Dark Hedges, Wizard Island, and Other Magical Places That Really Exist
Title | Dark Hedges, Wizard Island, and Other Magical Places That Really Exist PDF eBook |
Author | L. Rader Crandall |
Publisher | Running Press Kids |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0762467525 |
From a lost city in the desert to a cave alight with thousands of glowworms, learn about some of the most unusual places on earth and the myths, legends, and history behind each of them! Looking at places like The Skeleton Coast in Namibia, Wizard Island in the United States, and The Fairy Tale Route in Germany, The Dark Hedges and Other Magical Places that Really Exist takes young readers on a journey around the world to real places that sound straight out of fantasy. Featuring both natural and man-made wonders, this travel book combines history and storytelling to explore the far reaches of the earth.
Sophie's World
Title | Sophie's World PDF eBook |
Author | Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 735 |
Release | 2007-03-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466804270 |
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Return to the Whorl
Title | Return to the Whorl PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Wolfe |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429915471 |
Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. Return to the Whorl brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Winterbay Abbey: A Ghost Story
Title | Winterbay Abbey: A Ghost Story PDF eBook |
Author | John Bladek |
Publisher | Coda Publishing |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2016-09-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0997364815 |
Seasons of the Sacred Earth
Title | Seasons of the Sacred Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Cliff Seruntine |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0738735531 |
Cliff Seruntine describes his family's adventures living on a secluded homestead in Nova Scotia.
Our Island Story
Title | Our Island Story PDF eBook |
Author | H. E. Marshall |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2013-02-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1625583745 |
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Oil!
Title | Oil! PDF eBook |
Author | Upton Sinclair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."