow kingdom fairy, Rachel and Kirsty try to help her recover the tokens before their winter break is ruined.

Being and Ambiguity

by Brook Ziporyn

Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9780812695427
Pages : 452 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (695 users)

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Download or read book Being and Ambiguity written by Brook Ziporyn and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being and Ambiguity, while making use of the methods of the Western tradition, proposes a paradigm shift derived from Chinese Buddhism's Tiantai school. Using Tiantai's ?Three Truths,” Ziporyn brings insights to questions of identity, determinacy, contextuality, being, desire, boredom, addiction, love, and truth. By turns rigorously analytic and irreverent, the book offers a meaningful and enjoyable reading experience in comparative philosophy.

Winter of the Ice Wizard

by Mary Pope Osborne

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2010-06-15
ISBN : 0375894543
Pages : 144 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (375 users)

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Download or read book Winter of the Ice Wizard written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Merlin the magician and Morgan le Fay have disappeared, and in order to find them, Jack and Annie journey with their friends Teddy and Kathleen to the Land-Behind-the-Clouds, a frozen kingdom of ice and snow. There they must overcome their fears and solve the Ice Wizard's riddle, because if Jack and Annie don't complete their mission in time, Merlin and Morgan will disappear forever! Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #32, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #4: Winter of the Ice Wizard. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!

Dragon Apocalypse: The Complete Collection

by James Maxey

Publisher : James Maxey
Release Date : 2016-09-23
ISBN :
Pages : 800 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Dragon Apocalypse: The Complete Collection written by James Maxey and published by James Maxey. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad girls, big dragons! An eclectic band of female adventures must come together to save the world from the primal dragons. DRAGON APOCALYPSE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION, gathers all four novels of the critically acclaimed series by James Maxey, author of the bestselling BITTERWOOD series. It also includes the novella GREATSHADOW: ORIGINS, the story that provided the inspiration for the novels.

Geological Survey Professional Paper

Publisher :
Release Date : 1950
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (31 users)

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Geological Survey Professional Paper

by Geological Survey (U.S.)

Publisher :
Release Date : 1953
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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All My Cats

by Bohumil Hrabal

Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-26
ISBN : 0811228967
Pages : 128 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (811 users)

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Download or read book All My Cats written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko, about an hour’s drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. Despite the tender love he feels for the cats, especially his favorites who share his bed, there are moments of intense violence—as he controls the feline population explosion explosively. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is best seen as a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed by his cats and his life, and is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas his indulgent love for the animals have created. In the end, All My Cats becomes a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos—and about love.

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle

Publisher :
Release Date : 1837
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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