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Cow Country follows the journey of Buddy Birnie, a young man immersed in the trials of ranch life on the Staked Plains. Through encounters with diverse cultures and the hardships of the frontier, Buddy's story is a poignant coming-of-age tale that reflects the complexities and richness of early Western life.
The nineteenth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams. Jon Fisher and Harry Ryan take part in a bloody war between the British and the Zulu in South Africa. Jon Fisher faces war in South Africa. The Zulus have proven themselves a surprisingly powerful enemy to the British Army. After losing his men during battle, Jon Fisher decides to go home to Australia. Harry Ryan has arranged passage for them on a merchant ship. And there starts their travels across the ocean to get back home.Mostra libro
"FAULTLESS." ?The Guardian *** "A SLY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER." ?The Observer Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine’s sense that something isn’t quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Young as she is, Justine must decide where her loyalties lie. Set in New Zealand in the 1980s and probing themes of racism, misogyny and the oppressive reaches of Catholicism, Pet will take a rightful place next to other classic portraits of childhood betrayal: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Go-Between, Heavenly Creatures and Au Revoir Les Enfants among them.Mostra libro
These are my lands. These are my hills, my valleys, my grass and sky and moon. My hares. My people. Cerys Steadman was born to protect the land. Bound by earthen magic and a bloodline rooted in tradition. As the village huder, she's expected to serve, to heal, to obey. But after her mother dies saving Mervale from the Iron Crow, Cerys refuses to follow in her footsteps. No husband. No child. No heir. She guards her gift, walking the line between duty and defiance until the omens begin... A trail of dead hares. A mysterious stranger drifts into her world, corrupted by ironcraft and linked to the darkest part of Cerys's past. A body is found. Whispers spread. And the village is quick to turn. As enemies rise and betrayal spreads, Cerys must decide whether to remain the reluctant daughter of duty or become the huder on her own terms, and reclaim a power long denied. A story of found family, sisterly love and ancestral legacy, Killing Hares brings to life shapeshifters, dragons and elemental bonds to explore resistance and the quiet magic of becoming your own legend. 'A sumptuous, intricate novel about the ties of family, land, and tradition. Richly imagined and beautifully written, it takes the usual tropes of fantasy fiction and skews them to create something fresh and powerful, filled with humanity'Carly Holmes, author of Crow Face, Doll Face 'A gorgeously wrought novel that has all the best elements of fantasy, rooted in folklore, where charmwives and magic are rife. Huders are the land incarnate, intrinsically bound to the land in all its beauty, power and danger. Killing Hares is both disturbingly familiar in its exploration of the expectation on women to shoulder the burdens of whole communities, and deliciously disruptive in its utter defiance of those expectations'Mari Ellis-Dunning, author of WitshMostra libro
In the town of Reveloe, there lives a man called Silas Marner. A strange little man, a weaver by trade, and seen with suspicion by the other villagers. He's been beset by bad luck all his life. Cast out of his simple religious life in Lantern Yard, and then returns home to find his money stolen.But then, on new years day, his luck changes when he finds a small child sitting before his hearth...Published in 1861, this was the third novel by George Elliot, and delves into the topics of religion, industrialisation and community, and was praised at the time for its realism.Narrated by Michael Ward.Mostra libro
A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris. All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Fast-paced and funny, poignant and sharply satirical, Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption and an unforgettable account of everything that passes under the security guards' all-seeing eyes.Mostra libro
"The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written on October 16-19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales.Mostra libro
