Books with title The Blackbird

From the author of the Eve trilogy comes the breathless story of a girl racing to figure out who she is—and how to stay alive. When a nameless girl wakes up on the subway tracks, she knows only one thing for sure: people want her dead. Can she find them before they track her down? This pulse-pounding contemporary thriller is perfect for fans of The Maze Runner, The Darkest Minds, and Legend.Things I Know Are True: I am in Los Angeles I woke up on the train tracks at the Vermont/Sunset station I am a teenage girl I have long black hair I have a bird tattoo on the inside of my right wrist with the letters and numbers FNV02198 People are trying to kill me

There once was a thief and a baker, a king and a trouble-maker. One told a lie and the other ate pie... So they all had a marvelous caper. King Cole and his Three Fiddlers meet and unhappy baker and a determined thief in this retelling of the classic nursery rhymes "Sing a Song of Six Pence" and "Old King Cole." Enter a world of music and mayhem as Raven travels from Nest to castle and across the Algonian Sea in an effort to escape Prault's most nefarious criminal. Find limericks, laughs, and lessons in this tale of friendship, adventure, and most importantly, pie.

It destroyed the world. It killed billions of people . . . and it was only the beginning.They called it the “Black.” It was a deadly plague that destroyed the world, spreading like wildfire, killing billions of people and turning many of them into deformed creatures called Flesh Rotters, bent on slaughtering anything that lived. And sixty years later, the last of mankind was still searching for a way to stop them . . .Thousands of feet underground, in a fifteen-level silo called the Nest, sixteen-year-old Karma Harper has never seen the sun, the moon, nor the stars. The silo is the only home she has ever known and the safest place from the vicious monsters that roam the Dead World. But not everything is as it seems. After a young man is discovered in an underground laboratory from the outside world and brought back to the Nest, things begin to take a turn for the worse as people go missing and rooms are left in disarray. Soon after, they are attacked and the safest place on earth is no longer safe, leaving Karma questioning—what exactly did they bring back?

With the help of sixty-year-old black jazz man Lucius, Mary Kaye O’Donnell, an eighteen-year-old Irish-American woman and aspiring jazz singer in Chicago, finds her way toward dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and the dying of Sister Michaeline, her voice coach, jazz mentor, and only guide through the bedlam of her childhood.Mary Kaye’s neighbor, Judge Engelmann, introduced her to the work of James Baldwin and the nuns exposed her to the burgeoning civil rights movement, but Lucius is the first black person Mary Kaye comes to really know. They bond over Sister Michaeline’s untimely death. Over time, Lucius helps Mary Kaye launch her career as a singer in his jazz band. He also gives her Sister Michaeline’s diary from her early cloistered years, saying it was the nun’s wish. In reading the diary and in conversations with Lucius and Judge Engelmann, Mary Kaye discovers disillusioning aspects and secrets of her beloved mentor. This is Mary Kaye’s coming-of-age story as she weighs her options based on the diary, her faith, and her music, set against the background of illegal abortion and child abandonment in the 1963 Chicago world of civil rights and interracial jazz. It is entirely a work of fiction, but in today’s political climate one could imagine something similar becoming real.

Ema Blackbird had given birth to her first child. She gave her newborn the utmost tender loving care. She realized she needed to leave the nest and find food before her infant woke up. After she left, Baby Blackbird awoke to find her mother gone. They both experience a difficult adventure they'll never forget... The author was inspired by Beatle Paul McCartney's song, "Blackbird", and was influenced by Beatles music in a period which helped transform her musical imagination, and shape her creative ingenuity.

In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of summer, Gemma begs the birds to stay to raise his spirits with their song. However, as snow and fierce winds begin to swirl down on the village, the birds must fly south to stay warm, and eventually only one loyal bird remains.

The Black JAMES LEXINGTON MORLAKE, gentleman of leisure, Lord of the Manor of Wold and divers other titles which he rarely employed, unlocked the drawer of his elaborate Empire writing-table and gazed abstractedly into its depths. It was lined with steel and there were four distinct bolts. Slowly he put in his hand and took out first a folded square of black silk, then a businesslike automatic pistol, then a roll of fine leather. He unfastened a string that was tied about the middle and unrolled the leather on the writing-table. It was a hold-all of finely-grained sealskin, and in its innumerable pockets and loops was a bewildering variety of tools, grips, ratchets each small, each of the finest tempered steel. He examined the diamond-studded edge of a bore, no larger than a cheese tester, then replacing the tool, he rolled up the hold-all and sat back in his chair, his eyes fixed meditatively upon the articles he had exposed. James Morlake sflat in Bond Street was, perhaps, the most luxurious apartment in that very exclusive thoroughfare. The room in which he sat, with its high ceiling fantastically carved into scrolls and arabesques by the most cunning of Moorish workmen, was wide and long and singular. The walls were of marble, the floor an amazing mosaic covered with the silky rugs of I spahan. Four hanging lamps, delicate fabrics of silver and silk, shed a subdued light. With the exception of the desk, incongruously gaudy in the severe and beautiful setting, there was little furniture. A low divan under the curtained window, a small stool, lacquered a vivid green, and another chair was all. The man who sat at the writing-table might have been forty he was four years less or fifty.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Fo

The start of a thrilling adventure, The Black Birds is the first novel in The Black Birds Saga, filled with constant mysteries, rousing characters, and nonstop action. Fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner will find themselves thrown into another electrifying world where nothing is as it seems and no one is safe. Each day could be their last and each question only raises more questions. Who will survive the week? Waking up on a subway car you can’t remember getting on? Harsh. Being chained to your seat with no clue where you are headed? Even worse. Sitting across from a beautiful girl on the train ride to hell? Maybe this won’t be so bad for Ashe Edwards.Unfortunately, when the subway doors are opened by a bizarre group of teens, he finds himself in an abandoned town filled with eerie mannequins on every corner, surrounded by a forty-foot-tall electric fence, and ruled by hormonal ideals and convictions. As if that wasn’t enough, Ashe learns he will be forced to fight for his life each week against waves of military-grade war machines, dropped into their prison by an unknown captor with the sole purpose to kill everyone in sight. However, these wayward teens are not as helpless as Ashe first assumes. Each prisoner has been equipped with a weapon or ability, surgically implanted into their body by their captors. Ashe must discover and master his ability and work as a member of a team of eccentric and reckless captives, called the Black Birds, if he doesn’t want to end up dead like countless others before him.

In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of summer, Gemma begs the birds to stay to raise his spirits with their song. However, as snow and fierce winds begin to swirl down on the village, the birds must fly south to stay warm, and eventually only one loyal bird remains.

Author Robert Davey releases his new Children's book, The Little Blackbird. Aimed at Children between the ages of four to eight, although this book delivers a powerful message to people of all ages about respecting nature and the creatures with whom we share this planet. The valuable lessons portrayed in The Little Blackbird reinforces responsibility and respecting others as well as the creations of our planet.The Little Blackbird is a wonderfully illustrated book in where we meet a courageous and spirited little blackbird that despite his size goes up against the Cruel King, whose selfish intent is at the expense of the forest animals and the woods they live in. Join in the adventure of The Little Blackbird as you are immersed in an exciting tale of stewardship and responsibility.