Books with title The City of Refuge

A story about finding refuge in a new friendship and a new home.“There’s a new girl at school. She never stops looking up at the sky! She likes the stars and comets.”Jeannette tells her mom about her new classmate, who also loves astronomy but seems sad. She realizes it’s not easy to move to a new place. So the next day, at recess, Jeannette asks Iliana to play.At first, it’s a little hard to communicate because Iliana is learning a new language. The girls have to use their hands and their drawings. But they keep trying, and, soon, Iliana tells Jeannette about her difficult journey as a refugee who had to leave her country. Then their families meet, and Iliana’s parents share their story too. The girls’ friendship blooms, as limitless as the sky and their imaginations.Originally published in France and brought to life with wonderfully expressive artwork, this is a book about sharing stories and finding refuge in friendship, family, and a new home.

The international bestselling series returns for a new generation with a fresh look and bonus content from the legends of Deltora. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest to recapture the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. Only when the Belt is complete can the evil Shadow Lord be overthrown.They have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby. The two gems' mysterious powers have strengthened them and given them courage to move on in their search for the third stone. But none of them can know the horrors that await them in the forbidden City of the Rats.

A story about finding refuge in a new friendship and a new home.“There’s a new girl at school. She never stops looking up at the sky! She likes the stars and comets.”Jeannette tells her mom about her new classmate, who also loves astronomy but seems sad. She realizes it’s not easy to move to a new place. So the next day, at recess, Jeannette asks Iliana to play.At first, it’s a little hard to communicate because Iliana is learning a new language. The girls have to use their hands and their drawings. But they keep trying, and, soon, Iliana tells Jeannette about her difficult journey as a refugee who had to leave her country. Then their families meet, and Iliana’s parents share their story too. The girls’ friendship blooms, as limitless as the sky and their imaginations.Originally published in France and brought to life with wonderfully expressive artwork, this is a book about sharing stories and finding refuge in friendship, family, and a new home.

Lief, Barda, and Jasmine must venture into the terrifying City of the Rats in the third action-packed Deltora adventure--now with an amazing lenticular 3-D cover!Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest to recapture the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. Only when the Belt is complete can the evil Shadow Lord be overthrown.They have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby. The two gems' mysterious powers have strengthened them and given them courage to move on in their search for the third stone. But none of them can know the horrors that await them in the forbidden City of the Rats.

Detective Errol Coutinho of the Hawaii County Police has a serial killer of prostitutes to catch and a shortage of leads to pursue. Office Jessie Hokoana of the Honolulu P.D. has an undercover assignment that tests her loyalties and takes her to the brink of death. When their cases collide in the rainforest of the Big Island, family ties turn deadly, and there may be no pu’uhonua—no place of refuge—for anyone.Praise for The Place of Refuge…“Just when I thought there was nothing original to be done in a serial killer novel, Albert Tucher came up with The Place of Refuge to prove me wrong.” —Reed Farrel Coleman, The New York Times bestselling author of What You Break.“This hard-boiled detective mystery has it all, edgy dialogue, fast pacing, shootouts and chases with a little bit of Hawaii Five-O thrown in. The characters are likable and compelling on both sides of the law. The story’s setting in the Hawaiian Islands lifts up the veil on the complex nature of the Aloha State’s multi-cultural society. But above all it’s got heart and a good dose of ohana, family. The perfect read for a cold winter weekend or a steamy summer night.” —A.J. Sidransky, author of Forgiving Mariela Camacho.“Family is supposed to be a refuge from the world. Except when it isn't. Against an exotic backdrop of rainforest and volcanoes, Albert Tucher examines a family gone very wrong. The resulting tragedy is so profound it prompts the detective on the case to reassess the direction his own family is headed. Tucher writes about Hawaii like a native son, revealing a deep knowledge and respect for the soil and soul of the Big Island and surroundings.” —Anonymous-9, author of Hard Bite and Dreaming Deep.“I've always enjoyed the work of Albert Tucher, but with The Place of Refuge he bull rushes his work to the next-level by balancing a lush setting with a deftly handled plot, all the while maintaining the humanity of his characters. Coutinho and Hokoana breathe and live on the page with a ferocity few writers can match.” —Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce and Rough Trade.

Fearing an end to his time with Anna, Brendan attempts to take matters into his own hands, leading a group of newfound friends on a desperate journey across two continents in an attempt to steal time. Despite his efforts to escape a fate he dreads, a truth greater than his will awaits. Join Anna and Brendan for an unforgettable adventure across the Via Egnatia and into ancient Cappadocia in their final confrontation with evil.

