Bird: 743 books

2 works of Isabella Bird English explorer, writer, and natural historian (1831-1904) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Isabella Bird. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - 1880 - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - 1883 - The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither

Long before Steel Magnolias became a hit movie, Holly Ridge, North Carolina had produced its own vigorous southern flower, Lena Shepard Morris Bird. In this memoir of her mother, author Patricia A. Bird narrates how Lena inherited all the best of her traditional world while developing the gifts that...

“Exhaustively researched and remarkably evenhanded.” —The New York Times “Absorbing…the definitive life story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating study.” —Los Angeles Times In The Chairman, the authoritative biography of John J. McCloy, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

4 works of George Bird Grinnell American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer (1849-1938) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of George Bird Grinnell. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Blackfeet Indian Stories Blackfoot Lodge Tales Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales When Buffalo Ran

The masters of Russian arts and letters are a prestigious fraternity that includes such renowned artists as Tolstoy, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. But alongside these luminaries stands a lesser-known but equally revered figure, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Robert Bird offers in Andrei Tarkovsky an...

Balanced, comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest...

Several months ago, calico cat Jet Bird Brewbaker, the all-time repository of rotten, impressed her Bad Daddy Jeff Carlson into service to write three books about kitty life. Now, all three books are in one place! In The Jet Bird Collection, Book 1 instructs kitties on the ways of true rottenness. Book...

In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these seven stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia -...

Nobody’s life is ever perfect. Families tell lies. People keep secrets. But the life which Will and Ellie Spears have built together is as perfect as it’s possible to be. Until one day something is let slip. A discovery is made. And all of a sudden Ellie and Will’s life falls down, as acceptance...

It’s been thirty years since it happened. A lifetime, for some. Yet I still hear his cries. I still feel eyes on me. Still hear the whispers: I know what you did. I’ve spent so long hiding that I barely remember what it’s like to be seen – to be known for who you really are. But all that must...

My husband has a secret. He just doesn’t know it yet. It’s a secret that some would try to hide from him – and, until now, they’ve succeeded. But I know Will. I know he would want to discover the truth. Fortunately, I’m here to discover it for him. Soon there’ll be no more hiding. There’ll...

I suppose you thought you were protecting me. But the hiding is over. I refuse to leave my own past buried. Wouldn’t you? I must work alone. Because who can I trust, now? My wife? My family? No-one. The answers have been hidden for so long. But I refuse to live a lie one moment longer. I finally...

In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable...

The daughter of a country parson, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health. Bird's compliance with her doctor's orders took her to the wildest regions of the American West, Malaysia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Moroccan desert, and China, among other places. One of nine popular accounts of her...