Books with author R.K. Davenport

In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival. In spellbinding, sensual prose, Song of the Exile follows the fortunes of the Meahuna family--and the odyssey of one resilient man searching for his soul mate after she is torn from his side by the forces of war.In the last, innocent days before Pearl Harbor, two people meet in Honolulu almost by chance: Keo, a gifted jazz trumpeter native to the islands, and Sunny, a fiercely independent beauty of Hawaiian and Korean heritage. As their love grows, youth and ambition propel them out into a world that is spiraling into madness.Keo's music takes him from the back alleys of Honolulu to the hidden jazz clubs of New Orleans--and, ultimately, to the fevered decadence of pre-war Paris, where Sunny joins him, even as the Nazis prepare to march into the doomed city. Caught in the tides of history, the lovers flee separately to the seething chaos of Shanghai, where Sunny searches for the sister she has never known. Captured by the Japanese, Sunny descends into a place of unimagined horror and violation. Keo mounts a desperate campaign to find her--a heroic effort that becomes his destiny.From the turbulent years of World War II through Hawaii's complex journey to statehood, this extraordinary novel sheds a searing light on the unspoken fate that befell thousands of women during this dark time in history. The result is a bold narrative of unforgettable characters who rise up magnificent and forceful, redeemed by the spiritual power and the awesome beauty of their islands. As haunting as a trumpet's final soaring note, Song of the Exile is a mesmerizing story of music and myth, tragedy and triumph, survival and transcendence.

Easter Retro Kids & Animals is loaded with sugary-sweet kids & animals just in time for Easter fun. Cute coloring pages of kids holding bunnies and animals being silly. The coloring pages in this book are mostly easy. This is a great book for people wanting to learn how to color grayscale or youngsters interested in learning different ways of coloring. This grayscale coloring book includes- 1. 30 high-quality grayscale coloring pages. 2. 8.5" x 11" pages. 3. All pages are single sided. Feel free to review the coloring book and let me know how you enjoyed your coloring. If you have a picture of a special pet or something else you would like made into grayscale coloring pages please contact me. Also, I can design other items for you with your favorite pictures. Pillows, t-shirts, totes, mugs, and more. I'll be happy to design a custom grayscale coloring page, book or something else for you. Please contact me at joyfulcoloringbooks@gmail.com More coloring books to come! Enjoy your coloring journey! See the flip-through of the coloring pages here >> youtube.com/channel/UCroL0Govs-YVWAJlOhm4_XA/videos

Here in a vast lost valley, society has split into two: the Wanderers, who team together to battle against the elements and each other in the harsh world of the desert, and those who live in the pyramid-city of Arcone, whose closed environment and tightly controlled society enable them to maintain a more civilized existence in the face of an environmentally devastated planet. Conflict is inevitable . . .Kean is a Wanderer, adopted into a team that has protected him since he was a child. Essa lives with her parents in the pyramid, and chafes at the mental and physical restrictions the government enforces to protect its people. But when a rogue Wanderer plans an attack on the city to gain its resources for his people, Kean and Essa's paths collide with an impact that will alter their lives forever.The next in a line of postapocalyptic coming-of-age stories that began with Lois Lowry's masterpiece The Giver and moved on through the Hunger Games series, Wanderer is a journey of danger, growth, friendship, and hope for a new generation.

The first of four children's books about skiing holidays in Austria. Christopher and Lucy have great adventures in the snow, love ski school, love hot chocolate and can't wait to get back to Austria every year. Mum and Dad love skiing too but this year it's the parents who get in to trouble and the children do the rescuing. They mark the spot with crossed skis to signal to the rescue helicopter and return home triumphant with the rescue party in a exciting night skiing adventure. A story stuffed full of hints and tips about skiing holidays that is as useful for preparing to go skiing as it is entertaining to the children and parents who want to know what it will be like.

