Showing results for "Birds" in Literature & Fiction

Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving rebel-with-a-cause, doesn’t give a damn about them, and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning them three years ago. That is, until her former faction sends her a message: Return what she stole from them, or her twin sister will die. Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her - but for once, she’s not alone. She has help from her network of resistance contacts, her taser-wielding librarian girlfriend, and a mysterious bounty hunter.

When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a 14-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and local Garda DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water's edge. Together with Carla's partner, criminal psychologist Grace Franicosi, Carla and Jack uncover a tragic story with very dangerous and current implications. Since the disappearance of her best friend, Carla has dedicated her career to bringing the dead home, but this time it's the living who are counting on her.

It’s nearly Christmas, and Dashiell Dawson Dane already has enough on his plate: finding a present for his parents, coming up with excuses not to hang the Christmas lights, and finishing this stupid story he’s been writing (okay, maybe he needs to start writing it). On top of all that, Bobby has been acting…well, strange. The last thing Dash needs, in other words, is to play host when Marshall Crowe—celebrity author and, worse, a friend of Dash’s parents—comes to town.

When Lori Hawthorne trades her high-powered city life for the unexpected inheritance of her late aunt's neglected fruit farm in Sedona, Arizona, she soon realizes that mending a broken orchard is only half the battle. Seeking a chance to rewrite her story, she's determined to breathe new life into both the farm and her own existence.

Raven doesn’t do emotions—she does contracts, guns, and control. As the founder of The Nest, an elite mercenary group, she’s built a reputation for being ruthless and unbreakable. But when a powerful Senator —at the suggestion of her infuriating ex-husband—hires her to protect his daughter, Raven finds herself facing a new kind of threat. Xyla is a ballerina with a sharp tongue and a body carved from discipline and desire.

1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. Trapped and isolated on the East Anglian coast, Vita takes solace in watching the birds that fly over the marshes. But then she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney. The two women form a close bond, and Vita finally glimpses a chance to escape Aubrey’s grasp and be as free as the birds she loves.

After three years of waiting for "rabbit" Jeremy to commit to a life in Granby - and a life together - Aiden Rhodes was appalled when Jeremy sustained a nearly fatal beating to keep a friend out of harm's way. How could Aiden's bunny put himself in danger like that?

Adrienne loves her job and her apartment, and she's happy to help out her grandfather a few times a month. If she could just get the peacocks that plague his neighborhood to stop destroying his yard, she'd be set. Native to Mississippi, Casey knows beautiful when she sees it, and California is full of beauty. She appreciates everything about her college town—the weather, her job, and the majestic birds that populate her neighborhood. Though every encounter Casey has with Adrienne seems designed to scare her away, Casey keeps finding herself drawn back to her neighbor's granddaughter.

A “poignantly rendered and illuminating” (The Washington Post) coming-of-age story about “the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect” (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The...

Gary escaped his fundamentalist family and their crazy church. Pittsburgh, snow, and no job prospects turns fishing coins out of fountains for food into a painful chore. While job-hunting in the busy downtown, Gary gets almost knocked down by some self-important suit. As they grapple, trying not to fall, Gary does the unthinkable. Running late again, Adrian weaves his way through the crows to a critical meeting. A bump, a jostle - he almost landed on the ground, and too bad he’d been so brusque with the tall-and-handsome who kept him from crashing to the sidewalk.

For a millennium and a half, through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and Victorian Era, keeping their identities secret, living through the centuries, making their mark subtly on human history until 1921, when this duo decide to come to America following the First World War and H1N1 pandemic, landing on Ellis Island and beginning a 100-year period of new and sometimes rather unusual adventures, navigating American society of the 20th and 21st centuries, dealing with all sorts of controversies and complexities, and at times having a lot of fun.

Alexandria Dunn lives a very quiet, boring life as an IT customer service rep, until she’s startled by a flash of color at her window one day. Almost overnight, she becomes obsessed with birds and bird watching, and when she learns that a foremost avian expert will be leading a bird watching tour at a local wildlife sanctuary, she signs up immediately. Nell Ortiz shows up in a bright yellow rain slicker, and an even brighter smile, and Alexandria is almost immediately smitten.

She’s perfectly content with her close-knit friends, her avian research at the local university, and, well, her own hand is enough to satisfy her on lonely nights. But then her BFF starts a family, Kiran’s dean denies her tenure, and she breaks her wrist trying to tame a traumatized cockatoo. In just a few days, everything Kiran cares about is obliterated.

Talon Cour-Vermane is not only the sole inheritor of his House’s lands, titles, and political power, but also of the pact his family has forged with darkness through countless generations. From birth, Talon’s father tethered his son’s life to the family’s bloodline and his own ambitions of power, but everything changes when a new blacksmith and his young apprentice, Richen, join the staff at the Cour-Vermane estate. With their fateful meeting, Talon’s life changes course forever, derailing the meticulously laid out existence planned for him. 

Ryder thought the hardest part would be admitting what he wants. He was wrong. The hardest part is what happens when someone with authority decides Ryder's desire is something he can schedule, test, and control—and Ryder keeps showing up anyway. In Early Bird, Ryder's mornings start before sunrise, pulled into the swim facility by messages that read less like invitations and more like instructions. By day, he has to function like a normal freshman—practice, classes, campus life—while carrying the private consequences of what he's gotten himself into.

Birds & Other Dreamers is a collection of poetry about love, loss, uncertainty, hope, and fear. To a broken heart, a happy ending often seems unimaginable. But what if it isn't?

This is a love story. It is a semi-fictional story derived from actual circumstance and real events, mostly observed from a male perspective, but strongly driven by females. These events occurred during the feminist revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, which brutally took down many confused men and many unwary women as gender wars wrecked lives along the way. Admittedly, there were genuinely repressed women who were liberated as a result of that revolution, but it cannot be denied that there was a lot of collateral damage in the process.