Under Storm's Wing
Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990-01 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
ISBN | : 9780586088760 |
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Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990-01 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
ISBN | : 9780586088760 |
Author | : Helen Thomas |
Publisher | : Carcanet |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012-07-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847779573 |
Here is a portrait of the poet by his wife which has no equal, not even in Mary Shelley's sketches of her husband.New StatesmanUnder Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was and World Without End, her letters to Edward, and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H. Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost and W.H. Hudson. The book has been assembled by Myfanwy, the youngest daughter of Edward and Helen. Myfanwy includes her own enchanted account of childhood with her father, and the tragedy of his death at the Battle of Arras in 1917. She adds an appendix of six letters from Robert Frost to Edward Thomas.Helen wrote As It Was, the story of her courtship and early marriage, shortly after Edward's death, and World Without End a few years later. In the original editions and later reprints fictitious names were used for the protagonists. In this edition the actual names are restored.The book provides a brilliant, lasting evocation of one of Britain's best-loved poets.
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0393608913 |
New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we’ve learned of these key migrations—how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basis—is nothing short of extraordinary. Bird migration entails almost unfathomable endurance, like a sparrow-sized sandpiper that will fly nonstop from Canada to Venezuela—the equivalent of running 126 consecutive marathons without food, water, or rest—avoiding dehydration by "drinking" moisture from its own muscles and organs, while orienting itself using the earth’s magnetic field through a form of quantum entanglement that made Einstein queasy. Crossing the Pacific Ocean in nine days of nonstop flight, as some birds do, leaves little time for sleep, but migrants can put half their brains to sleep for a few seconds at a time, alternating sides—and their reaction time actually improves. These and other revelations convey both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus. This breathtaking work of nature writing from Pulitzer Prize finalist Scott Weidensaul also introduces readers to those scientists, researchers, and bird lovers trying to preserve global migratory patterns in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork, in A World on the Wing Weidensaul unveils with dazzling prose the miracle of nature taking place over our heads.
Author | : Chris Wooding |
Publisher | : Scholastic UK |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1407143875 |
Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Michael Grant, this darkly thrilling novel is a powerful blend of fantasy and science-fiction. Rail and Moa are two teenage thieves. Vago is a golem of metal and flesh. All three are denizens of Orokos, a city scoured by chaotic storms that rearrange streets and turn children into glass. No one can enter the city, or leave. Until one day Rail finds a mysterious artifact that may hold the key to the secrets of the city - and the chance of escape. And so begins an impossible quest. Get ready for a breathtaking adventure.
Author | : Joel Ribbey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah J. Maas |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 739 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1619635208 |
Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!
Author | : |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1999-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780736901154 |
This sweet reminder of God's comfort is a beautiful gift for a loved one in need of encouragement. Prose from writers such as the psalmists, Josephine Currier, and Fanny Crosby is woven tenderly with artwork that gently carries one to the shelter beneath the wings of love.
Author | : Sue Monk Kidd |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698175247 |
The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. Please note there is another digital edition available without Oprah’s notes. Go to Oprah.com/bookclub for more OBC 2.0 content
Author | : Sarah Porter |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1328707334 |
Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret.
Author | : Natasha Wing |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399539425 |
Could it be the night before a Snow Day? It's nighttime and snow is falling hard. Will the town be snowed in? Will there be a snow day? Odds are looking good in this newest Night Before book for the kids who dream of snowball fights, sledding, and the possibility that it may snow again tomorrow!