Showing results for "Birds" in Contemporary Fiction

Anna Sullivan has spent the last 30 years traveling solo around the world as a nature photographer, and she's loved every minute of it. But suddenly, the nights seem long and lonely, and she looks forward to her trips away from Bluebird, Maine, and her sisters, Cee-cee and Steph, less and less. When a cruel twist of fate brings her back home, Anna reevaluates everything in her life. Can she find happiness in the town she's spent a lifetime running away from? 

A bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club title, The Conjuror's Bird is a dazzling debut novel, spanning three centuries of secrets and surprises. It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his career that...

London 1941, Bomben fallen auf die Stadt. Emmeline Lake träumt davon, eine berühmte Kriegskorrespondentin zu werden. Als sie eine Anzeige für einen Job beim London Evening Chronicle sieht, scheint ihr Traum wahr zu werden. Doch stattdessen soll sie nur die Briefe der grimmigen Kummerkastentante Henrietta Bird vorsortieren. Emmeline ist enttäuscht, aber sie nimmt den Job an. Die Anweisungen von Mrs. Bird sind unmissverständlich: Alle Briefe, die irgendwie anstößig sind, wandern in den Papierkorb.

A young hippie couple reach both enlightenment and social fame via their "material pragmatism", supported by both Western and Eastern religion - and with some help from an American Indian named "Little Bird".

Writing under the name Beento Blackbird, Solomon Wilberforce writes best-selling books that reconnect Africa's children around the world with their glorious heritage. But when his father dies, Solomon is forced to break the cyclical patterns of his routine to attend the funeral, and all of the neat compartments of his life begin to tumble in on one another.

The journey continues in ECs life. These are ideas and reflections that come through ECs life as he goes about his rounds going to church, going to work, visiting friends, teaching tennis, and playing tennis. He is a secretary that notes his reflections as he goes about his life. He keeps exploring ways to play and to learn the game of tennis. And he is interested in helping people find their swing, their serve, and their song in life. He is also interested in these things for himself. Oh, in this process, he hopes to hear the birds sing.

It was a quiet morning at Fanny's parents' farmhouse. The warm summer breeze was drifting in through her upstairs bedroom window. Fanny loved summertime, especially, being awoken to the sound of her favorite songbirds singing. "It's sure quiet this morning," Fanny thought to herself as she awoke from her sleep. "I don't hear any of the songbirds singing. Something doesn't seem right. I had better go outside and take a look around."