Dark Quetzal

Dark Quetzal
Author: Katherine Roberts
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781718757998

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* The final adventure in the award-winning Echorium Sequence. * Eleven years have passed since the Khizpriest's attempt to build a palace of dark crystal to break the power of the Echorium. A new generation of Singers is emerging, among them Kyarra - Frazhin's own lost daughter, raised on the Isle of Echoes by the Singers with no memory of her father. Frazhin hatches a final desperate plan to destroy the Echorium, and Kyarra is the only one who can stop him. She has the help of a beautiful boy-bird, who knows the secret of the yellow flowers that grow in the Quetzal Forest. But when she comes face to face with Frazhin, which will prove stronger: Kyarra's dark blood, or the Echorium's Songs? "Fast paced action and surprising plot twists... a satisfying conclusion." School Library Journal.

Dark Quetzal

Dark Quetzal
Author: Katherine Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781417624072

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Kyarra, a novice Singer, seeks to destroy evil and learn the truth about her mother and father.

The Echorium Sequence

The Echorium Sequence
Author: Katherine Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Dark Tree

The Dark Tree
Author: Steven L. Isoardi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2023-08-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 147802741X

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In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists—musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists—passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi draws on one hundred in-depth interviews with the Arkestra’s participants to tell the history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of Black Los Angeles. This revised and updated edition brings the story of the Arkestra up to date, as its ethos and aesthetic remain vital forces in jazz and popular music to this day.

The Legend Of Zip

The Legend Of Zip
Author: G A Zubia
Publisher: Sierra Estrella Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1736613618

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The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. The legend has passed from father to son and young Zip is mesmerized by them. When Achak, his father, disappears, the legend is set aside and the young boy leaves home in search of answers. He finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by Achak and his mother, Marguerite. The Dark One knows the truth and works in earnest to keep Zip from his true purpose. He meets Ronnie and Maria, along with a shaman with a habit of disappearing when under attack, and, with their help, gains the courage to face his inner demons and the dark forces of the world before the moon covers the sun. The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. As the legends pass from generation to generation young Zip finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by his late father. Through his journeys across the desert, Zip gains the courage to face his inner demons leading him to find his true purpose. True purpose lies within. Hidden in plain sight. It is meant to be found by looking into the light. The story of a young boy in search of his father. His journey takes him through the enchanted Bosque Mesquite to the summit of the Sierra Estrella. On the way he meets those who give him the strength to find his true purpose. A story that parallels the journey through life and the search one’s true purpose.

The Dark Star of Itza

The Dark Star of Itza
Author: Alida Malkus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1930
Genre: Itza Indians
ISBN:

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The story of a Mayan princess who lived at the time the ancient city of Chichen Itza fell under Toltec rule.

Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion

Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion
Author: Pete Dunne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0544135687

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From the award-winning birder and author of Birds of Prey, an authoritative, information-packed guide to distinguishing North American birds. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the “Cape May School of Birding.” It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet.

Seducing the Dark Prince

Seducing the Dark Prince
Author: Jane Kindred
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488094144

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Hell might be heavenly… …for one of the Sisters in Sin Lucien Smok is heir to the Smok fortune. He’s also the crown prince of Hell, a legacy he despises. Clairvoyant Theia Dawn tries to convince herself that she’s only interested in Lucien because of his family’s role in the persecution of her ancestor, not because he’s the most beguiling man she’s ever met. The attraction that burns between them might be her downfall. Or it might be his salvation.

Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky

Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941026737

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The stories in Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky trace the history of the world from its beginnings in the dreams of the dual god, Ometeotl, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico and the fall of the great city Tenochtitlan. In the course of that history we learn about the Creator Twins—Feathered Serpent and Dark Heart of Sky—and how they built the world on a leviathan's back; of the shape-shifting nahualli; and the aluxes, elfish beings known to help out the occasional wanderer. And finally, we read Aztec tales about the arrival of the blonde strangers from across the sea, the strangers who seek to upend the rule of Motecuhzoma and destroy the very stories we are reading. David Bowles stitches together the fragmented mythology of pre-Colombian Mexico into an exciting, unified narrative in the tradition of William Buck's Ramayana, Robert Fagles's Iliad, and Neil Gaiman's Norse Myths. Readers of Norse and Greek mythologies will delight in this rich retelling of stories less explored. Legends and myths captured David Bowles's imagination as a young Latino reader; he was fascinated with epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey. Despite growing up on the United States/Mexico border, he had never read a single Aztec or Mayan myth until he was in college. This experience inspired him to reconnect with that forgotten past. Several of his previous books have incorporated themes from ancient Mexican myths.