"What the hell had just happened?""Did I just do that?" Daina san’Cierra discovers an ancient power welling up within her. Now, she struggles to control it, before it controls her."There’s someone in Estemere.""Collapsed. By the Waters’ edge."A mysterious stranger washes up at the edges of Estemere. A stranger who sends Daina even further into a tailspin of who, and what, she truly is.Soon, she discovers that this man is no stranger at all, and she finds that who he is, and what he learns, could spell the downfall of everything she has ever known."It felt like an artery bursting in his brain."Brynewielm, the Fyrdræjka, flinched and roared.One of the passageways, his passageways, had just burst and collapsed. The two-legged roaches—humankin—were inside his mountain. Not just roaches. Mages. Fire and water. Together.Little did they know they were trapped.They thought they had prevailed . . .They had no idea who their enemy truly was.“Up the passage! NOW! RUN!”The fiery light blinked out. Arteura, Caden, and the others were cast into darkness as the passage entrance was covered by a huge, golden eye. The eye seemed to back away, replaced by a wide mouth and rows of razor-sharp teeth. And then . . . Fire.Thus begins Cierra: Refuge of the Dead, the second book in the stirring, epic fantasy, Cierran Series.

It was long ago; it was in the year of grace one thousand and seventy, or four years after the battle of Hastings, which decided the right of power between the English and Norman nations, and left the old Saxon race exposed to the goadings of the sharp Norman lance, that a novice went on his way from the grand abbey of Crowland to the dependent house or succursal cell of Spalding,­ in the midst of the Lincolnshire fens. The young man carried a long staff or pole in his hand, with which he aided himself in leaping across the numerous ditches and rivulets that intersected his path, and in trying the boggy ground before he ventured to set his feet upon it. The upper end of his staff was fashioned like unto the staff of a pilgrim, but the lower end was armed with a heavy iron ferrule, from which projected sundry long steel nails or spikes. It was a fen-­pole, 2 such, I wist, as our fenners yet use in Holland, Lindsey, and Kesteven. In a strong and bold hand this staff might be a good war-­weapon; and as the young man raised the skirts of his black garment it might have been seen that he had a short broad hunting-­knife fastened to his girdle. He was a fair-­haired, blue-­eyed, and full-­lipped youth, with an open countenance and a ruddy complexion: the face seemed made to express none but joyous feelings, so that the grief and anxiety which now clouded it appeared to be quite out of place. Nor was that cloud always there, for whensoever the autumn sun shone out brightly, and some opening in the monotonous forest of willows and alders gave him a pleasant or a varied prospect, or when the bright king-­fisher flitted across his path, or the wild duck rose from the fen and flew heaven-­ward,­or the heron raised itself on its long legs to look at him from the sludge, or the timid cygnet went sailing away in quest of the parent swan, his countenance lighted up like that of a happy thoughtless boy. Ever and anon too some inward emotion made him chuckle or laugh outright. Thus between sadness and gladness the novice went on his way—a rough and miry way proper to give a permanent fit of ill-­humour 3 to a less buoyant spirit, for he had quitted the road or causeway which traversed the fens and was pursuing a devious path, which was for the greater part miry in summer, but a complete morass at the present season of the year. Notwithstanding all his well-­practised agility, and in spite of the good aid of his long staff, he more than once was soused head over ears in a broad water-­course. With a good road within view, it may be thought that he had some strong motive for choosing this very bad one; and every time that his path approached to the road, or that the screen of alders and willows failed him, he crouched low under the tall reeds and bulrushes of the fen, and stole along very cautiously, peeping occasionally through the rushes towards the road, and turning his ear every time that the breeze produced a loud or unusual sound. As thus he went on, the day declined fast, and the slanting sun shone on the walls of a tall stone mansion, battlemented and moated—a dwelling-­house, but a house proper to stand a siege: and in these years of trouble none could dwell at peace in any house if unprovided with the means of holding out against a blockade, and of repelling siege and assault. All round this manor-­house, to a wide space, the trees had been cut down and the country drained; part of the water being carried off to a neighbouring mere, and part being collected and gathered, by means of various cuts, to fill the deep moat round the house.

Detective Errol Coutinho of the Hawaii County Police has a serial killer of prostitutes to catch and a shortage of leads to pursue. Office Jessie Hokoana of the Honolulu P.D. has an undercover assignment that tests her loyalties and takes her to the brink of death. When their cases collide in the rainforest of the Big Island, family ties turn deadly, and there may be no pu’uhonua—no place of refuge—for anyone.