Princess Party Yesterday & Today Grayscale Coloring Book is for kids of all ages. Don't forget about the matching mini book, Princess Party Yesterday & Today Mini Grayscale Coloring Book. This book is made for adults and children wanting to learn grayscale coloring. It's also made for older adults who remember retro pictures from when they were young. The images in this book are made lighter so they are easier to color for children and the young at heart. Joyful, delightful, and fun to color. Princess Party Yesterday & Today Grayscale Coloring Book has themed coloring pages for modern and retro girls and women. Fun for kids of all ages. Let your coloring imagination go free and color this cute princess grayscale coloring book. Color over all of the varying shades of gray and make the retro figures come to life. Use different colors to highlight, shade, and shadow your retro coloring pages. There are many avenues of coloring tools to use. Colored pencils, gel pens, glitter pens, Prismacolors, Raffine Marco pencils, and Marco Renoir pencils are among the most popular. This grayscale coloring book includes- 1. 31 high-quality grayscale coloring pages. 2. 8.5" x 11" pages. 3. Each page is one sided. 4. Each page has either a modern princess or a retro princess to color. 5. This coloring book is made extra simple for the beginning colorist. Feel free to review the coloring book and let me know how you enjoyed your coloring. Please visit JoyfulColoringBooks.com. If you have a picture of a special pet or something else you would like made into grayscale coloring pages please contact me. I'll be happy to make a custom grayscale coloring page or PDF coloring book for you. Please contact me at joyfulcoloringbooks@gmail.com More books to come! Enjoy your coloring journey! See the flip-through of the coloring pages here>>youtube.com/channel/UCroL0Govs-YVWAJlOhm4_XA/videos

The fourth in a series of childrens books about skiing, set in the picturesque Austrian village of Alpbach. Christopher and Lucy adore skiing. They return every year to the same chalet, and ski the same routes and visit the same cafes for favourite hot chocolates and ski wasser. But this year money is tight. Can the family afford to go at all? The story explores how having to change ones comfortable routine can still be okay. Although the children are still able to go skiing on their favourite family holiday they will have to stay somewhere else and fly to a new airport, and they will not be able to compete in the end of week races. How can the holiday be any good with everything being so different?This book is full of skiing tips and ways to keep the holiday cheap. It is a story for children and a guide book for parents. There is plenty to encourage those who are going skiing for the first time and plenty for old hand to identify with. Above all it is a feel good read for anyone who loves skiing and loves Austria.

Lucy and Christopher ski in Austria every year. They love it. But Lucy gets ill and has to visit an Austrian doctor and miss two whole days of ski school. As luck would have it this gives her the opportunity to be a bridesmaid at an Austrian wedding, and ride in the wedding sleigh decked with bells and rose, pulled by sturdy Austrian ponies through the snow. Once back in ski school there are plenty more adventures to be had.

In this follow-up work to The Blue Book Of Poems, James R. Davenport does far more than just rejoin us to the place where he left off in his poetic growth and physical development, he takes us, the readers, in an all-together new direction. In The Quiet Observer: The Gold Book Of Poems, Davenport not only gives us the poetry and familiar verse style of the previous volume as a base foundation, the voice we had come to recognize, but broadens, deepens, and expands on that creative voice. Just as his own physical speech begins to transform and deepen in its resonance through puberty, so does the voice of his pen. Now, we begin to see free-verse, shades of more complex emotional and psychological themes, and different styles and mediums of writing in their entirety included in this collection. There are, as expected, the poems, but beyond these are compositions of written prose, thought-provoking essays, and selected excerpts of short quips of his lessons learned from day-to-day over this five year period that Davenport amusingly calls the "Thoughtation Diary." In this prolific volume of work, we begin to see a more layered and maturely confident Davenport.More than just a young poet, but also a writer, essayist, and cultural commentator who is not at all afraid to powerfully express himself through righteous anger, witty sarcasm, and now even in heavy doses of unexpected irreverent humor. With each turn of the page, the reader finds something pleasantly unexpected; topics as varied as one young writer's thoughts on the loss of freedoms in the wake of September 11, 2001, to poetic expressions of love unrequited, requited, won, lost, won again, and lost again, the gentle mocking of his own first name, and the ambitious attempt in the "Planetary Soliloquies" to paint the "majestic" bodies of our Solar System as true psychological headcases. The Quiet Observer:The Gold Book Of Poems is so much more than just a collection of poems. It is an all-encompassing record of Davenport's "observations" of the rapidly changing culture swirling around him, and the literary collection that chronicles a budding wordsmith's growth from insecure boyhood into self-assured manhood. A read through The Quiet Observer:The Gold Book Of Poems is one no one will soon forget