[PDF] The Ravenous Beast eBook

Author : Niamh Sharkey
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :

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Various creatures from a mouse to a whale describe all the things they can eat, but the Ravenous Beast proves to be the hungriest of all.

Author : Niamh Sharkey
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9780763638900

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On Christmas Eve, a young dinosaur wishes that he could help Santasaurus deliver presents around the world.

Author : Kevin Henkes
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688143881

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The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into loudly admiring Julius as the baby of the world.Lilly knows her baby brother is nothing but dreadful -- until she claims him for her own. "Henkes displays a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem....Lilly is a superb and timely heroine." -- Publishers Weekly. "

Author : Louis Bayard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805090703

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1914. Brazil's Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle to chart an unexplored river in the heart of the wild Amazon. Fighting off malaria and running short of food, Kermit and Teddy break with the group to hunt a long-overdue meal and are kidnapped by a tribe of cannibals: the Cinta Larga. In exchange for their freedom, father and son must find and kill a never-before-seen beast that plagues the tribe. A beast so ferocious it leaves only a shell of its prey behind. But what are the origins of this beast, and how do they escape its brutal wrath? Roosevelt's Beast is a story of the impossible things that become possible when civilization is miles away, when the mind plays tricks on itself, and when old family secrets refuse to stay buried.

Author : Nicole Jarvis
Publisher : Titan Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1789093961

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For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.

Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137487534

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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

Author : Adam Blade
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408326760

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A ravenous Beast terrorises the windswept plains of Tavania: Madara the Midnight Warrior is on the prowl! If Tom cannot defeat her, the dark portals over the land will continue to destroy the kingdom... Don't miss CONVOL THE COLD-BLOODED BRUTE HELLION THE FIERY FOE KRESTOR THE CRUSHING TERROR ELLIK THE LIGHTNING HORROR CARNIVORA THE WINGED SCAVENGER

Author : Nicole Sealey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062688820

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ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey The existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey’s work is restless in its empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human. The ranging scope of inquiry undertaken in Ordinary Beast—at times philosophical, emotional, and experiential—is evident in each thrilling twist of image by the poet. In brilliant, often ironic lines that move from meditation to matter of fact in a single beat, Sealey’s voice is always awake to the natural world, to the pain and punishment of existence, to the origins and demises of humanity. Exploring notions of race, sexuality, gender, myth, history, and embodiment with profound understanding, Sealey’s is a poetry that refuses to turn a blind eye or deny. It is a poetry of daunting knowledge.