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A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic historical fantasy about womanhood, war, sacrifice, and love against all odds as the fate of two kingdoms hangs in a delicate balance. Her beauty hides a deadly purpose. Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue--convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare...
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argon
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2025
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German
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Episch, dramatisch und wunderschön - eine große, zeitlose Liebesgeschichte vor dem Hintergrund einer chinesischen Legende Ihre Schönheit hat die Macht, ein Königreich zu stürzen - doch ihr Herz kann sie nicht beschützen A Song to Drown Rivers ist ein epischer und dramatischer historischer Liebesroman um eine große Liebe, die zwei Königreiche zerstören könnte. China um das Jahr 500. Für die Menschen in Xishis Dorf ist die bezaubernde Schönheit...
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In this resonant story, Cam the mountain boy follows the river from its trickling source in the mountain snow all the way to the coast. The river leads him through forest, farms, and towns to the salty wind of the sea. Dramatic landscape illustrations evoke a North American landscape and are packed with detail to explore the world of the river.
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Storyteller trilogy volume 1
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English
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Two ancient tribes on the verge of making peace become foes once more when a double murder jeopardizes a storyteller's mission Eighty centuries ago, in the frozen land that is now Alaska, a clubfooted male child had been left to die, when a woman named K'os rescued him. Twenty years later and no longer a child, Chakliux occupies the revered role as his tribe's storyteller. In the neighboring village of the Near River people, where Chakliux will attempt...
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Allen Hancock
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2010
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English
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Wonnangatta Station lies deep in the mountain country of northeastern Victoria on the Wonnangatta River, one of two branches of the upper section of the Mitchell River in Gippsland. Officially unsolved, the murders of station manager James Barclay and his cook/helper have been the object of much speculation for more than 80 years.
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Pluto Press
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1997
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English
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Katy Gardner's account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author's role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes. Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect of Bangladesh...
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Phoenix Voices Publishing
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2024
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English
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In Time and Songs of the River Men, Chinaka philosophises existence with an almost unflinching enthusiasm that transcends wandering, for although he describes himself as a "wanderer," it's obvious that the wealth of experience and philosophical insights engrafted in the poems surpass wandering, especially the metaphysical poems about 'life,' 'death,' and 'time'-the very essence of being. Chinaka puts on the gift of garb of an existentialist here.
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Blackstone Publishing
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2019
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English
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From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season-a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter and forever changed the forest and watershed he loved. It was one of many transformations...
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Act out the story of Romulus and Remus, twin brothers who founded Rome. The twins were ordered to be drowned in the Tiber River, but their mother sent them down the river in a basket. A she-wolf and a woodpecker find them and care for them. The twins' journey leads to the building of Rome and, unfortunately, to tragedy. The roles in this leveled script are written at varying reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign...
13. Ghoulish song
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Goblin Secrets volume 2
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710L
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When the music of a bone flute given to her by a goblin separates Kaile's shadow from herself, her family believes she has died and become a ghoul, and Kaile must set out to prove that she still lives.
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2023
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Everyone experiences loss. The question is: what are you going to gain from it? Like a River, a triumphant story of new life birthed out of tragedy, will teach readers how to face their failures, confront their pain, and connect with God, the true source of life. On June 4th, 2019, country music singer Granger Smith was enjoying a final evening with his kids before heading to Nashville for the CMT Music Awards and his next tour. While helping his...
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FINALIST FOR THE YALSA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICITON FOR YOUNG ADULTS! Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life Game of Thrones. This epic tale of warriors and bravery, rebellion and revenge, reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family-and lost. His father was...
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"A famous riverboat singer poses as a slave owner in order to lead runaway slaves to freedom and save her own life in this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow"--
On the Mississippi River, indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing for riverboat passengers since she was a girl. As her contract comes to an end, she discovers that the captain has no intention of releasing her. An impulse leads Fanny...
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2024
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Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't...
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Tawanda Chitewe
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2025
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English
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In the shadowed heart of pre-colonial Zimbabwe, where the Chipochashe River whispers secrets older than time, the village of Mutambara trembles. Seven girlsinnocent souls aged five to twelvevanish at dusk, snatched by the cunning njuzu, mermaids whose siren songs weave doom. Nyasha's fate chills the deepest: lured by a vision of shimmering beauty, she steps into the river's embrace, deaf to her mother's screams. Crude spears and desperate rituals...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2005
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English
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A heartwarming Civil War tale bound to become an American holiday classicIn the winter of 1862, during the seemingly endless nightmare of the Civil War, a small miracle occurred. Just after Christmas, on the eve of the bloody battle of Stones River in Tennessee, the Union and Confederate armies set up camp within shouting distance of one another. To raise their spirits, they began a volley of patriotic tunes-"Yankee Doodle" drowned out by "Dixie."...
20. Muted and She
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Vine Leaves Press
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Muted: It's illegal to wear clothes. In some streets, it's also illegal to sing. Concetta, a famous Italian a Capella singer, from before "the change," breaks these totalitarian laws. As punishment, her vocal chords are brutally slashed, and her eardrums surgically perforated. Unable to cope living a life without song, she resolves to drown herself in the river, clothed in a dress stained with performance memories. But, Concetta's suicide attempt...