Where the Crawdads Sing

• Author : Delia Owens
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2018-08-14
• ISBN : 9780735219113

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 12 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals

• Author : Delia Owens
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2018-11-08
• ISBN : 9781472154637

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Painfully beautiful' New York Times 'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'A rare achievement' The Times 'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese Witherspoon ------------------------------------------------- For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found

• Author : Christopher Scotton
• Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-01-06
• ISBN : 9781455551934

"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." - John Grisham "A page-turner." - New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in

• Author : Mark Owens,Delia Owens
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release Date : 1984
• ISBN : 0395647800

This account of the author's seven-year stay in Africa's Kalahari wilderness covers their adventures of survival, their contact with curious and dangerous animals, and the establishment of their conservation research project

• Author : Alexandra Fuller
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0330490192

This is the story of the author's childhood in the 1970s in Rhodesia.

• Author : Delia Owens,Mark Owens
• Publisher : HMH
• Release Date : 1993-10-29
• ISBN : 9780547524665

An “exciting” true account of battling the elephant poachers of Zambia by the author of Where the Crawdads Sing and her fellow biologist (The Boston Globe). Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about a thousand of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in

• Author : Paul Adams / Bookhabits
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release Date : 2019-01-09
• ISBN : 1364009722

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: Conversation Starters When she was six years old, Kya's mother abandoned her and her siblings. Eventually deserted by her father and siblings, Kya learns to live by herself. She is taunted as a swamp rat and retreats from interaction with the community around her. Nature becomes her source of solace and sustenance. Kya becomes fascinated with wildlife and nature including insects, birds, dappled light, the marshes' shifting tides. She has a collection of

• Author : Tara Westover
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2018-02-20
• ISBN : 9781443452502

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.

• Author : Richard White
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2022-05-17
• ISBN : 9781324004349

A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a

• Author : David Joy
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2018-08-14
• ISBN : 9780399574238

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the

• Author : Markus Friedrich
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2022-03-01
• ISBN : 9780691226194

The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look at one of the most important religious orders not only in the Catholic

• Author : George Broderick
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-11-02
• ISBN : 1929515464

The legends of Christmas are many and vary from culture to culture. This bookcontains modern interpretations of some of the more well-known of the holidaytraditions in comic strip form.

• Author : Mark Owens,Delia Owens
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : UVA:X030036792

The best-selling authors of Cry of the Kalahari describe their many years in Africa working to save the elephants and other wildlife decimated by poachers, as well as the poverty-stricken nearby villages, a quest that led to threats against their own lives that forced them out of Zambia.

• Author : Charles W. Dryden,Benjamin O. Davis Jr
• Publisher : University of Alabama Press
• Release Date : 2002-06-26
• ISBN : 9780817312664

A-Train is the story of one of the black Americans who, during World War II, graduated from Tuskegee (AL) Flying School and served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps’ 99th Pursuit Squadron. Charles W. Dryden presents a fast-paced, balanced, and personal account of what it was like to prepare for a career traditionally closed to African Americans, how he coped with the frustrations and dangers of combat, and how he, along with many fellow black pilots, navigators, bombardiers,

• Author : Sandhya Menon
• Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2021-02-09
• ISBN : 9781534494794

The inspiration for the Netflix original series Mismatched! Everyone is talking about this New York Times bestselling rom-com that Mindy Kaling called “utterly charming!” Eleanor & Park meets Bollywood in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about two Indian-American teens whose parents conspire to arrange their marriage. Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh.