Books with title Daughter of the Song

'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingThe stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longed for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she was different. Pearl had a gift for mathematics, a college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation, and a family riven with anger and dysfunction. And it's only now, at nineteen years old, that she has started to understand what role she is to play. What her parents intend for her. For Pearl Tao, any hope of escape lies with two British spies: Trish Patterson, sidelined in disgrace, and Philip Mangan, blown and discredited - and following his own trail of corruption. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the most urgent, the most dangerous mission they'll ever undertake.'The final instalment of Brookes' Mangan trilogy secures its status as a classic'Telegraph (50 Best Books of 2017)'Riveting and accomplished'Sunday Times

Like A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, and Laddie, A Daughter of the Land is a romantic novel with a message. It was written by Gene Stratton-Porter, American feminist, environmentalist, author, and photographer. In it, protagonist Kate Bates leaves home and family to strike out on her own, finally realizing her dream of owning a farm and finding happiness. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Different from most Disney stories about animals in which humans talk through animals about human plot, ideas, and emotions, The Daughter of T-rex has birds talking in human language about the emotions, ideas, and plot of animals. This novel is about birds, primarily about a hen called Little Redface: her wish to be left alone by her sisters, her longing for love and freedom, her desire to fit in, her need for security and survival, and her dilemma to fight humans or to reconcile. In a word, this is her Bildungsroman. We see her change and development from a meek chick to a mature hen of jaykens, a portmanteau word invented in this novel that promises delight in its context. This is also a picaresque story through which we see Little Redface’s adventures and the lives of other birds: their love and friendship, pride and jealousy, molting and brooding, struggle for life and fight for dominance. Obviously, our human experiences teem with similar occurrences and conflicts, and so Little Redface’s story coincide with ours in more ways than one. Therefore, this novel is not only about birds; especially Little Redface’s questions about love and freedom, her choices between fight and tolerance, and how humans can live with nature and other animals harmoniously, these are more of human contemplation and hesitation. The author, Shuyan Chi, is an immigrant who came to the states less than nine years ago, and it is not hard to see in Little Redface’s story her own reflections on the new life in this brave new world.When Shuyan Chi just came to this country, she could not speak English at all although she was already a published writer in China. She continued to write in Chinese and won the second prize in the Chinese National Short Story Contest in 2010 while she was diligently learning English here. She is also an animal lover and has five chickens in her backyard. When she began to write about them in English, she had doubt about her expressiveness in using the language. “At least, I can tell a good story in simple English. After all it’s about birds and I don’t need sophisticated words and syntax.” She convinced herself, and we have a fascinating story matched with her writing style. I was drawn into this story as soon as I began reading it and became concerned about the fate of Little Redface. I wanted to know how she would elope with Jack, how she would survive in the wild, if she would fight humans… I promise you will, too.Kang Liao, Ph.D.

An enlightening children’s fable adapted from the book Reincarnate Now, by Three Phoenix. High atop the East Mountain lived Elana, the daughter of the Sun. The people below called her The Wish Granter, and had no doubt she was magic. But all the while, Elana believed true magic was found in the hearts and smiles of the people below. Neither side had any idea the magic they admired was created from mutual appreciation and gratitude for one another. Join AhMun, the Mayan corn grower, as he and three friends from the valley go on an adventurous trek to visit the daughter of the sun with a wish for happiness to befall his fellow villagers. • Positive words and phrases. • Culturally diverse children’s literature. • A fun adventure. up to age 9, yet a great read for adults too.

"A Daughter of the Snows", an adventure novel of the first order. is Jack London's first novel published in 1902."A Daughter of the Snows" tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie," who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown by being strong and forthright and by befriending the town's prostitute. In the course of her adventures, she finds herself involved in a love triangle...

[Read by Sir Derek Jacobi] Confined to a hospital bed, Scotland Yards Inspector Grant is engrossed with a portrait of Richard III. How is it possible, he wonders, that such a sensitive appearing soul could have been the odious villain of so many crimes, and the wicked uncle responsible for the murder of his own nephews to secure the British crown for himself? Grant reconsiders five hundred year old evidence and brilliantly arrives at a compelling new answer to one of the most intriguing mysteries in history: who really murdered the Princes in the Tower.

Remembering who she once was, Caryss begins a new journey as she enters the King's City with a dark mage and a trusted friend. Once god-touched, the healer no longer knows which path is hers to choose or which the High Lord created. For half her life, she trained as a healer and vowed to harm none, yet now she carries a sacred dagger forged of ancient magic. On a mission to save the dying king, Caryss struggles against those who would use her as a weapon in the fight for the Cordisian throne. But she bears a weapon stronger than all: an unborn daughter who will be like none before her.

Sixteen-year-old Trinity was born during a solar eclipse and left at the doorsteps of a convent along with a torn piece of papyrus covered with ancient symbols. Raised by nuns in the English countryside, she leads a quiet life until she’s whisked away to the Island of Cats and a grandmother she never knew. But before they can get to know each other, her grandmother dies. All that Trinity has left is a mysterious eye-shaped ring. And a thousand grieving cats. As Trinity tries to solve the enigma of the torn papyrus, she discovers a world of bloody sacrifices and evil curses, and a prophecy that points to her and her new feline abilities. Unwilling to believe that any of the Egyptian gods could still be alive, Trinity turns to eighteen-year-old Seth and is instantly pulled into a vortex of sensations that forces her to confront her true self—and a horrifying destiny.