Books with title Moon Over the Mountain

"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible. " --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. " --New Yorker Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

Migi, a ten year old Filipino boy, is task by his father to help his lola (grandmother) repair her home damaged by a typhoon. She lives at Leon on the top and opposite side of the beautiful mountain in the center of Migi’s small island. Fr. Ramon from the Santa Lucia church is going there to help the people. He agrees to take Migi along despite the danger of the road and the unreliability of his decrepit jeepney. There are many problems on the trip up the mountain. When Fr. Ramon hits and kills a goat, they meet eighty-year-old Ole Anjo, his frowning son, Julio, and his secretive grandson, Marco, who instigate a series of unexpected events. The biggest problem occurs once they arrive at Leon. The people and the problems leave Migi perplexed and impatient. When Migi learns who stole the money Fr. Ramon’s is taking to the people and how it was stolen, he also learns about himself.

Dell has persuaded the Bloodless army to fight alongside her pack in Butler, but she still has to get there. Halfway home, the rift detonates, blasting out a magic surge that sweeps across the globe, frying electronics and spells alike. Leaving her with no way to get home except on her own two - or four - feet. Dangerous times demand equally lethal alliances, and she has to make a risky deal if she wants to reach the front lines before it's too late. The bargain grants an ancient fae power over her, a hold she vowed no man would ever have on her again, but freedom requires sacrifice. As the threshold between Earth and Faerie erodes, humans and supernaturals alike are in danger of being erased as the fae seek to claim this world as their own. This is the moment when new legends arise and old gods fall, when fates unspool and futures unravel, when battles are won and lives are lost. The war isn't just coming. It's here.