Sing the Four Quarters

Sing the Four Quarters
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Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9781625671226
ISBN-13 : 1625671229
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Sing the Four Quarters by : Tanya Huff

The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing – earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common. Annice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family. Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason – one of them unjustly accused. To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach.

Fifth Quarter

Fifth Quarter
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Publisher : DAW
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105017419925
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Fifth Quarter by : Tanya Huff

Planning to assassinate the evil Gyhard, siblings Bannon and Vree of the Havalkeen army face a terrible choice when Gyhard steals Bannon's body and forces the pair to coexist in Vree's body.

The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : 9780374706418
ISBN-13 : 0374706417
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Time of Our Singing by : Richard Powers

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

The Crossover

The Crossover
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9780544107717
ISBN-13 : 0544107713
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Crossover by : Kwame Alexander

New York Times bestseller ∙ Newbery Medal Winner ∙Coretta Scott King Honor Award ∙2015 YALSA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults∙ 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ∙Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ School Library Journal Best Book∙ Kirkus Best Book "A beautifully measured novel of life and line."--The New York Times Book Review "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering, " announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.

The Shawm

The Shawm
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044073548927
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shawm by : William Batchelder Bradbury

My Swordhand is Singing

My Swordhand is Singing
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 162
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781444002034
ISBN-13 : 1444002031
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis My Swordhand is Singing by : Marcus Sedgwick

An original interpretation of the timelessly fascinating vampire myth, and a story of father and son, by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter, Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust. Despite the villagers' lack of hospitality, they settle there as woodcutters. But there are many things Peter does not understand. Why does Tomas dig a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they live on an isolated island? Why does Tomas carry a long battered box everywhere they go - and refuse to tell Peter of its contents? When a band of gypsies comes to the village, Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia, and intoxicated by her community's love of life. He even becomes drawn into their deadly quest - for these travellers are Vampire Slayers, and Chust is a community to which the dead return to wreak revenge on the living. Stylishly written and set in the forbidding and remote landscapes of the 17th century, this is a story of a father and his son, of loss, redemption and resolution.

Three Quarters

Three Quarters
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Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9781625671578
ISBN-13 : 1625671571
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Quarters by : Tanya Huff

The Seven Armies’ deadliest blades are at their best in Three Quarters, a collection of three exciting short stories set in Tanya Huff’s Quarters universe. In “Death Rites” sibling assassins Bannon and Vree must eliminate a dangerous traitor who’s already thwarted several other professionals. In “Exactly,” Vree and Bannon slip surveillance shifts in between body rubs and drinks when they take a holiday, assassin-style. And in the novelette, “Quartered,” on Kovar’s orders, the young bard Evicka risks her life to spy on Vree and Gyhard in Bicaz. Featuring an all-new foreword and new story introductions from the author, Three Quarters is sure to delight fans of The Quarters Series with Tanya Huff’s pitch-perfect harmony of adventure, intrigue, and wit.

Musical Observer

Musical Observer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 924
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433085221830
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Musical Observer by :

The Coronet

The Coronet
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015007841938
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Coronet by : George Frederick Root